Ethel & Ernest

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There was nothing extraordinary about my mum and dad,	0:00:31	0:00:35
nothing dramatic.	0:00:35	0:00:37
No divorce or anything,	0:00:38	0:00:40
but they were my parents	0:00:40	0:00:42
and I wanted to remember them by doing a picture book.	0:00:42	0:00:46
It's a bit odd, really, having a book about my parents up there	0:00:50	0:00:54
in the bestseller list among all the football heroes and cook books.	0:00:54	0:00:58
They'd be proud of that, I suppose.	0:01:00	0:01:02
But probably rather embarrassed too.	0:01:02	0:01:05
I imagine they would say, "It wasn't like that."	0:01:07	0:01:09
Or, "How can you talk about that?"	0:01:11	0:01:14
Well, I have.	0:01:15	0:01:18
And this is their story.	0:01:18	0:01:20
ENGINE WHIRS	0:01:26	0:01:29
BELL DINGS	0:01:39	0:01:41
HORSE'S HOOVES CLOPPING	0:01:43	0:01:45
-Bye, Mum! -Bye, dear.	0:02:04	0:02:07
-Ta-ta, Ern, mate. -Ta-ta.	0:02:07	0:02:10
Ta-ta.	0:02:12	0:02:14
Hurry up with that dusting, Ethel.	0:02:19	0:02:21
There's the fire to stoke and the beds to make.	0:02:21	0:02:24
Yes, madam. I won't be long.	0:02:24	0:02:26
BELL DINGS	0:02:37	0:02:40
SHE GASPS	0:02:42	0:02:43
HE CHUCKLES	0:02:43	0:02:45
Ethel! Aren't you finished yet?	0:02:45	0:02:49
Yes, madam.	0:02:49	0:02:50
Sorry, madam.	0:02:51	0:02:53
Hey, hey! SHE GASPS	0:03:06	0:03:08
RAIN FALLS HEAVILY	0:03:13	0:03:15
Ethel! Where are you?	0:03:15	0:03:18
Coming, madam.	0:03:18	0:03:19
THUNDERCLAP	0:03:19	0:03:21
Hm...	0:03:27	0:03:28
BIRDSONG	0:03:33	0:03:35
Ethel!	0:03:35	0:03:36
Ethel!	0:03:36	0:03:38
-Ethel?! -Oh.	0:03:38	0:03:40
BELL RINGS	0:03:44	0:03:47
Yes, yes, I'm coming!	0:03:47	0:03:50
D'oh!	0:03:50	0:03:52
Hello, duck.	0:03:54	0:03:56
Oh! Oh, it's you.	0:03:56	0:03:57
Thought I'd introduce myself.	0:03:57	0:03:59
You've waved that blooming duster at me enough times.	0:03:59	0:04:02
Oh, no, I didn't mean to. It was just that...	0:04:02	0:04:05
Name's Ernest.	0:04:05	0:04:06
-Oh! I'm Ethel. -That's a nice name.	0:04:06	0:04:10
Well, Ethel, how about coming to the pictures with me?	0:04:10	0:04:13
Oh, well, I...	0:04:13	0:04:15
They've got lots for me to do.	0:04:15	0:04:17
-What time you knock off? -I finish about seven.	0:04:17	0:04:20
Perfect! They're showing Hangman's House at the local.	0:04:20	0:04:23
-You mean, the Coronation? -Yes.	0:04:23	0:04:25
-Starts at eight. I could meet you there. -Thank you. That...	0:04:25	0:04:28
-That would be very nice. -Grand.	0:04:28	0:04:31
And these, they're for you.	0:04:31	0:04:33
SHE GASPS	0:04:33	0:04:35
They're...lovely.	0:04:35	0:04:37
-See you about a quarter to, then. -Yes.	0:04:37	0:04:40
Yes, I'll be there!	0:04:40	0:04:42
BIKE BELL DINGS	0:04:43	0:04:45
Oh!	0:04:45	0:04:47
Ernest...	0:04:48	0:04:50
RAIN FALLS HEAVILY	0:04:52	0:04:54
Two, please.	0:04:57	0:04:59
ORGAN PLAYS JOLLY TUNE	0:05:02	0:05:07
-(Victor McLaglen.) -Who's he?	0:05:16	0:05:19
-Him up there. -Oh.	0:05:19	0:05:21
My favourite.	0:05:22	0:05:24
Oh...	0:05:24	0:05:25
JAZZY TUNE PLAYS	0:05:27	0:05:30
CHATTER AND LAUGHTER	0:05:36	0:05:39
Oh, Ernest, doesn't it sound wonderful?	0:05:39	0:05:42
Cor blimey, eh?	0:05:42	0:05:44
Five shillings to get in!	0:05:44	0:05:46
A bit posh if you ask me.	0:05:46	0:05:48
Tell you what, it's under a shilling at our church hall	0:05:49	0:05:52
next Saturday.	0:05:52	0:05:54
-Are you on? -Oh, Ernest!	0:05:54	0:05:56
HE LAUGHS	0:05:56	0:05:58
HE SNIFFS	0:06:06	0:06:07
-Lovely flowers, darling. -Oh, that's Dad. He's potty about the garden.	0:06:07	0:06:12
-Did you ALL grow up here? -Yes, 11 of us.	0:06:12	0:06:15
Bob, Beaty, Mag, Edie, me, Frank, Flo, Jessie, George, Joe and Bill.	0:06:15	0:06:19
Cor blimey! SHE CHUCKLES	0:06:19	0:06:21
Come and meet Mum and Dad.	0:06:21	0:06:24
Ernest, your tie.	0:06:24	0:06:25
-Want to make a good impression. -Oh, yes, darling.	0:06:25	0:06:29
George was killed in the war,	0:06:30	0:06:32
Bob died as a baby and Beaty died at two and a half.	0:06:32	0:06:35
-Poor little kiddies. -Hm.	0:06:37	0:06:39
Hello, dear.	0:06:41	0:06:42
Mum, this is Ernest.	0:06:42	0:06:46
Very pleased to meet you, uh, Mrs Bowyer.	0:06:46	0:06:49
You haven't asked me to your home yet, dear.	0:06:59	0:07:01
Yeah, well, it's not as nice as yours, darling.	0:07:01	0:07:04
What do you mean, "not as nice"?	0:07:04	0:07:06
Well, there's scrap iron, rag-and-bone men,	0:07:06	0:07:10
there's fights outside the pubs. Women, too.	0:07:10	0:07:13
The coppers won't go down there.	0:07:13	0:07:15
The last one that did go, they bashed him up,	0:07:15	0:07:17
then sat on him and blew his whistle to fetch more coppers.	0:07:17	0:07:20
Oh! Ernest.	0:07:20	0:07:22
It's not your cup of tea, darling.	0:07:22	0:07:24
Am I to understand that you wish to leave us?	0:07:32	0:07:36
Yes, madam.	0:07:36	0:07:37
To get married?	0:07:37	0:07:39
Yes, madam.	0:07:39	0:07:41
To a man?!	0:07:41	0:07:43
Yes, madam.	0:07:43	0:07:45
Well...	0:07:45	0:07:46
..I hope you know what you're doing.	0:07:47	0:07:49
Ever so sorry, madam.	0:07:49	0:07:51
Give us your box, darlin'.	0:07:58	0:08:00
Oh!	0:08:00	0:08:02
I don't like leaving them. They're so helpless.	0:08:02	0:08:05
They can't do a thing for themselves.	0:08:05	0:08:07
Hm. Serve 'em right.	0:08:07	0:08:09
Bloated plutocrats!	0:08:09	0:08:11
There's no need to swear, Ernest.	0:08:11	0:08:13
What?	0:08:13	0:08:14
Don't worry about them. They'll soon get another skivvy.	0:08:16	0:08:19
I was not a skivvy!	0:08:19	0:08:21
I was a lady's maid and, what's more,	0:08:21	0:08:25
I'm going to be married!	0:08:25	0:08:27
So am I!	0:08:27	0:08:29
THEY LAUGH	0:08:29	0:08:31
Oh, it's lovely.	0:08:44	0:08:46
But £825?	0:08:46	0:08:48
Can we afford that mortgage business?	0:08:48	0:08:51
Yeah, it's easy. I'll be getting three guineas a week soon.	0:08:51	0:08:54
Besides, we've got 25 years. 19...55, it'll be ours.	0:08:54	0:09:00
A wrought-iron gate, your ladyship.	0:09:02	0:09:04
SHE GIGGLES	0:09:04	0:09:06
You silly.	0:09:06	0:09:07
Oh, and look, Ernest, a marble pillar!	0:09:07	0:09:11
LAUGHS: Look at this.	0:09:16	0:09:18
Oh!	0:09:18	0:09:20
Oh, Ernest. There's so much space.	0:09:21	0:09:26
-We could get those electric lights put in. -Yeah, nice and modern.	0:09:26	0:09:30
Brother Fred's got a wireless. He can hear Germany.	0:09:30	0:09:33
Whatever would you want to hear Germany for?	0:09:33	0:09:35
Oh! A French window!	0:09:38	0:09:41
Oh, Ernest, there's a bathroom!	0:09:42	0:09:45
Blimey! A lav too.	0:09:45	0:09:47
Er, come along, Ernest.	0:09:47	0:09:49
TOILET FLUSHES	0:09:49	0:09:51
Hm! Ha!	0:09:51	0:09:53
Enormous bedroom! Four windows in one room!	0:09:54	0:09:59
It'll cost a fortune for curtains.	0:09:59	0:10:01
A bit different to home, eh, darling?	0:10:01	0:10:04
Lots of rooms for two people.	0:10:04	0:10:06
Perhaps there'll be more than two one day.	0:10:06	0:10:09
-What? Lodgers, you mean? -No! -SHE CHUCKLES	0:10:12	0:10:16
This could be our baby's room.	0:10:17	0:10:20
Nice and warm over the kitchen.	0:10:20	0:10:22
Let's get rid of this old range.	0:10:22	0:10:25
Cor! This boiler came out of the ark.	0:10:25	0:10:27
SHE CHUCKLES	0:10:27	0:10:28
# I held your hand when I touched a moonbeam	0:10:28	0:10:31
# And now you're in... #	0:10:31	0:10:32
Hello, puss. CAT MEOWS AND PURRS	0:10:32	0:10:35
-Oh! -A fair bit of garden.	0:10:35	0:10:38
More than down home.	0:10:38	0:10:39
Oh, I've always wanted my own bit of garden.	0:10:39	0:10:42
Good little shed for my bike and workshop.	0:10:42	0:10:44
Hey, mind you keep it tidy.	0:10:44	0:10:46
Don't you start bossing me about before we get married!	0:10:46	0:10:49
-HE LAUGHS -Oh, Ernest, I can't believe it.	0:10:49	0:10:53
-We'll have a kitchen AND a scullery. -A sitting room AND a dining room.	0:10:53	0:10:57
-A garden AND a shed. -Don't forget the hall.	0:10:57	0:10:59
And the bathroom! Luxury!	0:10:59	0:11:01
-Oh! -THEY LAUGH	0:11:01	0:11:05
CHURCH BELLS RING	0:11:05	0:11:08
Yes, that's it. Hold... Hold to that there, if you could.	0:11:08	0:11:11
That's it, lovely. That's it, Mrs Briggs. Lovely. Very nice.	0:11:11	0:11:14
Now, hold there. Hold it there. Big smiles.	0:11:14	0:11:17
We'll have one more of those.	0:11:17	0:11:18
Go on, Ern. Let's see a kiss for the bride. Go on, Ern.	0:11:18	0:11:22
CHEERING	0:11:23	0:11:26
Yeah, one more. One more, please, everybody.	0:11:28	0:11:31
JAZZY TUNE PLAYS	0:11:31	0:11:33
# Ooh	0:11:33	0:11:35
# What a little moonlight can do... #	0:11:35	0:11:40
Isn't the bedroom huge?	0:11:43	0:11:47
We'll need some cases under the bed for our clothes.	0:11:47	0:11:50
A wardrobe, Ernest!	0:11:50	0:11:52
Oh. Oh, yes. Course.	0:11:52	0:11:55
WHISTLING	0:11:57	0:11:59
HE WHISTLES	0:12:04	0:12:06
IN HIGH-PITCHED VOICE: Good morning, madam. How many today, please?	0:12:13	0:12:16
Just you keep off my clean step, young man.	0:12:16	0:12:18
-HE LAUGHS -Oh!	0:12:18	0:12:20
-SHE LAUGHS -Oh, Ernest!	0:12:20	0:12:21
I got a round that finishes down our road, Ette.	0:12:21	0:12:24
That's nice, dear.	0:12:24	0:12:25
I should be done about 12. Then I can get going on that old range.	0:12:25	0:12:29
HE GRUNTS	0:12:29	0:12:30
I'll be glad to see the back of that thing.	0:12:30	0:12:34
It's a pig, duck.	0:12:34	0:12:36
One of those nice new gas cookers, that's what we need.	0:12:36	0:12:40
Oh! CLANGING	0:12:40	0:12:42
Careful, Ernest!	0:12:42	0:12:43
Whoa-ho!	0:12:43	0:12:45
# Any old iron, any old iron	0:12:45	0:12:47
# Any, any, any old iron	0:12:47	0:12:49
# You look neat, talk about a treat	0:12:49	0:12:50
# You look dapper from your napper to your feet... #	0:12:50	0:12:52
Ernest, don't sing those dreadful cockney songs.	0:12:52	0:12:56
# Dressed in style, brand-new tile	0:12:56	0:12:58
# And your father's old green tie on	0:12:58	0:13:00
# But I wouldn't give you tuppence for your old watch and chain	0:13:00	0:13:03
# Old iron, old iron. # HE HUMS "SHAVE AND A HAIRCUT"	0:13:03	0:13:05
All right! CLANGING	0:13:05	0:13:07
Hey!	0:13:07	0:13:08
Oh.	0:13:08	0:13:10
SHE COUGHS That's done the job.	0:13:10	0:13:12
GRUNTING AND SCRAPING	0:13:12	0:13:14
That's it. Smashing bed.	0:13:14	0:13:16
Nearly new. Mahogany, I think.	0:13:16	0:13:19
Whoop!	0:13:19	0:13:20
Good springs, look.	0:13:20	0:13:22
-BED SQUEAKS Newlyweds need good springs. -Oh!	0:13:22	0:13:24
Come and try it out, darling.	0:13:24	0:13:25
Certainly not, Ernest.	0:13:25	0:13:27
It's broad daylight!	0:13:27	0:13:29
HE LAUGHS	0:13:29	0:13:31
-I finished the new draining board, darling! -Oh, lovely.	0:13:33	0:13:37
Fits over the edge. Removable for cleaning.	0:13:37	0:13:40
What with that and the new cooker...	0:13:40	0:13:43
We're in clover! SHE LAUGHS	0:13:43	0:13:45
There. Bang on!	0:13:46	0:13:47
Huh! It says here over two million unemployed.	0:13:49	0:13:53
I'm lucky to be a milkman, Ette.	0:13:53	0:13:55
I hate coal under the stairs.	0:13:55	0:13:58
Coal dust gets everywhere and it's so common.	0:13:58	0:14:02
Ha! I'll build a brick bunker in the garden, then.	0:14:02	0:14:05
(That'd be lovely.)	0:14:05	0:14:07
What do you reckon, Ette? Ho-ho!	0:14:08	0:14:11
Oh, Ernest, it's far too big.	0:14:11	0:14:14
I'll make some nice loose covers.	0:14:15	0:14:17
Came out of a posh hotel. A bargain!	0:14:17	0:14:20
I've made a curtain for under the tank. It'll hide the pipes.	0:14:20	0:14:24
I'll keep my outdoor clothes there. The pipes will dry them off.	0:14:24	0:14:27
Oh, but your coats smell of stale milk, Ernest.	0:14:27	0:14:30
Yeah, sorry.	0:14:30	0:14:31
Do you think you'll ever be promoted?	0:14:33	0:14:35
No bloomin' fear. Not me.	0:14:35	0:14:37
Yard foreman, stuck in a tin shed all day, adding up rows of figures?	0:14:37	0:14:42
Blow that for a lark. I like the fresh air!	0:14:42	0:14:45
I could have married...	0:14:45	0:14:47
a deep-sea diver.	0:14:47	0:14:49
-Well, why didn't you? -Because...	0:14:49	0:14:52
I didn't love him.	0:14:52	0:14:53
CLOCK TICKS QUIETLY	0:15:00	0:15:03
Why do you keep that picture of a baby on the wall?	0:15:05	0:15:08
Why do you think?!	0:15:08	0:15:10
Well, it's not a relative, is it?	0:15:10	0:15:12
We've been married over two years.	0:15:12	0:15:15
-I'll soon be 37! -SHE CRIES	0:15:15	0:15:18
Oh. Eh...	0:15:19	0:15:21
Don't cry.	0:15:23	0:15:25
-I'm sorry. -SHE SOBS	0:15:25	0:15:27
Oh, shush, shush, shush.	0:15:27	0:15:31
I know. I know.	0:15:31	0:15:34
RAIN FALLS	0:15:36	0:15:38
Evening Standard! Late news, late news!	0:15:41	0:15:44
Hitler wins power in Germany.	0:15:44	0:15:47
-Here you go, Rich. -Ta, Ern. Evening Standard!	0:15:48	0:15:52
-Cor blimey. -Hitler wins power in Germany!	0:15:52	0:15:55
This bloke, Adolf Hitler...	0:15:58	0:15:59
Says they're publishing his book over here.	0:15:59	0:16:02
-Mein Kampf, it's called. -Oh!	0:16:02	0:16:05
That's nice of him.	0:16:05	0:16:07
Huh?	0:16:07	0:16:08
HE GRUNTS	0:16:17	0:16:19
Ette!	0:16:22	0:16:23
-Surprise, dear. -Oh.	0:16:25	0:16:27
-New mirror! -It's lovely!	0:16:27	0:16:29
How ever did you get it home?	0:16:29	0:16:31
-I walked it back on my bike pedal. -How much was it?	0:16:31	0:16:34
Only half a dollar. I got it off of didicoy down home.	0:16:34	0:16:37
I've got a surprise for you too.	0:16:37	0:16:40
-Oh, yes? -I've been to...	0:16:40	0:16:42
um...the doctor.	0:16:42	0:16:46
Oh... And?	0:16:47	0:16:49
-You mean? -Mm.	0:16:49	0:16:52
-We're...? -Yeah.	0:16:52	0:16:53
We're going to...?	0:16:53	0:16:55
Yippee!	0:16:55	0:16:57
-I can't believe it! -Oh, Ette!	0:16:57	0:16:59
THEY LAUGH	0:16:59	0:17:01
# Blue skies are round the corner... #	0:17:01	0:17:03
-Happy birthday, darling. -Oh, Ernest.	0:17:03	0:17:06
And your cards! They get bigger every year. This one is all padded.	0:17:07	0:17:12
SHE LAUGHS	0:17:12	0:17:13
But my best present isn't due until January.	0:17:13	0:17:16
-HE LAUGHS More tea, Ette. -Mm-hm.	0:17:16	0:17:19
# Won't you feel happy to be	0:17:19	0:17:22
# Sharing the sunshine with me? #	0:17:23	0:17:26
WIND HOWLS	0:17:26	0:17:28
-FAINT SCREAMING -One more push, Mrs Briggs.	0:17:35	0:17:38
-SHE SCREAMS -Very good.	0:17:38	0:17:40
Goodness gracious me! What a fuss!	0:17:40	0:17:43
You'll wake the neighbours, so you will.	0:17:43	0:17:46
WHISTLING	0:17:46	0:17:48
Oh, my God! Ette!	0:17:58	0:18:01
Wait!	0:18:01	0:18:03
HE PANTS	0:18:05	0:18:07
Steady now, Mr Briggs.	0:18:14	0:18:16
You will surely not be bringing those bottles into the birth room.	0:18:16	0:18:20
Sorry, Mrs... Madam, nurse.	0:18:20	0:18:22
-Is she...? -It's a boy.	0:18:22	0:18:24
-Is she...? -Mother is well.	0:18:25	0:18:27
Oh, thank God for that.	0:18:28	0:18:30
Get as much rest as you can now, Mrs Briggs.	0:18:31	0:18:34
Baby is doing fine.	0:18:34	0:18:35
Thank you, Doctor.	0:18:35	0:18:38
Hello, Doctor.	0:18:38	0:18:40
Ette.	0:18:40	0:18:41
Oh, Ernest!	0:18:41	0:18:43
Oh!	0:18:44	0:18:45
-When was it? -About five.	0:18:47	0:18:50
I was just doing Ashland Grove.	0:18:50	0:18:53
Nearly ran out of stelerised.	0:18:53	0:18:56
How do you feel? You...you look done in.	0:18:56	0:18:59
Tired.	0:18:59	0:19:00
It's all red.	0:19:02	0:19:04
He. It's a he.	0:19:04	0:19:07
Oh, yes. DOCTOR CLEARS THROAT	0:19:07	0:19:09
Mr Briggs, a word.	0:19:09	0:19:12
Yes, Doctor.	0:19:12	0:19:14
-It was touch and go. -Oh?	0:19:19	0:19:22
Your wife is 38.	0:19:22	0:19:24
There had better not be any more.	0:19:24	0:19:26
But we wanted a proper family.	0:19:28	0:19:29
More children, no more wife.	0:19:29	0:19:32
I'm sorry.	0:19:32	0:19:34
Good day to you.	0:19:34	0:19:36
BABY CRIES	0:19:41	0:19:43
Right a bit, Ette. Don't want the nappies in the picture.	0:19:51	0:19:55
That's it.	0:19:55	0:19:57
Hold it.	0:19:57	0:19:59
I don't have to tell YOU to smile.	0:19:59	0:20:00
BABY COOS HE LAUGHS	0:20:00	0:20:02
This MP's pleading that working-class flats should be	0:20:06	0:20:10
built with bathrooms. Labour MP, of course.	0:20:10	0:20:13
They always say if you give the working-class a bath,	0:20:13	0:20:16
they keep the coal in it.	0:20:16	0:20:17
Oh, yeah? I haven't noticed much coal in our bath.	0:20:17	0:20:21
Ernest! We are not working class!	0:20:21	0:20:24
Ha!	0:20:24	0:20:26
DOORBELL RINGS	0:20:26	0:20:27
Oh, it's you.	0:20:29	0:20:31
-Hello, Ette. I've come to see the baby. -Hm.	0:20:31	0:20:35
Come in.	0:20:35	0:20:36
Oh, how are you, ducks?	0:20:36	0:20:38
Ernest, it's your stepmother...	0:20:38	0:20:41
again.	0:20:41	0:20:43
Hello, Mum.	0:20:43	0:20:44
I brought you a couple of bottles of stout	0:20:44	0:20:48
and some coal.	0:20:48	0:20:50
Oh, thanks.	0:20:50	0:20:52
Thanks, Mum. No need.	0:20:52	0:20:53
Now, where's my little boy?	0:20:53	0:20:56
Oh, ain't he grown?	0:20:57	0:20:59
-RADIO: -'This is the BBC in London.'	0:20:59	0:21:02
-What? -'There now follows the news.'	0:21:02	0:21:04
'German Chancellor Adolf Hitler announced today new laws that	0:21:04	0:21:07
'will forbid Jews remaining as German citizens...'	0:21:07	0:21:10
'Ere, Ern, turn that blessed wireless thing off.	0:21:10	0:21:13
I don't want that man hear what I'm saying.	0:21:13	0:21:16
THEY GIGGLE	0:21:16	0:21:17
'Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said	0:21:17	0:21:19
'that a new meeting's going to be held...'	0:21:19	0:21:21
Here, Ette, did you know if you're a Jew in Germany,	0:21:28	0:21:31
you're forbidden to marry a German?	0:21:31	0:21:34
-SLEEPILY: -Hm?	0:21:34	0:21:35
I'd hate to marry a German.	0:21:35	0:21:38
No...	0:21:38	0:21:39
HE SIGHS	0:21:40	0:21:42
Cor! This gas copper's a real luxury.	0:21:43	0:21:47
Just turn the tap and strike a match.	0:21:47	0:21:50
SHE CHUCKLES	0:21:50	0:21:51
BBC's going to start tel-e-vision later this year.	0:21:51	0:21:54
What's that when it's at home?	0:21:54	0:21:57
Well, it looks like a wireless set with pictures on top of it.	0:21:57	0:22:00
Moving pictures?	0:22:00	0:22:02
Talkies?	0:22:02	0:22:03
Yeah.	0:22:03	0:22:05
It'll be like going to the pictures without going out.	0:22:05	0:22:08
What, you just sit and look at it?	0:22:08	0:22:11
-Yeah. -Hm...	0:22:11	0:22:13
Suppose it might be all right for the gentry.	0:22:13	0:22:16
-Oh! -BABY CRIES	0:22:19	0:22:21
Oh!	0:22:21	0:22:23
-BABY CRIES -Let's see that nappy, then.	0:22:23	0:22:27
Oh. Another lot of washing.	0:22:27	0:22:30
SHE CHUCKLES	0:22:30	0:22:32
It says the average family needs £6 week to keep it	0:22:33	0:22:37
above the poverty line.	0:22:37	0:22:38
-What's the poverty line? -Don't know.	0:22:38	0:22:41
Just wish I earned £6 a week,	0:22:41	0:22:43
what with the nipper growing up so fast.	0:22:43	0:22:45
JAZZY MUSIC PLAYS	0:22:48	0:22:50
-Whee! -CHILD LAUGHS	0:22:52	0:22:56
Hey-hey! That's the way to do it, boysie!	0:22:56	0:22:59
Again, again!	0:22:59	0:23:00
Oh, Ernest, he's getting such a big boy.	0:23:00	0:23:03
-No, he's not. He's skinny like me. -Wiry, Ernest.	0:23:03	0:23:07
And tall and lovely hair.	0:23:07	0:23:10
All those curls.	0:23:10	0:23:12
Oh, look! That's new.	0:23:13	0:23:15
They're serving teas in the balcony.	0:23:15	0:23:18
There's waitresses in aprons and caps.	0:23:18	0:23:21
Looks a bit posh.	0:23:21	0:23:23
-Whee! -Maybe some other time, my dear. -Again!	0:23:23	0:23:26
Yes...some other time.	0:23:26	0:23:29
HE HUMS	0:23:33	0:23:35
SOBBING	0:23:35	0:23:37
Whatever's up, darling? What are you crying for?	0:23:40	0:23:43
-I've had it done! -What? What?	0:23:43	0:23:47
-His hair. -Eh?	0:23:47	0:23:50
They've cut it all off. His beautiful curls!	0:23:50	0:23:54
Well, blimey, it's got to be done, Ette.	0:23:54	0:23:57
We can't have him running around like a blooming girl all his life!	0:23:57	0:24:00
He's not a baby any more. He'll be off to school in no time.	0:24:00	0:24:03
-SOBBING: -I know!	0:24:03	0:24:05
Hello, boysie. SHE CONTINUES CRYING	0:24:05	0:24:08
What's wrong with Mum?	0:24:08	0:24:10
SHE HOWLS	0:24:11	0:24:13
Mum! Mum!	0:24:19	0:24:21
Raymond, dear, shouldn't you be in school?	0:24:21	0:24:23
Mum, Mum! Ahh!	0:24:23	0:24:25
Whatever are you home for?	0:24:25	0:24:27
You mustn't come home in the middle of the day.	0:24:27	0:24:30
-HE PANTS -Did you cross that main road?	0:24:30	0:24:33
You must have done.	0:24:33	0:24:34
-I can't find the sit-down lavatories! -You can't find the...?	0:24:34	0:24:37
(We showed you them.)	0:24:39	0:24:40
No, they're girls'. Girls sit down!	0:24:40	0:24:42
-No, there's boy sitting-downs as well. -No, there isn't.	0:24:42	0:24:46
It's all girls! Look out, I want to go number twos!	0:24:46	0:24:50
FOOTSTEPS THUD UPSTAIRS DOOR SLAMS	0:24:50	0:24:52
Nice day again, Mrs Bennet.	0:24:52	0:24:54
Yes, lovely, Mrs Briggs.	0:24:54	0:24:57
TOILET FLUSHES	0:24:57	0:24:59
HITLER SHOUTS IN GERMAN OVER RADIO	0:25:02	0:25:07
Sounds like that Hitler's on the warpath good and proper.	0:25:09	0:25:13
Oh.	0:25:13	0:25:14
Just hark at 'em.	0:25:14	0:25:17
They're all barmy.	0:25:17	0:25:19
Our George was killed in the last one.	0:25:19	0:25:22
And brother Tom.	0:25:23	0:25:24
It doesn't seem all that long ago.	0:25:25	0:25:28
RAYMOND GIGGLES IN GARDEN	0:25:28	0:25:30
My poor old mother never got over it.	0:25:30	0:25:32
SEAGULLS CRY	0:25:37	0:25:39
HE GIGGLES	0:25:40	0:25:42
This television is going to be on one and a half hours every evening.	0:25:42	0:25:45
Dreadful.	0:25:45	0:25:47
It'll be like going to the pictures every day.	0:25:47	0:25:50
Blimey! There's a photo here of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor	0:25:51	0:25:55
shaking hands with Hitler.	0:25:55	0:25:57
Oh, he can't be so bad, then.	0:25:57	0:25:59
What?	0:25:59	0:26:01
Look, Mum.	0:26:04	0:26:06
-RADIO: -'The Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain,	0:26:06	0:26:08
'returned from Germany today and spoke to crowds at Heston airport	0:26:08	0:26:12
'with the promise of peace.'	0:26:12	0:26:14
-CHAMBERLAIN: -'I had another talk	0:26:14	0:26:18
'with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler.	0:26:18	0:26:20
'And here is the paper which bears his name upon it, as well as mine.'	0:26:22	0:26:29
CHEERING OVER RADIO	0:26:29	0:26:32
Cor, Ette. Old Chamberlain is giving Hitler half of Czechoslovakia.	0:26:32	0:26:36
Oh, yes?	0:26:36	0:26:38
He says it's peace with honour. Peace in our time.	0:26:38	0:26:41
Think goodness for that. Don't you want that bit of toast, Ernest?	0:26:41	0:26:44
Nah. No, thanks, dear.	0:26:44	0:26:47
Evening Standard!	0:26:53	0:26:55
Ta, Ern.	0:26:57	0:26:59
You there, Ette?	0:27:03	0:27:04
In here!	0:27:04	0:27:06
Hitler's marched into Prague now.	0:27:06	0:27:08
He'll be coming down our road soon.	0:27:08	0:27:10
Adolf Hitler? In Wimbledon Park?	0:27:10	0:27:13
It says here the government is going to spend £200,000	0:27:13	0:27:17
on air-raid shelters.	0:27:17	0:27:19
We'd better get ourselves ready.	0:27:19	0:27:20
Oh, not on the table, Ernest!	0:27:20	0:27:23
GRUNTING	0:27:23	0:27:25
It's going to be very stuffy with all this blackout up, Ernest.	0:27:25	0:27:29
Not half as stuffy as a gas-proof room would be.	0:27:29	0:27:32
Poisoned gas?!	0:27:32	0:27:34
Oh, I hadn't thought of that!	0:27:34	0:27:35
You have to bung up the chimney,	0:27:35	0:27:37
tape over the cracks around the doors and windows,	0:27:37	0:27:39
put wet newspapers in between the floorboards.	0:27:39	0:27:42
It's a right old barney. RAYMOND GIGGLES	0:27:42	0:27:44
Rarr!	0:27:44	0:27:45
-RAYMOND GIGGLES -Oh, Raymond! Behave.	0:27:45	0:27:47
This isn't a game, you know?	0:27:47	0:27:50
# Underneath the spreading chestnut tree...	0:27:50	0:27:53
-BOTH: -# Mr Chamberlain and said to me	0:27:53	0:27:56
# If you want your gas masks fitted free	0:27:56	0:27:59
# Join the blinking ARP. #	0:27:59	0:28:03
RAYMOND LAUGHS	0:28:03	0:28:04
"Read this booklet until you know by heart what it contains."	0:28:06	0:28:09
Oh, I wish I had a proper gas mask carrier.	0:28:09	0:28:12
Not a soppy old cardboard box and string. It's not fair!	0:28:12	0:28:16
-CRASHING -Oh, dear.	0:28:16	0:28:18
Ernest! Ernest, can you hear me?	0:28:18	0:28:21
-No! -I can!	0:28:21	0:28:23
Be quiet, son. RAYMOND GIGGLES	0:28:23	0:28:25
Can you beat it? IRA bombs in London, Manchester and Birmingham.	0:28:27	0:28:31
When will it end?	0:28:31	0:28:32
Oh, those Irish, they're just like the blessed Arabs and Jews.	0:28:32	0:28:36
-Always at it. -Yes, and don't forget the Serbs and Croats.	0:28:36	0:28:39
They're just as bad. Then there's the Hindus and the Muslims.	0:28:39	0:28:43
Why can't they all just be like us and live in peace?	0:28:43	0:28:47
-RADIO: -'We interrupt this broadcast with an announcement from	0:28:49	0:28:51
'the Prime Minister in London.'	0:28:51	0:28:54
'I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room	0:28:56	0:28:59
'of 10 Downing Street...'	0:28:59	0:29:01
# Underneath the spreading chestnut tree... #	0:29:01	0:29:03
-Shush! It's the Prime Minister. -# Mr Chamberlin said to me... #	0:29:03	0:29:06
Shush, dear!	0:29:06	0:29:08
'..handed the German government a final note,	0:29:08	0:29:11
'stating that unless we heard from them by 11 o'clock	0:29:11	0:29:16
'that they were prepared at once to withdraw	0:29:16	0:29:19
'their troops from Poland,	0:29:19	0:29:22
'a state of war would exist between us.	0:29:22	0:29:25
'I have to tell you now	0:29:27	0:29:28
'that no such undertaking has been received...	0:29:28	0:29:32
'..and that, consequently, this country is at war with Germany.'	0:29:33	0:29:39
ERNEST SWITCHES OFF RADIO	0:29:39	0:29:40
Blimey, duck.	0:29:41	0:29:44
This is it.	0:29:44	0:29:45
-SHE WHIMPERS -Mum?	0:29:45	0:29:48
AIR-RAID SIREN BLARES	0:29:51	0:29:54
AIR-RAID SIREN CONTINUES	0:30:00	0:30:04
-RADIO: -'The government announced today	0:30:18	0:30:20
'that one and a half million children are to be evacuated.	0:30:20	0:30:23
'Children living in big cities and towns...'	0:30:23	0:30:25
-No! -'..are to be moved temporarily from their homes...'	0:30:25	0:30:27
-No, they're not taking ours away. -Course they are.	0:30:27	0:30:30
No, they're not. Over my dead body!	0:30:30	0:30:34
-It'll be over HIS dead body, then. Is that what you want? -Oh...	0:30:34	0:30:37
Oh, Ernest!	0:30:37	0:30:38
Well, that's exactly what will happen. He's got to go.	0:30:38	0:30:40
ETHEL SOBS	0:30:40	0:30:42
Oh, sorry, darling. Come on.	0:30:42	0:30:46
-Don't cry. -My little baby...	0:30:46	0:30:49
-Don't cry, love. -My baby...	0:30:49	0:30:52
I know...	0:30:52	0:30:53
STEAM HISSES TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS	0:30:55	0:30:58
INDISTINCT TANNOY ANNOUNCEMENT	0:31:03	0:31:05
DOG BARKS	0:31:05	0:31:07
HUBBUB	0:31:07	0:31:09
TRAIN WHISTLE IN BACKGROUND	0:31:11	0:31:13
You be a good boy now, Raymond.	0:31:16	0:31:18
Come on, then.	0:31:20	0:31:22
Up you go, son. That's it.	0:31:22	0:31:24
RAYMOND GRUNTS	0:31:24	0:31:26
Bye, son.	0:31:26	0:31:28
-We'll send you some things in the post. -Stand clear now!	0:31:28	0:31:32
I know, I know...	0:31:32	0:31:34
GUARD BLOWS WHISTLE	0:31:34	0:31:35
TRAIN WHISTLE	0:31:35	0:31:38
Bye, darling. Bye...	0:31:46	0:31:49
Bye, son.	0:31:49	0:31:51
He's gone!	0:32:03	0:32:05
-He's gone... -Don't cry, darling.	0:32:05	0:32:09
He'll be safe down the country.	0:32:09	0:32:11
He's only five!	0:32:13	0:32:15
ETHEL SOBS	0:32:16	0:32:18
DISTANT TRAIN WHISTLE	0:32:25	0:32:27
Ernest!	0:32:39	0:32:41
Ernest, it must be from Raymond.	0:32:41	0:32:43
Yes! Yes!	0:32:43	0:32:45
"Dear Mum and Dad, Aunty Flo and Aunty Betty are very nice ladies."	0:32:45	0:32:51
Look, he's done some drawings, too.	0:32:51	0:32:55
"I sleep on a camp bed in Aunty Flo's bedroom."	0:32:55	0:32:59
Aw, poor little mite.	0:32:59	0:33:01
"I get the milk in a can. It is not in bottles because it is cows."	0:33:01	0:33:06
Milk not in bottles? Blimey.	0:33:06	0:33:08
"I rode on a carthorse's back when we got the hay.	0:33:08	0:33:12
"I nearly did the splits.	0:33:12	0:33:14
"Yours sincerely, Raymond."	0:33:14	0:33:16
"Yours sincerely"!	0:33:16	0:33:18
THEY LAUGH	0:33:18	0:33:20
MUSIC PLAYS	0:33:20	0:33:22
ERNEST WHEEZES	0:33:23	0:33:25
# There's a place for your hat... #	0:33:25	0:33:27
Mind my antirrhinums, Ernest.	0:33:27	0:33:29
ERNEST GRUNTS	0:33:29	0:33:31
I hope you know what you're doing.	0:33:31	0:33:33
Eh? Course, duck. You just wait.	0:33:33	0:33:36
# I've got the deepest shelter in town... #	0:33:36	0:33:39
That's it. All done.	0:33:39	0:33:42
Is that it? Finished?	0:33:42	0:33:45
Is it really bombproof?	0:33:45	0:33:47
You'll have to wait and see.	0:33:47	0:33:49
# And I've got central heat	0:33:49	0:33:51
# But to make it complete... #	0:33:51	0:33:53
CAT MEOWS	0:33:53	0:33:54
Russia's invaded Finland now.	0:33:58	0:34:01
I thought they'd invaded Poland.	0:34:01	0:34:03
-Yes, they have. -But you said Germany's invaded Poland.	0:34:03	0:34:07
-Yes, that's right. -Well, who was it invaded Czechoslovakia? -Germany.	0:34:07	0:34:12
Germany's always invading someone.	0:34:12	0:34:15
-I expect they'll invade Russia one day. -Cor blimey! Not likely.	0:34:15	0:34:19
-They're in league. -Or Russia will invade Germany. -Oh, don't be daft.	0:34:19	0:34:23
Well, if they all keep invading one another,	0:34:23	0:34:26
we'll end up invading someone.	0:34:26	0:34:27
Oh, Ette, you just don't understand politics.	0:34:27	0:34:31
D'oh! Now look.	0:34:33	0:34:34
Blessed shelter!	0:34:34	0:34:36
BIRDSONG	0:34:38	0:34:39
Do you think they ever will come down our road, Ernest?	0:34:42	0:34:45
I expect it will be OK.	0:34:45	0:34:47
They say Hitler's assured Holland and Belgium of his friendship.	0:34:47	0:34:51
Oh, that's nice.	0:34:51	0:34:53
What do you think? It's all right, eh?	0:34:55	0:34:57
I thought firemen had those nice brass helmets with curly tops.	0:34:57	0:35:00
No, blokes have been getting electrocuted in those.	0:35:00	0:35:04
At last!	0:35:04	0:35:05
Churchill's taken over.	0:35:05	0:35:07
-"Blood, toil, tears and sweat." -Ernest!	0:35:07	0:35:11
-Don't. Disgusting. -It's your gentry talking. His words, not mine.	0:35:11	0:35:15
Yes, but he was talking to the common people.	0:35:15	0:35:18
He wouldn't use words like that in his own home.	0:35:18	0:35:21
HE SIGHS	0:35:22	0:35:23
-CHURCHILL: -'What General Weygand has called the Battle of France is over.	0:35:23	0:35:28
'The Battle of Britain is about to begin.'	0:35:29	0:35:32
'Upon this battle depends'	0:35:32	0:35:34
the survival of Christian civilisation.	0:35:34	0:35:38
But the whole fury and might of the enemy	0:35:38	0:35:41
'must very soon be turned on us.	0:35:41	0:35:44
'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island	0:35:45	0:35:49
'or lose the war.'	0:35:49	0:35:51
AIR-RAID SIREN	0:35:51	0:35:53
'If we can stand up to him,	0:35:53	0:35:55
'all Europe may be free, and the life of the world	0:35:55	0:35:59
'may move forward into broad sunlit uplands.	0:35:59	0:36:04
'But if we fail,	0:36:06	0:36:08
'then the whole world, including the United States,	0:36:08	0:36:13
'will sink into the abyss of a new dark age.'	0:36:13	0:36:17
MORSE-CODE RECEIVERS BEEP	0:36:18	0:36:20
'Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties,	0:36:20	0:36:23
'and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth	0:36:23	0:36:29
'last for 1,000 years,	0:36:29	0:36:32
'men will still say...	0:36:32	0:36:34
'..this was their finest hour.'	0:36:35	0:36:38
"Broad, sunlit uplands."	0:36:43	0:36:47
Good old Winston! Our finest hour!	0:36:47	0:36:50
MUSIC: We'll Meet Again by Ross Parker and Hughie Charles	0:36:50	0:36:54
They're starting to take away our nice gate and railings.	0:37:00	0:37:04
-I'll make a wooden gate. -Oh, it's a shame.	0:37:04	0:37:07
They want saucepans too.	0:37:07	0:37:09
They make 'em into Spitfires.	0:37:09	0:37:11
Funny to think of our front gate being a Spitfire.	0:37:11	0:37:15
ENGINES START UP	0:37:19	0:37:22
DRAMATIC MUSIC	0:37:32	0:37:34
BOMBS WHISTLE	0:37:47	0:37:51
EXPLOSIONS	0:37:51	0:37:54
AIR-RAID SIREN	0:37:54	0:37:57
INDISTINCT SHOUTING	0:38:03	0:38:06
EXPLOSION	0:38:06	0:38:08
Front door's halfway up the stairs.	0:38:19	0:38:22
It's spoiled my loose covers.	0:38:24	0:38:26
AMBULANCE BELL RINGS	0:38:26	0:38:28
Could've been worse, Ette.	0:38:28	0:38:30
We got off light.	0:38:30	0:38:32
I'm glad Raymond was well clear of all this.	0:38:32	0:38:35
Perhaps when we've got this mess cleared up	0:38:35	0:38:37
we could take a trip down to Dorset and give him a visit.	0:38:37	0:38:40
HORSES' HOOVES CLOPPING	0:38:43	0:38:45
Mum! Dad! Look at me!	0:38:46	0:38:49
Look!	0:38:49	0:38:50
Raymond, be careful, dear.	0:38:50	0:38:52
No need to worry about him, Ethel. He's got quite used to things now.	0:38:52	0:38:57
PIGS GRUNT	0:38:59	0:39:01
Oh! Lovely country smells, eh, boysie?	0:39:02	0:39:05
-Are the pigs like that because of the blackout? -Oh, Ette.	0:39:07	0:39:12
-PIG GRUNTS -Ooh!	0:39:12	0:39:14
RAYMOND LAUGHS	0:39:14	0:39:15
Come along, Raymond. We've seen the pigs.	0:39:15	0:39:17
ERNEST LAUGHS	0:39:17	0:39:19
SHEEP BLEAT	0:39:19	0:39:20
He's fitted into the school very well, hasn't he, Flo?	0:39:20	0:39:24
-It's as if he's always been here. -Oh, good...	0:39:24	0:39:28
Mum, the boys at school all have boots.	0:39:28	0:39:32
They're common boys, Ethel, from Lambeth and Bermondsey.	0:39:32	0:39:36
Can I have boots?	0:39:36	0:39:37
Certainly not, Raymond.	0:39:37	0:39:39
Oh...	0:39:39	0:39:41
I've always dreamed of a cottage in the country.	0:39:44	0:39:47
Down here it's hard to believe there's a war on.	0:39:47	0:39:50
Come on, piggies.	0:39:50	0:39:52
BIRDSONG	0:39:52	0:39:54
HAMMERING ERNEST GRUNTS	0:39:58	0:40:01
That Mr Morrison and his soppy shelter's	0:40:01	0:40:04
ruined my nice dining room.	0:40:04	0:40:06
Government precautions, dear.	0:40:06	0:40:08
Still, at least we won't have to go out into the cold.	0:40:08	0:40:10
-ETHEL LAUGHS -You look like you're in the zoo.	0:40:10	0:40:13
I'll paint it brown to tone in with the furniture.	0:40:13	0:40:16
A nice pastel brown, Ernest.	0:40:16	0:40:18
CLOCK TICKS QUIETLY	0:40:21	0:40:23
Blimey.	0:40:23	0:40:25
What?	0:40:25	0:40:26
Germany's invaded Russia!	0:40:26	0:40:28
I wish I'd betted you sixpence.	0:40:29	0:40:31
AIR-RAID SIREN Oh!	0:40:31	0:40:34
Night, dear.	0:40:34	0:40:36
Night.	0:40:36	0:40:37
AIR-RAID SIREN CONTINUES	0:40:37	0:40:39
UPBEAT MUSIC	0:40:40	0:40:42
# Singing in the bath tub	0:40:42	0:40:44
# Happy once again... #	0:40:44	0:40:47
Ernest, what on earth are you doing with that ruler?	0:40:47	0:40:50
Marking five inches. You're only allowed five inches of water.	0:40:50	0:40:55
But if you were fat, it'd be higher up.	0:40:55	0:40:59
Yeah, well, the King's done it at Buckingham Palace.	0:40:59	0:41:02
It's not fair, fat people getting a deeper bath.	0:41:02	0:41:06
They say you're supposed to share the bath too, darling.	0:41:06	0:41:09
Disgusting!	0:41:09	0:41:10
-We share ours. -But not at the same time.	0:41:10	0:41:13
ERNEST LAUGHS	0:41:15	0:41:16
DRAMATIC MUSIC	0:41:18	0:41:20
AIR-RAID SIREN	0:41:25	0:41:28
FIRE ENGINE BELL RINGS	0:41:28	0:41:30
Over here! Go on, go on!	0:41:30	0:41:32
Jerry's got a direct hit.	0:41:32	0:41:34
Those buildings are going to topple!	0:41:34	0:41:36
-Is there anyone in 'em? -Don't know. Hope to God not!	0:41:36	0:41:40
-Ted! -Over here, Ern! On the left. That!	0:41:40	0:41:43
-Go on, left window. -Come on!	0:41:43	0:41:46
Left.	0:41:46	0:41:47
ROARING	0:41:47	0:41:49
GLASS SMASHES MEN SCREAM	0:41:49	0:41:52
Watch out!	0:41:52	0:41:53
DISTANT AMBULANCE BELL	0:42:01	0:42:04
DOOR UNLOCKS AND OPENS	0:42:10	0:42:12
DOOR CLOSES	0:42:13	0:42:14
FOOTSTEPS	0:42:14	0:42:17
Oh, at last.	0:42:17	0:42:19
Are you all right?	0:42:21	0:42:22
Tired.	0:42:24	0:42:25
Been in the docks.	0:42:27	0:42:29
14 hours.	0:42:30	0:42:32
Here. Let me get your boots off.	0:42:32	0:42:35
-There. -Loads of dead.	0:42:37	0:42:38
Little kiddie.	0:42:39	0:42:41
All in bits.	0:42:42	0:42:44
I had to...	0:42:45	0:42:46
HE SOBS	0:42:48	0:42:50
There, there.	0:42:50	0:42:52
Have a good cry.	0:42:52	0:42:54
HE SOBS	0:42:54	0:42:55
-CHOIRBOY: -# The holly bears a prickle	0:42:58	0:43:02
# As sharp as any thorn... #	0:43:02	0:43:05
Cor! This Beveridge report! Sickness pay, unemployment pay,	0:43:05	0:43:11
old age pensions, kiddies' welfare,	0:43:11	0:43:14
free medicines, free hospitals.	0:43:14	0:43:16
Don't read, Ernest. Help!	0:43:16	0:43:19
Social security from the cradle to the grave.	0:43:19	0:43:22
The welfare state.	0:43:22	0:43:24
It's what the workers have always fought for. We've won!	0:43:24	0:43:28
-It'll have to be paid for. -Course it will.	0:43:28	0:43:30
We'll all chip in, that's the whole idea.	0:43:30	0:43:33
You can't chip in if you're out of work, or off sick, or on a pension.	0:43:33	0:43:37
No, well...	0:43:37	0:43:39
Course not. It's all got to be worked out.	0:43:39	0:43:41
It's economics, see? Economics will see to it.	0:43:41	0:43:45
There.	0:43:45	0:43:47
All done.	0:43:47	0:43:49
# The holly bears a prickle... #	0:43:49	0:43:52
Oh, Ernest.	0:43:52	0:43:54
I know. I know.	0:43:54	0:43:56
# And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ	0:43:56	0:44:00
# On Christmas Day in the morn... #	0:44:00	0:44:03
-Aunty Flo. -Yes, dear?	0:44:06	0:44:09
Mm... I wish I could sleep in my own bed again.	0:44:09	0:44:12
-Course you do, dear. -That Mr Hitler's on the run now, Raymond.	0:44:12	0:44:16
I'm sure you'll be back in London soon enough.	0:44:16	0:44:19
There. All done.	0:44:21	0:44:23
DOOR CLOSES	0:44:26	0:44:28
You there?!	0:44:28	0:44:30
-What's up, Ette? -Dearest, I've been promoted.	0:44:30	0:44:34
-Clerk, grade B3. -Cor!	0:44:34	0:44:36
No more packing parcels in that rotten freezing warehouse?	0:44:36	0:44:40
No, I'm going to work in an office.	0:44:40	0:44:42
THEY LAUGH	0:44:42	0:44:44
And that's not all, Ette.	0:44:44	0:44:45
Look, a letter from our boy.	0:44:45	0:44:48
They reckon he can come home now.	0:44:48	0:44:50
Oh! Oh, Ernest!	0:44:50	0:44:53
RAYMOND STRAINS AND LAUGHS	0:44:57	0:44:59
That's it, son.	0:45:00	0:45:02
# Dig, dig, dig Feel your muscles getting big	0:45:02	0:45:05
# Keep on pushing in the spade	0:45:05	0:45:08
# The turnip tops The potatoes and the carrots	0:45:08	0:45:11
# Cannot sprout without your aid	0:45:11	0:45:15
BOTH: # Don't mind the worms	0:45:15	0:45:17
# Just ignore the squirms	0:45:17	0:45:19
# When your back aches Laugh with glee!	0:45:19	0:45:22
# And keep on digging till we give our foes a wigging	0:45:22	0:45:25
# Dig, dig, dig to victory! #	0:45:25	0:45:28
RAYMOND CHEERS	0:45:28	0:45:30
-Cup of tea, boysie? -Thanks, Dad.	0:45:30	0:45:33
That country air has got you fit.	0:45:33	0:45:35
DISTANT RUMBLING	0:45:37	0:45:40
-Dad? -RUMBLING GETS LOUDER	0:45:41	0:45:44
Come on, son!	0:45:44	0:45:45
-Down the shelter! Run! -Take cover!	0:45:45	0:45:48
Doodlebug!	0:45:50	0:45:52
Get down, son! Get down!	0:45:53	0:45:55
RUMBLING STOPS	0:45:59	0:46:01
Engine's cut out.	0:46:01	0:46:02
Christ, it's coming down!	0:46:02	0:46:04
EXPLOSION	0:46:08	0:46:11
Cor. That was close.	0:46:15	0:46:18
-I didn't know they were bright blue underneath, Dad. -Come on, son.	0:46:18	0:46:22
Shelter. Before any more of the blighters come over.	0:46:22	0:46:25
AMBULANCE BELL	0:46:25	0:46:26
We'd better get you back down the country tomorrow.	0:46:26	0:46:29
FAINT RUMBLING	0:46:29	0:46:31
EXPLOSION	0:46:34	0:46:35
EXPLOSION	0:46:39	0:46:41
ETHEL SHUDDERS	0:46:41	0:46:42
Crikey, dear. Sounds like a lot got through tonight.	0:46:44	0:46:48
RUMBLING STOPS	0:46:49	0:46:52
I can't hear anything.	0:46:52	0:46:54
Hold tight, duck.	0:46:54	0:46:56
GLASS SMASHES ETHEL SCREAMS	0:46:58	0:47:02
BIRDSONG	0:47:05	0:47:07
Some shelter! Full of glass.	0:47:09	0:47:12
Morrison shelters! That Mr Morrison must be a proper twerp.	0:47:12	0:47:16
Good job the boy wasn't in it.	0:47:16	0:47:19
He's only been gone two days.	0:47:19	0:47:21
The old Dorothy Perkins is still in bloom.	0:47:24	0:47:27
She survived.	0:47:27	0:47:29
Pity he didn't take his teddy with him.	0:47:29	0:47:31
ETHEL GASPS	0:47:31	0:47:32
Oh, Ernest.	0:47:32	0:47:34
How much more of this is there going to be?	0:47:34	0:47:37
PIANO MUSIC CHEERING	0:47:39	0:47:41
CHATTER AND LAUGHTER	0:47:43	0:47:45
CHEERING AND LAUGHTER	0:47:52	0:47:54
-Ernest? -What? -Careful, that's your second glass of beer.	0:47:57	0:48:02
-Victory in Europe, Ette! -Yeah! -CHEERING	0:48:02	0:48:06
MUSIC: The Lambeth Walk by Douglas Furber and L Arthur Rose	0:48:06	0:48:10
-# Any time you're Lambeth way... # -Look! Look at Dad!	0:48:10	0:48:12
# Any evening, any day	0:48:12	0:48:15
# You'll find us all	0:48:15	0:48:17
# Doing the Lambeth walk, oi!	0:48:17	0:48:20
# Every little Lambeth gal	0:48:20	0:48:22
# With her little Lambeth pal	0:48:22	0:48:24
# You'll find 'em all	0:48:24	0:48:27
# Doing the Lambeth walk, oi!	0:48:27	0:48:29
# Everything's free and easy	0:48:29	0:48:31
# Do as you darn well pleasey	0:48:31	0:48:33
# Why don't you make your way there? Go there, stay there! #	0:48:33	0:48:38
Come on, Arthur! It's VE Day!	0:48:38	0:48:42
Cheer up. You look like a dog that's lost its tail!	0:48:42	0:48:45
I lost my boy.	0:48:45	0:48:47
Oh, yeah...	0:48:47	0:48:49
I'm sorry, mate.	0:48:50	0:48:52
I'm sorry, I forgot.	0:48:53	0:48:55
Sorry.	0:48:55	0:48:57
PIANO MUSIC LAUGHTER	0:48:57	0:48:59
# When you come to the end	0:49:14	0:49:19
# Of a perfect day... #	0:49:19	0:49:22
Cor. Just think, there'll never be another war.	0:49:22	0:49:26
Jessie's Bob is still fighting the Japs, don't forget.	0:49:26	0:49:30
And you can knock this thing down...	0:49:30	0:49:34
CLANKING	0:49:34	0:49:35
..when I finish tidying it.	0:49:35	0:49:37
# ..or the joy that the day has brought... #	0:49:39	0:49:44
BIRDSONG	0:49:44	0:49:46
Look. It's come up.	0:49:49	0:49:51
-What's that, son? -A pear tree.	0:49:51	0:49:53
Aunty Flo gave me the pips from a pear we ate.	0:49:53	0:49:55
Better not get too big - it will block out all the light.	0:49:55	0:49:58
Don't discourage the boy, Ernest.	0:49:58	0:50:00
I like a nice pear.	0:50:00	0:50:02
DRAMATIC NEWSREEL MUSIC	0:50:04	0:50:06
Darling!	0:50:09	0:50:10
Labour's won!	0:50:10	0:50:12
We're in! HE LAUGHS	0:50:12	0:50:14
Such a shame for poor Mr Churchill.	0:50:14	0:50:16
The working man will be all right now. At last!	0:50:16	0:50:20
He saved our bacon in the war.	0:50:20	0:50:22
-Bloody marvellous! -Ernest!	0:50:22	0:50:24
Mr Churchill never swears. He's a gentleman.	0:50:24	0:50:28
-I'm Labour, Mum. -Shush, dear.	0:50:29	0:50:31
-RADIO: -'It is now estimated	0:50:33	0:50:34
'that casualties from the atomic bomb	0:50:34	0:50:37
'dropped on the city of Hiroshima could exceed 100,000 dead.'	0:50:37	0:50:40
100,000 dead from one bomb!	0:50:40	0:50:43
Well, at least it'll put paid to wars.	0:50:43	0:50:47
-Eh? Why? -Well, you can't fight a war with bombs like that.	0:50:47	0:50:51
-Why not? -Everyone'd be dead the first day.	0:50:51	0:50:55
Mm.	0:50:55	0:50:56
Oh!	0:51:07	0:51:09
He's passed the scholarship!	0:51:09	0:51:12
He's going to the grammar school!	0:51:12	0:51:15
Hmm. I hope he won't get too posh for us.	0:51:15	0:51:18
Oh, Ernest.	0:51:18	0:51:20
RAYMOND STRAINS	0:51:25	0:51:27
And there. There we are. Now turn around, sonny. Show Mummy.	0:51:29	0:51:33
Oh, Raymond!	0:51:33	0:51:35
You do look smart.	0:51:35	0:51:38
Oh, wait a minute.	0:51:38	0:51:40
Can't have a dirty face, can we?	0:51:42	0:51:45
Not at the grammar school.	0:51:45	0:51:47
Quite so, madam.	0:51:47	0:51:49
-Languages, eh? -Oh, yes.	0:51:49	0:51:51
He has to do French and Latin. And maths.	0:51:51	0:51:55
Oh, like arithmetic?	0:51:55	0:51:56
No, not just arithmetic. Um, it's called alge...	0:51:56	0:52:00
Um, alge-bra.	0:52:00	0:52:04
Oh. And sport?	0:52:04	0:52:06
-Does he do his football? -Oh, no. They play rugger.	0:52:06	0:52:11
Ethel!	0:52:11	0:52:12
Oh, sorry, must go.	0:52:12	0:52:14
-You shouldn't go on about it to Mrs Bennet, dear. -Why not?	0:52:16	0:52:20
Well, her boy didn't get in anywhere. He's a bricklayer now.	0:52:20	0:52:23
-I don't see why I shouldn't be proud of my own son. -Yeah? Well, OK.	0:52:23	0:52:28
UPBEAT MUSIC	0:52:30	0:52:33
-Hey, hey! -Mum! Look!	0:52:38	0:52:41
-What do you reckon? -Smashing, Dad!	0:52:44	0:52:47
-It's electric, son. -I hope you can keep control of it, Ernest.	0:52:47	0:52:51
-Can I have a go on it? -Just you keep away from it. -Oh... -It's dangerous.	0:52:51	0:52:55
ERNEST LAUGHS See you later.	0:52:55	0:52:57
Bye!	0:53:01	0:53:03
ERNEST WHISTLES	0:53:07	0:53:08
DOG BARKS IN BACKGROUND	0:53:08	0:53:10
Hello, Ern.	0:53:12	0:53:14
Hello, Alf.	0:53:14	0:53:15
Ta.	0:53:17	0:53:18
-How goes it, then? -Oh, not good.	0:53:18	0:53:20
My old lady, she's getting a bit much.	0:53:20	0:53:23
Oh?	0:53:23	0:53:25
-Rows, you mean? Money? -No, no, no. You know...	0:53:26	0:53:30
The other.	0:53:30	0:53:31
-Mm? -It's the change.	0:53:31	0:53:34
She's on the change.	0:53:34	0:53:36
Too demanding. Do you know what I mean?	0:53:36	0:53:39
I can't cope. It's too much for me.	0:53:39	0:53:41
So...if you ever fancy, you know...	0:53:41	0:53:45
-You'd be doing me a favour. -Eh?	0:53:47	0:53:50
What? You mean, er...?	0:53:50	0:53:52
I'll be out next Saturday, football.	0:53:52	0:53:54
Fulham's at home. So...	0:53:54	0:53:55
You mean, you...?	0:53:55	0:53:57
Yeah, like I say, you'd be doing me a favour.	0:53:59	0:54:02
Ah, blimey, no. No, mate. No, I couldn't. Sorry, no.	0:54:04	0:54:08
I've got a barrow to push.	0:54:08	0:54:10
Er, no hard feelings.	0:54:10	0:54:12
Nor me neither.	0:54:12	0:54:14
Ta-da, Alf.	0:54:15	0:54:17
-See you, Ern. -Alf!	0:54:17	0:54:19
MUSIC: The Laughing Policeman by Charles Jolly	0:54:19	0:54:22
# I know a fat old policeman	0:54:25	0:54:27
# He's always on our street	0:54:27	0:54:29
# A fat and jolly red-faced man	0:54:29	0:54:31
# He really is a treat	0:54:31	0:54:32
# He's too kind for a policeman	0:54:32	0:54:34
# He's never known to frown	0:54:34	0:54:36
# And everybody says he is the happiest man in town	0:54:36	0:54:39
# Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha	0:54:39	0:54:43
# Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha	0:54:43	0:54:46
# Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha	0:54:46	0:54:50
# Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha... #	0:54:50	0:54:54
-Mrs Briggs? -Yes.	0:54:54	0:54:56
Detective Sergeant Burnley, CID.	0:54:56	0:54:59
Oh, no. Whatever is...?	0:54:59	0:55:01
Your son was apprehended breaking and entering the golf club	0:55:01	0:55:04
and stealing valuable billiard cues.	0:55:04	0:55:07
-No! -He's lucky.	0:55:07	0:55:08
This time we're letting him off with a caution.	0:55:08	0:55:11
In you go, sunshine.	0:55:11	0:55:12
Next time, it will be borstal.	0:55:12	0:55:15
SHE GASPS	0:55:15	0:55:16
No. No, it's not possible. He...	0:55:16	0:55:19
He goes to grammar school!	0:55:19	0:55:21
You wicked, wicked boy!	0:55:29	0:55:31
I could kill you!	0:55:31	0:55:32
-Sorry, Mum. -How could you?	0:55:32	0:55:35
Borstal? Borstal!	0:55:35	0:55:37
Whatever's going on?	0:55:37	0:55:39
Well?	0:55:41	0:55:42
THEY SOB	0:55:44	0:55:45
-I see your boy came home in a police van. -Yes.	0:55:49	0:55:53
Yes, he did. That's right.	0:55:53	0:55:55
He's been helping the police with their investigations.	0:55:55	0:55:57
-In a Black Maria? -Yes.	0:55:57	0:56:00
He reported some stolen property he found in the woods.	0:56:00	0:56:03
The Chief Inspector said he was a very clever boy.	0:56:03	0:56:06
Hmm.	0:56:07	0:56:08
Look. More scrap Anderson.	0:56:15	0:56:18
Oh, fits perfect.	0:56:18	0:56:20
We'll own all the coal soon. They're going to nationalise it.	0:56:20	0:56:24
I bet we still have to pay for it.	0:56:24	0:56:26
Of course we'll have to pay for it, you daft ha'p'orth.	0:56:26	0:56:28
So we won't own it, then, will we?	0:56:28	0:56:30
Well, er, not exactly, but it means the profits will go	0:56:30	0:56:34
to the government instead of lining the pockets of the bosses.	0:56:34	0:56:37
-And then the government gives the money to us? -No.	0:56:37	0:56:40
So what's the difference, then?	0:56:40	0:56:41
Cor. 50,000 GI brides going to America. Kiddies with them, too.	0:56:43	0:56:48
Children? But they're not married!	0:56:48	0:56:51
Yeah, well.	0:56:51	0:56:53
I expect some of them jumped the gun a bit.	0:56:53	0:56:56
You know what they say about the Yanks? One yank and they're down!	0:56:56	0:56:59
-What are down? -Er, well, I don't know. It's just a saying.	0:57:01	0:57:05
ETHEL HUFFS	0:57:05	0:57:06
Yaaay!	0:57:17	0:57:19
BELL RINGS ERNEST LAUGHS	0:57:19	0:57:22
Blimey. There's going to be 1,000 miles of motorway.	0:57:23	0:57:27
A terrific network.	0:57:27	0:57:29
What about the green belt? All that lovely country?	0:57:29	0:57:33
Yeah, well, it'll bypass it, I expect.	0:57:33	0:57:36
I thought you said there were going to be lots of bypasses already.	0:57:36	0:57:40
Yeah, well, so there are. It will bypass the bypasses, then.	0:57:40	0:57:43
And what about the ring roads?	0:57:43	0:57:45
Look, it will bypass the ring roads AND bypass the bypasses.	0:57:45	0:57:49
-And bypass the green belt? -Yes, and bypass the green belt!	0:57:49	0:57:53
That's all right, then.	0:57:53	0:57:55
HE SIGHS	0:57:55	0:57:56
Only it does seem a bit of a muddle.	0:57:57	0:57:59
DISTANT CHURCH BELL TOLLS	0:57:59	0:58:01
He's passed!	0:58:11	0:58:12
He's passed the School Certificate.	0:58:12	0:58:15
It says he's matric...	0:58:16	0:58:18
matriculated. Or something.	0:58:18	0:58:21
Is that good?	0:58:21	0:58:22
Well, of course it's good!	0:58:22	0:58:24
-What does it mean? -I don't know what it means.	0:58:24	0:58:26
Not our place to know.	0:58:26	0:58:28
ERNEST WHISTLES "THE LAMBETH WALK"	0:58:31	0:58:33
-Morning, Mr Briggs. -Lovely morning.	0:58:35	0:58:37
ETHEL SOBS	0:58:40	0:58:42
Whatever's the matter, dear?	0:58:45	0:58:47
He says he wants to leave the grammar school and go to art school!	0:58:47	0:58:53
Art school?!	0:58:53	0:58:55
-Oh, blimey. -Such a shame.	0:58:55	0:58:58
He could've gone to Oxford and Cambridge	0:58:58	0:59:00
and got a nice job in an office.	0:59:00	0:59:02
He could've been a foreman, or even maybe a manager.	0:59:02	0:59:06
ETHEL SOBS	0:59:06	0:59:08
CLOCK TICKS QUIETLY	0:59:08	0:59:10
There's no money in it.	0:59:12	0:59:14
He'll never earn a living at it.	0:59:14	0:59:17
That lot's all long hair, drink and...	0:59:17	0:59:20
-and nude women. -Oh, Ernest!	0:59:20	0:59:22
-RADIO: -'It was confirmed today	0:59:26	0:59:28
'that Russia has exploded its first atomic bomb.	0:59:28	0:59:31
'The test took place in a remote area of Kazakhstan...'	0:59:31	0:59:34
Russia explodes an atomic bomb.	0:59:34	0:59:37
Oh, blimey. That's been and gawn and done it.	0:59:37	0:59:40
Ernest, do speak properly.	0:59:40	0:59:42
CAT MEOWS	0:59:47	0:59:48
RAYMOND LAUGHS	0:59:49	0:59:51
Dad, when you come home from work, why don't you wash in the bathroom?	0:59:55	1:00:00
Blimey, son. I'm filthy, look.	1:00:00	1:00:02
Yes, I know, but that's what the bathroom is for.	1:00:02	1:00:04
No, I couldn't wash in the bathroom. Not in this state.	1:00:04	1:00:07
But this is the kitchen, Dad. Mum cooks in it.	1:00:07	1:00:10
-Ooh-ooh! -No, I couldn't, son.	1:00:10	1:00:12
-Not in the bathroom. -Oh, Dad!	1:00:12	1:00:15
Hello, dear. Had a good day at college?	1:00:15	1:00:18
FOOTSTEPS THUD UPSTAIRS	1:00:18	1:00:20
Oh, what's up with him?	1:00:20	1:00:22
They call it adolescence, dear.	1:00:22	1:00:24
They don't understand.	1:00:24	1:00:26
That launderette is a godsend.	1:00:26	1:00:28
I did the whole blessed lot for 2/9 and it's all bone dry.	1:00:28	1:00:32
I could get an electric thermostat for the tank.	1:00:32	1:00:35
Hot water in the summertime, all modern.	1:00:35	1:00:37
Electric thermostat, electric fridge, electric milk float.	1:00:37	1:00:40
My old mum and dad never knew the meaning of the word.	1:00:40	1:00:43
-What word, duck? -Electric!	1:00:43	1:00:45
Down home, there was nothing electric in the whole blessed house.	1:00:45	1:00:49
We all grew up all right.	1:00:49	1:00:50
Two of you died as children, dear.	1:00:50	1:00:52
What's that got to do with electric?	1:00:52	1:00:54
Well, it's progress, Ette. Scientific.	1:00:54	1:00:57
It's scientific progress.	1:00:57	1:00:59
Blimey, what's this?	1:01:00	1:01:02
Meat ration to be cut by tuppence.	1:01:02	1:01:04
That's the lowest it's ever been and six years after the end of the war!	1:01:04	1:01:09
We had more meat under Mr Churchill.	1:01:09	1:01:11
Yeah, all right.	1:01:11	1:01:13
-Middle of the Blitz we had more meat. -Yes!	1:01:13	1:01:16
-Battle of Britain... -All right!	1:01:17	1:01:19
You can't blame Hitler now.	1:01:19	1:01:21
No!	1:01:21	1:01:22
Just your Labour government.	1:01:22	1:01:25
HE SIGHS	1:01:25	1:01:26
MUSIC: Sous Le Ciel De Paris by Edith Piaf	1:01:29	1:01:35
-Bye, Mum! -Bye, dear.	1:01:35	1:01:37
Have you finished your sketch?	1:01:41	1:01:43
Just look at the pair of them.	1:01:43	1:01:44
Her in black stockings and just look at his hair!	1:01:44	1:01:48
Well, they're art students, dear.	1:01:48	1:01:50
He'll grow out of it when he gets a proper job.	1:01:50	1:01:52
He'll never get a proper job with hair like that!	1:01:52	1:01:55
Cor blimey.	1:02:03	1:02:05
There's a candidate here in the general election.	1:02:05	1:02:07
Not only is she a woman, but she is 26.	1:02:07	1:02:10
I'm old enough to be her father.	1:02:10	1:02:12
AND she's a Tory. What is the world coming to?	1:02:12	1:02:15
I thought your Labour believed in equal rights for everybody?	1:02:15	1:02:18
Well, yeah, of course, but...blimey!	1:02:18	1:02:21
She's old enough to be married, have a baby, go to work,	1:02:21	1:02:24
drive a car, be in the Army, fly a plane in the war.	1:02:24	1:02:27
Yeah, but...	1:02:27	1:02:29
Blimey. I'd like to see her do MY job.	1:02:29	1:02:31
She doesn't want your job. She wants to be an MP.	1:02:31	1:02:34
-She's educated. -And I'm not, I suppose?	1:02:34	1:02:37
Well, no, you're not educated, are you, dear?	1:02:37	1:02:40
Nor am I.	1:02:40	1:02:41
We couldn't be MPs.	1:02:41	1:02:43
-Aw! -Oh.	1:02:45	1:02:46
Who wants to be an MP anyway, eh?	1:02:46	1:02:48
THEY CHUCKLE	1:02:48	1:02:50
CROCKERY CLATTERS	1:02:51	1:02:53
Cheese ration cut to one ounce!	1:02:53	1:02:57
Seven years after the war - one ounce.	1:02:57	1:03:01
It's not enough for a mousetrap.	1:03:01	1:03:03
There's your Tory government for you, look.	1:03:03	1:03:06
Your Mr Churchill's cheese.	1:03:06	1:03:08
I hope you washed your hands before touching that cheese.	1:03:08	1:03:11
It's my call-up papers.	1:03:18	1:03:19
-ETHEL GASPS -I'm going in the Royal Corps of Signals.	1:03:19	1:03:23
Well, don't you go and get sent to that Korean War.	1:03:23	1:03:25
Oh, that's all over, bar the shouting.	1:03:25	1:03:27
It isn't! Mrs Hammond's boy, Michael,	1:03:27	1:03:31
was killed there only last week.	1:03:31	1:03:33
Blimey. Was he?	1:03:33	1:03:35
He used to help me on the milk round when he was a nipper.	1:03:35	1:03:38
He was just 19.	1:03:38	1:03:40
Then, when you come to attention...	1:03:44	1:03:47
Attention!	1:03:47	1:03:48
You have to slam your boot down so hard	1:03:48	1:03:50
-the blood spurts through your lace holes. -Oh, don't, dear.	1:03:50	1:03:53
It's true, Mum.	1:03:53	1:03:54
-Are you going to do parachute jumping, son? -No.	1:03:54	1:03:58
I'm going to be a draughtsman in an office.	1:03:58	1:04:00
Oh, good. That's nice, an office.	1:04:00	1:04:03
And thank goodness you've had a proper haircut at last.	1:04:03	1:04:06
ERNEST LAUGHS	1:04:06	1:04:07
Mrs Morgan's boy is going to be an officer.	1:04:07	1:04:10
-Oh, yeah? -Don't YOU want to be an officer, dear?	1:04:10	1:04:13
Not likely, Mum. They want head boys, team captains,	1:04:13	1:04:16
prefects, preferably public school.	1:04:16	1:04:18
I'm just a common little suburban grammar school oik.	1:04:18	1:04:21
Oh, but the uniform is so much nicer, dear.	1:04:21	1:04:24
And you could wear nice brown shoes.	1:04:24	1:04:26
Boots - they're so common.	1:04:26	1:04:29
RINGING TONE	1:04:33	1:04:35
Our very own phone.	1:04:37	1:04:39
Who'd have believed it?	1:04:39	1:04:40
Oh, dear, what shall I do if it rings when you're out?	1:04:40	1:04:43
Well, answer it, you daft ha'p'orth!	1:04:43	1:04:46
I don't think I like it.	1:04:46	1:04:47
-PHONE RINGS -Argh!	1:04:49	1:04:51
Oh, quick, quick, quick, Ernest! It's going off!	1:04:51	1:04:53
Ahem!	1:04:55	1:04:56
Hello?	1:04:57	1:04:59
Yes?	1:04:59	1:05:01
No.	1:05:01	1:05:03
Oh, right, goodbye.	1:05:04	1:05:06
Wrong number, dear.	1:05:08	1:05:10
MUSIC: Theme from Dixon Of Dock Green	1:05:13	1:05:16
Oh, Ernest.	1:05:23	1:05:25
It's just like the pictures.	1:05:25	1:05:27
Yes, we might get Victor McLagen.	1:05:27	1:05:29
-He's dead. -They could still put him on.	1:05:29	1:05:32
Oh, I prefer Tyrone Power.	1:05:32	1:05:34
He's more modern.	1:05:34	1:05:35
PHONE RINGS	1:05:35	1:05:37
Oh.	1:05:37	1:05:39
You get it, Ernest.	1:05:41	1:05:43
PHONE STOPS RINGING	1:05:47	1:05:49
Oh, blessed thing!	1:05:50	1:05:52
RAYMOND GRUNTS	1:05:54	1:05:56
Fancy our little boy having a motorbike.	1:05:57	1:06:01
It's a scooter, Ette.	1:06:01	1:06:03
Lambretta. They're Italian.	1:06:03	1:06:05
He's far too young for motorbikes.	1:06:05	1:06:08
And I see it's back to the long hair already.	1:06:08	1:06:12
Well, he's demobbed now, dear.	1:06:12	1:06:14
-Cheerio, Mum! -Bye, dear! -Cheerio, Dad! -Bye, son!	1:06:18	1:06:22
He's got three certificates now.	1:06:31	1:06:33
Yeah, but they're only art certificates.	1:06:33	1:06:35
They won't get him a job.	1:06:35	1:06:37
One is from London University.	1:06:37	1:06:39
-Yeah, I know, but... -He can put letters after his name.	1:06:39	1:06:42
Just like a doctor.	1:06:42	1:06:44
CAT MEOWS	1:06:47	1:06:48
Hello, Susie.	1:06:48	1:06:50
It says they're wanting to legalise homosexuality.	1:06:54	1:06:58
Oh.	1:06:58	1:06:59
What's that?	1:06:59	1:07:01
Well, you know.	1:07:01	1:07:03
It's like two blokes...	1:07:03	1:07:05
only instead of with a woman,	1:07:05	1:07:07
it's sort of with one another, like.	1:07:07	1:07:10
I don't know what you're rambling on about, Ernest,	1:07:10	1:07:13
and I don't think you do either.	1:07:13	1:07:14
I'll put the kettle on, shall I, duck?	1:07:14	1:07:17
A nice cup of tea.	1:07:17	1:07:19
SHE TUTS	1:07:19	1:07:21
Surprise, dear!	1:07:36	1:07:38
-What? -Hey, presto!	1:07:38	1:07:40
Mind, the sun will fade my loose covers.	1:07:40	1:07:43
Look.	1:07:43	1:07:44
What?	1:07:44	1:07:46
-Do you see anything? -No.	1:07:46	1:07:49
Nothing new, different?	1:07:49	1:07:51
No.	1:07:51	1:07:53
That green car?	1:07:53	1:07:55
Well, what about it?	1:07:55	1:07:56
Triumph Herald. It wasn't there yesterday.	1:07:56	1:07:59
There's always different cars stuck outside our house nowadays.	1:07:59	1:08:02
Well, that one is special.	1:08:02	1:08:04
What's special about it?	1:08:04	1:08:06
It's ours!	1:08:06	1:08:08
Oh, don't be daft, Ernest.	1:08:08	1:08:10
Come on, dear. Get in.	1:08:10	1:08:12
Oh, er...	1:08:12	1:08:14
I don't like to. I've still got my pinny on.	1:08:14	1:08:17
-And I haven't done my hair. -Come on!	1:08:17	1:08:19
Is it really yours?	1:08:21	1:08:23
Ours, darling.	1:08:23	1:08:25
Shut the door. We'll go for a spin.	1:08:25	1:08:28
ENGINE STARTS	1:08:28	1:08:29
I didn't know you could drive a proper car.	1:08:40	1:08:43
HE LAUGHS	1:08:43	1:08:44
Letter from Raymond.	1:08:57	1:08:58
Crumbs! The average male manual worker earns	1:08:58	1:09:02
£13, 2s and 11d a week. Blimey! I must be below average, then.	1:09:02	1:09:07
Oh, it doesn't apply to you, Ernest.	1:09:07	1:09:09
You're not a manual worker.	1:09:09	1:09:11
Oh, he's going to be a teacher.	1:09:12	1:09:15
Oh, good. That's a bit more regular.	1:09:15	1:09:18
-It's in a college of art. -That's better.	1:09:18	1:09:20
Thank God it's not just an art school.	1:09:20	1:09:23
-Part time. -Well, part time is no good.	1:09:23	1:09:25
That's more for women.	1:09:25	1:09:27
One day a week, look.	1:09:27	1:09:29
Blimey.	1:09:29	1:09:30
He gets almost as much for one day as I get for the whole bloody week.	1:09:30	1:09:34
Ernest!	1:09:34	1:09:35
Oh, "See you on the 30th.	1:09:36	1:09:39
"I'll be bringing...Jean with me."	1:09:39	1:09:42
MUSIC: Little Things by Dave Berry	1:09:44	1:09:48
Here they come, Ette.	1:09:48	1:09:50
Hello, Mum. Dad.	1:09:52	1:09:54
This is Jean.	1:09:54	1:09:56
Hello, Jean.	1:09:56	1:09:58
Hello.	1:09:58	1:10:00
Hello, dear.	1:10:00	1:10:01
D'oh! Look at you.	1:10:01	1:10:03
Here's a comb.	1:10:03	1:10:04
RAYMOND SIGHS	1:10:04	1:10:06
Mum, I haven't seen you for a month.	1:10:06	1:10:08
I've just brought my future wife to meet you.	1:10:08	1:10:10
I do not want a comb!	1:10:10	1:10:12
Right, then.	1:10:16	1:10:18
JEAN GIGGLES I'll, um...put the kettle on.	1:10:18	1:10:22
RAYMOND SIGHS	1:10:23	1:10:25
Sorry, Mum.	1:10:31	1:10:32
Oh, come and sit down, dear.	1:10:32	1:10:34
Lovely to see you.	1:10:34	1:10:36
And you too, Jane.	1:10:36	1:10:37
Jean, Mum.	1:10:37	1:10:39
I thought you'd like...	1:10:39	1:10:40
Oh, thank you, dear.	1:10:40	1:10:43
Whatever is it?	1:10:43	1:10:45
-It's a bottle of wine, Mum. -Wine?!	1:10:45	1:10:47
-Oh, dear. I don't know... -Got a corkscrew anywhere?	1:10:47	1:10:50
Wine! Oh, dear.	1:10:50	1:10:52
-It's all right, Mum. It won't explode. -I don't like bangs.	1:10:54	1:10:57
Oh!	1:10:59	1:11:01
THEY LAUGH	1:11:01	1:11:02
-Bye, Mum. Bye, Dad. -Cheerio, son.	1:11:02	1:11:05
I do wish you'd get a nice car, dear.	1:11:05	1:11:08
A van is cheaper, Mum.	1:11:08	1:11:10
-No purchase tax! -But a car is so much nicer.	1:11:10	1:11:14
Bye!	1:11:16	1:11:18
-She was a nice kid, wasn't she? -She didn't say much.	1:11:21	1:11:24
She's shy. Very shy.	1:11:24	1:11:26
Like you, sweetheart.	1:11:26	1:11:27
Hair all over the shop.	1:11:27	1:11:29
-Too tall. -She can't help that, dear.	1:11:29	1:11:31
-She's all legs. -Never mind her legs, Ernest.	1:11:31	1:11:34
She needs a perm and he needs a good haircut.	1:11:34	1:11:38
Oh, no.	1:11:43	1:11:44
He says they're going to get married in a registry office.	1:11:44	1:11:48
-Well, that's the modern way, Ette. -Oh, it's horrible.	1:11:48	1:11:51
Yes, but neither of them is religious.	1:11:51	1:11:53
I don't want him to be religious,	1:11:53	1:11:55
I just want him to get married in a church!	1:11:55	1:11:57
It's so much nicer.	1:11:58	1:12:00
And when are you going to start a family, dear?	1:12:07	1:12:11
Well, I don't know, really, Mum. Probably not at all.	1:12:11	1:12:15
Goodness me, whyever not? I want to be a granny.	1:12:15	1:12:18
Well, Jean's got problems, Mum.	1:12:18	1:12:21
Brain trouble.	1:12:21	1:12:23
-Brain trouble? -Yeah.	1:12:23	1:12:25
Well, that's what I call it, as a sort of joke.	1:12:25	1:12:29
She goes in and out of the loony bin.	1:12:29	1:12:32
You mean she's...	1:12:32	1:12:34
-WHISPERS: -She's mental? -Yeah, well, that's one word for it.	1:12:35	1:12:39
The other word is schizophrenia.	1:12:40	1:12:43
Oh, dear.	1:12:43	1:12:45
Poor thing.	1:12:45	1:12:46
So, I won't be a granny after all.	1:12:50	1:12:53
Never mind, Mum.	1:12:53	1:12:55
BIRDSONG	1:13:02	1:13:05
What a dump.	1:13:15	1:13:17
"Dump"?!	1:13:17	1:13:18
Mum, the Government has designated this	1:13:18	1:13:21
an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty,	1:13:21	1:13:23
an AONB. It's official.	1:13:23	1:13:25
Well, I still say it's a dump.	1:13:28	1:13:29
The South Downs are at the end of the garden.	1:13:29	1:13:32
I give up, I give up.	1:13:32	1:13:34
Son, it's the sort of place I always dreamed about.	1:13:40	1:13:44
I know, Dad.	1:13:45	1:13:46
I know.	1:13:46	1:13:48
CLOCK TICKS QUIETLY	1:13:53	1:13:55
They seem very happy down there, despite the schizo business.	1:13:57	1:14:01
Yes, I suppose so.	1:14:01	1:14:03
I was hoping he'd send his washing home.	1:14:03	1:14:06
Oh, Ette, don't be daft. He's married!	1:14:06	1:14:09
-Yes, I know. -HAMMERING	1:14:09	1:14:11
What's that?	1:14:11	1:14:13
My retirement certificate.	1:14:13	1:14:15
37 years' service with the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society.	1:14:15	1:14:19
I'm not sure I want THAT on the front room wall.	1:14:19	1:14:22
Well, that's where it's going, Ethel.	1:14:22	1:14:25
-RADIO: -'That's one small step for man...	1:14:28	1:14:31
'..one giant leap for mankind.'	1:14:33	1:14:36
Cor blimey!	1:14:37	1:14:38
Man on the moon, Ette.	1:14:39	1:14:41
-Oh. -Man on the moon.	1:14:41	1:14:44
Fantastic, eh?	1:14:44	1:14:46
What's he doing there?	1:14:46	1:14:48
Well, just walking about a bit.	1:14:49	1:14:51
And then what?	1:14:51	1:14:53
Come back, I suppose.	1:14:53	1:14:55
Perhaps they'll have a picnic.	1:14:55	1:14:57
That'd be nice.	1:14:58	1:15:00
I think the tea would blow away when it came out of the thermos.	1:15:00	1:15:04
Why? Is it windy up there?	1:15:04	1:15:06
No, it's gravity, dear.	1:15:06	1:15:08
Oh, I see.	1:15:08	1:15:09
Look. He's going to pick up some pebbles to take home.	1:15:09	1:15:14
Just like kiddies at the seaside.	1:15:14	1:15:16
Turn it off, will you?	1:15:19	1:15:20
CLOCK TICKS QUIETLY	1:15:26	1:15:29
Did you have a good journey, dear?	1:15:34	1:15:37
Oh, yes. OK, Mum.	1:15:37	1:15:38
Fine, fine.	1:15:38	1:15:40
Much traffic on the road?	1:15:40	1:15:42
Well, the A23 was a bit choked up, wasn't it?	1:15:42	1:15:48
Um, but after Sutton, it sort of thinned out a bit	1:15:48	1:15:52
and, um, you know...	1:15:52	1:15:54
got better.	1:15:54	1:15:56
Here's a comb, dear.	1:15:59	1:16:01
Thanks, Mum.	1:16:05	1:16:07
CLOCK TICKS QUIETLY	1:16:07	1:16:09
RAIN FALLS HEAVILY	1:16:09	1:16:12
Remember we used to bring the pram up here?	1:16:15	1:16:18
It's me in the pram now.	1:16:18	1:16:21
They used to do nice teas in the balcony before the war.	1:16:22	1:16:26
Waitresses in aprons and caps.	1:16:26	1:16:29
We never did go, did we, dear?	1:16:30	1:16:32
Yes. It was lovely.	1:16:32	1:16:34
The yobbos smashed all the windows.	1:16:36	1:16:39
Well, that's your Labour Party for you.	1:16:39	1:16:42
FAINT MOANS	1:16:49	1:16:52
ETHEL GASPS AND MOANS	1:16:52	1:16:54
-Mr Briggs! Mr Briggs! -What?	1:16:54	1:16:57
Is there a telephone? I need to call an ambulance.	1:16:57	1:16:59
Downstairs, Doctor. Front room.	1:16:59	1:17:01
Ethel?	1:17:05	1:17:07
DOCTOR DIALS PHONE DOWNSTAIRS	1:17:07	1:17:09
MUSIC: In Dulci Jubilo	1:17:11	1:17:14
Why are they all staring at me?	1:17:20	1:17:23
Oh, they're not staring at you, Mum. It's the television.	1:17:26	1:17:29
They've put it right by your bed.	1:17:29	1:17:31
I don't like them staring at me and I don't like being in Charity Ward.	1:17:32	1:17:37
It doesn't mean charity, Mum.	1:17:37	1:17:39
It's a girl's name.	1:17:39	1:17:41
What's that music?	1:17:42	1:17:44
I can hear music.	1:17:44	1:17:46
Carols, Mum.	1:17:46	1:17:47
On the television. It's Christmas.	1:17:47	1:17:50
There's the tree, look.	1:17:50	1:17:52
Oh, I hope I'll be home in time for Christmas.	1:17:52	1:17:55
-When is it? -It was yesterday, Mum.	1:17:56	1:17:59
You had your presents yesterday.	1:17:59	1:18:02
Look at all your cards.	1:18:10	1:18:12
Mm? Lovely flowers.	1:18:12	1:18:15
Yes, lovely.	1:18:15	1:18:16
Aren't I a lucky girl?	1:18:16	1:18:18
HE SNIFFS	1:18:18	1:18:20
Listen, dear.	1:18:24	1:18:26
(Who was that old man in here just now?)	1:18:26	1:18:30
Oh, Mum.	1:18:30	1:18:32
That was Dad.	1:18:32	1:18:33
Dad?	1:18:34	1:18:36
You know. Ernest?	1:18:36	1:18:38
Your husband.	1:18:38	1:18:40
My husband?	1:18:40	1:18:42
Yes.	1:18:42	1:18:43
Not Victor McLagen?	1:18:43	1:18:46
No, Mum.	1:18:46	1:18:48
I thought he was dead.	1:18:48	1:18:50
Lovely...	1:18:53	1:18:55
lovely flowers, Mum.	1:18:55	1:18:57
Oh, yes. Lovely.	1:18:57	1:19:00
Aren't I a lucky girl?	1:19:00	1:19:02
ERNEST DIALS PHONE	1:19:10	1:19:13
RINGING TONE	1:19:17	1:19:20
Son?	1:19:20	1:19:21
Is that you?	1:19:21	1:19:22
'Yes.'	1:19:22	1:19:24
The hospital, they just phoned.	1:19:24	1:19:26
-'Oh, right.' -She's...	1:19:26	1:19:29
I'm going up there.	1:19:30	1:19:32
-'I'll leave now.' -OK.	1:19:33	1:19:35
-I'll see you there. -'Bye, Dad.'	1:19:35	1:19:38
'RAYMOND SOBS' Steady on, old son.	1:19:38	1:19:41
Steady on.	1:19:41	1:19:43
Why's she on a trolley?	1:20:04	1:20:06
I don't know, son.	1:20:06	1:20:08
Look, bloody tissues and Vim right by her face.	1:20:08	1:20:10
They've put her teeth in all crooked.	1:20:11	1:20:14
I know, son.	1:20:14	1:20:16
I don't know.	1:20:17	1:20:19
CUTLERY SCRAPES	1:20:25	1:20:27
I still keep laying the table for two, duck.	1:20:32	1:20:35
Daft, innit, Susie, puss?	1:20:36	1:20:38
Nice daffs, aren't they?	1:20:44	1:20:46
NEWS THEME MUSIC	1:20:48	1:20:51
-NEWSREADER: -'..Retailers tell the Government they accept...'	1:20:58	1:21:01
I'll get cocoa in a minute, dear.	1:21:01	1:21:03
'..Employers offered to resume paying for...'	1:21:03	1:21:07
CLOCK TICKS	1:21:07	1:21:10
Goodnight, Susie. SUSIE MEOWS	1:21:13	1:21:16
Argh!	1:21:28	1:21:29
Oh!	1:21:29	1:21:30
Argh!	1:21:32	1:21:34
CAT MEOWS	1:21:34	1:21:35
Aargh!	1:21:35	1:21:37
Ohh!	1:21:37	1:21:38
CAT MEOWS	1:21:47	1:21:49
It's OK, Susie.	1:21:49	1:21:51
PHONE RINGS	1:21:55	1:21:57
HE PANTS	1:21:57	1:22:00
WIND HOWLS	1:22:00	1:22:02
PHONE CONTINUES RINGING	1:22:05	1:22:08
FOOTSTEPS ON STAIRS	1:23:05	1:23:08
I suppose I'd better get the Salvation Army to take it all away.	1:23:09	1:23:13
I grew it from a pip.	1:23:34	1:23:36
# I can see your shadow	1:23:54	1:23:57
# Underneath the moon	1:23:59	1:24:02
# Maybe a winter cloudburst	1:24:04	1:24:08
# Heading this way soon	1:24:10	1:24:13
# Heading this way soon	1:24:15	1:24:18
# In the blink of an eye	1:24:21	1:24:24
# Many songs have been sung	1:24:24	1:24:26
# Many lives have gone by	1:24:26	1:24:29
# We will never give up	1:24:31	1:24:33
# We will hold on to love	1:24:33	1:24:37
# With no reason to cry	1:24:37	1:24:39
# In the blink of an eye	1:24:58	1:25:00
# Many songs have been sung	1:25:00	1:25:03
# Many lives have gone by	1:25:03	1:25:06
# We will never give up	1:25:09	1:25:11
# We will hold on to love	1:25:11	1:25:14
# With no reason to cry	1:25:14	1:25:17
# I can see your shadow	1:25:19	1:25:22
# Underneath the moon	1:25:25	1:25:27
# Maybe a winter cloudburst	1:25:30	1:25:33
# Heading this way soon. #	1:25:35	1:25:38

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