0:00:02 > 0:00:05This new programme - it's everything we've been waiting for.
0:00:05 > 0:00:06Mr Lyon. I'm a very big fan of your work.
0:00:06 > 0:00:08Which bit of my work?
0:00:09 > 0:00:13Have you heard of Peter Darrall? He was killed last night.
0:00:13 > 0:00:15It'll be reported as a robbery.
0:00:15 > 0:00:16It wasn't.
0:00:20 > 0:00:21McCain's in.
0:00:23 > 0:00:27We are embarking on a truly exciting journey.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30The Hour is coming.
0:01:04 > 0:01:05Look at this man.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09This is Mr Reginald Thomson.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11Like many young men newly arrived from the West Indies,
0:01:11 > 0:01:14he needs a place to rest for the night.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16Not far from Victoria would be best.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18He starts a new job at the railway station tomorrow
0:01:18 > 0:01:20and he wants to be on time for work.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24Now look to my left. This is Mr Alfred Baker,
0:01:24 > 0:01:29also newly arrived in the city, also about to take up employment tomorrow
0:01:29 > 0:01:31in the clerk's office close to Lincoln's Inn.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41Victoria is not an ideal location...
0:01:41 > 0:01:43And now comes the smile.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46- ..but it's cheap and needs must. - Yes, there it is.
0:01:46 > 0:01:50Here's what happened when we followed them in their search for lodgings.
0:01:50 > 0:01:54Counting down three, two, one -
0:01:54 > 0:01:56roll, Freddie. I'm going in.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00Victoria, you will find a hotel or a bed and breakfast
0:02:00 > 0:02:03on every street to take a guest in search of shelter.
0:02:04 > 0:02:10- Are you in discomfort or does it just seem as if you have a pickle up your backside?- ..Freddie.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13I want that man banned from the set.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15It's camera two then back to camera one.
0:02:17 > 0:02:21Three cameras, three lights. You're a beat behind every time.
0:02:21 > 0:02:2575,000 immigrants arriving from the colonies, all with hopes...
0:02:25 > 0:02:28When it's red, you hit your light.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30If I could see my light then I would hit my light.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33Clear the set, please, Ladies and gentleman.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37He's here. Go in hard on the first question. Have you got them?
0:02:37 > 0:02:39Yes. I know what I'm doing.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41Mr Thomson, could you tell us what happened?
0:02:41 > 0:02:43The lady was very polite...
0:02:43 > 0:02:47Ron, star jumps behind the bloody camera if you have to.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51Behave.
0:02:51 > 0:02:52Mr Lyon...
0:02:52 > 0:02:53..I can't breathe.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56I'll let the American Space Programme know.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02If you're white, then you're all right.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05Freddie Lyon, reporting for The Hour.
0:03:05 > 0:03:09OK, and go to camera two...
0:03:09 > 0:03:12One, er, one, camera one. Sorry.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14- Good evening Mr Gabot. - It's Gabord, not Gabot.
0:03:14 > 0:03:18You're an expert on immigration. That was an interesting insight
0:03:18 > 0:03:21into the prejudice faced by an immigrant arriving in London.
0:03:21 > 0:03:22Well, yes, it was,
0:03:22 > 0:03:26although I don't know the Notting Hill area well.
0:03:27 > 0:03:30- Something's wrong. - Ask the question! Ask the bloody question!
0:03:30 > 0:03:32And where are you from?
0:03:33 > 0:03:34Well, actually, Biggin Hill.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37The congestion is particularly bad...
0:03:37 > 0:03:40Interrupt him! Interrupt!
0:03:40 > 0:03:42..the A232 and join the A236 at Croydon...
0:03:43 > 0:03:45He hasn't got the questions.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47..to Wandsworth Bridge.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51Once over the river I do find it's preferable to follow the Fulham Palace Road.
0:03:51 > 0:03:55Anything rather than face the hoards on the Bayswater Road.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57I'm sure your viewers would agree with that.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59Three weeks...
0:03:59 > 0:04:01..you said three weeks.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03Four. I said give him four.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09And we're clear. That's a wrap, everyone.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14Erm, hello?
0:04:14 > 0:04:16Ron, move that Mars set.
0:04:16 > 0:04:17We won't be needing it.
0:04:21 > 0:04:22How difficult is it?
0:04:22 > 0:04:24We write the questions, you ask them.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27Questions on the future of the British Colony of Cyprus,
0:04:27 > 0:04:28a slot you scrapped?
0:04:28 > 0:04:31It's not my fault you don't pick up the right sheet.
0:04:31 > 0:04:37- I'm not a bloody puppet. - No, you're right. The puppet wanted more.- Freddie.. Away.
0:04:40 > 0:04:43Right. Your charm is wearing thin, Hector.
0:04:43 > 0:04:44I wouldn't call it charm.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47I call it trying to make the best of a shoddily run show.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50It's a farce. It's a bloody farce.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52Mad arm waving, you screaming at me.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55No, you are the farce. You.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59- Clarence. - Clarence!
0:04:59 > 0:05:04We've got a terrific piece for next week on the credit squeeze. It's very exciting, very exciting.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07- I look forward to it.- You should, you really should.- Good night!
0:05:10 > 0:05:11Brilliant.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13I'm sorry.
0:05:15 > 0:05:16Next week...
0:05:18 > 0:05:20..do better. Please do better,
0:05:20 > 0:05:23because if you don't then Freddie wins 12 shillings
0:05:23 > 0:05:26and my entire Bill Haley collection.
0:05:39 > 0:05:40KNOCK ON DOOR
0:05:55 > 0:05:56You're pathetic.
0:06:01 > 0:06:02Merci, madame.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04Ah, here.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07Oh, don't give him any. They won't let him on the flight.
0:06:07 > 0:06:09You're on fiery form tonight.
0:06:11 > 0:06:12Drink up.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15Whisky is God's way of telling us that he loves us
0:06:15 > 0:06:17and he wants us to be happy.
0:06:17 > 0:06:18Night.
0:06:18 > 0:06:23Oh, no, thanks. I'm all squiffy on a shandy. Do you need anything else, Miss Rowley?
0:06:23 > 0:06:28- No, it's fine. I'll see you on Monday.- OK, night.
0:06:28 > 0:06:29ALL: Night.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31Rumour has it she can type.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34She's probably taking the A297423.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37Biggin Hill.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39- ALL LAUGH - It was rather like a flaying fish.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41LAUGHTER CONTINUES
0:06:46 > 0:06:48Really, Mr Gabot! Do tell!
0:06:48 > 0:06:51Do tell us more.
0:06:51 > 0:06:57- Well, I usually take the A2678453 to absolutely the middle of going nowhere.- Ssh. He's outside!
0:06:57 > 0:07:02- LAUGHTER - Never mind the immigration crisis...
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Lift and shove.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06Lift... Lift and shove. BANGING AT DOOR
0:07:06 > 0:07:08Lift and shove!
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Lift! And shove!
0:07:10 > 0:07:12SHE LAUGHS
0:07:12 > 0:07:16That is really very dangerous.
0:07:16 > 0:07:21For the person trying to get in or for the person trying to get out?
0:07:23 > 0:07:26What if there was a fire and you couldn't get out?
0:07:26 > 0:07:30Or someone tried to break in? I could unpick that with a toothpick if I wanted to.
0:07:30 > 0:07:31Really, Bel, it's hopeless.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35Oh, Freddie, you're very sweet... when you're not being such a mutant.
0:07:39 > 0:07:40Oh, no.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43I'll have to do this lying down.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00Nice to see my Bill Haley collection.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04Just checking for scratches.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07It was all a bad dream.
0:08:08 > 0:08:09Don't be wet.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12I think I might cry now.
0:08:12 > 0:08:13No, don't look at me.
0:08:17 > 0:08:18HE CLEARS HIS THROAT
0:08:21 > 0:08:23Have you finished?
0:08:23 > 0:08:24No.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29Yes. No. No, not yet.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35It's all gone horribly wrong.
0:08:38 > 0:08:39Teething troubles.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44You did it on purpose, didn't you?
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Gave Hector the wrong questions?
0:08:47 > 0:08:48No.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52- HE SIGHS - Yes. I don't know.
0:08:55 > 0:08:59- I'm not sleeping brilliantly at the moment.- Oh, you should sleep.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03Everyone needs their beauty sleep.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Not everyone.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53GENERAL CHATTER
0:10:53 > 0:10:55'I'm not speaking to you.'
0:10:57 > 0:10:58What do you expect me to say?
0:10:58 > 0:11:02Peter was a...a nice chap. A little flirtatious, perhaps.
0:11:02 > 0:11:07I don't really approve of that sort of thing, all these young girls. It...it does go on, of course.
0:11:07 > 0:11:12- You shared the same office. - And rarely spoke. The odd formal dinner, a coffee here or there.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17- He liked to fish. I do not. - Why are you lying to me?
0:11:20 > 0:11:24He was short of money. I was very busy.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26He'd fill in for me every other week.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28- Fill in?- Crosswords.
0:11:28 > 0:11:33I set the crosswords. Peter was always very interested.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37Really, I...I'm very sorry.
0:11:37 > 0:11:41Which newspaper? Which newspaper did he set the crossword for?
0:11:42 > 0:11:44Evening Standard.
0:11:47 > 0:11:51The last one he set was printed the day after he died.
0:11:56 > 0:11:57That's done it.
0:12:19 > 0:12:20I'm terribly sorry.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31- Clarence.- Miss Rowley.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35Yes...
0:12:35 > 0:12:37Sorry?
0:12:37 > 0:12:40"Though his glare may so far be a little dim,
0:12:40 > 0:12:44"let us pray Mr Madden will guide this rudderless ship, namely The Hour.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46"There is only so long that one can wait.
0:12:46 > 0:12:49"One can only hope for a better tomorrow."
0:12:50 > 0:12:52LIFT DOORS PING
0:12:53 > 0:12:55Shall we?
0:13:12 > 0:13:14Freddie.
0:13:19 > 0:13:20You don't like me, do you?
0:13:20 > 0:13:22- It's not personal.- Huh.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26You went to a minor public school in...
0:13:26 > 0:13:27Sherborne.
0:13:29 > 0:13:34Not so minor, then. Where you excelled at cricket, rugby and fives. I bet you were...
0:13:34 > 0:13:37- Head boy.- Then Cambridge, where everyone hoped for a first,
0:13:37 > 0:13:39but sadly you partied more than you should,
0:13:39 > 0:13:44met the right people and had a ball. Your parents were naturally disappointed,
0:13:44 > 0:13:48but what's an upper...lower second?
0:13:48 > 0:13:49Third?
0:13:51 > 0:13:53Still, you had fun.
0:13:53 > 0:13:57- Indeed I did. - Whereas mugs like me slaved away at a second-rate university
0:13:57 > 0:14:02with very little of what you call a good time for a paltry, unrecognised first -
0:14:02 > 0:14:05most of it in a haze of misery, but I digress.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08Then... No, not sure what happened then but probably...
0:14:08 > 0:14:12- Welsh Guards.- You've seen service?
0:14:12 > 0:14:14Oh, God, you've got a medal.
0:14:14 > 0:14:15Two.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18Ha... Absurd.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22So after victory at the D-Day landing, you came home,
0:14:22 > 0:14:25looked about you and set your sights on television presenting.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28You started at a regional station, possibly Manchester?
0:14:28 > 0:14:32I was on the sports desk. Occasional outside broadcast.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35- But your wife didn't like the...- People.
0:14:35 > 0:14:39She got on the phone to pater and before your insignificant producer could say,
0:14:39 > 0:14:42"How did that happen?" he's watching you front your very own TV programme,
0:14:42 > 0:14:45while he, despite 40 years of loyal service,
0:14:45 > 0:14:48is stuck in Manchester, crying into his beer.
0:14:49 > 0:14:53- As I say, it's not personal, I just don't like privilege.- God.
0:14:53 > 0:14:57You're a snob.
0:14:57 > 0:15:02- We can't use this, we have no... - No, no, no, it's got to be Egypt, Egypt, Egypt.
0:15:02 > 0:15:06There are furious anti-British tirades playing continuously on their radio.
0:15:06 > 0:15:07For weeks now.
0:15:07 > 0:15:11Until you have something to break, we can't run it as a story yet.
0:15:11 > 0:15:12- Freddie?- Abolition of hanging.
0:15:12 > 0:15:17- Second reading in the House of Lords this afternoon.- Take a camera? - Mmm-hmm.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19Right, anyone else?
0:15:19 > 0:15:20Thank you. Anyone else?
0:15:22 > 0:15:26Time is ticking. We are cutting it fine, as ever.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28- Again, Nasser? Egypt? - Thank you, Lix.
0:15:28 > 0:15:31We have one day to go. We don't have a programme yet.
0:15:31 > 0:15:32The premium bonds story works.
0:15:32 > 0:15:37- Macmillan's backing it.- We could use the footage of the labour strike.
0:15:37 > 0:15:41- Cutting it fine, but... - Brilliant. What question would you put to our Chancellor
0:15:41 > 0:15:44- if, say, you were to interview him, Hector?- Preferably the right one.
0:15:44 > 0:15:48But please do feel free to intervene, Mr Lyon -
0:15:48 > 0:15:51a man of your impressive record. Any pointers you could throw my way?
0:15:51 > 0:15:55- I still say we go with Egypt. - No. I think Hector's got the story.
0:15:55 > 0:16:00- Oh!- It's what's of interest to the man on the street. Lix!- Isaac's got a very good piece on...uum...
0:16:00 > 0:16:03Smokeless fuel. Life after the Clean Air Act.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06Remarkable. Think you could manage that, Hector?
0:16:06 > 0:16:09- Interviewing a slice of Irish bog? - I don't know. That depends.
0:16:09 > 0:16:13If I'm given correct questions and they're less provocative, more succinct,
0:16:13 > 0:16:15I won't grapple to find a decent interview.
0:16:15 > 0:16:20I will not have you squabbling like this. You're like children. You're like bloody children!
0:16:20 > 0:16:24- Is anybody listening to me? Egypt is the story...- I am not your mother
0:16:24 > 0:16:27and I am not your nurse, so just grow up. All of you, just grow up.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30I'm sorry. I can't work like this. Excuse me, Clarence.
0:16:38 > 0:16:39Sorry, Clarence.
0:16:39 > 0:16:43"The Hour is like watching the car you've always dreamed of
0:16:43 > 0:16:47"being driven by a man who has never sat behind a wheel."
0:16:47 > 0:16:48Telegraph.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54Your job is to ensure Hector is prepared,
0:16:54 > 0:16:58because you are not on the front line, Freddie, Hector is.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Bel tells me you're working on another story.
0:17:03 > 0:17:04It's not ready yet.
0:17:17 > 0:17:18Clarence...
0:17:22 > 0:17:25- Rudderless?- At least they didn't say it was because you were a woman.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28Perhaps they haven't noticed it yet.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32Don't make me regret my choice, Bel.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34Auribus tenere lupum, hmm?
0:17:38 > 0:17:40"Grab the wolf by the ears."
0:17:52 > 0:17:54Are you all right?
0:17:54 > 0:17:56Absolutely.
0:17:56 > 0:17:59- Is there a single bloody phone here that works?- No.
0:17:59 > 0:18:03- We're between the BBC Home Service and Johnny Morris in priority, apparently.- He's mine.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05The World Service sent him up.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08He speaks Arabic. No harm in being ready, Bel.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14Monitoring are sending transcripts of the Egyptian broadcasts.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16I need someone to translate.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19My man in Alexandria, well, he does his best,
0:18:19 > 0:18:22but it's...it's schoolboy Arabic.
0:18:22 > 0:18:23Lix has got a lackey?
0:18:23 > 0:18:28When you have a president of a Middle Eastern country angry with half the Western world,
0:18:28 > 0:18:31buying arms off the Soviets and whipping up crowds in Alexandria,
0:18:31 > 0:18:35chances are, Egypt leads.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38And Westminster's getting a little edgy. Tu ne penses pas?
0:18:40 > 0:18:42Find him a desk.
0:18:48 > 0:18:49I'm sorry.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54You were unspeakable, Freddie.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01I am your producer. You absolutely cannot talk like that in front of Clarence.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11It's not just you and me. What's wrong with you?
0:19:11 > 0:19:15I could, of course, bring up your obvious attraction to Cary Grant,
0:19:15 > 0:19:17but ignoring that, which I won't,
0:19:17 > 0:19:21- because you are quite frankly out of your mind...- I'm not listening.
0:19:23 > 0:19:28He's slick, mediocre, smug.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30I stopped listening at "mediocre".
0:19:32 > 0:19:34Why did you not even consider me?
0:19:37 > 0:19:39Because you're too goddamned ugly.
0:19:39 > 0:19:43This is when you reference my brilliance off-camera, my essentiability...
0:19:43 > 0:19:48- Not a word.- ..that, without me, you really couldn't go on.
0:19:48 > 0:19:49I couldn't go on.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53PHONE RINGS
0:19:53 > 0:19:54Bel Rowley.
0:19:54 > 0:19:58CLICKING DOWN PHONE
0:19:58 > 0:20:01Does yours keep doing this?
0:20:01 > 0:20:02Police report.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10It still says suicide, Freddie.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13There are scratches all round the paint around the showerhead.
0:20:13 > 0:20:17Like she tried to grip it to pull herself up. Like she struggled.
0:20:17 > 0:20:22Everyone struggles when they're in the throes of dying.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25- The body clings to life. - Second paragraph.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28"Compression to the oesophagus, and fracture to second vertebra."
0:20:28 > 0:20:34It's a seven-foot three-inch drop from showerhead to base of bath. At best, that's slow asphyxiation.
0:20:34 > 0:20:38I don't think it'd break your neck, second vertebra. You'd have to hang from a tree or bridge.
0:20:38 > 0:20:42- Or by violent force. - Is this really scientific?
0:20:42 > 0:20:43She didn't kill herself.
0:20:45 > 0:20:49They'll say that you fell for a 21-year-old's conspiracy theories...
0:20:49 > 0:20:53- I made a promise to her. - ..because they tapped into your own. - They did. They do.
0:20:58 > 0:21:02I knew her. I stayed with her family during the war.
0:21:06 > 0:21:10Peter Darrall was setting the crosswords in the Evening Standard every other week.
0:21:10 > 0:21:14He was using them to send messages.
0:21:15 > 0:21:19The perforations pick up certain letters.
0:21:22 > 0:21:23Because he's a spy.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29The last crossword he set was published the day he died.
0:21:29 > 0:21:32- MI5?- MI6.
0:21:32 > 0:21:36Maybe...he was killed by a Russian looking for this.
0:21:36 > 0:21:37What does it say?
0:21:37 > 0:21:41I don't know. I never finish crosswords.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46Seven letters. "Many set free." Possibly an anagram.
0:21:46 > 0:21:52- You know that a subscription to Marvel's All-True Crime doesn't make you a real detective?- Doesn't it?
0:21:53 > 0:21:58- They publish the answers the next day. Why don't you...? - I would if I could bloody find it.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02"Amnesty"! "Many set".
0:22:02 > 0:22:05Very good.
0:22:05 > 0:22:10- But not good enough to be considered as a frontman for The Hour, right? - Oh, God.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15- It's a fact, Moneypenny. - And stop calling me that.
0:22:15 > 0:22:20- As your producer, that qualifies me as something more than a secretary. - You know I have a story here.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23No, you don't. Not yet. Abolition of hanging, House of Lords.
0:22:25 > 0:22:29You know Lord Elms has an office there?
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Be nice to Hector.
0:22:35 > 0:22:36Why?
0:22:44 > 0:22:46Sorry, do you mind?
0:22:46 > 0:22:49Behave, Freddie. Ignore him.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51He's a melancholic.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54And thanking you again.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56He likes to hoard newspapers, rather like a tramp.
0:22:56 > 0:23:01No, I like to keep them, because one day they will have their use.
0:23:01 > 0:23:03This is Mr...
0:23:03 > 0:23:06Kish. Thomas Kish. Pretty girl.
0:23:08 > 0:23:09Yes.
0:23:12 > 0:23:13Just need a...
0:23:13 > 0:23:17- Yes, of course, sorry.- Thank you.
0:23:17 > 0:23:21- I didn't know where to put him so I thought you might share. - Oh, help yourself.
0:23:24 > 0:23:25Isaac!
0:23:25 > 0:23:27PHONE RINGS
0:23:27 > 0:23:29Bel Rowley.
0:23:29 > 0:23:31CLICKING ON LINE
0:23:36 > 0:23:38MURMURED CONVERSATION
0:23:49 > 0:23:53Hawley Harvey Crippen, John Christie, Ruth Ellis -
0:23:53 > 0:23:57all hanged for very different heinous crimes.
0:23:57 > 0:24:01But today, a momentous bill already passed in the House of Commons
0:24:01 > 0:24:04is to be heard in the House of Lords which may put an end
0:24:04 > 0:24:07to capital punishment in this country for good.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10All I'm getting is rain. It's like court shoes on parquet.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14Can we try inside?
0:24:15 > 0:24:16Thank you.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20You know, you always click your heel harder on the third step.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22- No, I don't.- Yes, you do.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25HEELS CLICK
0:24:26 > 0:24:30We need to work on your links today. Say more. Smile less.
0:24:30 > 0:24:35- Yes, I hear the newspapers don't like the smile? - Do you really not read them?
0:24:35 > 0:24:40- Front page and sport. I find that normally covers it. - Incredible.- What?
0:24:40 > 0:24:45I should be interested in the bored bile of some fat hack stuck in Fleet Street on an expense account?
0:24:45 > 0:24:49- They refer to an absence of intellect.- They may be right. It's overrated.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51You really don't care what they think?
0:24:51 > 0:24:53I care what you think.
0:24:56 > 0:24:57Four o'clock. In the studio.
0:24:59 > 0:25:02- Ron, reel three is fine.- Thank you, Miss Rowley.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04Miss Rowley. Your mother's here.
0:25:06 > 0:25:08Yoo-hoo!
0:25:15 > 0:25:19- What about here?- Well, it's as light as it's probably going to get.
0:25:40 > 0:25:41Hello?
0:26:23 > 0:26:25If it's pink, it's fish paste.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30I can't stay much longer. It's madness today.
0:26:30 > 0:26:34We should have gone to that little Italian.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37Ooh. When did you cut your hair?
0:26:37 > 0:26:39Umm...
0:26:39 > 0:26:43- Last month, perhaps. I don't remember.- Platinum would suit you, darling.- Yes,
0:26:43 > 0:26:46if I wanted to look like a lady who works the docks.
0:26:49 > 0:26:53Darling, why don't we sit here?
0:26:54 > 0:26:57- I've got to go now, Ma. - Oh, five more minutes.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07Isn't that your editor?
0:27:07 > 0:27:08Producer.
0:27:11 > 0:27:15How old do you think she is?
0:27:13 > 0:27:15I don't know.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18She must be nearly 30.
0:27:16 > 0:27:1828.
0:27:18 > 0:27:19Thank you.
0:27:22 > 0:27:23She looks just like that actress.
0:27:25 > 0:27:29You know, the one we saw in that thingy?
0:27:29 > 0:27:31- Where's the Bolshevik?- Out.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35How's the broker?
0:27:35 > 0:27:37Banker. He's fine, I expect.
0:27:37 > 0:27:40I haven't seen him in weeks.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42How's Bill? Clive?
0:27:42 > 0:27:45Don't know. Don't care.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47You worry so.
0:27:47 > 0:27:52Is that her mother? Oh, God, it is, it's Verda Rowley.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56Oh, she left her husband.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02- Don't stare, darling.- Sorry.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05I am quite back on my feet. In fact, it's really rather exciting.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07- Where are you staying?- Cynthia's.
0:28:07 > 0:28:13She's been marvellous. Oh, Robert's still appalling.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16He reminded me I had a daughter with a very nice little flat.
0:28:19 > 0:28:23Oh, please, God, no.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25Just try not to...
0:28:25 > 0:28:28- Miss Rowley, I must apologise, Marnie insists on...- Yes.
0:28:28 > 0:28:32Carole Lesley. Hector doesn't agree with me, but you look just like her.
0:28:32 > 0:28:36The Embezzler? Have you not seen it?
0:28:36 > 0:28:41- She's terribly good.- No. - Hector hates it when I pop in.
0:28:41 > 0:28:44- No, I don't. - But one is just so curious.
0:28:44 > 0:28:49- This is my mother.- Hello. - You must be very proud.- Hello.
0:28:49 > 0:28:50That's my babydoll.
0:28:51 > 0:28:53We have to go...leave.
0:28:53 > 0:28:55Yes, we should go too, darling.
0:28:57 > 0:29:02Babydoll?! I'll be 28 in August.
0:29:02 > 0:29:07Why not Bel or Isabel, the name you christened me?
0:29:07 > 0:29:09Rather than something you'd call a showgirl.
0:29:09 > 0:29:13The lock's broken. You have to lift the door a little
0:29:13 > 0:29:16and then a quick push and you're in.
0:29:16 > 0:29:22There are some cold chops in the refrigerator, help yourself if you're hungry. I'll be back by nine.
0:29:22 > 0:29:24I won't forget this, sweetheart.
0:29:24 > 0:29:27Yes, you will.
0:29:41 > 0:29:42Miss Rowley...
0:29:42 > 0:29:45Did you make Mr Madden a cup of tea again this morning?
0:29:45 > 0:29:48No. Well, yeah, but he just smiles at ya and then...
0:29:48 > 0:29:51Do you want to be taken seriously,
0:29:51 > 0:29:56or for ever be some stupid little marionette fluttering on the arm of every good-looking man in the BBC?
0:29:56 > 0:29:59- No.- Well, the first rule - you don't make tea.- Right, but, I...
0:29:59 > 0:30:04You're a very pretty girl but the last thing I need is someone distracting those around you.
0:30:04 > 0:30:08- Don't send me back.- Where? I didn't ask for you - I don't know where to send you back to.
0:30:08 > 0:30:11Like most things in this corporation, people arrive
0:30:11 > 0:30:14- and you are expected to accept them, no questions asked.- Personnel.
0:30:14 > 0:30:19- They're on the second floor. It's where all the secretaries come from. - Miss Coulson...
0:30:19 > 0:30:20How old are you?
0:30:20 > 0:30:23Cooper. It's actually Cooper. As in Gary.
0:30:23 > 0:30:26But there's a Miss Sally Cooper down in children's casting
0:30:26 > 0:30:31- and they were concerned I was going to get her post. - How old are you?- 21.
0:30:31 > 0:30:3320.
0:30:33 > 0:30:3619. But I can type 100 words a minute and I've got a distinction in shorthand.
0:30:36 > 0:30:39The Hour is the most exciting posting I have had since I got here.
0:30:39 > 0:30:43- I've been in the mail room since January.- That implies you can stick on a stamp
0:30:43 > 0:30:48- but not keep out my mother.- I'm not like them - the rest of them in that typing pool, always on the lookout.
0:30:48 > 0:30:53I ain't looking for that. I want to be part of something. Part of this.
0:30:53 > 0:30:56- And I know I can be really useful and helpful to you.- Miss Cooper,
0:30:56 > 0:30:59less is more.
0:31:12 > 0:31:13The BBC.
0:31:14 > 0:31:15Very good.
0:31:17 > 0:31:20I had a mind to go into broadcasting once.
0:31:24 > 0:31:26Yes, you've done well for yourself, Frederick.
0:31:28 > 0:31:33Lord Elms? I was hoping to interview you, sir.
0:31:35 > 0:31:39- To get your reaction to the bill. - It won't get passed, if that's what you mean.
0:31:39 > 0:31:41So you voted against it?
0:31:41 > 0:31:46Does it matter? We get the vote we deserve, and the rest can hang.
0:31:46 > 0:31:47That doesn't make it right.
0:31:52 > 0:31:54Is it on?
0:31:59 > 0:32:04As in everyday life, the word "right" has no single unequivocal meaning.
0:32:05 > 0:32:11Is the widow of the police officer murdered by a violent attacker
0:32:11 > 0:32:15not "right" to demand reasonable justice for her late husband?
0:32:15 > 0:32:20But is the man falsely convicted and sentenced to be hanged
0:32:20 > 0:32:24also not "right" to demand that same reasonable justice?
0:32:24 > 0:32:27To demand his right to life?
0:32:30 > 0:32:35In a democracy, the only thing one can be right about is...
0:32:35 > 0:32:37the right to ask the question.
0:32:37 > 0:32:39And the real question is,
0:32:39 > 0:32:42do we live in a democracy...
0:32:43 > 0:32:46..or...
0:32:46 > 0:32:48under the illusion of one?
0:32:54 > 0:32:56..What sort of a camera is it?
0:32:56 > 0:32:58Auricon.
0:33:00 > 0:33:02Ruthie liked to make little films.
0:33:14 > 0:33:16I didn't come to the funeral.
0:33:17 > 0:33:20To Ruth's funeral. I didn't know if you'd want me there.
0:33:23 > 0:33:26You are always welcome, Frederick.
0:33:26 > 0:33:28You always were.
0:33:32 > 0:33:33She came to see me.
0:33:36 > 0:33:37She wanted me to help her.
0:33:37 > 0:33:40And did you?
0:33:44 > 0:33:46One could argue that swift death
0:33:46 > 0:33:50is preferable to a lifetime's imprisonment.
0:33:55 > 0:33:57One could argue that.
0:34:12 > 0:34:14Mr Lyon?
0:34:14 > 0:34:16Lix was looking for you.
0:34:17 > 0:34:18We did this story last week.
0:34:18 > 0:34:21And you smiled last week,
0:34:21 > 0:34:25and then you flicked your eyes up and down. Yes, just like that!
0:34:25 > 0:34:27If it's a short script, learn it.
0:34:27 > 0:34:30It's this bloody desk.
0:34:30 > 0:34:32It's not the desk's fault. It's you.
0:34:33 > 0:34:37The only thing that's stopping you is you.
0:34:37 > 0:34:39Sorry. My mother does this to me.
0:34:39 > 0:34:43- She seemed very nice. - That's just her flirting with you.
0:34:46 > 0:34:48So did your wife... Seem very nice.
0:34:51 > 0:34:55- Freddie says...- Oh, Mr Lyon!
0:34:55 > 0:34:58- He can be quite kind if you just... - Keep away from you?
0:35:01 > 0:35:03I don't know why you're so nervous.
0:35:04 > 0:35:08You're charming and you're effortless and then the minute you turn to look at the camera you just...
0:35:08 > 0:35:10Well, everyone's waiting there for me to be brilliant.
0:35:10 > 0:35:15I can't just pluck the name of the President of Liberia out of the ether.
0:35:15 > 0:35:17I need to stick to a script
0:35:17 > 0:35:22but then when I look down and then I look up again and there you all are standing there. Staring back at me.
0:35:22 > 0:35:24It's bloody terrifying!
0:35:24 > 0:35:28Perhaps Mr Lyon would have been a better fit.
0:35:28 > 0:35:31SHE LAUGHS
0:35:37 > 0:35:38How did you get into news?
0:35:43 > 0:35:46I was about 16.
0:35:46 > 0:35:49I used to sit in my father's study listening to the wireless.
0:35:49 > 0:35:521933. Vernon Bartlett discussing Hitler's decision
0:35:52 > 0:35:55to leave the League of Nations.
0:35:57 > 0:35:59The most powerful thing I've ever heard.
0:36:02 > 0:36:04It pulled me out of that drab little room
0:36:04 > 0:36:09and into the middle of a crisis, as if I was sitting there with them, the third person at that table.
0:36:09 > 0:36:12That's how it should be.
0:36:13 > 0:36:16Stand up.
0:36:21 > 0:36:24They need to see you.
0:36:24 > 0:36:27They need to know who you are.
0:36:30 > 0:36:32Trust you as they would a friend.
0:36:35 > 0:36:38They need to hear you talk as I just heard you.
0:36:40 > 0:36:45A man who does a job that other men would kill to do,
0:36:45 > 0:36:50and that women want to sit next to at the dinner table because you're the most dangerous man in the room.
0:36:52 > 0:36:55There you are. Lix is looking for you.
0:36:55 > 0:36:58Thank you, Freddie.
0:37:00 > 0:37:02Yes, OK, listen to this.
0:37:02 > 0:37:06The military have moved into the central square in Alexandria, they've cordoned off the crowd.
0:37:06 > 0:37:09Nasser's been talking for coming up to an hour
0:37:09 > 0:37:11and he doesn't seem like he's stopping.
0:37:11 > 0:37:14- Our man in Alexandria's leaning out of the window, he's holding up the phone.- Give us pictures, Lix.
0:37:14 > 0:37:18Apparently there are thousands of people, they're waving and cheering.
0:37:18 > 0:37:20It's like a carnival...
0:37:20 > 0:37:24I, I can't understand, it's Arabic. Mr Kish?
0:37:24 > 0:37:29- What exactly is Nasser saying? - This canal is an Egyptian Canal.
0:37:29 > 0:37:31It is an Egyptian Limited Company.
0:37:31 > 0:37:36120,000 Egyptians died digging the canal and then Britain forcibly deprived us of our right in it.
0:37:36 > 0:37:40- What's he saying? Are we going to war?- Don't be daft.
0:37:40 > 0:37:42- Where's Clarence? - I don't know.- Are you listening now?
0:37:44 > 0:37:47- What happens now?- I don't know... I don't, umm, I don't know.
0:37:47 > 0:37:49Let me think.
0:37:49 > 0:37:51- We are. We are. We're going to war. - We are not going to war, Miss Cooper!
0:37:51 > 0:37:56We're carrying on preparing for tomorrow's show. We are taking in our stride the incoming news
0:37:56 > 0:37:59that Colonel Nasser has taken control of this country's most important trade route,
0:37:59 > 0:38:04we are reorganising and regrouping. Lix, Freddie, Hector, and Ron, now.
0:38:04 > 0:38:07Sissy, telephone lines. We need them all working.
0:38:07 > 0:38:09- Maintenance said Friday. - Go down to the floor right now.
0:38:09 > 0:38:14Now, please. Everyone back to their desks, talk to anyone you can find. Lix, do we have a camera down there?
0:38:14 > 0:38:19I've spoken to Donaldson and two of the boys from the Cairo agency should be there now.
0:38:19 > 0:38:23- We need to find someone in the Egyptian Embassy. Someone who can talk for Nasser.- That minister?
0:38:23 > 0:38:27- Was based in Cairo now in London? Outspoken supporter of Nasser. - Hafiz.
0:38:27 > 0:38:30I went to school with his son.
0:38:30 > 0:38:32Hafiz drinks at the Layali Club.
0:38:32 > 0:38:34- Sorry, not a member.- I'll get us in.
0:38:34 > 0:38:37Is there anything you can't do, Hector?
0:38:37 > 0:38:39Erm, not really.
0:38:39 > 0:38:41Egyptian forces are swarming the entire canal.
0:38:41 > 0:38:44They're taking over the Suez offices.
0:38:44 > 0:38:49- They're lining up workers and making them stand outside.- I'll get my car.
0:38:49 > 0:38:53- I got the interview with Elms. - When do you get it back from the lab?
0:38:53 > 0:38:56First thing, if Mr Albert gets a lick on. You have to see it, Bel.
0:38:56 > 0:39:00- You have to hear what Lord Elms said. We run this film...- I don't know what we're running tomorrow.
0:39:00 > 0:39:02But when I decide I'll let you know.
0:39:02 > 0:39:05- I'll come with you, to meet Hafiz. - It's fine. Hector and I can... - Home affairs desk.
0:39:05 > 0:39:11This could loosely be considered home affairs with a bit of foreign affairs thrown in.
0:39:11 > 0:39:13(Why are you being such a child?
0:39:13 > 0:39:17(Now is not the time for you to be a child.)
0:39:24 > 0:39:27Is it just me, or has Hector shrunk?
0:39:27 > 0:39:30I'm sure he was taller.
0:39:32 > 0:39:39When we first met you couldn't even knot your tie straight. You'd never tried an oyster.
0:39:39 > 0:39:41Personally not much of a loss.
0:39:41 > 0:39:43Been to the theatre. Read Woolf or Wilde.
0:39:43 > 0:39:50I did that. It's what you do for someone when you believe in them.
0:39:50 > 0:39:54And you believe in him?
0:39:57 > 0:40:00I've got "atom",
0:40:00 > 0:40:02"shamble", "evolve".
0:40:03 > 0:40:05Freddie?
0:40:08 > 0:40:10(Freddie!)
0:40:13 > 0:40:16We were hoping to entice you onto The Hour.
0:40:16 > 0:40:18So that you can interrogate me?
0:40:18 > 0:40:25- No.- Yes.- Mr Hafiz, we would like to bring a balanced view
0:40:25 > 0:40:30- to rapidly unfolding and sensitive political events.- Your President has stolen our canal.
0:40:30 > 0:40:32It hasn't been without provocation.
0:40:32 > 0:40:35I can just see the headlines tomorrow. Grabber Nasser!
0:40:35 > 0:40:37It does have a certain ring to it.
0:40:37 > 0:40:39- Freddie.- May I apologise?
0:40:39 > 0:40:42Why? He is only saying what the world will say.
0:40:42 > 0:40:44But they do not know the truth.
0:40:44 > 0:40:46And what is the truth, Mr Hafiz?
0:40:46 > 0:40:50If you come on to our programme, perhaps you will have a chance to tell the country.
0:40:50 > 0:40:52If I am interviewed by a gentleman.
0:40:58 > 0:41:00Here. Let me give you a hand with those.
0:41:00 > 0:41:02Right...
0:41:02 > 0:41:07You'll need the background. You can't wing it. Start with these.
0:41:07 > 0:41:09You'll need...
0:41:12 > 0:41:16Perhaps a little more than a Children's Britannica.
0:41:19 > 0:41:24How do you do it? How do you know exactly the right question to ask?
0:41:24 > 0:41:28Because I'm not afraid of the answers.
0:41:29 > 0:41:35Right, this is good. I've marked the best pages. Ignore the last chapter.
0:41:39 > 0:41:42- Thank you.- This is for Bel.
0:41:42 > 0:41:45Not for you.
0:41:45 > 0:41:48You're still an arse.
0:41:48 > 0:41:51Freddie?
0:41:51 > 0:41:56- Do you ever wash up? - Saucepans, not much.
0:41:56 > 0:41:58Cutlery occasionally.
0:41:58 > 0:42:03And she won't even make me a cup of tea.
0:42:03 > 0:42:06- I'll walk you.- It's all right. I can drive her home.
0:42:06 > 0:42:09Very nice seeing you, Miss Rowley.
0:42:09 > 0:42:11Dad. I'll be through in a minute.
0:42:11 > 0:42:15- Hector Madden. Pleased to meet you, Mr Lyon.- Yes, Captain.
0:42:20 > 0:42:22Well, goodnight.
0:42:25 > 0:42:27Thank you.
0:42:43 > 0:42:45Are you nervous?
0:42:45 > 0:42:47Terrified.
0:42:50 > 0:42:53You can't bottle it, Hector.
0:42:53 > 0:42:56You have to be as tough on him as you would be on the next man.
0:42:58 > 0:43:01- McCain's not going to like it. - Stuff McCain.
0:43:06 > 0:43:08It's left.
0:43:11 > 0:43:13Which floor?
0:43:13 > 0:43:16- Top.- Here?- Mm-hm.
0:43:21 > 0:43:23Are you all right?
0:43:23 > 0:43:24Fine.
0:43:24 > 0:43:28Then why are you shaking?
0:43:42 > 0:43:44Oh, damn.
0:44:01 > 0:44:04Military upbringing. I can't help it.
0:44:04 > 0:44:08I'm pathologically unable to see a woman in the rain
0:44:08 > 0:44:11without holding up an umbrella over her.
0:44:16 > 0:44:18BUZZER
0:44:25 > 0:44:28Don't be frightened. Gravity.
0:44:28 > 0:44:31You have a natural gravity.
0:44:33 > 0:44:35< 'Hello?'
0:44:38 > 0:44:41- Good night. - < 'Bel?'
0:44:48 > 0:44:51Ma. Sorry...
0:44:53 > 0:44:55He rang.
0:44:55 > 0:44:57Yes, he did.
0:44:59 > 0:45:01Oh, don't do that.
0:45:01 > 0:45:06- They always telephone, darling, in the end.- Right.
0:45:07 > 0:45:08That's right.
0:45:08 > 0:45:10Have you even heard the news today?
0:45:10 > 0:45:14Egyptian troops have...
0:45:15 > 0:45:18Doesn't matter.
0:45:20 > 0:45:26Verda, World War III will break out and you'll be so busy
0:45:26 > 0:45:30trying to squeeze yourself into that bloody dress, you'll miss it.
0:45:30 > 0:45:34Darling, please don't become one of those women
0:45:34 > 0:45:36who feels the need to have a career and not a life.
0:45:36 > 0:45:39I'd rather be that woman than waiting for a bloody phone call.
0:45:39 > 0:45:44Ooh. Did you not sleep well last night? It always makes you so grumpy.
0:45:44 > 0:45:47The last thing I want is to sleep. I've woken up.
0:45:47 > 0:45:50HORN BLARES OUTSIDE
0:45:51 > 0:45:53You should try it, Ma.
0:46:05 > 0:46:08RADIO: 'But in spite of the smiles and the friendly handshakes,
0:46:08 > 0:46:12'Egypt's answer to the 18-nation plan for international control
0:46:12 > 0:46:15'of the Suez Canal is still a flat refusal.
0:46:15 > 0:46:18'Mr Menzies flies back to London with the disturbing knowledge
0:46:18 > 0:46:22'that although he and his committee did their best, their mission has failed.
0:46:22 > 0:46:28'Interviewed at the airport, Mr Menzies tells how the 18-nation plan was explained
0:46:28 > 0:46:37'in great detail to President Nasser so that he should be left in no doubt as to its implications...'
0:47:11 > 0:47:14Egypt?
0:47:23 > 0:47:26This chap must not appear on this television...
0:47:27 > 0:47:31LIFT BELL DINGS DOOR OPENS
0:47:31 > 0:47:35Clarence. I would have told you.
0:47:35 > 0:47:39McCain already has. They have their spies everywhere.
0:47:39 > 0:47:40Naguib Hafiz is a coup. You know it.
0:47:40 > 0:47:46A man who will be a mouthpiece for Nasser? An Arab Nationalist whom Eden sees as a Soviet puppet?
0:47:46 > 0:47:49How can we be impartial if we only tell one side of the story?
0:47:49 > 0:47:53That is why I am about to tell them that I leave it to the discretion of my producer to decide.
0:47:53 > 0:48:00- But Freddie must forgo his interview with Lord Elms.- Elms complained?
0:48:00 > 0:48:03Freddie was seen speaking to him in a corridor in the House of Lords.
0:48:03 > 0:48:06There are things said in grief that a man may later regret.
0:48:06 > 0:48:08You are must tell Freddie the film blew.
0:48:10 > 0:48:13Pick your battles, Bel.
0:48:13 > 0:48:16Mr Fendley, Mr McCain's here.
0:48:16 > 0:48:19Thank you.
0:48:19 > 0:48:22When did you...
0:48:22 > 0:48:27When did you first become aware of President Nasser's intentions to seize the canal?
0:48:27 > 0:48:30Don't work so hard. Go again.
0:48:30 > 0:48:34You be Mr Hafiz, and I'll be you.
0:48:34 > 0:48:39Westminster is concerned. I wanted to illuminate the situation for you.
0:48:39 > 0:48:42I, um... Thank you.
0:48:42 > 0:48:48I insisted it wasn't just anyone coming down to talk to you.
0:48:48 > 0:48:52I realise this is all very new for you, but you cannot go ahead with this interview tonight.
0:48:52 > 0:48:56But I can, Mr McCain.
0:48:56 > 0:48:59One must be aware that politicians are very devious.
0:48:59 > 0:49:03The Arab world has a rich literary tradition.
0:49:03 > 0:49:05Now, this is a very dangerous mix.
0:49:05 > 0:49:10A politician who understands the power of a good narrative could hardly be called impartial.
0:49:10 > 0:49:13And that is why we intend to interrogate him.
0:49:13 > 0:49:18You joined Nasser on a recent trip to Moscow. Would you care to comment?
0:49:18 > 0:49:21See, now is when you build.
0:49:21 > 0:49:25- Well...- I'm sorry, Mr Hafiz, I didn't catch that...
0:49:25 > 0:49:30Was it in order to discuss the arms deal? The arms deal was with Czechoslovakia.
0:49:30 > 0:49:34The arms were Soviet, Mr Hafiz. How long have you been planning to seize the Suez Canal?
0:49:34 > 0:49:37- Would he know that?- Of course. Now you...
0:49:37 > 0:49:41I would very much like to help you, Miss Rowley.
0:49:41 > 0:49:45Now, there are many powerful people who will be very unhappy
0:49:45 > 0:49:49if you allow Mr Hafiz on your programme this evening.
0:49:49 > 0:49:54- I really feel it is my duty to protect you.- I don't need your protection.
0:49:54 > 0:49:59Perhaps if the programme was scripted, and we saw a transcript prior to broadcast.
0:49:59 > 0:50:03Then it could hardly be called a live interview.
0:50:03 > 0:50:05If you proceed with this reckless behaviour,
0:50:05 > 0:50:10I cannot guarantee what our response in government will be, quite frankly.
0:50:13 > 0:50:15I run a news programme.
0:50:15 > 0:50:20It's my job to cover the news. That is what I intend to do tonight.
0:50:20 > 0:50:23Anything else is reckless.
0:50:25 > 0:50:27And now if you'll excuse me,
0:50:27 > 0:50:35I have a show about to go on air that I must attend to. It must be those maternal instincts again.
0:50:39 > 0:50:42Auribus tenere lupum...?
0:50:44 > 0:50:46Look it up.
0:50:55 > 0:50:58- Sorry.- This is my dad.
0:50:58 > 0:51:02He's testing the line. The engineers were tied up putting in more lines on the Sports desk upstairs.
0:51:02 > 0:51:05PHONE RINGS
0:51:07 > 0:51:09Hello?
0:51:09 > 0:51:13- CLICKING ON LINE - He can't work out what the click is, on the line,
0:51:13 > 0:51:15- but he will do.- Right, thank you.
0:51:15 > 0:51:18Very good. Carry on.
0:51:23 > 0:51:27- We shall march forward to political and economic independence.- All right?
0:51:27 > 0:51:31- Will you be much longer with that, Mr Kish?- Not much longer.
0:51:34 > 0:51:38If we look back, we do so only to demolish the relics of oppression, servility, exploitation...
0:51:38 > 0:51:42- He's good.- Yes. He's the only Englishman I've met
0:51:42 > 0:51:47who can switch from the classical Arabic to the Egyptian vernacular without batting an eyelid.
0:51:47 > 0:51:50Thirty minutes, ladies and gentlemen, 30 minutes.
0:51:53 > 0:51:55Sissy, I'm... ..Freddie!
0:51:55 > 0:51:59Your Elms film blew.
0:51:59 > 0:52:02- There was a problem with the sound. - Mr Nelson said he could clean it up.
0:52:02 > 0:52:08- I'm sorry.- You're doing that funny thing with your eyes again.
0:52:08 > 0:52:09Bel?
0:52:09 > 0:52:14Everyone needs to get to the studio. We're live in 30 minutes!
0:52:40 > 0:52:44Places, everybody, please.
0:52:48 > 0:52:52- You set?- Yep.- Watch the smile.
0:52:52 > 0:52:55- Makes you look like Crippen. - Was he a good-looking bastard too?
0:52:55 > 0:52:59Mr Hafiz. Thank you. This way, please.
0:53:04 > 0:53:07Parcel, Mr Lyon, just arrived.
0:53:11 > 0:53:13Eyes ahead, Isaac.
0:53:29 > 0:53:32It's fine.
0:53:32 > 0:53:34I'll be there. Fine.
0:53:42 > 0:53:44Do you have everything you need?
0:53:44 > 0:53:46I see we are being watched.
0:53:46 > 0:53:50- Always.- This way, Mr Hafiz.
0:53:56 > 0:54:01It's just you talking to that boy sitting in his father's study.
0:54:31 > 0:54:34Stand by, studio...
0:54:34 > 0:54:37Five, four, three,
0:54:37 > 0:54:40two, one...
0:54:40 > 0:54:43Fade up vision, go.
0:54:43 > 0:54:46Good evening and welcome to The Hour,
0:54:46 > 0:54:49the most important 60 minutes of news of your week.
0:54:49 > 0:54:51We lead with the story that dominates.
0:54:51 > 0:54:54President Nasser's seizing of the Suez Canal Company.
0:54:54 > 0:54:58To shed some light on this growing crisis, we are joined
0:54:58 > 0:55:02by one of the leading supporters of Egypt's President, Mr Naguib Hafiz.
0:55:04 > 0:55:08- Good evening. Thank you for joining us.- Thank you for inviting me.
0:55:08 > 0:55:13What is your opinion of President Nasser's decision to take over the Suez Canal Company?
0:55:13 > 0:55:20The canal is situated in Egyptian territory and it has quite simply reverted back to Egyptian control.
0:55:20 > 0:55:23Well, if I may I correct you, Mr Hafiz?
0:55:23 > 0:55:27The Canal is owned by the French and British Suez Canal Company.
0:55:27 > 0:55:29It is theft.
0:55:29 > 0:55:34- I prefer reclamation. - Well, you can be certain the British public won't perceive it that way.
0:55:34 > 0:55:38Britain has for too long
0:55:38 > 0:55:44behaved like a distant relative of Egypt who believes that he's still entitled to the family silver.
0:55:47 > 0:55:50You off?
0:55:53 > 0:55:55Till we meet again.
0:55:55 > 0:55:57Yes.
0:55:57 > 0:56:02Your country has been sold a fiction by an impotent Prime Minister
0:56:02 > 0:56:05surrounded by all his cronies,
0:56:05 > 0:56:10and by a corrupt and deceitful government.
0:56:21 > 0:56:23The British Empire is over.
0:56:29 > 0:56:36So you are accusing Prime Minister Eden of weakness, worse, of lying?
0:56:36 > 0:56:42Of selling to the British public a fiction?
0:56:42 > 0:56:47And is President Nasser hoping to build an empire of his own?
0:56:47 > 0:56:51Are there any plans to enlist Soviet support for this new Empire?
0:57:07 > 0:57:12Is President Nasser declaring war on the British Empire? Mr Hafiz?
0:57:12 > 0:57:17The country is waiting, Mr Hafiz. I must press you.
0:58:00 > 0:58:02Tell me you will come this weekend.
0:58:09 > 0:58:12I know you think you're onto something with Ruth Elms.
0:58:12 > 0:58:15- I am.- Obvious as hell he wasn't in love with her.
0:58:15 > 0:58:19Mr Kish, no-one told me to expect you in.
0:58:19 > 0:58:22- Didn't they?- What do I do?
0:58:22 > 0:58:26- Just watch him.- You don't know what you've got yourself into.
0:58:26 > 0:58:29And now you know too much.
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