Moving on the Edge. (1984 TV play)

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First broadcast 6th March 1984.  A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.  Eleanor Bron - Camilla Gary Raymond - Michael Rosalie Crutchley - Laura T.P. McKenna - Liam Anna Massey - Radio Voice Sophie Scott - Teresa Marine Jolivet - Alice (as Jacqueline Jolivet) Tony Doyle - Hugo Zibba Mayes - Melissa Martin Mowlam - Brad Eliza Buckingham - Betty Charu Bala Chokshi - Tarla (as Charu Bala Choshki) Paul Anil - Zaheer Bob Babenia - Vallabhai Shreela Ghosh - Dilshad Del Henney - Lorrimer Mark McGann - Squid Stewart Harwood - Cab Driver Nigel Bradshaw - Young Couple at Auction Judy Norman - Young Couple at Auction Daisy Norman - Baby (with Couple at Auction)

Transcript

00:00:00.

00:00:01.

00:02:35How is your class today?

00:02:41Camilla?

00:02:43It's Thursday the class.

00:02:53I suppose we'll spend the whole evening discussing Melissa Wormsley's dig.

00:02:58Fatal to invite anyone to dinner after they've just done something.

00:03:04Where was a bloody dig anyway?

00:03:06In the city I think.

00:03:08In the city?

00:03:09God.

00:03:11If I was going to hunt for a megalithic fibula I'd do it somewhere attractive.

00:03:16Aren't you looking forward to tonight Michael?

00:03:18No.

00:03:20They're your friends.

00:03:22Yes.

00:03:24I just can't remember why they are.

00:03:26Come on.

00:03:27Come on.

00:03:42You would think that the rebarack was twinned with crawling.

00:03:45Honestly.

00:03:46You take the K-wings to the pool and what are you forced to enjoy?

00:03:48Idiots in unmistakable M&S leisurewear screaming.

00:03:51Go on Darren.

00:03:52Do another one for dads.

00:03:54Oh well Betty says she's had France.

00:03:55She says if she smells of Pernet she'll vomit.

00:03:58Well avoid do-do-doin like the plague.

00:04:01I tell you it's not just Gibraltar and the Falklands that the British have colonized.

00:04:04Salad darling.

00:04:05Did I tell you that Grant's been chosen Michael?

00:04:07We're ever so thrilled.

00:04:08Chosen?

00:04:08Not chosen as in chosen darling.

00:04:10Only to play pool.

00:04:12Pool?

00:04:12Yes they're doing it at St Cuthbert's.

00:04:14A dramatized version.

00:04:15Ah.

00:04:15And Grant's going to be the actual bear.

00:04:17We're terribly excited.

00:04:18Aren't we Brad?

00:04:20I was just telling Michael Camilla that Grant's been picked to play pool.

00:04:23This is Cuthbert's play.

00:04:24Well done.

00:04:25Silly to feel proud I suppose but we just can't help it.

00:04:29Sign of age no doubt.

00:04:30Why age?

00:04:31Well starting to live your children's lives you know.

00:04:33You know what I mean.

00:04:35Oh yeah.

00:04:35How was the dig then?

00:04:37Oh the dig a bit disappointing.

00:04:38No fibulas or tibulas?

00:04:40Ah tibias you mean.

00:04:43Thirteen though no earlier.

00:04:45Oh there was evidence of Roman ducting but of course we weren't able to follow it.

00:04:48The indications are the actual bar house could be situated under the Glen Eagles bank.

00:04:52I've never got it.

00:04:54Got what Betty?

00:04:55Well I mean they say the Romans had loos in 49 BC's or something and it's taken us 1700 years

00:04:59to invent them.

00:05:00They're 1900 actually.

00:05:01The first loo as we know it made its appearance in 1899.

00:05:04And they say progress is continuous.

00:05:07Well how many loos has the new house got Michael?

00:05:09What?

00:05:09Oh.

00:05:10Two and then ended downstairs.

00:05:12Say pines are better the past then.

00:05:14All those butcher boxes I bet he's been turning into bedside tables.

00:05:17Not worth two and six eh?

00:05:18No no no.

00:05:19I did not say that.

00:05:20What I did say was that I personally was getting out of pines.

00:05:23That sounds excruciating.

00:05:25Yeah but decorated wood.

00:05:26Dutch colonial Balkan style hand painted.

00:05:28That would be the fee of the 80's.

00:05:29It's much more expensive of course.

00:05:29Why must all of you come round and see it?

00:05:31It's got a terribly pretty garden.

00:05:33For London.

00:05:34Hasn't it Camilla?

00:05:35What Michael?

00:05:37I'm talking about the new house.

00:05:39Oh the new house.

00:05:40Yes.

00:05:41Mmm.

00:05:42These estate agents always pocket the bargain.

00:05:45Don't they huh?

00:05:46Super garden I hear.

00:05:47Gosh we envy you.

00:05:48Don't we Brad?

00:05:49Oh sure we do.

00:05:50It sounds like the kind of place we all dream about.

00:05:52We dream the wrong things.

00:05:53What Camilla?

00:05:54Delicious chicken Camilla.

00:05:56Can I taste dill?

00:05:57No it's tarragon.

00:05:59Mmm.

00:06:06It is tarragon.

00:06:08Back to it.

00:06:09Now listen to this y feels quiet.

00:06:33Jason in the window.

00:06:47Michael.

00:06:51Stop hating me.

00:07:02I love you so much.

00:07:04How much? Five bedrooms, three bathrooms, dining room, breakfast.

00:07:09I can't believe it's the house.

00:07:14If we don't snap this up now, darling, we'll never be able to afford it again.

00:07:17I don't want to afford it.

00:07:29Jesus.

00:07:32Sometimes you make me feel so bloody sad.

00:07:42Michael?

00:07:44Laura?

00:07:45Is that you, Michael?

00:07:46Yes, of course it's me.

00:07:47Oh, did I wake you?

00:07:48Yes.

00:07:48Oh, I'm terribly sorry, dear.

00:07:50I've just been sitting here, staring at the telephone.

00:07:53It's your mother.

00:07:54I think I'm going absolutely mad.

00:07:57What's happened, Laura?

00:07:58Since I got back from the police station, I just sat here.

00:08:02Darling, you'd better speak to Camilla.

00:08:03No, no, no.

00:08:03I don't want to wake her.

00:08:05It's just a question of speaking to someone.

00:08:07Because, honestly, Michael, I never in a million years imagined something like this could happen to me.

00:08:12What has happened, Laura?

00:08:15Laura?

00:08:16Well, I was in Harrods.

00:08:20You were in Harrods?

00:08:23And?

00:08:24And?

00:08:25Well, I thought I haven't eaten lobster since George died.

00:08:30Lobster?

00:08:30And there they were, that beautiful coral colour on a slab.

00:08:34Lobsters?

00:08:35Yes, so I just picked one up and took it along to where you're meant to pay, and I decided

00:08:40not to pay, I mean.

00:08:43You stole a lobster?

00:08:45Yes.

00:08:46And then they unleashed it on me.

00:08:49The Holocaust.

00:08:54My drying up cloth is awfully wet, darling.

00:08:56Where do you keep your clean ones?

00:08:59I do admire you and Michael keeping on with dinner parties.

00:09:01Listen, one thing I thought after George died was, thank God, no more dinner parties.

00:09:06Is it a success, the evening?

00:09:07No.

00:09:10Michael's a lovely host, I'm sure.

00:09:12It's courteous.

00:09:14Considerate.

00:09:16Of course, in your new house, you'll have a proper dining room.

00:09:2017 foot into bay.

00:09:21Part colour glazed window area.

00:09:24Good morning.

00:09:26I can't stop myself.

00:09:32I don't want to be here.

00:09:38What do you mean, Camilla?

00:09:40I want, I want us to stop.

00:09:44I do understand.

00:09:47I've often thought everything's going wrong for no reason.

00:09:51Like mayonnaise curdling.

00:09:54Well, it passes.

00:09:57Take me, Camilla.

00:09:59I'd be no good at male bags.

00:10:02Why on earth did I do it?

00:10:04You won't get life, mother.

00:10:06I used to think, when I was young, it'd be rather fun to get arrested.

00:10:12Plus, it wasn't in the least.

00:10:14Lots of women steal.

00:10:15I know why.

00:10:16They think that is.

00:10:16Life's just gone.

00:10:19Maybe.

00:10:19You're right.

00:10:21It has gone.

00:10:24I suppose magistrates are kind.

00:10:27Yes.

00:10:28I could get a horror, couldn't I?

00:10:29I mean, a hanger and flogger.

00:10:32I think I ought to prepare myself, psychologically, for male bags.

00:10:37Mother, don't be silly.

00:10:39I can't remember what else one does.

00:10:41What?

00:10:42In prison.

00:10:44Did metal work or something?

00:10:45I've no idea.

00:10:48What's that cell business that I know I should hate?

00:10:51I'm so used to space.

00:10:53Mother, you are not going to prison.

00:10:56Food.

00:10:57It'd be like going back to school.

00:11:02What happened to the bloody lobster, anyway?

00:11:05Oh, I don't know.

00:11:06It's probably evidence by now.

00:11:08Label, put in a polythene bag, going rotten.

00:11:11Exhibit A.

00:11:14I loved its spikiness.

00:11:18I still think how lovely to have eaten it.

00:11:23Very male.

00:11:45So I find myself back in London.

00:11:48Well, how are you then, lovely stranger?

00:11:52I've scoffed and scoffed at life, making marks on walls, making my little don's noises.

00:11:57And here I am at fifty-five, back in the filthy old city, remembering.

00:12:04You must be thirty-five, if you were twenty then.

00:12:08Or were you older already and much too wise to mourn me?

00:12:12Yet I allowed myself the terrible luxury of imagining you weeping.

00:12:16I surrounded you with foliage like in the paintings of Rossetti.

00:12:21I wonder if you would see me.

00:12:23I so long for that, in the full and glorious knowledge that I don't deserve it.

00:12:28My vandal soul should be utterly punished.

00:12:32Yet the wife I left you for is no longer my wife.

00:12:35I'm what they call single again.

00:12:38I've stopped belonging.

00:12:41I've known much.

00:12:43Johnny and Brendan drop in when pieces start to fall off their lethal motorbikes.

00:12:48They'll both end up as raspberry jam on the M1, I'm certain of it.

00:12:51I still teach Yates and live alone in the B-Loud-Blade.

00:12:58But I miss you, Suddol.

00:13:02Please write to me.

00:13:04Yours in loving memory.

00:13:06Liam.

00:13:11Sorry, I just came to say I'm going out.

00:13:13At your course?

00:13:14Yes.

00:13:16What have you got today?

00:13:18Literature.

00:13:20Did you learn that Yates poem they sent you?

00:13:23Teresa, help me.

00:13:25Why don't you say it to me?

00:13:26Oh, no, no, it's no.

00:13:27Go on, please.

00:13:27I want to study Yates.

00:13:29My teacher was Irish.

00:13:31Please, say the poem.

00:13:36Oh, girl, you cry no more in the air

00:13:39or only to the water in the west

00:13:42because your crying brings to my mind

00:13:45passion-dimmed eyes

00:13:46and long, heavy hair

00:13:48that was shaken out over my breast.

00:13:52There is enough evil

00:13:54in the crying of the wind.

00:13:56Yes, I remember it.

00:13:59Are you meeting Teresa from school?

00:14:01Yes, we are going to buy records.

00:14:03Are you?

00:14:04Yes.

00:14:05I don't buy records anymore.

00:14:06Nor does Michael.

00:14:08We just buy things to stare at.

00:14:11Sometimes I look at what we do

00:14:13and I realize we've become dull.

00:14:17You grew up and alter.

00:14:20Have you heard from your parents lately, Elise?

00:14:21Yes, I did.

00:14:22Oh, they will.

00:14:23Very well, thank you.

00:14:24Give them our love next time you write.

00:14:25Okay.

00:14:27Are you happy here, Elise?

00:14:29Oh, yes, I like London.

00:14:30Happy with us, I mean.

00:14:31Yes, of course.

00:14:32I'm so glad.

00:14:33Teresa is very fond of you.

00:14:35Do you find her difficult to talk to?

00:14:39I don't think so.

00:14:40To me, she isn't.

00:14:42To me, she is.

00:14:45A three-bedroomed property,

00:14:47formerly known as Unwind Cottage,

00:14:48now being offered in two lots.

00:14:50Unwind Cottage itself,

00:14:51with grounds to front,

00:14:52together with grounds to rear,

00:14:54to an area indicated

00:14:55as approximately three-sevenths of an acre,

00:14:57these forming the perimeters of lot 1A

00:15:00and lot 1B,

00:15:02namely substantial grounds to rear,

00:15:03measured at five-sevenths of an acre,

00:15:05with planning application as yet ungranted

00:15:07for the erection of three dwellings.

00:15:10Good.

00:15:12Well, before I open the bidding,

00:15:13I would like to remind you

00:15:14that the purchaser of lot 1A

00:15:16is under no obligation to bid for lot 1B.

00:15:18Likewise, lot 1B may be obtained,

00:15:21lot 1A having been sold to another bidder.

00:15:24Do we have any questions at this juncture?

00:15:26Yes, sir.

00:15:27Do we know whether planning permission

00:15:29will definitely be granted for the garden?

00:15:31For lot 1B, you mean?

00:15:33We understand this is currently under review

00:15:35by Merton Council.

00:15:36Are they likely to say yes?

00:15:37Difficult to say at this moment in time, sir,

00:15:40but we at Stukeley's are currently optimistic.

00:15:43Good.

00:15:44I would like to open the bidding, then,

00:15:45for lot 1A, Unwind Cottage.

00:15:48What am I bid?

00:15:49Do I hear 30,000?

00:15:5035?

00:15:5140?

00:15:52Do I hear 40,000?

00:15:5345?

00:15:5450?

00:15:5555?

00:15:55Bid 5,000 pounds?

00:15:5760?

00:15:5865?

00:16:0070?

00:16:0170,000 pounds for Unwind Cottage.

00:16:0375?

00:16:0575?

00:16:0575,000 pounds?

00:16:0772,500.

00:16:09Good for you, sir.

00:16:0972,500.

00:16:1175, then.

00:16:12I'd like to hear 75.

00:16:1375 for Unwind Cottage.

00:16:1575,000 for Unwind Cottage.

00:16:1875,000 and bid.

00:16:1975,500.

00:16:2075,500?

00:16:2275?

00:16:22No?

00:16:2475,000, then, for lot 1A.

00:16:2775 once.

00:16:2975 twice.

00:16:3075 three times.

00:16:32Down to you, sir.

00:16:40There is a few.

00:16:42We've got some stuff here.

00:16:46We've got some stuff here.

00:16:47We've got some stuff here.

00:16:48We've got some stuff here.

00:16:51We've got some stuff here.

00:16:55We've got some stuff here.

00:17:09We've got some stuff here.

00:17:09Now, Mrs. Douglas.

00:17:17Oh, Trace is doing very well.

00:17:19it's not so much a question of doing she contributes that's 90% of what I look

00:17:25for yes I know that as far as lessons go she's getting on all right distresses

00:17:29her what crying at bedtime that kind of thing oh no not a whiff of that in school

00:17:36she's a popular girl plenty of friends yes I know I often say to the kids learn

00:17:42this now you get out of life exactly and precisely what you put in you want to

00:17:48see her work nice stories plenty of humor I can't talk to her no no your fault or

00:17:57hers what communication difficult for the kid of Tracer's age more often than not

00:18:04it's the parents and not them had one boy in this class wrote a story entitled what

00:18:10my dad says at breakfast it was a page of sighs and moans and right at the end

00:18:17book of this for the start of the day I gave an a plus a plus yes to sheer bloody

00:18:25honesty now then it's not talking traces problem are yours thank you for your

00:18:34hope I hope that's all right anytime

00:20:59Where have you been?

00:21:00In the garden.

00:21:01In the garden.

00:21:03I was watching you.

00:21:05Keep show.

00:21:08Michael, what do we say to each other at breakfast?

00:21:11What?

00:21:11What do we contribute to each day?

00:21:14What the hell are you talking about, Pamela?

00:21:16I've been walking.

00:21:16What?

00:21:17I was walking around and thinking about what we put into our lives.

00:21:21You know, it's five to eight.

00:21:23I mean, when did either of us really make anything you could call a contribution?

00:21:28Contribution to what?

00:21:30I, personally, have given 12 quid this year to the SDP, 20 to the Neverjesse Lifeboat Disaster Fund.

00:21:51I wish I had hair like yours.

00:21:53Shall I agree?

00:21:54You look like a witch.

00:21:56I used to believe in witches.

00:21:58But I didn't imagine them on broomsticks.

00:22:01I imagined them on parking meters.

00:22:05They say all the romance has gone out of my generation.

00:22:08What?

00:22:09Oh, never mind.

00:22:11What have you decided about mummy?

00:22:13I don't know.

00:22:14My mother had moons.

00:22:16She once threw an aubergine at ours, Neb's dog, and it died.

00:22:21It died?

00:22:22Yes, and my father has to pay for a burial.

00:22:25But how could it die from aubergine?

00:22:27I don't know.

00:22:29Sometimes things happen which you don't mean.

00:22:32The neighbour said we were a family of murderers, and they sniffed at us as if we met them.

00:22:38Gosh.

00:22:41How lovely to have a real quarrel, a vendetta, like in Romeo and Juliet.

00:22:46I'd love to have a vendetta.

00:22:50Shall we play the other side?

00:22:52I think mummy's having a nervous breakdown.

00:22:56Don't you?

00:23:06I had a letter from Liam today.

00:23:08Who's Liam?

00:23:11Liam.

00:23:13The lecturer, the one I...

00:23:15Oh.

00:23:16Him.

00:23:18Still teaching the D.H. Lawrence option, is he?

00:23:22Still interfering with the student body?

00:23:26Do you want a drink?

00:23:28No.

00:23:31Well.

00:23:34Perhaps an ageing Irishman, pretend poet, or whatever he imagines himself to be, is just the tool, Camilla.

00:23:44What do you mean?

00:23:45To prize you open.

00:23:47Or you could become a roadmender.

00:23:49What?

00:23:50It's suggested that women would cry less if they could dig holes.

00:23:55The Equal Opportunities Commission is said to be studying the prototype of a lightweight pneumatic crew.

00:23:58Shut up, Michael.

00:23:58Shut up, shut up!

00:24:01Nobody listen!

00:24:02Nobody really listen!

00:24:03The whole world is listening, Camilla.

00:24:05We're all agog.

00:24:06Just try to find out what it is you want to say.

00:24:33I'm sorry.

00:24:39It's all right.

00:24:46What?

00:24:52It's all right.

00:26:05Spring, summer, casual wear.

00:26:13Looking out at the rain, looking into the storm, treading away, coming from heart.

00:26:24How could you regret your other words?

00:26:32Hoping for thrills for me and a bird.

00:26:36How extraordinary to get your letter.

00:26:39Of course I mourned you for a long time, but not with Rosetti's leaves around me.

00:26:47Then I decided to forget you and marry.

00:26:52These days I treat life with such solemnity.

00:26:56My life becomes less and less, and I look at it more and more gravely.

00:27:03I will see you, if it can be arranged secretly.

00:27:07I've never quite got over my childish love of secrets.

00:27:10They're such betrayals.

00:27:14I'd like to meet you where we used to meet when we were deceiving your wife.

00:27:20I'll be there on Thursday at four o'clock.

00:27:44Bloody hard essay I found my house subject.

00:27:48Couldn't find really how to write videocassette.

00:27:51Oh heavens no, I wouldn't know.

00:27:53And me, Buxy Biler, you see.

00:27:54I made a guess.

00:27:55I tried to hear Buxy Biler, but I could not hear how to write it.

00:28:01The beginning is very feeble.

00:28:03Look.

00:28:03My house is a flat.

00:28:06It is very feeble.

00:28:07My house is a flat?

00:28:08You can't say that, Vallabai.

00:28:09How else can I start if my house is not a house?

00:28:12Write a note saying, dear teach, this is one effing meaningless title.

00:28:16Oh, my house is a flat, but I didn't put that in.

00:28:19I just described my husband's bed is hand-painted.

00:28:24What about your bed, Dilsh?

00:28:25That is my bed.

00:28:26My husband's bed and mine.

00:28:28Good at good.

00:28:29Hand-painted, eh?

00:28:31Only the best for our Dilshad.

00:28:32None of a mass-produced fibre-board junk.

00:28:34Hello, everyone.

00:28:35Morning, Buxy Biler.

00:28:36Morning.

00:28:39How did everyone get on with my house essay?

00:28:45Carla, would you like to read us what you wrote about your house?

00:28:49I heard a little struggle.

00:28:50But you won in the end.

00:28:52You see, in my house are very many people.

00:28:55I'm asking some of my sister's children to budge off

00:28:58so I can describe my house in peace.

00:29:01But they don't go.

00:29:02Poor John, are you happy to read it to us anyway?

00:29:05Okay.

00:29:09I would like to say that in my house are many mansions, as do the Christians.

00:29:15But I am the opposite.

00:29:18My house is one part of a building.

00:29:21This building is called Waterloo Mansions.

00:29:25Do you mean a flat, or what?

00:29:26Yes.

00:29:27Go on.

00:29:28I and my sister, Boppy, spend all our day in this Waterloo Mansions house with Boppy's small children.

00:29:37The children play on a mauve carpet Boppy's husband buys us from Texas home care.

00:29:44I, with Boppy, stay mostly in our yellow kitchen.

00:29:48Our oven is Carida.

00:29:51Second hand, Boppy is very fond of marigold rubber gloves.

00:29:56Our house is never dry.

00:29:59My dear husband says, this damp is a bloody problem.

00:30:04My husband is right.

00:30:06I think this damp is a bloody problem.

00:30:09Because we spend almost 35 pounds for wallpaper from Blunt and Sons DIY specialists, and this

00:30:20will not stick and fall soft.

00:30:22There is no garden.

00:30:24Boppy and I agree.

00:30:26If we had one garden, we would put our marigolds.

00:30:31The real ones, not the gloves.

00:30:33Good, darling.

00:30:34Excellent.

00:30:36Now, squid, how about you?

00:30:38How did you get on?

00:30:52Good.

00:30:53Good.

00:30:54Good.

00:31:05Good.

00:31:06Good.

00:31:07Good.

00:31:08Good.

00:31:11Good.

00:31:12Good.

00:31:13Good.

00:31:14Good.

00:31:15Good.

00:31:16Good.

00:31:17Good.

00:31:18Good.

00:31:19Good.

00:31:20Good.

00:31:21Good.

00:31:25It was raining, wasn't it, when you saw the house before?

00:31:34Camilla?

00:31:35That woman's at the window.

00:31:37Mrs Everett?

00:31:38Is that her name?

00:31:45She's watching us.

00:31:46I expect, like me, she's trying to guess what you're thinking.

00:31:50I want to cry.

00:31:52What?

00:31:54I've been hearing about a woman called Buffy,

00:31:56who lives in Waterloo Mansions with her sister and her husband,

00:32:00and her sister's husband and five children.

00:32:03And every time they put wallpaper up...

00:32:05Please stop it, Camilla.

00:32:07If you want to go and live with the underprivileged, please feel free to do so.

00:32:11Right now I am offering you this house.

00:32:13Mother says things go wrong for no reason.

00:32:17But there's always a reason.

00:32:19Nothing's gone wrong, Camilla.

00:32:20Yes, it has.

00:32:21Then tell me what.

00:32:23She's still staring at us.

00:32:24Please tell me what's wrong.

00:32:26I'll be like her.

00:32:27What?

00:32:28I'll be like her.

00:32:29Like that woman.

00:32:31Like my mother, going mad, being dratted when I was gone.

00:32:34I never even dared to look at what it was.

00:32:37Never further than what's comfortable and familiar and safe.

00:32:41Camilla, part of looking at what life is, or whatever your phrase was,

00:32:45is not missing opportunities when they occur.

00:32:49And I know the house market.

00:32:50This property is underpriced by six or seven thousand pounds.

00:32:54I can't buy your future.

00:32:55This is a bargain, darling.

00:32:57An absolutely unmissable chance.

00:33:01And if we don't seize it now, it will never, never happen again.

00:33:08There are just a few months, weeks sometimes, when opportunities like this suddenly appear.

00:33:13And if you dither then, when you look up again, they're gone.

00:33:20The way we're coming now, you and I couldn't normally afford a house like this.

00:33:25But here we are.

00:33:27It's happened.

00:33:29We've been in peace, but we've been in love with that now.

00:33:34But if we really go into this with energy, you can see it as a fresh start.

00:33:38Please, let's leave.

00:33:51Plan for the first half.

00:33:55If you go into foam just to the bottom of the sink, this is fine.

00:33:57Listen to the back of the vision.

00:34:00Good lord.

00:34:08We begin with aaster.

00:34:08At the same time, I don't forget about how to change the dust.

00:34:08Let's leave.

00:34:08Can you in peace with water?

00:34:08I'm careful not to stop the silver West, though.

00:34:12No doubt?

00:35:27Tell me what you do with Jean-Paul.

00:35:29What?

00:35:31Tell me what it's like with Jean-Paul.

00:35:34You mean?

00:35:35Yes.

00:35:36It's really nice.

00:35:38Did it hurt the first time?

00:35:40Not very badly.

00:35:42Does he kiss you properly?

00:35:44Yes.

00:35:45When you see people on the television kissing, you can tell they aren't putting their tongues

00:35:49in.

00:35:51I had a letter from Jean-Paul today.

00:35:53Can I read it?

00:35:54Well, he wants me to go home.

00:35:56Don't, will you?

00:35:59Maybe.

00:36:00No.

00:36:01No.

00:36:02No.

00:36:04No.

00:36:10No.

00:36:14No.

00:36:15No.

00:36:18No.

00:36:33No.

00:36:34No.

00:36:35No.

00:36:37No.

00:36:39No.

00:36:49No.

00:36:54No.

00:37:16Hello.

00:37:36Well.

00:37:38Well, indeed.

00:37:41So this is her, is it?

00:37:43Mother and wife.

00:37:45Good Lord.

00:37:49How are you, Liam?

00:37:50How do I look?

00:37:51Fine.

00:37:53Older a bit.

00:37:54Older a lot.

00:37:56But I've gone off mortality as a set book.

00:38:03Well, beautiful creature.

00:38:06I'm dumbfounded to see you.

00:38:10Shall we go and glance at a brass robbing?

00:38:16If you like.

00:38:17I don't particularly like.

00:38:19Why gaze upon history

00:38:21when today is gazing so delightfully on me?

00:38:26Do you still write, Liam?

00:38:28Poems or letters?

00:38:29Poems.

00:38:30Every leap year I write one.

00:38:31Seriously?

00:38:33Seriously.

00:38:34I get out my narrowed old pencil

00:38:36and an online sheet of recycled paper.

00:38:38It...

00:38:44Yes?

00:38:47I do still write.

00:38:48Cleopatra.

00:38:49I do still write.

00:38:58is granny to get put in prison no why not because she's done nothing wrong

00:39:06mommy told me she stole something no

00:39:10she forgot to pay for it that's the same thing said in a posh way

00:39:14no it isn't now please eat your supper Teresa

00:39:24where's mommy daddy I told you she's with granny why because your grandmother is upset about what

00:39:33happened and mommy's upset what she's upset about everything what do you mean Teresa she cries

00:39:42masses at the moment doesn't she

00:39:49yes so she must be unhappy she's not unhappy she's just what

00:39:56she's just tired now please eat your supper

00:40:04you never came to the house did you

00:40:09well and took it and every last stick and bobble in it I said to my English chappy solicitor what

00:40:18for the love of God is meant to happen to me husband and breadwinner for 16 years go on earning

00:40:24he said you have earning power and your wife excuse me

00:40:28your ex-wife has none at all she has sacrificed her promising career as a tree surgeon to bear your

00:40:36foul-foul-mouthed boys and now she must be justly compensated

00:40:46so you got nothing law of the land said the lady takes it leaves the adulterous husband as old 78

00:40:52and his grime copy of Ulysses

00:41:00why won't you talk to me Egypt

00:41:03because you're talking

00:41:24but I think I'm going to be a weird and I'm not going to be a horrible thing

00:41:31but I'll bet she sees you anymore

00:41:33I don't know

00:41:33you're lying

00:41:34Oz lost his zap and his zip and he drinks himself to Derry and Anne and back.

00:41:43What then?

00:41:46I was imagining I was blind.

00:41:51Blind?

00:41:53Then things would seem to change less.

00:42:01Where is she, Michael?

00:42:02I don't know, Laura. She simply told me that you telephoned and asked her to stay with you till you

00:42:08felt calmer.

00:42:09It's so unlike Camilla to lie.

00:42:13Do you think she's pregnant or something?

00:42:15What?

00:42:16Well, women do, when they're pregnant, start to be funny.

00:42:21No wonder, if you ask me, the idea of two heartbeats in one body was always a dreadful concept.

00:42:28They kept saying, do listen to it beating and I had to tell them I honestly didn't want to.

00:42:33Of course, she could have had an accident.

00:42:35She's got a coil, Laura.

00:42:36I mean a road accident on her way round to me.

00:42:39You said you didn't telephone her.

00:42:40No, but I was going to, to ask if I could come round.

00:42:43But you didn't.

00:42:44No.

00:42:45Then it wasn't you she's gone to see.

00:42:48I suppose not.

00:42:50What on earth can we do?

00:42:53I would say call the police.

00:42:55If I wasn't one of the criminal classes, no?

00:42:58I think we should.

00:43:00I won't give it a few hours yet.

00:43:02I mean the sight of a uniform.

00:43:07I'll give it till midnight.

00:43:09Look, of course she could have come round to my house.

00:43:10Shall I dial my number?

00:43:11The razor told me she left at a quarter to four, Laura.

00:43:14Hmm.

00:43:16Yes.

00:43:16One must be rational.

00:43:19Think.

00:43:20Clearly.

00:43:21Like May Gray.

00:43:24Oh my God, Michael.

00:43:25What a terrible week.

00:43:27Getting arrested and now Camilla.

00:43:31Walking the streets.

00:43:32She's not walking the streets necessarily, Laura.

00:43:36She's probably gone round to a friend.

00:43:37Yes, but which friend?

00:43:39Why?

00:43:41You don't suppose she's got a lover, do you?

00:43:44No.

00:43:47Not Camilla.

00:43:49A few seranimous git that I was.

00:43:54Stupid idiot.

00:43:57Get the chance to make a good decision.

00:44:01And I make a rotten one.

00:44:05How do you know if it was rotten?

00:44:08Because we would have been happy, sodded.

00:44:12You and I.

00:44:15Then.

00:44:18Then?

00:44:20Then.

00:44:22Fifteen years ago.

00:44:23We would have been happy.

00:44:40I would have been happy.

00:44:42Okay, sorry.

00:44:42Plenty of ladies.

00:44:45We want to leave.

00:44:45Aw.

00:44:50Nobody wants to leave.

00:44:51When you're.

00:44:56I want to leave.

00:44:57I'm sorry.

00:44:59I want to leave.

00:45:01You don't love me any more, Egypt.

00:45:22I remember that wretched Irish person.

00:45:26Not that I ever met him. I wasn't allowed to.

00:45:28Camilla was very ashamed of me in those days.

00:45:31She thought I was too old.

00:45:33Too old for what?

00:45:35To breathe.

00:45:37And she thought that everybody over 50 ought to snuff themselves out

00:45:40playing Beethoven's Pastoral.

00:45:44Like poor old Edward G. Robinson.

00:45:47What?

00:45:47It was a terrible film where there was an overcrowded world

00:45:52and there was voluntary death.

00:45:54They called it Going Home.

00:45:57Do you know that Charlton Heston had never seen a daffodil?

00:46:06Oh, I bet one might as well laugh.

00:46:10Camilla in Dublin, the magistrates tomorrow.

00:46:13Oh, my God, Michael, I do hope magistrates are people like me

00:46:16and you, dear Michael, because in many ways, we're very similar.

00:46:31Wretched Road, going to all Albert Mansions.

00:46:34Wretched Road, Albert Mansions.

00:46:36All Albert Bridge Road.

00:46:37Anyone?

00:46:39Three-five, Wretched Road, going to Albert Bridge.

00:46:50Been a bad one, is it, love?

00:46:53What?

00:46:55The evening didn't go too well.

00:46:57No.

00:47:00I didn't catch it, love.

00:47:02Sorry.

00:47:18Stop the car.

00:47:19What, love?

00:47:20Stop the car.

00:47:26How much is that?

00:47:28280.

00:47:29Okay, Charlie.

00:47:30Tango 85.

00:47:322-1, enough.

00:47:33I got that.

00:47:342-1, Albert Mansions.

00:47:36Name of Evely.

00:47:37Thank you very much.

00:47:39What's the road going to Ashley Gollard?

00:47:42Nell Gwynn House, going north.

00:47:43Crawford Street.

00:47:44Anyone for Nell Gwynn?

00:47:46Roger.

00:47:48Nell Gwynn baseball.

00:47:50Well, we must wait for the future to show, said Mr. Banks, coming in from the terrace.

00:47:55It's almost too dark to see, said Andrew, coming up from the beach.

00:47:59One can hardly tell which is the sea and which is the land, said Prue.

00:48:03Do we leave that light burning, said Lily, as they took their coats off indoors?

00:48:09So, with the lamps all put out, the moon sunk, and a thin rain drumming on the roof, a downpouring

00:48:17of immense darkness began.

00:48:20Nothing, it seemed, could survive the flood, the profusion of darkness, which creeping in

00:48:26at keyholes and crevices, stole round window blinds, came into bedrooms, swallowed up here

00:48:33a jug and a basin, there a bowl of red and yellow dahlias, there the sharp edges and

00:48:38firm bulk of a chest of doors.

00:48:41Not only was furniture confounded, there was scarcely anything left of body or mind by which

00:48:47one could say, this is he, or this is she.

00:49:04Like, it's the hang of a chest.

00:49:13Like, it's the hang of a chest, it's the hang of a chest.

00:49:16Take a little bit more than it was.

00:49:22Oh!

00:49:29I've seen this scene.

00:49:31I've seen this scene.

00:49:37Oh, my God.

00:50:02Oh, my God.

00:50:33Oh, my God.

00:51:03Oh, my God.

00:51:35Oh, my God.

00:52:25Oh, my God.

00:52:41Oh, my God.

00:52:48Oh, my God.

00:52:49Oh, my God.

00:52:51Oh, my God.

00:52:52Oh, my God.

00:52:53Oh, listen.

00:52:56Go and get the attendant.

00:52:57Mummy!

00:52:57Where is the attendant?

00:52:59Mummy!

00:53:01Mummy!

00:53:01It's all right.

00:53:02Mummy!

00:53:02It's all right.

00:53:03It's all right.

00:53:04Somebody's gone to get the attendant.

00:53:05It's all right.

00:53:06You just wait.

00:53:07Where is he?

00:53:08Mummy!

00:53:09Hide your back down there, ladies.

00:53:10Come out, all right now.

00:53:11Come out.

00:53:13Don't know what's on the top.

00:53:15It's okay.

00:53:16Hang on.

00:53:16Can you get it?

00:53:19Right?

00:53:20Yeah.

00:53:39Somebody give me a towel, please.

00:53:59Can't you eat it, Theresa?

00:54:00I've got to pay.

00:54:02Don't eat it, darling. It doesn't matter.

00:54:05I tell you what, now that Granny's not going to be sent to prison,

00:54:08why didn't you come and stay for a few days and we could all go out somewhere and give Mummy

00:54:11a writ of arrest?

00:54:12No, I don't think so, Laura. I think Camilla needs us. All of us. I think she needs her family.

00:54:17She needs rest, Michael. That's what Dr. Norton said.

00:54:19Not only rest, Laura. If we all desert her.

00:54:22Such a pain, Granny. Have you, darling?

00:54:26Alice, what about popping upstairs with Theresa and I'll make her a hot water bottle.

00:54:30Sure, you'll feel better in bed.

00:54:31And if you're fine tomorrow, we'll all go out somewhere. On a picnic, eh?

00:54:36Can Alice come? Of course she can.

00:54:41Good night, darling. I'll come up and see you.

00:54:45And don't forget your teeth.

00:54:54It's all so peculiar, Michael.

00:54:57Camilla's such a strong person. I've never known anything like this happen.

00:55:07It's my fault. Of course it isn't.

00:55:10I've been trying to push her. In directions she didn't want to go.

00:55:15In what directions? New house.

00:55:18A grander way of life. She didn't want it.

00:55:21But the new house was lovely.

00:55:22I know. But she was right. We didn't need it.

00:55:26I don't think it's the house. I think it's that wretched Irish poet.

00:55:30Oh. He may be part of it.

00:55:34But visiting the past now and then isn't such a bad idea.

00:55:37I think you're very tolerant.

00:55:39You don't suppose she slept with it, do you?

00:55:41I don't know, Laura.

00:55:42Well, if I was married to you, Michael.

00:55:45No, I don't mean that. I mean, if I was married to someone as kind as you,

00:55:50I wouldn't think of betraying that kind of kindness.

00:55:53What kind of kindness?

00:55:55Yours.

00:55:59I loathe myself sometimes, Laura. I loathe what I do, what I wear. I'd like to betray me.

00:56:10Don't be silly, Michael.

00:56:11No. Honestly. I would.

00:56:20Then indeed peace had come. Messages of peace breathed from the sea to the shore.

00:56:25Never to break its sleep anymore. To lull it rather more deeply to rest.

00:56:30And whatever the dreamers dreamt holily, dreamt wisely, to confirm.

00:56:35What else was it murmuring?

00:56:37As Lily Briscoe laid her head on the pillow in the clean still room and heard the sea.

00:56:44Through the open window, the voice of the beauty of the world came murmuring,

00:56:48too softly to hear exactly what it said.

00:56:50But what mattered if the meaning were plain?

00:56:53Entreating the sleepers, the house was full again.

00:56:57Mrs. Beckwith was staying there, also Mr. Carmichael.

00:57:00If they would not actually come down to the beach itself,

00:57:03at least to lift the blind and look out.

00:57:08Come in.

00:57:14I'm sorry to disturb you, Mummy.

00:57:15Come and sit down, darling.

00:57:21Are you definitely going to be all right?

00:57:23Yes.

00:57:24Mummy?

00:57:25Yes, darling?

00:57:26It's begun. The thing.

00:57:29What thing?

00:57:29My periods.

00:57:33Well done, baby.

00:57:36Grown-up woman, eh?

00:57:56Well done, baby.

00:57:59Grown-up woman, eh?

00:58:05It was so odd when I came round in the changing rooms.

00:58:12I kept hearing a voice, just like Mr. Ramsey into the lighthouse,

00:58:19reciting bits of the Charge of the Light Brigade.

00:58:23Someone has blundered.

00:58:29I feel so worried, Camilla.

00:58:31No, don't be.

00:58:32I feel as though I'm at an exam,

00:58:34and they've given me the wrong paper,

00:58:37and I can't answer one question.

00:58:44Did you know Teresa's periods have started?

00:58:48What?

00:58:50Have they?

00:58:53Is she all right?

00:58:55Yes.

00:58:57I feel so joyful for her.

00:59:02Because becoming a woman is so difficult.

00:59:08and yet so amazing.

00:59:12And I want to tell her not to get

00:59:15snagged up in

00:59:17possessions and places and things.

00:59:23All you do is die in them.

00:59:30I telephoned Mrs. Everett

00:59:33and told her we didn't want the house.

00:59:38I thought...

00:59:41I thought that might be a start.

00:59:49This is our last class till the autumn.

00:59:51We shall miss you, Camilla.

00:59:52And this very nice class.

00:59:54I shall miss you.

00:59:55But we must go on again in September, won't we, Camilla?

00:59:58Yes, of course, sir.

00:59:58Because I'm reading a book to my son last night.

01:00:01Me reading in English to my son.

01:00:04And in this child's book, there is a creature who asks itself

01:00:07what it is.

01:00:08What am I, it says.

01:00:10I'm a pink toothbrush, you're a blue toothbrush.

01:00:13And I see one very important question.

01:00:15Because I read these words, what am I, without any hesitation.

01:00:19When only a few weeks ago, I could not read one single word.

01:00:23So if now I can read this universal question,

01:00:27so I connect that in a matter of time,

01:00:29I shall be able to read anything in this language.

01:00:31And my understanding will grow larger.

01:00:34It's important to be able to imagine, Pris.

01:00:35No, Camilla, I see clear as daylight.

01:00:38Me reading these great words,

01:00:40and then when I come to this far point in my reading,

01:00:42I'll become very much wiser.

01:00:44And not say to my wife,

01:00:46don't put the Rexco in the bagsy boiler.

01:00:49But who are you, wife?

01:00:50And who are we in life's journey?

01:00:52Please let us go on with the class, Zahid.

01:00:54No, you must all start to ask these kind of questions, Dilshad.

01:00:57You must stop all these marigold grubs,

01:00:59persil and whim nonsense.

01:01:01Stop all of that.

01:01:02You must say to yourself,

01:01:03I'm not going to live this very bad diet of cushion flow and Mr. Kipling.

01:01:08Correct, correct.

01:01:08I'll sit in the black mud of all these Rexco nuts and dream topping

01:01:12till I can rise up and say, what am I?

01:01:15Oh, Zahir, if this was simple.

01:01:17Rise up out the dreams up and bloody hell.

01:01:19No, I think Zahir is right.

01:01:20Zahir is ignorant of money.

01:01:22Mr. Kipling.

01:01:22I teach my children that life is not only about space invaders.

01:01:26And here is my beginning, you see, Camilla?

01:01:28Yes, of course, sir.

01:01:29You're wasting time, Zahir.

01:01:30And ever since I saw my beginning, I've been so much a happier man.

01:01:34Why does this silly happy man waste time?

01:01:36Please, can we go on?

01:01:37We are on!

01:01:38Foolish Dilshad!

01:01:39In my way, we are on!

01:01:41One!

01:01:42One!

01:01:45One!

01:01:49One!

01:01:51One!

01:01:56Two!

01:02:00One!

01:02:05One!

01:02:05Two!

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