0:00:02 > 0:00:10This programme contains some strong language.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44Ah, it's not breathing. Come on!
0:00:44 > 0:00:45Straw.
0:00:51 > 0:00:53It's clear.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55Keep trying!
0:00:55 > 0:00:57Come on, come on...
0:01:12 > 0:01:16FAINT BLEATING
0:01:16 > 0:01:17Yes!
0:01:17 > 0:01:19See!
0:01:21 > 0:01:23New life.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31Get milk on cart, son.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33Or we'll miss six o'clock train.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37OLD BERT: 'Every day without fail,
0:01:37 > 0:01:39'the six o'clock train had to be caught.'
0:01:40 > 0:01:44'Miss the train and the dairy would drop us and the farm would go under.
0:01:44 > 0:01:45'We'd be finished.'
0:01:49 > 0:01:50Go.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53Go on, Molly!
0:02:02 > 0:02:04'Faster!'
0:02:07 > 0:02:08'Faster!'
0:02:08 > 0:02:10Go faster, come on!
0:02:15 > 0:02:18'For five years, since the end of the war,
0:02:18 > 0:02:21'my generation had been looking over their shoulders
0:02:21 > 0:02:24'at the ghosts of older brothers who would always be young.'
0:02:34 > 0:02:36TRAIN WHISTLE
0:02:36 > 0:02:38'But up ahead calling me on
0:02:38 > 0:02:43'there was my own life begging to be lived.'
0:02:52 > 0:02:54You're very...muddy.
0:02:57 > 0:02:58TRAIN APPROACHES
0:03:08 > 0:03:10Sometimes...
0:03:13 > 0:03:16I hear him, Bert.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19And I think he's not dead.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22Is that foolish?
0:03:26 > 0:03:28My lovely boy.
0:03:28 > 0:03:32"Make a better world," he said.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57Some people have saints for protection.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59I'll take Joe.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03Be careful.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20BELL TOLLS
0:04:22 > 0:04:25God go with you, Bert Middleton.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34Go on, lad!
0:04:48 > 0:04:50CAR HORN BLASTS
0:04:58 > 0:05:00You call that driving?!
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Look. It's the hare!
0:05:06 > 0:05:11- No-one's ever done it, Bert. - I'll be the first, then.- Right!
0:05:11 > 0:05:14The hounds are here, sir.
0:05:19 > 0:05:20Thanks for coming.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22I think you'll enjoy the day.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24Lord Allingham.
0:05:59 > 0:06:05Every visitor to this house is in here, without exception.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07My father insisted.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10"It's history," he said.
0:06:10 > 0:06:14When he died, he was living in three rooms.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20I promised him I'd make it happy again.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24We carry on.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29HE GRUNTS
0:06:55 > 0:06:58GUNFIRE, BIRDS SCATTER
0:07:05 > 0:07:07DOG BARKS
0:07:07 > 0:07:08He frightens the servants.
0:07:08 > 0:07:12He frightens the Prime Minister. He owns half of Fleet Street
0:07:12 > 0:07:14and he's the fixer in the party, mother.
0:07:14 > 0:07:15Make him happy.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17You make me sound like a common prostitute.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19Just do what you do best.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21- And what's that?- Host.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24Never trust a man who sleeps with
0:07:24 > 0:07:27anything hairier than a greyhound, Polly.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30- Good morning, Lord Kilmartin. - Good morning, Lady Allingham.
0:07:30 > 0:07:31I can't tell you how delighted I am
0:07:31 > 0:07:34that you're here on this day, of all days.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36I wish you would.
0:07:36 > 0:07:37SHE CHUCKLES
0:07:37 > 0:07:41I am delighted that you're here on this day of all days.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43You're a fascinating woman.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46And you're a married man, Lord Kilmartin.
0:07:46 > 0:07:50Now, the pressing question is...
0:07:51 > 0:07:52..how do you like your sausage?
0:07:52 > 0:07:54Hmm...
0:07:55 > 0:07:58DOG WHIMPERS
0:07:58 > 0:08:00Please.
0:08:03 > 0:08:07JAZZ MUSIC PLAYS
0:08:07 > 0:08:09SHE HUMS ALONG
0:08:15 > 0:08:17I'll show you the steps.
0:08:27 > 0:08:28HE GIGGLES
0:08:28 > 0:08:30George.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33Dancing before breakfast? My, my!
0:08:35 > 0:08:38Come and dance with your wife!
0:08:43 > 0:08:45May I have this dance?
0:08:48 > 0:08:50A week ago, I saw a small boy
0:08:50 > 0:08:53put his finger in an electric light socket.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55The shock threw him clean across the room.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58When he got up, he was screaming with laughter.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02- Electricity, Einstein, jazz - anything is possible.- So?
0:09:02 > 0:09:05This is the most important election this country has ever had.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08Lord Kilmartin's here because he wants YOU!
0:09:08 > 0:09:12You play it right today, you'll be the next Home Secretary.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17Happy day.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20It's been 15 years and there have been times
0:09:20 > 0:09:23when I thought this would never happen again.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25So, God bless you all.
0:09:25 > 0:09:30For those new to this day, a very warm Allingham welcome.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33Now there's a hymn that we used to sing.
0:09:33 > 0:09:34Hymns don't change, do they?
0:09:34 > 0:09:37So, please, join in with me.
0:09:39 > 0:09:43ALL: # I fear no foe
0:09:43 > 0:09:47# With Thee at hand to bless
0:09:47 > 0:09:52# Ills have no weight
0:09:52 > 0:09:57# And tears no bitterness
0:09:57 > 0:10:01# Where is death's sting?
0:10:01 > 0:10:06# Where, grave, thy victory?
0:10:06 > 0:10:09# I triumph still
0:10:09 > 0:10:14# If Thou abide with me. #
0:10:14 > 0:10:17The runner.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25Handkerchief?
0:10:25 > 0:10:27We'll need the scent.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31- Shirt.- Take it off.
0:10:39 > 0:10:40HE INHALES
0:10:40 > 0:10:42- England un-perfumed. - THEY CHUCKLE
0:10:42 > 0:10:46Breathe deeply - the Middle Ages.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48Burdock, barley,
0:10:48 > 0:10:52nose of pig's breath, dog's tongue, perhaps?
0:10:52 > 0:10:54And... Oh, yes...
0:10:54 > 0:10:56Ancient peasant bitterness.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58THEY LAUGH
0:10:58 > 0:11:01It was my brothers' shirt.
0:11:01 > 0:11:02He's dead. He died.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04Whilst wearing it, by the looks.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07The rules - you have a ten minute start.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09The horn blows when we begin the chase.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12You must stay on Allingham land or within the boundaries of the village
0:11:12 > 0:11:15and you must not step inside any house, you understand?
0:11:15 > 0:11:17If you survive and you're still free
0:11:17 > 0:11:20- when the horn blows again at one o'clock you win.- How much?
0:11:20 > 0:11:21A pound.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26And if you allow yourself to be caught by Lord Kilmartin
0:11:26 > 0:11:29at three minutes to one, after a good morning's sport,
0:11:29 > 0:11:32- I'll still give you a pound.- Why?
0:11:32 > 0:11:35You wouldn't understand.
0:11:35 > 0:11:36Up the stakes.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39He'll pay you two pounds if you survive the morning.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Won't you, Allingham? Incentive is everything.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46- Of course.- But, if he's caught, he'll do everything I ask of him
0:11:46 > 0:11:47for the rest of the day.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53- Five pounds.- Bert...
0:11:53 > 0:11:55SHE CHUCKLES
0:11:57 > 0:11:59You'll be mine.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08I can't stay here.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19I like it here.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35Go.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Run, Bert!
0:13:03 > 0:13:05Now!
0:13:05 > 0:13:09HORN BLOWS
0:13:16 > 0:13:19DOGS BARK
0:13:21 > 0:13:23Towards the stream!
0:13:41 > 0:13:43How much?
0:13:43 > 0:13:46There's a job in Sheffield, for a photography assistant.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49And, if I win today, it's enough to set me up wi' lodgings
0:13:49 > 0:13:52- and everything. - What if they catch you? Bert?
0:13:54 > 0:13:56You won't let 'em.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03This smells terrible.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06DOGS BARK
0:14:07 > 0:14:09Go. Go!
0:15:00 > 0:15:02Where is he?
0:15:06 > 0:15:07Find him, boy!
0:16:02 > 0:16:05New calf - hour ago.
0:16:05 > 0:16:09You should have thought of that.
0:16:11 > 0:16:12Give me another week.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17Responsibility, Middleton.
0:16:17 > 0:16:21I rented you the cowshed, we agreed the three pounds monthly rent.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24You haven't paid it, so I'm taking it back.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26Your fault if the calf dies, not mine.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33Get your animals out of my cowshed now, please.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48It's not him.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55Where is he? WHERE IS HE?
0:16:57 > 0:17:02Go! Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go...
0:17:19 > 0:17:24Go on. Walk on. Go on.
0:17:50 > 0:17:52I love you.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00Faster!
0:18:00 > 0:18:02Faster! Faster!
0:18:02 > 0:18:03Get down here.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11Oi, you, get up!
0:18:11 > 0:18:13Where is he?
0:18:13 > 0:18:15Who the hell are you?
0:18:19 > 0:18:22- What did you do that for? - Shut up! I asked you a question!
0:18:25 > 0:18:26Are you deaf, boy?
0:18:29 > 0:18:32Sorry, wrong word. Nigger.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Say that again.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36Answer him!
0:18:42 > 0:18:43Hey!
0:18:43 > 0:18:46- Up there, look!- There he is! - It's him!
0:18:46 > 0:18:47Come on.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58It feels like when you proposed to me.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01Do you remember?
0:19:02 > 0:19:04Wind blew your cap off just as you were about to...
0:19:04 > 0:19:08He's taking cowshed back, young Rutter.
0:19:08 > 0:19:12- He's twice the bastard his father ever was.- Why?
0:19:12 > 0:19:13We owe him rent.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16- Well, where we going to do the milking?- In field.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18What, twice a day?! In winter, John?!
0:19:18 > 0:19:23Well, we'll just have to get up earlier and go to bed later.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25And work every hour that God sends.
0:19:25 > 0:19:30You have prayed every day for eight years. What does he want?
0:19:30 > 0:19:33How much more are you going to give him for nothing in return?!
0:19:37 > 0:19:40Something's got to change, John,
0:19:40 > 0:19:41and it's us that've got to do it.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43Is the calf going to die?
0:19:46 > 0:19:47Let's get her up into field.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50Her best chance is to be with her mother,
0:19:50 > 0:19:53get first 12 hours of milk to protect her from diseases.
0:19:53 > 0:19:57And then, if she survives, we might bottle-feed her inside.
0:19:57 > 0:19:58Father won't let her die.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04You picked it up - my cap.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09You put it back on my head...
0:20:09 > 0:20:12and then you said yes.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19I love you too.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28DOGS BARK
0:20:32 > 0:20:34There he is!
0:20:41 > 0:20:43Come on!
0:20:43 > 0:20:45We're on him.
0:21:05 > 0:21:09DOG BARKS
0:21:56 > 0:21:59WOMEN SCREAM
0:22:33 > 0:22:35- Oh!- Sorry, sir. - Out of my way, damn you!
0:23:00 > 0:23:03Got ya!
0:23:08 > 0:23:11He might do it.
0:23:11 > 0:23:15130 years and a hare has never survived.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18BELL TOLLS
0:23:22 > 0:23:27Where is he? Where is he!?
0:23:28 > 0:23:30HOUR CHIMES
0:23:30 > 0:23:34HORN BLOWS
0:23:39 > 0:23:41SHE CHUCKLES
0:23:52 > 0:23:54CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:24:14 > 0:24:18You should have stopped for a wash in bath house, Bert.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21Eh, remember that time looking through roof? How old were we?
0:24:21 > 0:24:2212 and a half.
0:24:22 > 0:24:26- Who were you looking at?- Nobody. - Who were you looking at, Bert?
0:24:26 > 0:24:29That's the thing about the past, isn't it?
0:24:29 > 0:24:33Every time you look, there's more of it.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35- So profound. - He's so profound.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38You know, you could be a teacher.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40What do you miss most about childhood?
0:24:40 > 0:24:44Singing. There were more singing.
0:24:44 > 0:24:48My mother used to wash our hair in beer - me and Joe.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58He'd have been proud of you.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01THEY CHEER
0:25:12 > 0:25:16ALL: # As I was going to Darby Upon a market day
0:25:16 > 0:25:20# I saw the biggest ram, sir That ever was fed on hay
0:25:20 > 0:25:24# It's a lie, it's a lie It's a lie, a lie, a lie... #
0:25:28 > 0:25:29Did you win?
0:25:29 > 0:25:33No. He cheated!
0:25:33 > 0:25:34Cheated?
0:25:34 > 0:25:37Went into a village woman's front room, against all the rules.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44Well, that's good, then. The hounds win again.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47- What's for lunch?- Trout.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54Bert cheated?
0:25:54 > 0:25:56You heard what the man said, Martha.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05Cheating, lies, ladies' front rooms?
0:26:05 > 0:26:08- Kilmartin has a talent for all three!- I'm sorry?
0:26:08 > 0:26:10Lord Chater was concerned when Kilmartin
0:26:10 > 0:26:14asked for his daughter's hand, that he was after political advancement.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17He was wrong. He was after his whole family!
0:26:17 > 0:26:20Which member of the family was he actually...
0:26:20 > 0:26:22He's actually fucking his wife, his wife's cousin
0:26:22 > 0:26:24and his stepdaughter-in-law!
0:26:24 > 0:26:27THEY LAUGH
0:26:27 > 0:26:28Chater doesn't know.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30What kind of a man is he?
0:26:30 > 0:26:33Half a day, Allingham, one afternoon.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36Keep him smiling and your career is launched.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46Hold. Hold her, hold her.
0:26:56 > 0:27:00And another thing, Albert Einstein.
0:27:00 > 0:27:01Who?
0:27:01 > 0:27:03Time is not what it used to be.
0:27:03 > 0:27:07It's not a constant against which we can all measure everything.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09It is relative.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11So we're on our own, all of us.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14What are you on about? What's he on about?
0:27:14 > 0:27:17He's saying it's important to leave your mark.
0:27:21 > 0:27:24BICYCLE BELL RINGS
0:27:29 > 0:27:31Where were you?
0:27:31 > 0:27:32I've won five pounds.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36Mother!
0:27:36 > 0:27:40- Have you got it?- Promised me.
0:27:40 > 0:27:41Tell her.
0:27:44 > 0:27:45I've won five pounds.
0:27:49 > 0:27:50It's his money.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54It's your money, Bert.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33How much do we owe Rutter?
0:28:34 > 0:28:36Three pounds.
0:28:38 > 0:28:39No, it's too late.
0:28:41 > 0:28:43- When's rent due?- Today.
0:28:45 > 0:28:48Well, today's not over, is it?
0:29:05 > 0:29:08Jacket off.
0:29:08 > 0:29:11A man of the people doesn't feel the cold.
0:29:30 > 0:29:31BELL RINGS
0:29:31 > 0:29:35The State Opening of Parliament, the King's Speech,
0:29:35 > 0:29:37Christmas morning, my own birthday,
0:29:37 > 0:29:40I'd give them all up for this special day in our village.
0:29:40 > 0:29:41THEY MURMUR
0:29:41 > 0:29:45- For 300 years, an Allingham... - He reminds me of my father.
0:29:45 > 0:29:49..has stood where I now stand and kept this wonderful tradition alive.
0:29:49 > 0:29:52We've been away for a while, we all have, and we've been tested,
0:29:52 > 0:29:56but we have come through and today, today marks the return of
0:29:56 > 0:30:00that English way of life we've all been fighting for.
0:30:00 > 0:30:01APPLAUSE
0:30:03 > 0:30:08Thank you. Enjoy the day. Box well.
0:30:14 > 0:30:17- Thank you for coming along. - Thank you.- Lovely to see you.
0:30:20 > 0:30:22My name's Bill Gibby.
0:30:22 > 0:30:26And I want to ask two questions:
0:30:26 > 0:30:30Who am I? Who are you?
0:30:30 > 0:30:34And try to answer them both.
0:30:34 > 0:30:38I'm an outsider here. But I know this country.
0:30:38 > 0:30:40"The lung" us townsfolk call the place
0:30:40 > 0:30:42you're fortunate enough to call home.
0:30:42 > 0:30:46And I used to come up here every Sunday.
0:30:46 > 0:30:52It was my coming up for air, for the six years I spent mining coal.
0:30:52 > 0:30:54Then I had another four years
0:30:54 > 0:30:57digging under the German lines to set explosives.
0:30:57 > 0:31:00Has it been a tough life? Maybe.
0:31:01 > 0:31:05Do I feel sorry for meself? Not a bit of it.
0:31:05 > 0:31:11Cos if there's one thing I know, it's that none of us will be free
0:31:11 > 0:31:17until we stop thinking of ourselves as victims and become masters...
0:31:17 > 0:31:22- and mistresses - of our own lives and our own futures.
0:31:22 > 0:31:24APPLAUSE
0:31:27 > 0:31:30Here's a poem.
0:31:30 > 0:31:34Men of England, heirs of Glory
0:31:35 > 0:31:38Heroes of unwritten story
0:31:40 > 0:31:45Nurslings of one mighty Mother Hopes of her, and one another
0:31:45 > 0:31:48Rise like Lions after slumber
0:31:48 > 0:31:50In unvanquishable number
0:31:51 > 0:31:53Shake your chains to earth like dew
0:31:53 > 0:31:57Which in sleep had fallen on you -
0:31:58 > 0:32:03Ye are many - they are few.
0:32:05 > 0:32:09Shelley has the answer to my questions.
0:32:09 > 0:32:13Who am I? Who are you?
0:32:13 > 0:32:15We are one!
0:32:15 > 0:32:19And together, we are unvanquishable!
0:32:19 > 0:32:22MURMURING AND APPLAUSE
0:32:34 > 0:32:36Well said, sir. Very well done.
0:32:36 > 0:32:38BELL RINGS
0:32:39 > 0:32:46Here from the deepest jungle of the darkest continent
0:32:46 > 0:32:50for you to pit your best men against.
0:32:50 > 0:32:54Who has the courage to take on
0:32:54 > 0:32:57Savage Africa?
0:32:57 > 0:32:59BOOING
0:33:02 > 0:33:07153 fights undefeated.
0:33:07 > 0:33:11Who will be the first man to beat Savage Africa?
0:33:11 > 0:33:13Go and get your money.
0:33:15 > 0:33:16Who's first?
0:33:16 > 0:33:23Survive a round and win...a pound!
0:33:23 > 0:33:28Our first contender, step right up.
0:33:28 > 0:33:30Give him a round of applause, everyone.
0:33:30 > 0:33:32APPLAUSE
0:33:33 > 0:33:36BELL RINGS
0:33:43 > 0:33:45You cheated.
0:33:49 > 0:33:51Sorry.
0:33:56 > 0:33:58BELL RINGS
0:34:02 > 0:34:05CHEERING
0:34:10 > 0:34:12Bert?
0:34:14 > 0:34:16They said I cheated.
0:34:17 > 0:34:19- But you didn't.- No!
0:34:19 > 0:34:21So?
0:34:21 > 0:34:27Lord Kilmartin, Edmund Allingham, me and you? Forget it!
0:34:31 > 0:34:34I was boxing champ in the army, you know.
0:34:35 > 0:34:38There's something I want you to do for me.
0:34:40 > 0:34:42How much?
0:34:42 > 0:34:44BELL RINGS
0:35:11 > 0:35:16One, two, three, four, five,
0:35:16 > 0:35:20six, seven, eight, nine,
0:35:20 > 0:35:24ten. It's over.
0:35:27 > 0:35:30BELL RINGS
0:35:46 > 0:35:51Our calf will die of cold if she's left out in the field all night.
0:35:51 > 0:35:57I... I know you don't like my husband, or our family,
0:35:57 > 0:36:02but PLEASE can we have the cowshed tonight?
0:36:02 > 0:36:03HE SIGHS
0:36:03 > 0:36:09If I give you extra time, what will it be next week?
0:36:09 > 0:36:10You can't go on like this.
0:36:13 > 0:36:15I think that's why you're here.
0:36:22 > 0:36:25The calf needs warmth.
0:36:25 > 0:36:27So do I.
0:36:27 > 0:36:30- Sorry, but I don't understand... - Yes, you do.
0:36:30 > 0:36:34Why didn't your husband come to see me if it weren't on your mind?
0:36:37 > 0:36:39It's an offer.
0:36:49 > 0:36:51BELL RINGS
0:37:02 > 0:37:05BELL RINGS
0:37:09 > 0:37:12APPLAUSE
0:37:12 > 0:37:15I saw him last Saturday up at Bolsover Colliery.
0:37:15 > 0:37:2015 miners one after the other and he put them all down.
0:37:20 > 0:37:21Who is next?
0:37:21 > 0:37:26Survive a round and win a pound!
0:37:26 > 0:37:30Men of England, are you lions or lambs?
0:37:31 > 0:37:34All right, two pounds!
0:37:35 > 0:37:36Still nobody.
0:37:36 > 0:37:40Here's an offer I've never made before, three pounds!
0:37:42 > 0:37:44- Step right up. - They're all trying to fight him.
0:37:44 > 0:37:46You don't need to fight him, you just need to survive.
0:37:46 > 0:37:49John?! Don't encourage him.
0:37:49 > 0:37:51We need the money.
0:37:51 > 0:37:55Come on, gentlemen!
0:37:58 > 0:38:01Move your feet, like I taught you.
0:38:16 > 0:38:18BELL RINGS
0:38:37 > 0:38:41- Move, son! - Knock him down!
0:38:46 > 0:38:48That's it.
0:38:56 > 0:38:58Come on! Hit him!
0:39:05 > 0:39:06Move, Bert!
0:39:08 > 0:39:11I don't want to kill ya. Go down.
0:39:18 > 0:39:23One, two, three...
0:39:23 > 0:39:25- Come on!- ..four...
0:39:27 > 0:39:31..five, six...
0:39:35 > 0:39:36..seven...
0:39:39 > 0:39:42..eight...
0:39:42 > 0:39:47You all right, son? Do you want to go on?
0:39:47 > 0:39:52- You all right? - He's all right, he's all right.
0:39:57 > 0:40:01- Keep moving, Bert. Come on! - Hit him!
0:40:09 > 0:40:11Knock out.
0:40:13 > 0:40:16- BELL RINGS - Winner!
0:40:21 > 0:40:24What the fuck are you playing at, eh?
0:40:32 > 0:40:35- Your boy?- Yes.
0:40:35 > 0:40:38- What's his name?- Bert Middleton.
0:40:43 > 0:40:45It's that bastard.
0:40:47 > 0:40:49- He'll knock you down. - No, he won't.
0:40:49 > 0:40:51Yes, he will.
0:40:53 > 0:40:55Who says?
0:41:06 > 0:41:08BELL RINGS
0:41:38 > 0:41:40No! That was below the belt.
0:41:41 > 0:41:46One, two...
0:41:46 > 0:41:50three, four...
0:41:50 > 0:41:53five, six...
0:41:53 > 0:41:56seven, eight...
0:41:56 > 0:41:57Come on!
0:41:57 > 0:42:00- nine...- Stay down! Stay down!
0:42:17 > 0:42:20BELL RINGS
0:42:22 > 0:42:26It's over, son. Stay there. It's over.
0:42:29 > 0:42:31The winner!
0:42:31 > 0:42:32CHEERING
0:42:35 > 0:42:38Well, I never.
0:42:38 > 0:42:40Good old Kilmartin.
0:42:42 > 0:42:46- Congratulations. - Fantastic.
0:42:50 > 0:42:5420 pounds, for you to lose.
0:42:54 > 0:43:00But, oh no, you can't fall over for 20 pounds.
0:43:00 > 0:43:02I won't throw a fight.
0:43:02 > 0:43:05This is not boxing.
0:43:05 > 0:43:08This is showbusiness and I'm the producer.
0:43:10 > 0:43:12I don't want your dirty money.
0:43:16 > 0:43:18And I don't need you.
0:43:18 > 0:43:21Really? Fine.
0:43:21 > 0:43:24Give me what's mine and go.
0:43:24 > 0:43:26Gloves, shorts, boots.
0:43:43 > 0:43:47Go on, then. Off you go.
0:43:51 > 0:43:55LAUGHTER AND SCREAMING
0:44:08 > 0:44:11CROWD DROWNS SPEECH
0:44:17 > 0:44:20KNOCKING
0:44:20 > 0:44:22Come in.
0:44:27 > 0:44:28You've no wife, Edmund.
0:44:38 > 0:44:43So, what do we know about Lord Kilmartin?
0:44:45 > 0:44:48He's a bully
0:44:48 > 0:44:51and a cheat
0:44:51 > 0:44:54and he's your best friend.
0:44:54 > 0:44:56He'll put me in the Cabinet.
0:44:57 > 0:45:01It's what you do when you're in power that matters, not how you get there.
0:45:01 > 0:45:04That depends on who you hurt getting there.
0:45:04 > 0:45:06And your conscience.
0:45:09 > 0:45:12Does one put the stress on "cock" or "tail"?
0:45:12 > 0:45:16Is it cockTAIL or COCKtail?
0:45:16 > 0:45:18- Anyway... - SHE CHUCKLES
0:45:20 > 0:45:23Mm...
0:45:23 > 0:45:27Oh, this is...appalling
0:45:28 > 0:45:31Edwina Mountbatten.
0:45:31 > 0:45:34Absolute maniac for sex.
0:45:34 > 0:45:36- Do not get in a taxi with Edwina. - Oh?
0:45:36 > 0:45:39BOTH CHUCKLE
0:45:39 > 0:45:42Will you excuse me a moment, Lady Allingham?
0:45:48 > 0:45:49Was she nice to you?
0:45:49 > 0:45:51I find fragrant decay so moving.
0:45:53 > 0:45:56She's like the last pansy of summer.
0:46:03 > 0:46:05Why didn't you go down?
0:46:07 > 0:46:09Stupid.
0:46:09 > 0:46:10Brave.
0:46:10 > 0:46:12Maybe both.
0:46:14 > 0:46:15Like Tommies in the war.
0:46:20 > 0:46:22Did you...
0:46:26 > 0:46:29What was it for?
0:46:29 > 0:46:30I fought for me country,
0:46:30 > 0:46:33but they won't let me fight for boxing titles after it.
0:46:33 > 0:46:35Why?
0:46:38 > 0:46:39Because of the colour of me skin.
0:46:42 > 0:46:44At least I got through it, eh?
0:46:54 > 0:46:56- JOHN:- That's our Joe.
0:46:59 > 0:47:01BERT: Shot at dawn.
0:47:04 > 0:47:07It happened to me best friend.
0:47:11 > 0:47:15They send a man in, after the priest,
0:47:15 > 0:47:18with a bottle of whisky.
0:47:18 > 0:47:21The idea is to get him so drunk that
0:47:21 > 0:47:24when dawn comes he hardly knows what's happening to him.
0:47:28 > 0:47:31I stayed with him all night.
0:47:33 > 0:47:37But he weren't afraid and he wouldn't drink.
0:47:42 > 0:47:44"I don't want to spend me last hours unconscious."
0:47:47 > 0:47:49You were with him?
0:47:53 > 0:47:54I went in at midnight.
0:47:58 > 0:48:02He said that he loved life and there's some of it left,
0:48:02 > 0:48:07so we won't waste it talking about death and dying.
0:48:07 > 0:48:11What... What did you talk about?
0:48:11 > 0:48:13His family.
0:48:16 > 0:48:21He wanted me to tell them that, although his life was short...
0:48:25 > 0:48:29..he were lucky to have shared it with them.
0:48:29 > 0:48:33SHE CRIES
0:48:37 > 0:48:40SHE SOBS UNCONTROLLABLY
0:48:56 > 0:48:58You've got a bit of mud.
0:49:00 > 0:49:03- Here?- No, come here.
0:49:35 > 0:49:38Make it a better world, mother.
0:50:16 > 0:50:19We were having a cigarette.
0:50:19 > 0:50:20"We"?
0:50:23 > 0:50:25Your speech.
0:50:25 > 0:50:30I thought I should write it word for word in case you're feeling, er,
0:50:30 > 0:50:34out of joint - party and everything.
0:50:54 > 0:50:56I know this is a party and no place for politics.
0:50:56 > 0:51:00However...there is an election coming.
0:51:00 > 0:51:03- Which we'll win. - ALL:- Hear, hear.
0:51:03 > 0:51:05Some of you may have heard my Labour opponent speak today...
0:51:05 > 0:51:07Could I have a cigarette?
0:51:07 > 0:51:12- I don't smoke, sorry. - ..personally I was more interested in what I saw in the boxing ring...
0:51:12 > 0:51:18Mainly determination, courage, pluck - Bert Middleton.
0:51:18 > 0:51:21He wasn't in the ring with his comrades, it was him in there -
0:51:21 > 0:51:22alone and against the odds.
0:51:22 > 0:51:26That's human spirit, that's what we're made of.
0:51:26 > 0:51:29Socialism pretends to be for the good of everyone. It's not.
0:51:29 > 0:51:32It's a hand-brake on mankind.
0:51:32 > 0:51:37It's individual endeavour that will make this country into a nation
0:51:37 > 0:51:42about which it is still possible to say, "This is a land fit for heroes."
0:51:42 > 0:51:45- ALL:- Hear, hear.- He's my son.
0:51:52 > 0:51:57You said he was a cheat, now a hero.
0:51:57 > 0:51:59Which is it?
0:52:03 > 0:52:07He went into Margaret Boden's house in breach of the rules.
0:52:07 > 0:52:09Am I right, Lord Kilmartin?
0:52:10 > 0:52:12Absolutely.
0:52:15 > 0:52:20So it's your son's word against that of a peer of the realm.
0:52:22 > 0:52:25Then you'll be handing him over to Lord Kilmartin.
0:52:25 > 0:52:27That WAS the wager.
0:52:30 > 0:52:32Edmund?
0:52:41 > 0:52:43Pay her.
0:52:43 > 0:52:45GROANING
0:53:00 > 0:53:02Middleton.
0:53:02 > 0:53:05I never forget a name.
0:53:25 > 0:53:27KNOCKING
0:53:49 > 0:53:53Honour, a man's name, not being embarrassed in public -
0:53:53 > 0:53:58everything that matters to Kilmartin and you, you threw it in his face for a farm boy and his mother!
0:53:58 > 0:54:01Someone has to be principled, Bairstow. It was the right thing to do.
0:54:01 > 0:54:05And someone has to see past principles, Allingham!
0:54:22 > 0:54:25You've come to make me change my mind, I suppose?
0:54:25 > 0:54:30No, I was thinking of asking Lady Allingham to tell Lord Chater
0:54:30 > 0:54:33which members of his family you're fucking.
0:54:35 > 0:54:37Are you blackmailing me?
0:54:37 > 0:54:39Absolutely.
0:54:40 > 0:54:43Lady Allingham?
0:54:43 > 0:54:44A moment?
0:54:48 > 0:54:50Bluff!
0:54:50 > 0:54:53Call me.
0:54:54 > 0:54:58Lord Kilmartin wanted you to be the first to hear it.
0:55:07 > 0:55:10I'm going to make your son the next Home Secretary.
0:55:13 > 0:55:15Oh, my goodness.
0:55:16 > 0:55:20Oh, my goodness!
0:55:25 > 0:55:28KNOCKING
0:55:28 > 0:55:31I've, erm...
0:55:31 > 0:55:34Well, I've come to give you what you've been asking for.
0:55:46 > 0:55:48- Where have you been? - To get the money.
0:55:48 > 0:55:49- Did you get it?- Yes.
0:55:49 > 0:55:53- Did you pay Rutter? - Why would I do that?
0:55:53 > 0:55:57It's yours, Bert. You've earnt it.
0:56:08 > 0:56:10Father?
0:56:10 > 0:56:12Son?
0:57:13 > 0:57:17OLD BERT: 'Something had changed. We were in trouble -
0:57:17 > 0:57:21'no cowshed, more months of winter and a calf in the kitchen.
0:57:21 > 0:57:24'Five pounds was a lot of money.
0:57:24 > 0:57:28'It would pay for casual labour for a time, but it wouldn't be enough.
0:57:28 > 0:57:32'But standing there, with my family,
0:57:32 > 0:57:34'we knew we'd been brought together.
0:57:34 > 0:57:37'He would always be with me - Joe -
0:57:37 > 0:57:41'and, like my mother, I would keep hearing him...
0:57:41 > 0:57:44'But I'd stopped looking over my shoulder
0:57:44 > 0:57:50'and begun looking forward - to a new life.'