0:00:26 > 0:00:29EXCITED CHATTER
0:00:32 > 0:00:33Over here.
0:00:36 > 0:00:37We've got so much money!
0:00:40 > 0:00:46- THEY CHATTER - Oh, look!- Oh, it's lovely! - Come on.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50Just think, we can buy anything!
0:00:50 > 0:00:52Pocket money for a million years in advance!
0:00:52 > 0:00:54Look!
0:00:54 > 0:00:57I'm going to buy a hat.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59"Girls. Model - three guineas."
0:00:59 > 0:01:02Peanuts! Have ten if you want 'em!
0:01:02 > 0:01:03Go on, then, Panther.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19- Yes?- I'd like to buy a hat, please.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21- That one.- Without your mother?
0:01:21 > 0:01:24I always buy my hats without Mother.
0:01:24 > 0:01:25Really?
0:01:39 > 0:01:40Ah!
0:01:41 > 0:01:42I'll take it!
0:01:50 > 0:01:51Just a minute.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04I'm sorry, but these are not current coin.
0:02:04 > 0:02:05It's good money.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07- It's gold!- I dare say.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09But it's not the sort that's fashionable now,
0:02:09 > 0:02:12and we don't care to take it.
0:02:12 > 0:02:13Good day, Miss.
0:02:22 > 0:02:23They wouldn't take the money.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29Good job. You didn't half look a monkey in that hat!
0:02:29 > 0:02:30BOYS CHUCKLE
0:02:30 > 0:02:33Wait here. I'll go and get some ginger beer.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37It's so hot. Dogs put their tongues out when it's hot.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39I wonder if it'd cool us?
0:02:39 > 0:02:41Let's try.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45THEY LAUGH
0:02:47 > 0:02:49They wouldn't change the gold.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52- Told you.- I had to pay for it out of my own 2/7.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54- Sponge cakes!- Yum!
0:02:56 > 0:02:58Someone must take the gold.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02- Mr Crispin would.- Well, we'll just have to go round from shop to shop.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04We've got bags of time till sunset.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35INAUDIBLE SPEECH
0:03:35 > 0:03:37GIRLS GASP
0:03:52 > 0:03:54SHE SOBS
0:04:05 > 0:04:06No luck?
0:04:08 > 0:04:11THEY GASP
0:04:22 > 0:04:26INDISTINCT RAISED VOICES
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Oi!
0:04:37 > 0:04:38Uh, uh, uh, uh.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42Mr Peasmarsh, I presume?
0:04:44 > 0:04:48They tell me you have a lot of horses and carriages to sell.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50We should like to buy some, please.
0:04:50 > 0:04:51I dare say you would!
0:04:54 > 0:04:57Would you show us a few, please? To choose from.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00Who are you akin of?
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Was you sent here of a message?
0:05:04 > 0:05:07I tell you, we want to buy some horses and carriages.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09Upon my word!
0:05:09 > 0:05:13Shall I try out the old stable for your honour's worship to see?
0:05:13 > 0:05:15Please, if it's not too much trouble.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17It would be most kind.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20William! Here, William.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22Come and look at this here young duke.
0:05:24 > 0:05:28Wants to buy the old stud, lock, stock and barrel.
0:05:28 > 0:05:29HE CHUCKLES
0:05:29 > 0:05:33I'm not a duke, and I never said I was.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36But if you think I haven't got the money...
0:05:40 > 0:05:42William! Shut the yard gates.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49William! Fetch the police.
0:05:51 > 0:05:55Nice lot you are, come tempting honest men with your guineas!
0:05:55 > 0:05:56They ARE our guineas.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59And dragging little girls into it, too.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Here, I'll let the girls go if you come to the police quietly.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05We won't be let go without the boys! It's our money just as much as theirs!
0:06:05 > 0:06:07Well, where'd you get it, then?
0:06:07 > 0:06:11Ah! Lost your tongue, eh?
0:06:11 > 0:06:13Come on, where'd you get it?
0:06:13 > 0:06:15Out of the sandpit.
0:06:15 > 0:06:16Next article.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18I tell you, we did.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20There's a fairy there, all over brown fur,
0:06:20 > 0:06:23and it gives you a wish every day, and they all come true!
0:06:24 > 0:06:26Touched in the head, eh?
0:06:26 > 0:06:28More shame on you boys,
0:06:28 > 0:06:32dragging the poor afflicted child into your sinful burglaries!
0:06:32 > 0:06:36We'll see what the police has to say about fairies in brown fur.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42- THEY CLAMOUR AND SHOUT - A serious offence, young man.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45Master Robert, what have you been doing?!
0:06:45 > 0:06:48- ALL TALK AT ONCE - Shh, now.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50What's all this about, may I ask?
0:06:50 > 0:06:53Unlawful possession of quantities of gold, ma'am.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55Turn out your pockets, you lot.
0:06:58 > 0:06:59There.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01I don't see nothing.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03(Of course! The extra wish!)
0:07:05 > 0:07:07There ain't any gold there.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10Only the poor child's hands all over crock and dirt like the very chimney.
0:07:10 > 0:07:12Oh, that I ever should see the day!
0:07:12 > 0:07:14- You can't see it, ma'am? - Plain as the nose on your face!
0:07:14 > 0:07:19I think we'd best get along to the station and see what the Inspector's got to say about this.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21ALL CLAMOUR AND SHOUT
0:07:23 > 0:07:27A furry fairy in a sandpit! I ask you!
0:07:29 > 0:07:31Produce the coins, officer.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33Sir. Turn out your pockets!
0:07:37 > 0:07:38THEY GIGGLE
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Stop that noise at once and turn out your pockets!
0:07:49 > 0:07:52I don't know how they done it, sir. Artful little beggars!
0:07:52 > 0:07:53Right. Move back.
0:07:55 > 0:07:59If you are quite done a-browbeating of innocent children,
0:07:59 > 0:08:00I'll hire a private carriage.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03And we'll drive home to their papa's mansion.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05Pretending to see gold in poor helpless hands.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07You'll hear more about this!
0:08:14 > 0:08:16RAIN PATTERS
0:08:16 > 0:08:19"When we were out the other day, we saw a..."
0:08:21 > 0:08:24How do you spell Psammead?
0:08:24 > 0:08:26You're not telling mother!
0:08:26 > 0:08:27I'm not.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34Q...
0:08:34 > 0:08:36R...
0:08:36 > 0:08:38S... S-A...
0:08:38 > 0:08:41Samite....Samovar.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43It's not here!
0:08:43 > 0:08:47If it's not in the dictionary, best not mention it, Puss-cat.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50Mother thinks nothing very much can happen to us round here.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52But I've left a space for it now.
0:08:52 > 0:08:53Then put something else.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02I suppose it's not a very good day for the Psammead.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04Even if Martha hadn't been mean and made us stay in.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09Its poor top left whisker must be in agony in all this wet!
0:09:11 > 0:09:13SHE YAWNS I wish...
0:09:13 > 0:09:14Don't!
0:09:15 > 0:09:20Will this do? "We saw a strange thing, but it's nearly post time,
0:09:20 > 0:09:23"so no more at present from your little girl, Jane."
0:09:23 > 0:09:24That's much better.
0:09:26 > 0:09:32"PS, if you could have a wish come true, what would you have?"
0:09:34 > 0:09:35I think I know.
0:09:51 > 0:09:57One, two, three, four, five.
0:10:07 > 0:10:11Oh, I think I shall always get up at five!
0:10:11 > 0:10:13Oh, it's too pretty for anything!
0:10:15 > 0:10:18I've thought of the most marvellous wish in the world.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24Talking to yourself doesn't necessarily mean you're mad.
0:10:24 > 0:10:25SHE SIGHS
0:10:33 > 0:10:34Psammead?
0:10:36 > 0:10:40Psammead, please come out! SHE SIGHS
0:10:41 > 0:10:43Psammead?
0:10:43 > 0:10:46COUGHING AND SPLUTTERING
0:10:52 > 0:10:54It's too bad.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56The weather's Arctic and it's still the middle of the night!
0:10:56 > 0:10:58Oh, I'm sorry.
0:10:58 > 0:10:59Here.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03- Thank you.- That's better.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05What's the wish this morning?
0:11:05 > 0:11:09I'm not sure. You see, we've been very unlucky so far.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12- I wish...- Look out!
0:11:12 > 0:11:13Oh, no!
0:11:13 > 0:11:16Not a magic wish, don't do it now!
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Wait till the others are here.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21- Oh, very well. - HE EXHALES
0:11:21 > 0:11:23HE SHIVERS
0:11:23 > 0:11:26Would you like to come a little closer to me?
0:11:26 > 0:11:27You'd be warmer.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32Thank you. You really are very thoughtful.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37Well, as I said,
0:11:37 > 0:11:41everything we've wished for so far has turned out rather horrid.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43Couldn't you advise us?
0:11:43 > 0:11:46You are so old and you must be very wise.
0:11:46 > 0:11:51Child, I can only advise you to think before you speak.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53But won't you just tell me...
0:11:53 > 0:11:57Well, do you think wings would be a silly wish?
0:11:57 > 0:12:00Wings? I should think you might do worse.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03Only have a care you're not flying high at sunset!
0:12:05 > 0:12:07Oh, Psammead.
0:12:07 > 0:12:11Why don't our wishes turn to stone, like the pterodactyls did?
0:12:11 > 0:12:14Why do they just...vanish?
0:12:14 > 0:12:18People wish for such high-flown things these days.
0:12:19 > 0:12:25- You can't turn "beautiful as the day" into stone, now, can you?- No.
0:12:25 > 0:12:29- HE YAWNS - I am so sleepy.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37SNORING
0:12:41 > 0:12:43And one for Martha.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45And one for Lem.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50Pass the treacle, Miss Jane.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59Sorry, Martha.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01Where have you been?
0:13:01 > 0:13:02I'll tell you later.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06All I can say is, I think it will be a very good day.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09What, you mean the Psammead...? Ouch!
0:13:14 > 0:13:17(And it will be even better if the Lamb isn't there.)
0:13:17 > 0:13:21And one for Martha... Mmmm!
0:13:21 > 0:13:23One for Lem.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26Burning! I smell burning!
0:13:26 > 0:13:29Oh, that dratted girl has left that pan on!
0:13:29 > 0:13:32- I can't smell anything!- Shh!
0:13:38 > 0:13:40None for Robert.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45And lots for the Lamb.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48THEY SNIGGER
0:13:51 > 0:13:55And lots for Lamb.
0:13:55 > 0:13:56Oh!
0:14:00 > 0:14:03Well, you've got a sharper nose than I've got, Master Robert.
0:14:03 > 0:14:07There's nothing there! Agh! Just look at him!
0:14:07 > 0:14:11- THEY LAUGH - He's just bathed!
0:14:11 > 0:14:15And the four of you just sat there and watched him, I suppose?
0:14:15 > 0:14:16As if I haven't got enough to do,
0:14:16 > 0:14:20what with everything topsy-turvy and the whole house to put to rights,
0:14:20 > 0:14:22and none of you blink an eyelid.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24Oh, I really don't know, I really don't!
0:14:24 > 0:14:26I've had enough, I really have!
0:14:30 > 0:14:32He'll be in the bathtub now.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34But why will it be better without him?
0:14:34 > 0:14:36Not that it usually isn't, of course.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39Because I've thought of a perfectly splendid wish.
0:14:39 > 0:14:43It's just isn't very suitable for a baby.
0:14:43 > 0:14:44Wings!
0:14:45 > 0:14:47Not so dusty!
0:14:47 > 0:14:50Really, Panther, you're not quite the fool you look!
0:14:50 > 0:14:52I think it will be perfectly lovely!
0:14:52 > 0:14:55It's like a dream of bright delirium.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58- Come on, then. Let's wish it! - Yes!- Yes!
0:15:08 > 0:15:09HE CLEARS HIS THROAT
0:15:09 > 0:15:12Well, what's your wish today?
0:15:14 > 0:15:19I wish we all had beautiful wings to fly with.
0:15:19 > 0:15:23HE INHALES DEEPLY
0:15:26 > 0:15:28HE EXHALES
0:15:32 > 0:15:36- Yes! We've got the wings! - They're wonderful! Hooray!
0:15:36 > 0:15:39THEY ALL TALK EXCITEDLY
0:15:39 > 0:15:41A warning.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44There was a prince of Niniveh I heard of once.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47He wished for wings, and got them.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50But he forgot they'd turn into stone at sunset.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52And when they did,
0:15:52 > 0:15:58he fell smack onto one of the winged lions on his father's palace.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00Not a pretty story.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02But ours won't turn to stone, will they?
0:16:02 > 0:16:04They will vanish!
0:16:04 > 0:16:06And that'd mean a pretty hefty thump.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09Precisely! Good day.
0:16:16 > 0:16:18Oh, but can we really fly?
0:16:18 > 0:16:20What else are wings for, silly?
0:16:20 > 0:16:23But we don't know how! We've never had lessons.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25Don't be such a muff.
0:16:25 > 0:16:26Watch!
0:16:30 > 0:16:33Oh, we can!
0:16:33 > 0:16:35SHE SQUEALS WITH DELIGHT
0:16:37 > 0:16:38Right.
0:16:40 > 0:16:45One, two, three!
0:16:45 > 0:16:47Whoa!
0:16:52 > 0:16:54Higher! Higher!
0:16:54 > 0:16:56Oh, it's wonderful.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58It's beyond my wildest dreams!
0:16:58 > 0:17:00Bird's eye view!
0:17:05 > 0:17:07THEY CHUCKLE
0:17:21 > 0:17:24I don't know. Only got to turn my back one minute, you little sweetheart,
0:17:24 > 0:17:27and you're covered in treacle! But we'll get your clothes dry today.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30Look, it's a good drying day.
0:17:30 > 0:17:34- Oh, there's Martha! - And the Lamb!- Coo-ee, Martha!
0:17:34 > 0:17:37- But she can't see us! - THEY LAUGH
0:17:37 > 0:17:40I don't know. I suppose they're off to that sandpit again.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42I can't think what they find to do with themselves there!
0:17:58 > 0:18:00THEY LAUGH
0:18:14 > 0:18:16- I'm ravenous.- Me, too.
0:18:16 > 0:18:20Let's go to a farm and ask for some bread and cheese.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30- I'm so hungry.- Now, Jane.
0:18:30 > 0:18:34Fold your wings in as tight as you can and try to look normal.
0:18:35 > 0:18:39Like this? Do I look normal?
0:18:39 > 0:18:40YOU don't.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42DOG BARKS
0:18:42 > 0:18:46- WOMAN SHRIEKS - I...- She'll die of fright!
0:18:50 > 0:18:52JANE SCREAMS
0:19:05 > 0:19:08Come on, let's go and land on the church tower.
0:19:08 > 0:19:10No one'll see us there!
0:19:33 > 0:19:36Oh, look, there they are!
0:19:36 > 0:19:37Come on!
0:19:49 > 0:19:52THEY LAUGH
0:19:52 > 0:19:54- Are you all right? - Isn't it wonderful?
0:19:54 > 0:19:58- Yes, it is!- We just nearly got shot!
0:19:58 > 0:20:00- Bobs?- But we didn't.
0:20:00 > 0:20:02And we only wanted some food.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05We can't possibly last all day without dinner or tea.
0:20:05 > 0:20:07Perhaps the clergyman might feed us.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09He must know all about angels.
0:20:09 > 0:20:10Anyone can see we're not that!
0:20:10 > 0:20:14Look at Robert's boots and Cyril's plaid necktie!
0:20:14 > 0:20:19Well, in wars, if the natives won't give you provisions,
0:20:19 > 0:20:22- you just take them.- What war?
0:20:22 > 0:20:27And no good brother would allow his little sisters to starve in the midst of plenty.
0:20:27 > 0:20:28What plenty?
0:20:28 > 0:20:33Well, I just happened to fly past the vicarage.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36And I just happened to look in the window of the larder.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38And I noticed...
0:20:38 > 0:20:40cold chicken, custard pudding,
0:20:40 > 0:20:42ham, pies, jam!
0:20:42 > 0:20:43Oh, stop!
0:20:43 > 0:20:45How clever of you, Squirrel!
0:20:45 > 0:20:49- It's a rather high window. But with wings...- Yes!
0:20:49 > 0:20:51We'll have to club our money, though.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53And leave it to pay.
0:20:53 > 0:20:57All right. How much money have we got between us? Give it all, give it all.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00Right. 5/6 ha'penny.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03Too much. 18 pence, I'd say.
0:21:05 > 0:21:06Half a crown.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09And I'll write a note to explain.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14"Dear Reverend clergyman.
0:21:16 > 0:21:20"We are very hungry
0:21:20 > 0:21:22"because of having to fly all day.
0:21:24 > 0:21:30"We do not think it is stealing when you're starving to death.
0:21:30 > 0:21:35"Of course, you would know about angels.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38"But you would not think we were angels."
0:21:40 > 0:21:42Here's the money and the note.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44Right, thank you.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49I'll just get the bare necessities to survive.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51I'll hand them out to you.
0:21:52 > 0:21:53Right.
0:21:56 > 0:21:57Water.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02Bread.
0:22:04 > 0:22:05Ham.
0:22:07 > 0:22:11Cyril! Only the bare necessities to survive.
0:22:11 > 0:22:15- THEY GIGGLE - Sit still, I can't do it!
0:22:15 > 0:22:18THEY SQUEAL AND LAUGH
0:22:18 > 0:22:21- No! No! - ANTHEA LAUGHS
0:22:21 > 0:22:24Give it to me, I'll do it myself.
0:22:24 > 0:22:29That's the best meal I've ever had on top of a church tower.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31- Bops?- If I eat any more, I'll bust.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33If pigs had wings!
0:22:34 > 0:22:38I vote we have a rest till the grub wears off.
0:22:38 > 0:22:39That's a good idea.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46There is one thing...
0:22:46 > 0:22:49At least nothing horrid's happened with this wish.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07# When you want your heart's desire
0:23:07 > 0:23:09# And there's nothing but the fire
0:23:09 > 0:23:14# Of a madly yearning wild imagination
0:23:14 > 0:23:16# When all you have to do is choose
0:23:16 > 0:23:20# And if you don't You're bound to lose
0:23:20 > 0:23:24# Something special in your life Will pass you by
0:23:24 > 0:23:29# Castles in the air On a chest of purest gold
0:23:29 > 0:23:36# Cast aside despair Start a quest before you're old
0:23:36 > 0:23:43# Try wishing a little harder every day
0:23:43 > 0:23:47# Wishing to chase the clouds away
0:23:47 > 0:23:52# In the twinkling of an eye You'll grow taller, even fly
0:23:52 > 0:23:56# You don't know until you try so do
0:23:56 > 0:23:59# And with the magic that you find
0:23:59 > 0:24:05# Dream your dream away. #