A View from a Hill

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0:01:54 > 0:01:58DOORBELL RINGS

0:02:17 > 0:02:21- Excuse me.- Good God! - My name's Fanshawe...

0:02:21 > 0:02:23I'm here about the collection...

0:02:23 > 0:02:25From the museum?

0:02:25 > 0:02:27You're not coming till next week.

0:02:27 > 0:02:31- I sent you a letter. - Yes, I know - next week.- This week.

0:02:31 > 0:02:34- I'm here.- Oh, well,

0:02:34 > 0:02:36so it would seem.

0:02:36 > 0:02:37Patten!

0:02:39 > 0:02:42You want a walk? I was just going for one.

0:02:42 > 0:02:44- I tried ringing from the station. - No point.

0:02:44 > 0:02:46He doesn't hear it. I don't answer.

0:02:46 > 0:02:49The fellow from the Fitzwilliam's here.

0:02:49 > 0:02:53You got any bags? Now, yes, put him in the Cedar Room would you?

0:02:53 > 0:02:54I'm cooking.

0:03:00 > 0:03:02Get your boots on and I'll put you in the picture.

0:04:16 > 0:04:22If we walk up over the hill, you can get your bearings, and then you can go about as you like.

0:04:22 > 0:04:24Have you got a pair of binoculars?

0:04:24 > 0:04:28- Mine are broken. - Well, it's all quite visible to the naked eye, you know.

0:04:28 > 0:04:30Mmm.

0:04:46 > 0:04:50My great-grandfather started it all off.

0:04:50 > 0:04:52Brought a load of crates back from the Crimea.

0:04:52 > 0:04:54Rest of it's mainly from around here.

0:04:54 > 0:04:58There you are - bit clapped out but I suppose they still work.

0:05:12 > 0:05:15Well, they sent you at a good time of year.

0:05:15 > 0:05:17Couple of weeks, this'll all be gone.

0:05:19 > 0:05:20You a country boy?

0:05:20 > 0:05:24No, no I'm not.

0:05:25 > 0:05:28Always feel one misses out,

0:05:28 > 0:05:30if you don't have a bit of nature around you.

0:05:32 > 0:05:34It's not always a matter of choice.

0:05:49 > 0:05:51Ahh.

0:05:51 > 0:05:55I don't know, sights of interest?

0:05:55 > 0:06:00Well, there's Wanstone, used to be a monastery once upon a time.

0:06:00 > 0:06:05To the north, Lambstone. Some civil war things, or was it Roman?

0:06:05 > 0:06:08I can't remember, my father would've known. Gallows Hill...

0:06:08 > 0:06:12And below it, The Coach And Horses, good pint, good steak and ale pie.

0:06:12 > 0:06:18And somewhere over there, Fulnaker Abbey, or what's left of it.

0:06:18 > 0:06:20That should tickle your fancy.

0:06:20 > 0:06:26Er, across the big field, the green one, after the farm.

0:06:26 > 0:06:28It's a good tower.

0:06:28 > 0:06:30It's a ruin.

0:06:30 > 0:06:33You must have gotten hold of Oldbourne Church.

0:06:37 > 0:06:41Right. I don't know about you, but I'm famished.

0:06:56 > 0:06:57What is it?

0:06:57 > 0:06:59I don't know how it could happen.

0:06:59 > 0:07:04The front door was open, but then it's always open, no-one ever comes.

0:07:08 > 0:07:10What's the matter with you?

0:07:10 > 0:07:13Can't I take my own binoculars out?

0:07:47 > 0:07:49So tell me, how is the old boy?

0:07:51 > 0:07:54Your boss, Wilson.

0:07:54 > 0:07:56Professor Wilson, I should be calling him.

0:07:57 > 0:07:59He's well.

0:07:59 > 0:08:02I think he's well, I don't see him much.

0:08:02 > 0:08:05Bit offended he didn't come in person, to be honest.

0:08:05 > 0:08:07We were at school together, back in the dark ages.

0:08:07 > 0:08:10- He's a busy man.- Must be.

0:08:10 > 0:08:12Made quite a name for himself from what I know.

0:08:14 > 0:08:19- He's...well-regarded.- Oh, yes?

0:08:19 > 0:08:21In the right circles.

0:08:22 > 0:08:24And what are they?

0:08:28 > 0:08:31Mmm, this is worse than usual.

0:08:32 > 0:08:34I'd fire him if I was paying him anything.

0:08:34 > 0:08:38That's why you're here, old lad.

0:08:38 > 0:08:40Selling off the family silver.

0:08:40 > 0:08:42Got to keep the old shack together somehow.

0:08:45 > 0:08:49- Why does he stay then?- Hmm?- Patten.

0:08:49 > 0:08:52If you're not paying him?

0:08:52 > 0:08:54Search me.

0:08:54 > 0:08:57Get to a certain age you find there's nowhere to go.

0:09:07 > 0:09:12- THUNDER - So, what do you think?

0:09:12 > 0:09:17Well, I'll need to know where it was all found. Can't authenticate otherwise.

0:09:17 > 0:09:20- Not with any accuracy. - Oh, it's all been catalogued.

0:09:20 > 0:09:23The old man was a stickler for detail. Military mind.

0:09:23 > 0:09:25Didn't quite rub off on me I'm afraid.

0:09:25 > 0:09:28- It's a good collection.- I hope so.

0:09:28 > 0:09:31Never really my thing, standing in a field, grubbing about in the past.

0:09:31 > 0:09:35One wants to get oneself out there, don't you think? Get a bit of life.

0:09:35 > 0:09:40Oh, that's Baxter's. My father bought his collection after he died.

0:09:40 > 0:09:44Some of it is pretty bizarre.

0:09:44 > 0:09:47- Who's Baxter?- Oh, he was a watchmaker, down in the village.

0:09:47 > 0:09:48Well before my time of course.

0:09:48 > 0:09:51Fancied himself as an archaeologist. Like yourself.

0:09:51 > 0:09:55Well, I am an archaeologist.

0:09:55 > 0:09:57Actually I'm a doctor.

0:09:57 > 0:10:00Have to get you to take a look at my feet.

0:10:06 > 0:10:08Those are his scribblings.

0:10:08 > 0:10:10Used to go around making notes.

0:10:10 > 0:10:12No real education, just had a nose for it.

0:10:12 > 0:10:16They went over all the sites after he died.

0:10:16 > 0:10:17Always found something.

0:10:19 > 0:10:21- Sounds like a good man.- What?

0:10:21 > 0:10:23Well, useful I mean.

0:10:23 > 0:10:26I couldn't tell you. He certainly wasn't liked.

0:10:32 > 0:10:34This is it.

0:10:34 > 0:10:36This is Oldbourne right?

0:10:36 > 0:10:38No. Nothing like it.

0:10:41 > 0:10:43Fulnaker Abbey.

0:10:43 > 0:10:48- It's a ruin you said?- That's right, Henry VIII dissolved it, I think.

0:11:58 > 0:12:00Erm, is Mr Richards...

0:12:00 > 0:12:02Left early.

0:12:02 > 0:12:04Had some errands to run or other.

0:12:04 > 0:12:07I'm to show you where everything is.

0:12:20 > 0:12:22Can't be easy?

0:12:24 > 0:12:26I manage.

0:12:26 > 0:12:29The house I mean.

0:12:29 > 0:12:31It's a lot for one man.

0:12:32 > 0:12:34Oh.

0:12:34 > 0:12:36Place like this needs attention.

0:12:38 > 0:12:40Holds a lot of memories.

0:12:49 > 0:12:51Got everything you need?

0:12:52 > 0:12:54Thank you.

0:16:43 > 0:16:46TWIGS BREAK

0:17:52 > 0:17:54Agh!

0:18:07 > 0:18:09Hello?

0:18:10 > 0:18:13RUSTLING

0:18:15 > 0:18:17Hello?

0:18:49 > 0:18:51Who's there?

0:18:52 > 0:18:53Who's there?

0:19:09 > 0:19:11Aagh!

0:19:59 > 0:20:01Did you get lost?

0:20:01 > 0:20:03We were about to send a search party.

0:20:25 > 0:20:27I can't really explain it.

0:20:30 > 0:20:32I mean, you can see that there was an abbey there,

0:20:32 > 0:20:34once upon a time.

0:20:34 > 0:20:38That's what I saw through the binoculars and Baxter's pictures.

0:20:40 > 0:20:44Now there's just a few stones in an empty field.

0:20:45 > 0:20:47Wishful thinking perhaps?

0:20:49 > 0:20:54Then I, er, found myself on Gallows Hill.

0:20:58 > 0:21:01It was strange, I got the impression that there was someone there.

0:21:04 > 0:21:08- A poacher? - Not much poaching goes on up there.

0:21:08 > 0:21:10Whoever...

0:21:11 > 0:21:14Whatever it was, it seemed like...

0:21:17 > 0:21:20..it felt like a very unnatural kind of place.

0:21:24 > 0:21:27It's silly, I just...

0:21:27 > 0:21:29- I ran.- Understandable.

0:21:29 > 0:21:31It is called Gallows Hill.

0:21:31 > 0:21:33They used to hang people there.

0:21:33 > 0:21:39Leave them till they were pecked to bits. You getting all this?

0:21:41 > 0:21:45Did you have those glasses with you, Dr Fanshawe?

0:21:45 > 0:21:48What is it with you and those damn binoculars?

0:21:48 > 0:21:53I would say that whatever...feelings,

0:21:53 > 0:21:56or whatever experience you had up there,

0:21:56 > 0:21:59was probably due to the owner of those glasses.

0:21:59 > 0:22:01Baxter? He's dead.

0:22:01 > 0:22:03I know.

0:22:03 > 0:22:05My father served on the inquest.

0:22:05 > 0:22:10They returned a verdict of "unsound mind".

0:22:13 > 0:22:16Well, sit down then if you're going to talk.

0:22:22 > 0:22:28Look, Baxter was a very peculiar fellow.

0:22:28 > 0:22:33By himself, you know, in amongst all that junk and stuff.

0:22:41 > 0:22:45Used to be very bothered with ransacking and rummaging all the history of the place.

0:22:48 > 0:22:51But that wasn't all apparently.

0:22:51 > 0:22:53DISTANT SCREAM

0:22:57 > 0:23:00As time went on he...

0:23:00 > 0:23:04started to get some funny ideas of how to spend his nights.

0:23:16 > 0:23:19Always had some project on the go or something.

0:23:23 > 0:23:29And pretty much the last job he did was finishing off those glasses you took.

0:23:40 > 0:23:42And then...

0:23:42 > 0:23:46one day...

0:23:46 > 0:23:49he just upped and went.

0:23:49 > 0:23:50Disappeared.

0:23:50 > 0:23:55There was a rumour that he'd left the town.

0:23:55 > 0:23:57Some thought he had debts.

0:23:57 > 0:24:00BIRDS CALL

0:24:00 > 0:24:02Others, that he'd come to no good.

0:24:04 > 0:24:07Which was true,

0:24:07 > 0:24:09in a manner of speaking.

0:24:15 > 0:24:20What?! The hanged men came for Baxter because they didn't like their bones being boiled?!

0:24:22 > 0:24:28You said yourself that your father thought there was something to back up those drawings he made.

0:24:28 > 0:24:31Somebody got drunk and did him in, didn't they?

0:24:31 > 0:24:33As I said, he wasn't well-liked.

0:24:37 > 0:24:39Will that be all for tonight?

0:24:45 > 0:24:47It's an interesting story.

0:25:22 > 0:25:24- Everything all right?- Yes, fine.

0:25:25 > 0:25:28- Only I, er... - Everything's fine...

0:25:28 > 0:25:30thanks.

0:27:56 > 0:27:59HE GASPS

0:27:59 > 0:28:04DEEP BREATHS

0:28:20 > 0:28:22FLOORBOARD CREAKS

0:28:43 > 0:28:46BIRDSONG

0:29:01 > 0:29:04CROWS CAW

0:30:19 > 0:30:20HE GASPS

0:30:20 > 0:30:23Oh, God!

0:30:23 > 0:30:24HE LAUGHS

0:32:19 > 0:32:20Agh!

0:32:24 > 0:32:26RUSTLING

0:32:26 > 0:32:28CONTINUOUS RUSTLING

0:32:33 > 0:32:35FOOTSTEPS

0:32:35 > 0:32:37Argh!

0:32:37 > 0:32:42PANICKED BREATHS

0:32:54 > 0:32:57TAWNY OWL'S CRIES

0:33:04 > 0:33:07Oh! HE GROANS WITH EXERTION

0:33:42 > 0:33:45OWLS' AND BUZZARDS' CRIES

0:33:45 > 0:33:49FOXES BARK

0:33:51 > 0:33:53Dr Fanshawe!

0:33:53 > 0:33:55Fanshawe!

0:33:58 > 0:34:00Dr Fanshawe!

0:34:24 > 0:34:26Over there!

0:34:39 > 0:34:44CROWS CAW

0:34:44 > 0:34:48CROWS CRIES RISE IN VOLUME

0:35:38 > 0:35:43BIRDSONG

0:36:09 > 0:36:11I'm sorry, I didn't...

0:36:13 > 0:36:15Sorry about the collection.

0:36:16 > 0:36:18Doesn't matter.

0:36:18 > 0:36:22Whatever it's worth, it's only a drop in the ocean.

0:36:25 > 0:36:27At least I've still got Patten.

0:36:29 > 0:36:32You going to be all right?

0:38:06 > 0:38:07LOUD SNAP

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