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First broadcast 13th March 2006.
The life and times of tortured comic Kenneth Williams.
Michael Sheen - Kenneth Williams
Cheryl Campbell - Lou Williams
Peter Wight - Charlie Williams
Beatie Edney - Joan Sims
Kenny Doughty - Joe Orton
Ron Cook - Peter Eade
Martin Trenaman - Tony Hancock
David Charles - Charles Hawtrey
Ewan Bailey - Kenneth Halliwell
Rachel Clarke - Barbara Windsor
Connor Garnet Comerford - Young Kenneth Williams
Beatrice Comins - St Joan/Actress
Timothy Davies - 1st Doctor
Stephen Critchlow - Kenneth Horne
Guy Henry - Hugh Paddick
Roy Holder - Workman
Edward MacLiam - Private Ed - Guardsman
Ged McKenna - Sidney James
Kevin Moore - Director
Joseph Morgan - Alfie
Nicholas Parsons - Nicholas Parsons
Toby Salaman - 2nd Doctor
Shaughan Seymour - Reporter
Grae Bohea - Wilson
Julian Caddy - Television Repairman
Mavis Nicholson - Self (archive footage)
Michael Parkinson - Self (archive footage)
Kenneth Williams - Self (archive footage)
Terry Wogan - Self (archive footage)
The life and times of tortured comic Kenneth Williams.
Michael Sheen - Kenneth Williams
Cheryl Campbell - Lou Williams
Peter Wight - Charlie Williams
Beatie Edney - Joan Sims
Kenny Doughty - Joe Orton
Ron Cook - Peter Eade
Martin Trenaman - Tony Hancock
David Charles - Charles Hawtrey
Ewan Bailey - Kenneth Halliwell
Rachel Clarke - Barbara Windsor
Connor Garnet Comerford - Young Kenneth Williams
Beatrice Comins - St Joan/Actress
Timothy Davies - 1st Doctor
Stephen Critchlow - Kenneth Horne
Guy Henry - Hugh Paddick
Roy Holder - Workman
Edward MacLiam - Private Ed - Guardsman
Ged McKenna - Sidney James
Kevin Moore - Director
Joseph Morgan - Alfie
Nicholas Parsons - Nicholas Parsons
Toby Salaman - 2nd Doctor
Shaughan Seymour - Reporter
Grae Bohea - Wilson
Julian Caddy - Television Repairman
Mavis Nicholson - Self (archive footage)
Michael Parkinson - Self (archive footage)
Kenneth Williams - Self (archive footage)
Terry Wogan - Self (archive footage)
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00:00:06Joey was a young cord wangler, munging grievels did he go,
00:00:13and he loved a bogler's daughter by the name of Chiswick Flow.
00:00:21Vain she was, and like a grusset, and her gander parts were fine,
00:00:28but she sneered at his cord wangle as it hung upon the line.
00:00:35So he stole a bogler's moolie for to make a wedding ring,
00:00:41but the bow street runners caught him, and the judge said,
00:00:46You will swing.
00:00:48Oh, oh, the young'un, by the posture, nailed his moolie to the fence,
00:00:55or to warn all young cord wanglers that it was a grave offence.
00:01:02There is a moral to this story, though your cord wangler be poor,
00:01:09keep your hands off others' moolies, for it is against the law.
00:01:25Two whiffs of that and you're greedy.
00:01:27Okay.
00:02:20Who is it?
00:02:22Who do you think it is?
00:02:23I don't know.
00:02:25It could be anyone.
00:02:26Well, it ain't.
00:02:26It's me.
00:02:28Don't play a silly bugger.
00:02:30Open up.
00:02:32What do you want, Louie?
00:02:33How are you?
00:02:35Same as I was this morning.
00:02:37Where have you been?
00:02:38Nowhere.
00:02:40Nowhere?
00:02:40Hospital.
00:02:41I'll tell you later.
00:02:41My kettle's on the boil.
00:02:42What are you doing to eat?
00:02:44Are you eating tonight?
00:02:45What do you got, ma'am?
00:02:46What do you want?
00:02:48Omni.
00:02:49Spanish.
00:02:50I'm all out of small veg.
00:02:52What do you ask me for, then?
00:02:54I could open a tin of some salt.
00:02:56A tin?
00:02:58What do you do all day?
00:03:01I don't remember.
00:03:03This and that.
00:03:04Well, you want to do less of this and more of that.
00:03:06No veg.
00:03:07It's a disgrace.
00:03:09Well, I'll make you a cheese omelette, then.
00:03:11If I can digest it.
00:03:13What time are you coming round, then?
00:03:14The usual.
00:03:15Oh, good.
00:03:15We can watch the telly together.
00:03:17You choose.
00:03:18Well, there'll be nothing on.
00:03:19Never is.
00:03:20It's.
00:03:21It's.
00:03:39There'll be nothing on you.
00:03:42I won't do it.
00:03:43We can see.
00:03:44Bye.
00:03:45Bye.
00:03:47Bye.
00:03:48Bye.
00:03:56The End
00:04:18There, shut your awful noise, there's a respectable person trying to get his rest up here.
00:04:24Hello Kenny, me old poster!
00:04:29How are you doing?
00:04:31Same as usual, doing it alone, by myself, tragic and all.
00:04:34How's that owl of yours coming along? Nearly done with it, haven't you?
00:04:38Oh, nearly done! Should be off tonight!
00:04:41Really? Well, you could have fooled me. Positively massive it is.
00:04:44Well, if you need any old pill in it, you're owl that is. Give me a bell.
00:04:48Ta-ra!
00:04:51Ta-ra, mate!
00:04:57Plebeians. Expecting me to behave like that is positively a disgrace.
00:05:07Diaries are written so that one has a record of events, and because there are certain events, one wants to
00:05:13remember.
00:05:14There is perhaps also the element of the confessional.
00:05:20That's what is so delightful. It's what the self wants to say.
00:05:37Oh, that looks nice.
00:05:41That spun gold.
00:05:45Address, I've done a lovely job.
00:05:50You've got to have a trade, boy. You take it from me.
00:05:55There's no point in dreaming your way through life.
00:05:57It's ironic that in so many ways I resembled my father.
00:06:02We're alike in so many things.
00:06:05Both of us shared a sense of inferiority.
00:06:09Mark my words, son.
00:06:11Hair.
00:06:13It always needs doing.
00:06:16You've got to have a trade.
00:06:19Hair. It always needs doing.
00:06:21Shh!
00:06:22The old man will hear you.
00:06:23You've got to have a trade, boy. A trade.
00:06:25Take no notice of him.
00:06:27He's a man. Not like us.
00:06:31Look, Kenny. It's finished.
00:06:33What the sodden hell is that?
00:06:35It's a dress.
00:06:36Who for?
00:06:37Who do you think?
00:06:38Me.
00:06:48Kenneth Williams, with his mincing step and comical demeanour as Angelica,
00:06:52was a firm favourite with a school audience,
00:06:56to whom his snobbishness and perc vivacity made great appeal.
00:07:03Now what you've got to say?
00:07:05He looks like a girl.
00:07:07He looks nothing like a girl.
00:07:09I do not look like a girl.
00:07:11What do you look like, then?
00:07:13A princess.
00:07:27Would not have missed military service for the world.
00:07:31Marvellous.
00:07:32Learned about torpedoes.
00:07:34Very interesting.
00:07:36Joining the Entertainment Corps opened my eyes to many possibilities.
00:07:40That's for sure.
00:07:47Wrote to the stage newspaper today,
00:07:51asking them to insert the following advertisement.
00:07:55Rap work required by experienced male actor.
00:07:59Age 22, height 5 foot by an inch.
00:08:01Retentive memory.
00:08:03Many different voices.
00:08:06Unnatural performer.
00:08:08Performer.
00:08:08I don't know.
00:08:46I don't know.
00:09:08I don't care about you, Sybil.
00:09:09My life has been intolerable.
00:09:11I am wretched, utterly wretched.
00:09:14I feel as if...
00:09:17As if...
00:09:20What is the matter, Kenneth?
00:09:22I forgot it, didn't I?
00:09:23I'm awfully sorry.
00:09:25If you fluff a line, dear boy, make it up until you find your place.
00:09:30Never let the audience know where you went wrong.
00:09:33Never remove your mask, understand?
00:09:40Yes, well, yes, that's correct, you see, yes.
00:09:44Never, I tell you, never.
00:09:46Ever since I left you, Sybil, my life has been intolerable, utterly intolerable and wretched.
00:09:52Oh, wretched.
00:09:54Bloody hell, tell me I'm dreaming.
00:09:58Well, if you're not, dear, I certainly am.
00:10:01I am, I am wretched.
00:10:05The City and the Pillar is a book I should not care to have missed for the world.
00:10:11There is a strange, wholesome quality to the character of Jim.
00:10:22For the first time, I read about that thing called queerness in what seems to be a thoroughly truthful light.
00:10:33The City and the Pillar is a book I should not care to have missed for the world.
00:10:34I am, I am, I am, I am, I am, I am, I am, I am, I am, I am,
00:10:50I am, I am, I am, I am, I am, I am, I am, I am, I am, I am,
00:10:52I am.
00:11:08More and more trouble in my mind about myself.
00:11:12Oh, this queerness seems to become more and more frightening.
00:11:18Oh, get on with it.
00:11:44I am to attend audition in West End on Friday.
00:11:48Good luck, Kenneth.
00:11:49For Stratford-on-Avon.
00:11:51Shakespeare.
00:11:53Perhaps he is the answer to my dreams.
00:11:58But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue.
00:12:05Nick.
00:12:24The crapola that's talked about something being just around the corner really eats into one's heart.
00:12:31And I marvel at my ability to put up with it.
00:12:35I am now so utterly superior to those around me.
00:12:41Yet, will anybody care to notice?
00:12:46Poking your nose into posh books will help you find a decent job.
00:12:50And where would you have me poke my nose, Pro?
00:12:53Don't use that plummy voice on me.
00:12:56You want to give it up?
00:12:58Give what up?
00:12:59Whatever he gets up to with pansies and whores.
00:13:02I thank you for the advice, Father.
00:13:04Both spiritual and theatrical.
00:13:07Nonsense.
00:13:19What can it seem unique?
00:13:20Don't you ever forget it.
00:13:30Your majesty is anointed king at last.
00:13:55Art Theatre London.
00:13:56Bernard Shaw, St. Joe.
00:13:57Mr. Kenneth Williams is a brilliantly fussy dope fan.
00:14:00A skinny and abandoned lapdog, he will go far.
00:14:03I'm impressed.
00:14:04A classical actor.
00:14:06Good.
00:14:07Because that's exactly what I need.
00:14:09A legit thespian with no funny voices.
00:14:13Ladies and gentlemen, we present Hancock's Half Hour.
00:14:18Good morning.
00:14:20Good morning, cheeky.
00:14:22I want to come to the pictures with me.
00:14:29No, Hopit.
00:14:30Hopit.
00:14:30Go on, get out of it.
00:14:31Go on, go on.
00:14:32Don't be like that.
00:14:33I saw you wink at me.
00:14:37I didn't wink at you.
00:14:39Flip all the eyelash flopped out.
00:14:42Stop messing about.
00:14:45Buzz off. Buzz off, Hopit.
00:14:47I think you're smashing.
00:14:51I'll smash you in a minute.
00:14:52I think I like girls a bit.
00:15:00Where's my bleeding supper?
00:15:10A disaster feels imminent.
00:15:13It seems as if their whole marriage is cracking up like some jerry-built house.
00:15:17But then I can't remember it any other way.
00:15:19Why does she stick with him?
00:15:21He's so emotionally inadequate in every way.
00:15:24He still insists on this heavy-handed, cock-of-the-wall stuff.
00:15:27Which, of course, is hot air and sickening.
00:15:29Because underneath, he's just like me.
00:15:31Always vying for her affections.
00:15:33When will the scales fall from his eyes?
00:15:36The day I was born, Charlie wasn't needed anymore.
00:15:39He'd served his purpose.
00:15:43Louie has me now.
00:15:46Manners.
00:15:49Peg!
00:15:56Oh no, it's him again.
00:15:57Only at this juncture of my professional life can I state my worth as a human being.
00:16:03Because I see that in art is man striving for the truth, for order, for the sense which has evaded
00:16:09him in the stupidity of existence.
00:16:11Only in recognition of this truth in art can my respect be commanded.
00:16:17He has me in stitches.
00:16:22Oh, look at that.
00:16:24It's our new 17-inch console, madam.
00:16:26I'd have thought 17 inches would be enough to console anyone.
00:16:31What's going on?
00:16:32Installing a television set.
00:16:34Television set?
00:16:36I didn't purchase any television.
00:16:38You didn't, but Kenny did.
00:16:39It's a present.
00:16:41A gift from me to my garden.
00:16:43It's a waste of money.
00:16:44My Kenny can afford it.
00:16:48If I'm not sharing with her, who am I sharing with?
00:16:56Good evening.
00:17:02What do you want?
00:17:02I'm your roommate.
00:17:04No, no, you're not.
00:17:05No, come on.
00:17:06Stop messing with me.
00:17:10Nice room.
00:17:19The show went very well tonight, Tony, don't you think?
00:17:23For some of us it did.
00:17:23The audience were wonderful.
00:17:25Not bad.
00:17:27Why the funny voices?
00:17:30I beg your pardon?
00:17:32All this.
00:17:33You have four voices.
00:17:35Your snide's not messing about.
00:17:36Your plummy voice.
00:17:37Your upper-class twit and your cockney.
00:17:38And that's about it ended.
00:17:40A great range for a classical actor, don't you think?
00:17:44Yes.
00:17:44Well, the audience look forward to my voices, don't they?
00:17:47Very popular.
00:17:48Of course.
00:17:49Playing to the gallery.
00:17:50Any clown could do that.
00:17:51Any cheap comic.
00:17:53Audiences need to be nourished on something purer, Kenny.
00:17:55And we have to teach them.
00:17:57Take them to a higher plane of laughter.
00:18:00The comic potential of a man is infinite, Kenny.
00:18:04Infinite.
00:18:10And so is my bum-hole, Tony.
00:18:16I think what an audience wants is to be beguiled.
00:18:20As Shaw once said, and I have appeared in Shaw,
00:18:23an actor must illuminate the dark corners of the mind.
00:18:28I think if you engage them, they will accept it totally.
00:18:32Finally, whatever the manner in which you are playing.
00:18:36After all, comedy and tragedy are only two sides of the same coin.
00:18:39However broad the performance might be,
00:18:42an audience will come with you if they believe you.
00:18:46They'll say, is it any good?
00:18:47And do I believe?
00:18:48If not, you don't.
00:18:49It's a terrible risk you take being a performer.
00:18:53A tightrope walk.
00:18:55And you take that risk nightly.
00:19:00Don't you agree, Tammy?
00:19:03Quite.
00:19:05That's awesome.
00:19:10I'll have your melon balls, followed by the creamed chicken.
00:19:16Thank you very much.
00:19:17Oh, really nice, Peter.
00:19:19Really nice manner.
00:19:21Thank you, lovely boys.
00:19:23Say hello to the agent, Ducky.
00:19:26Thanks.
00:19:28Do you have to, Kenneth?
00:19:30Have to what, Peter?
00:19:31To talk so loud, the whole restaurant can hear you.
00:19:34Can they?
00:19:35Oh, well, they soon be listening.
00:19:40I expect they probably recognise me from appearing on the television.
00:19:44Not for much longer, I'm afraid.
00:19:48Oh, how do you mean?
00:19:53I've heard a word from the BBC.
00:19:55They want to cut back your characters.
00:19:57He says you're a grotesque.
00:20:01A grotesque?
00:20:02Who did the slur?
00:20:03Hancock did.
00:20:04They want to make the show more realistic, less of a cartoon.
00:20:09He doesn't think you're natural enough for his show.
00:20:16I think.
00:20:19I'm sorry.
00:20:24Well, of course, I'm not natural.
00:20:27I'm supernatural.
00:20:29I am.
00:20:31I am.
00:20:33I'm surreal, Peter.
00:20:36I am.
00:20:37I'm surreal.
00:20:50The leaf that blossoms, dies, and falls from the tree is, in the falling, tragic.
00:20:59But I am the leaf that has not yet blossomed.
00:21:03I am that blighted leaf.
00:21:07My tragedy lies in the knowledge of my failure to bloom.
00:21:13I come always near, but never into truth.
00:21:18I come always near, but never into truth.
00:21:24I come always near, but never into truth.
00:21:26Kenny! Telephone call!
00:21:29It's your agent!
00:21:47Funny how things can change, in the wink of an hour.
00:21:51I come always near.
00:22:04Carrying Sarge, 208. Take one.
00:22:08In the face.
00:22:14I can't believe I can see you in the face.
00:22:20Two and eight. Take one.
00:22:20Oh.
00:22:21What do I say?
00:23:00You seem to collect voices like other people collect stamps.
00:23:04Do you, in fact, borrow them from people that you've met,
00:23:06or do you just pluck them from the air?
00:23:07Oh, yes, they are taken from people I've known.
00:23:10Pinch does the face.
00:23:12The snide voice, the stop-messing-by one,
00:23:14that was taken from a boy I met,
00:23:17a boy who worked at the Mint,
00:23:18and he was describing how you were searched.
00:23:21To make sure you hadn't taken anything that you shouldn't have.
00:23:25And he was describing with a perpetual smile on his face.
00:23:30You know, you've got to be very careful, you see,
00:23:33because otherwise they may take your clothes off.
00:23:37So I thought that was a very good idea.
00:23:39The voice, I mean.
00:23:40Not him taking off his clothes.
00:23:42Of course.
00:23:44Indeed.
00:23:47But all my talk on television,
00:23:51I still haven't matured in any real way.
00:23:54Sexually, I'm as juvenile as ever and unresolved.
00:23:59Given a sign, I would act on it.
00:24:03But no sign ever comes.
00:24:27Thank you for the drink.
00:24:28Don't mention it.
00:24:29It's my pleasure.
00:24:32Would you like another one?
00:24:33No.
00:24:38Peanut.
00:24:40Perhaps later.
00:24:46Afterwards.
00:24:53Why do you use your lavatory?
00:24:55Nobody is ever allowed to use my lavatory.
00:24:57My lavatory and his paper are my own.
00:24:59Oh?
00:25:00Hygiene.
00:25:01I am.
00:25:03Oh.
00:25:12Oh.
00:25:18Oh.
00:25:21Oh.
00:25:21Oh.
00:25:30when did you last scrub those nails sorry your nails such dirt i don't remember no well you
00:25:38should positively filthy shall we go somewhere else yes i think you should leave
00:25:47i think the people who manifest their love for you physically when they know your lack
00:25:51of reciprocation are abominably selfish all this touching and kissing which seems so popular among
00:25:58others passes me by my friends know i'm a virgin and say i make up for it by flirting
00:26:04to them everyone must do something or die
00:26:11perhaps i am dead already
00:26:22celibacy is an essential quality in my own character
00:26:26i must never allow myself to be vulnerable in the sexual sense
00:26:31that kind of humiliation would be detrimental in every way
00:26:45obviously the sex life of consenting adults of the same sex has nothing to do with anyone else
00:26:50and the present law is so primitively barbaric that it gives rise to more trouble than it's worth
00:27:00so
00:27:09so
00:27:10so
00:27:37I am the leaf that has not blossomed.
00:27:45Now, people used to say that matches were made in heaven.
00:27:48Nowadays, they're more likely to be made by computer.
00:27:51And a firm has recently opened called Boner Soulmates,
00:27:55who've offered to do it electronically.
00:27:58And I decided to pay them a visit.
00:28:00Hello, anybody there?
00:28:02Oh, hello, I'm Julie and this is my friend Sandy.
00:28:04Oh, hello, yes. Hello, Mr Orne.
00:28:07We're your Boner Soulmates, we are.
00:28:10Yes, our motto is, for every omi, there's a pillow.
00:28:14Hello, yes.
00:28:15We guarantee to match you with the perfect partner.
00:28:18A sort of marriage bureau, eh?
00:28:19Well, what we actually do is to find you the perfect partner
00:28:22is we fill in your particulars.
00:28:23Yes, we fill them in, you see.
00:28:24First, we've got to get your essential data.
00:28:26Would you mind answering a few questions, Mr Orne?
00:28:28I don't mind.
00:28:30Well, these questions, you see, they're worked out by a psychiatrist
00:28:33to determine your personality.
00:28:35Yes, now, first of all, what sort of car do you drive, Mr Orne?
00:28:38What's that got to do with it?
00:28:39Oh, a car is your sort of virility symbol.
00:28:41Yeah, it sort of indicates the sort of person you are.
00:28:44Yeah, it's for instance, Sean Connery,
00:28:45he drives a great big powerful sports car.
00:28:47Very butch, very potent.
00:28:49What do you drive?
00:28:49A Mini.
00:28:53I think that tells us all we need to know, Mr Orne.
00:28:56All we need to know.
00:29:03I got the 73 up to the Angel today
00:29:06and called on Joe Orton, playwright, and his friend.
00:29:10It was frugal, to say the least.
00:29:15Would you care for a ham sandwich, Mr Williams?
00:29:20Ken made them, especially.
00:29:24I make all the food around here.
00:29:27While I write plays.
00:29:29Who does your decor?
00:29:31Ken does.
00:29:33They're collages.
00:29:35Art.
00:29:37Two artists living under the same small roof.
00:29:39Must grab his style.
00:29:40We like it this way.
00:29:42Ever so cosy.
00:29:44Has been for years.
00:29:52This ham is rather good, don't you think?
00:29:55Isn't it?
00:29:56I do love your new play, Joe.
00:29:59Funeral games.
00:30:01Loot.
00:30:03Sorry?
00:30:04I've changed the title.
00:30:05I think up all Joe's titles.
00:30:11That's very good, Joe.
00:30:13Outrageous man.
00:30:16I'm flattered.
00:30:17He is.
00:30:18Often nowadays.
00:30:21By all sorts.
00:30:29Who's your favourite, Mr Williams?
00:30:35I prefer Miss July.
00:30:37I prefer Miss July.
00:30:40I prefer Miss July.
00:31:13I prefer Miss July.
00:31:14I prefer Miss July.
00:31:20Give me green old people.
00:31:21I mean, I prefer Miss July.
00:31:21This is preserved, Mr Williams.
00:31:22I feel so sorry?
00:31:22I prefer Miss July.
00:31:23I prefer Miss July.
00:31:47I would like very much to have been born handsome, not for its own sake, but for the sake of
00:31:52being
00:31:52attractive to others. I've no doubt that this is one superficial excuse for more profound complaints
00:31:59within. So much is because I think my face and body unprepossessing. This is, of course, the paradox of
00:32:08my own nature, the thing that I am being the thing which I despise. But I think my despite is
00:32:17justified.
00:32:27This Roman tunic I'm wearing in the film is really quite sexual. Don't you think, Joan?
00:32:36Very you, Kenny.
00:32:40Hail Caesar.
00:32:41Oh, Kenny, not again. Put it away.
00:32:45Frig.
00:32:50I didn't see a cock the whole time I was in Leicester.
00:32:54Really?
00:32:55No, except my own, and that glimpsed only briefly in a cracked mirror.
00:32:58Oh, I've made Abby in me mirror.
00:33:00Masturbation?
00:33:01The Barclays, yes.
00:33:03Barclays?
00:33:04Barclays Bank. Weng.
00:33:05Got me wrong.
00:33:06Oh, I see.
00:33:08A mental cock, I leave it alone.
00:33:10Nothing can touch my fantasies. Positively lewd at times, my mind's eye.
00:33:16We're going to Morocco for it. Bum.
00:33:21Well, Tangier is certainly the place for relaxation during a mild winter.
00:33:26You should come.
00:33:27I don't think your Kenneth would approve, do you?
00:33:29More the merrier, I say.
00:33:32Yes, but does he?
00:33:33I'm over twenty-one, you know.
00:33:34Only in a bad light. Today you could play a boy of sweet sixteen.
00:33:37Mmm, good.
00:33:44Oh, you want me looking up, you do.
00:33:47I already have been, Kenny.
00:33:48How shocking.
00:33:50She would be with her pants down and her tie wrapped around her ankle.
00:33:55I can't say I approve.
00:33:57Not many people do.
00:33:58That's what makes the prospect of having it more and more entertaining.
00:34:01No, it's irreligious. And immoral.
00:34:03Like my play, hey?
00:34:04Yes.
00:34:05Certainly audiences will be mortally offended should I appear.
00:34:09You're going to do it, then.
00:34:18Luke went down as feared it would.
00:34:22Shocked the audience to buggery.
00:34:24Why?
00:34:25Yes, I'm...
00:34:34I'm...
00:34:35Joe's not here. He's gone out.
00:34:37No.
00:34:38Hiding from me, is he?
00:34:40When...
00:34:43When do you expect him back?
00:34:46Depends on what he finds.
00:34:48Mark him in.
00:34:49I'm doing haddock.
00:34:50Ooh, for tea. Lovely.
00:34:51There isn't enough for three.
00:34:52Rubbish.
00:34:53After what I've been through in that play of his, I deserve fresh salmon.
00:35:06There's something different about you today, Kenny.
00:35:10Joe bought it for me.
00:35:11He said it suited me.
00:35:14More...
00:35:15Viral.
00:35:15Mmm.
00:35:16Very distinguished.
00:35:19Do you like it?
00:35:20It doesn't matter what I think.
00:35:22Uh, hollandaise sauce?
00:35:24Oh, just a smidgen.
00:35:25The stomach's playing up.
00:35:27I could blow off like the wind.
00:35:29Thanks for sharing that with me.
00:35:32Thank God.
00:35:44Joe's having trouble with his dick.
00:35:48He, uh, wants a good doctor.
00:35:53His heart's in the right place.
00:35:55Shame his dick isn't.
00:35:56Hmm.
00:36:01Well, I'm sure he would never leave you.
00:36:05Joe told me.
00:36:08You've been through too much together, he said.
00:36:11A very magnanimous of him.
00:36:14I'd be grateful for that.
00:36:16Grateful?
00:36:17Some kind of love.
00:36:20He has an inability to love.
00:36:23A horror of involvement.
00:36:26He needs to be utterly free to write.
00:36:29He says.
00:36:32But...
00:36:33You can't live without love.
00:36:35Love is...
00:36:37Involvement.
00:36:44When I'm not indulged, loved, by an audience...
00:36:48I always feel the need to run.
00:36:51Where do you run to?
00:36:53Oh, I've no idea.
00:36:54To a...
00:36:54To a friend's habitat, I suppose.
00:36:57Share a bit of our duck.
00:36:59Eh?
00:37:00Bit of our duck.
00:37:01Eh?
00:37:02Quite.
00:37:03Quite.
00:37:10What you need out of life, Kenny, is a good fuck up the arse.
00:37:15Really?
00:37:16I should say so.
00:37:17Why?
00:37:19Don't have helped me to perform any better in your play, Joe.
00:37:22It might.
00:37:23The father's very close to tragedy.
00:37:25Is that how you see me?
00:37:28A...
00:37:29Tragedy?
00:37:30No.
00:37:32Do you?
00:37:35That fellow's got his own you.
00:37:37Where?
00:37:38Over there.
00:37:46No, I won't indulge, Joe.
00:37:50Why not?
00:37:51Promiscuous sex.
00:37:53I've always equated it with...
00:37:56What?
00:37:57Sin.
00:37:59What?
00:37:59I think the natural goodness and dignity of man is bound up with regard to certain qualities.
00:38:04You sound like the Oxford Dictionary.
00:38:05And if you use someone else physically with no other motive but sexual stimulus, then you degrade them.
00:38:11You take away their natural goodness and dignity.
00:38:14And, of course, your own.
00:38:15Filth fires the soul.
00:38:19Bend over, Kenny.
00:38:20Stretch your toes a little before it's too late.
00:38:23You play at your games, Joe, and I'll play at mine.
00:38:25What do we, any of us, have but our illusions?
00:38:29And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
00:38:33Somerset Maugham.
00:38:34Is that right?
00:38:35Yes. It's one of the secrets of celibacy.
00:38:38The preservation of the illusion.
00:38:42Don't you think?
00:38:44I'll tell you what I think.
00:38:48Nice arse.
00:38:50Purt and juicy.
00:38:53Jo Allton!
00:38:54Jo Allton!
00:39:30Nippy, isn't it?
00:39:36I hovered the carpet in the lounge dressed only in bathing trunks.
00:39:43He was very daring.
00:39:45And the atmosphere was charged with sex.
00:39:53If anyone had walked in, I would have been irresistibly attracted.
00:40:15Hello?
00:40:18Who is it?
00:40:20It's your father.
00:40:25What do you want?
00:40:27I was just passing and I thought I called to see you.
00:40:30Why?
00:40:31You've never called before.
00:40:34Just being friendly.
00:40:38Go away.
00:40:42Don't be like that.
00:40:44I don't want to see you.
00:40:48Kenny?
00:40:50It's too late to call.
00:40:58I won't forget this.
00:41:05Me neither.
00:41:09When I got home from the theatre, I discovered a small thing crawling on my sheets.
00:41:20It was panic stations.
00:41:27I put it into DDT.
00:41:30Watched it die.
00:41:32Then sprayed the entire room.
00:41:33The bed, the mattress, the frame, the linen, everything with DDT.
00:41:37God knows what the thing was.
00:41:39Or where it came from.
00:41:49The horror, none the less.
00:42:05Hi Mr. Williams.
00:42:08She likes you.
00:42:09You know now, I've relegated my desires.
00:42:11Locked them up for good.
00:42:13I don't want to marm my public image, you see.
00:42:15I want the public's plaudits, not its opprobrium.
00:42:17Arseholes?
00:42:18No.
00:42:18I just put it all into the theatre.
00:42:20That's enough for me.
00:42:21It's where I belong.
00:42:22Yes, auntie.
00:42:23Can I ask, Sid?
00:42:24Did you manage a wank?
00:42:26Oh, the fame and fortune isn't bad either.
00:42:30Oh, yes.
00:42:31The best thing I did for anyone all year was to buy Louis that fur coat.
00:42:34A Siberian squirrel.
00:42:36She does look lovely in it though, doesn't she?
00:42:40Oh, Kenny.
00:42:42What's the matter with you?
00:42:44Nothing the matter with me.
00:42:46It's your father.
00:42:48He swallowed some poison.
00:42:52Cleaning fluid.
00:42:56What's he done there for?
00:42:58I'll keep it in the bathroom cabinet.
00:43:01But he's linked to a spot in case of emergencies.
00:43:05He had a dry tickly cough and he reached out for some quick relief.
00:43:10Silly sod.
00:43:14Will he live?
00:43:17Will he live?
00:43:18Well, he seems a peaky colour, don't he?
00:43:39Death's late.
00:43:41Death's late.
00:43:53I'm ever so sorry, Louis, about Charlie.
00:43:56Yeah.
00:43:58Thanks, Joan.
00:43:59Terrible, isn't it?
00:44:01He kept saying, take these knives out of my stomach.
00:44:04Oh, dear.
00:44:06Still, it was a rat trap of a marriage.
00:44:09The doctor told Louis his brain was damaged.
00:44:12The heart was impaired and his kidney's in very bad condition.
00:44:16In reality, it was a good thing, his death.
00:44:20Pass the butter.
00:44:22He'd never have recovered, would he, Louis?
00:44:24No.
00:44:25Not after swallowing poison.
00:44:28Almost a vegetable.
00:44:30No.
00:44:31No.
00:44:33No.
00:44:33No.
00:44:33No.
00:44:35No.
00:44:37No.
00:44:41The show went very well tonight, don't you think?
00:44:44Yes.
00:44:44Audience very appreciative of me.
00:44:46Oh, he loved you.
00:44:47Oh, yeah.
00:44:48I thought the second half was fantastic.
00:44:52Louis is to move into the flat next door.
00:44:54It's the obvious answer.
00:44:57Keep an eye on each other.
00:44:59As always.
00:45:13Keep an eye on each other.
00:45:40Who is it?
00:45:43Who do you think it is?
00:45:46I said five o'clock.
00:45:48It's three minutes to.
00:45:50Your omelette's on the table.
00:45:53I'll come back when I'm ready to eat it.
00:45:54On time.
00:45:57I've left home now.
00:45:59Then you'll have to wait to rush.
00:46:16Good evening.
00:46:17How lovely to see you.
00:46:20Evening.
00:46:28Hurry up.
00:46:29On it.
00:46:30It'll be congealed.
00:46:46It'll be congealed.
00:46:49Oh, news ain't good, is it?
00:46:53Oh, the usual murder mayhem.
00:46:56It's no good.
00:46:57I can't eat it.
00:46:58I can't eat what?
00:46:59The omelette.
00:46:59What omelette?
00:47:00Cheese!
00:47:00Bloody omelette!
00:47:02Stomach.
00:47:04Swelling.
00:47:05My lingering pain.
00:47:08Oh, dear.
00:47:10God, this atrocious farting is truly foul.
00:47:14Manners.
00:47:15Oh, I'm in purgatory.
00:47:18Oh, my boy, my poor boy.
00:47:21The pain never stops.
00:47:23It's worse than anything I can remember.
00:47:25The doctor.
00:47:26He mentioned some kind of operation.
00:47:28Operation?
00:47:29He mentioned sometime after the 25th of April.
00:47:31For a sort of operation.
00:47:33A knife from the belly.
00:47:34Open up me gut.
00:47:35Will it work?
00:47:37Well, even if it don't work, I can't be any worse than I am at the moment.
00:47:39Can I?
00:47:40Oh, I expect not.
00:47:45Eat your omelette, darling, before it gets cold.
00:48:03You're off to be honest.
00:48:04You're wrong.
00:48:32BBC wanted me to go on TV and talk about it.
00:48:36I said no.
00:48:38I couldn't talk about Joe in public, not at the moment.
00:48:59Lots of people on about Joe's death, everyone phoning and asking the same thing, why?
00:49:15I think the motive was Halliwell loved Joe.
00:49:20Halliwell felt that something very big and important threatened that love.
00:49:24He couldn't kill that, so he killed Joe Alton.
00:49:27This is the only thing that makes any sense, if there is any sense in murder.
00:49:36The whole mess that is existence and mundane things is shot through and transformed by redemption.
00:49:45This is what Jesus meant about redemption.
00:49:48It's the only way.
00:49:50One real act of love.
00:49:54Please let me be capable of it.
00:49:57Just give me one chance.
00:50:00And don't let me be a moral coward.
00:50:08Amen.
00:50:25Who is that dish in jeans, Jeremy?
00:50:29New sparks boy, Alfie.
00:50:31Well, he certainly knows how to tweak a lightbulb, doesn't he?
00:50:35I think you're going to be a fan of mine, aren't you?
00:50:40Such outspokenness.
00:50:41Right.
00:50:43Well...
00:50:43Really?
00:50:44I'm like that, me.
00:50:46Forward.
00:50:47You've got quite a few fans on this unit already.
00:50:50Charlie Autry, for one.
00:50:52He buys you chocolates, I believe.
00:50:55Not my type.
00:50:59Two shards.
00:51:01I think you're in there, Kenny.
00:51:03You think so?
00:51:07You think so?
00:51:35He's 27, unmarried, and he lives in Catford.
00:51:39What a honey.
00:51:49Well, you've either got it, dear, or you haven't.
00:51:55Thank goodness my Kenny's not like that.
00:51:58Like what?
00:51:58Well, you know, sad, isn't it?
00:52:04Is it?
00:52:07My Kenny, he's not homosexual.
00:52:10No.
00:52:11He's a, um, no, what's he call it?
00:52:14He's asexual.
00:52:15Yeah, that's it.
00:52:16No, he don't do anything mucky.
00:52:18He's a very clean living boy.
00:52:25I've certainly gone off him.
00:52:28It seems extraordinary now that I was even bothered.
00:52:32He's an ignorant lout.
00:52:34And that's all there is to it.
00:52:38Such lewd behaviour.
00:52:48To think I used to think you were a great dish.
00:52:51And got an erection when I was near you.
00:52:53And now it's all died completely.
00:52:55So there!
00:53:04Good job.
00:53:05It was only a mental affair.
00:53:07Yes.
00:53:08Still the heartache.
00:53:13Bottoms up.
00:53:24Well, the bum was a joke yesterday, I can tell you.
00:53:28And after the bowel motion, I thought I should go demented or something.
00:53:31And we all know why, don't we?
00:53:33Fiddling about.
00:53:34But, thank goodness, after the ointment and the suppository I shoved up in.
00:53:40Things have finally quietened down.
00:53:42I was able to venture into the street today, looking like most pedestrians.
00:53:46Nobody actually screamed out, got a touch of the farmers, have you?
00:53:50Farmer Giles, got a touch of the farmers.
00:53:55Then I said to the chemist, I'm warning you, girl, be careful.
00:53:57There's enough talcum powder up there that if I blow off, everyone will be covered in dust.
00:54:02And she said quite curtly, I thought, rather you than me, and rang up the pew.
00:54:05No kidding!
00:54:08I've tried milk of magnesia for it, dear.
00:54:11Do you mind, Joan? I'm talking here.
00:54:12Oh, listen to her. Can't get a word in there twice.
00:54:15I swear I was also something, anyway.
00:54:18To cut a long story short, I tried something new this morning.
00:54:23Put some of that Johnson's foot powder up there.
00:54:25Can't do any more harm, can it, eh?
00:54:28Let's see how that affects today, Joan, eh?
00:54:30Dear.
00:54:41Any few thoughts?
00:54:43The reason for most of the smut in this world is boredom.
00:54:47Isn't it, Joan?
00:54:49Is it?
00:54:49Yes.
00:54:50People like to attribute it to reasons more profound.
00:54:53But in my opinion, it's people's conceit that seeks profundity in reasons for behaviour.
00:54:58Don't you think?
00:54:59I wouldn't know. I'm not that bright.
00:55:02Bad day, was it?
00:55:04I always have a bad day performing in such crack-ola!
00:55:09When I think of the shameless way I behave in these studios.
00:55:14The dirty minds, the dirty songs, the obscene dialogue, and...
00:55:19The crowds that gather round you like a family.
00:55:25Marry me, Joan.
00:55:27What?
00:55:28Oh, there'll be nothing messy. Just friendship. Companionship.
00:55:32You've got your mother for that, Kenny.
00:55:34Yes, and you both get on, don't you?
00:55:40I need a little bit more than that, lovey.
00:55:43What else is there?
00:55:45I haven't given up hope yet, you know. I'm only 43.
00:55:48Forty-five?
00:55:49Well, there's life, there's hope. Besides, it wouldn't work out, would it?
00:55:53You'd never be able to accept my tights drip-drying in your sink, would you?
00:55:59I might?
00:56:00You wouldn't. You'd grow to hate me with all my female paraphernalia on show.
00:56:06Hmm. Perhaps you're right.
00:56:09I know I'm right. I can read you like a book, Kenny.
00:56:13A love story, am I?
00:56:15A love story.
00:56:21You've got a spastic coat on.
00:56:22You make it sound like I've won the lottery.
00:56:25Intimate life?
00:56:26He told me he'd keep his eye on it.
00:56:28I told him everything about my predicaments.
00:56:31He said I should find a suitable companion to share my life with, not to worry.
00:56:36You don't have to go too far, Mr. Williams.
00:56:38A little shared mutual masturbation won't hurt you.
00:56:41I thank you for your professional advice, Doctor.
00:56:44Good.
00:56:46Mind you, better to find someone older than yourself, not someone who's after your money.
00:56:52Quite.
00:56:54Charming.
00:57:01I sat alone in the park, thinking of likely lovers.
00:57:11But not a type entered my head.
00:57:24Lovely day for it, don't you think?
00:57:27A walk in the park.
00:57:30Oh, lovely.
00:57:34Trace romantic.
00:57:36Ah!
00:57:38Ah!
00:57:42Ah!
00:57:45Ah!
00:57:45Ah!
00:57:45Ah!
00:57:46Ah!
00:57:46Ah!
00:57:47Ah!
00:57:51Ah!
00:57:52Ah!
00:57:54Ah…
00:57:54Ah!
00:57:56Ah!
00:57:56Ah!
00:58:11Ah!
00:58:12and chaff. Oh, what can you say at the end of the day? You can say you made them laugh.
00:58:25The essence of being funny is confidence, a buoyancy. My role in life is played out,
00:58:39totally without credibility, and so, of course, one falls back on personality playing,
00:58:46and all the same old tired tricks.
00:58:59The press call seems to be going very well. We seem to have got away with it again.
00:59:04Do you see what you're playing in this film? I play the part of Thomas Cromwell,
00:59:08privy seal to King Henry VIII, and protector of the crown jewels.
00:59:14Mr. Williams, could I have another word? You may.
00:59:17What are you doing, continually appearing in these sort of films?
00:59:21Having a bloody good time, dear.
00:59:26I beg your pardon.
00:59:27Why are you continually associated with this chamber pot kind of comedy?
00:59:35Well, in our society there was, and always should be, room for all kinds of entertainment,
00:59:42if it works on its own level, and that the only charge that would be taken seriously by us
00:59:48would be the one that the comedy, the burlesque in this case, didn't work, that it wasn't funny,
00:59:54don't you think?
00:59:56Indubitably, Kenneth.
00:59:57Well, that's my point. I mean, is your kind of comedy still funny?
01:00:03I sometimes feel I am so useless.
01:00:07I'm slowly splintering as a personality.
01:00:11I feel as though I'm stuck together with stamp paper.
01:00:16Kenneth, it's your turn to begin.
01:00:18The subject, stiff upper lip.
01:00:21You have 60 seconds as usual, and your time starts now.
01:00:24I have actually tried this myself at home,
01:00:27and one evidently comes to resemble a ventriloquist's dummy.
01:00:32Underneath the lamp, like beneath the barricade.
01:00:38Kenneth, you've been challenged.
01:00:39Don't challenge me.
01:00:41Kenneth Freud.
01:00:42But I'm finished, you great nicked.
01:00:44I'm supposed to discuss it, you great fool.
01:00:47You're interrupting me before I've even started.
01:00:49Oh dear.
01:00:50I think my star is on the wane.
01:00:53While all around me the rubbish proliferates.
01:00:56Hell, but you!
01:00:57Who left this tat in here?
01:01:00The carry-ons used to be my mainstone.
01:01:03As long as they were there, I never had to worry.
01:01:06Hey-ho.
01:01:23I felt amusing on my condition.
01:01:27I can't have sex, because I just can't cope on that level.
01:01:31And so I'm only really left with work.
01:01:39Who is it?
01:01:41Peter.
01:01:41Do you want to go on the television and chat with Michael Parkinson?
01:01:45Certainly not, North Country nit.
01:01:47Oh, honey.
01:02:07Picture me upon your knee with tea for two and two for tea.
01:02:17There is the endless question, will I remain solvent?
01:02:21Will I last out until I'm able to retire?
01:02:25My whole life is trying to make it up to her.
01:02:28Trying to erase all the sadness and the loneliness.
01:02:32And only succeeding in making more loneliness.
01:02:35Because the nights I don't spend with her serve to emphasise the others.
01:02:38Or vice versa.
01:02:42There's no one in the world, am I, Kenny?
01:02:48Awful dreams of Louis saying goodbye forever.
01:02:52And start to bake a sugar cake
01:02:56What would I do without you?
01:02:58For you to take, for all the boys to see
01:03:05Peter Ede's secretary rang.
01:03:07Thames Television, Mavis Nicholson chat show
01:03:10Will raise the fee to one hundred pounds.
01:03:13I said,
01:03:14No.
01:03:15All right.
01:03:18But this is a Pyrrhic victory.
01:03:32I'm sick to death of your complaint, Kenneth.
01:03:35Yes.
01:03:35You complain about the production.
01:03:37You complain about the cast.
01:03:39You complain about the lines.
01:03:40You complain about every bloody thing.
01:03:48When you're in a long run, Peter, the play lives with you, day and night.
01:03:56And if the conditions under which you perform are continually frustrating, then it ends in driving you to dementia.
01:04:03And a nervous breakdown.
01:04:05Have you seen the Larry Grayson show?
01:04:07No.
01:04:08A complete crib of your act.
01:04:10Really?
01:04:10And John Inman's doing the same thing on the BBC.
01:04:13They're finding other people to do what you do, Kenneth.
01:04:16And cheaper.
01:04:17In every sense.
01:04:19Nevertheless, you must realize you're not as unique as you once were.
01:04:23Problem is, Kenneth, it's got about how difficult it is to fit you into a company.
01:04:31People find you a bit of a problem.
01:04:34A peculiar way.
01:04:36Oh!
01:04:37The pennies finally dropped for them, has it?
01:04:39I've never bloody fitted in, Peter, have I?
01:04:42I've always been bloody peculiar.
01:04:45Strung out on a limb?
01:04:47That's what makes me so grotesque!
01:04:56I feel quite peaceful and unworried.
01:05:00It is odd.
01:05:02One minute I'm thinking I'll never act again.
01:05:05And then I don't bother about it at all.
01:05:29Tomorrow, a voice-over for Unigate Milk.
01:05:56I've had a terrible shock.
01:05:58I just met Louis in the street.
01:06:00And she said, excuse me, I know your face.
01:06:03What's your name?
01:06:04She didn't recognize me.
01:06:06Oh, is that all?
01:06:07Happens all the time.
01:06:08What are you doing not recognizing Joanie?
01:06:10Joanie?
01:06:11Lifelong friend.
01:06:14My skirt's too tight.
01:06:16What's the matter with her?
01:06:17I'm giving it to the maid.
01:06:19Don't worry, it'll pass.
01:06:21Thanks, Joanie.
01:06:23Peter Reid phoned with yet another big television commercial.
01:06:28Breathe in.
01:06:29He has mentioned not only Brook Bond, Rumbelows and Creedah.
01:06:34And out.
01:06:36But also Timex Watches, the Post Office and Chinzano.
01:06:41Yesterday was PG Tips.
01:06:43David Frost type voice, dubbing a chimpanzee.
01:06:47Well, Doctor.
01:06:49What would you have me do?
01:06:54Eat bland, mushy foods, and chew well.
01:06:59Thank you, Doctor.
01:07:02I remember thinking as I lay in bed.
01:07:07I am falling.
01:07:10I am falling.
01:07:13All my life has been the process of falling.
01:07:18I know what Stevie Smith meant.
01:07:22They all think I'm waving.
01:07:26But I'm drowning.
01:07:30My whole career has been the waving.
01:07:36I was going to fall in front of a cult, because I am a cult figure.
01:07:41I've been eating at myself for years.
01:07:44Just living off body fat.
01:07:46And people say, all he does now is go on and tell those old stories we've all heard before.
01:07:52With his usual lavatory gags and camp blether.
01:07:57Pathetic.
01:08:05The feeling is of a clamp under the heart.
01:08:09And there is sweating.
01:08:12And they've owned another lesbian restaurant.
01:08:17Lebanese.
01:08:18Yes.
01:08:20They're all over the place now.
01:08:22Everybody's at it.
01:08:24Lebanese, you silly cow.
01:08:25You'll be sorry you spoke like that to me when I'm not here.
01:08:30What do you mean, when you're not here?
01:08:31When I'm gone.
01:08:33Dead.
01:08:44You know I care for you, don't you, Lou?
01:08:47Because I care for no one else in the world.
01:08:50Pass the batter.
01:08:54That's the reason I'm totally uninhibited when I'm talking to you.
01:08:57I can say what I like.
01:08:59I can be myself with you.
01:09:02Almost.
01:09:12You've never given me a kiss.
01:09:16You've never come up to the guards room where I sleep.
01:09:49You've never given me a kiss.
01:09:51You're not but half the hand.
01:09:52I'm completely drunk, but you think you are the same?
01:10:01No.
01:10:11That's the most important thing I do.
01:10:11You've never done that.
01:10:11You have to live your heart.
01:10:11You're ready?
01:10:12I'm just going to live your heart.
01:10:13It's my heart.
01:10:16I'm really going to live my heart.
01:10:21I'm afraid the gastroscopy shows there is an ulcer, a huge ulcer, in the same place.
01:10:29What you've got to decide is whether you can go on taking the pills or have the operation.
01:10:35Operation?
01:10:38Yes.
01:10:40You've got to remember having the operation is important.
01:10:43The timing of the operation is crucial.
01:10:46After all, you're no spring chicken.
01:10:58Oh, Mikro.
01:11:03Oh, Mikro.
01:11:08Oh, Mikro.
01:11:11Oh, Mikro.
01:11:11Oh, Mikro.
01:11:26Oh, Mikro.
01:11:41How does that get in there?
01:11:51If this situation of loneliness and despair persists, I will have to do either pantomime or summer season.
01:12:00Hmm.
01:12:04Blackpool could be nice.
01:12:11What time are you stopping, Till?
01:12:14Oh, I'm not stopping.
01:12:15Oh.
01:12:17I'm going to be left on my own again tonight, then?
01:12:20You'll be fine, Lou.
01:12:21I've marked up your radio timer.
01:12:22You'll be now, Don.
01:12:24I'll switch your electric blanket on, shall I?
01:12:26I'll never notice.
01:12:27No?
01:12:28No.
01:12:28No.
01:12:29I'm always cold nowadays.
01:12:31My feet and bum don't register anything.
01:12:36Oh.
01:12:37That's true.
01:12:44What time would you like your tea?
01:12:47Oh, I've had my cup of tea.
01:12:48In the morning.
01:12:50When will I fetch you a tea?
01:12:52Let's play it by ear.
01:12:54Good night, Lou.
01:12:57Good night.
01:12:58I love you.
01:12:59I love you.
01:13:04Kenny, have I got any sugar left?
01:13:06You're all sweet enough.
01:13:10Flatterer.
01:13:11Good night.
01:13:12Good night, son.
01:13:22I've very little time for illness.
01:13:25I don't mind about dying.
01:13:27Not at all.
01:13:28But I'm frightened to death about pain.
01:13:32I have a secret contempt for all weakness, including my own.
01:13:46I don't know if I can.
01:13:47I don't know if I can.
01:13:57I don't know if I can.
01:14:05Cheek of him.
01:14:09Didn't even bother to wait goodbye.
01:14:11Could have waited for me.
01:14:14Fickle.
01:14:34Had meal with Louis at 5.30.
01:14:37Saw the news.
01:14:39Watch dreary saga of murder and mayhem.
01:14:42By 6.30 the pain in the back was pulsating as never done before.
01:14:49So these, plus the stomach trouble, combines to torture me.
01:14:56Oh, what's the bloody point?
01:15:02Oh, what's the bloody point?
01:15:12Oh, what's the bloody point?
01:15:12Oh, my God.
01:15:12Oh, my God.
01:15:30Oh, my God.
01:15:36Kenny, it's me, I've got you a cup of tea, Kenny, are you there love, I've got your
01:15:53cup of tea, it's me, it's how you like it, sweet, Kenny, Kenny, are you there son?
01:16:26Kenneth Williams was found dead from an overdose of barbiturates Thursday 14th of April 1988.
01:16:34The coroner asked, could the pills have been taken accidentally?
01:16:42The doctor replied, it is possible but not likely.
01:16:47The coroner recorded an open verdict.
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