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INDISTINCT SHOUTING AND CHATTER

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'When you're young and time takes an age,

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'it feels like nothing will ever change.

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'But it does.

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'Sometimes it comes so fast and so hard that the shape of the world,

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'the shape of the people, are never the same afterwards.

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'1923 was like that. Not just with us. Not just in the village

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'but everywhere.

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'My mother recognised it straightaway.'

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Go!

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'Or maybe it was something she'd always known.

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'The rest of us, the rest of the world, just had to catch up,

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'change shape, make up our minds.'

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GUNSHOT

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He's started early.

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Aye, well, he'll have to.

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It's going to take a long time to slaughter a herd that size.

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The whole herd?

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Well, if one of them's got it, they'll all have it.

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Will our cows get it?

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No.

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No.

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GUNSHOT

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Grass fed, clean air.

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No hot, fetid cow shed to pass TB on.

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More porridge, Mum.

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So, you knew all along.

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What's that?

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-Well, losing the cow shed was a good idea.

-Farmer's instincts.

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'My heart was trying to make a decision.'

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Morning, Bert.

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'Its first real decision.

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'But it wasn't a matter of politics.'

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Good girl.

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-Phoebe!

-Bert!

-Come back!

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-You'll be late for school.

-I can take them, if you like.

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No... You'll miss it.

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Wait for me.

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Phoebe!

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I'm popping up to see Agnes.

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-With more food from our table?

-Bread and eggs won't break us.

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Not so long ago, it would have done.

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Well, let's be thankful we're not there any longer.

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I'm going to see Hankin later.

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See about taking over Rutter's order.

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-Can we manage that much?

-We could.

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All these years, we've fought to keep going

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and now we've got a chance to get on,

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we have to take it, Grace.

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You shouldn't meddle.

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We wouldn't welcome it here.

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She needs help, John. Come on, Mary, love!

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BIRD CALLS

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GUNSHOT

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-Why are you shooting buzzards?

-They go for the young grouse.

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You can't pass through here. It's not safe.

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-I've cycled this path for years.

-Not any more.

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-On whose say so?

-Them what own it - the Allinghams.

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-Oh...

-Turn around.

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Fine.

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SHE BREATHES HEAVILY

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FLOORBOARDS CREAK

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KNOCKING

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Agnes? Are you all right?

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It's not fair. Gilbert Hankin had no right to sack you.

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It's not his fault.

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-Is it your fault you couldn't breathe properly?

-Allingham...

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Allingham?

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He thinks I complained about being sick. That's the end of it.

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Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Allingham should be stood up to.

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It'll make no difference... And who'd stand with me?

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I will.

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Are these your initials, Middleton?

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Hand.

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He were a right bastard, that Ingham.

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The children are lucky to have Mrs Allingham.

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She wrote me a letter.

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Well, I thought she did. Turned out it wasn't her.

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Martha... She's impossible. She's a married woman.

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What did you expect was going to happen, Bert?

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Who did write it, then?

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-Phoebe Rundle.

-Ah, well!

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There you go. I've been telling you, haven't I?

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Phoebe Rundle is, in the opinion of this teacher,

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-the girl for you.

-But...

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..if...

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what you feel can change so quickly, how will I know

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-when it's real?

-Test it out.

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Spend some time with her and then check your heart rate.

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-Don't laugh at me.

-No, no. I would never do that.

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Go on, just get away with you and...test it out.

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Make sure that your vote counts next week in the national elections.

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INDISTINCT CHATTER

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-Hello.

-I wasn't sure you'd be here.

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Just for the morning. Then, Glossop and Chinley. Sheffield tonight.

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-And you must be...Mary?

-Who are you?

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I'm Bill Gibby. Delighted to make your acquaintance.

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Go on.

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Where do you stand on tariff reform?

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Um...

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I'm against it. Labour is against it.

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So is Mrs Allingham.

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Good for Mrs Allingham.

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Father says it doesn't matter who wins.

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-Oh, I think it does.

-So does Mother.

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Go on, you... Off to school.

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I know you're, you're very busy,

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but I wanted to talk to you about the girl who lost her job

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-at the boot factory.

-Agnes Scrivener.

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See, I don't know what else to do. Gilbert Hankin, the manager,

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now he was just following orders from Allingham and, well,

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-I can't speak to Allingham, because...

-Then, don't.

-What?

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You're forgetting about the people who matter.

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Just speak as you find.

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You find right, Grace.

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No need to stop. Where can we find Gilbert Hankin?

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FOOTSTEPS

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We're here to ask you to reinstate Agnes Scrivener.

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-She's been replaced. The decision's been taken.

-By you?

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Agnes worked here for seven years.

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Did she ever not finish her work? Ever...complain?

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There's nothing I can do.

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Right.

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Thank you for your time.

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Your fellow worker was sacked from her job here

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through no fault of her own.

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Right now, you are all vulnerable to the same injustice.

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He can't make the boots without your labour. YOUR labour...

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..to offer...

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..or to withhold.

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As long as Allingham runs this factory

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and speaks for you in Parliament, he can do with you as he wishes.

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But you can hold him accountable. WE can hold him accountable...

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..if you vote Labour this week.

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They listened.

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But they won't come out for Agnes.

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They're afraid. But there'll be no Hankin or Allingham between them

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and the ballot box. Allingham underestimates us. And them.

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Sheffield train, Bill.

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We show them a better option and they'll take it.

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-Lead by example, Grace.

-But I'm...

-A farmer's wife? And I'm a miner.

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And I think we can change the world.

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-They're a bit young.

-So am I.

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Sorry?

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2nd of June, 1924.

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I'll be 30.

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Until then - no vote. So, don't worry, my opinion isn't important

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and won't be taken seriously by anybody.

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I trust you'll be using your vote to do good?

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Good being a vote against your brother-in-law?

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I may not have a vote, but I do have my own mind and my own conscience.

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And always so sure of them both.

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LIGHTER CLICKS

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Phoebe.

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-Can I ask you something?

-Of course.

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-Bert Middleton.

-Yes?

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-Do you trust him?

-Yes.

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-Then I should?

-No. No. Keep him working.

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Cos the more he can't have you, the more he'll want you.

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LIGHTER CLICKS

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There.

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Thank you very much.

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Eh... Oh, the finest gramophone money can buy.

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Hey, Margaret, not seen you at the dance hall yet.

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You want to come, give it a try.

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What, before or after I serve meself?

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If we've money for music, we've money for help.

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Shop!

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Hankin.

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A word.

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All I'm saying is, you might want to think twice

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-in future before getting...

-Night, John.

-Good night.

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..before you get milk from Rutter. He's had to slaughter his herd.

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TB's been set in for months.

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This is the first time in your life you've been in this shop.

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-What are you after?

-You see...

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..mine's clean. Open pasture, no risk, no disease.

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See? Clean. Milk, straight from Middleton Farm to Hankin's shop.

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Me and you, nowt in between.

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-Hmm. It's a... It's a risk you're taking.

-Can't I trust you?

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-You know what I'm saying.

-You're a risk taker, aren't you?

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I mean, that dance hall, that were a shot in the dark, weren't it?

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Hmm. There's a businessman in you, after all, John Middleton.

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Where you been?

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Hankin takes Middleton milk now.

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-Mother!

-She's gone to see Edmund Allingham speak.

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What about dairy?

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Finished. No more mad dashes to the station. Those days are gone, Bert.

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Change of plan.

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CHATTER

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Welcome to you all.

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Er, I won't be making a speech. Why?

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Because I want to hear from you, about your concerns

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and what you want. Let's make this a conversation.

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So, questions from the floor.

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Who's first?

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Mrs Middleton.

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Yes.

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Can the workers in your factory rely on you, Mr Allingham?

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Could you repeat the question a little louder, so everyone hears it?

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I was wondering whether the workers in your factory can rely on you.

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The factory has provided employment for half the village since 1904.

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We provided thousands of pairs of boots

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for our brave men at the Front and it provided employment for you,

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when hard times on your farm meant that you needed the work.

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Now that, through his hard work and determination, things are looking

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so much better for your husband, well, you don't need the work.

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Agnes Scrivener does.

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The girl...is an agitator.

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Are you an agitator, Mrs Middleton?

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-I don't understand what you mean, when...

-How much time have you been

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spending with Bill Gibby, Mrs Middleton? I think you went

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to the factory this morning to agitate with Gibby

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and have come here primed to agitate some more.

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Is Gibby with you now? Is he behind you, telling you what to say?

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Where is your puppet master, Mrs Middleton?

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LAUGHTER

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Er, shall we take another question?

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-What did he say?

-How much he admires you, mostly.

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-Why?

-What you've done turning the farm around.

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Good.

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Is it?

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Isn't it?

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We've done well here, Grace.

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Why does it seem like you don't want it?

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We need to look outside of ourselves.

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I deliver good, fresh, clean milk to the whole village, at a fair price,

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and I can do that because I've worked hard.

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Read 'em to me.

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"Clover, Myrtle, Bracken, Buttercup, Henrietta and Hilda."

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-Father said we can name our cows.

-What's the name of our grandson?

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What's the name of the little baby boy the Allinghams sent away

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without even asking us?

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They don't care about anybody else other than themselves.

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Is that the kind of world you want?

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Agnes Scrivner, she's a problem. My factory, my village,

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my constituency. It looks bad.

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The left love a victim.

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They crave victimhood

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and, when they get it, they milk it for all it's worth.

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Thank you, Mother.

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-So, what do you think?

-Well...

-Take it away from them.

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-Sorry?

-Their poor little match-girl martyr.

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-What do you mean, take it away?

-Give her her job back. Pay her more.

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Mmm. Then, Gibby and Labour will have nothing to bleat about.

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Have I suddenly acquired a second political advisor?

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I haven't got a political bone in my body, darling.

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Oh, by the by, and entirely away from politics,

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the tremendously glamorous, fabulously well connected

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and hitherto unmarried

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Harriet Kilmartin is coming to stay.

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INDISTINCT CHATTER

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So, how is it going on the railways?

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Oh, no luck yet?

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No. And after next week, no more station visits.

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-Why not?

-Our dads have got into bed together.

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Last milk run to the station, Wednesday.

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So, you better make it count.

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This man here is giving me lessons in romance.

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Phoebe's the one for me, he says.

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-Pints?

-Mm-hm.

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And the first lesson?

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Don't go where your teacher would like to tread.

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She's a married woman.

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You're to give Agnes her job back.

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-You told me to get rid of her.

-Now I'm telling you to bring her back.

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I know why you're doing this. You're using her.

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-Does it matter?

-It were making her ill.

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She won't want to come back.

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She will.

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FOOTSTEPS

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Has this been washed? The collar's all filthy.

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Oh, let me see.

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They're all like it. I can't go to the dance hall looking like that.

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Well, between the shop and the home

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and the dance hall, I'm afraid things are starting to slip.

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I just don't have the time.

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HE SIGHS

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If you want to take on a maid, you can.

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It's just a case of finding someone suitable.

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Mmm.

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Norma...

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Gilbert explained what happened at the factory.

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It's not my place to take sides.

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So, I won't.

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But it might end up being an excellent opportunity for you.

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We're looking for a maid.

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I'm offering you the position.

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I'm grateful...

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..to you and Arnold.

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Good.

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Mr Hankin and I would like you to start tomorrow.

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Looks like rain.

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Cows were lying down as I came past.

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You believe that old wives' tale?

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-I could give you a lift, anyway.

-No. Thank you.

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CAR BACKFIRES

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No driver?

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Why let someone else have all the fun?

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Thank you so much for this invitation, Lady Allingham.

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Oh, Clem, please, I insist, Harriet.

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-Harri.

-It's such a pity that Lord Kilmartin couldn't come with you.

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All is the election for my father, at the moment, I'm afraid.

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Ah, yes, well... I, er... I must confess that I'm rather hoping

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you'll be an antidote to a similar situation here.

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I'll try my very best.

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Actually, can I call you Lady Allingham?

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I do so like Ladies.

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Do you know what Edmund stands for?

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He's my brother.

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It's politics, not family.

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One and the same to some. Like my mother.

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Is it so awful to be a part of us?

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Oh, I trust young Hankin passed on the good news?

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I got your job back at the factory.

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The Hankins have taken me on as a maid.

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-You'll go back to the factory.

-This suits me better.

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-Ow! You're hurting me!

-You'll go back to the factory.

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Stop. Just stop! There's a baby!

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How long do you think you can hide it from Hankin, eh?

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They'll know it's yours.

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Go back to the factory and I'll sort out the rest.

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Don't - and you're on your own.

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It's not me who'll be judged.

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I judge you.

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-What's happening?

-Helping Alf Rutter.

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Same thing happened with the outbreak on Edale farm.

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Getting it over quickly will help him with it.

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Poor beggar.

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Have you seen him?

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Head stuck in a pint pot in The Lamb.

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This can wait.

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-Father won't like it.

-Father's not here.

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Sir Piers Rayment. Wounded at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644.

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His mastiff stood by him for over a day, waiting for him to be rescued.

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Marston Moor was over in two hours.

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-What kept them?

-How do you know it was?

-We were there.

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The Kilmartin Cavaliers, with Prince Rupert.

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-Oh!

-And two centuries before that, Agincourt.

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Oh, we were at Agincourt.

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And just before that, to our eternal shame...

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-Bannockburn.

-Our family's always been loyal...

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..and commanded loyalty.

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Even from Mastiffs.

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I love dogs. I really love big dogs.

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She's, sort of, like a child, isn't she?

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My husband's name is, erm, was Allingham,

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and it's a line prone to...sensitivity.

0:30:430:30:48

-Caro and George are Allinghams.

-And Edmund?

0:30:480:30:51

Well, I'd like to hear your assessment.

0:30:530:30:55

A worthy descendant of Sir Piers.

0:30:580:31:00

SHE LAUGHS

0:31:000:31:03

Fancy us both being at Agincourt!

0:31:030:31:04

SHE LAUGHS

0:31:040:31:06

FLIES BUZZ

0:31:310:31:34

Why do they burn them?

0:31:380:31:40

Fire purifies. It kills the bad left behind.

0:31:410:31:45

Father says the Holy Ghost is like a fire that cleans men's souls.

0:31:450:31:50

Men can be good.

0:31:520:31:55

Not all souls need burning.

0:31:550:31:56

I didn't believe him.

0:31:560:31:58

Very handsome.

0:32:180:32:19

-I know what you're doing, Mother.

-I know you know.

0:32:230:32:27

Harri Kilmartin is made for you and you are made for her.

0:32:280:32:32

# We were made for each other. #

0:32:330:32:35

Is this a song we're in?

0:32:350:32:36

Even Bairstow thinks you should be married.

0:32:390:32:42

Oh, does he? And if I don't want to be?

0:32:420:32:45

Then you must be strong with yourself

0:32:450:32:48

and think about what's best rather than what you want.

0:32:480:32:51

She runs with all the best people, my darling boy.

0:32:550:32:58

It's not as if you wouldn't have fun.

0:33:000:33:02

Hello, Eddie.

0:33:040:33:06

Hello, Harri.

0:33:080:33:10

I'm angry, Bert.

0:33:380:33:39

Lately, this anger,

0:33:430:33:44

it rises up so strong, so fast, I...

0:33:440:33:47

I wonder how I've hid from myself all this time.

0:33:500:33:53

Tell me.

0:33:530:33:54

Joe.

0:33:550:33:57

And his son.

0:33:580:34:00

You couldn't have done anything different.

0:34:000:34:03

-You didn't know.

-That's... No choice.

0:34:030:34:07

They decided and I was left with no part of it.

0:34:070:34:10

They assumed they were entitled to do what they did

0:34:120:34:15

and no part of him and...

0:34:150:34:17

..no part of Joe.

0:34:190:34:20

Alongside anger, there's fear,

0:34:230:34:25

because I want to do something about it all, like argue,

0:34:250:34:28

fight, vote, but I...

0:34:280:34:30

I'm scared it will hurt all of us.

0:34:310:34:33

You mean Father.

0:34:350:34:36

I don't know I can do this to him.

0:34:360:34:39

You have to.

0:34:390:34:40

You must.

0:34:430:34:44

Be kind, Bert. In your life.

0:34:460:34:49

DOOR OPENS

0:35:070:35:10

Where've you been?

0:35:160:35:17

Alf Rutter's farm.

0:35:200:35:21

To bed, Mary.

0:35:240:35:25

Why?

0:35:340:35:35

"Forgive those who trespass against us."

0:35:370:35:40

Is that all?

0:35:420:35:43

I don't understand.

0:35:440:35:46

The way he treated us!

0:35:460:35:48

The way his father was!

0:35:490:35:50

He'd have trampled us into mud if he had chance.

0:35:500:35:52

And he very nearly did. Where does it stop, Grace?

0:35:520:35:56

Who are we if no-one is to be judged?

0:35:560:35:59

FLOORBOARDS CREAK

0:36:010:36:03

Seven year ago,

0:36:100:36:12

our daughter, she wanted to name the first cow that we bought

0:36:120:36:17

and I laughed at her, I laughed in her face,

0:36:170:36:19

because of that man, cos... cos he'd made me hard.

0:36:190:36:23

And now we have 30 head of cattle and she's named all of them.

0:36:230:36:26

And I'm proud that I've changed enough for that to matter.

0:36:260:36:30

What are you saying?

0:36:310:36:32

What about me?

0:36:360:36:38

Where are you?

0:36:390:36:41

Where have you gone?

0:36:410:36:43

I'll swap you, a barrel of yours, for one of mine.

0:37:050:37:08

Ha-ha! No, sir! Election night, always a big night.

0:37:080:37:13

Phoebe.

0:37:250:37:27

Bert.

0:37:270:37:29

No rain today.

0:37:290:37:31

No.

0:37:310:37:32

-Parasol? For the sun?

-I'll walk.

0:37:330:37:37

This is the last time I'm doing this.

0:37:390:37:41

What?

0:37:430:37:45

We're not delivering milk to the station after today.

0:37:450:37:48

Oh. I see.

0:37:480:37:51

So, I won't see you.

0:37:510:37:53

I'm sorry about my mother.

0:38:150:38:17

Why? She's fabulous.

0:38:170:38:19

She's, er, a keen interferer.

0:38:190:38:23

Of course. She's organising her son's future happiness.

0:38:230:38:28

A happiness that apparently can only be realised through a good marriage.

0:38:280:38:32

She's right.

0:38:350:38:36

What do you mean?

0:38:410:38:42

I am sorry.

0:39:080:39:10

About the factory.

0:39:110:39:12

This is better.

0:39:140:39:15

Thank you.

0:39:250:39:26

And thank you for the, er...

0:39:290:39:31

I'm not very good at fighting.

0:39:350:39:37

Then, thank you even more.

0:39:380:39:40

Would you like to go dancing with me again?

0:39:440:39:46

I'm sorry.

0:39:510:39:52

DOOR CLOSES

0:39:540:39:55

Don't you have your own work to concern you, Gilbert?

0:39:590:40:02

Once you've finished that, you're to go to the post office.

0:40:090:40:12

I have been invited to tea by Lady Allingham.

0:40:130:40:18

Of course...

0:40:180:40:20

..Mrs Hankin.

0:40:210:40:22

Why are you following me?

0:40:450:40:47

So I'm there when you finally decide to talk to me.

0:40:480:40:52

And what would you like to talk about, Bert?

0:40:520:40:55

Flowers.

0:40:570:40:58

I want to take their pictures and you know all the names.

0:41:010:41:04

You have to address the flower by its name before taking the photograph?

0:41:040:41:08

Well, it's only polite.

0:41:080:41:10

You can drop me at the butchers.

0:41:130:41:15

Thank you.

0:41:220:41:23

Ready?

0:41:270:41:28

Come on, Molly.

0:41:280:41:30

MAN: It's your last chance to make your vote count.

0:41:370:41:39

Bill Gibby, vote Labour. Labour puts health and happiness first.

0:41:390:41:43

Madam, Bill Gibby, for the sake of our children, madam.

0:41:430:41:47

Vote Bill Gibby. Vote Labour.

0:41:470:41:51

-WOMAN:

-Edmund Allingham, madam.

0:41:510:41:52

Could we interest you in safety, prosperity?

0:41:520:41:55

May we have your vote for Edmund Allingham?

0:41:550:41:57

Norma Hankin has always had ideas above her station.

0:42:070:42:11

I have to starch the linen twice.

0:42:130:42:15

Oh! As if she isn't stiff enough already.

0:42:150:42:17

SHE SOBS

0:42:210:42:23

Oh, come on now, our Paul wouldn't want to see this.

0:42:230:42:28

I loved him, you know.

0:42:330:42:35

I know.

0:42:360:42:38

I'm in trouble, Margaret.

0:42:400:42:42

Please don't hate me.

0:42:480:42:50

Mr Hankin is quite the moderniser, Harriet.

0:43:020:43:05

He's, er, he's recently opened a dance hall.

0:43:050:43:08

Oh! I love dancing.

0:43:080:43:11

But I expect you'll find it a little more provincial

0:43:120:43:15

than what you're accustomed to in London.

0:43:150:43:18

DOOR OPENS

0:43:190:43:20

We're leaving.

0:43:220:43:23

-Big day.

-Mrs Hankin!

0:43:230:43:26

I take it we can count on you at the ballot box?

0:43:260:43:29

I went first thing this morning.

0:43:290:43:31

Edmund, of course.

0:43:310:43:33

CLEM: Best of luck, darling. Not that you need it.

0:43:330:43:37

Oh, I hear you've taken on Agnes Scrivener. Very generous of you.

0:43:390:43:44

Well, we've taken on one of the local girls as a maid.

0:43:440:43:47

Whether she'll turn out to be suitable or not...

0:43:470:43:50

There's so much one needs to teach them.

0:43:500:43:52

Still, it's a great kindness...

0:43:520:43:54

..given her condition.

0:43:550:43:56

Well, excuse me, ladies.

0:43:580:44:00

Can't keep Sheffield waiting.

0:44:000:44:02

CLEM: So are you a great exponent of this new Charleston, Harriet?

0:44:100:44:14

-Oh, yes!

-Good!

0:44:140:44:17

Any of those booths over there.

0:44:170:44:19

-And your name?

-George Allingham.

0:44:200:44:23

-There you go.

-Thank you.

-And your name?

0:44:230:44:25

It doesn't matter.

0:44:250:44:26

-How long would you have...

-For ever.

0:45:000:45:02

Leonardo da Vinci.

0:45:060:45:07

-What?

-As well as Michelangelo.

0:45:120:45:14

-Erm...

-Left-handers.

0:45:170:45:20

You can kiss me if you like.

0:45:280:45:30

INDISTINCT CHATTER

0:45:510:45:54

FOOTSTEPS

0:46:130:46:15

Agnes!

0:46:150:46:17

Did you think I wouldn't find out?

0:46:180:46:20

Ah! No! Please, Norma!

0:46:200:46:22

THEY GASP AND WHISPER

0:46:260:46:29

The shame of it! Absolute shame.

0:46:310:46:34

Stop that now.

0:46:340:46:35

She's pregnant!

0:46:360:46:37

I'm warning you, leave her alone.

0:46:370:46:41

She took employment under false pretences.

0:46:410:46:44

Remember who you are.

0:46:460:46:48

Both your mother and hers were workhouse babies - do you think that

0:46:480:46:51

you can speak to her like that just because you married a shopkeeper?

0:46:510:46:55

Go on, get out.

0:46:570:46:58

OUT!

0:47:000:47:02

Do not come back to my house.

0:47:070:47:09

I voted.

0:47:310:47:33

I wouldn't want to pass comment on that, Mr Eyre.

0:47:350:47:37

Lest I seem too sure of my opinions.

0:47:370:47:40

I'm sorry if I've...

0:47:450:47:46

You've taken against me, I have a right to know why.

0:47:460:47:49

It's just always about you.

0:47:520:47:53

Your opinions and your rights and hang the effect on anybody else.

0:47:540:48:00

What effect?

0:48:000:48:02

On who? On you?

0:48:020:48:04

And now you say nothing! You're a coward.

0:48:060:48:09

And you are a hypocrite!

0:48:140:48:17

You preach about socialism and then you go home to George Allingham.

0:48:170:48:22

You know nothing of my marriage!

0:48:220:48:24

I know that you've martyred yourself to it!

0:48:240:48:26

-Are you all right, Margaret?

-Yes, yes, yes...

0:48:520:48:55

No.

0:48:570:48:58

-Well, what is it?

-It's our Agnes. She's gone.

0:48:580:49:01

Gone?

0:49:030:49:04

Sheffield. Henry's taking her to the station now.

0:49:040:49:08

Come on.

0:49:120:49:13

Come on, Molly!

0:49:200:49:21

Agnes!

0:49:350:49:36

Agnes!

0:49:390:49:40

When I asked you and when you said no, was that because of the baby?

0:49:430:49:48

Was it just the baby?

0:49:500:49:52

I'm sorry.

0:49:540:49:56

I'm so sorry, Gilbert.

0:49:570:49:59

TRAIN DROWNS HIM OUT

0:50:000:50:01

HE SHOUTS: Marry me, Agnes!

0:50:030:50:05

Yes!

0:50:080:50:09

Grace Middleton.

0:50:120:50:13

OK.

0:50:130:50:15

Take one of these and go to the booth at the end, please.

0:50:170:50:20

Thank you.

0:50:200:50:21

And then the world froze.

0:51:120:51:16

The votes were counted and nobody won.

0:51:160:51:20

The Conservatives had the most seats,

0:51:200:51:22

but not enough to form a government on their own.

0:51:220:51:25

So we waited, while down in Westminster they talked

0:51:250:51:30

and negotiated.

0:51:300:51:32

The whole country waited for 40 days and 40 nights...

0:51:320:51:36

..which makes it sound biblical.

0:51:380:51:40

In a way, in terms of how much it mattered, what turned on it, it was.

0:51:400:51:44

And then, 40 days later, a clear decision.

0:51:450:51:49

No coalition, one party in power.

0:51:500:51:53

I like to think that our village,

0:51:540:51:57

after the King,

0:51:570:51:59

was the first to know.

0:51:590:52:01

I wanted you to hear it first.

0:52:220:52:24

'Eyes like lions after slumber

0:52:280:52:32

'in unvanquishable number.

0:52:320:52:34

'Shake your chains to earth like dew.'

0:52:340:52:38

Which in sleep had fallen on you.

0:52:390:52:43

Ye are many...

0:52:450:52:47

..they are few.

0:52:510:52:53

SHE LAUGHS

0:52:530:52:56

Woo-hooo!

0:52:560:53:00

-You came home?

-Yes.

0:53:240:53:26

-Is it bad?

-Yes, it's bad.

0:53:290:53:32

It's a little early for whisky.

0:53:350:53:37

Only if one has slept.

0:53:370:53:38

Well, what's done is done.

0:53:440:53:46

Lady Macbeth and no hint of irony.

0:53:460:53:48

You've come a long way since Jane Austen.

0:53:480:53:50

We dropped our guard.

0:53:530:53:54

People have no idea what they've done.

0:54:000:54:02

Socialism is a cancer. It's stupid, wrong and dangerous

0:54:020:54:05

and I fought it with a narrow, parochial campaign.

0:54:050:54:07

Darling, your campaign...

0:54:070:54:09

Was too small. These are such important times.

0:54:090:54:12

I, I should have shouted it out.

0:54:120:54:15

Do you know what is happening to people in Russia

0:54:150:54:17

in the name of socialism? Do you have any idea what becomes

0:54:170:54:21

of a society, when character and personality is crushed by duty

0:54:210:54:25

to the state?

0:54:250:54:26

Bigger next time.

0:54:290:54:31

-Hmm?

-I can hear it.

0:54:330:54:35

-Hear what?

-The fight that's still left in you.

0:54:350:54:39

We will come back from this.

0:54:410:54:43

YOU...will come back from this.

0:54:440:54:47

INDISTINCT CHATTER

0:54:530:54:54

Bill, say a few words.

0:54:540:54:56

I've been your member of parliament for 40 days.

0:55:050:55:08

CHEERING

0:55:080:55:10

Now, today, I am here to tell you

0:55:100:55:12

that I'm a member of your new government!

0:55:120:55:14

CHEERING

0:55:140:55:17

I wanted to make my first speech here because this village has

0:55:170:55:22

come to mean so much to me during this campaign.

0:55:220:55:25

I'm humbled and privileged to represent you

0:55:260:55:28

and I make this promise to you now - we will not rest

0:55:280:55:32

until working people like you have proper wages,

0:55:320:55:36

safe working lives and a clear understanding

0:55:360:55:40

that you are equal in every way

0:55:400:55:42

to those who have always felt themselves superior to you.

0:55:420:55:45

I am of you, for you and I am with you, every single step of the way.

0:55:470:55:53

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:55:530:55:56

DOOR OPENS

0:56:060:56:08

Abandoning me already?

0:56:080:56:10

There's no point now, is there?

0:56:110:56:13

What do you mean?

0:56:140:56:15

Losing wasn't part of the deal.

0:56:170:56:19

I wasn't aware that we'd finalised the terms.

0:56:190:56:22

People are never simple, Edmund.

0:56:260:56:29

We all have our secrets.

0:56:310:56:32

Our complications.

0:56:340:56:35

Marriage needn't be seen as restricting.

0:56:380:56:41

Ours could offer us more freedom than we've ever had.

0:56:410:56:44

Are you asking me to marry you?

0:56:470:56:49

I'm asking you to ask me to marry you.

0:56:510:56:54

-I'll drive.

-Where are we going?

0:57:050:57:08

Who knows?

0:57:080:57:09

Exciting, isn't it?

0:57:100:57:12

What the hell is wrong with you?

0:57:500:57:51

-What's his name?

-Sorry?

0:57:510:57:55

Give me my grandson's name!

0:57:550:57:57

The matter is closed.

0:58:010:58:02

That's my final word.

0:58:030:58:05

Yours is not the final word on anything any more.

0:58:050:58:08

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