0:00:02 > 0:00:07*
0:01:03 > 0:01:07'This is a story of simple working people,
0:01:07 > 0:01:13'such as there are the world over, in all countries, at all times.
0:01:13 > 0:01:19'Hear their hardships, their humour and, above all, their heroism -
0:01:19 > 0:01:23'the uncomparable heroism of men who take heroism for granted
0:01:23 > 0:01:26'as part of their daily lives.
0:01:26 > 0:01:33'Neither plaster saints nor romantic rebels, they live these lives far from the limelight,
0:01:33 > 0:01:37'without publicity and often without a spokesman,
0:01:37 > 0:01:42'save when a great crisis or disaster lifts them into the headlines.
0:01:42 > 0:01:46'Yet these men and women are the backbone of nations,
0:01:46 > 0:01:48'the stuff of human destiny.
0:01:48 > 0:01:55'Simple working people, such as there are the world over, in all countries and at all times.'
0:02:02 > 0:02:07Well, Fenwick, do the men work tomorrow?
0:02:07 > 0:02:09Not in Scupper Flats, Mr Barras.
0:02:09 > 0:02:14- Against your union?- The union isn't being asked to work in Scupper Flats.
0:02:14 > 0:02:19On the other side of that coalface is a million tons of flood water.
0:02:19 > 0:02:23I wouldn't take a chance of flooding me own mine.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27Show us the plans of them old workings.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30Those plans never existed. So YOU say.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33You put the wind up the men.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37- They wouldn't strike if the union backed them up.- Davey.
0:02:37 > 0:02:41This is your lad that's got the university scholarship.
0:02:41 > 0:02:45The men aren't going to work Scupper Flats.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50But the unions made the drill tests.
0:02:50 > 0:02:54< We wouldn't let you go down if it wasn't safe.
0:02:54 > 0:02:5730 years in this pit, Bob, now this?!
0:02:57 > 0:03:00MAN: We think Bob Fenwick's right.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03We're with Fenwick!
0:03:05 > 0:03:10You know what it means to go against the union? Beats drowning.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12You know what the union can do!
0:03:12 > 0:03:16Make them show us those plans. Aye!
0:03:24 > 0:03:29- But it isn't really dangerous, is it, Father?- I'll teach them a lesson.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56I hear them sound their trumpets.
0:03:56 > 0:04:01The first angel sounds and then follows hail mingled with blood.
0:04:01 > 0:04:08The second angel sounds and that's where a great mountain, burning with fire, is cast into the sea.
0:04:08 > 0:04:12The third part of the sea becomes blood, not water, but blood.
0:04:12 > 0:04:17'Tis not water that has brought us here but blood.
0:04:17 > 0:04:21I hear them sound their trumpets. The first angel...
0:05:05 > 0:05:07Morning, Mother.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09< SWEEPING
0:06:19 > 0:06:22How, then, Nicky?
0:06:23 > 0:06:27I've got nothing for you this morning, Mrs Fenwick.
0:06:27 > 0:06:34Thought I'd have a bit left over from the killing? I've nowt for you or your good-for-nothing family.
0:06:34 > 0:06:40No-one's ever had better sons than mine. No, nor better men, neither.
0:06:40 > 0:06:47- An empty belly will make your man think twice before he calls another strike.- He had good reasons.
0:06:47 > 0:06:52Aye, a clever chap, bringing misery and poverty on the whole town.
0:06:52 > 0:06:57You tell him, Martha Fenwick, I'll have no begging around my shop.
0:06:57 > 0:07:02..How often must I tell you to keep these doors shut?!
0:07:02 > 0:07:08I've had enough of these cadgers mooching round after a kill.
0:07:14 > 0:07:19Sitting up all night, stuffing your head with highfalutin rubbish.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23You and your scholarships!
0:07:25 > 0:07:29WHEEZING
0:07:38 > 0:07:42If you don't know enough now to pass that scholarship,
0:07:42 > 0:07:46the next 12 hours won't make no difference.
0:07:46 > 0:07:51Why don't you go for a bit of a walk up the field, hm?
0:07:51 > 0:07:53Hughie? >
0:07:53 > 0:07:58Breakfast! Breakfast? Did you say breakfast? >
0:07:58 > 0:08:01Oh, that's what I call a feed(!)
0:08:01 > 0:08:04Oysters, pickle! Pity I'm not hungry.
0:08:04 > 0:08:09If it's all the same to you, I'll just have a piece of that bread.
0:08:09 > 0:08:13I don't like that kind of fun. Tha shouldn't mock good food.
0:08:13 > 0:08:18You're lucky to get anything with your father clever like he is.
0:08:18 > 0:08:25It isn't every man that scares miners about a drop of water, gets them to strike against the unions...
0:08:25 > 0:08:31Thank you, Ma. My father wasn't for so clever, nor my grandfather.
0:08:31 > 0:08:38When master of the pit commanded, men obey. They were daft enough to think of their wives and children.
0:08:38 > 0:08:46Your father's cleverer than that. He can see through a seam of coal, and the flood water on t' other side,
0:08:46 > 0:08:51what Mr Barras and the union can't find for all their instruments.
0:08:51 > 0:08:55Barras know it's there. He's plans of them flooded workings.
0:08:55 > 0:09:03- He's just taking a chance.- Chance? - Father has seen them.- He's seen them at the bottom of a pint of beer.
0:09:03 > 0:09:09Plans or no plans, for eight weeks, I've been sitting here useless and I'm fed up.
0:09:09 > 0:09:16Aye. There's too many lads nowadays breaking their necks to get away from the pit.
0:09:16 > 0:09:22I'm blessed I've ONE son who doesn't want to work with his coat on.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25It isn't a coat I want to work in.
0:09:25 > 0:09:30Mother wouldn't see a difference between a coat and football jersey.
0:09:30 > 0:09:36- Tynecastle Utd pays Tommy Shields £5 a week. If he can get away,- I- can.
0:09:36 > 0:09:40And I don't have to read no books to do it.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50- How then, Davey?- Grand, Joe.
0:09:50 > 0:09:57- Are you going to Tynecastle tomorrow for your examination?- Aye. - You're lucky.
0:09:57 > 0:10:04- Some day, you'll see me in Tynecastle too.- What would you be doing, Joe? - I won't be listening to professors!
0:10:04 > 0:10:07There's money in Tynecastle, Davey.
0:10:07 > 0:10:11Money? Huh! ..Morning, Davey. Hello, Dad.
0:10:11 > 0:10:18London's the spot. Cummings is making three quid a week up there just singing in the street.
0:10:18 > 0:10:22That's what I'm after. Three quid - just for singing!
0:10:22 > 0:10:26Three quid?! I'm after big money.
0:10:26 > 0:10:31Aye, you'll need it to pay me back all the money you pinch off me!
0:10:31 > 0:10:35- You don't appreciate your son, Slogger. He's a capitalist.- Aye.
0:10:35 > 0:10:43You need money to have sport. You won't make money in the pit. I want sport and I want big money.
0:10:43 > 0:10:47You're going to college? I'm going to look out for myself.
0:10:47 > 0:10:52You can smile, Davey, but where's high-mindedness going to get you?
0:10:52 > 0:10:57Wasting your time, fighting for the miners. By gum, what an ambition!
0:10:57 > 0:11:02Aye. I'd sooner stay in Scupper Flats. My whippet's skin and bone. >
0:11:02 > 0:11:07Me and Joe said so at the time. YOU gave Bob the first cheer.
0:11:07 > 0:11:11He said so(!) Luck will save your skins.
0:11:11 > 0:11:15You kidded us about them plans. I kidded nobody.
0:11:15 > 0:11:20There's plans of them old workings. I saw them in Barras's office.
0:11:20 > 0:11:27Nobody's gonna get ME on that coking coal. I'm not going to drown myself to keep Barras fat.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30- Get out!- I'll pay you back for this, Ramage!
0:11:30 > 0:11:37- You walk out of work then come cadging for charity.- It won't be charity you get if my wife pegs out!
0:11:37 > 0:11:44- I'll slit your throat!- Off with you or I'll put the police onto you. - You talk as if you own them!
0:11:44 > 0:11:47What's up? My missus has pneumonia.
0:11:47 > 0:11:53- The doctor says she's to have beef tea. - The Ramages have tons of beef!
0:11:53 > 0:12:00Just a bit of beef, I said, and I'll pay you the minute the strike's over. As God's me maker, I will.
0:12:00 > 0:12:05- What did he say? - He chases me out with his cleaver.
0:12:05 > 0:12:10There's not a woman in the place he's not insulted.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12He's got a good stock of booze too.
0:12:12 > 0:12:19We'll tell him what we think of him. We'll get that beef for Will's wife, all right.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45Come on, lads!
0:12:58 > 0:13:03- Help yourselves!- Hurry, man, or...! - Where do you keep that booze?
0:13:39 > 0:13:43Stop it, you fools! This is the worst thing you can do!
0:13:43 > 0:13:46We'll get no sympathy now! Stop it!
0:13:46 > 0:13:49SHOUTING CONTINUES
0:13:49 > 0:13:51Leave that be!
0:13:51 > 0:13:54The sergeant! The sergeant!
0:14:04 > 0:14:08- Ah, Fenwick! - There's another of them in there.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12# ..Never rejoices... # Ah, you, Gowlan.
0:14:12 > 0:14:17He started it. His woman was up here making a nuisance of herself.
0:14:17 > 0:14:22I never did nothing. Nor him, either(!) Leave him alone!
0:14:22 > 0:14:26- You saw the whole thing, didn't you? - I did an' all.
0:14:26 > 0:14:30- You'd better come along too. - Drinking on an empty stomach.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33HE CONTINUES DRUNKEN SINGING
0:14:33 > 0:14:36..And hell followed with him.
0:14:36 > 0:14:44There went out another horse that was red. Power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth.
0:14:44 > 0:14:49There went out another horse that was red. Power was given...
0:14:49 > 0:14:52How then, Wept? How then, Joe?
0:14:52 > 0:14:56And I beheld a horse... Got a horse for the Derby?
0:14:56 > 0:15:00And I looked and, behold, a pale horse...
0:15:19 > 0:15:21Three months we've had of it now.
0:15:21 > 0:15:28A good job we've showed some sense at last or we'd have had to put up with it for another three months!
0:15:28 > 0:15:35I'm the last man in the world to say owt against Bob Fenwick, but where's it got him? In jail!
0:15:35 > 0:15:38We never had no choice...
0:15:38 > 0:15:46- What if you all get drowned? You just have to stand out a few more weeks.- A few weeks, my foot!
0:15:46 > 0:15:51What have you been doing all these weeks my father's been in jail?
0:15:51 > 0:15:55Everything you can to turn the men against him.
0:15:55 > 0:16:00Barras will soon lose that contract and won't need you at Scupper Flats.
0:16:00 > 0:16:07WE'RE the ones that have to work it. You're going to that posh college! Get back where you belong! >
0:16:07 > 0:16:12And what am I going to do in that college? Educate myself to fight,
0:16:12 > 0:16:14to fight for my own kind, see?
0:16:14 > 0:16:19I've worked down there with you. I've coal dust pitted in my skin.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21This won't wash out.
0:16:21 > 0:16:26I've seen what the pit's done to some of the men here,
0:16:26 > 0:16:29what it's done to me own father.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32Mr Barras!
0:16:37 > 0:16:39We've got a deputation, Mr Barras.
0:16:39 > 0:16:45- I shan't be a minute, Arthur. - Right, Father. - ..Good afternoon.
0:16:45 > 0:16:47Good afternoon, Mr Barras.
0:16:47 > 0:16:51Ah, young Fenwick. So you got the scholarship, eh?
0:16:51 > 0:16:58- Aye.- When do you leave? - After my father gets back. - Let me know when you finish college.
0:16:58 > 0:17:03- I'll get you into a council school. - It's not school teaching I'm after.
0:17:03 > 0:17:07Oh, well, I'd like to see you get on anyway.
0:17:12 > 0:17:16- Are you ready? - Yes, Mr Barras.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19I don't think we'll have problems.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24Hey, you!
0:17:25 > 0:17:28Hey, it's 10p! It's 10p!
0:17:40 > 0:17:44That's three good shirts I'm putting in for you.
0:17:44 > 0:17:52- Send your washing to a good woman, none of thae new-fangled laundries. Has tha got other handkerchiefs?- Aye.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54You making sure he's dressed up!
0:17:54 > 0:17:59And I'm making sure his pit clothes are kept poshed up.
0:17:59 > 0:18:04Maybe he'll be satisfied with them some day, same as you, Hughie lad.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09Hello, Dad! Did you have a good time?
0:18:09 > 0:18:15Good as a holiday, it was. Pity they wasn't licensed. Anyone seen Joe?
0:18:15 > 0:18:21- No, Slogger, there's been no sign of him since the day you went in. - You off to Tynecastle?
0:18:21 > 0:18:26- Best of luck, lad. I've great faith in you.- Thanks.- So long, Martha.
0:18:26 > 0:18:30None of MY family never needed no college education.
0:18:30 > 0:18:38They was good mining stock. Same as I thought your father were. Setting himself up against master of the pit!
0:18:38 > 0:18:44You know they jailed me for nowt. They got their knife into me over the strike.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46That don't surprise me.
0:18:46 > 0:18:51And I noticed all the witnesses as come forward to stand up for you.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55At least it left 'em free to settle the strike.
0:18:55 > 0:19:01- So they are ready to get the strike over?- Aye. How's your cough been?
0:19:01 > 0:19:07- This cough will never kill me. - I don't like the idea of you going down Scupper Flats.- Don't worry.
0:19:07 > 0:19:14Just think about making your way. Some day, you're going to do something about this industry.
0:19:14 > 0:19:19- The men have great hopes of you, lad. - They don't talk as if they have.
0:19:19 > 0:19:26- They think it all the same. What time are you leaving?- Now you're back, I can go by the next train.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29I'll come with you.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33Oh, thank you, Martha.
0:19:33 > 0:19:37- Well, we'll be getting along, Davey, shall we?- Aye.
0:19:37 > 0:19:41- So long, Hughie.- Good luck, Davey.
0:19:41 > 0:19:46- You'll be finding me in Tynecastle before three years is up.- So long.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51Well, uh, I'm off, Mother.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53Aye.
0:19:55 > 0:20:00Don't forget to keep my pit clothes waiting for me.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03I don't expect tha'll be needing them.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13Here! You'll want a bite to eat on the train.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16Thank you, Mother.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19Goodbye, Mother.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47Goodbye, Father.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49Goodbye.
0:21:03 > 0:21:07Wilkinson wants ten pounds each way. His limit's five.
0:21:07 > 0:21:12Take it. ..Is that you, Laura? Well, is he able to come tonight?
0:21:12 > 0:21:17- Did you put it the way I asked you to?- It's going to be all right, Joe.
0:21:17 > 0:21:24Fine. The place is the Percy Grill. I'll come over to your table as if butter wouldn't melt in my mouth.
0:21:24 > 0:21:28Must go. I've gotta put something off.
0:21:28 > 0:21:33- Of course, if you've something more important...- Don't be daft, Laura.
0:21:33 > 0:21:38All the time I've been in Tynecastle, I've hardly set eyes on another girl.
0:21:38 > 0:21:42That's it - the grill at the Percy Grill. Ta-ra.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45..Sounds like poetry, doesn't it?
0:21:53 > 0:21:58- Hello, Joe. Looking for Jenny? - Hello, Phil. Yes, I want to see her.
0:21:58 > 0:22:02- When are you two gonna get married? - Some day... When business bucks up.
0:22:02 > 0:22:08- Will you tell her I've some business tonight?- OK, I'll tell her.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10Joe? What's the business tonight?
0:22:10 > 0:22:17- I was just looking for you. - So I noticed. Some other girl tonight?- Don't be daft, Jenny.
0:22:17 > 0:22:24- I've hardly set eyes on another girl. - It can't be business every night!- I get enough of that from your mother.
0:22:24 > 0:22:31- I can't help it if I have a bit of business at night. I'd sooner be with you.- Would you?- Course I would.
0:22:31 > 0:22:38- You know me.- Then let's have a fling like we used to. We can go to the Percy Grill.- Percy Grill?
0:22:38 > 0:22:42- Yes, where we went when we first met.- If I hadn't this business...
0:22:42 > 0:22:46Let's start afresh in the place we started in.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49Joe, I'm talking to you!
0:22:49 > 0:22:55- All right, I'll put it off. You get out of that fancy dress.- All right.
0:22:56 > 0:23:00- Davey! How then, Davey?- Joe!
0:23:00 > 0:23:05- Only one Joe Gowlan in Tynecastle! - Only one Joe Gowlan anywhere!
0:23:05 > 0:23:10- Get the scholarship?- Aye. Everyone's been wondering what happened to you.
0:23:10 > 0:23:18After that scandal in Ramage's shop, and Dad getting pinched, I couldn't bear the disgrace. Oh, your dad...
0:23:18 > 0:23:25- That's OK. What have you been doing? - I'm a turf accountant.- A bookie! - I've better fish than that to fry.
0:23:25 > 0:23:31- Davey, come and have some food with me and Jenny.- OK. - She's my landlady's daughter.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34Here she comes.
0:23:34 > 0:23:40- Davey, Miss Sunley. ..Jenny, this is Dave Fenwick, a friend from the university.- Pleased to meet you.
0:23:40 > 0:23:47- What about a bit of snap?- Aye, Lockhart's...- Lockhart's! This is on Joe Gowlan, so shut your gob.
0:23:47 > 0:23:51- Joe...- The Percy Grill?- Oh! - Come on, Davey.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00I think I'll have some oysters.
0:24:00 > 0:24:07Mind if I leave you for a minute? One of my clients. He's the biggest foundry owner in Tynecastle.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09- That's all right.- Back in a jiffy.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12- Joe's a card, isn't he?- Yes.
0:24:12 > 0:24:17Good evening, Mr Millington. Hello, Gowlan. Got something good?
0:24:17 > 0:24:23I heard a whisper about Rock Boy for the 3.30. Rock Boy? ..I'll have the same.
0:24:23 > 0:24:28Laura, you've met Joe Gowlan. I did meet Mrs Millington at the spring handicap.
0:24:28 > 0:24:33- Mr Gowlan. Won't you sit down? - Well... Sit down, have a drink.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36Smart lad. Wasted at a bookmaker.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39What was that horse you said? Rock Boy.
0:24:39 > 0:24:44- Rock Boy. - Pretty gown, Mr Gowlan. Your fiancee?
0:24:44 > 0:24:50No, L...Mrs Millington. She's with my friend from university, her boyfriend.
0:24:50 > 0:24:52Oh.
0:24:52 > 0:24:56Stanley, didn't you mention Mr Gowlan the other day?
0:24:56 > 0:24:59- Hm? - I'm sorry, dear, I thought you did.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01Something about the Carnport works?
0:25:01 > 0:25:09Oh, yes. Someone was telling me... I forget who. You know, I believe you know something about coal, Gowlan.
0:25:09 > 0:25:15Nothing - except I was born and bred on it! I may need a buyer for the works.
0:25:15 > 0:25:21I wouldn't say no, Mr Millington. It may be possible, but don't count on it, Gowlan.
0:25:21 > 0:25:27All I need is a start... I know. You're a smart lad. Well, you see...
0:25:27 > 0:25:34There's only one thing I've got my heart set on. Difficult to explain. I suppose you'd call it coal.
0:25:34 > 0:25:39- Coal?- Coal mines. I'm trying to arrange a debate at the university
0:25:39 > 0:25:44- on the private ownership of mines. - Oh. Of course. A very good thing.
0:25:44 > 0:25:50- No, Miss Sunley. I'm going to speak against it.- Oh, yes, naturally.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53It would be a very good thing.
0:25:54 > 0:26:01It's been ever so nice meeting you, David. To think you'll have letters after your name!
0:26:01 > 0:26:08- That's jumping ahead a bit, Miss Sunley.- You're the cleverest person I've ever met.- You bet he is.
0:26:08 > 0:26:12- Is this a mutual admiration society? - I admire you terribly.
0:26:12 > 0:26:20- You seem to be getting on. - Nose out of joint?- I can't compete with universities!- That's right.
0:26:20 > 0:26:27- I rarely meet anybody important.- I wish the scholarship people thought that. They might raise my allowance.
0:26:27 > 0:26:32- It's time we were getting along, Joe.- Anything you say.
0:26:32 > 0:26:39- Do you go near Westgate Road, David? - Yes.- We'll all go together.- We'll meet in the vestibule. Excuse me.
0:26:41 > 0:26:46- She's a nice lass, that, Davey. - Aye, she is that.
0:26:46 > 0:26:50- I didn't know you had such good taste.- Taste? Me?
0:26:50 > 0:26:57No, you've the wrong end of the stick. There's nothing between us. ..Keep the change.
0:26:57 > 0:27:01She's nice to me cos I stay at their place.
0:27:01 > 0:27:05- YOU swept her off her feet! - Don't be daft.- You did!
0:27:05 > 0:27:09It's a case of just going in and winning.
0:27:22 > 0:27:26Joe does the whole thing in style - taxis an' all.
0:27:26 > 0:27:30- Joe?! Is Jenny all right? - Course I am, Mother.
0:27:30 > 0:27:37- I thought you'd had an accident, coming home in a taxi.- This is Mr Fenwick from the university.
0:27:37 > 0:27:42- Pleased to meet you, Mrs Sunley. - Goodness, and me in this state.
0:27:42 > 0:27:49- He's as good as one of the family. I'm off to bed. Look us up sometime, Davey.- Of course, Joe.
0:27:49 > 0:27:54Good night, Davey. ..Good night, Jenny. ..Good night, Mrs Sunley.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56Good night, Joe.
0:27:57 > 0:28:02- Maybe we could meet again, David. - Of course.
0:28:02 > 0:28:09- We could have tea together. - That would be fine, Jenny. - Excuse me. I've a bit of a headache.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12- Good night.- Good night.
0:28:12 > 0:28:16- Well, what about tomorrow, Jenny? I'm free after five.- Tomorrow...
0:28:16 > 0:28:19- Let me see...- I can call for you.
0:28:19 > 0:28:25- All right, then. Good night.- Good night, Jenny. Good night.- Good night!
0:28:29 > 0:28:31Jenny!
0:28:31 > 0:28:33Come here a minute!
0:28:36 > 0:28:40You're not treating Joe right. He's very upset.
0:28:40 > 0:28:44- If you didn't notice it, you're blind.- Was he jealous?
0:28:44 > 0:28:51He was an' all. It doesn't do a girl no good to treat a man like that. There was tears in his eyes!
0:28:51 > 0:28:57I know what I'm doing. It's time I taught him a lesson.
0:28:57 > 0:29:02I once taught someone a lesson and it ended with me marrying your father.
0:29:02 > 0:29:07I could marry Joe Gowlan tomorrow by raising my little finger...
0:29:07 > 0:29:10but I'm not going to raise it... yet.
0:29:46 > 0:29:52The case for the private ownership of anything varies according to what that thing is.
0:29:52 > 0:29:57The case for public ownership varies according to who puts it!
0:29:57 > 0:30:04I put it this way. If private ownership of coal mines, why not private ownership of lighthouses?
0:30:04 > 0:30:09- There's no way of making a profit out of a lighthouse.- It's taken.
0:30:09 > 0:30:14I do not believe everything under the sun should be publicly owned.
0:30:14 > 0:30:19I might say that coal mining is not something under the sun.
0:30:19 > 0:30:22- Hear! Hear! - But that's not my point, Mr Nugent.
0:30:22 > 0:30:29There is a more fundamental difference between mining and most other industries.
0:30:29 > 0:30:35Coal, like iron and other natural resources, was not invented by Man.
0:30:35 > 0:30:39It is merely put there by nature for Man to take.
0:30:39 > 0:30:44These natural resources, these national resources,
0:30:44 > 0:30:51are not merely the basis of a few industries, merely incidental to our nation's structure.
0:30:51 > 0:30:55They are the basis of ALL our industries, their life blood.
0:30:55 > 0:31:00They are the very foundation upon which our nation is built,
0:31:00 > 0:31:07the material with which our nation is built, the sustenance with which our nation flourishes.
0:31:07 > 0:31:14I resent that this great buried treasure, this source of wealth, this vital national heritage,
0:31:14 > 0:31:18should be dispensed to this man or that, good man or bad,
0:31:18 > 0:31:23to exploit this mine or that as and when he chooses,
0:31:23 > 0:31:29to use it as a pawn in price manipulations, middle-man transactions
0:31:29 > 0:31:33and as a pabulum of his self-aggrandisement.
0:31:33 > 0:31:38- I resent it as I would a foreign flag on the cliffs of Dover. - APPLAUSE
0:31:50 > 0:31:53The favourite won the 2.30, Joe.
0:31:53 > 0:31:58I shouldn't worry. The business is as good as yours. You got that job?
0:31:58 > 0:32:04You bet your life, I did. You know where to find me, but if Jenny comes, you don't know where I am.
0:32:04 > 0:32:11Got to get packed before she comes home. Hope you make your fortune. So long, Joe.
0:32:13 > 0:32:16- Jenny!- Oh, there you are, David.
0:32:16 > 0:32:20- I thought you were ever so nice. - Did you really...?- Where's Joe?
0:32:20 > 0:32:25- He said he'd be here.- He said he'd be at Jesmond Dene yesterday.
0:32:25 > 0:32:30- Maybe he thinks we like being alone together.- Yes.- Well done, Fenwick.
0:32:30 > 0:32:34- Thanks, Mr Nugent. - Any ambition for politics?
0:32:34 > 0:32:41Well, I'm studying political science and economy and, every now and then, I read your speeches for parliament.
0:32:41 > 0:32:45- Talking shop.- Sorry. Miss Sunley, Mr Nugent.- How do you do?
0:32:45 > 0:32:50- Come and see me when you've got your degree.- Really?- Yes.- I will.
0:32:50 > 0:32:57- A member of parliament! - He's one of the best. Did you hear what he said?- He was taken with you.
0:32:57 > 0:33:04- I must be off now. Goodbye. - If you wait, I'll see you home. - I'm late already. Ta-ta!- Bye!
0:33:14 > 0:33:17Oh, I didn't know you were in, Joe.
0:33:17 > 0:33:22Hello, Mrs Sunley. What's the meaning of this, Joe?
0:33:22 > 0:33:27I told her you'd never stand it. She was treating you shocking.
0:33:27 > 0:33:30Worse than shocking, Mrs Sunley.
0:33:30 > 0:33:35I've just got one of them anonymous letters about it. Broke my heart.
0:33:35 > 0:33:38It's a disgrace, a real disgrace.
0:33:38 > 0:33:43No, you shouldn't see it, Mrs Sunley. She's out with him again today.
0:33:43 > 0:33:50Oh, Joe. Won't you talk with her? No, I've suffered enough. With my own best friend! It's too much.
0:33:50 > 0:33:55I'd never have thought it of a fellow like Davey Fenwick.
0:33:55 > 0:34:00I only hope that his intentions is honourable. I'll tell her a thing or two!
0:34:00 > 0:34:06I'd sooner you didn't say anything to her at all. I bear her no ill will.
0:34:06 > 0:34:10I just want her to be happy. She's a bad, heartless girl.
0:34:10 > 0:34:15For two years, you've been as good as her intended then HE comes along...
0:34:15 > 0:34:20I can't bear no more. I just want to be by myself.
0:34:20 > 0:34:25I know how you feel, Joe. I'll make a nice cup of tea for you.
0:34:25 > 0:34:28That's real kind of you, Mrs Sunley.
0:35:01 > 0:35:04- Is Joe in, Mother? - Aye, but only just.
0:35:04 > 0:35:09- What do you mean? - I'll tell you, young lady.
0:35:09 > 0:35:16- Joe Gowlan is packing his bags. - Packing?- No man would put up with the way you've been going on.
0:35:16 > 0:35:21Well, you've lost him now. You weren't so clever after all.
0:35:21 > 0:35:26See where it got you? You've lost the best man that ever drew breath.
0:35:30 > 0:35:32Joe!
0:35:33 > 0:35:36Oh, Joe...
0:35:44 > 0:35:46Oh, he's gone, has he?
0:35:46 > 0:35:50- You can't say I didn't tell you. - Don't, Mother.
0:35:50 > 0:35:58- You'll never get another like him if you ever get another at all!- Mother! - You don't grow younger, you know!
0:35:58 > 0:36:05There isn't a thousand men all lying in wait for you. You left it a bit late to raise your little finger.
0:36:05 > 0:36:13To my way of thinking, that's what you'll do for the rest of your life. You don't find good fellas every day.
0:36:13 > 0:36:18Mark my words, you'll finish up like your Aunt Lily - an old maid!
0:36:32 > 0:36:34Jenny!
0:36:37 > 0:36:41- What's wrong, Jenny? - Don't let's talk about it, David.
0:36:41 > 0:36:46Come on, then, sit down. Let me take your mack off.
0:36:50 > 0:36:53What is it, Jenny?
0:36:53 > 0:36:58It's Mother. She's been on at me. She's been on at me all the time.
0:36:58 > 0:37:02- It's not my fault Joe Gowlan left. - Joe Gowlan left?
0:37:02 > 0:37:07I couldn't stand him, David. I couldn't stand him.
0:37:07 > 0:37:09But I don't quite follow, Jenny.
0:37:09 > 0:37:16- I didn't know he was mad about me. - Joe Gowlan mad about you? - That's what she says, David.
0:37:16 > 0:37:22- I never gave him no encouragement. - Of course.- But he left because...
0:37:25 > 0:37:31..because he found out that... I liked you more than him.
0:37:35 > 0:37:38I can't help it if I love you.
0:37:38 > 0:37:41She can't blame me, can she?
0:37:42 > 0:37:44You love me?
0:37:44 > 0:37:47I can't help it, can I?
0:37:47 > 0:37:49Jenny!
0:37:49 > 0:37:51And you love me too.
0:37:51 > 0:37:56- Don't you, David?- From the very first minute I saw you, Jenny.
0:37:56 > 0:38:03Oh, David, I want us to be together always. I can't go back there. I want us to be married.
0:38:03 > 0:38:08- Of course. I'll take you away from there the minute I can.- Oh, David!
0:38:08 > 0:38:15- The minute I get my degree and get a post...- But, David, that's another whole year.
0:38:15 > 0:38:17We couldn't wait as long as that.
0:38:17 > 0:38:20Couldn't you get a post now?
0:38:20 > 0:38:25- Jenny, it's not very long.- You said you could be a schoolmaster now.
0:38:25 > 0:38:32- But I don't want...- You said you could get a post in Sleescale. - Jenny!- We'd have the loveliest home.
0:38:32 > 0:38:39- You with all your important books and me beside you...- But I can't throw away my scholarship.
0:38:39 > 0:38:44- We must be practical.- I AM practical. I've it all worked out.
0:38:44 > 0:38:49You can get furniture on the never-never. Half-a-crown a week.
0:38:49 > 0:38:54- There must be cheap houses in Sleescale.- That's not the point.
0:38:54 > 0:38:59I'd feel I...was letting everybody down so much.
0:38:59 > 0:39:03- My father, then men... - Say no more about it, David.
0:39:03 > 0:39:10- Mr Nugent would drop me like a hot brick if I threw everything away. - Not another word.
0:39:10 > 0:39:13Just tell me you love me.
0:39:13 > 0:39:17More than anything in the world, Jenny.
0:39:32 > 0:39:35CHILDREN LAUGH
0:39:36 > 0:39:41Now, there's a good way to remember this, lads. Now, watch.
0:39:47 > 0:39:49LAUGHTER
0:39:57 > 0:40:01- Now, what's that? - ALL: A pit pony!- That's right.
0:40:01 > 0:40:06Scandanavia - a pit pony kicking his hind legs in the air in a strike.
0:40:06 > 0:40:11If you want to remember Stockholm, that's the capital of Sweden,
0:40:11 > 0:40:18it's right there on the pony's hoof. Oslo, the capital of Norway, is on his Adam's apple.
0:40:18 > 0:40:22It's closing time. Go along home. Afternoon.
0:40:22 > 0:40:24ALL: Afternoon!
0:40:24 > 0:40:26Oh, Pat!
0:40:29 > 0:40:33- So this is your last day, eh, Pat? - Aye, Mr Fenwick.
0:40:33 > 0:40:40- Did you tell your mother what I said?- She said I got all the education I need for hewing coal.
0:40:40 > 0:40:43I'll come along with you.
0:40:46 > 0:40:49- Mr Fenwick? - Yes, sir?
0:40:49 > 0:40:51Wait for me, Pat.
0:40:51 > 0:40:58I understand Mr Barras offered you the opportunity of coaching his son in the evening - and you refused.
0:40:58 > 0:41:03- The evenings are my only chance to study for my degree.- Hmm.
0:41:03 > 0:41:10- Pity you didn't think of that before you ran away from college. You'd have your degree.- You wished to see me?
0:41:10 > 0:41:16Eh? Yes. We're getting that laughter in your class again.
0:41:16 > 0:41:20I must remind you again, Fenwick, education is a serious matter.
0:41:20 > 0:41:25- A child depends on it.- In an article on modern education...
0:41:25 > 0:41:31I learnt about modern education before you were born. It needs teachers with degrees.
0:41:31 > 0:41:37- We may be obliging Mr Barras, but we cannot ignore your limitations. - I'm sorry, Mr Strother.
0:41:37 > 0:41:42Another thing, Fenwick. Scandanavia is not a horse.
0:41:42 > 0:41:48Let me refer you to Gray's Geographical Compendium for teachers, page 173.
0:41:48 > 0:41:51You will find these words, Fenwick -
0:41:51 > 0:41:55"The shape of Scandanavia may be likened to that of a bear."
0:41:55 > 0:42:00- A bear!- But these boys have never seen a bear.
0:42:00 > 0:42:08Precisely. We teach them two things at the same time - the shape of Scandanavia and that of a bear.
0:42:08 > 0:42:11- You may go, Fenwick.- Thank you, sir.
0:42:17 > 0:42:21I hear you managed to get track of your Joe!
0:42:21 > 0:42:26Aye, he's in Tynecastle, all right. I run over and dropped in on him.
0:42:26 > 0:42:32I thought I'd touch him for a quid. It nearly was him touching me! Boss!
0:42:35 > 0:42:40Second time he's been down this month.
0:42:40 > 0:42:45- A lot of water here.- The men aren't worried about the dampness.
0:42:45 > 0:42:51- But some think it's coming from the old workings.- That'll be enough at the end of this seam.
0:42:51 > 0:42:55- Move them along again next shift. - Yes, Mr Barras.
0:43:00 > 0:43:04I'm not nagging, Pat, but you've got a good brain.
0:43:04 > 0:43:09You've no right to go down the pit. You can be more use than that.
0:43:09 > 0:43:16- What's wrong with the pit? It's man's job.- I thought that when I was leaving school.
0:43:16 > 0:43:20- How then, Davey! - Hello, Hughie. - Seen the match line-up?- Aye.
0:43:20 > 0:43:27- I had my name mentioned in the Tynecastle Chronicle. - When are you coming up to the house?
0:43:27 > 0:43:32- Jenny hasn't seen you for months. - I'm training a lot.
0:43:32 > 0:43:35..Sorry! ..Remember me to Jenny!
0:43:35 > 0:43:42- You see what our Hughie thinks of pit work.- Somebody's got to go down the pit or we'd have no coal.
0:43:42 > 0:43:47- I know... Oh, Mrs Reedie. I was... - Don't you Mrs Reedie me!
0:43:47 > 0:43:53Putting stuff in my lad's head. ..In! ..Where did education get you? 45 bob a week!
0:43:53 > 0:44:01When Pat's your age, he'll fetch as much as that, and no mucking about for a few years afore he does it.
0:44:01 > 0:44:06Such a lot you were to do for the men! Going into parliament an' all!
0:44:12 > 0:44:15How then, Mother?
0:44:15 > 0:44:18How's thasel, lad?
0:44:18 > 0:44:21- Father in? - He'll be back in a minute.
0:44:21 > 0:44:25- Come on in and wait. - I'd better get along.
0:44:25 > 0:44:29Jenny's got a veal and ham pie waiting for me.
0:44:29 > 0:44:32Please thasel, lad.
0:44:33 > 0:44:38Mother, I... I wish you'd give Jenny a chance.
0:44:38 > 0:44:42You haven't been to see her all the time we've been here.
0:44:42 > 0:44:50- Does she want me to go and see her? - You don't give her a chance, Mother. She's lonely. She wants cheering up.
0:44:51 > 0:44:54Wants cheering up, does she? Lonely?
0:44:54 > 0:45:00Why should a woman be lonely with a man and her home to look after?
0:45:00 > 0:45:05Maybe I should be lonely an' all if I thought of nothing but gadding about.
0:45:10 > 0:45:12All right, Mother.
0:45:12 > 0:45:15Hello, Davey. Come on in, lad.
0:45:15 > 0:45:19Jenny's expecting me, Father. I'd better...
0:45:19 > 0:45:23- How's she getting along? - Oh, not so bad, Father.
0:45:23 > 0:45:28I'd like to have a talk to you sometime. How's Scupper Flats?
0:45:28 > 0:45:35Barras has near finished. If Scupper Flats has lasted three years, it should last another three weeks, eh?
0:45:35 > 0:45:41Aye, I heard you'd soon be getting out of it. Well, I must be off. So long.
0:45:41 > 0:45:44So long, Davey.
0:46:00 > 0:46:02< DOOR OPENS
0:46:08 > 0:46:11Hello, Jenny.
0:46:30 > 0:46:33- SHE SIGHS - What's wrong today, Jenny?
0:46:33 > 0:46:38Nothing's wrong at all. I wish you wouldn't eat with your fingers.
0:46:38 > 0:46:45I have such a wonderful life, I'm sure. No maid and all the lovely housework to do,
0:46:45 > 0:46:49not even a wireless to annoy me in the evenings.
0:46:49 > 0:46:54If I asked you to take me out tonight, you'd be insulted.
0:46:54 > 0:46:58We've been going out too many evenings lately, Jenny.
0:46:58 > 0:47:04- Even if we could afford it. - You might say excuse me when you leave the table. Afford it?!
0:47:04 > 0:47:08You could be giving Barras's son tuition!
0:47:08 > 0:47:14I can't even call my furniture my own with the never-never man pestering me.
0:47:14 > 0:47:17I even had to pay for the honeymoon.
0:47:20 > 0:47:28- You'd make me so terribly, terribly happy if you'd take me out just this once.- Oh, do be sensible.
0:47:28 > 0:47:33- I want to finish this book.- YOU want?! Doesn't matter what- I- want.
0:47:33 > 0:47:37It never strikes you there's not a soul I can talk to!
0:47:37 > 0:47:42- Why don't you try and be friendly with my people, Jenny?- YOUR people?
0:47:42 > 0:47:47- You didn't tell me your father was a jailbird!- Jenny...- Don't deny it.
0:47:47 > 0:47:50Robbed a shop. Nice father-in-law...
0:47:52 > 0:47:55Jenny!
0:47:55 > 0:47:59- David, it was wicked of me. - I shouldn't have done that.
0:47:59 > 0:48:02But I deserved it, every bit of it.
0:48:02 > 0:48:08I'm a bad, heartless girl. I'm just a drag on you.
0:48:08 > 0:48:13- Your nerves are on edge a bit, darling, that's all.- Yes, that's it.
0:48:13 > 0:48:18- I need cheering up, David.- Yes, of course.- If only for your sake!
0:48:18 > 0:48:26- We can go to the Percy Grill, where we first met. Let's start afresh in the place we started.- Yes.
0:48:26 > 0:48:34- Maybe you're right, Jenny. Run along, get ready.- David, you're so sweet to me. We can catch the 5.20.
0:48:34 > 0:48:36- I'll be down in a minute. - KNOCK AT DOOR
0:48:36 > 0:48:43That's the laundry. You see them. They're trying to charge me ninepence too much.
0:48:43 > 0:48:45How then, son?
0:48:45 > 0:48:47Mother!
0:48:47 > 0:48:50Well, come in! Come in!
0:48:50 > 0:48:54- She's brought Jenny homemade broth. - Fine, Mother.
0:48:54 > 0:48:56Come in!
0:48:56 > 0:49:00No, that's the kitchen. Here's the drawing room.
0:49:00 > 0:49:04Drawing room? Grand, isn't it?
0:49:04 > 0:49:10- Maybe Jenny's tidying up the kitchen. - Jenny thought you were the laundry. They're trying to swindle her.
0:49:10 > 0:49:14The laundry never has a chance of swindling me!
0:49:14 > 0:49:18Well, sit down, Mother. Here's a fine chair.
0:49:18 > 0:49:22- Tea in the parlour, eh? - Once in a while.
0:49:22 > 0:49:24Shop cake?
0:49:26 > 0:49:33- I'll get you a drop of port, Mother. It'll cheer you up.- We don't want to interfere with your studying.
0:49:33 > 0:49:38It's OK for one night. It isn't so often we get to talk. Here she is.
0:49:38 > 0:49:42- How's that for a quick ch...? - Visitors.
0:49:44 > 0:49:48- How are you, lass? - This is a great pleasure.
0:49:48 > 0:49:55- You just caught David and me going out.- Jenny... - We're meeting friends in Tynecastle.
0:49:55 > 0:50:02- Oh, pretty.- Look here, we don't have to...- No, Jenny's right. We couldn't have stopped more than a minute.
0:50:02 > 0:50:08- Of course. You can easily come again some time. - That's right, lass.
0:50:08 > 0:50:10You can still have a drop of port.
0:50:14 > 0:50:21I don't know what gave you the notion I'd taken to drink. The lad's trying to be pleasant.
0:50:24 > 0:50:29David, hurry up. We'll be late for the train.
0:50:42 > 0:50:45- What are you doing, David?- Coming!
0:50:45 > 0:50:50Come and see us again soon, will you, Mother?
0:50:50 > 0:50:54- Best send you a postcard first! - Good night, Mrs Fenwick.
0:50:54 > 0:50:57- Good night. - Good night, Mother. - Night, Davey.
0:50:57 > 0:51:01At least I've one son who's still going to the pit.
0:51:09 > 0:51:12CROWD CHEER
0:51:17 > 0:51:21Hughie, make a job and run wi' it!
0:51:26 > 0:51:28Grand game!
0:51:45 > 0:51:48Mr Fenwick? Mr Fenwick?
0:51:48 > 0:51:52- Mr Strother asked me to give you that.- Thanks, Terry.
0:51:52 > 0:51:56- That lad of yours has it in him, Bob! - Three goals!
0:51:56 > 0:51:59Lovely hat trick it were an' all!
0:52:04 > 0:52:09Well, you'll come up and have a bit of snap with us, Davey.
0:52:09 > 0:52:12Later. I've business to see to now.
0:52:12 > 0:52:15- What's the matter, lad?- Nothing.
0:52:15 > 0:52:22I hear your lad's doing well. If I sent Joe a telegram to say I was starving, he'd send me a wreath.
0:52:22 > 0:52:29..Passed into the bottomless pit. Bottomless pits? We've done Scupper Flats. Let's have something cheery.
0:52:29 > 0:52:33Out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth...
0:52:38 > 0:52:41- KNOCK AT DOOR - Come in.
0:52:41 > 0:52:43Yes...
0:52:43 > 0:52:46..Sh-h-h!
0:52:46 > 0:52:50..Yes, I'm expecting him over. Yes, Fenwick, what is it?
0:52:50 > 0:52:58- Do you still want a tutor for your son, Mr Barras?- Changed your mind? - Now that I'm leaving the school...
0:52:58 > 0:53:02- Oh?- Yes, Mr Strother's just given me notice.
0:53:02 > 0:53:09I heard you weren't giving satisfaction. After all the trouble I took to get you in.
0:53:09 > 0:53:16- I believed I was producing results. - If the school doesn't consider you efficient...
0:53:16 > 0:53:21- I'll give you another chance. - Thank you.- Not on the same terms.
0:53:21 > 0:53:26What was it I offered? Half-a-crown a lesson, three lessons a week.
0:53:26 > 0:53:33I'll tell you what, Fenwick. I'll give you ten shillings a week for five lessons. Start tonight.
0:53:33 > 0:53:39- Go along now and arrange it with my son. Good afternoon.- Thank you.
0:53:40 > 0:53:46- My dear fellow! I didn't know you were waiting. - That's all right, Mr Barras.
0:53:46 > 0:53:49- Doing well? - A partnership in the offing.
0:53:49 > 0:53:53I like to see a man get on, especially one of my men.
0:53:53 > 0:53:58Well, if it isn't Davey Fenwick! How are you, Davey, lad?
0:53:58 > 0:54:02- Joe.- How are you?- Fine. I've just pulled off a big deal.
0:54:02 > 0:54:07I like to see a man getting on. Remember me to, uh...Jenny.
0:54:12 > 0:54:18- Nobody knows this contract's through me?- You don't want the men to know?
0:54:18 > 0:54:25Maybe they wouldn't understand, all this fat-headed notion about Scupper Flats.
0:54:25 > 0:54:29There's no reason why anyone should know.
0:54:29 > 0:54:33You're worried about Fenwick noticing something. Know him well?
0:54:33 > 0:54:39- I did and I didn't.- A headstrong young man. He's just lost his job.
0:54:39 > 0:54:42- Got the sack?- Pity. He had brains.
0:54:42 > 0:54:49It was a shame the way he threw himself away over a lass. I think I'll drop in on them, cheer him up.
0:54:49 > 0:54:53Poor fella, losing his job an' all... J...
0:54:53 > 0:55:00- How do you expect us to live on ten shillings a week?- I'll get another post. I'll advertise in the papers.
0:55:00 > 0:55:06- We can sell this house and stay with my mother.- I'd rather starve!
0:55:06 > 0:55:12I've ambition. I was meant to be a lady, not a scivvy for a failure.
0:55:12 > 0:55:17- KNOCK AT DOOR - Hark at him. He's here again, the never-never man.
0:55:17 > 0:55:22- I'll tell him the truth. He can take his rotten furniture away!- Don't...
0:55:24 > 0:55:27Hello, Jenny.
0:55:27 > 0:55:30- Remember me?- ..Joe.
0:55:32 > 0:55:39- Hello, Joe. I hope you don't think I was trying to cut Jenny's throat. - The thought never entered my head.
0:55:39 > 0:55:46- What a silly thing to say, David. Come in, Joe.- Thanks.- It's wonderful to see you again.- Yes, come on in.
0:55:46 > 0:55:49Just for a couple of minutes.
0:55:49 > 0:55:54- Been in to see your father?- That big boozer?- He's not a bad sort.
0:55:54 > 0:56:01- Have some tea.- I've only got a minute. I've got business with Barras. We're selling him some pumps.
0:56:01 > 0:56:08- Scupper Flats has closed down.- There wasn't much to worry about there. - You didn't always think so.- Jenny.
0:56:08 > 0:56:13- How's life treating you?- It's ever so nice.- How's business, Davey?
0:56:13 > 0:56:19He's doing so well. They think a lot of him at the school. Mr Barras thinks the world of him.
0:56:19 > 0:56:25- He teaches his son in the evenings. Don't you, David?- Well done, Davey.
0:56:25 > 0:56:29Not doing so bad yourself, eh, Joe?
0:56:29 > 0:56:35I don't grumble, but it does get a fella down - Paris this week, Brussels the next...
0:56:35 > 0:56:42- KNOCK AT DOOR - Tell them I'm not in.- My creditors have spotted your car, Joe.
0:56:43 > 0:56:46David's going out tonight, Joe.
0:56:46 > 0:56:52I've got business myself tonight. Hardly a second to call me own.
0:56:55 > 0:57:00- Visitor for you, Joe.- Well, hello, Dad! It is grand to see you.
0:57:00 > 0:57:04Thanks for all them five quids you never sent me.
0:57:04 > 0:57:11What brings you to Sleescale? Tynecastle too hot for you? You can't stop him joking.
0:57:11 > 0:57:14I was just coming to see you. Just as well.
0:57:14 > 0:57:18You're doing well for yourself? A lot of expenses, Dad.
0:57:18 > 0:57:24We're celebrating Scupper Flats closing. Put your hand in your pocket.
0:57:24 > 0:57:30I've only got five minutes. I can drink plenty in five minutes. Coming, Davey?
0:57:30 > 0:57:35- No.- Good night! ..I'm looking forward to a ride in that posh car.
0:57:35 > 0:57:38DOOR CLOSES
0:57:45 > 0:57:48Joe always makes me laugh.
0:57:49 > 0:57:52He's a success, that's what he is.
0:57:52 > 0:57:56- I could have had him by raising my little finger.- Why didn't you?
0:57:56 > 0:58:01Why didn't I? Because I was a fool, that's why! A fool!
0:58:01 > 0:58:03A FOOL!
0:58:12 > 0:58:18This, therefore, is the relative change between the second variable and that of the first.
0:58:18 > 0:58:23If a does not differ from x, this ratio has no meaning.
0:58:23 > 0:58:28I'm glad it has no meaning. It certainly hasn't for me.
0:58:28 > 0:58:33- I don't want to be an engineer.- What are we wasting our time for, then?
0:58:33 > 0:58:37Father wants me to follow him into the pit. I loathe it.
0:58:37 > 0:58:44- All this Scupper Flats business and everything.- Still, the men didn't break through. Their luck held out.
0:58:44 > 0:58:47Yes. Yes, it did, didn't it...
0:58:47 > 0:58:49just hold out?
0:58:50 > 0:58:53What's worrying you, Arthur?
0:58:53 > 0:58:58- Their luck won't hold out for ever. - Has it to do with Mr Gowlan?
0:59:02 > 0:59:05Coking coal for Millington's, eh?!
0:59:05 > 0:59:09Scupper Flats isn't closing down after all.
0:59:22 > 0:59:29- Not sure about this money clause. - That's a matter between me and Mr Millington.
0:59:29 > 0:59:31Of course.
0:59:31 > 0:59:35- How then, Joe? - How dare you come in here!
0:59:35 > 0:59:41- I'm not standing on ceremony. That's another contract for coking coal. - You teach my son arithmetic.
0:59:41 > 0:59:44I hope you've got a strike clause.
0:59:44 > 0:59:49- Don't be too hasty, Davey. What do you think I'm here for?- Well?
0:59:49 > 0:59:56Millington was signing this contract and I was worrying to death about the men going back to Scupper Flats.
0:59:56 > 1:00:01Why, I came over to try and stop it, and Mr Barras convinces me I'm wrong.
1:00:01 > 1:00:05You told me they were certain to break through that coalface.
1:00:05 > 1:00:10Remember the strike? Remember how we starved?
1:00:10 > 1:00:16You said you weren't going to drown yourself to keep Barras fat!
1:00:16 > 1:00:22Do you really think you can induce those men to strike, to start that misery again?
1:00:22 > 1:00:25I'll get the union behind the men!
1:00:25 > 1:00:32I'm going tonight to see Harry Nugent, get this case put before the union on Wednesday.
1:00:32 > 1:00:34If nothing else, I'll raise a stink!
1:00:36 > 1:00:41What right's he got to poke his nose in? I've money at stake.
1:00:41 > 1:00:46- Think of Mr Millington's feelnigs! - Can Fenwick influence the union?
1:00:46 > 1:00:52- Maybe.- Tomorrow, we'll try and find out what success he's had.
1:00:52 > 1:00:55Tomorrow might be too late.
1:00:57 > 1:01:02How's he going to get back from Tynecastle tonight?
1:01:02 > 1:01:04He can't. There isn't a train.
1:01:06 > 1:01:11Well, let him go and see his Mr Harry Nugent MP.
1:01:11 > 1:01:16- Thank you, Mr Barras. Good night. - Good night. See yourself out.
1:01:16 > 1:01:21Gowlan! IF there was any danger, there would be plenty of warning.
1:01:21 > 1:01:25At the pit, you mean? Yes, of course. Good night.
1:01:25 > 1:01:27Of course.
1:01:49 > 1:01:52I can convince them - give me a chance!
1:01:52 > 1:01:58- You're a convincing talker, all right.- You said you'd do something for me, remember?
1:01:58 > 1:02:03Aye, "Come and see me when you've got your degree."
1:02:03 > 1:02:09I'd great hopes of you. I thought you'd be the right lad to step into my shoes.
1:02:09 > 1:02:16- It was a great disappointment when you didn't think it was so important. - It's not for myself, Mr Nugent.
1:02:16 > 1:02:19- Maybe. ..Want me?- When you're done.
1:02:19 > 1:02:24- Well, I'll do what I can for you, lad.- Oh, thanks, Mr Nugent.
1:02:24 > 1:02:28How are you getting back tonight?
1:02:28 > 1:02:32- I'll hop onto a lorry or something. Good night.- Good night.
1:02:56 > 1:03:01- Hello, Davey! I thought you was never coming back.- Did you, Joe?
1:03:01 > 1:03:05I just had to come round to settle our difference.
1:03:05 > 1:03:12- Forgive and forget?- That's the way! It didn't seem right to let a misunderstanding come between us.
1:03:12 > 1:03:15There is no misunderstanding.
1:03:15 > 1:03:19That's the spirit. Two sides to every question, eh?
1:03:32 > 1:03:36ENGINE REVS, CAR DRIVES OFF
1:04:27 > 1:04:31Ah, I thought you were never coming back.
1:04:31 > 1:04:33Where have you been all this time?
1:04:33 > 1:04:36Tynecastle.
1:04:36 > 1:04:40You're so quiet. Come tell me all about it.
1:04:40 > 1:04:44It wasn't one of those silly old mining things, was it?
1:04:44 > 1:04:47Yes, it was a silly mining thing.
1:04:47 > 1:04:52David, I wish you wouldn't waste all your lovely brain on these things.
1:04:52 > 1:04:55You know, I've had a great idea.
1:04:55 > 1:05:02- Have you, Jenny?- I've been thinking about you not having a job and everything.
1:05:02 > 1:05:08I suddenly thought it would be good if you went to Millington's and had a talk with Joe Gowlan.
1:05:08 > 1:05:13- I know he thinks a terrible lot of you.- Does he, Jenny?
1:05:13 > 1:05:19You know he does! Now, don't let's have any silly jealousy. I'm only thinking of you getting on.
1:05:19 > 1:05:26- So Joe would give me a job, would he?- Yes, but you'd have to give up all this silly idea about miners.
1:05:26 > 1:05:33- People don't have any patience with that sort of thing nowadays. - Did Joe say that?- Yes, of...
1:05:33 > 1:05:38You've always loved Joe, haven't you, Jenny?
1:05:38 > 1:05:40I can't blame you...
1:05:40 > 1:05:45any more than I can blame myself for falling in love with you.
1:06:32 > 1:06:35Go ahead, Slogger. Aye.
1:06:37 > 1:06:44Further into that barrier - a barrier that is holding back a million tons of flood water.
1:06:44 > 1:06:48- They've taken drill tests. - Drill tests!
1:06:48 > 1:06:55You've been miners. You know without plans, it's impossible to be certain that your drill tests aren't wrong.
1:06:55 > 1:07:02Unfortunately, we can't inspect the plans if the owner of the mines insists they never existed!
1:07:02 > 1:07:09My father insists they did - and still do. Why is the owner so afraid to have them inspected?!
1:07:09 > 1:07:17- We can't listen to just anyone who says he once saw plans.- The men did - and starved for three months.
1:07:17 > 1:07:21Barras wouldn't risk flooding his own mine.
1:07:21 > 1:07:25There are mine owners who will take a gamble...
1:07:25 > 1:07:29Here is a gamble I beg you not to be a party to!
1:07:29 > 1:07:36You may have no intention of being a party to anything, and intend to do nothing -
1:07:36 > 1:07:43like a man who watches a child drown in 2ft of water! He's not a party to it. He can't be accused of murder.
1:07:43 > 1:07:49In the same way, if these men drown in Scupper Flats, nobody can accuse YOU of murder.
1:07:49 > 1:07:55You'll say you weren't a party to it but what will your conscience say?
1:07:55 > 1:08:01It is in your hands to decide if these men shall enter that deathtrap!
1:08:01 > 1:08:04Your hands - and yours! Today!
1:08:04 > 1:08:09At this very minute, they're stripping that barrier.
1:08:09 > 1:08:12A million tons of flood water!
1:08:23 > 1:08:25Mr Chairman?
1:08:25 > 1:08:28Yes, Mr Wilkins?
1:08:28 > 1:08:33We've all been impressed by the eloquence and sincerity of this young man.
1:08:33 > 1:08:35Hear! Hear!
1:08:35 > 1:08:39But is he as sincere as we think?
1:08:41 > 1:08:46Mr Fenwick, when did you first decide to come here today?
1:08:46 > 1:08:48Last Saturday night.
1:08:48 > 1:08:52Aye. Scupper Flats had been working for three years,
1:08:52 > 1:09:00- and it happened to be last Saturday that you decided to come here.- That's when I heard about the new contract.
1:09:00 > 1:09:05Aye, a contract that you knew was of great value to Mr Gowlan.
1:09:05 > 1:09:10What are your personal relations with Mr Gowlan, Mr Fenwick?
1:09:10 > 1:09:12We used to be friendly.
1:09:12 > 1:09:18Aye, up till last Saturday night, I think, Mr Fenwick,
1:09:18 > 1:09:23the night you decided to put a stop to this contract of Mr Gowlan's.
1:09:23 > 1:09:26You and Mr Gowlan quarrelled?
1:09:26 > 1:09:32- That has nothing to do with my coming here today.- It was a very bitter quarrel, Mr Fenwick.
1:09:32 > 1:09:37- It came to blows.- It had no connection with my coming here.
1:09:37 > 1:09:42I believe it was your wife you quarrelled about, Mr Fenwick.
1:09:42 > 1:09:46Your wife has left you as a result of it.
1:09:46 > 1:09:48Hasn't she?
1:09:48 > 1:09:55- What's that got to do with Scupper Flats?- If Scupper Flat's dangerous now, it has been for three years.
1:09:55 > 1:10:03You didn't decide to do anything about it till last Saturday night, the night you fought with Mr Gowlan.
1:10:05 > 1:10:14I put it to you that you were determined to revenge yourself upon him, and that's why you're here.
1:10:16 > 1:10:18Thank you, Mr Chairman.
1:10:18 > 1:10:23- Gentlemen, it's obvious who has put this member up to this, and why. - Mr Fenwick...
1:10:23 > 1:10:26He gives you a false impression!
1:10:26 > 1:10:30Please, Mr Fenwick... Come on, lad, you're wasting your breath.
1:10:30 > 1:10:34Thank you for the trouble you've taken.
1:10:34 > 1:10:37The next item on the agenda...
1:10:37 > 1:10:42The question is using paint or wallpaper at the Gateport branch...
1:10:44 > 1:10:48- How did you get on, Davey? - No good, John.- Aw.
1:10:48 > 1:10:52I told you you were wasting your time, lad.
1:10:52 > 1:10:57Hello, Davey. I hear you didn't pull it through. What happened, lad?
1:10:57 > 1:11:04- I did my best, Father, but...- Oh. You can't do better than your best. But I should have gone...
1:11:04 > 1:11:09- Going down, Pat? - Mr Fenwick's showing me the ropes.
1:11:09 > 1:11:11I'll break you in. Davey! >
1:11:11 > 1:11:15Davey, it's happened! They've asked me, Davey!
1:11:15 > 1:11:19- Asked you what? - To play for Tynecastle.
1:11:19 > 1:11:27They were watching the match when I did the hat trick! I have a trial with the reserves next Saturday!
1:11:27 > 1:11:29Slogger, I'm playing for Tynecastle!
1:11:29 > 1:11:34I told you they has their eye on me! You wouldn't believe me!
1:11:36 > 1:11:40I'm playing next Saturday!
1:11:40 > 1:11:45Hey, not so hasty. Wait for the international.
1:11:49 > 1:11:55Come on, don't be all day. I'm just putting in artistic touches.
1:11:55 > 1:11:59You coming to see me play? Course I am, lad.
1:11:59 > 1:12:04They're thinking of running excursions so as everybody can come.
1:12:04 > 1:12:09Not Harry. He's got that damned whippet in the county stakes. It'll win an' all.
1:12:09 > 1:12:14I'll break his neck if he doesn't. I've got a bet on him.
1:12:14 > 1:12:16WHISTLE BLOWS
1:12:21 > 1:12:24Woo! Mind your backs, fellas!
1:12:29 > 1:12:33This isn't the scenic railway! I'm saving Scandanavia the trouble.
1:12:36 > 1:12:39Come on. Let's get this propped up.
1:12:39 > 1:12:44I don't see why we should slave our guts out for our Joe's benefit.
1:12:56 > 1:12:58Get back quick!
1:13:44 > 1:13:47Stop! The cave - come on!
1:13:53 > 1:13:55SCREAMING
1:14:25 > 1:14:27Come on! We'll go to the tunnel!
1:14:46 > 1:14:49WHISTLE BLOWS REPEATEDLY
1:15:34 > 1:15:39- Did you get that rigger company? - Just trying them.
1:15:39 > 1:15:43We want all the pumps we can get and electrical gear. Winding gear.
1:15:43 > 1:15:46The Scupper line!
1:15:46 > 1:15:48Hello?
1:15:48 > 1:15:55We're at Scupper number five. The water's rising quick. All the tunnels are blocked.
1:15:55 > 1:15:57Try the air tunnels.
1:15:57 > 1:16:03- They're full of gas. The water fetched it up.. - Oh. ..Get out, both of you.
1:16:03 > 1:16:08- But the rigger... - I'll attend to that. Get out.
1:16:08 > 1:16:09Hello?
1:16:09 > 1:16:12Now, listen, Fenwick, carefully.
1:16:12 > 1:16:19Make for the old workings. Go along the upper tunnel. The end block is a frame dam. You can knock it away.
1:16:19 > 1:16:21Old workings?
1:16:21 > 1:16:28The water's all at the lower level. Don't take the branches nor the left dip. Keep due east for 1,500 yards.
1:16:28 > 1:16:31You DID have them plans all the time!
1:16:53 > 1:16:56Come on! Come on, hurry up!
1:17:14 > 1:17:18AMBULANCE BELL RINGS
1:17:40 > 1:17:43WHISTLE BLOWS
1:17:43 > 1:17:45Let 'em in! Barras's orders!
1:17:45 > 1:17:47Come on.
1:17:57 > 1:18:03My son's down there, Barras. My son - Bob Ogle! Get in and fetch him out!
1:18:03 > 1:18:07That'll do no good, Tom. What's being done?
1:18:07 > 1:18:13Most of the shift have got away. We're in constant touch with them.
1:18:13 > 1:18:17- ALL SHOUT TOGETHER - There's a man at the pit top, getting names.
1:18:17 > 1:18:22- Mr Fenwick is cut off, but he found the old workings. - Is Hughie there?
1:18:22 > 1:18:25- I don't know.- Can I come?- Yes.
1:18:25 > 1:18:30Stay here in the yard, Mother. It'll be all right.
1:18:30 > 1:18:33BELL RINGS
1:19:01 > 1:19:04Come on, Pa!
1:19:04 > 1:19:08Hurry up, lads, before any more of that roof comes down.
1:19:08 > 1:19:11Come on. Come on, Slogger.
1:19:17 > 1:19:20Watch your step, Hughie!
1:19:20 > 1:19:27- You'll not be much good to United with a broken leg! - I'd still be better than some!
1:19:33 > 1:19:37Here's a sight for sore eyes.
1:19:54 > 1:19:57There's no frame dam about this.
1:20:09 > 1:20:12You all right, Pat, lad?
1:20:12 > 1:20:19We're above water level anyway. The relief party will be drilling through before you can say Pat Reedie.
1:20:19 > 1:20:21We just sit and wait.
1:20:21 > 1:20:25A rest won't do us any harm, eh, Pat, lad?
1:20:25 > 1:20:28Best go easy on these pit lamps.
1:20:28 > 1:20:32Now, we're going to take it in turns jarring. I'll start.
1:20:34 > 1:20:41Pity we lost Harry. He was looking forward to his whippet winning on Saturday.
1:20:41 > 1:20:44HUGHIE: Aye. It was going to be his big day.
1:20:44 > 1:20:49I'll be thinking of him when I'm playing in that trial.
1:20:49 > 1:20:51BANGING CONTINUES
1:20:51 > 1:20:55# Oh, my You should see us ganning
1:20:55 > 1:20:59# Passing the folks along the road Just as they were stanning
1:20:59 > 1:21:04# There was lots of lads and lassies there and all with smiling faces
1:21:04 > 1:21:09# Ganning along the Scotswood Road To see the Blaydon Races... #
1:21:50 > 1:21:52WHISTLE BLOWS
1:22:11 > 1:22:14BANGING CONTINUES
1:22:55 > 1:22:57We're through! >
1:22:59 > 1:23:03Keep on for 300 yards. Take the right dip.
1:23:20 > 1:23:23There might be half a mile there.
1:23:23 > 1:23:28If only we had plans of this place, we'd know what we were getting at.
1:23:28 > 1:23:33A plan wouldn't remove that. We must blast a new roadway above it.
1:23:33 > 1:23:36Come on, then, let's get on with it.
1:23:43 > 1:23:46FAINT TAPPING
1:23:47 > 1:23:53Mr Fenwick, I feel real bad. It's me stomach, I think.
1:23:53 > 1:23:55Aye. I know, lad.
1:23:55 > 1:23:58Would you believe it...?
1:23:58 > 1:24:03Not a lot of nourishment in them, but they're better than nowt.
1:24:03 > 1:24:08Here's me with my cough drops in my pocket and I forgot all about them.
1:24:08 > 1:24:11Thank you, Mr Fenwick.
1:24:11 > 1:24:16What day would you say it was? Friday morning, I'd say, lad.
1:24:16 > 1:24:18So it isn't Saturday yet?
1:24:18 > 1:24:21No, no, nowt like that. HE COUGHS
1:24:21 > 1:24:25No, it can't be, can it?
1:24:26 > 1:24:31You call that pounding? We'll be here till Doomsday at this rate!
1:24:45 > 1:24:48We've got to be out by Saturday.
1:24:48 > 1:24:51Aye, before closing time an' all.
1:24:51 > 1:24:54By gum, what I could do to a pint.
1:24:54 > 1:24:58I've still got that last cough drop, lad?
1:24:58 > 1:25:01Would you like it now?
1:25:05 > 1:25:08Come on, lad. Buck up.
1:25:51 > 1:25:54Good evening, Mr Nugent. Good evening.
1:25:54 > 1:25:58We got all the men out of Globe Coal, thank God. Nearly 80 of them.
1:25:58 > 1:26:03Good evening, Mrs Fenwick. Nasty business, this.
1:26:03 > 1:26:08The union are feeling pretty sick they didn't listen to your son.
1:26:08 > 1:26:13Aye? There isn't one of them that wouldn't eat out of his hand now.
1:26:13 > 1:26:16A disaster's a disaster.
1:26:16 > 1:26:20It's a chance every pit man's got to take.
1:26:20 > 1:26:25I expect they'll get your men out all right, Mrs Fenwick.
1:26:25 > 1:26:30Maybe. How about our Pat?! You're an MP! What are you going to do about Pat?
1:26:30 > 1:26:32They're doing everything they can.
1:26:32 > 1:26:36Aye, they're doing everything they can...
1:26:40 > 1:26:45What's the matter, Doctor? A stroke. He's been overdoing it.
1:26:47 > 1:26:52What progress are they making? There's still a chance, Mr Nugent.
1:27:28 > 1:27:32Wept, Maybe we should have a service.
1:27:39 > 1:27:41A service?
1:27:47 > 1:27:51Let us take for our text
1:27:51 > 1:27:54the 12th verse of the 8th chapter...
1:27:54 > 1:27:57of the Book of John.
1:27:58 > 1:28:01"I am the light of the world.
1:28:01 > 1:28:06"They that follow me shall not walk in darkness,
1:28:06 > 1:28:09"but shall have the light of life.
1:28:10 > 1:28:13"Down in this pit, dear brethren,
1:28:13 > 1:28:16"there is darkness.
1:28:16 > 1:28:19"All around us there is darkness
1:28:19 > 1:28:25"but the light of the world is here, even here...
1:28:25 > 1:28:28"in the darkness of this pit."
1:28:28 > 1:28:36What's all this preaching about? This isn't Sunday. It isn't Sunday, is it? It's not Saturday yet.
1:28:37 > 1:28:41My brethren, it is our lot upon earth!
1:28:41 > 1:28:46"The fourth angel sounds and another star falls in the bottomless pit...!"
1:28:46 > 1:28:49Oh, put a sock in it, Wept.
1:28:49 > 1:28:53I am given the gift of prophecy. I am a prophet...
1:28:53 > 1:28:56Sit down, man, sit down.
1:28:56 > 1:29:01I see them! I... LOW RUMBLING
1:29:35 > 1:29:38There's another pole up here.
1:29:38 > 1:29:41Jim? Here, we need retimbering.
1:29:41 > 1:29:44Barras knew his way about here.
1:29:44 > 1:29:49He's no use to us now. Nowt we can do but take a chance this way.
1:31:09 > 1:31:11I've lived a rotten life.
1:31:11 > 1:31:13< Rotten?
1:31:13 > 1:31:16Just a boozer...
1:31:16 > 1:31:19a big boozer...
1:31:26 > 1:31:29The chimney's giving! Get back!
1:31:48 > 1:31:53Well, we'll have to give it up. There's no chance now.
1:32:02 > 1:32:05Davey?
1:32:05 > 1:32:09Young Fenwick. We want you to represent the men at the inquiry.
1:32:09 > 1:32:12Represent the men?
1:32:12 > 1:32:14What men?
1:32:14 > 1:32:17My father? Hughie?
1:32:17 > 1:32:20Mrs Windhope's two sons?
1:32:20 > 1:32:24Harry Brace? Slogger Gowlan? Wept? Young Pat Reedie?
1:32:24 > 1:32:29What am I going to say? It was all very sad and no-one was to blame?
1:32:29 > 1:32:36I know what your heart's set on, lad. You'll get your chance to fight for it. The world is like a wheel.
1:32:36 > 1:32:39Your turn will come.
1:32:39 > 1:32:44The way you said that, you sounded like my father.
1:32:44 > 1:32:47Good night, Mr Nugent.
1:33:10 > 1:33:15Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name,
1:33:15 > 1:33:18Thy kingdom come,
1:33:18 > 1:33:22Thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven,
1:33:22 > 1:33:24Give us this day our daily bread,
1:33:24 > 1:33:30And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them who have trespassed against us,
1:33:30 > 1:33:35Lead us not into temptation and deliver us from all evil,
1:33:35 > 1:33:39For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory for ever and ever,
1:33:39 > 1:33:41Amen.
1:33:41 > 1:33:45'And so, out of the darkness of the world that is
1:33:45 > 1:33:51'into the light of the world that could be and must be
1:33:51 > 1:33:55'a world purged of its ancicent greeds,
1:33:55 > 1:34:00'a world in which dreams are not empty, nor sacrifices in vain,
1:34:00 > 1:34:03'a world of infinite promise
1:34:03 > 1:34:10'which the unconquerable spirit of man will some day forge into fulfillment.'
1:34:10 > 1:34:14Subtitles by Marie Campbell BBC Scotland 2000
1:34:14 > 1:34:18E-mail us at subtitling@bbc.co.uk