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00:13I'm not sure what you're doing.
00:16I'm not sure what you're doing.
00:23I'm not sure what you're doing.
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,
00:39and I can't bloody well fly.
00:41Yes, I'm sure.
00:42Right-o, sir.
01:12Ready, sir?
01:14Bravo!
01:15Here we go!
01:17Whoa-ho!
01:29Perfect!
01:32Woo-hoo!
01:39Slow air!
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?
01:59Well, I remember what I told you.
02:00Keep your eye on the altimeter and the compass heading.
02:03And keep the stick level.
02:06That's very good.
02:08That's balanced.
02:12Stick to the left, then to the right.
02:20And level.
02:22Good.
02:24Noisy, isn't it?
02:29How's this, sir?
02:40My God.
02:42Oh.
02:43Oh.
02:44Oh.
02:47Oh.
02:47Isn't it wonderful?
02:49Heaven!
02:55You fought in the Battle of Britain, didn't you?
02:58I did, sir.
02:59257 Squadron.
03:00Flying what?
03:01Spitfires.
03:02Harakins mostly, sir.
03:04Any kills?
03:06One or two.
03:08Should we get us started now?
03:09The ground seems terribly close.
03:12It's too low to restart, so we'll do a dead stick landing.
03:16OK. I have control. You have control.
03:37That was wonderful. Same time next week, sir.
03:41How about tomorrow?
04:11How about tomorrow?
04:17It's not going to happen.
04:18How about tomorrow?
04:19How about tomorrow?
04:37We'll see you in the next couple of minutes.
04:37Good morning, sir.
05:39Sir.
05:45Johnson, what do you make of this?
05:54Interesting.
05:57Sir.
06:01I think you should see this.
06:03I see.
06:08Sir.
06:15Excuse me.
06:17You can't go in there.
06:19Excuse me, sir.
06:22Sorry, sir.
06:23I thought 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.
06:46You'll never read it, of course.
06:48But the important thing is, we sent it.
06:52I'll get you to Downing Street right away.
07:05I'll get you to the right side.
07:12Right there, please.
07:23If I'm out, if she could lean forward.
07:29Deep breath in.
07:35And 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.
08:08What are they rehearsing?
08:13What are they rehearsing?
08:33What are they rehearsing?
08:42Oh, there you are.
09:00Mr. Thurman.
09:01Mr. Corks.
09:04Nice view.
09:16I'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.
09:28In fact, I've never heard of us getting one at all.
09:32Does the name Donora mean anything to you?
09:39Donora.
09:43Well, of 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 anticyclone which trapped the emissions from the local
09:59copper world.
10:00I think.
10:01In the fog.
10:02In a few days, a number of people died.
10:05Twenty.
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.
10:25I never saw the report.
10:27With good reason.
10:29Our Prime Minister threw it away, claiming it wasn't a priority.
10:34Can you prove that?
10:36I can, Mr. Utley.
10:46The Cabinet minutes where it was discussed.
10:54He's insisted the country keep burning coal irresponsibly this winter to give the illusion of a solid
11:02economy.
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 information.
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.
11:43But I am also a responsible citizen, and I cannot stand by while chaos reigns around me.
11:51This is not a government.
11:53Mr. Utley, this is a collection of hesitant, frightened, old men, unable.
12:00To unseat a tyrannical, delusional, even older one.
12:05Yours was the most radical, forward-thinking government this country has ever seen.
12:14How you lost the election escapes me.
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.
12:52I can see stars.
12:53I can see stars.
13:10I can see stars.
13:16I can see stars.
13:44CHOIR SINGS
13:54CHOIR SINGS
13:55Good night.
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? Still here?
14:20Good night, sir.
14:26Good night.
14:34Evening, 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 every unremarkable
15:13young man in the room, then letting those men buy us enough drinks for us to bring them home, only
15:19to have their unremarkability confirmed to us again.
15:23No.
15:24No. Thanks.
15:26Goodness. And what will you be doing in the meantime?
15:30Spend time in the company of someone remarkable.
15:43Hear this, young men and women everywhere, and proclaim it far and wide. The earth is yours and the fullness
15:51thereof.
15:53Be kind, but be fierce. You are needed now more than ever before.
15:59Take up the mantle of change, for this is your time.
16:03I'm dying.
16:35Good morning.
16:37Time is 8 o'clock on the 6th of December, and here is the news.
16:40London 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 vehicles and continuing on foot.
16:53London Airport is expected to be closed.
16:58Good God.
16:59The Meteorological Office has issued a statement saying that a persistent anti-cyclone over London is to blame.
17:06Smoke from the capital's chimneys is being trapped at street level, which is aggravating the 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.
17:31Ah, is the car ready?
17:34I'm afraid the visibility is too poor to drive, ma'am.
17:38It's what? 200 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.
18:28I want to keep that appointment.
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.
18:58Oh, 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.
19:29Brother.
19:31Nurses and nuns have the same problem.
19:33We're all called Sister.
19:36So you are.
19:38Well, she's outside.
19:41The Queen.
19:42Then let her in.
19:44Sister.
19:57Bad time?
19:58Not at all.
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.
20:19All 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.
21:19To give ordinary people an ideal to strive towards.
21:23An 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.
21:41Not a minister or public servant.
21:43Which means that you are answerable to God in your duty.
21:49Not 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?
22:22Ninety years.
22:24What would he know of Alfred the Great, the rod of equity and mercy?
22:28Edward the Confessor?
22:30William the Conqueror?
22:31Henry VIII?
22:33It's the Church of England, dear.
22:35Not 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.
23:11And will doubtless call me overcautious for not doing 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.
23:28Watch this, I'll do it.
23:32Watch this, I'll take this.
23:35Let's go!
23:39There you go!
23:41There you go!
23:42There you go!
23:43AHH! AHH!
23:44AHH! AHH!
23:44AHH! AHH! AHH!
23:50You can't see me.
23:54AHH! AHH! AHH! AHH!
23:57AHH! AHH! AHH! AHH!
24:13I'm glad to see someone else made it in.
24:16No one saw this coming, did they?
24:19No.
24:27Prime Minister?
24:30Sir?
24:50Ah, you made it!
24:51Oh, I'm sorry, sorry, sir. I was just...
24:54No, no, you did well to get here. I gather half the Downing Street staff didn't.
24:59Oh, it wasn't easy. Just crossing the road, you take your life in your hands.
25:03Oh, then don't. You're too important to all of us.
25:06Hardly.
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, and 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?
25:32An ornament.
25:34A flower.
25:37By comparison, at my age, you were a published writer.
25:42And a cavalry officer posted to India, fighting local tribesmen on the northwest frontier.
25:48Who told you that?
25:49You 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.
26:00Hear 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.
26:34All energy, and hope, and passion, and fire.
26:40It's remarkable.
26:46You found something you liked in that young man?
26:51I did.
26:54I did.
27:21Good morning.
27:24The time is 8 o'clock on the 7th of December, and here is the news.
27:28A 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.
28:03The unmoving fog, which has spread to over 30 miles wide, is likely to cause complete darkness by 2 o
28:09'clock this afternoon.
28:28No.
28:34No.
28:34No.
28:35No.
28:35No.
28:41No.
28:41No.
28:41No, no.
28:42No.
28:43No.
28:44No.
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
31:07why
31:09well being caged in like this
31:11he can't fly
31:14fly where
31:16well nowhere
31:18he's learning to fly
31:21whatever for
31:23have we not enough qualified pilots to take him where he needs to go
31:27no he wants to fly himself
31:30it's a boyhood dream it's what he's always wanted
31:33why was government not consulted
31:34because it's a private matter
31:37and i am in favor
31:38nothing you or his royal highness do is a private matter
31:42and the father of the future king of england risking his life needlessly is
31:47quite unacceptable please 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 had 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 the choking eye-watering fog which has already caused two days of chaos across the
32:47capital
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
33:20I'm fine
33:21you're not
33:21come on
33:23come on
33:24shoes
33:34if we go
33:36come on
33:38come on
33:38and the other
33:53I can't breathe
33:55do as I say and hold on to me
34:06come on
34:08Come on.
34:25Quick, hold my hand.
34:38Quick, hold my hand.
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...
35:22Prime 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,
35:33killing several and injuring a great many more.
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, Bobbity.
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?
36:20But the duke of Edinburgh.
36:28CIRCY LAME
36:38Telephone, sir. The Marcus of Salisbury.
36:41Oh, not now.
36:42He asked me to stress the importance of the matter.
36:50Bob is here.
36:51Thanks for taking my call, Diggie.
36:54Are you alone?
36:56Yes.
36:57Can anyone over hear what you're saying?
37:03No.
37:05Good.
37:09It's chaos.
37:10I know. The ward is full. Every corridor, too.
37:14Most of the doctors are sick now.
37:15Those that are well can't get in.
37:17It was better than this in the war.
37:19What do you need? More equipment?
37:21Or masks?
37:22Masks are bloody useless. They're just for show.
37:24To make it look like the government's doing something.
37:25Well, then what is needed?
37:27Money. People.
37:29Trained staff. Help 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. Something like that.
37:51You know, my day's bad enough without some delusional girl playing jokes.
37:55Now, excuse me.
37:57No.
38:00I'll show you.
38:00I'll show you.
38:03Oh, my God.
38:09Oh, my God.
38:11Oh, my God.
38:11Where are you?
38:13Oh, here.
38:14Oh, my God.
38:19Oh, my God.
38:21Oh, my God.
38:38How much long are you going to give the old man?
38:40The majority is tiny.
38:42A voter no confidence and he'll be toppled.
38:46You know what he calls you?
38:49Yes, I know.
38:50Sheep in sheep's clothing.
38:55Perhaps it's time to approve you're not.
39:03Very well.
39:05Let'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.
40:02These 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?
40:12No.
40:13Good.
40:17Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,
40:22for there you have been, 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.
40:41Look, Philip, I know...
40:47Lord Manbatten, your majesty.
40:49Uncle Dickie, what's he doing here?
40:51I know as much as you do.
40:52He said it was important, man.
41:00Elizabeth.
41:05Hello.
41:06Came as soon as I could.
41:11So...
41:11Joe, is...
41:13Is this a meeting with Elizabeth, your niece?
41:16My wife?
41:17Or the queen?
41:19The latter, I'm afraid.
41:20Right.
41:21I don't know my place.
41:24Oh, God.
41:31What's the matter with him?
41:34Nothing.
41:36He's just feeling a little grounded.
41:39Ignore it.
41:41Right.
41:42All ears.
41:42I received a telephone call today from Robert E. Salisbury.
41:49It seems that even among his own people, the feeling is that our Prime Minister is not able to deal
41:54with a national crisis.
41:57Indeed, he could be seen to be responsible for that crisis.
42:02Hospitals overflowing, people dying.
42:05As sovereign, 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.
42:18So...
42:19I would say...
42:21The time has come for you to...
42:25Summon Churchill and...
42:29And what?
42:32I would.
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?
42:46As...
42:46Queen.
42:50you have the right to be consulted the right to encourage the right to warn
42:59also to appoint a new prime minister in the event of incapacity and many would say that
43:06churchill's behavior now constitutes incapacity then a revolution must come from within
43:12they are trying well then they must try harder they will but would prefer it to be bloodless
43:21so i've asked for your help and influence
43:28i cannot do it i will not do it let's not forget it was churchill who denied philip's children his
43:36own surname dickie and insisted that you live in buckingham palace as alas did everyone else
43:41and now with looters on the street and hospital corridors stacked with the dead he is interested
43:47in only one thing stopping philip flying
43:55what at a crisis cabinet meeting this morning when there should have only been one thing on
44:00the agenda the unfolding national emergency all our prime minister wanted to discuss
44:07this was your husband's new hobby
44:15i'm so sorry sir who are her parents her father is a clergyman from suffolk i've been noticed
44:22i want to go to the hospital there is an emergency meeting at the house
44:25the meeting you must attend and the house can wait
44:39you wish to see me your majesty
44:40yes tommy
44:45i know how much my father depended on you and how closely you work together
44:52which is why i wanted to ask your advice now
44:56it seems our prime minister a man who's led the country through many crises
45:02is no longer leading us at all representations have been made to me through an intermediary
45:11from the heart of the government to intercede and bid and stand down make way for a younger
45:19man which brings me to my question
45:26what are my responsibilities as head of state
45:33what should i do when it's in the national interest how far dare i go
45:42i'm not sure if her majesty is aware
45:45but shortly before your father died the foreign secretary mr eden came
45:51begging his late majesty to intervene if not on an official level then on a personal one
45:58as a friend to bid the prime minister to resign
46:03what did my father say
46:05well his majesty was like his father before him a stickler for convention and tradition
46:11and would never have done anything that violated the constitution or overstepped the mark
46:20then i have my answer but that was his majesty not your majesty and i do read the newspapers and
46:28i do listen to the
46:29wireless and the situation we're in today is quite different than the one we were in when mr eden came
46:35to see your father
46:38different situation different situation different sovereign
46:53wait for me here
46:59wait for me
47:01wait for me
47:10we're not telling them what was up
47:17wait for us a few인가
47:56Sir?
47:59Just a child.
48:04A beautiful child.
48:08I just received word from Buckingham Palace.
48:11Oh, no.
48:12The Queen has requested an audience.
48:14When?
48:15At your earliest convenience.
48:21All energy and hope.
48:25And passion and fire.
48:31Sir?
48:34Damn it, he is.
48:36This is an old church.
48:43Did 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.
49:05No, no, no, no.
49:20Yes, yes.
49:21Now I die.
49:22Come on.
49:23Come on.
49:24Come on.
49:25Come on.
49:27Come on.
49:27You don't want anything?
49:40Thank God.
49:40Thank God.
49:42Oh, sorry.
49:43Come on down, sir.
49:52Just come on.
49:53The Prime Minister will be here in a few moments.
50:11Is there anything, sir?
50:12No, no, no.
50:20Quiet! Quiet, please!
50:26Mr. Churchill.
50:28I have witnessed scenes here today, the likes of which we have not seen since the darkest days of the
50:37Blitz.
50:39But alongside the suffering, I've also seen heroism.
50:44And where there is heroism, there will always be hope.
50:51Only God can lift the fog.
50:54But 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, more money for equipment,
51:13and 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 to visit hospitals and respond to the crisis in person.
51:43And was rewarded by cheers and applause by those suffering through the worst smog this city has ever witnessed.
51:51And the headline reads,
51:52True leader in a crisis.
52:00Ma'am, the Prime Minister's here.
52:05The parallels between his appearance yesterday and the wartime years were striking.
52:09And 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? I...
52:38Clem, can you hear me?
52:42Clem, can you hear me?
53:10CHOIR SINGS
53:36CHOIR SINGS
53:44CHOIR SINGS
53:48You asked to see me now.
53:51I did.
54:03There's a delicate matter which I felt I needed to discuss with you in person.
54:09Concerning what?
54:14Your position.
54:17My position?
54:19Yes, your position...
54:26...as Prime Minister.
54:33Go on.
54:38At that point, she hesitated.
54:41And then she asked me to pick either Khwajgi Nazimuddin of Pakistan or Sydney Holland of New Zealand.
54:50Whatever for?
54:51No.
54:52To sit next to at dinner.
54:56She summoned you for that.
54:58Oh, no.
54:58I think she summoned me to haul me over the coals for my handling of the fog.
55:02But then the fog lifted and she had to make a decision right then and there in the room.
55:09You could see the wheels turning behind her eyes.
55:12And then she switched a tack without so much as a flicker.
55:17Clever.
55:19No, no.
55:20Not clever.
55:20Ingenious.
55:21Why?
55:22Because it disarmed me.
55:23And made me switch tack too.
55:26What about?
55:27About allowing Philip to learn to fly.
55:30He can now.
55:32Good.
55:35But he still has to ask cabinet permission to do rolls and spins.
55:49What, dear girl?
55:53Well, what if the fog hadn't lifted?
55:58And the government had continued to flounder.
56:01And people had continued to die.
56:05And Churchill had continued to cling to power.
56:07And the country had continued to suffer.
56:10It doesn't feel right, as head of state, to do nothing.
56:15It is exactly right.
56:18Is it?
56:19But surely doing nothing is no job at all.
56:23To 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.
56:34People will always want you to smile or agree or frown.
56:38And the minute you do, you will have declared a position, a point of view.
56:42And that is the one thing, as sovereign, that you are not entitled to do.
56:48The less you do, the less you do, the less you say, or agree, or smile.
56:53Or think, or feel, or breathe, or 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.
57:34I know.
57:35I'm a fast 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.
58:03Edinburgh?
58:04They made me duke there.
58:05So I should probably show up from time to time, unless 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.
58:17Are you really?
58:19Where's that?
58:20Donkester.
58:21Donkester?
58:23Right.
58:41Donkester.
58:46Do you want to know the time?
58:47No.
58:54I will not.
58:55No.
58:55No.
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