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00:10I'm going to go.
00:14I'm going to go.
00:15I'm going to go.
00:24Fuel on.
00:26Fuel on.
00:27Docks are in position.
00:29Switches are off.
00:29You sure about this, sir?
00:32When I got married, my in-laws made me marshal of the Royal Air Force.
00:35As a result, I'm the most senior airman in the country, and I can't bloody well fly.
00:41Yes, I'm sure.
00:42Right-o, sir.
01:12Ready, sir?
01:14Go!
01:15Here we go!
01:17Whoa-ho!
01:24There we go!
01:29Perfect!
01:32Woo-hoo!
01:39Slow there.
01:50Right.
01:52All right there, sir?
01:54Yes, yes, fine.
01:55Now, it's your turn.
01:57You have control.
01:58I have control.
01:59Now, remember what I told you.
02:00Keep your eye on the altimeter and the compass heading, and keep the stick level.
02:06That's very good.
02:08That's balanced.
02:11Stick to the left, then to the right.
02:20And level.
02:22Good.
02:24Noisy, isn't it?
02:29How's this, sir?
02:41My God.
02:47Isn't it wonderful?
02:48Heaven!
02:55You fought in the Battle of Britain, didn't you?
02:58I did, sir.
02:59257 Squadron.
03:00Flying what?
03:01Spitfires.
03:02Hunnicans, mostly, sir.
03:04Any kills?
03:06One or two.
03:08Shouldn't we get us started now?
03:09The ground seems terribly close.
03:12It's too low to restart, sir.
03:14We'll do a dead stick landing.
03:16Okay.
03:16I have control.
03:17You have control.
03:37That was wonderful.
03:39Same time next week, sir.
03:41How about tomorrow?
04:00music playing?
04:10no
04:22Music playing
05:56Sir.
06:00I think you should see this.
06:04I see.
06:08Sir.
06:15Excuse me.
06:17You can't go in there.
06:19Excuse me, sir.
06:22Sorry, sir.
06:24Thought you should see these.
06:29Good God.
06:33We must send a warning to cover our backs.
06:40Kenneth, it should probably come from you as chief scientist.
06:44Address it to the PM.
06:46No, I'll never read it, of course.
06:48But the important thing is, we've sent it.
06:52I'll get you to Downing Street right away.
07:12Right there, please.
07:16Come back.
07:19Come back.
07:20Come back.
07:21Come back.
07:23Come back.
07:24If I'm here, she could lean forward.
07:29out, deep breath in, and out.
07:38Yes, a little stuffy, ma'am.
07:40It might help to open the window a crack.
07:42Not while they're rehearsing.
07:45What are they rehearsing?
07:50My funeral.
08:42Oh, there you are.
09:00Mr. Thurman.
09:01Mr. Corks.
09:15I'm not a scientist.
09:18I can't say I understand it, but what I can tell you is we don't get a weather warning
09:24like this every day.
09:25We don't get one every month either.
09:27In fact, I've never heard of us getting one at all.
09:32Does the name Donora mean anything to you?
09:39Donora.
09:43Of course I remember Donora, who was a scandal.
09:47A small mill town in America outside Philadelphia.
09:51Pittsburgh.
09:52They had a smog brought on by a freak anti-cyclone which trapped the emissions from the local
09:59copper world.
10:00I think.
10:01Hmm.
10:01In the fog.
10:02In a few days, a number of people died.
10:05Twenty.
10:06Twenty.
10:06And several thousand became seriously ill from the poisonous fog.
10:12After the incident, a cross-party delegation was sent to Donora on an urgent fact-finding
10:17mission.
10:18They recommended that clean air zones be set up all around London as a precautionary
10:22measure.
10:24Hmm.
10:25I never saw the report.
10:27With good reason.
10:29Our Prime Minister threw it away.
10:31Claiming it wasn't a priority.
10:34Can you prove that?
10:36I can, Mr. Utley.
10:46The Cabinet minutes where it was discussed.
10:55He's insisted the country keep burning coal irresponsibly this winter to give the illusion
11:01of a solid economy.
11:05This is great, Clem.
11:07It's interesting, for sure.
11:12What I don't understand is this.
11:16Why a Downing Street employee working for the government should come to me with this
11:22information.
11:24I've read the Aeneid, Mr. Thurman.
11:27Do not trust the horse, Trojans.
11:30I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
11:35Mr. Utley, I entered the civil service to serve the public and to serve government.
11:41Any government.
11:42But I am also a responsible citizen.
11:46And I cannot stand by when chaos reigns around me.
11:50This is not a government.
11:53Mr. Utley, this is a collection of hesitant, frightened old men unable to unseat a tyrannical,
12:02delusional even older one.
12:04Mr. Utley, yours was the most radical, forward-thinking government this country has ever seen.
12:14How you lost the election escapes me.
12:18Hmm.
12:20Escapes us all.
12:24I believe I would be doing the British public and this country a service if I helped to usher him
12:31out of the door and you back in.
12:35And to that end, you've come to me with a master plan that involves me crucifying the Tories for their
12:42failure to deal with a fog which has yet shows no sign of appearing.
12:49At present, I can see stars.
13:07At present, I can see stars.
13:09I can see stars.
13:22I can see stars.
13:25I can see stars.
13:44CHOIR SINGS
14:08Miss Scott, thank you for your conscientiousness, but it's late.
14:13You're home.
14:13I am, sir.
14:14You're no good to be tired.
14:16Good evening to you.
14:19What?
14:20Still here?
14:21Good night, sir.
14:26Good night.
14:34Good evening, Pat.
14:57You haven't moved.
15:01I suppose it's still a no.
15:04To what?
15:05Coming out.
15:07You mean going to the Lamb of Flag with you, sitting at the bar, twinkling our ankles at
15:12every unremarkable young man in the room, then letting those men buy us enough drinks
15:17for us to bring them home, only to have their unremarkability confirmed to us again.
15:23No.
15:25Thanks.
15:26Goodness.
15:28And what will you be doing in the meantime?
15:30Spend time in the company of someone remarkable.
15:35Ta-ra.
15:43Hear this, young men and women everywhere, and proclaim it far and wide.
15:49The earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.
15:54Be kind, but be fierce.
15:56You are needed now more than ever before.
15:59Take up the mantle of change, for this is your time.
16:35Good morning.
16:37Time is 8 o'clock on the 6th of December, and here is the news.
16:41London has been brought to a halt by dense fog, which has descended overnight.
16:47Long queues are formed on main roads, and there are reports of motorists abandoning their
16:51vehicles and continuing on foot.
16:53London Airport is expected to be closed.
16:58Good God.
17:00The meteorological office has issued a statement saying that a persistent anti-cyclone over
17:04London is to blame.
17:06Smoke from the capital's chimneys is being trapped at street level, which is aggravating
17:10the fog.
17:15Windless conditions mean it is expected to last for some time.
17:19Be careful out there.
17:20It's a real pea super.
17:32Ah, is the car ready?
17:34I'm afraid the visibility is too poor to drive, ma'am.
17:38It's what?
17:38200 yards?
17:41It's been judged too hazardous, ma'am.
17:47I have an appointment to see my grandmother.
17:51I intend to keep that appointment.
17:54If it's too hazardous to drive, then there's only one thing to be done.
17:59Hmm.
18:00Hmm.
18:10Hmm.
18:11Hmm.
18:12Hmm.
18:16Hmm.
18:17Hmm.
18:18Hmm.
18:20Hmm.
18:21Hmm.
18:21Hmm.
18:22Hmm.
18:24Hmm.
18:24Hmm.
18:38I saw that.
18:41Might it be possible for you to pretend that you haven't?
18:45And the Queen is here, Your Majesty.
18:48Could you be more specific?
18:50Ma'am.
18:52Which Queen?
18:53Queen Elizabeth, ma'am.
18:55Which one? There are two.
18:57The young one.
18:59Oh, the Queen.
19:01I thought you was all Queens. They gave me a sheet.
19:04We are.
19:05I was the Queen so long as my husband the King was alive.
19:09But since he died, I'm no longer the Queen. I'm simply Queen Mary.
19:13My late son's widow was also the Queen.
19:17But upon the death of her husband, she became Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
19:22Her daughter, Queen Elizabeth, is now Queen.
19:25So she is...
19:27The Queen.
19:28The Queen.
19:28Brother.
19:31Nurses and nuns have the same problem.
19:34We're all called Sister.
19:36So you are.
19:38Well, she's outside.
19:41The Queen.
19:41Then let her in, Sister.
19:57Bedtime.
19:58Not at all.
19:59The Queen.
19:59The Queen.
20:02The Queen.
20:02How are you?
20:03I'm always happy to see you.
20:06And my mood will improve yet further if you promise me one thing.
20:10Name it.
20:10Not to ask me how I am.
20:12It's all anyone ever does.
20:14Forget death by lung disease.
20:16It's death by bad conversation.
20:18All right.
20:19All right, I promise.
20:21But if you are feeling up to it, there was something I wanted to talk to you about.
20:26Fire away.
20:38I was listening to the wireless this morning where they described this fog as an act of God.
20:45Now, in your letter that you sent me, you said loyalty to the ideal you have inherited is your duty
20:59above everything else.
21:01Because the calling comes from the highest source, from God himself.
21:07Yes.
21:10Do you really believe that?
21:14Monarchy is God's sacred mission to grace and dignify the earth, to give ordinary people an ideal to strive towards,
21:22an example of nobility and duty to raise them in their wretched lives.
21:28Monarchy is a calling from God.
21:32That is why you're crowned in an abbey, not a government building.
21:36Why you're anointed, not appointed.
21:38It's an archbishop that puts the crown on your head, not a minister or public servant.
21:43Which means that you are answerable to God in your duty, not the public.
21:52I'm not sure that my husband would agree with that.
21:54But he would argue that in any equitable modern society, that church and state should be separated.
22:03That if God has servants, they're priests, not kings.
22:07That he would also say that he watched his own family destroyed because they were seen by the people to
22:13embody indefensible and unreasonable ideas.
22:15Yes, but he represents a royal family of carpetbaggers and parvenues that goes back, what, 90 years?
22:24What would he know of Alfred the Great, the rod of equity and mercy, Edward the Confessor, William the Conqueror,
22:31Henry VIII?
22:33It's the Church of England, dear, not the Church of Denmark or Greece.
22:40Next question.
22:44It's chaos out there.
22:46Trains disrupted.
22:48Air services cancelled.
22:50A Richmond bridge this morning.
22:52Visibility was officially measured at one yard.
22:55That's a record low, incidentally.
22:58Our Trojan friend in Downing Street has been speaking to his friends at the Met office.
23:03They say this is just the beginning.
23:06They expect it to get worse.
23:08I know you would have me call a vote of no confidence and will doubtless call me overcautious for not
23:14doing so.
23:15But the Prime Minister needs to be given a chance.
23:21Even if it's only to hang himself.
23:23Let's see how the old fool responds.
23:25Let's see how the old fool goes.
23:53Let's see how the old fool goes.
24:13I'm glad to see someone else made it in.
24:15No one saw this coming, did they?
24:19No.
24:27Prime Minister?
24:30Sir?
24:50Ah, you made it, Bravo.
24:52Oh, I'm sorry, sorry, sir, I was just...
24:54No, no, you did well to get here.
24:56I gather half the Downing Street staff didn't.
24:59Oh, it wasn't easy.
25:01Just crossing the road, you take your life in.
25:03In your hands.
25:03Oh, then don't.
25:04You're too important to all of us.
25:06Well, hardly.
25:07All I do is bring you things to sign and take them away again.
25:11And so the wheels keep turning, and the business gets done,
25:15and the country's governed.
25:21What's my personal contribution?
25:25Ah.
25:26You improve the quality of life for all that deal with you.
25:31What?
25:32What?
25:33An ornament.
25:34A flower.
25:37By comparison, at my age, you were a published writer, and a cavalry officer posted to India,
25:45fighting local tribesmen on the northwest frontier.
25:48Who told you that?
25:50Who told you that?
25:50You asked me to engage in a relationship with a young man my own age.
25:54So I've been reading your autobiography.
25:57That's not quite what I had in mind.
25:59Hear this, young men and women everywhere, and proclaim it far and wide.
26:05The earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.
26:11Be kind, but be fierce.
26:14You are needed now more than ever before.
26:19Take up the mantle of change.
26:21Stop.
26:22For this is your time.
26:29You were 24.
26:33All energy and hope and passion and fire.
26:40It's remarkable.
26:45You found something you liked in that young man?
26:51I did.
27:21Good morning.
27:24The time is 8 o'clock on the 7th of December, and here is the news.
27:28The serious fog that brought much of the capital to a standstill yesterday continues this morning,
27:34with emergency services struggling to cope, and widespread disruption reported across the nation.
27:41Flares are being used to guide motorists in parts of the capital.
27:45Trains are stopped while running hours behind schedule from major London railway stations.
27:52The prime minister is facing criticism for failure to deal with the mountain crisis.
27:58London airport is closed again today, with all flights crowded.
28:02Yes.
28:03The unmoving fog, which has spread to over 30 miles wide, is likely to cause complete darkness by 2 o
28:09'clock this afternoon.
28:18No.
28:34No.
28:34No.
28:35No.
28:35No.
28:36Don't talk to this.
28:38It's just cause the window was open.
28:41Now go to work.
28:42You've got a job to do.
28:52let us start with the unrest in egypt where anti-colonial passions continue to run high
29:00and where our soldiers continue to come under fire from nationalist insurgents it is vital
29:06that we remain and successfully defend the suez canal in a point that i will be making in person
29:14to the commonwealth heads when i host them for the weekend at checkers weather permitting
29:23indeed what is the latest information that you have about the weather it's fog ma'am it will lift
29:32eventually i was hoping for something more scientific then i will ensure that a barometric
29:39report is included in your box tomorrow complete with isobars and isohumes
29:48it has been an unusually cold winter and there are only so many things that i as prime minister
29:55am prepared to inflict on your subject as a reward for winning a world war and prevailing over fascism
30:02evil and tyranny letting them freeze is not one of them you do not seem unduly concerned
30:10i'm not you do know that my late father wrote many years ago to your predecessors to express
30:18his deep concern about the inner city power stations that your party was building
30:26indeed and i was sympathetic with your father's concerns at the time i also have sympathy with the
30:35leader articles in the newspapers today begging for blood wanting my head people have to be angry at
30:45someone but as leader one cannot simply react to everything we need the power stations
30:53we need the coal people need to burn coal to warm their homes it is weather it will pass
31:01well i do hope so not least because my husband's mood is intolerable
31:06why well being caged in like this he can't fly
31:14fly where well nowhere he's learning to fly
31:21whatever for have we not enough qualified pilots to take him where he needs to go
31:27no he wants to fly himself it's a boyhood dream it's what he's always wanted
31:33why was government not consulted because it's a private matter and i am in favor
31:38nothing you or his royal highness do is a private matter and the father of the future king of england
31:44risking his life needlessly is quite unacceptable
31:48please do not curtail my husband's personal freedoms any further
31:53you've taken away his home you've taken away his name
31:57there comes a time where one must draw a line in the sand
32:00and the job of drawing that line falls to cabinet ma'am not to you
32:04something your dear late papa would certainly have taught you
32:08had he been granted more time to complete your education
32:13and now our time is up
32:20until next week
32:37good morning the time is eight o'clock on the 8th of december
32:41and here is the news
32:42the choking eye-watering fog which has already caused two days of chaos across the capital
32:48has worsened overnight the great coal burning electricity stations in battersea and fulham
32:53have attempted to reduce emissions of poisonous sulfur dioxide from their chimneys
32:57but we've been told that it is unlikely they will be able to make any significant change to the air
33:03quality
33:03the government is expected to make a statement later today
33:16come on
33:18let's get you to hospital
33:20you're fine
33:21you're not
33:21come on
33:23you're fine
33:24you're fine
33:25you're fine
33:34you're fine
33:36you're fine
33:39you're fine
33:40you're fine
33:40you're fine
33:41you're fine
33:43you're fine
33:50you're fine
33:52I can't breathe.
33:55Do as I say and hold on to me.
34:07Come along.
34:16Watch now, ladies!
34:18Watch now!
34:25Quick, hold my hand!
34:27Quick, hold my hand!
34:39Wait, wait!
34:40What's going on?
34:51Control of this story is getting away from us.
34:55The opposition's blood is up.
34:57We have to respond.
34:59Respond how?
35:00I would suggest by commissioning a public inquiry.
35:03An inquiry would be expensive.
35:09Winston people are angry.
35:11They see us as the culprits.
35:13Culpable for what?
35:14It's fog.
35:16Fog is fog.
35:17It comes and it goes away.
35:20Well, I'm glad that the prime minister finds time for levity.
35:24Perhaps I should remind him exactly how serious the situation has now become.
35:28This morning, a suburban twain collided with a gang of well-wing workmen, killing several and injuring a great many
35:35more.
35:35In parts of the capital, there is now a total breakdown in law and order.
35:41Hospitals are filling up as our citizens are breathing in poisonous sulfur dioxide.
35:55Sometimes we have sunshine.
35:58Too much sunshine, and they call it a drought.
36:01Then we have rain.
36:03Too much rain, and they call it a deluge, and find a way to blame us for that, too.
36:08It's an act of God, Bobbottie.
36:11It's weather.
36:12And for better or for worse, we get a great deal of it on this island.
36:16Frankly, there are more pressing matters to deal with.
36:20Like what?
36:21The Duke of Edinburgh.
36:39Telephone, sir.
36:39The Marcus of Salisbury.
36:41Oh, not now.
36:42He asked me to stress the importance of the matter.
36:50Bobbottie?
36:51Thanks for taking my call, Diggie.
36:54Are you there?
36:56Yes.
36:57Can anyone over hear what you're saying?
37:03No?
37:04Good.
37:09It's chaos.
37:10I know.
37:11The ward is full.
37:12Every corridor, too.
37:14Most of the doctors are sick now.
37:15Those that are well can't get in.
37:17What's better than this in the war?
37:19What do you need?
37:20More equipment?
37:21Or masks?
37:22Masks are bloody useless.
37:23They're just for show.
37:24To make it look like the government's doing something.
37:26Then what is needed?
37:27Money.
37:28People.
37:29Trained staff.
37:30Help is what is needed urgently.
37:33Better rest for now.
37:38Maybe I could put a word in with the people who make a difference.
37:42Such as?
37:43The Prime Minister, for example.
37:46Oh, I see you're just going to walk into Downing Street and whisper in his ear.
37:49Yes.
37:50Something like that.
37:51You know, my day's bad enough without some delusional girl playing jokes.
37:55Now, excuse me.
38:00I'll show you.
38:01We're out of the way!
38:09Where are you?
38:13Where are you?
38:13Oh yeah!
38:13Where are you?
38:14Oh yeah!
38:15Is he feito?
38:22Where's the fighting today?
38:25Um..
38:29Uh..
38:30My god!
38:38How much longer you're gonna give the old man the majority is tiny a vote of no confidence and he'll
38:43be toppled
38:46You know what he calls you yes, I know she even sheep's clothing
38:55Perhaps it's time to approve you're not
39:03Very well, let's put a motion down on paper and brief the whips
39:20Thank you, sir
39:37Anything interesting?
39:39Yes
39:42Care to share it?
39:44No
39:46I'd be happy to share glide ratios and adiabatic lapse rates with you as part of a quid pro quo
39:51arrangement
39:52One glide ratio in return for some cabinet minutes for example
39:57No
39:59A dihedral angle or an absolute ceiling these are very interesting concepts Elizabeth
40:04You might learn something in exchange for a foreign office briefing
40:09Am I going to have to explain my position again?
40:11No
40:12Good
40:17Once you have tasted flight you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have
40:22been and there you will always long to return
40:27You know what's remarkable about those words
40:32Go on
40:33They were written 300 years before man first got in a plane
40:37Leonardo da Vinci
40:42Look, I feel it. I know
40:47Lord, ma'am, Batten, your majesty
40:49Uncle Dickie, what's he doing here?
40:51I know as much as you do
40:52He said it was important, ma'am
40:53Thank you
41:00Elizabeth
41:05Hello
41:06Came as soon as I cried
41:09So
41:10So
41:12Oh, is this a meeting with Elizabeth, your niece? My wife?
41:17Or the queen?
41:19Later, I'm afraid
41:20Right, I don't know my place
41:31What's the matter with him?
41:34Nothing
41:36He's just feeling a little grounded
41:38He's just feeling a little grounded
41:39I'll ignore it
41:41Right, all ears
41:42I
41:43I've received a telephone call today from Robert E. Salisbury
41:49It seems that even among his own people
41:51The feeling is that our prime minister is not able to deal with a national crisis
41:57Indeed he could be seen to be responsible for that crisis
42:02Hospitals overflowing
42:03Hospitals overflowing, people dying
42:06Sovereign, you have the right to demand that a government in your name shows effective leadership
42:13The opposition are now calling for a motion of no confidence
42:17So
42:19I would say
42:21The time has come for you to
42:23Summon Churchill
42:26And
42:28And what?
42:32Insist
42:33Insist that he go
42:36I can't do that
42:38You can
42:39And should
42:41But
42:42Wouldn't that violate the constitution?
42:45As
42:46Queen
42:50You
42:51Have the right
42:52To be consulted
42:54The right to
42:56Encourage
42:57The right to warn
42:59Also
43:00To appoint a new prime minister in the event of incapacity
43:04And many would say that Churchill's behaviour now constitutes incapacity
43:10Then a revolution must come from within
43:12They are trying
43:14Well then they must try harder
43:16They will
43:18But
43:19Would prefer it
43:20To be bloodless
43:22So I've asked for your help
43:24And influence
43:28I cannot do it
43:30I will not do it
43:32Let's
43:32Not forget
43:33It was Churchill
43:35Who denied Philip's children his own surname
43:37Dickie
43:38And insisted that you live in Buckingham Palace
43:40As alas did everyone else
43:41And now with looters on the street
43:44And hospital corridors stacked with the dead
43:46He is interested in only one thing
43:51Stopping Philip flying
43:55What?
43:57At a crisis cabinet meeting this morning
43:58When there should have only been one thing on the agenda
44:00Under the unfolding national emergency
44:04All our prime minister wanted to discuss
44:08Was your husband's new hobby
44:15I'm so sorry sir
44:16Who
44:17Who are her parents?
44:19Her father is a clergyman from Suffolk
44:21I've been noticed
44:22They want to go to the hospital
44:23There is an emergency meeting at the house
44:25The meeting you must attend
44:27And the house can wait
44:38You wish to see me your majesty?
44:41Yes Tommy
44:45I know how much my father depended on you
44:49And how closely you work together
44:52Which is why I wanted to ask your advice
44:54Now
44:56It seems our prime minister
44:58A man who's led the country through many crises
45:02Is no longer leading us at all
45:07Representations have been made to me
45:09Through an intermediary from the heart of the government
45:13To intercede
45:15And bid and stand down
45:18Make way for a younger man
45:22Which brings me to my question
45:26What are my responsibilities
45:29As head of state?
45:33What should I do?
45:35When it's in the national interest
45:37How far dare I go?
45:42I'm not sure if her majesty is aware
45:45But shortly before your father died
45:48The foreign secretary Mr. Eaton came
45:51Begging his late majesty to intervene
45:54If not on an official level
45:56Then on a personal one
45:58As a friend
46:00To bid the prime minister to resign
46:03What did my father say?
46:06Well
46:06His majesty was like his father before him
46:09A stickler for convention and tradition
46:11And would never have done anything
46:13That violated the constitution
46:15Or overstepped the mark
46:20Then I have my answer
46:21But
46:23That was his majesty
46:24Not your majesty
46:26And I do read the newspapers
46:28And I do listen to the wireless
46:30And the situation we're in today
46:31Is quite different
46:33Than the one we were in
46:34When Mr. Eaton came to see your father
46:39Different situation
46:41Different sovereign
46:56I don't...
46:59What is one
48:04A beautiful child.
48:08I just received word from Buckingham Palace.
48:11Oh.
48:12The Queen has requested an audience.
48:14When?
48:15At your earliest convenience.
48:21All energy and hope and passion and fire.
48:32Sir.
48:35Damn it, he is.
48:36Oh, shh, shh, shh.
48:44Did the newspapers know I'm here?
48:46No.
48:49But it could easily be arranged.
48:52Then do it.
48:54And tell the Queen I'll be their first thing in the morning.
49:00After the papers.
49:01And tell the Queen I'm here.
49:18Then do it.
49:18And it sounds like?
49:20Yes.
49:21Yes.
49:22Yes.
49:23Yes.
49:24Yes.
49:25Yes.
49:26Yes.
49:27Yes.
49:36Oh, my God.
49:42Oh, sorry.
49:43Come on, Al, sir.
49:52Just come on.
49:53The Prime Minister will be here in a few moments.
50:11Is there anything, sir?
50:12Yeah, yeah, not, man.
50:20Quiet, please, set them down!
50:27I have witnessed scenes here today, the likes of which we have not seen since the darkest
50:35days of the Blitz.
50:39But alongside the suffering, I've also seen heroism.
50:45And where there is heroism, there will always be hope.
50:51Only God can lift the fog, but I, as Prime Minister, am in a position to ease the suffering.
51:02To that end, I pledge to make available with immediate effect more money for hospital staff,
51:10more money for equipment, and a full and independent public inquiry into the causes of air pollution
51:19to ensure that such a calamity may never befall us again.
51:29Thank you all.
51:37The Prime Minister was alone among senior politicians
51:40to visit hospitals and respond to the crisis in person
51:43and was rewarded by cheers and applause
51:46by those suffering through the worst smog
51:49the city has ever witnessed.
51:51The headline reads,
51:52True Leader in a Crisis.
52:00Ma'am, the Prime Minister's here.
52:04The parallels between his appearance yesterday
52:07and the wartime years were striking.
52:10And his personal popularity among the people remains undimmed.
52:17Hello?
52:19Clem, you still there?
52:21Hello?
52:23Clem?
52:26Clem, can you hear me?
52:28No?
52:29I...
52:58CHOIR SINGS
53:24CHOIR SINGS
53:34CHOIR SINGS
53:35CHOIR SINGS
53:35CHOIR SINGS
53:35CHOIR SINGS
53:38CHOIR SINGS
53:44CHOIR SINGS
53:45CHOIR SINGS
53:45CHOIR SINGS
53:45CHOIR SINGS
53:45CHOIR SINGS
53:45CHOIR SINGS
53:48CHOIR SINGS
53:49CHOIR SINGS
53:56CHOIR SINGS
54:03There's a delicate matter
54:04Which I felt I needed to discuss with you
54:07In person
54:10Concerning what?
54:14Your position
54:18My position?
54:20Yes, your position
54:26As prime minister
54:32Go on
54:37At that point, she hesitated
54:41And then she asked me
54:43To pick either
54:45Kwaadji Nazimudin of Pakistan
54:47Or Sydney Holland of New Zealand
54:50Whatever for?
54:52To sit next to at dinner
54:56She summoned you for that?
54:58No, I think she summoned me
55:00To haul me over the coals
55:01For my handling of the fog
55:02But then the fog lifted
55:05And she had to make a decision
55:07Right then and there
55:08In the room
55:09You could see the wheels turning
55:11Behind her eyes
55:12And then she switched a tack
55:14Without so much as a flicker
55:17Clever
55:19No, no, not clever
55:20Ingenious
55:21Why?
55:21Because it disarmed me
55:23And made me switch tack too
55:25What about?
55:27About allowing Philip to learn to fly
55:30He can now
55:31Good
55:34But he still has to ask cabinet permission
55:36To do rolls and spins
55:49What, dear girl?
55:53Well, what if the fog hadn't lifted
55:57And the government had continued to flounder
56:01And people had continued to die
56:04And Churchill had continued to cling to power
56:07And the country had continued to suffer
56:10It doesn't feel right
56:12As head of state
56:13To do nothing
56:15It is exactly right
56:18Is it?
56:19But surely doing nothing is no job at all
56:22To do nothing is the hardest job of all
56:26And it will take every ounce of energy that you have
56:30To be impartial is not natural, not human
56:33People will always want you to smile
56:36Or agree or frown
56:38And the minute you do
56:39You will have declared a position
56:41A point of view
56:42And that is the one thing as sovereign
56:44That you are not entitled to do
56:48The less you do
56:49The less you say
56:51Or agree
56:52Or smile
56:53Or think
56:54Or feel
56:54Or breathe
56:55Or exist
56:56The better
57:01Well, that's fine for the sovereign
57:06But where does that leave me?
57:22So, come on
57:23How long would it take me to get my wings?
57:25Well, normally a trainee would spend anything between 100 and 120 hours in one of these things
57:30Do you think I could do it in three months?
57:33That would be unusual
57:35I'm a false learner
57:37And believe me when I say I've got nothing else to do
57:55I couldn't have noticed you've still got a right up
57:58Starboard and port
57:5918 gallons
58:00Yes
58:01Fancy lunch in Edinburgh
58:02Edinburgh
58:03They made me duke there
58:05So I should probably show up from time to time
58:07Unless you have more pressing engagements
58:09No, sir
58:10All right
58:11I'll adjust rpms and cruising speed for range flying
58:15We'll have to land to refuel, sir
58:17Oh, really?
58:19Where's that?
58:20Donkester
58:21Donkester?
58:22Right
58:24Right
58:29Where's your car
58:30Right
58:31You
58:38You
58:39You
58:39You
58:39You
58:51You
58:52You
58:52You
58:54You
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