0:00:02 > 0:00:04JEERING
0:00:11 > 0:00:13- HE SIGHS - This is wrong.
0:00:16 > 0:00:17CHEERING
0:00:20 > 0:00:21Steady on!
0:00:24 > 0:00:25Oh, frig, I've been buzzed.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29I always get pickpocketed at the hangings.
0:00:29 > 0:00:30Every time.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49People were so desperate to get to the body
0:00:49 > 0:00:51they trampled over each other.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55People were injured. They attacked the hangman himself.
0:00:55 > 0:00:56Warren?
0:00:56 > 0:00:58Well, he's the hangman on Tuesdays, he's a good chap.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01Clearly, these public executions have a very deleterious
0:01:01 > 0:01:03effect on the crowd.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05Yes, well done. Right, down the hatch.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09And have some of this if you want, I will be.
0:01:09 > 0:01:10What's that good for?
0:01:10 > 0:01:13Hallucinations, if you drink enough of it.
0:01:14 > 0:01:15I'll have a sip.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18Hello, doctors.
0:01:18 > 0:01:19If you have a moment,
0:01:19 > 0:01:22I wanted to talk to you about my wife's torpid liver.
0:01:22 > 0:01:23Let's test your theory, William -
0:01:23 > 0:01:27does regular attendance at hangings damage a man's brain?
0:01:27 > 0:01:29Mr Hubble, do you enjoy public executions?
0:01:29 > 0:01:31I absolutely love them.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35My dad used to take me when I was young.
0:01:35 > 0:01:39You never forget your first hanging as a child, do you?
0:01:39 > 0:01:41HE SIGHS
0:01:41 > 0:01:44'Ere, you must be that famous surgeon, Mr Lessing.
0:01:44 > 0:01:45Yes.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52Caroline, what are you doing here?
0:01:52 > 0:01:53I must be hallucinating.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55Oh, I've just had the most amazing day.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58I went to hear Charles Dickens reading from The Old Curiosity Shop
0:01:58 > 0:02:01and talking about his new book, Dombey And Son.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05He read for seven and a half hours.
0:02:05 > 0:02:09He has such energy and humanity and wit.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11He's not a self-obsessed bore at all.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13Do you enjoy his books?
0:02:14 > 0:02:15Yes.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Really? You like reading about pale,
0:02:17 > 0:02:20consumptive children wandering around in graveyards, do you?
0:02:20 > 0:02:25Oh, John! He's our greatest and most important polemical storyteller.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28I tried reading The Pickwick Papers, it was longer than sorrow.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31I lost the will to live by page 80.
0:02:31 > 0:02:32Yeah, well, that was his first book.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34It was light and satirical.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37He's become so much more substantial since then.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39His depiction of Mr Quilp, the malevolent,
0:02:39 > 0:02:43lust-filled dwarf filled my mind for weeks.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45Have you read Curiosity Shop?
0:02:45 > 0:02:47It's my absolute favourite of his.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50Now, look, the truly exciting news is that I talked
0:02:50 > 0:02:53to his publisher, Mr Bradbury, after the reading and I told him about
0:02:53 > 0:02:56the paper that I've written about the excessively long hours
0:02:56 > 0:03:01that children work and he invited me to have dinner with him
0:03:01 > 0:03:03and Mr Dickens to discuss it
0:03:03 > 0:03:04at Charles Dickens' house!
0:03:07 > 0:03:08So would you like to escort me?
0:03:08 > 0:03:09I can't. When is it?
0:03:11 > 0:03:12- Saturday evening.- Yes, I can't.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16William, will you escort her?
0:03:16 > 0:03:19I'm not sure I'm the right person for that sort of event,
0:03:19 > 0:03:21but perhaps John...
0:03:21 > 0:03:23- Yes, I'd love to escort you. - You haven't read the books.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26No, of course not, but I'd like to try and get him to read
0:03:26 > 0:03:28my drug diary. I think it will be right up his alley.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31No, you have to be a fan of his if you're going to come for dinner.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33So will you escort me, please, William?
0:03:34 > 0:03:37Well, if your husband has no desire to attend,
0:03:37 > 0:03:40then I'd be delighted
0:03:40 > 0:03:44to escort you. I'd be very interested to meet the mighty boss.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Will you ask him from me what he's got against dwarfs?
0:03:47 > 0:03:50SHE SCOFFS
0:03:53 > 0:03:56You can see after only three days the skin is already
0:03:56 > 0:03:58beginning to heal across the wound.
0:03:58 > 0:04:02Well done, Mr Harris. I think you'll find you'll be back selling fish
0:04:02 > 0:04:04sooner than you imagine.
0:04:04 > 0:04:05Sorry, can I help you?
0:04:05 > 0:04:07Sad to say that if you want to be one of the nurses
0:04:07 > 0:04:10attending my operations, there's an unhappily long waiting list.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12I have an observation to make.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15I watched this amputation on Monday and I think you made a severe
0:04:15 > 0:04:18mistake not cutting the dead flesh away from around the incision.
0:04:20 > 0:04:24- I beg your pardon.- And you should be cleaning your instruments after use.
0:04:24 > 0:04:25I'm sorry, who are you?
0:04:25 > 0:04:27My name is Florence Nightingale.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29Dr Hendrick,
0:04:29 > 0:04:31please can we have this annoying nurse removed?
0:04:31 > 0:04:33I'm not a nurse, I'm a volunteer.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36Ah, you've met Miss Nightingale. Isn't she wonderful?
0:04:36 > 0:04:40- No.- She's had some very exciting new ideas for the hospital.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42She thinks the nurses should be sober.
0:04:42 > 0:04:46She wants to clean the sheets more often, get rid of some of the rats.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48And the surgeons must clean their instruments.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51I'm sorry, but I am not going to be told how to proceed by some
0:04:51 > 0:04:54volunteer who knows as much about surgery as I do about German opera.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58Which, to be clear, is nothing.
0:04:58 > 0:04:59God has sent me here.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02I've prayed about making improvements to this hospital
0:05:02 > 0:05:05and 83% of my prayers come true.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09Sorry...you keep count of how many of your prayers come true?
0:05:09 > 0:05:13- Mm-hmm.- Well, I keep a list of Jews I meet.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16Patients won't know what an experienced surgeon I am
0:05:16 > 0:05:19unless they can see the blood on my coat and instruments, will they?
0:05:19 > 0:05:21Oh, that's a fair point.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24Father wondered if you'd like to visit us over the summer
0:05:24 > 0:05:26at the villa near Verona.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28Oh, how delightful.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31Er, when was he suggesting?
0:05:31 > 0:05:33I'll say you're keen and find out.
0:05:33 > 0:05:37Florence's father is Mr William Nightingale.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39- Great friend of Lord Palmerston's. - I see.
0:05:40 > 0:05:43Do let me know his reply, Miss Nightingale,
0:05:43 > 0:05:46and let's clean up those instruments, shall we, Lessing?
0:05:54 > 0:05:57We've got to get rid of her.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59Why is she so appalling?
0:05:59 > 0:06:01She doesn't know what she's doing.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03She's already insisted that Hendrick get rid of two young surgeons
0:06:03 > 0:06:06simply because all their patients died of gangrene.
0:06:06 > 0:06:07Good men I'm talking about.
0:06:07 > 0:06:09Oh, she does look awful.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13Look at her - opening windows!
0:06:13 > 0:06:16All she does is endlessly open windows.
0:06:16 > 0:06:17She's letting in some fresh air.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20But look at the way she's doing it, all proprietorial
0:06:20 > 0:06:22and sanctimonious and pleased with herself.
0:06:22 > 0:06:23- Thank you.- Yeah.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26Mind you, I bet she's filthy in bed.
0:06:28 > 0:06:29It's always the uptight, religious ones.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31Once they unclench.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33Let's get her locked up.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36Can you certify that she's got a brain disorder? Or hysteria?
0:06:36 > 0:06:38She isn't mad or hysterical.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41Yes, she is, she told me that she has visions.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43God told her to come here.
0:06:44 > 0:06:45I'm not doing that.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47HE SIGHS
0:06:47 > 0:06:49You want patients to try ether on, let's ask her.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52Give her too much, tragic accident in the name of progress.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54I don't really want to kill nurses.
0:06:56 > 0:06:57She's coming this way.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59Good morning to you, Mr Lessing.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01- Yes.- Who are your two friends here?
0:07:01 > 0:07:03He's an alienist, he's a dentist.
0:07:03 > 0:07:04Neither of them clean their instruments
0:07:04 > 0:07:05or their bottoms.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07Then they should start to.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09I gather Dr Hendrick has asked for you and I
0:07:09 > 0:07:12to visit Lady Neilson-Toy with him this afternoon.
0:07:12 > 0:07:13Hendrick's patron?
0:07:13 > 0:07:15YOU and me?!
0:07:20 > 0:07:22She has got a lovely smile.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35Agh! No. Get off!
0:07:35 > 0:07:37Good try, little man, but you'll have to be a good deal quicker
0:07:37 > 0:07:40- than that with me. - Sorry, Mister! Don't hurt me.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42I've never tried it before.
0:07:42 > 0:07:43It's only cos I'm desperate hungry.
0:07:48 > 0:07:52I've got some bread, some cheese and...oh.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55- A Swiss liqueur.- Thanks.
0:07:55 > 0:07:56What's your name?
0:07:56 > 0:07:58Don't know, Mister. Mother didn't want to give me a name
0:07:58 > 0:08:02- until I was six in case I died before then.- I see.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04But you're older than six now, aren't you?
0:08:04 > 0:08:06What's your favourite name?
0:08:07 > 0:08:09Winkle, like in the book by that man.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13Let's maybe call you Oliver for now.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15Little Ollie.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17- We are you from, Ollie? - I was born in Deptford.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19I never knew my father.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21Mother used to collect horse dung for a living
0:08:21 > 0:08:23before she became a tart.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25Ah. Right.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31What is it you do in here, Mister?
0:08:31 > 0:08:32It's a wondrous room.
0:08:32 > 0:08:33Don't touch that!
0:08:35 > 0:08:37I'm a dentist. That's my dentist chair.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40These are the drugs I try and give people to help with the pain.
0:08:40 > 0:08:44- Have you got a bad tooth?- Hurts like a kick in the whiffle.- Does it?
0:08:44 > 0:08:46Well, let's have a look then, shall we?
0:08:46 > 0:08:48How much do you weigh, Ollie?
0:08:48 > 0:08:50- I don't know.- Right.
0:08:50 > 0:08:51I'm going to weigh you.
0:08:54 > 0:08:59Then I would like you to inhale a bit of this for me
0:08:59 > 0:09:00before I pull your tooth out. How's that?
0:09:06 > 0:09:09Thanks, Mister. Didn't feel a thing.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11Well, that is the power of ether.
0:09:11 > 0:09:18- Astonishing. You's astonishing. - Well, thank you.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20Hey, here's a coin for your tooth as well.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24Child's tooth's worth a pretty penny, I can tell you.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27FIRE CRACKLES
0:09:35 > 0:09:37HE SNORES
0:09:37 > 0:09:43And how long has this discomfort down below been with you, madam?
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Oh, several weeks now.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47We should examine her.
0:09:47 > 0:09:48Oh, no, I don't want that.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51Rest assured, my lady, there's no need for an examination.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55I can diagnose perfectly well simply through conversation.
0:09:55 > 0:09:59I suspect you have a large haemorrhoid.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01Perhaps the size of a Christmas walnut.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04If we book a time, Mr Lessing, my surgeon,
0:10:04 > 0:10:05may be able to attend to the problem.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08You feel it may require surgery?!
0:10:08 > 0:10:12- Well...- It may. If I could examine, I'd be certain.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14SHE GASPS Be quiet.
0:10:15 > 0:10:19I am Sir Christopher Wren, you are my builder.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22Madam, I fully understand your desire to avoid
0:10:22 > 0:10:23examination by a man.
0:10:24 > 0:10:25Especially this man.
0:10:27 > 0:10:31- What a beautiful brooch you have here. A diamond tiger.- Oh, yes.
0:10:31 > 0:10:35A birthday present from the maharaja of Dungarpur.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38- It is my favourite possession. - It's beautiful.- Mmm.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41I've travelled widely in Europe but I'd love to hear about India.
0:10:41 > 0:10:45And perhaps while you enlighten me, if the men leave the room,
0:10:45 > 0:10:47you might permit me to have a very brief look at you.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52SHE SIMPERS
0:11:00 > 0:11:03She has a large, red, weeping abscess on her left
0:11:03 > 0:11:05buttock it that, in my opinion, needs removal.
0:11:05 > 0:11:06As I thought.
0:11:06 > 0:11:09Spent a lot of time looking at buttocks, have you?
0:11:09 > 0:11:11Let us fix a time for this surgery.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16SNIFFING
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Hello, Ollie.
0:11:22 > 0:11:26I got something for you - children's teeth for you to sell.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29Thank you, Ollie. Where did you get these?
0:11:29 > 0:11:30Will you pay me for them?
0:11:30 > 0:11:33Yes, but where did you...?
0:11:33 > 0:11:35Maybe it's best I don't know.
0:11:37 > 0:11:41This isn't a human tooth, this is a cat's tooth.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44- Is it?- Have you been pulling teeth out of dead cats?
0:11:45 > 0:11:46The rest are children's.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48Promise.
0:11:48 > 0:11:52- What's that you're making?- It's a new device for inhaling ether.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Can I work for you? Please?
0:11:54 > 0:11:56I'll do whatever you want -
0:11:56 > 0:11:58be helpful, steal things for you.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02Very well. I like you, you thieving little oik,
0:12:02 > 0:12:03and I could do with a second.
0:12:05 > 0:12:10Here, there's this new nostril just come on sale, Mr Squire's extract.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13If you want to be a dentist, you have to be a chemist as well.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15Shall we try and work out what's in it?
0:12:16 > 0:12:19Thanks, Mister.
0:12:19 > 0:12:20What for?
0:12:20 > 0:12:21Offering me a life.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32I'm sure Mr Dickens will be fascinated by your paper
0:12:32 > 0:12:34on children's long work hours.
0:12:34 > 0:12:38If he reads it. I hope we'll be able to impress him together.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40I'm sure you will be able to.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43And I shall do my very best.
0:12:43 > 0:12:44Do you know his works well?
0:12:46 > 0:12:49What man in London hasn't read all of Dickens?
0:12:56 > 0:12:59Those are lovely gloves you have, Caroline.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01Oh. Thank you.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06I wear them on my hands, so...
0:13:07 > 0:13:08They are lovely.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12- Oh.- Oh, please excuse me.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Ah, we are here, I believe.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23The great man will be down shortly.
0:13:23 > 0:13:24Such an honour to be here, Mr Bradbury.
0:13:24 > 0:13:25The honour is mine.
0:13:34 > 0:13:35Dear friends, forgive me.
0:13:36 > 0:13:40I've been sending money to my charity for fallen women.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42- You must be the delightful Mrs Lessing.- Yes.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45Thank you so much for all your many letters of support
0:13:45 > 0:13:49and enthusiasm for my work and for my causes, I cherish every one.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52You're most welcome, Mr Dickens.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56This is my friend, Mr William Agar.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08Forgive my appearance.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12I've been writing all morning in a state of pity and terror,
0:14:12 > 0:14:17summoning the emotions needed for a new scene.
0:14:17 > 0:14:18I've been crying,
0:14:18 > 0:14:21but writing through my tears.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23I've been crying and writing.
0:14:26 > 0:14:27I have days like that.
0:14:28 > 0:14:32But without the writing, obviously.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35I so enjoyed your reading of Curiosity Shop on Tuesday.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37It's my favourite of your novels.
0:14:37 > 0:14:40- Dear lady.- The proportions of light and shade and comedy
0:14:40 > 0:14:43and pathos are so beautifully judged.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46I don't think I've been more moved by anything in my life than
0:14:46 > 0:14:48the death of Little Nell at the end of Curiosity Shop.
0:14:48 > 0:14:52And no barrister or physician ever worked harder at a book.
0:14:52 > 0:14:55Thank you, all. I try to write not with the pen but...
0:15:01 > 0:15:02..with blood...
0:15:03 > 0:15:04..and dynamite.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09Which of my characters is YOUR favourite?
0:15:15 > 0:15:16I love...
0:15:18 > 0:15:21..the character of Pickwick in The Pickwick Papers.
0:15:21 > 0:15:24THEY CHUCKLE He is wonderful, isn't he?
0:15:25 > 0:15:26Who else?
0:15:30 > 0:15:31I like very much...
0:15:32 > 0:15:35..Dombey in Dombey And Sons.
0:15:35 > 0:15:37Oh, but he hasn't appeared yet.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40He's who I'm currently writing.
0:15:40 > 0:15:41Yes.
0:15:41 > 0:15:45Yes, what I mean is I love the sound of it.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48Cannot wait - cannot wait -
0:15:48 > 0:15:49for that one.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55Which of my other characters do you enjoy?
0:15:55 > 0:15:59I do so love to hear readers' reactions to my creations.
0:16:02 > 0:16:03I love...
0:16:06 > 0:16:09There's so many to choose from!
0:16:09 > 0:16:10Yes.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17Mr Chuffwinkle.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21Sorry, I mean...Mr Chuffsniff?
0:16:23 > 0:16:25Do you mean Mr Chuffey or Mr Winkle?
0:16:25 > 0:16:26Both of them.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29- I think he means the Pecksniffs. - Yes, him.
0:16:29 > 0:16:30- Them.- Yes.
0:16:30 > 0:16:31Which?
0:16:31 > 0:16:33- Which?- Which?
0:16:33 > 0:16:35- Which?- Which of the Pecksniffs?
0:16:37 > 0:16:38Er...
0:16:38 > 0:16:40all of them.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43But which of the Pecksniffs...
0:16:45 > 0:16:46..is your favourite?
0:16:49 > 0:16:51The one...
0:16:52 > 0:16:54..who's a dwarf.
0:17:00 > 0:17:04Dickens, Mrs Lessing has written a wonderful paper
0:17:04 > 0:17:07objecting to the long hours many children have to work.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11Oh, well, that's a subject very close my heart,
0:17:11 > 0:17:14the exploitation of our children...
0:17:14 > 0:17:18- is wrong.- Yes, and I think extremely harmful to our society.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21Now, our chimney sweep, who's only six,
0:17:21 > 0:17:23had to work 14 hours a day last week.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26Yes, and often it's without lunch.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30Are you aware of the Nine-Hour Movement, sir, that seeks to limit
0:17:30 > 0:17:33the number of hours a child can work to nine hours a day?
0:17:33 > 0:17:36Well, I'm a founder member of the Ten-Hour Movement.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38Ah, well, this is one hour better,
0:17:38 > 0:17:41so may be worth your consideration.
0:17:41 > 0:17:46I myself am determined to campaign against public executions.
0:17:46 > 0:17:49I believe they are damaging to the public's minds and cause frenzy.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54Her idea is interesting.
0:17:54 > 0:17:55You must send me your paper.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58Well...I have it here with me.
0:17:58 > 0:17:59Oh, wonderful.
0:17:59 > 0:18:00After dinner.
0:18:01 > 0:18:02Yes. Thank you.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08Now, I wonder if you might tell us a little about your day.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11I'd love to learn what a typical day involves for a great man
0:18:11 > 0:18:14- such as yourself.- Dear lady.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16Well, yesterday I was in fine spirits.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19I awoke at 4am at my lodgings in Broadstairs.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22I'd written 5,000 words by breakfast.
0:18:23 > 0:18:28After a brief sit-down with one of my maids,
0:18:28 > 0:18:29I walked into London,
0:18:29 > 0:18:32that took four hours, and I arrived in Southwark
0:18:32 > 0:18:37for a five-course lunch, which began with some oyster patties.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21KNOCK AT DOOR
0:19:21 > 0:19:24Mr Lessing, a message from Kensington.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26Lady Neilson-Toy has taken a severe turn for the worst.
0:19:28 > 0:19:32In the evening, I seek out the quaint
0:19:32 > 0:19:34and the queer
0:19:34 > 0:19:36on my antinomian nights...
0:19:36 > 0:19:41- Oh.- ..when I'm accompanied by a few young men, journalists
0:19:41 > 0:19:45and young writers seeking pleasure in the company of the inimitable.
0:19:45 > 0:19:46Who's the inimitable?
0:19:46 > 0:19:47Is he a street magician?
0:19:50 > 0:19:52Oh, you're the inimitable.
0:19:52 > 0:19:53Yes, of course.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57DOOR OPENS
0:19:58 > 0:19:59Oh, you're here.
0:19:59 > 0:20:03She's deteriorated. She has a high fever. Her pulse is very rapid.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06LADY NEILSON-TOY WHIMPERS
0:20:06 > 0:20:09I think you need to operate now.
0:20:09 > 0:20:10I concur.
0:20:12 > 0:20:13What can I do for you?
0:20:13 > 0:20:14Open the window.
0:20:16 > 0:20:17And jump out of it.
0:20:19 > 0:20:20I'll turn her for you.
0:20:31 > 0:20:32Has that helped you?
0:20:34 > 0:20:35Yes, thank you.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40Miss Nightingale, do you see that?
0:20:40 > 0:20:41At the window.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44I see an angel.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46Do you see it too?
0:20:46 > 0:20:49- No.- What's that?
0:20:49 > 0:20:51She tells me how I can be saved. Yes.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55I must deliver this woman to salvation.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00I am the sword of the Lord.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02There's nothing there and I think you know that.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06Are you saying that people don't have visions?
0:21:06 > 0:21:07I thought you did.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11Yes, I make them up.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14It can be very hard to make your way in this world as a woman
0:21:14 > 0:21:16but people do tend to listen to God.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22It seems to me you're a very intelligent young woman,
0:21:22 > 0:21:23Miss Nightingale.
0:21:25 > 0:21:26Would you like to assist me in this?
0:21:33 > 0:21:34LADY NEILSON-TOY WAILS
0:21:34 > 0:21:38Stupid people have been writing to The Examiner suggesting that the
0:21:38 > 0:21:41death of Little Nell at the end of Curiosity Shop is sentimental.
0:21:41 > 0:21:42SHE SCOFFS
0:21:43 > 0:21:45Well, of course it's sentimental.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47How could the death of a perfect,
0:21:47 > 0:21:50virginal girl be anything other than full of deep sentiment?
0:21:50 > 0:21:54Half the funerals in this city are for children under ten, Bradbury.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57It's not a sentiment, it's fact.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Innocent little virgin girls die.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01They die. They die.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04They die! Innocence always dies.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13Shall we have the creamed pineapple pudding...
0:22:13 > 0:22:14- Mmm.- ..now perhaps?
0:22:14 > 0:22:17I feel the urge to go out, to walk, to take some drugs.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21Do you like taking drugs, Mrs Lessing?
0:22:21 > 0:22:25Yes. Yes, I went to a terrific ether frolic last week.
0:22:26 > 0:22:29William has a friend who always has a great many new drugs.
0:22:29 > 0:22:32Oh, excellent. Well, let us repair to his.
0:22:32 > 0:22:33I'm not sure he'll be in.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35Oh, yes, he will be. Come on, William.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37Yes, he will be.
0:22:37 > 0:22:38Let us go pig.
0:22:40 > 0:22:41No, Ollie!
0:22:43 > 0:22:44Ollie.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46Ollie, you foolish boy.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51KNOCK AT DOOR
0:22:56 > 0:22:58KNOCK AT DOOR
0:22:58 > 0:23:00- What?- Can we come in?
0:23:00 > 0:23:04We want to try some of your chemicals for fun.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06- This isn't a great time. - Oh, just let us in, John.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08We want to take some ether and nitrous oxide
0:23:08 > 0:23:10and hash and coca and cigars.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13- We've got... - WHISPERS:- ..Charles Dickens with us.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18Er, one moment.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Very good. Hello. Yes, come on in.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28- Ah.- Who'd like to take what?
0:23:32 > 0:23:33How's that working, Mr Dickens?
0:23:36 > 0:23:39If you're in the mood, I might read you some of my drug diary.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43It's quite...I think it's good.
0:23:44 > 0:23:45It's short.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51Hurry up, Dickens. I'd like a go.
0:23:51 > 0:23:52In a minute, Bradbury.
0:23:52 > 0:23:56You know, more than anything in the world, I want to be a doctor.
0:23:58 > 0:23:59A physician or a surgeon.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02That's a wonderful notion.
0:24:02 > 0:24:03But how?
0:24:03 > 0:24:06Wonderful but impossible.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09You don't know what it's like, William, to have society
0:24:09 > 0:24:13forbid you from pursuing the one thing that you really want.
0:24:13 > 0:24:14I do.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16I do.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24Mrs Lessing, let us discuss your paper.
0:24:24 > 0:24:25Did you bring it with you?
0:24:26 > 0:24:30Step in here with me, where there is more light.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33Go and charm the unendurable.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Mrs Lessing.
0:24:37 > 0:24:38Yes, here I come.
0:24:47 > 0:24:48This is a cupboard.
0:24:51 > 0:24:52Yes.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58You wish to discuss poor children with me.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01- Yes...- But...touch my beard first.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04You don't have one.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06There's a voluptuary quality to you, Mrs Lessing,
0:25:06 > 0:25:08that I find entirely irresistible.
0:25:09 > 0:25:13- Thank you. - You're like Venus entering a bar.
0:25:13 > 0:25:14Touch my beard.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16No, Mr Dickens.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18Touch my crinkle, feel it. Go on.
0:25:20 > 0:25:21- WHISPERS:- I wish to boss you...
0:25:21 > 0:25:23Get off, you beast.
0:25:23 > 0:25:24But I'm the inimitable.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26Get off, you nasty tosspot.
0:25:26 > 0:25:27Oh!
0:25:32 > 0:25:33Little Nelly?
0:25:33 > 0:25:35You haunt me still.
0:25:38 > 0:25:39Ah, no!
0:25:41 > 0:25:43Bradbury, we must leave this place.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45Yes, get out,
0:25:45 > 0:25:51you smug, self-aggrandising, pretentious, molesting turd pipe.
0:25:51 > 0:25:52Do you know what, I promise you,
0:25:52 > 0:25:55the first thing I'll do with your Dombey And Son when it comes out
0:25:55 > 0:25:57is use it to wipe my notch.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59Hear, hear, me too!
0:25:59 > 0:26:02I will not be spoken to...
0:26:03 > 0:26:05HE SHRIEKS
0:26:05 > 0:26:09- Nelly! - Ollie! Well done, you've come round.
0:26:09 > 0:26:10John, what's going on?
0:26:10 > 0:26:11This child's near dead.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13Yes, that's my new assistant.
0:26:13 > 0:26:14I keep him in the cupboard.
0:26:21 > 0:26:25Oh, look at this, he's stolen your idea.
0:26:29 > 0:26:30What a bastard!
0:26:33 > 0:26:39Oh, Lady Neilson-Toy, what a delightful honour. I see you're up.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42- My prescription worked.- Yes, it did.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44But I wish to complain in a most vigorous
0:26:44 > 0:26:47manner about the behaviour of your surgeon.
0:26:47 > 0:26:51My precious tiger brooch has been taken from my bedside.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53No.
0:26:53 > 0:26:54And you think I have taken it?
0:26:54 > 0:26:57The brooch was there before surgery but gone afterwards.
0:26:58 > 0:27:02That is a very serious accusation to make to a professional man.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04Miss Nightingale,
0:27:04 > 0:27:08we are accused of stealing Lady Neilson-Toy's tiger brooch.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10- No, you are.- What's the matter?
0:27:10 > 0:27:13Why don't you search both our bags? If that will reassure you.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16I do not suspect Miss Nightingale.
0:27:16 > 0:27:20A woman of such stainless reputation would never perform a theft.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22Well, I'm willing to have my bag searched
0:27:22 > 0:27:24if it will set aside doubts.
0:27:24 > 0:27:25Well, yes, of course, me too.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36- No.- Erm, try the side pockets.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38In order to certify Miss Nightingale's innocence.
0:27:45 > 0:27:46ROBERT GASPS
0:27:46 > 0:27:48What is that doing there?
0:27:49 > 0:27:51A good attempt, madame.
0:27:52 > 0:27:56I think it is all too clear what has happened here.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58No, it has been planted there.
0:27:59 > 0:28:00But who on earth would do that?
0:28:00 > 0:28:04And I know only too well how badly the nurses are paid here.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06- I'm a volunteer. - But we can all recall you expressing
0:28:06 > 0:28:09your admiration for the brooch, Miss Nightingale.
0:28:09 > 0:28:13Dr Hendrick, I insist that this woman is removed from this hospital
0:28:13 > 0:28:18immediately or I will press charges and remove my patronage.
0:28:19 > 0:28:20Miss Nightingale...
0:28:24 > 0:28:28..you must leave here. This might be a dirty stain on your reputation.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30However, if you allow me
0:28:30 > 0:28:33to holiday in your family's villa from the second week of August,
0:28:33 > 0:28:37starting from Monday the 8th, shall we say, for three weeks,
0:28:37 > 0:28:40I assure you no-one will ever hear of your thievery.
0:28:41 > 0:28:42Hm?
0:28:46 > 0:28:48Your friend - your husband -
0:28:48 > 0:28:50is the most appalling man I've ever met.