Original subtitles

MUSIC: Wow by Young Fathers

# Wow

# What a time to be alive

# Wow

# I'mma put myself first

# Wow

# Everything is so amazing

# I said wow... #

KNOCK ON DOOR

HE GASPS

Oh.

Hello. Welcome. Come in. Mrs Thatcher. Hello.

I must introduce all our friends.

I'm Lucy. You're Lucy. Welcome, Lucy, dear.

Oh. Come in and go and sit down.

I'm Alice. Alice. And where are you from, Alice?

Hayling Island. Hayling Island.

I'm Jane. Jane. From Newport. From Newport, Wales.

I'm Philip. And Philip. From Wales.

And let me think. Lucy was from Scotland, wasn't she? Yes.

Come along in, Philip. Good, good, good.

Come along, Jimmy. Nice to see you. Wonderful.

Right.

Excuse me a minute, Malcolm. Hello.

Can I help you? Um. Yes. It says outside you sell Gay News.

Yes. Would you like a copy?

Yes, please.

It's 25p, please.

Thanks very much.

Would you like some coffee while you're here?

Yes, please. Right. Well, let's get some over there.

What else do you do in SMG?

I mean, apart from selling papers and things?

Well, we have weekly meetings -

we have discussions and guest speakers, for example.

And social events too.

In fact, we're having a disco this evening.

But not in here, I hasten to add.

Really? A disco? What, you mean men dancing with men?

And women with women. Yes.

It doesn't seem possible in Scotland.

It happens in Scotland, yes.

Have you been to a gay disco before?

No. I don't think I'd have the nerve. What do people wear?

Exactly the same sort of thing as you and I are wearing now.

Would you like to come along? Well, yes.

CREAKING AND GRINDING

WIND WHISTLES

CLOCK STRIKES

THATCHER: I believe we shall only succeed in maintaining and securing

our traditional tolerance and fairness in this country

if we cut the number of immigrants coming in now.

APPLAUSE ON TV

I think Mrs Thatcher's remarks are very much racist,

and there are people within even the parliamentary Tory party

who are saying that she shouldn't have said some of these things.

What do you think she actually said? Well, she was trying to say,

well, immigration, number of people coming in should be cut down.

What she hasn't said - that out of 70,000 immigrants

who came in recently, it's... Less than half were black people.

You know, those are the ones she's getting at.

She's not talking about immigrants. I think we ought

to make the difference between the euphemistic term of the word and...

She just wants to stop black immigration. Course.

That's what she... What effect do you think her words will have?

Well, I think it's going to add to the conflict and the violence

in places like this where Powell has sown his seeds.

Yeah. It's not going to help.

We were given some clogs tonight.

Don't you think they're very smart?

They look enormous. I can't think whether they're easy to wear,

but I must try. "Lancashire Clogs. Clog maker."

What are you going to do with them?

Well, I'm going to try them on first. But they tell me

I shall be able to go canvassing or something in them.

But don't you have to sort of rock in a clog?

You don't walk, you gently rock.

Sounds like "rock, rock, rock around the clock", doesn't it?

LAUGHTER I'll try them on

and see if they're comfortable.

Could you stay with your fantasy, Alison...and maybe just

say...stay with it with your eyes closed

and just share with us what's happening for you in your fantasy?

In the first part of my fantasy,

I was in a South Sea island-type place with a beautiful blue lagoon.

And just...just alternating between swimming

and lying on the beach and not having to do anything

or think about anything or worry about anything.

Just... Just letting go.

HE CLEARS HIS THROAT

Just... Just doing nothing.

Just being.

Do you find that difficult to do here? Mm.

Could you let yourself do nothing right now?

Or talk about what makes it difficult for you to do that?

I think I feel that if I do nothing...

..um, I'm not... I almost don't exist.

If people can't see me doing anything...

..I'm worthless somehow.

MUSIC: Zungguzungguguzungguzeng by Yellowman

# Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, watch it

# Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, catch it

# Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, 'ca

# Zero, zero, one, one, nine

# 'Ca Yellowman make yuh feel so fine?

# Me chat all me lyric Me chat dem in a rhyme

# Me huh eat lime It full of a rhyme

# 'Ca Yellowman, him a commit nuh crime, 'ca

# Zungguzungguguzungguzeng

# Zungguzungguguzungguzeng... #

WHIRRING

Of all the hundreds of aeroplanes we've recovered

over the last ten years,

very, very few still have the pilots in them.

And if we were certain that the pilot was still in there,

I think we'd probably think twice about the recovery operation.

Got the wheel.

ALL: Compass.

We seem to have come across the cockpit area now,

but a lot of the wreckage is mixed...mixed up together,

and obviously on impact all the wreckage has concertinaed

down into the cockpit area.

I don't think it was really recognisable as human remains,

isn't it, those two feet?

The thing now is to inform the police.

It's a very, very rare occurrence that we find an aircraft

with the remains of the pilot on board.

Most of them bailed out safely.

In this instance, the aeroplane dived into the ground at high speed,

buried itself about 25ft.

And the facilities that they had at the time just weren't sufficient

to recover the aircraft or the pilot.

So we shall now have to notify the authorities.

LINE RINGS

COIN RATTLES

PIPS BEEP

Hello, police? Yes,

Oh, I'd like to report the finding of some human remains.

Oh.

# Wider still, and wider

# Shall thy bounds be set

# God, who made thee mighty... #

CHEERING

# Make thee mightier yet! #

We have to think in terms of several parliaments.

We have to move this country in a new direction,

to change the way we look at things,

to create a wholly new attitude of mind.

Can it be done?

Well, the people have taken the first step by electing us.

We say to them, yes, the Conservatives CAN do it

and we WILL do it.

Time to shake off the self-doubt

induced by decades of dependence on the state as master

and not a servant.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

FAINT CLANKING

BELL DINGS

Remains there in two plastic sacks.

So that's our sort of business done now.

You've actually recovered the remains from the aircraft?

From the aircraft? Yeah.

But these... When we were filling the site back in again,

we come across this, you know, amongst the rubbish and stuff.

What sort of an aeroplane was it? A Hurricane.

And there's some of the remains of the aircraft,

along with the two sacks of bits and pieces.

It's definitely a Hurricane? Yes, it smells a bit as well.

That's the remains of...

..of him. It's a bit...

That's a skeleton, is it?

Well, bones and bits and pieces.

Yeah, probably.

It's a bit... OK. Yeah.

It's more, um...

..a mud, right, than a...

Yeah.

Smells typical Sheppey soil, doesn't it? You know, yuck.

If the remains are sorted through

and the bits of uniform are sorted through,

presumably there's some form of identification there somewhere.

We don't relish the thought of sort of picking it about.

We shall have to do that. Yeah, we'll do that.

I'm aware that I really am enjoying you for the first time.

I've only been in a group with you a couple of times

and I haven't liked your smile and your talk. I'm sorry.

I think you're pretty and attractive,

but I haven't liked your way, and I suddenly find myself liking

this kind of slightly spare, empty look.

It interests me very much.

And my interest...

LAUGHTER

Spare and empty?

LAUGHTER

I mean, action. You fill it with chatter. It puts me off.

I like you when you don't smile.

LAUGHTER

WIND GUSTS

TRAFFIC HUMS

REGGAE MUSIC

# I take a ride sometimes

# On Penn Overland and Bronx

# And sometimes I ride on bus X82

# Say what!

# Wat a liiv an bambaie

# When the two sevens clash

# Wat a liiv an bambaie

# When the two sevens clash

# Marcus Garvey was inside of

# Spanish Town District Prison

# And when they were about to take him out... #

MACHINE WHIRRING

NEARBY CHATTER

BEEP

COMPUTER: OK. 3,000. Option one.

Enter Product.

BEEPS

Two orders accepted. Thank you.

Enter next system code.

BEEPS

Goodbye. And thank you.

INDISTINCT CHATTER

Nice bit of beer.

It's going free, so that's what it's all about.

Who's got the bottle opener?

MUSIC PLAYING

SHRIEKING AND LAUGHTER

No!

No.

Somebody's in there pissing in a bowl.

YELLING

MUSIC: Silver Machine by Hawkwind

# I...

# I just took a ride

# In a silver machine

# And I'm still feeling mean... #

BIRDSONG

MACHINERY RUMBLES

I arranged for a postmortem examination to be carried out

on the body.

And, um, in addition to the human remains, um,

there were found the identification number of the aircraft

and also the pilot's own identification number.

And these details were fed to the Royal Air Force

and their records were able to establish

the identity of the pilot.

BELL TOLLS

VIOLIN SOLO

Do you drink? No, I don't.

No, it doesn't interest me in the slightest.

I have nothing against it at all. The wife can't stand it.

She... She can't stand it. She'd run a mile rather than, you know...

Um, but I have nothing against it whatever.

Do you smoke? No, I don't smoke. No, I used to,

and I used to thoroughly enjoy it. Well, not to split an infinitive,

I used thoroughly to enjoy it, you know. Um...

Do you ever go to the pictures? No, I don't now,

because the wife's view of pictures and everything

is different from mine, you know,

and she might think this was offensive, you know,

which to me wouldn't be. You understand what I mean?

We live in different worlds, I'm afraid. Different worlds.

It can't be helped. It's just the way it is. So I don't bother.

And if I were to go by myself, I suppose she would probably think

I was with somebody else. You understand what I mean?

Um, so, uh, I don't... I just don't bother. I've given up.

I've completely given up. You know, I'm just...

Really... It sounds ridiculous to you, of course,

and you won't believe it,

and none of the people who see this will believe it.

But I'm just waiting to be measured up for the old box, you know.

Yeah.

You know, the six foot by two. You know, that one? Yeah.

We arrived and those other boats that were in the near vicinity,

yhey were already lifting the survivors.

What was the state of Lord Mountbatten's boat?

Well, it was nonexistent.

It was just in small, very small pieces.

It's just blown to small bits.

And how loud was the explosion?

Well, it was very loud.

In fact, everybody in the village heard it.

Talking of the cinema, would you like to accompany me

to the Roxy tonight?

Oh, well, I don't know.

Oh, I know what you're thinking.

You're thinking I might make a pass.

And because I'm your employer, if you didn't do what you're told,

I might make things difficult for you.

Like losing you your job. SHE GIGGLES

But I wouldn't do things like that.

No. All I want is the companionship of a... of a beautiful woman.

Well, take your wife. I'm sure she's beautiful.

Yes. It's often been said that my wife has the face

that could launch a thousand ships.

You mean she's like Helen of Troy?

No, she looks like a docker.

Do you believe in astrology?

Yes, I do.

I find I'm at ease most with other fire signs,

which are Leo and Aries.

You're a Sagittarian, I gather.

Yes, that's correct. And that, of course, is a very strong sign.

Just by virtue of the fact that you...

..you have a routine, you have a family,

and your horizons are limited,

obviously, you just are not able

to get out into the wide world and meet people,

and this is one way of doing it.

Visual impressions are very important.

And if you can see somebody, you more or less know straight away

whether you think you will like them or not.

With the video type of dating system,

you can have a look at them.

If you don't like them, then you just whizz on to somebody else.

Other times, you can see somebody who you think is fantastic

and they open their mouth and they put their foot in it.

# Confusion in her eyes that says it all

# She's lost control

# And she's clinging to the nearest passer-by

# She's lost control

# And she gave away the secrets of her past

# And said, I've lost control again

# And all the voices told her when and where to act

# She said, I've lost control again... #

My job, it's very boring...

..and, of course, it's very tiring.

But I tend to find that now,

after the amount of years I've done on the job,

I can cope with it.

Some days the boredom gets so bad

that I have to walk away from the machine,

because I tend to get angry

when I really go over the top with boredom.

One of the main things about it was the feeling that you got

from the body of the church, from the singing in the church.

There was a lot of feeling, a lot of emotion,

people thinking about their wedding days

and their baptisms and so forth.

I think... Well, even...

..even I think about bringing four daughters up the aisle

to be married, giving them away.

CHORAL MUSIC ECHOES

MUSIC: She's Lost Control by Joy Division

MUSIC CONTINUES

# She's lost control again... #

RAUCOUS SHOUTING

Monetarism worked throughout the 19th century,

when we were the envy of the world,

with our people growing in numbers and generally prospering -

generally - despite all the horrors of the time,

with the world looking to us for how to do it.

It could work again.

There arose a slightly messianic sense of mission.

Hmm.

So I want you to do it again.

Ready? Begin.

# I could have danced all night... #

Louder. # I could have danced all night... #

Louder! Go all the way. Don't waste your time!

# I could have danced all night

# I could have danced all night. #

Do it again!

# LOUDER: I could have danced all night

# I could have danced...

# ..danced all night I could have

# ALL: ..danced all night

# And still have begged for more

# I could have spread my wings And done a... #

Most of the bars in Belfast in the centre all close down

around between eight and nine.

Then there's only the nightclubs are open.

And then there's a few bars, like the Harp.

That's where the punk groups play. They stay open pretty late.

It's great. You know, like, anybody can go to the Harp.

There's never any sort of trouble between

religious factions in there, you know. There's never any fights.

They just want to hear the music and enjoy themselves.

The music sort of brings them together.

# Livin' on the music so fine

# Born on the wind

# Makin' it mine

# Night fever, night fever

# We know how to do it

# Gimme that night fever, night fever

# We know how to show it

# In the heat of our love Don't need no help for us to make it

# Gimme just enough to take us to the mornin'... #

INDISTINCT CHATTER

Well, about a month ago, he developed a rash,

which he'd had over 12 months ago.

And the rash, when he had it 12 months or more ago,

we took him to the vet

and he told us it was a sort of a fungus, which we'd have to watch.

He had treatment for about two months more,

and the rash did clear up.

Then, as I said, it reoccurred again about a month ago,

and on being taken to the vet's,

we were informed that he was changing sex.

Well, you can imagine that this was a shock to us.

Um, the vet went on to explain that, um,

his male organs were disappearing,

and, as such, he was developing very prominent female organs.

He's an immensely masculine looking dog.

Yes. This is a sort of tragedy.

I mean, I look at Bruno and I think, well,

I can't imagine you as being feminine.

He's too masculine.

But apparently, according to what the vet told us,

that, with having the operation, the dog should be,

you know, a completely new dog.

I think we'll have coffee instead.

It's all so much quicker, isn't it?

No-one could call this

a particularly grand kitchen, Prime Minister.

No, it isn't. And you see what I mean -

there's absolutely no way in which you could eat in here,

because there's no place where you can get a small table in.

And I've always longed for a really lovely kitchen,

which I've never really had, one that would go straight out

onto a patio where you can have breakfast.

Always wanted that but never had it. However...

Oh, great.

All right?

There's some cards there. Yeah.

Letters. I hope no bills. Probably bills, yeah.

HE CHUCKLES

I'll have a look upstairs, then.

All right? You coming?

It's your house. In 25 years, it is your house and nobody else's.

Nobody can take it away from you.

You're in rented accommodation,

you pay rent until the day you die for nothing.

And you just can't lose.

INDISTINCT CHATTER

Can you all sit down, please?

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

ALL CHANT: National Front! National Front! National Front...

MUSIC: Vienna by Ultravox

# We walked in the cold air

# Freezing breath on the window frame, laying and waiting

# A man in the dark on the picture frame

# So mystic and soulful

# A voice reaching out in a piercing cry

# It stays with you until

# The feeling is gone Only you and I

# It means nothing to me

# This means nothing to me

# Oh, Vienna. #

I think we've found a man running a small...

That's your pitch... Well, I know, but I mean, basically,

it's a man running a small stable

of very young and even underage prostitutes,

who he has, for the most part, corrupted himself.

That's the sort of thing that gets our readers very angry.

Age 12. 13. 14. Yeah. Smashing.

INDISTINCT CHATTER

This is David Potts

on behalf of the News Of The World,

testing this tape prior to an interview on child corruption.

Testing. Testing. Testing.

You're all... SHOUTING OBSCURES SPEECH

Can you all stop behaving like that?

Your candidate, Helena Stevens.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

RAUCOUS SHOUTING You carry on. You carry on.

Carry on. Sit down!

The National Front must be... Oi! ..strong.

COMMOTION CONTINUES

Stop it now! Sit down!

Sit down! Sit down!

Sit down! Sit down! Sit down!

Sit down!

Would everybody like to sit down? Come on!

That's the point.

I mean, that's how you define it.

INDISTINCTLY: But if you go close up to a black hole...

But if you go close up to a black hole...

..then the...then the gravitational field becomes stronger.

..then the gravitational field becomes stronger.

And it would be a very nice idea...

It would be a very nice idea...

..if one could fall into a black hole

and then come out in another universe.

..if one could fall into a black hole

and then come out in another universe.

WHEELCHAIR WHIRS

APPLAUSE

LEILA TRUMPETS

LEILA GRUNTS

Dennis Meadows - condemned to a life on the dole,

is that how you see it?

That's precisely what's happening in Consett at two o'clock today,

cos 3,500 men will be off this plant

and, in effect, they have no job prospects whatsoever.

HORN SOUNDS

ANGRY BOOING

Sorry about the warmth of the welcome.

Oh, but that was absolutely terrific, wasn't it?

Which factories closed?

A small one which has suffered from lack of investment,

among other things.

This is what would normally be a working day,

it's the middle of the week, and we're now down in this plant,

which produces well over half the cast-iron baths

of the United Kingdom, onto one week on, one week off.

And that's an immediate and practical effect

of the strict monetarism policy that the Government is carrying out.

The managing director said, "I'm very sorry to tell you,

"but as from this minute

"the firm has gone into voluntary liquidation."

And that was it.

Somebody shouted, "Will we get any wages?"

And he said, "You'll get nothing."

There now follows a Government statement

on the current employment figures.

Oh, dear.

LAUGHTER

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

The Government seems to have totally lost its way

in terms of the interaction of four economic indicators

on British industry.

Oh, God!

As every member of any firm knows, once with high interest rates

as a weapon for controlling money supply,

what is the first thing that has to be cut?

Investment.

Because you still have to pay wages

and you still have to pay your current costs.

One day, we may be able to afford it.

LAUGHTER

If I get the economic policies right.

But the Government would say,

just hang on and stop making such a fuss now.

Yeah. All I can say is that the Government isn't standing

where I'm bloody well standing.

MUSIC: Come On Dance, Dance by Saturday Night Band

# Come on, dance, dance Come on, dance, dance... #

Stand with your arms like this, please.

WAND SQUEAKS Can you take your arms out, please?

You seem to be... You seem to be dancing on your own.

I am. Is that allowed?

No. You see, my partner wasn't allowed in.

Really? Yeah. But you seem... You're doing all right, though,

aren't you? Well, I'm trying.

What do you think about when you're dancing?

Nothing. Just, mind a blank? Complete blank.

Personally, I think you're... You're the... You're like...

BUZZING ON RECORDING

Because you're not really onto...

BUZZING

I think you like the more gentle thing...

Being, uh... BUZZING

Couldn't you... BUZZING

Have you got a label?

Yeah. I just look at the washing labels on my clothes,

and if they're clean, I put them on.

They're the only labels I take any notice of.

Well, I like The Damned and things like that. I'm a punk.

And she likes all sorts.

Do you class yourselves as punks?

Don't class ourselves as anything. Individuals.

Well, I'm a Bowie fan. Bowie fan? Yeah.

Anything else? Do you like being classed as a Bowie fan?

Yeah, that's what I like, you know?

Are you both classed as Bowie fans?

No. No, she's not.

I was a Siouxsie fan until I met him.

Well, very normal in this world today. Very normal.

Normal person. Not weird at all.

Label? Yeah.

A woman.

I'm a me rocker. I'm into myself.

What were you before you were an Arab?

I was a punk for a while. And a mod.

What made you change from punk to Arab?

We've got more money.

If you were to class yourself as anything, would you? If you had to.

If I had to, I wouldn't.

I just call myself me.

Beresford, he knew.

He was talking to me about the terrible things

that were going on in the squadron.

He said, "I just can't stand the way he frigs about in the air

"every time there's a blitz on.

"We all shout at him that he's not following the vectors

"given by the controller, but it makes no difference.

"He just goes the wrong way

"and then circles and circles around in the air.

"This afternoon, we all saw the bombs crashing below us.

"Way over to the east, on the oil tanks in the Thames Estuary.

"But do you think that made any difference to him?

"No. He just went on circling at about 18,000ft.

"He didn't seem to hear or see anything."

But they all disappeared in the same way,

and I don't know how many of them were ever, ever found again.

Presumably. Like Hugh Beresford, they maybe...

..may have just dug themselves into the ground somewhere.

It cost us...

..lives. Lives.

I don't know how many lives.

You're unemployed?

Yes, please.

Only one day a week, I'm working.

What do you do then?

I'm going to the unemployment exchange...

LAUGHTER ..for to be collecting my money.

Cor, blimey.

I get more money for not being working than when I'm working.

I don't think that series is socially damaging. I hope it isn't,

otherwise we really oughtn't to be doing it.

But I think that what people get out of that is a lot of enjoyment.

I don't think it's at the expense of the characters.

I think there is a multiracial community

working in that classroom at some level, which is enjoyable,

which may make people who are not members of any of those

racial minorities friendlier towards the races

that they see portrayed there,

without saying, when they meet an Indian in the street,

"Oh, he always talks like that,"

and, "He's funny because he wears a turban."

SHE CRIES

CRYING

SOBBING

INDISTINCT CHATTER

What have you been taking? What were you taking?

Glue.

Glue? What, you've been sniffing glue.

Huh? You didnae take all of it, did you?

INDISTINCT

What? No?

I've none. None at all. What, you've take the whole tin?

I don't know where it is. Oh, I know who's got it.

What, he's lost it? Who?

Davey's got it.

Who's Davey? He'll be back in a minute.

He's going to get some money to get chips for us.

He better. He will, I promise.

Has he got the glue?

We need glue, man. We need glue, man.

Don't you think, at the end of the day,

they're a load of hooligans, whatever their views are,

and it's best just to leave them alone?

How can you leave them alone

when they beat your mothers and children, huh?

You tell us to leave them alone. The right question.

Is this the first time this has happened on this sort of scale?

Yeah. Never happened before.

It's happened at schools, right?

Like, they're taking their little kids to school,

Indian women, and skinheads are beating them up.

Yeah. And this time it got worse.

So, nobody wants to know, so we had to do what we could do

for our people.

We've been telling the police,

we've been telling the local authority

that Southall is going to explode tomorrow.

Because in view of the kind of racial harassment of blacks

in Southall, nothing is being done.

They don't want to know to.

It's come to the extent where Southall will explode tomorrow.

So there's plenty of room this year,

but we haven't got Princess Anne there, have we?

No, no, we haven't. No, it's just these two here.

Just the two there. Is that far...?

That's about right for the moment.

Well, I'm just wondering. Plenty of room.

Forward a bit, do you think?

Well, you've only got the pages.

I think they want to be slightly in view of Her Majesty.

As long as they have enough room for their feet, you know?

That's it. That's it. That's it.

I think that's about right.

That's right. Plus you have a small button.

Yes.

Well, Duke of Gloucester, Duke of Kent.

Yes. Then we fill up that particular bench there... That's right.

..with the senior peers, and that's eight of them.

Oh, yes. That's right.

And then you were asking about... The ambassadors along there

after the royal ladies, and the overflow just above.

That's it. And then we start the duchesses there and carry on

in order of precedence in the usual way.

And I'd like to know who's the head ambassador,

because I rather like to come and say hello to him.

I think he's Tonga this year. I'm not sure,

but I think we'll find out.

Yeah, when I started work, I wore a split skirt up to the knee

and the boss complained about that, said it was too high

and it attracted men.

So I then wore a dress,

but I didn't feel at all comfortable in it,

so I just changed again to a T-shirt with a knot.

And I got sent to the personnel manager,

and she said it looked slutty, tarty,

and my earrings look stupid, and the dye in my hair,

but she complimented me on my work.

Can you iron a shirt?

No. Why not?

I never tried it.

Why not?

I just never tried it.

Why would you not try it?

Because my wife does it.

And why should your wife do it?

Erm, I don't know, let's put it that way.

ON PHONE: Now I don't know anybody any more.

Yeah, it's difficult, isn't it, making new friends.

You know, there's places that you can go.

Have you gone to any of the local pubs in this area?

Would you actually go up to girls and talk to them?

Or do you just sort of, you know, stand around?

I mean, it's up to you to make the first move, really?

PHONE RINGS

Hello, Grapevine.

Yes.

Can I help you?

It's another wanker.

Um, yes. Can I help you?

Um...

I'm afraid we really can't talk to you on the telephone

while you're masturbating

because we have a policy here that we're really colluding with you

in your fantasies,

and it's not doing you any good, and it's not doing me any good.

And I'd really like to help you, but I'm afraid I'm going to have

to ask you to come in and talk to us,

and we'll be more than happy to see you face-to-face.

But, otherwise, it's no good talking on the telephone

for either you or me. OK?

Well, I'm very sorry, but, you know, as I say, it's colluding with you.

OK?

SIREN WAILS

BANGING AND CLATTERING

MEN CHEER

KNOCKING

Hold your line!

But they would like the people

who are behind us withdraw from the area,

and then the people will disperse and they will go home.

You've got to try. As long as the police remains within the area...

It's a risk and you've got to take it. Just a minute.

A, there is no question of people arrested being released.

Yes. B, I have a responsibility, as I've told you before,

to preserve law and order. Now, there is no...

How can they guarantee what the rest of them are going to do?

How can they do that? Well, you see, what they're saying is that,

at the present time, the force,

the majority of the people are in the background.

They've been drinking and there's music going there,

and there's overturned cars in the streets.

There's Molotov cocktails.

And if something is not done at the present time,

it's going to be a highly explosive situation.

And the only way to do to defuse this situation

is by decreasing the presence of the police

within the area at the present time.

Because they see the police as their target,

as the target that they want to attack.

I understand exactly what you're saying,

and I appreciate what you've already done,

but there is no question... My decision at the moment,

there is no question of withdrawing police from here.

Yes?

INDISTINCT SPEECH

Initial?

INDISTINCT SPEECH

INDISTINCT SPEECH

Well, actually, uh, we hate each other anyway.

At least I hate him.

And I hate her. Don't get on at all together, do we?

No. No.

I don't think she hated me in the first place.

It wasn't until we got talking she realised

that I didn't really have

the same feelings about her as she did about me, and...

..a bit jealous of me, really.

She does all the carrying and all the talking

and I get all the laughs.

Mm. Not fair really.

I mean, if I got myself a nice thin little blonde bird,

I'd get away, you know?

It's only because she's a fat old cow.

See what I mean? She gets violent with me.

INDISTINCT CHATTER

Does anyone imagine that there is the smallest political gain

in letting this level of unemployment continue,

or that there is some obscure economic religion

which demands this level of unemployment

as part of its grisly ritual?

Has Britain the courage and resolve to sustain

the discipline for long enough to break through to success?

Yes, Mr Chairman, we have, and we shall.

This Government is determined to stay with the policy

and see it through to its conclusion.

And that... APPLAUSE

And that is what marks this administration

as one of the truly radical ministries of post-war Britain.

She knew that she did not have

the full trust of the cabinet,

but she fought it through nonetheless,

and she invented a consensus

of the nation, the junior ministers, the backbenchers,

all of whom she thought shared her vision

of what England had been and could be.

All this was inspired by her childhood reading of Churchill.

And I remember her at the time, again and again,

repeating, almost like a mantra...

"Churchill in 1940.

"Churchill in 1940. Churchill in 1940."

SOLDIER SHOUTS A COMMAND

A sort of bogus romantic cult

has been built up about fighter pilots.

Fighter piloting was really backstabbing,

and if you could creep up on your enemy without

him knowing anything about it and stab him right in the back,

that was the most efficacious thing to do.

The fighter pilot is well insulated from the harsh realities

of his actions. He doesn't...

He doesn't get splashed by the blood or hear the squeals,

or see the mutilated remains of his victim.

So that, in point of fact, it's a nasty and brutal little business.

Well, on this track, I'm doing a sort of a tribute

to Professor Longhair,

who was a New Orleans R&B pianist right through the '50s.

He died last month,

and we happened to just be at his last concert in New Orleans, so...

That's where ska came from in the first place.

And then ska was... came from a Fats Domino style of piano playing,

which was sort of...

They emphasise the off beat, like that.

And then started slowing down and you've got sort of reggae.

Right, potted history of music.

He's been very much of a family pet.

Yes. How are your children reacting to it?

Well, he does belong to my son,

who I'm afraid is very much against the operation.

I suppose, like we all are,

we can only think of Bruno as being a boy.

Girl doesn't enter into it. And he's against the operation,

my son is. But, um, I think,

for the sake of all of us and Bruno himself,

more important, he'll have to be operated on.

After the operation, you can't very well call him Bruno.

No. That is going to be the question, isn't it?

Um, we have laughed about this, but, uh,

probably to sort of hide our sorrow, but...

Well, what can you name him?

Have you any suggestions?

HE SINGS

Here's a brief list of words which were invented,

or which acquired their modern meaning, in that period.

They include...

They include capitalism and socialism.

They barely existed before the early 19th century.

The generation of men who grew up under the shadow

and inspiration of the two great revolutions

was the first to have to come to terms with them.

FOOTSTEPS ECHO

FOOTSTEPS CONTINUE

# Stars in your eyes, little one

# Where do you go to dream?

# To a place we all know

# The land of make believe

# Not for all the tea in China... #

And the irony is that Churchill delivered the breathing space.

He delivered the victories.

But because he'd done it by invoking this,

a special myth that gave a kind of impregnability

to the ideas, no-one could question them,

and we were still lumbered with this myth,

which is a very romantic vision

of our past and how it had to be projected into our future.

Still, today, it is a treason to question these arguments.

I don't want to listen to the arguments.

The myth is what counts.

# Run for the sun, little one

# You're an outlaw once again

# Time to change, Superman

# He'll be with us while he can

# In the land of make believe. #