Episode 3

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0:00:31 > 0:00:33Are we sitting comfortably?

0:00:33 > 0:00:35Then I'll begin.

0:00:36 > 0:00:39- He's dead.- Who?

0:00:39 > 0:00:42The oldest man in Britain, it's me now.

0:00:42 > 0:00:44I'm the last Victorian.

0:00:46 > 0:00:48You're scared, aren't you?

0:00:48 > 0:00:51You're frightened I'll die before you finish filming.

0:00:54 > 0:00:56It's not quite what you mean, is it?

0:00:57 > 0:00:58What you really mean is that

0:00:58 > 0:01:01YOU'RE frightened you might die before we're finished.

0:01:02 > 0:01:05I can tell you about the Battle of Waterloo,

0:01:05 > 0:01:09from what I was told by the daughter of a man who was there.

0:01:09 > 0:01:12I can tell you about the General Strike,

0:01:12 > 0:01:15the day Winston Churchill came

0:01:15 > 0:01:17and the ice cream we made

0:01:17 > 0:01:20and what happened to my teacher...

0:01:38 > 0:01:40DISTANT KNOCK AT DOOR

0:01:43 > 0:01:45Thank you very much.

0:01:45 > 0:01:48Anything for Mr Eyre?

0:02:11 > 0:02:14Oh? At last.

0:02:23 > 0:02:25Willie, Willie, Harry, Steve,

0:02:25 > 0:02:29Harry, Dick, John, Harry three,

0:02:29 > 0:02:30Edward one, two...

0:02:30 > 0:02:32three.

0:02:32 > 0:02:33Willie, Willie, Harry, Steve.

0:02:35 > 0:02:38Harry, Dick, John, Harry three,

0:02:38 > 0:02:41Edward one, two, three,

0:02:41 > 0:02:43Dick two, Henry four, five, six...

0:02:43 > 0:02:45then who?

0:02:48 > 0:02:49Pals together.

0:02:49 > 0:02:53A great, great honour.

0:02:54 > 0:02:57CHILDREN: 'Mary, Bessie, James the Vain.

0:02:57 > 0:02:59'Charlie, Charlie, James again.'

0:02:59 > 0:03:01John, Harry three...

0:03:03 > 0:03:05I'll see you later?

0:03:08 > 0:03:10Easy, girl, easy.

0:03:29 > 0:03:31What greater honour...

0:03:33 > 0:03:38What greater honour could there be?

0:03:39 > 0:03:41Aaahhh!

0:03:48 > 0:03:50Ahhh, dead!

0:03:50 > 0:03:54CHILDREN: 'William and Victoria, Edward seven next,

0:03:54 > 0:03:58'and then came George V in 1910.'

0:04:22 > 0:04:24What's Rutter going to do with our land?

0:04:26 > 0:04:30It's a field, not land.

0:04:31 > 0:04:33It's our land.

0:04:55 > 0:04:56Bert!

0:04:58 > 0:05:00Bert!

0:05:01 > 0:05:03Bert?

0:05:26 > 0:05:27Boy!

0:05:38 > 0:05:39Son!

0:05:43 > 0:05:46I didn't want to sell the field.

0:05:47 > 0:05:50Not to Rutter, not to anyone.

0:05:50 > 0:05:52But we have to give ourselves a chance.

0:05:54 > 0:05:56And a new start has to be paid for.

0:06:03 > 0:06:07Come on, show me.

0:06:14 > 0:06:15All right.

0:06:18 > 0:06:19Left or right?

0:06:22 > 0:06:24You going to lead with your left or your right?

0:06:27 > 0:06:29You have to make your mind up.

0:06:30 > 0:06:32Make your mind up.

0:06:44 > 0:06:45Is it Joe?

0:06:48 > 0:06:49Private Joe Middleton.

0:06:49 > 0:06:52Two names and a rank. For a horse?

0:06:52 > 0:06:53Molly?!

0:07:01 > 0:07:04She pulls t'cart that takes milk to t'station for Sheffield train.

0:07:06 > 0:07:07How many cows on the farm?

0:07:08 > 0:07:11- Six. - Not much milk.

0:07:11 > 0:07:12Enough.

0:07:12 > 0:07:15We wouldn't survive without her.

0:07:15 > 0:07:19Well, we're here for a few more days. Some other horses to look at.

0:07:19 > 0:07:21We'll have a think about Molly. You should too.

0:07:23 > 0:07:24What do you mean?

0:07:24 > 0:07:27A horse like that, what is she? 16 hands?

0:07:27 > 0:07:30Artillery are dying for big beasts like that.

0:07:30 > 0:07:32Ask yourself,

0:07:32 > 0:07:35do you really need her more than your country needs her?

0:07:35 > 0:07:38It's a question of conscience really.

0:07:44 > 0:07:46£75.

0:07:46 > 0:07:48Compensation.

0:08:05 > 0:08:07Wait till we're married.

0:08:11 > 0:08:13- Morning.- Morning.

0:08:13 > 0:08:15Ah, here she comes. Hello, trouble.

0:08:16 > 0:08:18Here we go.

0:08:18 > 0:08:21BABY CRIES

0:08:21 > 0:08:23Come on, love.

0:08:25 > 0:08:27I had a letter from our Paul yesterday.

0:08:27 > 0:08:29Good. That's...

0:08:29 > 0:08:31What, what did he say?

0:08:31 > 0:08:34"Hope this finds you in the pink as it leaves me."

0:08:35 > 0:08:37Anything else?

0:08:37 > 0:08:38No.

0:08:39 > 0:08:42They don't sound themselves when they write, do they?

0:08:42 > 0:08:45Now then, don't be late for work.

0:08:45 > 0:08:46Come on, girls, inside.

0:08:55 > 0:08:56Safe?

0:08:57 > 0:09:00Oh. You.

0:09:00 > 0:09:03- Take your time. - There's more than one column now

0:09:03 > 0:09:06so I've to look at the top of the second column as well as...

0:09:06 > 0:09:09Sometimes the...the Ms are in the first column

0:09:09 > 0:09:12and sometimes in the second column and sometimes they're in both.

0:09:14 > 0:09:15Why are you back here?

0:09:15 > 0:09:17I'm working for the council.

0:09:17 > 0:09:19Not a detective anymore?

0:09:20 > 0:09:21No.

0:09:23 > 0:09:24So what's your...

0:09:24 > 0:09:28Taking an interest in local life and local history.

0:09:46 > 0:09:47Middleton.

0:09:52 > 0:09:53I can't have it.

0:09:53 > 0:09:56If you're late, the process is missing a part... You.

0:09:56 > 0:09:59Who's going to ink the boots if you don't?

0:10:00 > 0:10:04I can't have lateness and I'm not going to have it.

0:10:04 > 0:10:06- Leave immediately.- Leave?

0:10:07 > 0:10:09- You can't do that!- It's done.

0:10:11 > 0:10:15Do you know how much women like Grace sacrifice for you?

0:10:15 > 0:10:17She goes 12 hours without feeding her baby.

0:10:17 > 0:10:19No baby died because...

0:10:19 > 0:10:21The mother, not the baby.

0:10:21 > 0:10:25Where do you think the milk goes, if you don't feed?

0:10:25 > 0:10:26The breast becomes engorged.

0:10:28 > 0:10:30Can you imagine how painful that is?

0:10:30 > 0:10:32And how do you think a woman feels?

0:10:32 > 0:10:36All of that and now because she's late once...

0:10:36 > 0:10:38- Who do you think you are? - Could I have a word?

0:10:42 > 0:10:43I have to let her go.

0:10:45 > 0:10:47- Mister Hankin... - I don't have the money.

0:10:47 > 0:10:50You need Grace Middleton inking the boots tomorrow.

0:10:51 > 0:10:53The inspection?

0:10:56 > 0:10:57Now hold your nerve, Hankin.

0:11:02 > 0:11:04She can go back to work.

0:11:09 > 0:11:16So, when you think of men from this village doing their duty...

0:11:18 > 0:11:22..fighting evil, protecting you,

0:11:22 > 0:11:28isn't it good to know that we shall be together,

0:11:28 > 0:11:34side by side in a Pals Battalion named for this village?

0:11:37 > 0:11:41Conscription is not the right word for it!

0:11:43 > 0:11:47Because it doesn't do justice to what we are being asked to do.

0:11:48 > 0:11:53It is a great honour, that's what it is.

0:11:53 > 0:11:54A great honour!

0:12:01 > 0:12:03Isn't it, Mister Eyre?

0:12:04 > 0:12:05Is it?

0:12:11 > 0:12:15And, er, what would you call it?

0:12:17 > 0:12:18Have you grown taller, sir?

0:12:26 > 0:12:27SHOUTS: What did you say?!

0:12:27 > 0:12:31The minimum height requirement for the army has come down, Bert.

0:12:33 > 0:12:36Oh, perfect, they will fit. Eva, there you go, Eva.

0:12:37 > 0:12:41Tommy, ready-made. Get them on your feet.

0:12:41 > 0:12:45Ah Francis, look at those. They were made for you.

0:12:48 > 0:12:49Mr Eyre, grab hold of those.

0:12:52 > 0:12:53What's that for, sir?

0:12:54 > 0:12:56This tells people that I'm ready...

0:12:59 > 0:13:00..that I'm not a shirker.

0:13:01 > 0:13:04You sound like Lord Kitchener.

0:13:04 > 0:13:05Good.

0:13:09 > 0:13:11Did you get a letter, sir?

0:13:11 > 0:13:13Yes, I did.

0:13:13 > 0:13:14Get it off.

0:13:14 > 0:13:17Now, remember, everyone.

0:13:17 > 0:13:23There's breakfast, dinner and tea.

0:13:23 > 0:13:26Breakfast, dinner, tea, it's easy.

0:13:26 > 0:13:28How old do you have to be?

0:14:27 > 0:14:29You'd think a teacher would know the right date.

0:14:34 > 0:14:37This is Mr Bairstow,

0:14:37 > 0:14:39and he wants to find out all about us.

0:14:40 > 0:14:48So, I want you to answer his questions accurately and honestly.

0:15:05 > 0:15:07What did you have for breakfast this morning?

0:15:07 > 0:15:09This morning?

0:15:09 > 0:15:11- Yes.- Porridge.

0:15:17 > 0:15:18You?

0:15:18 > 0:15:20Porridge.

0:15:20 > 0:15:21Anything else?

0:15:21 > 0:15:24- Eggs.- Really?

0:15:24 > 0:15:26Bread, jam, meat!

0:15:29 > 0:15:30Suet pudding.

0:15:35 > 0:15:36Anything else?

0:15:42 > 0:15:44JOYFUL SHOUTING

0:15:55 > 0:15:57Bert. Bert!

0:16:00 > 0:16:02Oh, Bert's coming over.

0:16:02 > 0:16:04It was you that told them about big Molly, wasn't it?

0:16:04 > 0:16:07- She has to do her duty. - The farm needs her. She can't go.

0:16:07 > 0:16:09While you've still got a farm.

0:16:14 > 0:16:17Leave him alone. You!

0:16:17 > 0:16:19Leave him alone.

0:16:23 > 0:16:25Joe?

0:16:30 > 0:16:32Shouldn't there be people?

0:16:32 > 0:16:36What's the point in having a picture with nobody in it?

0:16:36 > 0:16:39Well, you can capture a moment with a photograph.

0:16:41 > 0:16:44A particular place at a particular time and then, you have it,

0:16:44 > 0:16:47to look at, forever.

0:16:47 > 0:16:50But you could come to the Dew Pond at any time.

0:16:50 > 0:16:52Why do you have to catch it?

0:16:55 > 0:17:00We all like to give things shape and form.

0:17:04 > 0:17:06It's because we're all afraid of dying, Bert.

0:17:08 > 0:17:09Are you all right, sir?

0:17:13 > 0:17:14Sorry.

0:17:17 > 0:17:20We saw a witch here, me and Joe.

0:17:20 > 0:17:22She tried to pull me under.

0:17:22 > 0:17:25- I would've drowned if I hadn't swam.- Swum.

0:17:28 > 0:17:30Swum?

0:17:31 > 0:17:32Swam?

0:17:40 > 0:17:42There's something that I need to tell you.

0:17:42 > 0:17:46And I haven't told you already

0:17:46 > 0:17:49because I know you're going to be disappointed in me...

0:17:52 > 0:17:54..which makes me a coward, really.

0:17:54 > 0:17:55You're not a coward.

0:17:58 > 0:18:01You would protect us, wouldn't you, if the Germans came?

0:18:02 > 0:18:04Of course.

0:18:12 > 0:18:16How does Hankin get the casualty list before The Times, Edmund?

0:18:17 > 0:18:21Wrong question. WHY does he get it first?

0:18:21 > 0:18:25And you're going to give me the answer?

0:18:25 > 0:18:27And what do people do?

0:18:27 > 0:18:30Hmm? They go to Hankins to look at the lists and when they see that

0:18:30 > 0:18:34their son or father isn't dead, they buy their daily bread at Hankins.

0:18:35 > 0:18:38Hmm, so the war is a business opportunity, is it?

0:18:38 > 0:18:41According to my mathematics, based on the present rate of advance,

0:18:41 > 0:18:45we should be on the Rhine, what, 180 years from now.

0:18:45 > 0:18:48We can't all stop breathing for a couple of centuries, George.

0:18:48 > 0:18:50Life doesn't just stand to attention

0:18:50 > 0:18:53while the war walks past in its own time.

0:18:53 > 0:18:55180 years is a lot of boots.

0:18:59 > 0:19:01Throw a punch.

0:19:03 > 0:19:04And again.

0:19:05 > 0:19:07Keep it straight.

0:19:07 > 0:19:08And again.

0:19:12 > 0:19:14You're left-handed?

0:19:15 > 0:19:17Boxing don't lie.

0:19:21 > 0:19:23So, you lead with your right.

0:19:24 > 0:19:26Throw a punch.

0:19:26 > 0:19:29Keep it straight. Throw a punch.

0:19:29 > 0:19:30OK.

0:19:30 > 0:19:32And again.

0:19:32 > 0:19:33That's it! Harder!

0:19:34 > 0:19:36That's it!

0:19:36 > 0:19:40BABY CRIES AND GRIZZLES

0:20:00 > 0:20:03BABY WAILS WITH GUSTO

0:20:17 > 0:20:20CRYING PAUSES

0:20:20 > 0:20:22CRYING RESUMES

0:20:32 > 0:20:35It's called Stockholm Tar.

0:20:35 > 0:20:37Look, she has some cuts and grazes on her.

0:20:39 > 0:20:42And the tar applied to...

0:20:42 > 0:20:44Stops the flies.

0:20:44 > 0:20:46They can cause mastitis, you see,

0:20:46 > 0:20:50which would be very dangerous for her.

0:20:50 > 0:20:54You have to be careful it doesn't get anywhere else.

0:20:55 > 0:20:57Just the tips.

0:20:58 > 0:21:01Oh, hello, Lottie and Daisy

0:21:01 > 0:21:05and... Ah, what's the little one called, George?

0:21:05 > 0:21:06I can never remember.

0:21:09 > 0:21:10Martha.

0:21:12 > 0:21:14Miss Lane.

0:21:20 > 0:21:22Caro, I think...

0:21:27 > 0:21:30The Minister's daughter not good enough for you, Mother?

0:21:30 > 0:21:32That is what you're talking about?

0:21:34 > 0:21:36If you will burst into rooms...

0:21:36 > 0:21:37What were you saying?

0:21:37 > 0:21:40- She's young. - Only two years younger than I am.

0:21:40 > 0:21:44Do stop treading on everything I say!

0:21:44 > 0:21:48Give a little space, George, so we can all breathe.

0:21:48 > 0:21:50Hmm?

0:21:50 > 0:21:51Mm-hm.

0:21:52 > 0:21:55She's young. There's nothing so frightening than

0:21:55 > 0:21:57the righteousness of people under 30.

0:21:57 > 0:21:59You're patronising me!

0:21:59 > 0:22:02Well, I'm your mother. I'll do whatever I like with you.

0:22:02 > 0:22:06Well, I can't tell you how glad I am that conscription's finally here.

0:22:06 > 0:22:10And what will fighting give you, George? Better poems?!

0:22:19 > 0:22:23George is sick with love for the Minister's daughter

0:22:23 > 0:22:27because he mistakes her righteousness for conviction.

0:22:27 > 0:22:30He thinks that getting killed will impress her,

0:22:30 > 0:22:32forgetting, of course, that the thing about getting killed

0:22:32 > 0:22:34is that you're dead.

0:22:37 > 0:22:39Sort out an exemption for him.

0:22:44 > 0:22:48Lovesickness isn't generally enough.

0:22:48 > 0:22:51- And if he wants to go... - Well, find a way.

0:22:51 > 0:22:52Shoot him in the foot.

0:22:54 > 0:22:55Something.

0:22:55 > 0:22:57It's called Stockholm Tar.

0:22:57 > 0:22:59Expensive?

0:22:59 > 0:23:00I could get you some.

0:23:04 > 0:23:06She was my first.

0:23:06 > 0:23:08You should give her a name.

0:23:12 > 0:23:13She's a cow.

0:23:21 > 0:23:23The inspection's an hour away.

0:23:23 > 0:23:26I think they might walk out if you don't agree to this.

0:23:27 > 0:23:31These women need to go home and feed their babies.

0:23:31 > 0:23:32Right now.

0:23:37 > 0:23:39Ten minutes.

0:23:39 > 0:23:40- Ten minutes?- That's what I said.

0:23:40 > 0:23:42And if they're not back, this inspection fails,

0:23:42 > 0:23:44I'm out of business and none of you will have any work.

0:23:44 > 0:23:47Go and tell your engorged ladies that.

0:23:47 > 0:23:48Come on, I'll race you.

0:23:56 > 0:23:58Joe!

0:23:58 > 0:24:00My Joe.

0:24:00 > 0:24:01Oh!

0:24:01 > 0:24:03SHE SOBS JOYFULLY

0:24:23 > 0:24:26I was worried because Margaret had a letter from Paul

0:24:26 > 0:24:28and I had nothing from you, silly.

0:24:28 > 0:24:30You don't know?

0:24:32 > 0:24:34What?

0:24:34 > 0:24:36SPEECH DROWNED OUT BY MACHINERY

0:25:19 > 0:25:21The inspection failed.

0:25:23 > 0:25:25I don't understand it.

0:25:25 > 0:25:28- Did they say why?- No.

0:25:28 > 0:25:29Damn it.

0:25:29 > 0:25:33Look, I can't survive paying a wage bill like this.

0:25:33 > 0:25:35Not without the boot orders.

0:25:35 > 0:25:36I'll pay it.

0:25:40 > 0:25:42Why would you do that?

0:25:42 > 0:25:44Because I believe the factory can succeed

0:25:44 > 0:25:48and because, in exchange for saving it now,

0:25:48 > 0:25:50I want half the business.

0:26:12 > 0:26:13M'lady.

0:26:18 > 0:26:19Rising above won't do any more.

0:26:19 > 0:26:23My God, I'm bored of behaving well.

0:26:28 > 0:26:29Now, gentlemen.

0:26:31 > 0:26:35When is the date on which the appeal against your decision will succeed?

0:26:38 > 0:26:40Sniper, through the heart.

0:26:41 > 0:26:46He was alive and then he was dead.

0:26:46 > 0:26:48Sniper, through the heart.

0:26:49 > 0:26:51He was alive then dead.

0:27:09 > 0:27:11Wait, for my husband. Please.

0:27:15 > 0:27:17Milk.

0:27:21 > 0:27:23Paul.

0:27:23 > 0:27:27No, I'm Joe.

0:27:27 > 0:27:29Paul.

0:27:29 > 0:27:30Joe.

0:27:30 > 0:27:34- Paul?- No, no, I'm Joe.

0:27:54 > 0:27:55Don't forget to close your eyes.

0:28:05 > 0:28:06Open your eyes.

0:28:11 > 0:28:12So?

0:28:19 > 0:28:20Agnes...

0:28:24 > 0:28:26It was a sniper.

0:28:29 > 0:28:30Through the heart.

0:28:32 > 0:28:35He...he was alive and then he was dead.

0:28:37 > 0:28:39The wedding will mean more now.

0:28:42 > 0:28:44The village will come together.

0:28:51 > 0:28:53SHE SOBS

0:29:12 > 0:29:13KNOCKING ON DOOR

0:29:16 > 0:29:17That'll be Margaret.

0:29:24 > 0:29:25Sorry.

0:29:27 > 0:29:29You must be...

0:29:35 > 0:29:37At first we had three. Three more makes six.

0:29:37 > 0:29:38Bert.

0:29:40 > 0:29:42It's Mr Ingham's comb.

0:29:42 > 0:29:45He used it on all of us and now we've all got them.

0:29:45 > 0:29:47Whole school's scratching.

0:29:48 > 0:29:50The cows have names.

0:29:50 > 0:29:52Do you want to know them all?

0:29:52 > 0:29:55Better - come out and meet them.

0:29:56 > 0:29:58Come on! Father?

0:30:02 > 0:30:04- My one's called Gertie.- Aye.

0:30:04 > 0:30:07She's a kicker. She's used to me now.

0:30:07 > 0:30:09It's rare that she kicks.

0:30:12 > 0:30:15I'm from Glossops. It's about your milk.

0:30:17 > 0:30:21- What about it?- Well, there's garlic in it. We can't have that.

0:30:21 > 0:30:23I'm sorry.

0:30:23 > 0:30:24No, no, wait. Please.

0:30:26 > 0:30:28Sorry.

0:30:28 > 0:30:31It won't happen again. I swear on me children's lives.

0:30:31 > 0:30:33If it happens again we don't want your milk.

0:30:35 > 0:30:38Deliver tomorrow. Clean and fresh.

0:30:41 > 0:30:42Thank you.

0:30:46 > 0:30:48Tomorrow?

0:30:48 > 0:30:49It can't be done.

0:32:09 > 0:32:10MOOING

0:32:19 > 0:32:23Come on. Molly, hurry up.

0:32:29 > 0:32:30- Stop, stop, stop!- Stand!

0:32:30 > 0:32:33Come on, in with them quick or we won't catch our train.

0:32:33 > 0:32:35Come on, let's get these loaded.

0:32:43 > 0:32:46Come on, let's get these in. Get this to the station.

0:32:46 > 0:32:47Fast as you can.

0:33:18 > 0:33:19Kings and Queens.

0:33:21 > 0:33:22I won't be long.

0:33:26 > 0:33:28Come on, let's hear you.

0:33:28 > 0:33:31- ALL:- Willie, Willie, Harry, Steve,

0:33:31 > 0:33:34Harry, Dick, John, Harry...

0:33:34 > 0:33:37Edward...

0:33:37 > 0:33:40Dick, Henry...

0:33:43 > 0:33:44How old are you?

0:33:44 > 0:33:4625.

0:33:46 > 0:33:48Is that old enough to have a conscience?

0:33:48 > 0:33:52It's common courtesy to include everyone in a room in a conversation.

0:33:54 > 0:33:56I do it with my very youngest pupils

0:33:56 > 0:33:59so I'll ask that you pay me the same respect.

0:34:07 > 0:34:09So...

0:34:09 > 0:34:15this conscience you claim to have is not a Christian conscience?

0:34:17 > 0:34:21The Bible is full of God telling his tribe

0:34:21 > 0:34:24to go and kill people belonging to other tribes.

0:34:24 > 0:34:28And he's particular about ordering the murder of women and children.

0:34:28 > 0:34:29Infants, I think he says.

0:34:32 > 0:34:35And he's even more particular, on one occasion,

0:34:35 > 0:34:40about sparing virgins so that they may be brought back as prizes.

0:34:42 > 0:34:45He's not a peaceable God and it would be hypocrisy for me

0:34:45 > 0:34:48to rely on the sixth commandment just as it's hypocrisy for Christians

0:34:48 > 0:34:51to believe in it and then go and kill each other in France.

0:34:51 > 0:34:52You're not helping yourself, Eyre.

0:34:52 > 0:34:55I'm just telling the truth as I see it.

0:34:56 > 0:34:57I don't have a strategy.

0:34:59 > 0:35:01I'm not a politician.

0:35:02 > 0:35:06Why did you write the wrong date up on the blackboard the other day?

0:35:09 > 0:35:12I like to get my pupils to see things for themselves.

0:35:12 > 0:35:14To question authority?

0:35:15 > 0:35:17To question everything.

0:35:17 > 0:35:22I don't like your smart answers and I think I speak for all of us

0:35:22 > 0:35:25when I say that I suspect that your godlessness has quite a lot

0:35:25 > 0:35:27to do with your shirking.

0:35:27 > 0:35:30I'm quite happy to speak for myself, Colonel.

0:35:35 > 0:35:37You have responsibility for our children.

0:35:39 > 0:35:42Yes.

0:35:42 > 0:35:44What if German soldiers walked into your classroom

0:35:44 > 0:35:46and threatened to murder your pupils?

0:35:50 > 0:35:51I would try to dissuade them.

0:35:51 > 0:35:54They won't be dissuaded. Bayonets ready. It's going to happen.

0:35:54 > 0:35:57- I would try and get the children out. - Doors locked. No way out.

0:35:57 > 0:35:58This is all hypothetical.

0:35:58 > 0:36:01Not in Belgium, it wasn't. Do you doubt they'd do it here?

0:36:01 > 0:36:04If you had a revolver, would you use it?

0:36:07 > 0:36:08Eyre?

0:36:08 > 0:36:10I would put myself between them and the children.

0:36:10 > 0:36:12The gun. Would you use it?

0:36:15 > 0:36:17Let's make it easy.

0:36:17 > 0:36:20Let's say it's one child, one German soldier, and you.

0:36:20 > 0:36:23Now where there is a choice between a young boy entrusted in your care

0:36:23 > 0:36:24and a German soldier -

0:36:24 > 0:36:27now, please don't run away from the question here -

0:36:27 > 0:36:29would you save a child of this village?

0:36:40 > 0:36:42He told me.

0:36:42 > 0:36:44Why don't you tell them?

0:36:44 > 0:36:48He said if the Germans came he'd save me.

0:36:48 > 0:36:49Of course he would.

0:36:51 > 0:36:53He's our teacher.

0:37:03 > 0:37:07Objection to compulsory enlistment on grounds of conscience...

0:37:07 > 0:37:08denied.

0:37:10 > 0:37:13You will report for service at the direction of the Constable.

0:37:22 > 0:37:23Shirker.

0:37:33 > 0:37:35INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS

0:37:35 > 0:37:37PUB FALLS SILENT

0:37:40 > 0:37:41Shirker.

0:37:43 > 0:37:45Whisky, please.

0:37:49 > 0:37:51Hey, Joe.

0:37:51 > 0:37:52How do?

0:37:55 > 0:37:59No, no. Free in my pub to men home on leave.

0:38:09 > 0:38:10Are you all right?

0:38:13 > 0:38:14I'm a shirker.

0:38:20 > 0:38:21I'll have another.

0:38:36 > 0:38:37Drink it.

0:39:26 > 0:39:28FAINT SOBBING

0:39:36 > 0:39:38SOBBING GROWS LOUDER

0:39:48 > 0:39:50HE SOBS

0:40:28 > 0:40:32Robert Browning. If you can manage that then...

0:40:35 > 0:40:36Anyway.

0:40:40 > 0:40:41Is it the Pals?

0:40:43 > 0:40:44Will you be with Joe?

0:40:53 > 0:40:54Here.

0:41:02 > 0:41:03Look at the world.

0:41:05 > 0:41:07Don't flinch.

0:41:08 > 0:41:12Record what you see, truthfully.

0:41:16 > 0:41:17And stand by it.

0:42:07 > 0:42:10UP-TEMPO FIDDLE MUSIC

0:42:37 > 0:42:39Promise me the next dance is mine.

0:43:03 > 0:43:04APPLAUSE

0:43:11 > 0:43:17# Oh, blows the winter wind my true love

0:43:17 > 0:43:23# With grey, heavy cold showers of rain

0:43:23 > 0:43:29# The first true love that ever I had

0:43:29 > 0:43:34# In greenwood he was slain

0:43:34 > 0:43:40# I'll do as much for you my true love

0:43:40 > 0:43:45# As any young woman may

0:43:45 > 0:43:50# I'll sit and mourn on his grave

0:43:50 > 0:43:55# At 12 month and a day... #

0:43:55 > 0:43:57She had a child, you know.

0:43:57 > 0:44:00# At 12 month and a day

0:44:00 > 0:44:06# The ghost began to speak

0:44:06 > 0:44:11# Why dost thou sit here on my grave

0:44:11 > 0:44:15# And never let me sleep? #

0:44:15 > 0:44:17Just a little longer.

0:44:17 > 0:44:21# What dost thou want from me, true love?

0:44:21 > 0:44:26# What dost thou want from me?

0:44:26 > 0:44:31# I'll have a kiss of the clay cold lips

0:44:31 > 0:44:35# That's all I request of thee

0:44:37 > 0:44:42# My lily white lips are clay cold

0:44:42 > 0:44:48# My breath smells earthly strong

0:44:48 > 0:44:53# And if I kiss all of your lips

0:44:53 > 0:44:57# Your time will not be long

0:44:58 > 0:45:03# Don't grieve, don't grieve for me, true love

0:45:03 > 0:45:07# No morning do I pray

0:45:08 > 0:45:13# I must leave you and all the world

0:45:13 > 0:45:18# And sink down in my grave. #

0:45:22 > 0:45:25APPLAUSE

0:45:30 > 0:45:32MOURNFUL FIDDLE MUSIC

0:45:41 > 0:45:42Joe.

0:45:51 > 0:45:54Joe, you can talk to me if you want to.

0:45:57 > 0:46:00And if it helps, you can tell me what it's really like.

0:46:05 > 0:46:07A piece of shrapnel in his throat.

0:46:08 > 0:46:11It's always surprise.

0:46:11 > 0:46:12The look on their faces,

0:46:12 > 0:46:15which is funny really because the last thing it is

0:46:15 > 0:46:17is a bloody surprise!

0:46:17 > 0:46:19He drowned in his own blood.

0:46:19 > 0:46:24But before he died, he fell forwards onto a shell hole filled with water.

0:46:24 > 0:46:28He couldn't move. His greatcoat, the weight.

0:46:28 > 0:46:32He would have drowned quicker but I pulled him out. I don't know why.

0:46:34 > 0:46:36I held him up.

0:46:37 > 0:46:39And he...and he stared at me

0:46:39 > 0:46:41and then he goes to put his hand to his throat.

0:46:41 > 0:46:43To do what?

0:46:43 > 0:46:46To do what?!

0:46:46 > 0:46:48To stop the blood?

0:46:48 > 0:46:49That's how he died.

0:46:51 > 0:46:52It's pathetic.

0:46:57 > 0:46:58Where are you going?

0:47:06 > 0:47:07Don't. Don't!

0:47:12 > 0:47:13You don't understand.

0:47:18 > 0:47:19None of you understand.

0:47:33 > 0:47:36There's something wrong in him.

0:47:40 > 0:47:42My sister has his child.

0:48:01 > 0:48:03SLOW FIDDLE MUSIC

0:48:38 > 0:48:39Where is he? Where is he?

0:48:41 > 0:48:42Where's my baby?

0:48:47 > 0:48:50We've been thinking, Middleton. If you don't need your horse to

0:48:50 > 0:48:53take your milk to the station, what do you need her for?

0:48:53 > 0:48:56We'll be round for her tomorrow afternoon.

0:48:56 > 0:48:59As we're honourable men, we'll let you have the money.

0:49:00 > 0:49:03Corporal Molly Middleton. Royal Horse Artillery.

0:49:21 > 0:49:24The great thing about conscription is that it's everyone.

0:49:24 > 0:49:25Unless you're exempt.

0:49:25 > 0:49:27What?

0:49:27 > 0:49:30- Farmers are exempt.- What?

0:49:30 > 0:49:32Well, how would the estate farm survive without George?

0:49:32 > 0:49:34Don't be ridiculous.

0:49:36 > 0:49:37Here's your exemption.

0:49:50 > 0:49:51I'm going.

0:49:56 > 0:49:57KNOCK ON DOOR

0:49:59 > 0:50:01It's Miss Caro.

0:50:01 > 0:50:04Oh, please don't go, George!

0:50:06 > 0:50:11Please don't go! I'll die if you go.

0:50:11 > 0:50:13SHE WAILS

0:50:40 > 0:50:41What should I do?

0:50:47 > 0:50:48Stay.

0:51:04 > 0:51:08When I write, we can have our own secret code, you and me.

0:51:08 > 0:51:09Now get me an old postcard.

0:51:17 > 0:51:19And a pencil.

0:51:29 > 0:51:33Right, I'll cross things out, as we're meant to

0:51:33 > 0:51:36but I'll do it in such a way that you can read more into it.

0:51:37 > 0:51:40So a single line crossing out

0:51:40 > 0:51:42means I'm at the front line.

0:51:45 > 0:51:48Two lines in the crossing out

0:51:48 > 0:51:50means I'm going up the line.

0:51:53 > 0:51:54Three...

0:51:58 > 0:52:00..means I'm out of it.

0:52:00 > 0:52:02Out of it?

0:52:02 > 0:52:04Out the front line.

0:52:04 > 0:52:06What about if there's an attack?

0:52:06 > 0:52:08If you're going to attack?

0:52:24 > 0:52:27What was the last one? The...the attack?

0:52:27 > 0:52:28A wiggly line.

0:52:31 > 0:52:33A wiggly line if we're going over the top.

0:52:49 > 0:52:51Yeah.

0:52:52 > 0:52:53Shoes on.

0:53:10 > 0:53:12Back straight.

0:53:13 > 0:53:15That'll do us.

0:53:23 > 0:53:24KNOCKING ON DOOR

0:53:36 > 0:53:37DOOR LATCH OPENS

0:53:44 > 0:53:45On your feet.

0:53:47 > 0:53:48On your feet!

0:53:53 > 0:53:55LONE HORN PLAYS "JERUSALEM"

0:53:55 > 0:53:56Corporal.

0:53:59 > 0:54:02You will be taken at dawn to a suitable place where

0:54:02 > 0:54:06you will be shot by firing squad.

0:54:06 > 0:54:07Do you understand?

0:54:11 > 0:54:14Driver John William Hasemore.

0:54:14 > 0:54:17It's the sentence that he received for disobeying an order.

0:54:20 > 0:54:21Put this on.

0:54:27 > 0:54:28No.

0:54:29 > 0:54:31Step outside please, Constable.

0:54:38 > 0:54:40Put this on.

0:55:02 > 0:55:05- CHILD:- Where's he going? Follow him.

0:55:05 > 0:55:07MORE HORNS JOIN IN "JERUSALEM"

0:55:17 > 0:55:20Will you step back from me a little? I want to walk.

0:55:23 > 0:55:25I'll march down the hill properly.

0:55:47 > 0:55:48My first picture, sir.

0:56:20 > 0:56:21Hey.

0:56:29 > 0:56:31So...so what's it like then?

0:56:35 > 0:56:36The first time you shoot a Hun?

0:56:40 > 0:56:42TRUCK APPROACHES

0:56:42 > 0:56:44TRUCK HORN SOUNDS

0:56:47 > 0:56:50TRUCK HORN

0:56:57 > 0:57:00TRUCK ENGINE FADES AWAY

0:57:14 > 0:57:15Please, please.

0:57:36 > 0:57:38INDISTINCT PUB CONVERSATIONS

0:58:14 > 0:58:16HORSE SNORTS

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