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First broadcast 11th February 1973.
Harvey Whitlow has been back from World War I for a year and he's been having a hard time making a go of it.
Keith Drinkel - Harvey Witlow
Mary Wimbush - Mrs. Witlow
Jane Carr - Sophy Daws
Sheila Ruskin - Mary Sadgrove
Rosalie Crutchley - Mrs. Sadgrove
Daphne Heard - Cassandra
Michael Raghan - Amos
Daphne Goddard - Farmer's Wife
Philip Dunbar - Best Man
Harvey Whitlow has been back from World War I for a year and he's been having a hard time making a go of it.
Keith Drinkel - Harvey Witlow
Mary Wimbush - Mrs. Witlow
Jane Carr - Sophy Daws
Sheila Ruskin - Mary Sadgrove
Rosalie Crutchley - Mrs. Sadgrove
Daphne Heard - Cassandra
Michael Raghan - Amos
Daphne Goddard - Farmer's Wife
Philip Dunbar - Best Man
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00:10You
00:35Oh, oh.
00:41D'y-do'y, ma'am?
00:43Nothing to do, Yggdler.
00:48I'll buy any mortal thing, ma'am.
00:54Eggs, fowls, pay the best prices, cash down.
01:00Good bright silver?
01:02I said nothing to day, Yggdler.
01:06Aye.
01:09D'y-do'y, ma'am.
01:18Oh, boy.
01:21D'y-do'y, Mr. Plummer.
01:23Morning, Harvey. Not today, thank you.
01:38Come on, boy.
01:42Come on.
01:43Come on.
01:45Come on.
01:50What?
01:52Nothing.
01:57things don't change and change for the better I'll be digging up tape this
02:01soon yeah that's that what it is
02:13how much you give for it gotten cheap two shillin two shillin for that there's a
02:21good hand with a flower to the lane a month I doubt there's an at all oh I am damned
02:27and done
02:30I bought a good end without leaving me on doorstep and can you say as much all I know is
02:37it trades
02:38backwards even eggs is scarce yeah when there's plenty they're spoken for people shy of doing
02:48business with strangers they stick to their own I was better off in the war I was better off in
02:56the
02:56trenches where you been today Cameron down on Green's Hill she well nettle farm same places
03:13they know my face till they're sick of the sight of it maybe if you were to try somewhere you
03:21hadn't been a for where's that then I've been every place except not one shag more nothing there a
03:30sheep could live on you won't know till you try will you can't leave me no worse off than I
03:37am can it
03:42oh I am damned and I'm dumb
03:47so far damned and done I'll be ordering my own funeral next
03:56whoa boy whoa
04:00damn den I'm
04:01don't
04:02no
04:04no
04:12no
04:14no
04:16no
04:32Warrant to you ma'am. If you've got anything to sell, I'd be glad to buy it.
04:45Cold for the time of year?
04:55I'll buy any Morton thing, ma'am. Except in trouble. I'm full up with that already. Eggs, fowls, or I'll
05:04carry a beast to market or fetch you some trees from the nursery.
05:12Anything, ma'am?
05:14Hey, Glenn, are you?
05:15Yes, ma'am.
05:17I ain't seen you before.
05:19No. Well, tell you the truth, I'm new to this business. Six months. I went in the war a year
05:26ago.
05:31Trying to knock up a connection now. Tis hard work.
05:35Ain't as hard as farming.
05:37Well, things is quiet, I do know that. Well, I do well enough at the dealing now and again, but...
05:43Mostly I don't earn enough to keep my horse in shoe leather.
05:49I ain't got nothing for you, Igler.
05:52Please, ma. Anything. A few eggs, perhaps.
05:57They ain't laying that well.
06:01Sorry to do a trouble you, ma'am. Maybe I'll call again in a few weeks.
06:07Igler?
06:08Ma'am?
06:10Maybe I have a few eggs.
06:14Thank you, ma'am.
06:16But you'll have to come all my way.
06:17You name your price, ma'am, as long as you don't mind trading with me.
06:20Mind?
06:23Your money's as good as mine.
06:26Come inside.
06:28Come inside.
06:39Keep a neat house, ma'am.
06:42Yeah, it's quiet.
06:43Oh, sure it is.
06:44Very lonely.
06:50Good day.
06:55How many eggs have we got?
06:57Fifteen score, I think.
07:00Will you take the lot, Igler?
07:02Yes, ma'am.
07:05Mary, show them.
07:05I'm good.
07:07I'm good.
07:22Huh?
07:29I'm good.
07:34You're good.
08:04Aigler?
08:05What?
08:07Would you buy a few pullets?
08:09Any number ma'am?
08:11There's two dozen.
08:16I tell you ma'am, if you were to offer me ten thousand pullets I'd take them off your hands
08:22and find the money for it somehow.
08:26I would.
08:29This is a lonely spot to live in.
08:34Yes.
08:37So you and yourself, there's nobody else to help you?
08:42Samuel.
08:43Who?
08:45The old man.
08:47And a boy.
08:52Shall I give them a cup of tea?
08:55A cup of tea, Aigler?
09:00Thank you ma'am.
09:05And I've been wondering, would he sell me one of them two young gobbins out there in the yard?
09:11A gander?
09:12Yes ma'am.
09:15I'll sell you one but I want a good price for it.
09:22Hush now.
09:24Hush.
09:24Hush.
09:25Hush.
09:26He never kills anything after a sandwich.
09:28Huh?
09:29There we go.
09:31Hush.
09:35Hush.
09:36Hush.
09:36Hush.
09:37Hush.
09:37Hush.
09:38Hush.
09:39Hush.
09:44Hush.
09:44Maybe I'll call again in a week's time.
09:47Please yourself.
09:50Yes.
09:52Maybe next week.
09:57And, uh, thank you again ma'am.
10:01Hush.
10:02Hush.
10:03Hush.
10:04Hush.
10:05Hush.
10:15Hush.
10:19There's a golland.
10:20Ansel went up there in a price, I show.
10:22Oh no, come you here my handsome.
10:24Come here then.
10:25Come here.
10:26Oh, I mean what a beautiful bird.
10:28I got her now.
10:28I got her.
10:29And who was it who told you to go up to Shackmore in the first place, eh?
10:33Who was it?
10:33I said to myself.
10:34Fine.
10:35God I said.
10:36All your life whatsoever I've told you to do, you've done the opposite.
10:40Now maybe you'll learn.
10:41Go ahead up there again next week.
10:42Hush.
10:44Fine place.
10:45Twenty-five acres maybe.
10:46Hush.
10:46Plenty of stock too.
10:48Nobody there but the old woman and the, uh, little maid.
10:50Maid?
10:51Maid?
10:51What maid?
10:52Daughter.
10:53Pretty little maid too.
10:54Shy.
10:55Huh.
10:56Prettiest little maid I ever seed.
10:58Air like a squirrel.
10:59And what kind of talk's that for a fellow who's caught in?
11:24Evening, Arvie.
11:26Evening.
11:39Evening.
11:42Arvie.
11:44Evening.
11:44No!
11:44Oh.
11:53Hey.
11:55What's up?
11:57Been he gonna talk to I, Arv?
12:00You ain't got no right to lead people on.
12:03Who'd I lead on?
12:05It ain't fair.
12:06Leading people to expect.
12:08Expect what?
12:09You know.
12:09No.
12:10I'm sure I don't.
12:12Where's the arm in kissing?
12:14He gets me up but you don't take me down.
12:17Arvie.
12:21That's dirty talk.
12:25Well, is he coming or is he biting here?
12:29The man expects a bit more than just kissing.
12:34I'm flesh and blood too, you know.
12:36I have my feelings.
12:38You've been the only one.
12:40Men.
12:42Would he like me to carry on like Alice Ward over at Bin's?
12:45Where is she to now, huh?
12:48Who cares?
12:49Man don't.
12:51Jim Webb who give it to her, he don't.
12:54A girl has to know where she stands.
12:59If she do, it is different.
13:03That's fair, isn't it?
13:07I suppose so.
13:09It makes all the difference.
13:14And it didn't much to expect.
13:18Is it?
13:34Whoa.
13:35Whoa, boy.
13:38Leave that.
13:40Will do it.
13:48When they kick, they hurt.
13:51When I've been stung so often, I'm not related against them.
13:59You don't want to be afraid of them.
14:02Nor have anything else come to that.
14:23Pardon me, ma'am.
14:25They're done away from a bull's foot, do they?
14:31She had a good education.
14:34She was at school for gentlefolk until she was past 17.
14:37Oh, and didn't waste it neither.
14:38Who shows it?
14:41Maybe it were foolish of me.
14:44One day this farm will be hers.
14:46Oh.
14:48And the clock must run as you time it.
14:54that's the best I can do I'm obliged to me ma'am there's nothing more full of poison than sting
15:00from honey bee thank you would you buy 12 score eggs any number ma'am and I've been wondering
15:17would he sell me a couple of them apple trees well they'd be ripe in another two three weeks
15:22if the weather holds you'll have to pick them yourself it's a deal ma'am
15:55so
16:01so
16:30So, let's go.
16:33Let's go.
17:29Oh, you're off then, are you?
17:31Yes, ma'am. Ball loaded, and thank you.
17:34Did we, ma'am?
17:57Are you, er, ever round this way on a Sunday?
18:02Well, not in a manner of speaking of him, that ma'am.
18:04Well, if, er, if you are, ever, you must, er, look in, have a bit of dinner.
18:13Well, thank you, I'd like to.
18:15Good.
18:17What are you doing next Sunday?
18:20Nothing, ma'am.
18:22Oh, make it next Sunday.
18:26Yes, ma'am.
18:28One o'clock.
18:30One o'clock.
18:32Sunday.
18:43So, I went in the war before that, from, oh, from summer of 14, right through to Armistice's
18:49Day.
18:51And apart from about two weeks when I was on leave, we were in the trenches most of
18:55that time.
18:56Yeah, they were bad times.
18:58They were muddy times, I don't mind telling any of that.
19:03Four years I were up to my waist and wetting muck.
19:07And rats, rats as big as collie dog.
19:13Will you have some more beer, Harvey?
19:17Thank you, ma'am.
19:18Mary, get the beer.
19:25You must have been a very brave man.
19:28No more than anybody else.
19:31So, I didn't ever think about it.
19:36You had to laugh sometimes too.
19:39I remember, once, we were spotted at St. Grattyon.
19:44And one day this Frenchie come along, and he starts talking away to our sergeant, see?
19:49Only, he couldn't understand no English, and we couldn't make no sense of he.
19:54So, non compass, we says.
19:57He says, nil compre.
20:00Then, he says, cushion.
20:05And he takes a piece of chalk, and he draws on the wall what looks like a dog.
20:09And he says again, cushion.
20:13Pig.
20:15Yes, so it was.
20:18Cushion.
20:19Pig.
20:20Pig.
20:22You know French lingo then, eh?
20:24Oh, yes.
20:24Mary knows it very well.
20:25She learned it at school.
20:27I never did.
20:28Though I was in France all them years.
20:32Anyway, it turns out, see, that he had a pig what's gone mad.
20:38And he wants us to come along and shoot him.
20:41So he does.
20:43Regular firing squad you have.
20:46You've never seen anything as mad as that pig.
20:49I kept missing it at first.
20:51Bang goes the six of us.
20:52He keeps coming at us, so he has to run for our lives.
20:56When he does die, he earns a somersault just like a rabbit.
21:00I've never seen anything as mad as that pig.
21:03Full of madness it was.
21:07Mr. Whitlaw, would you like to come and see the cob?
21:11Mary has work to do.
21:41Are you caught in?
21:44Big pardon, ma'am.
21:46But, I mean, do you have a sweetheart?
21:52No.
21:57But I want to see my daughter wed.
22:02Miss Mary?
22:05Well, I can't live forever.
22:08In fact, I'm not a long living woman.
22:10And I'd like to see her settle with someone who could carry on here
22:14and not make a mess of it.
22:17Yes, but I'm no scholar, ma'am.
22:21She's a lady.
22:23What do that signify?
22:26You want a scholar for learning, not for the land.
22:33Yes, but...
22:36I want to see my daughter married.
22:42See, this farm, with the stock on it, is worth nigh on £2,000.
22:47When she's 25, she has £500 of her own.
22:51Well, you want a farmer for farming, that's true.
22:54But when it comes to marrying, what with her learning and...
22:58I know in French.
23:00A sensible woman will take a man sooner than a box of tricks any day.
23:06Education may be a fine thing.
23:09It often takes a whole leap of foolish money.
23:18How old is she, ma'am?
23:22Nigh on, two and twenty.
23:25She's a good, healthy girl.
23:27I never spent a pound on a doctor for her.
23:29And very sensible she is.
23:31She's a fine young lady, ma'am.
23:33I'm very fond of her, too.
23:35I don't mind admitting that.
23:37Very fond of her indeed, I am.
23:40Well then, think it over.
23:43Ma'am, I doubt if I'm the fair right sort for her.
23:47Fair days, fair doings, Ziglar.
23:51I haven't got much longer, I happen to know it.
23:55God forbid, ma'am.
23:57So you couldn't do better than think it over, eh?
24:02I couldn't do worse than not, ma'am.
24:19Maybe she's in trouble.
24:23Who?
24:24Her.
24:26Maybe some man's gone off and left her.
24:29No.
24:32No.
24:32No, there's nobody.
24:33Couldn't be.
24:39Two thousand pounds.
24:42Near enough.
24:44I don't know if folks at property come along and bid you up yourself.
24:48You'd be a fool to have to be asked twice.
24:52There's a catch in it.
24:54Oh.
24:56Some dodge.
25:00Some the girl don't know and the mother do.
25:05The girl don't want me.
25:07It is her mother what's trying to mold me into it.
25:11If I do with her, what about Sophie?
25:17Sophie Dawes?
25:19Why?
25:20I'm fond of the girl.
25:22As good as engaged.
25:25You mean you think I've given all this to go by for Sophie Dawes?
25:31A farm with two thousand pounds and livestock.
25:36Girls is coming into money.
25:38You'd give all that up for Sophie.
25:42You weren't officially engaged.
25:46There's a catch in it somewheres.
25:50And if there ain't, there ought to be.
25:54Oh, I can't see through it yet.
25:56But I shall.
25:58Before long.
26:05Let's go.
26:06Let's go.
26:06Let's go.
26:08Let's go.
26:09Let's go.
26:31Let's go.
26:33through it.
26:34There was a bullet come within the front of my head.
26:37And it went through a board.
26:39Inch thick.
26:41Just like that.
26:48They could've been killed you know?
26:55Slap right through the board.
27:00middle of that side
27:10I expect I'd better be going there
27:38looking very well today very handsome
27:47healthy place to live up here I suppose
27:50yes
27:52gives you colour
27:57say goodbye then
28:15you're leaving us early mr. Whitlow
28:19yes ma'am
28:21got a long day tomorrow more than twenty calls to make before dinner time
28:28better too much business than none at all
28:37I uh
28:39I ain't forgot that question you were so kind as to ask you ma'am
28:45question regarding Miss Mary
28:48oh
28:51every question gets answered sooner or later
28:54in its own way
29:02well I ain't forgot
29:07thank you for the dinner ma'am
29:13daddy
29:20so ween standing about for an hour maybe we
29:24me talking till there's nothing I knows to talk about no more
29:28she says nothing
29:30certain yes or no if I ask her a question straight out
29:34just stands there and looks at me
29:37like she was a sheep and it was slaughtering day
29:40oh well
29:41as many a man would be thankful for a wife as it listen
29:45not like her
29:46there's times when I just don't know what she's thinking
29:50and the mother huh what did her say
29:54nothing but I'm on to her she don't want to seem too eager
29:58it's all part of her scheming
30:01can't be
30:03you're my fool
30:05me
30:07put a pound and a penny in front of you
30:10and you'll take the penny
30:12can't even spell your own name
30:14ah born a fool
30:16I'll as well be a fool
30:17well I'm not staying here
30:19oh go then go wherever you ever mind to
30:21go and court Sophie Dawes
30:24maybe I will
30:26I'll tell you something else and all
30:28I'll wed who I like
30:30no you won't
30:31that's where you'm wrong
30:33and that's where you'm wrong too you
30:35good lummox
30:37I'll wed no one unless I've a mind to
30:39do you hear
30:41no one
30:56hold them
31:20hold them
31:21make my lot
31:43I ain't got a glass
31:58I'll wed my touch of 14 children
32:01and followed most of they to the churchyard
32:04poor little devils
32:05now do we go slow my dear
32:08yes granny
32:10my mother
32:11had me be some gentleman
32:13well she never wed
32:15oh wed of course she were wed
32:17of course she were
32:18twice she were
32:20but not to a she went
32:22not to the gentleman
32:23no
32:23he had a lot of money
32:25old bushels
32:27and a farm
32:28marriage don't amount to much
32:30not with gentry likes
32:32that's pig
32:39who was he granny
32:41the gentleman
32:42who
32:43the gentleman
32:46she's out of hearing
32:48gets worse
32:58granny
32:59who was he
33:01the gentleman
33:01did he know him
33:03no no
33:04he didn't ever know his name
33:06nor didn't want to
33:07but he took his stuff off to America
33:10and now he means the land of heaven
33:14but he's ever had to see them
33:16I'd have to give it to him
33:19Harvey
33:19I'm starting to drain
33:25it'll pass
33:26it'll pass won't it buggery
33:28come on everyone inside
33:30come on
33:31come on
33:32come on
34:17Sophie
34:18love
34:23hey
34:28what's wrong
34:30ain't nothing to cry for
34:35it blows
34:36and it rains
34:38and it rains
34:39and it blows
34:41and I'm so miscarable
34:43I don't know
34:44what for a winter
34:45oh shh
34:46oh shh
34:58I don't know
35:16Aubrey
35:21what are you done
35:23with Dodger
35:23where is he then
35:25Aubrey
35:26what is it
35:27Aubrey
35:28what's happened now
35:29I won't forget you
35:30I mean
35:31but you're so dumb
35:33Dodger's dead
35:36his heart stopped
35:38the horse
35:39dead
35:40just fell over
35:43now we're done for
36:02I'll thank you
36:03to leave that saucepan
36:04where it is
36:06I'll not have it
36:07on my arm
36:08if he don't mind
36:16Harvey
36:20Harvey
36:20give the man a minute's peace
36:22will he
36:23she threw my saucepan
36:24give to me by Mrs. Pomfret
36:25on the floor
36:26morning till night
36:27you're like two ferrets
36:29in a warren
36:29that's it
36:30take her side
36:31put me in the wrong
36:32I'm counting
36:33I won't stay here with her
36:36she hates me all as has
36:38I want out of me all
36:39same as I got a right to
36:41he can't even keep
36:42what else
36:42that long time
36:46me life's a black misery
36:48and you just sit there
36:49why can't we have a room
36:51in the town
36:51talk sense
36:53you talk about rooms
36:54we ain't got money
36:55enough to buy horse
36:56ain't got the money
36:58count it
36:59afore we was wed
37:00you said we was
37:01going up in the world
37:02times is lean
37:03trade's bad
37:04you said you was
37:05striving
37:05we was
37:07three pounds
37:08can't earn money
37:09without horse
37:10can I
37:12with no money then
37:13so you expect me
37:15to go on living here
37:16with her
37:16well
37:17bugger I won't
37:19Sophie
37:20love
37:21no
37:21no don't come
37:23loving me
37:23maybe when winter's
37:24over
37:25aye maybe spring'll come
37:26you a liar
37:27Harvey Whitlow
37:28let me be
37:29we ain't starved yet
37:30no
37:30I said let me be
37:33nothing today
37:34Igler
37:57hi
37:58hi
38:00hello
38:01it's not much for a day's trading
38:12Well, because of it is,
38:14Lemma's is friendly and got money to lend.
38:18Lemma's eyes ain't friendly.
38:22Something I was thinking.
38:25Maybe if you were to ask that woman up to shag more.
38:29Hey?
38:30Well, she's got plenty.
38:32Harvey, you said so yourself.
38:34I can't go there again.
38:36She's got no call to be unfriendly.
38:39You was always square with her.
38:41Why can't he go there?
38:44Well...
38:44Time well when you was eager enough.
38:48I ain't been there in six months.
38:51Maybe if you was to ask her reasonable.
38:58Harvey, where else can you turn to?
39:001,2.
39:30feu
39:52Good evening.
39:54Oh, Hitler.
39:56What do you come for?
39:59I, er, I call, see Mrs Sandgrove.
40:01I was wondering if she might...
40:03Mother's dead.
40:20What is this you tell me, Mary?
40:23Mother's dead.
40:26All day.
40:28All day.
40:31She died in the night.
40:34The doctor was to have come.
40:37He's not come all day.
40:39All day.
40:42All day.
41:04I, I don't know what is to be done.
41:09Will I go fetch the doctor?
41:11No.
41:12I don't know what is to be done.
41:13I don't know what is to be done.
41:15You must help me.
41:24Come.
41:46you've been laying her out
41:49this help
41:52help me
41:59it's her gown
42:00I can't get it over her head
42:03it's her arm
42:04it's gone stiff
42:07help me
42:08help me
42:26you've got some bandages or something we can tear up a sheet so we can bind the arm
42:38I'll finish this
42:39come on
42:40you go downstairs
42:42and get yourself a swig of brandy
42:46you got any brandy
42:51brandy
42:53and light your candles
43:17let's go
43:46So, let's go.
44:16So, let's go.
44:46So, let's go.
45:16I'm finished.
45:30No, no, that's for you.
45:32You drink that.
45:53You're quite comfortable now.
46:00I'm very grieved, Mary, about this trouble that's come on you.
46:05Do you know what to do now?
46:08No.
46:11Well, you must notify the registrar, but first you must see the doctor.
46:17But I waited for him all day.
46:20All day.
46:24She'd only been in a week.
46:26Yes.
46:29Oh, dear, very servant.
46:31I must see a doctor.
46:33I'll drive you over to him in your gig.
46:35Oh, I don't know.
46:36Yes, yes.
46:38As soon as you're ready, Mary.
46:49I don't want to interfere in your business or what don't concern me.
46:55But what was you thinking of doing there?
46:59Got any relations?
47:01No.
47:04It's bad.
47:08What was she going to do?
47:11She left you in a badish state, didn't she?
47:14Oh, no.
47:16No, she left me very well off.
47:19I shall go on with the farm.
47:21There's the man and the boy.
47:23They went to a wedding today.
47:26I shall go on with it.
47:28She was so thoughtful for me, and I wouldn't care to leave all this.
47:32I love it.
47:34You can't do it all when you're lonesome.
47:36No.
47:38I'm to get a man to superintend, a working bailiff, she said.
47:51Do you know she once asked me to marry you?
47:58I've wondered why.
47:59Why she wanted that.
48:01She didn't.
48:04Well, she asked me.
48:06She knew you was Corton, the another girl, the one you married.
48:11Well, if she knew that, what'd she ask me to marry you for?
48:15She didn't.
48:18Well, I can't make heads and retails of this, but she asked me, sure as God's my maker.
48:22I know.
48:23It was me I wanted it.
48:30You wanted to marry me.
48:31She were against it, but I made her ask you.
48:37But I had no idea you even cast a thought on me.
48:42I thought it was a trick she was trying to play on me.
48:45I didn't understand.
48:48I didn't even know you even knew about it, so I never didn't even ask you.
48:53Why not?
48:56Why not?
48:56I was fond of you then.
48:59Mother tried to persuade me against it, but I was fond of you.
49:05If only you'd tip me a word.
49:08Or a sort of look.
49:13Mary.
49:22Mary.
49:36It's strange that you should come back just when I'm also needed help.
49:41I'm really grateful.
49:54Mary.
49:56I'll drive you to the doctor's now.
50:00Well, I'll stay here till the old man comes back then.
50:02No, you must go.
50:05Go at once.
50:16I'll call again tomorrow.
50:21Goodbye.
50:26Bye-bye.
50:29Bye-bye.
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