0:00:25 > 0:00:27Hmm, very pleasing.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30I think we can pronounce your ladyship fully recovered.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33I had hoped the scarring might improve.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35But it still seems so livid.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37One rather feels obliged to make jokes
0:00:37 > 0:00:40about zip fasteners, and so forth.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43I hope that isn't wishful thinking.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45Because I don't want to have to open you up again.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47This old tummy wouldn't stand for it.
0:00:47 > 0:00:50There were no complications with my first child.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53Time to shut up shop, I think.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55No more babies.
0:00:55 > 0:01:00I'm sure your husband will take care of matters.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02Nurse will help you with your hat.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Stop please, Spargo.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17There's no need to wait.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19Beryl!
0:01:19 > 0:01:22I was just passing by and I thought I'd help take the children home!
0:01:22 > 0:01:24Oh, very well, your ladyship.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29- All present and correct.- Yes.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33I'll push.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38Be careful, your ladyship! It's really heavy.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43PHONE RINGS
0:01:43 > 0:01:46'Hallo. Herzogpark zwei zwei neun.'
0:01:46 > 0:01:48Persie, is that you?
0:01:48 > 0:01:50Are we going to have the usual conversation?
0:01:50 > 0:01:52Does Agnes send her love, and say the door is always open?
0:01:52 > 0:01:55We both want you to know that you're welcome to come home.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57Don't wait till the world goes up in flames.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59Hallam! You're the only person I know
0:01:59 > 0:02:02who thinks the world is going to go up in flames.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04Everyone else has been all smiles since Munich.
0:02:04 > 0:02:08'I think the Jewish population might disagree with that.'
0:02:08 > 0:02:12I told Agnes how you were living, and she wasn't very happy.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18Did you tell her that we kissed?
0:02:20 > 0:02:23- No.- I suspect that's for the best.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25SHE LAUGHS
0:02:25 > 0:02:27What a to-do!
0:02:27 > 0:02:31Poor baby will be quite out of sorts, coming back early from her walk!
0:02:31 > 0:02:34What was that naughty nursery maid thinking?
0:02:34 > 0:02:36Beryl was following orders from me.
0:02:36 > 0:02:37Agnes, how very timely!
0:02:37 > 0:02:40I just answered the telephone, and it was for you.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42But I've asked you to leave that to the staff, Blanche!
0:02:42 > 0:02:45I can't waste time with petit bourgeois ceremonial.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48It might be the British Museum. It's a woman called Kennedy.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50She sounds American.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56Oh, I beg your pardon, my lady.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03Mrs Kennedy.
0:03:05 > 0:03:09Do you think the tan gloves, or the blue suedette?
0:03:09 > 0:03:12I think the tan introduces a nice autumnal note.
0:03:12 > 0:03:16Seasonal, neat, and without excess pretensions.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18But the suedette go with my shoes.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21I've never met my nephew's wife,
0:03:21 > 0:03:24she looks like a mannequin in her photographs.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26Is he a big noise then, this nephew?
0:03:26 > 0:03:31He had a desk job with the income tax in Belfast for nine years.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33But he's very ambitious.
0:03:33 > 0:03:37He's come home to London, and set up selling insurance.
0:03:37 > 0:03:41What's the matter? Is my rabbit's foot not straight?
0:03:41 > 0:03:45It's straight. But it looks matted round the claws.
0:03:45 > 0:03:48Well, genuine fur will always perish.
0:03:48 > 0:03:52But I wore it on my Sunday coat when Tommy was a boy.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55We will be inviting their Royal Highnesses
0:03:55 > 0:03:58the Duke and Duchess of Kent, and His Excellency and Mrs Kennedy
0:03:58 > 0:04:02will be bringing two additional guests, their son Jack,
0:04:02 > 0:04:05and someone she describes as a business acquaintance,
0:04:05 > 0:04:06a Mr Caspar Landry.
0:04:06 > 0:04:10Very good, my lady. You will be requiring full, formal settings?
0:04:10 > 0:04:13Naturally. It's what this house does best.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23I have to say, you don't half look well, Auntie Clarice.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25That must be the Belgravia air.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28Oh, I don't get much of that, dear!
0:04:28 > 0:04:33I'm not like Enid, all manicured and coiffed at her perfume counter!
0:04:33 > 0:04:35She does herself down, Enid.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37When my dad was at his last,
0:04:37 > 0:04:40she turned up at the hospital with these beautiful biscuits.
0:04:40 > 0:04:44Lovely they were, all sort of purple and round, like little cushions.
0:04:44 > 0:04:46You mean my violet macaroons!
0:04:46 > 0:04:49Most households buy them in from French confectioners,
0:04:49 > 0:04:52but I've always made my own.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55I thought they might tickle Godfrey's palate.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57Were they the last thing he ate?
0:04:57 > 0:05:00No, he'd gone beyond swallowing by that point.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02But I've never tasted anything so good.
0:05:02 > 0:05:05Cyril. Elbows. And stop staring.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07She's got a dead dog's paw on her.
0:05:08 > 0:05:12Aunt Clarice, I am sorry! What have I said about passing remarks?
0:05:12 > 0:05:15It's off a rabbit, not a dog.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18You can touch it if you like.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20He's been a bit out of sorts since we arrived.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22Missing his pals, I reckon.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24There are some lovely parks in London.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27You should get him out and playing. He'd soon make friends.
0:05:27 > 0:05:32Well, he's got his family for now, hasn't he Auntie Clarice?
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Yes, he has.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44I feel horribly awkward about the whole thing.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46We've scarcely seen the Kents
0:05:46 > 0:05:48since he suggested I take a letter to Herr Hitler!
0:05:48 > 0:05:50The Duchess sounded delighted to accept.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52And the Duke is one of your oldest friends.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55Ambassador Kennedy isn't one of my oldest friends.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57He'll have some sort of plan, just you wait and see.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01Everyone has a plan, Hallam. That's how things get done.
0:06:05 > 0:06:10I'm sorry, I ought to be more enthusiastic.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14I suppose I was shaken by your news.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17Oh, yes. My news.
0:06:18 > 0:06:22Was that the thing you dreaded most? Being told no more?
0:06:22 > 0:06:25The thing I dreaded most was having none at all.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27And we were spared it.
0:06:27 > 0:06:32They've made us complete, haven't they? The children?
0:06:34 > 0:06:37Yes. Of course.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46Dinner plates and soup cups, ready for inspection!
0:06:46 > 0:06:48That's beautiful! Is it porcelain?
0:06:48 > 0:06:52Says Limoges on the back.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55I reckon the gilt's been chipped on this one.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58Not by me. This has been in mothballs since before I came.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01And make sure you root out the finger bowls.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03I've Grilled Lime and Shrimp in mind for the hors d'oeuvres.
0:07:03 > 0:07:07I have received advance notice of the bill of fare.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10Her ladyship has in fact requested oysters.
0:07:10 > 0:07:14But I go upstairs to discuss the menus!
0:07:14 > 0:07:17I was planning to suggest a New World theme for the Kennedys.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20Poulet Maryland, perhaps, and a seafood chowder!
0:07:20 > 0:07:22Johnny, fetch the cellar book.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26I shall recommend a Riesling to Sir Hallam for the first course.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29Schloss Vollrads, I think, if we can get the '36.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31A German wine?
0:07:32 > 0:07:34War has been averted, Mrs Thackeray.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37We must rise above petty historical frets.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39In your opinion, maybe.
0:07:39 > 0:07:43Dr Mottershead, these papers were deeply personal to Lady Holland.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46There are hundreds of letters, there are her journals.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49There are writings even I was not allowed to see!
0:07:49 > 0:07:52Since she appointed me her literary executor,
0:07:52 > 0:07:55I imagine she was happy for me to read them all.
0:07:55 > 0:07:59You had no alphabetic system, no coherent filing code!
0:07:59 > 0:08:02It was entirely coherent to both she and I!
0:08:02 > 0:08:06Letters from Sir Hallam tied with blue ribbon,
0:08:06 > 0:08:10telegrams preserved in her alligator glove-case!
0:08:10 > 0:08:12She chose her own methods, and I maintained them.
0:08:12 > 0:08:16My sister was a romantic. I suppose you read her memoirs.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19I typed every single sentence.
0:08:19 > 0:08:20You deserve a medal.
0:08:20 > 0:08:24I'd prefer it if you didn't speak of my mother that way.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27- Especially in front of Mr Amanjit. - I was speaking to Mr Amanjit.
0:08:27 > 0:08:30A letter came for you.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33Could you please tell me where I might find the ink?
0:08:36 > 0:08:39The i's have it.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42For the meanwhile, they are positioned next to interment,
0:08:42 > 0:08:44items destined for.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52Who are you doing that one for?
0:08:52 > 0:08:54Mr John F Kennedy.
0:08:54 > 0:08:59One imagines the central initial is intended to add gravitas.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02According to the Tatler, he's still at university.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05I hope he can keep up with the conversation.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07KNOCK ON DOOR
0:09:07 > 0:09:09This'll be my delivery. From Harrods.
0:09:09 > 0:09:12A Harrods' van? Outside 165?
0:09:12 > 0:09:14They come here all the time.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17They don't come making deliveries for staff!
0:09:17 > 0:09:20If Miss Buck were here, she'd say you'd forgotten your place.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24If Miss Buck was here, she'd say the same to you.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26Let go, let me do it!
0:09:26 > 0:09:30Harrods. You're too generous. You know that.
0:09:30 > 0:09:34Who else am I going to spend my nest egg on?
0:09:34 > 0:09:38I've seen titled children on quite inferior scooters.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42I am going to make my way, you know.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44Oh, I don't doubt it, dear.
0:09:44 > 0:09:48One day, there's going to be nothing but the best for my little soldier.
0:09:48 > 0:09:52Oh, your dad used to call you that.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54I know.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59We used to have such lovely Christmases.
0:09:59 > 0:10:04I think of us all sometimes, crammed into the parlour in Edmonton,
0:10:04 > 0:10:10with the gas light hissing and a trifle on the sideboard
0:10:10 > 0:10:15and I think, "How did that come to pass?"
0:10:16 > 0:10:20How can a family just fizzle out, like fireworks?
0:10:22 > 0:10:25It's fate, isn't it?
0:10:25 > 0:10:29Well, fate, and the Spanish flu.
0:10:29 > 0:10:30Oh, God.
0:10:30 > 0:10:35Oh, here. Mucky pup.
0:10:37 > 0:10:41I haven't fizzled out, Auntie Clarice. You've still got me.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44You've got me too, for what it's worth.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49Look, Auntie!
0:11:23 > 0:11:26Eunice, the oysters have arrived.
0:11:26 > 0:11:30I want them shucked, the minute you've buttered the dariole moulds.
0:11:30 > 0:11:34Please don't make me, Mrs Thack! It's like fingering phlegm.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36What, may I ask, are these?
0:11:38 > 0:11:40They're just a few violet macaroons.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43Lady Agnes ordered florentines to go up with the coffee,
0:11:43 > 0:11:46Mrs Kennedy favours them.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48Violet macaroons were not commissioned.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50Well, I actually made those for my family.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53As a gift, in my own time.
0:11:55 > 0:11:59And utilising your own ingredients?
0:11:59 > 0:12:01It's only a bit of ground almond and some sugar!
0:12:01 > 0:12:06And a bottle of violet essence and six whites of egg.
0:12:06 > 0:12:07And half a dozen yolks,
0:12:07 > 0:12:09which one imagines have already graced the plughole.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12If you had any relatives to speak of, Mr Pritchard,
0:12:12 > 0:12:17you'd be sneaking them gratis Silvo and complimentary hock.
0:12:17 > 0:12:21And well you know it! So you needn't get on your high horse with me!
0:12:21 > 0:12:24Write me out a bill.
0:12:24 > 0:12:25Don't provoke me.
0:12:27 > 0:12:31And you needn't include the yolks.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33They're going in a mayonnaise.
0:12:50 > 0:12:54Blimey. Haute cuisine in the nursery now, eh?
0:12:54 > 0:12:56I've swapped with Eunice.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59She's putting the nappies through the wringer.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02Don't you cut yourself on that knife.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05I used to do this all the time, in my father's public house.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Mother didn't like me even going in the kitchen, but
0:13:07 > 0:13:12when those crates arrived you could smell the seaside coming off them.
0:13:12 > 0:13:14Taste it too, if you had a sneaky one.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18Go on.
0:13:26 > 0:13:30You want to be careful. Feeding me aphrodisiacs.
0:13:32 > 0:13:36You want to be careful, making lewd remarks.
0:13:39 > 0:13:43That will be eight shillings and eight pence.
0:13:43 > 0:13:44Plus sixpence deposit on the tin,
0:13:44 > 0:13:48which I would prefer to see returned.
0:14:00 > 0:14:04I shall be keeping the tin, thank you.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06Consider it purchased, for another half crown.
0:14:48 > 0:14:53We followed events at Munich very closely at the Embassy,
0:14:53 > 0:14:56and I admired your opposition to Chamberlain.
0:14:56 > 0:14:57I see.
0:14:57 > 0:15:02I don't agree with it, but dissent takes guts.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Sir Hallam was not without allies, Mr Kennedy.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07Churchill and Eden both shared his point of view.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09And where are they?
0:15:09 > 0:15:12Marooned on the back benches.
0:15:12 > 0:15:14LAUGHTER
0:15:19 > 0:15:21Ambassador Kennedy always studies form.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23Never makes an ill-considered move.
0:15:23 > 0:15:27That's why I like him. I have caution bred into my bones,
0:15:27 > 0:15:30my parents were pharmacists who fled a pogrom.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32I presume they were Jewish.
0:15:32 > 0:15:36They still are. We just spell our name a little differently.
0:15:36 > 0:15:40That's the American way. We move forward, we mutate.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43We don't turn heritage into a feather bed.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46Sir Hallam's heritage is more interesting than you'd think.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48They made their money from asbestos mines.
0:15:48 > 0:15:50I heard he sold them, and invested cleverly.
0:15:50 > 0:15:54- Yes.- I'd have held on to them, and researched their role in textiles.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57With a war on the horizon, anything flame retardant has potential.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59But there isn't a war on the horizon any more.
0:16:02 > 0:16:06Take Mr Kennedy. He made his money from moonshine and motion pictures.
0:16:06 > 0:16:11He gave the people what they wanted, now he's getting his heart's desire.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14And what's your heart's desire, Mr Landry?
0:16:16 > 0:16:18I'd rather like to dance with you.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24A rumba, if the band were good enough.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27The challenge I'm faced with, Hallam,
0:16:27 > 0:16:31is that I need access to brains entirely geared to European policy.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34They must be the finest brains available,
0:16:34 > 0:16:38and at my disposal in the long-term. For the next ten years,
0:16:38 > 0:16:40the affairs of the world are going to focus on Europe.
0:16:40 > 0:16:44My son Jack's senior year thesis is based on that very supposition.
0:16:44 > 0:16:45Isn't it, Jack?
0:16:45 > 0:16:47Yes, Sir.
0:16:47 > 0:16:51Hallam, as and when we return to Washington,
0:16:51 > 0:16:55my sons and I are going to need a consultant advisor
0:16:55 > 0:16:57in overseas diplomacy.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00I think that's a very perspicacious plan.
0:17:01 > 0:17:06Well, the position is yours, if you wish to accept it.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18But what did Sir Hallam say? Did he say he'd go?
0:17:18 > 0:17:21I told you! He said he was flattered by the offer,
0:17:21 > 0:17:24and he'd give it his best consideration.
0:17:24 > 0:17:28Meanwhile Lady Agnes laughed and said, "What an enthralling prospect!"
0:17:30 > 0:17:33Upstairs. Whilst there's still some air in these souffles.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36You'd better start on the dishes.
0:17:36 > 0:17:40And watch out for the gilt, in case you chip it and get charged.
0:17:57 > 0:17:58May I help you, sir?
0:17:58 > 0:18:01I was wondering, ma'am, do you have such a thing
0:18:01 > 0:18:03as a spoonful of baking soda and some water?
0:18:03 > 0:18:05Only, I feel a little nauseous,
0:18:05 > 0:18:07and I generally find that will settle things.
0:18:07 > 0:18:13Of course, sir. I've oil of peppermint, if you prefer.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15No. Just the baking soda, please.
0:18:20 > 0:18:24I'm sorry, ma'am. Can you direct me to the bathroom?
0:18:24 > 0:18:26This way.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47Would you like me to fetch anyone, sir? Your mother, perhaps?
0:18:47 > 0:18:49You could be my mother, for a minute.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51Do you have children?
0:18:51 > 0:18:57No, I have a nephew. And a great-nephew, Cyril.
0:18:57 > 0:18:58He's a smashing little chap.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00Family, hey?
0:19:00 > 0:19:03Like my father once said, if you have thirty cousins,
0:19:03 > 0:19:04you're halfway home.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07Simply because you have somewhere to run.
0:19:15 > 0:19:16The florentines have melted!
0:19:16 > 0:19:19They look like something a cat's sicked up!
0:19:19 > 0:19:22Somebody must have left them on the plate rack near the gas.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26It wasn't me.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28Lady Agnes'll do her nut.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33Go in the pantry, get me the tin with Windsor Castle on!
0:19:37 > 0:19:40- They look like they'll taste of perfume.- Upstairs!
0:19:40 > 0:19:45Excuse me! Where do you think you're going, with my family's macaroons?
0:19:45 > 0:19:48Coffee cannot be served without petits fours. Johnny, carry on!
0:19:48 > 0:19:51I've paid for those! They are my property!
0:19:51 > 0:19:53Johnny! Proceed!
0:19:53 > 0:19:56Excuse me, ma'am. I think I need to rejoin the party.
0:19:56 > 0:19:57Oh, of course, dear.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00You've been very kind.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12You do not address any guest of the family upstairs as dear!
0:20:12 > 0:20:16Let alone the son of the American Ambassador!
0:20:16 > 0:20:19As far as I was concerned he was just a poorly young man
0:20:19 > 0:20:20who needed looking after.
0:20:20 > 0:20:24Spending time with my family's brought out my caring side.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26It's brought out your foolish side.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28You have a duty to the family upstairs!
0:20:28 > 0:20:31I don't think you should be lecturing me about my duty!
0:20:31 > 0:20:33Given your record in the war.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36Oh. Four left. Fancy.
0:20:36 > 0:20:40So, you only owe me...
0:20:40 > 0:20:42- six and eleven.- What for?
0:20:42 > 0:20:44The macaroons you sent upstairs,
0:20:44 > 0:20:50and you may post the remittance to me at 26 Mafeking Road, Pimlico.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53Which will be my residence from this evening onward.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56I resign! Tin pot martinet.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59I think you know what you should do,
0:20:59 > 0:21:04although I'll wait for a decision for the sake of form.
0:21:04 > 0:21:05Sir.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08You've always done things so elegantly!
0:21:08 > 0:21:11I'm only sad that I'm too old to come out dancing with you.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14Nonsense, Mrs Kennedy!
0:21:14 > 0:21:16Will you take care of Jack?
0:21:16 > 0:21:20He's recovered his colour, but he doesn't know London at all.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23He'll be supremely safe with us.
0:21:55 > 0:21:59Agnes, unhand that boy. He's barely 21.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15- Dorchester, was it sir? - Oh, no, not the Dorch!
0:22:15 > 0:22:17Bag O' Nails Club, Soho, I think.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50It does so make my heart leap up, to see you embracing society again.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53You were absent far too long.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55I know. It wasn't good for Hallam,
0:22:55 > 0:22:58he needs my support and I intend to give it.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00Even if we end up in America.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03Wither he goest, thou shalt go.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06That's rather biblical, for the Bag O Nails?
0:23:06 > 0:23:10Believe me, on occasion, this place puts Sodom and Gomorrah in the shade.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13Sir. I want Hallam to say yes to Joseph Kennedy.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16I want him to go where he'll feel valued and respected.
0:23:16 > 0:23:17And you want me to have a little word?
0:23:17 > 0:23:20I've had to show the bartender how to mix martinis.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22He was using too much vermouth.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24An imperfect martini?
0:23:24 > 0:23:27Well, that would never do.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34Thank you, Mr Landry.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43- Better?- I rather think it is!
0:23:43 > 0:23:48I worked shifts in a speakeasy when Prohibition was coming to an end.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50I knew that one day very soon, the whole of America
0:23:50 > 0:23:53would be waking with a headache and crying out for a pill.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57I see. So you studied the poison to find the antidote.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00And I did. It comes in the form of a soluble tablet,
0:24:00 > 0:24:03and now every bathroom in America has a bottle on the shelf.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06The whole of my fortune is founded on a thing that dissolves
0:24:06 > 0:24:08when you drop it in water.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10RUMBA MUSIC STARTS
0:24:10 > 0:24:13- Oh. A rumba!- Oh, yes.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22But they're playing it so badly.
0:25:01 > 0:25:04DOORBELL RINGS
0:25:06 > 0:25:09I'm sorry to say I just saw red!
0:25:09 > 0:25:11He's been over-reaching himself
0:25:11 > 0:25:15ever since our housekeeper went into the sanatorium.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18Telling me what I can and can't do.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21I mean, it's not as though Lady Agnes had taken me in
0:25:21 > 0:25:23under some sort of sufferance.
0:25:23 > 0:25:27I'm highly skilled and I had to be enticed.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30Thank you, dear, is it sugared?
0:25:30 > 0:25:32One and a bit, just the way you like it.
0:25:32 > 0:25:36They're all hanging on to 165 like limpets, and what for?
0:25:36 > 0:25:38A cursory, "Thank you and goodbye
0:25:38 > 0:25:40"and we're all on the next boat to America?"
0:25:40 > 0:25:42Aren't you having tea, dear?
0:25:42 > 0:25:45- I have to be up in the morning.- Oh.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47Anyway, I just thought,
0:25:47 > 0:25:50I don't have to stand here tugging on my forelock.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54I've got savings. I can retire, now I've got somewhere to go.
0:26:07 > 0:26:08Say yes.
0:26:08 > 0:26:12I'm giving it my serious consideration.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14And then say yes.
0:26:14 > 0:26:18Sometimes, old chap, one simply comes to a fork in the road.
0:26:18 > 0:26:21One doesn't know why the path should bifurcate,
0:26:21 > 0:26:24where the new lane leads, or why.
0:26:24 > 0:26:28I'm going to be sent to Australia next year. Governor General.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31No.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33But carpe diem. And all of that.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36You're talking Latin. It's probably time to go home.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39I absolutely refuse to flag or fade.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41I've asked the band to play my favourite song,
0:26:41 > 0:26:44and I am determined to enjoy it.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47MUSIC: "The Lambeth Walk"
0:27:26 > 0:27:30SINGING: Any time you're Lambeth way
0:27:30 > 0:27:32Any evening, any day
0:27:32 > 0:27:35You'll find us all doing the Lambeth walk.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38I don't think that American could believe his eyes!
0:27:38 > 0:27:41Caspar Landry? The hangover king?
0:27:41 > 0:27:44You won't be saying his name so scornfully in the morning.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46And neither, I suspect, will I.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04Did we ever do this when we were young?
0:28:04 > 0:28:07Not together. Not in evening dress.
0:28:07 > 0:28:09And we're not old!
0:28:09 > 0:28:11Not yet.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14Shall we be brave, darling?
0:28:15 > 0:28:19Shall we make sure we never have to say we didn't dare?
0:28:19 > 0:28:22Would you say yes? Would you go back to America?
0:28:24 > 0:28:26I'd go anywhere with you.
0:28:43 > 0:28:46PHONE RINGING
0:28:56 > 0:29:00It's two o'clock in the morning.
0:29:01 > 0:29:03GUNFIRE
0:29:03 > 0:29:05Who is this? Who's calling?
0:29:05 > 0:29:08CALL DISCONNECTS
0:29:08 > 0:29:09SCREAMING
0:29:11 > 0:29:13THEY SHOUT IN GERMAN
0:29:21 > 0:29:23PHONE RINGS
0:29:25 > 0:29:29Hallam? I don't want to be here any more!
0:29:30 > 0:29:31GLASS SHATTERS
0:29:31 > 0:29:34'They're arresting people, burning schools and synagogues.'
0:29:34 > 0:29:35Persie? Where are you?
0:29:35 > 0:29:37Stay calm. Tell us exactly what is happening.
0:29:37 > 0:29:40They're attacking shops. Jewish shops.
0:29:40 > 0:29:43There are buildings on fire everywhere!
0:29:43 > 0:29:46Das Telefon ist nur fuer Notfaelle vorgesehen.
0:29:49 > 0:29:51Help me.
0:29:51 > 0:29:54CALL DISCONNECTS
0:29:54 > 0:29:57Hallam. I want her home.
0:30:05 > 0:30:06Oh.
0:30:09 > 0:30:11Ah.
0:30:14 > 0:30:17I think Cyril was caught a bit short in the night.
0:30:17 > 0:30:22Cyril! Not again. I'm sorry, Aunt Clarice.
0:30:22 > 0:30:24You couldn't quickly rinse them through?
0:30:24 > 0:30:27Tom went out early, and I've got to walk Cyril to school.
0:30:27 > 0:30:29Oh, yes, of course. I'm glad to be of help.
0:30:38 > 0:30:40I've already spoken to Whitehall.
0:30:40 > 0:30:44Our man called from Berlin, and says the rioters are still going at it.
0:30:44 > 0:30:46Dozens of synagogues have been destroyed,
0:30:46 > 0:30:48and arrests of Jews run into the tens of thousands.
0:30:48 > 0:30:51This is the latest edition of the Express.
0:30:51 > 0:30:53There were even attacks on Jewish orphanages!
0:30:53 > 0:30:56They say the German government condones it.
0:30:56 > 0:30:57Of course they condone it, Agnes!
0:30:57 > 0:31:00They brought it about, as surely as if it was ordered by decree.
0:31:00 > 0:31:02Don't you understand that?
0:31:02 > 0:31:05I'm reading the papers in an attempt to understand that.
0:31:05 > 0:31:06But let's not snap,
0:31:06 > 0:31:11we're both tired Will you try to speak to Persie today?
0:31:11 > 0:31:13I shall do my best. And before you ask,
0:31:13 > 0:31:15I won't be calling Joseph Kennedy,
0:31:15 > 0:31:18now is not the time to be heading for America.
0:31:18 > 0:31:21England has been pushed to the edge of the abyss.
0:31:21 > 0:31:23Any assumption that war has been averted,
0:31:23 > 0:31:28that Hitler was tamed or constrained by the Munich Pact is over.
0:31:28 > 0:31:29I have work to do.
0:31:29 > 0:31:32But you haven't had any sleep. Or any breakfast!
0:31:35 > 0:31:36Sir.
0:31:36 > 0:31:40There has been a telephone call, from Mrs Fuller at Harbury House.
0:31:40 > 0:31:42Lotte's headmistress? What's the matter?
0:31:42 > 0:31:44Mrs Fuller did not wish to say.
0:31:44 > 0:31:47But she asked that either you visit, as Lotte's legal guardian,
0:31:47 > 0:31:49or that I do.
0:31:50 > 0:31:53Do you have time? It's not distracting you from any work?
0:31:53 > 0:31:55No, I have no work to do, sir.
0:32:03 > 0:32:05Where are you now? Are you safe?
0:32:05 > 0:32:06'Not really.'
0:32:06 > 0:32:10- Friedrich and I have had a difference of opinion.- Political opinion?
0:32:10 > 0:32:12No. He thinks we ought to marry.
0:32:14 > 0:32:18And I think if we did, I'd be in exile for ever.
0:32:18 > 0:32:20Because he's divorced. Or he would be, by then.
0:32:20 > 0:32:22Persie. This is no time for histrionics!
0:32:22 > 0:32:25Get yourself to the station, and make your way to Hamburg
0:32:25 > 0:32:27on the first available train.
0:32:27 > 0:32:29'There'll be boats to Harwich twice daily.'
0:32:29 > 0:32:33All very sensible advice, except you seem to presume that I'm in funds.
0:32:33 > 0:32:35'Are you out of funds?'
0:32:37 > 0:32:41I'm a kept woman, Hallam, who's been thrown out.
0:32:42 > 0:32:46And I'm leaving my mink behind on point of principle.
0:32:50 > 0:32:55Hallam. I'm begging you to help me.
0:32:56 > 0:33:00You're family. You don't need to.
0:33:05 > 0:33:08CHORAL SINGING
0:33:11 > 0:33:16# I hear them calling for you
0:33:16 > 0:33:21# Beware, a spider lurks about
0:33:21 > 0:33:24# And a fire has broken out
0:33:25 > 0:33:28# Can you hear them?
0:33:28 > 0:33:33# Can you hear your children crying? #
0:33:43 > 0:33:45You have touched my heart with that, Lotte.
0:33:45 > 0:33:48Her diction is delightful, isn't it?
0:33:48 > 0:33:51Now. Run outside and join in games, Lotte.
0:33:51 > 0:33:53Mr Amanjit and I will come and watch you.
0:33:53 > 0:33:55Yes, Mrs Fuller.
0:33:55 > 0:33:57Thank you, Mr Busch.
0:33:59 > 0:34:03Her late mother used to sing her that in German.
0:34:03 > 0:34:06So did Lotte, when she first came here.
0:34:06 > 0:34:09But she's forgotten how, now. Or so she says.
0:34:09 > 0:34:13She wants to be English, like everybody else.
0:34:13 > 0:34:16She will never be English, like everybody else.
0:34:17 > 0:34:21She is a Jewess, she is of a different race.
0:34:23 > 0:34:28Sir Hallam really has been extraordinarily generous with Lotte.
0:34:28 > 0:34:30I know she was only his housemaid's child,
0:34:30 > 0:34:32yet he takes care of her every need.
0:34:32 > 0:34:36He was afraid of what may happen,
0:34:36 > 0:34:39if she was sent back to Frankfurt by herself.
0:34:39 > 0:34:44I'm sure you're aware of what happened last night.
0:34:44 > 0:34:46I am.
0:34:46 > 0:34:51And it sickens me, the attacks on the Jews will gather apace,
0:34:51 > 0:34:53there'll be orphans without number.
0:34:54 > 0:34:57I want to help more children, Mr Amanjit.
0:34:57 > 0:35:01Two, even three, little girls!
0:35:01 > 0:35:05Lotte's rabbi says people are desperate to escape.
0:35:05 > 0:35:08He did give me the address in London
0:35:08 > 0:35:10for the Central British Fund for German Jewry.
0:35:10 > 0:35:14But there's also a man called Mr Silverman who might advise.
0:35:14 > 0:35:19It all sounds terribly confusing, nothing seems straightforward.
0:35:19 > 0:35:23That cannot be right.
0:35:23 > 0:35:26Nothing is right in the world just now.
0:35:26 > 0:35:28And nor will it be, for a very long time.
0:35:28 > 0:35:31Which is why we must try to do the little good that we can.
0:35:39 > 0:35:42Thank you for your time, Mr Silverman.
0:35:42 > 0:35:44And thank you for your interest, sir.
0:35:44 > 0:35:47There is so much we are trying to achieve.
0:35:47 > 0:35:49I will do my utmost to assist.
0:35:56 > 0:36:00Oh, Mr Amanjit. What is my transgression this time?
0:36:00 > 0:36:02I had hoped to avoid an upbraiding,
0:36:02 > 0:36:06you may note I have avoided your territory today.
0:36:06 > 0:36:10Dr Mottershead. I have not come before you with any complaint.
0:36:11 > 0:36:13I have come to beg a favour.
0:36:13 > 0:36:16On behalf of a place where your skills are gravely needed.
0:36:23 > 0:36:26And there's a Queen of Puddings to follow,
0:36:26 > 0:36:29which a little bird told me Master Cyril might like.
0:36:31 > 0:36:35Perhaps you'd like to carve, dear, as you're the man of the house.
0:36:35 > 0:36:37It would be my privilege and pleasure.
0:36:37 > 0:36:40It's like a Sunday dinner... on a week night.
0:36:40 > 0:36:43Oh, an ounce of planning saves a pound of trouble!
0:36:43 > 0:36:47We'll have the leavings minced up in a shepherd's pie tomorrow
0:36:47 > 0:36:50and then I've a chicken and a ham to be delivered Thursday.
0:36:50 > 0:36:52And I've lodged an order
0:36:52 > 0:36:55for store-cupboard staples with Partridge's in Sloane Square.
0:36:55 > 0:36:58I don't want you putting yourself out of pocket.
0:36:58 > 0:37:00Oh, don't worry about that, dear.
0:37:00 > 0:37:02The bill won't come till the end of the month.
0:37:08 > 0:37:10What sort of organisation is this?
0:37:10 > 0:37:12Is it a dedicated charity, or a government department?
0:37:12 > 0:37:15It's where the anguish of the trapped is kept.
0:37:17 > 0:37:20There are rooms like this all over London.
0:37:22 > 0:37:25Jews write daily from Germany and Austria.
0:37:28 > 0:37:31These are cries for help,
0:37:31 > 0:37:34people begging to be rescued.
0:37:34 > 0:37:39Letters drowning, under the weight of letters.
0:37:39 > 0:37:42A thousand more arrive daily.
0:37:42 > 0:37:47It is not as if they can't get out of Germany. Travel is permitted.
0:37:47 > 0:37:49Of course, a leaving tax is levied.
0:37:50 > 0:37:54The problem is, is that no-one else will have them.
0:37:54 > 0:37:58Britain issues only 75 visas a day.
0:37:58 > 0:38:01And there is deep resistance to any change of rule.
0:38:04 > 0:38:08This is Chaos. Chaos with a capital C.
0:38:08 > 0:38:14No-one in this building is to blame, it has happened too fast.
0:38:14 > 0:38:17Meanwhile these people are pursued by a bureaucracy of such precision,
0:38:17 > 0:38:21and intent, that they are quite without hope
0:38:21 > 0:38:23unless we strive to match it.
0:38:23 > 0:38:27I told Mr Silverman of your skills at creating order.
0:38:27 > 0:38:31We hoped you might volunteer to implement a system.
0:38:33 > 0:38:38And what would be the point of that, if we won't let them in?
0:38:43 > 0:38:46Pritchard, I cherished Mrs Thackeray!
0:38:46 > 0:38:48I was proud to present my guests, and my family,
0:38:48 > 0:38:50with the food that she had cooked.
0:38:50 > 0:38:53But we can't keep hoping that she'll have a change of heart!
0:38:53 > 0:38:56- What are we having for dinner tonight?- Mock Turtle Soup.
0:38:56 > 0:38:57Tinned?
0:38:59 > 0:39:03And a pheasant pie from Fortnums. Followed by blancmange. Home-made.
0:39:03 > 0:39:06But, Pritchard, when Miss Buck was taken ill,
0:39:06 > 0:39:09you promised me that we could manage without a housekeeper.
0:39:09 > 0:39:12I need you to act as a housekeeper would,
0:39:12 > 0:39:14and place an advertisement in tomorrow's Chronicle.
0:39:14 > 0:39:18If Mrs Thackeray would like to reapply, she may.
0:39:20 > 0:39:23Reapply? Writing in, with references?
0:39:23 > 0:39:25I can't see Mrs Thackeray doing that.
0:39:25 > 0:39:27Especially as her references would have to come from you.
0:39:27 > 0:39:30Are you going to put a glace cherry on that?
0:39:30 > 0:39:32We've run out of glace cherries!
0:39:35 > 0:39:36What's that?
0:39:36 > 0:39:39Plaice and three penn'orth, with crispy bits.
0:39:39 > 0:39:42I haven't had a hot meal since Mrs Thack upped sticks!
0:39:42 > 0:39:45All the effort's gone into feeding upstairs.
0:39:45 > 0:39:47I can smell them from here.
0:39:47 > 0:39:51Get yourself a piece of bread, I'll make you a chip butty.
0:39:51 > 0:39:54Can I tempt you, Beryl? Go on, you know you want to!
0:39:54 > 0:39:56Do I?
0:39:56 > 0:39:57I was only being jocular.
0:39:57 > 0:40:00Hmm. Jocular spelt F-R-E-S-H.
0:40:03 > 0:40:05You want to rein him in, Mr P.
0:40:05 > 0:40:07This servants' hall is going to lose its class.
0:40:07 > 0:40:10Oi!
0:40:10 > 0:40:12How do you intend to amend the visa policy?
0:40:12 > 0:40:15It is the principle obstacle in our way.
0:40:15 > 0:40:18It's perceived in the Commons as an immigration issue.
0:40:18 > 0:40:20Difficult, given the levels of unemployment.
0:40:20 > 0:40:24How do YOU perceive it, Hallam?
0:40:24 > 0:40:26And it's no good pulling that po-face,
0:40:26 > 0:40:31- I can see right through it, I always could.- I'm trying to keep some professional distance!
0:40:31 > 0:40:34No, you're high-tailing it away from your emotions!
0:40:34 > 0:40:37You did it as a boy, when I visited you in that wretched school.
0:40:37 > 0:40:39You were the only one who ever came!
0:40:39 > 0:40:41And I didn't see you particularly often.
0:40:41 > 0:40:45Well, you were a very uninspiring child. I did try my best.
0:40:45 > 0:40:47I brought you tuck, I took you out for treats.
0:40:47 > 0:40:51You brought me protein biscuits, and took me to a nudist camp.
0:40:51 > 0:40:53Only the once!
0:40:54 > 0:40:57It's probably your mother that you're really angry with.
0:40:57 > 0:41:00If you wish to pursue that, I can recommend a mesmerist.
0:41:00 > 0:41:03I do not wish to pursue it.
0:41:03 > 0:41:07The hard truth is the Jews are seen as immigrants not refugees.
0:41:07 > 0:41:11Hallam, they won't be refugees if we don't let them in,
0:41:11 > 0:41:14they will be statistics.
0:41:17 > 0:41:19Sir, you must persuade the Home Secretary
0:41:19 > 0:41:21of the benefits to foreign policy!
0:41:21 > 0:41:23Advise him that group visas will save time.
0:41:23 > 0:41:25And then advise him to get the children out.
0:41:25 > 0:41:29It will avoid the unemployment issue and capture public sympathy.
0:41:29 > 0:41:31The Home Secretary is receiving
0:41:31 > 0:41:33a delegation of Anglo-German Jewry tonight.
0:41:33 > 0:41:35He has to listen to what they have to say.
0:41:35 > 0:41:38And you must listen to what I have to say.
0:41:38 > 0:41:40We could take in tens of thousands,
0:41:40 > 0:41:43yet we haven't relaxed a single immigration law.
0:41:43 > 0:41:46Britain should take the lead, and take the children.
0:41:51 > 0:41:53Hello, Enid, dear!
0:41:53 > 0:41:56Venison pie tonight,
0:41:56 > 0:42:00Mr Hynes had a delivery from one of the Scottish estates.
0:42:00 > 0:42:01Will it be very rich?
0:42:01 > 0:42:04Oh no, venison's a lean meat.
0:42:04 > 0:42:06My flaky's never turned out so well,
0:42:06 > 0:42:10I think it's because this room's quite chilly in the day.
0:42:13 > 0:42:15Cyril. Go out on your scooter.
0:42:15 > 0:42:17I don't want to.
0:42:17 > 0:42:19Scooter! Before I smack your legs.
0:42:35 > 0:42:37I can't be doing with all this mess.
0:42:37 > 0:42:41Oh, this isn't mess! This is work in progress.
0:42:41 > 0:42:43I've done my work for the day!
0:42:43 > 0:42:46Standing up in a shop for nine hours in high heels!
0:42:46 > 0:42:49And when Tom comes home, he's done his work too.
0:42:49 > 0:42:53We'd sooner have a tidy kitchen, and some tinned corned beef!
0:42:53 > 0:42:55Corned beef?
0:42:55 > 0:42:59I like corned beef! I know where I am with corned beef!
0:42:59 > 0:43:02I'm lying awake every night and I don't know whether it's all
0:43:02 > 0:43:06these bloody banquets or if it's the fear of the bill from the butcher's!
0:43:06 > 0:43:09Oh, we'll cry over that when it arrives, shall we?
0:43:09 > 0:43:11You can cry on your own over that one.
0:43:13 > 0:43:15The trouble with you is you're ruined.
0:43:15 > 0:43:18You've no idea how normal people live.
0:43:34 > 0:43:36KNOCK ON DOOR
0:43:37 > 0:43:39Can I come in?
0:43:39 > 0:43:40Of course, dear.
0:43:43 > 0:43:46I'm going to settle that wretched butcher's bill
0:43:46 > 0:43:50the minute it arrives. I'll do it out of my savings,
0:43:50 > 0:43:52you and Enid don't deserve a moment's worry.
0:43:52 > 0:43:56There's something I need to tell you, Auntie Clarice.
0:44:00 > 0:44:04We've been having things rougher than I've cracked on.
0:44:04 > 0:44:08I'm not selling as much insurance as I'd like.
0:44:08 > 0:44:13My bike needs a new chain and two new tyres.
0:44:13 > 0:44:15It's going to cost me an arm and a leg.
0:44:15 > 0:44:18Do you need me to help you out?
0:44:21 > 0:44:27No. I've done a deal with the repairman.
0:44:29 > 0:44:32He's taking Cyril's scooter in exchange.
0:44:39 > 0:44:43Well. Winter's on its way.
0:44:43 > 0:44:47He'd be putting it in mothballs in a week or two.
0:44:50 > 0:44:53'Penfold speaking, Third Secretary. Berlin.'
0:44:53 > 0:44:54Hallam Holland, London.
0:44:54 > 0:44:57I need to speak with you concerning the transportation
0:44:57 > 0:45:01of a vulnerable person. The name is Towyn, Persephone Anne.
0:45:01 > 0:45:03'Miss or Mrs, sir?'
0:45:03 > 0:45:06Lady. She's the daughter of an Earl.
0:45:14 > 0:45:16Mr Pritchard.
0:45:25 > 0:45:28Radcliffe and Hynes sent this invoice by mistake.
0:45:28 > 0:45:32It would seem Mrs Thackeray has been feeding her relations on account.
0:45:32 > 0:45:35I might have known she'd be a stranger to the Co-op.
0:45:35 > 0:45:38We must forward it, to her new address.
0:45:44 > 0:45:46Sometimes it seems to me
0:45:46 > 0:45:49that no-one in the world is in their proper place.
0:45:49 > 0:45:54There is no task so great that it cannot be solved by categorisation.
0:45:54 > 0:45:57Small groups must join forces,
0:45:57 > 0:46:01larger masses broken down into component parts.
0:46:03 > 0:46:09Now the next phase commences,
0:46:09 > 0:46:14finding foster parents for children who have visas.
0:46:18 > 0:46:22And I'm horribly afraid that I don't know where to start.
0:46:23 > 0:46:28We start with List Number One.
0:46:28 > 0:46:30Sponsor Number One.
0:46:30 > 0:46:34Miss Sylvia Fuller, Harbury House School, Oxfordshire.
0:46:46 > 0:46:48I thought you might join me for tea in the drawing room,
0:46:48 > 0:46:50and then I realised you must be busy.
0:46:50 > 0:46:54- Thank you, dear. - You're doing such splendid work.
0:46:54 > 0:46:55I've always loved a puzzle.
0:46:55 > 0:47:00But the finances for this Kindertransport
0:47:00 > 0:47:01just don't seem to work.
0:47:01 > 0:47:03In what way?
0:47:03 > 0:47:06The government insists on a £50 bond for every child.
0:47:06 > 0:47:09In advance, to ensure they don't become a charge upon the state.
0:47:09 > 0:47:11Hallam and I would be happy to donate.
0:47:11 > 0:47:13Hallam already has.
0:47:16 > 0:47:19You have more to offer than money, Agnes.
0:47:19 > 0:47:22Have I? I'm not sure.
0:47:22 > 0:47:24You have intelligence, tact, and charm.
0:47:24 > 0:47:26I have the former in abundance,
0:47:26 > 0:47:30- but when I turn to the latter two the bucket comes up dry.- No.
0:47:30 > 0:47:35Yes. I know my weaknesses. But you don't know your strengths.
0:48:31 > 0:48:36Macaroons don't wait. I'm making them for Werner's of Brook Street.
0:48:36 > 0:48:40It might turn into a regular order, if they sell.
0:48:40 > 0:48:42Any more news?
0:48:42 > 0:48:46Miss Pamela sent flowers from her asylum to put on the monkey's grave.
0:48:46 > 0:48:47Oh, bless her.
0:48:47 > 0:48:52And Johnny corked a bottle of port, which he thought was claret.
0:48:52 > 0:48:55He's damn short of a bob.
0:48:55 > 0:48:58Well, no-one makes a cup of tea like you do, Mrs Thack.
0:48:58 > 0:49:02But Sir Hallam needs picking up from Whitehall. I have to run.
0:49:02 > 0:49:05Oh, yes, of course, dear.
0:49:05 > 0:49:07Oh, Mr Pritchard asked me to give you this.
0:49:07 > 0:49:10There's no message. Only to say it came from him.
0:49:20 > 0:49:23Why aren't the children coming in for free?
0:49:23 > 0:49:25Why aren't the public prepared to foot the bill?
0:49:25 > 0:49:29For the majority of people, £50 is an enormous sum.
0:49:29 > 0:49:34Forgive me, Mr Landry, you could save 100 children at a stroke.
0:49:34 > 0:49:37Are you going to remind me that my parents fled a pogrom?
0:49:37 > 0:49:41I'm not going to insult you by saying anything unnecessary.
0:49:41 > 0:49:44I've simply come to tell you about a poisonous thing,
0:49:44 > 0:49:48in the hope that you'll provide an antidote.
0:49:48 > 0:49:53I thought I might tease you, that I could beg a rumba,
0:49:53 > 0:49:56and you would grant me the pleasure of a dance.
0:49:58 > 0:50:00But you're good...
0:50:04 > 0:50:06..as well as beautiful.
0:50:19 > 0:50:23Have you had a lie in, dear? I saw your bike still in the hall.
0:50:23 > 0:50:25I'm giving it a miss today.
0:50:25 > 0:50:31Oh, you can help me carry these violet macaroons.
0:50:31 > 0:50:33It's two buses to Brook Street.
0:50:33 > 0:50:36I've got paperwork to do. Calculations and whatnot.
0:50:36 > 0:50:38Oh, yes?
0:50:38 > 0:50:41I'm packing in insurance. Reckon if I bought a taxi,
0:50:41 > 0:50:43I could be quids in.
0:50:43 > 0:50:46It's not a profession though, is it?
0:50:46 > 0:50:48Well. You've got to get a licence.
0:50:48 > 0:50:51Thing is, I need investors.
0:50:51 > 0:50:53Or an investor.
0:50:53 > 0:50:56Once there's a deposit down, I can pay the rest on HP
0:50:56 > 0:51:00and be straight out earning. I'd split the profits with you.
0:51:00 > 0:51:02You're just dreaming, Tommy.
0:51:05 > 0:51:07Doesn't everyone?
0:51:16 > 0:51:20'Please wait while we try and connect you.'
0:51:22 > 0:51:24PHONE RINGS
0:51:24 > 0:51:25Yes?
0:51:25 > 0:51:28The first group of children are scheduled to arrive,
0:51:28 > 0:51:32Liverpool Street station. December 2nd.
0:51:32 > 0:51:35It is likely to be in the small hours of the morning.
0:51:35 > 0:51:36From our embassy in Berlin, sir.
0:51:41 > 0:51:44'I'm getting Persie out on a diplomatic flight.
0:51:44 > 0:51:46'She doesn't deserve it.'
0:51:46 > 0:51:49Well. I'll make sure she's suitably grateful.
0:52:03 > 0:52:06Spargo is outside, checking the oil-gauge on the hire car.
0:52:06 > 0:52:10Eunice is downstairs filling the hot-water bottles for the children.
0:52:10 > 0:52:15If there are any problems whatsoever, you are to use my card.
0:52:15 > 0:52:18Are you sure I can't persuade you to wear one of my furs?
0:52:18 > 0:52:20Agnes, dear, I'd sooner swathe myself in giblets.
0:52:20 > 0:52:23Besides, Mr Amanjit and I have work to do,
0:52:23 > 0:52:25I can't have dead pelts flapping round my wrists.
0:52:25 > 0:52:29Take it for Persie. It will be freezing at the aerodrome.
0:53:37 > 0:53:40Agnes has changed her perfume, since I saw her last.
0:53:40 > 0:53:41Has she?
0:53:43 > 0:53:46You can smell it on her fur. Here.
0:53:54 > 0:53:56Will you take me home now?
0:53:57 > 0:53:59Yes.
0:54:05 > 0:54:07Good evening, Lady Persephone.
0:54:07 > 0:54:11Hello, Spargo. It's just like old times.
0:54:17 > 0:54:19MUSIC: "I Vow To Thee, My Country"
0:54:19 > 0:54:24# I vow to thee, my country,
0:54:24 > 0:54:30# All earthly things above
0:54:30 > 0:54:36# Entire and whole and perfect
0:54:36 > 0:54:41# The service of my love
0:54:42 > 0:54:48# The love that asks no question
0:54:48 > 0:54:54# The love that stands the test
0:54:54 > 0:55:00# That lays upon the altar
0:55:00 > 0:55:06# The dearest and the best
0:55:06 > 0:55:12# The love that never falters
0:55:12 > 0:55:18# The love that pays the price
0:55:18 > 0:55:24# The love that makes undaunted
0:55:24 > 0:55:29# The final sacrifice
0:55:33 > 0:55:36Barbara Teifenblum.
0:55:38 > 0:55:41Dafna Enbinder.
0:55:41 > 0:55:43Eva Glasskopf.
0:55:45 > 0:55:48Come with us now, you are quite safe.
0:55:54 > 0:55:59# And there's another country
0:55:59 > 0:56:06# I've heard of long ago
0:56:06 > 0:56:11# Most dear to them that love her
0:56:11 > 0:56:17# Most great to them that know
0:56:18 > 0:56:24# We may not count her armies
0:56:24 > 0:56:28We may not see her King... #
0:56:36 > 0:56:40Hello, sleepy head. Welcome to England.
0:57:15 > 0:57:17Oven's warming up.
0:57:17 > 0:57:20We might venture a few rock cakes.
0:57:31 > 0:57:33The Golden Blaze is to be published.
0:57:33 > 0:57:36You always said that was the one story you'd never show to anyone!
0:57:36 > 0:57:38Hallam, I need your help.
0:57:38 > 0:57:40- You will agree that I can inform Agnes.- No.
0:57:40 > 0:57:44For girls like Eunice, it's sometimes service or the streets.
0:57:44 > 0:57:45I hate you, Beryl Ballard!
0:57:45 > 0:57:48If I had my way, you would be dismissed!
0:57:48 > 0:57:50Lady Agnes was treating us like domestic appliances!
0:57:52 > 0:57:54But this is the key to 165.
0:57:54 > 0:57:55I shouldn't have it any more.
0:57:55 > 0:57:58You ought to have a tete-a-tete with your Aunt Blanche.
0:57:58 > 0:58:00A friend of hers has written a novel!
0:58:00 > 0:58:01Not a friend. A lover.
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