1 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:33,260 We unwrap so much at Christmas. 2 00:00:34,620 --> 00:00:39,370 We uncover and expose such a great deal to the light. 3 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:42,650 We examine our heart's desires. 4 00:00:42,700 --> 00:00:46,130 We unfold the year gone by, 5 00:00:46,180 --> 00:00:48,890 seeking all that is perfect, 6 00:00:48,940 --> 00:00:52,940 striving to offer up a bright, clean sheet. 7 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:02,170 The festival brings sparkle 8 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:05,450 to our ordinary days, 9 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:08,730 peeling away each layer of experience, 10 00:01:08,780 --> 00:01:12,530 revealing the heart of all that counts, 11 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:16,580 year by year by year. 12 00:01:18,500 --> 00:01:21,970 I'm never quite sure about Jack And The Beanstalk as a pantomime 13 00:01:22,020 --> 00:01:24,770 cos I think the kiddies get scared of the giant. 14 00:01:24,820 --> 00:01:28,090 Still, you've certainly got the legs for Principal Boy. 15 00:01:28,140 --> 00:01:31,170 That's what my Aunt Edie said when the other girl dropped out. 16 00:01:31,220 --> 00:01:34,770 I remember you in Madam Edith's shows when you were a little girl. 17 00:01:34,820 --> 00:01:38,540 Always tapping away in the back row, cos you were tall even then. 18 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:41,770 Where've you been? 19 00:01:41,820 --> 00:01:45,650 Helping out Father Christmas on his busiest night of the year. 20 00:01:45,700 --> 00:01:47,770 Well, you're in the wrong costume. 21 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:49,530 Right, Dame Buckle! 22 00:01:49,580 --> 00:01:51,930 I've done your high heels in Lady Esquire -- 23 00:01:51,980 --> 00:01:53,620 they're drying by the bread bin. 24 00:01:55,140 --> 00:01:57,850 I can't see you getting much wear out of these bronze patent 25 00:01:57,900 --> 00:02:00,090 slingbacks in Switzerland. 26 00:02:00,140 --> 00:02:03,850 Are you sure you don't want me to lend you my thermal-lined galoshes? 27 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:06,690 Christopher and I aren't just going skiing, Phyllis! 28 00:02:06,740 --> 00:02:08,690 We're going apres-skiing too! 29 00:02:08,740 --> 00:02:10,450 And what does that entail? 30 00:02:10,500 --> 00:02:13,050 My accessories coming under quite a lot of scrutiny. 31 00:02:13,100 --> 00:02:15,690 Besides, Christopher likes me in those slingbacks -- 32 00:02:15,740 --> 00:02:17,730 I was going to wear them on the aeroplane! 33 00:02:17,780 --> 00:02:21,490 And would that be with the mink hat, the musquash capelet, 34 00:02:21,540 --> 00:02:23,210 or the jacket with the fox fur trim? 35 00:02:23,260 --> 00:02:25,170 You won't be wearing them with anything, 36 00:02:25,220 --> 00:02:27,610 if the weather forecast for Boxing Day turns out to be correct. 37 00:02:27,660 --> 00:02:30,930 They don't just close airports because of an inch of snow, Barbara! 38 00:02:30,980 --> 00:02:32,970 Let's hope not! 39 00:02:33,020 --> 00:02:36,180 Or quite a lot of blameless animals will have died in vain. 40 00:02:40,340 --> 00:02:42,380 Oh, thank you! 41 00:02:43,780 --> 00:02:45,660 What's in there? 42 00:02:48,660 --> 00:02:50,250 Oh! 43 00:02:52,820 --> 00:02:56,090 ? That's how it goes Whenever it snows 44 00:02:56,140 --> 00:02:58,570 ? The world is your snowball 45 00:02:58,620 --> 00:03:00,450 ? Just for a song 46 00:03:00,500 --> 00:03:04,090 ? Get out and roll it along 47 00:03:04,140 --> 00:03:09,010 ? It's a yum-yummy world made for sweethearts 48 00:03:09,060 --> 00:03:12,690 ? Take a walk with your favourite girl 49 00:03:12,740 --> 00:03:14,930 ? It's a sugar date 50 00:03:14,980 --> 00:03:17,050 ? What if spring is late? 51 00:03:17,100 --> 00:03:19,450 ? In winter it's a marshmallow world... ? 52 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:23,580 Everybody, there's a surprise in the parlour. Come on! 53 00:03:26,180 --> 00:03:28,020 Ta-daaa! 54 00:03:29,140 --> 00:03:31,210 Ah!!! 55 00:03:31,260 --> 00:03:35,530 The Seaman's Mission were offered a new and rather superior model, 56 00:03:35,580 --> 00:03:38,250 so I seized the chance to reclaim this. 57 00:03:38,300 --> 00:03:41,650 Unless my perusal of the Radio Times deceives me, 58 00:03:41,700 --> 00:03:46,050 Bronco will be broadcast at half past noon. 59 00:04:03,820 --> 00:04:06,490 Hurry up, lass! You nearly missed the line-up! 60 00:04:06,540 --> 00:04:08,170 Sorry! 61 00:04:08,220 --> 00:04:10,490 I've just had my third turkey dinner in two days, 62 00:04:10,540 --> 00:04:13,010 round at my Auntie Edie's! 63 00:04:13,060 --> 00:04:15,940 Careful! The paint's wet! Angela and I only just finished it! 64 00:04:18,620 --> 00:04:20,170 Thank you. 65 00:04:20,220 --> 00:04:21,410 Timer's on! 66 00:04:54,460 --> 00:04:56,410 Good grief! 67 00:04:56,460 --> 00:04:57,890 Ooh! 68 00:04:57,940 --> 00:05:01,650 Fred! It's a long time since we've seen anything like this! 69 00:05:01,700 --> 00:05:03,210 Morning, Nurse Crane! 70 00:05:03,260 --> 00:05:06,770 Or should I say, er, Baby, It's Cold Outside! 71 00:05:06,820 --> 00:05:08,370 It's minus five degrees. 72 00:05:08,420 --> 00:05:12,050 That's right. Minus five. Two foot of snow. 73 00:05:12,100 --> 00:05:15,140 And three quarters of the country at a standstill. 74 00:05:18,100 --> 00:05:19,210 Oh! 75 00:05:19,260 --> 00:05:20,580 No milk! 76 00:05:27,700 --> 00:05:31,010 A tincture apiece for your tea, and that's your lot. 77 00:05:31,060 --> 00:05:35,090 The deliverers of milk are not formed of the substance that 78 00:05:35,140 --> 00:05:36,410 once they were. 79 00:05:36,460 --> 00:05:40,170 One saw them struggling with their crates through smoking rubble, 80 00:05:40,220 --> 00:05:41,970 in the Blitz. 81 00:05:42,020 --> 00:05:44,130 You've got a long face this morning, Reggie? 82 00:05:44,180 --> 00:05:47,930 I don't like this hat. Violet made me wear it. 83 00:05:47,980 --> 00:05:49,730 Fred's in the same sort of get-up. 84 00:05:49,780 --> 00:05:51,010 I know he is. 85 00:05:51,060 --> 00:05:52,050 Morning! 86 00:05:52,100 --> 00:05:53,610 I like her hat. 87 00:05:53,660 --> 00:05:55,890 Thank you, Reggie. My sister knitted it. 88 00:05:55,940 --> 00:05:59,130 Nurse Hereward, is that a new addition to the uniform? 89 00:05:59,180 --> 00:06:01,690 Oh, no, I only put it on to cross over the road. 90 00:06:01,740 --> 00:06:04,610 I'm afraid Tom's had a call about the community centre. 91 00:06:04,660 --> 00:06:06,570 There's been a burst pipe, flooding, 92 00:06:06,620 --> 00:06:08,570 and terrible damage to the electrics. 93 00:06:08,620 --> 00:06:10,530 Will Clinic have to be postponed? 94 00:06:10,580 --> 00:06:12,730 It can't possibly be postponed! 95 00:06:12,780 --> 00:06:15,610 It's already two days late because of the Christmas holidays! 96 00:06:15,660 --> 00:06:17,490 The Fire Brigade were called out to the flood, 97 00:06:17,540 --> 00:06:19,810 and they think the building will have to close completely. 98 00:06:19,860 --> 00:06:22,490 But... what's going to happen to the pantomime? 99 00:06:22,540 --> 00:06:24,610 May I second that sentiment? 100 00:06:24,660 --> 00:06:28,210 I've got three stripy frocks, size 11 stilettos, 101 00:06:28,260 --> 00:06:31,210 and a great big wig going to waste if that has to be cancelled! 102 00:06:31,260 --> 00:06:33,970 Fred, the beanstalk is floating in a foot of water. 103 00:06:34,020 --> 00:06:37,090 And the children from the dancing school will be so disappointed. 104 00:06:37,140 --> 00:06:38,730 I am going to my office 105 00:06:38,780 --> 00:06:42,290 to locate an alternative venue for our clinic this afternoon. 106 00:06:42,340 --> 00:06:45,860 The fate of Jack And The Beanstalk, I entrust to the Almighty. 107 00:06:47,300 --> 00:06:51,050 We were always led to understand that the Iris Knight Institute hall 108 00:06:51,100 --> 00:06:53,810 would be on offer to Clinic in the event of an emergency. 109 00:06:53,860 --> 00:06:58,090 But others have first call on it during natural or other disasters. 110 00:06:58,140 --> 00:07:00,250 Bit of snow isn't a disaster! 111 00:07:00,300 --> 00:07:04,330 The boxes of abandoned medical equipment in a flooded hall are! 112 00:07:04,380 --> 00:07:06,890 And so are improperly monitored mothers. 113 00:07:06,940 --> 00:07:09,370 Leave everything to us, Shelagh. 114 00:07:09,420 --> 00:07:13,210 You've waited a long time for Baby Teddy. Enjoy him. 115 00:07:13,260 --> 00:07:16,340 Oh, I'm not quite ready to get back in my girdle yet! 116 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:30,330 Oh, begging your pardon, 117 00:07:30,380 --> 00:07:32,850 but I don't suppose I'm in with a chance of a consultation? 118 00:07:32,900 --> 00:07:35,530 I'm afraid surgery's finished for this morning. 119 00:07:35,580 --> 00:07:37,210 I was off to a clinic. 120 00:07:37,260 --> 00:07:40,130 Only I've had a bit of an argument with a paraffin heater. 121 00:07:40,180 --> 00:07:42,260 I might have burned my leg. 122 00:07:49,500 --> 00:07:52,890 It will be the first time I've ever conducted Clinic in a public house. 123 00:07:52,940 --> 00:07:54,890 It's rather irregular. 124 00:07:54,940 --> 00:07:58,100 - I'm just grateful Nurse Dyer's aunt was so accommodating. - Hm. 125 00:08:11,580 --> 00:08:12,770 Afternoon, ladies. 126 00:08:12,820 --> 00:08:16,090 Good afternoon, Sergeant. Are we impeding the flow of the traffic? 127 00:08:16,140 --> 00:08:20,290 We're advising non-essential vehicles to avoid turning left 128 00:08:20,340 --> 00:08:22,290 and heading down toward the wharf. 129 00:08:22,340 --> 00:08:25,330 Conditions are considered to be unsafe for vehicles 130 00:08:25,380 --> 00:08:29,820 of a domestic nature, and the less skilled driver. 131 00:08:32,340 --> 00:08:35,530 In which case you may move to one side with confidence, 132 00:08:35,580 --> 00:08:37,490 and kindly permit us to pass. 133 00:08:37,540 --> 00:08:40,730 I am a member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists, 134 00:08:40,780 --> 00:08:43,130 and the wheels of this car have been fully winterised, 135 00:08:43,180 --> 00:08:46,020 thanks to the timely application of a set of snow chains. 136 00:08:55,420 --> 00:08:58,610 I wouldn't've troubled you, only I couldn't get to the hospital. 137 00:08:58,660 --> 00:09:00,370 All the buses are off. 138 00:09:00,420 --> 00:09:03,610 The trouble with this is that the leg of your trousers has melted 139 00:09:03,660 --> 00:09:05,650 and made the blisters worse. 140 00:09:05,700 --> 00:09:07,090 Are they Crimplene? 141 00:09:07,140 --> 00:09:09,970 I don't know, Doctor. My wife buys all my clothes. 142 00:09:10,020 --> 00:09:12,250 So does mine. Fortunately. 143 00:09:12,300 --> 00:09:16,050 My Mabel, she, erm, don't get down the shops much. 144 00:09:16,100 --> 00:09:18,090 Been lame since she was a girl. 145 00:09:18,140 --> 00:09:20,730 But she's been turning me out like Burlington Bertie 146 00:09:20,780 --> 00:09:23,570 since she discovered those, er, small advertisements. 147 00:09:23,620 --> 00:09:26,290 You'll need regular dressing changes. 148 00:09:26,340 --> 00:09:28,290 We'll a send a nurse out to you. 149 00:09:28,340 --> 00:09:30,770 Oh, no, no. I'll come to the surgery. 150 00:09:30,820 --> 00:09:32,220 You've all got enough to do. 151 00:09:33,380 --> 00:09:36,850 I tell you what -- I take my hat off to these stay-pressed slacks. 152 00:09:36,900 --> 00:09:40,290 Still got a lovely sharp crease above the knee. 153 00:09:40,340 --> 00:09:42,250 If we set this table here, 154 00:09:42,300 --> 00:09:44,770 we can put the scales over there under the dartboard. 155 00:09:44,820 --> 00:09:48,770 Auntie Florrie! I'm going through to the back to clear some space for the urine testing. 156 00:09:48,820 --> 00:09:50,570 Well, I hope it's clean urine. 157 00:09:50,620 --> 00:09:52,490 I've got a gross of pies arriving. 158 00:09:52,540 --> 00:09:54,650 All my regulars are back at work today. 159 00:09:54,700 --> 00:09:57,090 You'll have to feed them through the tap room window. 160 00:09:57,140 --> 00:09:58,690 Women and children first. 161 00:09:58,740 --> 00:10:00,780 They said that on the Titanic. 162 00:10:01,900 --> 00:10:05,890 Good afternoon, ladies! Please take a seat. 163 00:10:05,940 --> 00:10:08,530 I'm afraid we don't have any magazines for you to read today, 164 00:10:08,580 --> 00:10:11,100 but we do have shove ha'penny and dominoes. 165 00:10:21,060 --> 00:10:23,290 Is this is where we're supposed to come, Nurse? 166 00:10:23,340 --> 00:10:25,970 Only my wife's not been seen by a London doctor yet. 167 00:10:26,020 --> 00:10:27,130 Oh! 168 00:10:27,180 --> 00:10:28,540 Gangway! 169 00:10:31,700 --> 00:10:34,530 Time and the weighing queue wait for no man. 170 00:10:34,580 --> 00:10:37,370 Believe me, you're in highly expert hands. 171 00:10:37,420 --> 00:10:40,020 Might even get a packet of pork scratchings. 172 00:10:42,260 --> 00:10:45,330 How long have you been in these parts, Mrs Openshaw? 173 00:10:45,380 --> 00:10:46,420 Only a week. 174 00:10:47,740 --> 00:10:50,610 My bloke's a roofer, and we came down because of his job. 175 00:10:50,660 --> 00:10:53,100 And can I have your maiden name? 176 00:10:56,020 --> 00:10:57,690 I'm not married. 177 00:10:57,740 --> 00:11:00,050 Oh. Your fella said you were his wife! 178 00:11:00,100 --> 00:11:02,540 He keeps asking me to be. 179 00:11:04,900 --> 00:11:07,140 But he's not the baby's father. 180 00:11:14,140 --> 00:11:15,810 Here. 181 00:11:15,860 --> 00:11:18,570 I keep this one for show and sharing. 182 00:11:18,620 --> 00:11:20,860 I haven't blown my nose in it or anything. 183 00:11:23,980 --> 00:11:27,610 Listen, it's bedlam in here today, and you're as likely to get 184 00:11:27,660 --> 00:11:30,930 a pickled egg and a pint of mild as a urine test. 185 00:11:30,980 --> 00:11:33,140 Why don't I come out and see you at home? 186 00:11:34,460 --> 00:11:35,850 We live in a caravan. 187 00:11:35,900 --> 00:11:38,420 We haven't been able to find a flat yet. 188 00:11:39,460 --> 00:11:42,180 So, where are you parked? 189 00:11:48,060 --> 00:11:51,450 Wait! Let me help you, Nurse Crane! 190 00:11:51,500 --> 00:11:53,890 Such a very personable young man. 191 00:11:53,940 --> 00:11:57,250 I thought you two would be making merry in the land of goats 192 00:11:57,300 --> 00:11:59,330 and superior milk chocolate by now! 193 00:11:59,380 --> 00:12:01,050 London Airport's closed! 194 00:12:01,100 --> 00:12:03,900 - There's no flights to Zurich until further notice. - Oh. 195 00:12:05,100 --> 00:12:07,530 I'm not sure I can even get back to my flat. 196 00:12:07,580 --> 00:12:10,170 You're very welcome to avail yourself of our guest room, 197 00:12:10,220 --> 00:12:12,570 if conditions remain trying, Mr Dockerill. 198 00:12:13,820 --> 00:12:16,770 I want that car off the road now, 199 00:12:16,820 --> 00:12:19,330 where it's not causing an obstruction, 200 00:12:19,380 --> 00:12:23,020 winterised tyres or no winterised tyres! 201 00:12:41,460 --> 00:12:45,010 It is as well we had not yet packed away the accoutrements 202 00:12:45,060 --> 00:12:46,770 required for revelry. 203 00:12:46,820 --> 00:12:50,330 For, as St Paul advised the Hebrews, 204 00:12:50,380 --> 00:12:53,450 be not forgetful of hospitality, 205 00:12:53,500 --> 00:12:58,050 for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 206 00:12:58,100 --> 00:13:01,330 There are 12 days of Christmas, after all. 207 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:02,660 Ah! 208 00:13:04,220 --> 00:13:06,050 Why is it always me? 209 00:13:06,100 --> 00:13:07,650 Bad luck, Val. 210 00:13:07,700 --> 00:13:10,250 Right, let me get this out the way. 211 00:13:12,260 --> 00:13:15,770 Have we prepared the end room for our guest, Nurse Crane? 212 00:13:15,820 --> 00:13:17,770 I've treated him to the electric blanket. 213 00:13:17,820 --> 00:13:22,530 I had thought that Sister Evangelina's old dressing gown would be appropriately masculine, 214 00:13:22,580 --> 00:13:25,100 but it would seem it's been donated to the poor. 215 00:13:26,100 --> 00:13:30,730 I am poised to offer Mr Dockerill a slice of sherry log 216 00:13:30,780 --> 00:13:33,700 when his exertions are completed. 217 00:13:37,100 --> 00:13:38,700 Look out. 218 00:13:40,060 --> 00:13:41,620 Help me! 219 00:14:08,700 --> 00:14:10,370 Oh, your feet! 220 00:14:10,420 --> 00:14:11,850 Sorry! 221 00:14:11,900 --> 00:14:16,050 Oh. Have you been with that poor sailor all day? 222 00:14:16,100 --> 00:14:17,850 No-one should have to die alone, 223 00:14:17,900 --> 00:14:21,530 especially not in the back room of a Seamen's Mission. 224 00:14:21,580 --> 00:14:24,130 It's not often the corpse is the warmest thing in the room. 225 00:14:24,180 --> 00:14:25,220 Tom! 226 00:14:26,460 --> 00:14:28,450 I've had some news. 227 00:14:28,500 --> 00:14:30,210 What sort of news? 228 00:14:30,260 --> 00:14:32,050 I've been asked to go to Birmingham, 229 00:14:32,100 --> 00:14:34,810 to take over a church called St Dionysus. 230 00:14:34,860 --> 00:14:36,850 As vicar? 231 00:14:36,900 --> 00:14:40,970 As curate, while the vicar takes a leave of absence due to illness. 232 00:14:41,020 --> 00:14:44,250 But that's exactly what you've been doing here for the past two years. 233 00:14:44,300 --> 00:14:46,770 Quite. And I love this parish. 234 00:14:46,820 --> 00:14:49,770 If I'm going to struggle and starve, I want to do that here. 235 00:14:49,820 --> 00:14:53,570 That's the second mildly distasteful thing you've said since you got into bed. 236 00:14:53,620 --> 00:14:55,610 We don't struggle much, 237 00:14:55,660 --> 00:14:58,970 and we can't begin to know the meaning of starvation. 238 00:14:59,020 --> 00:15:01,770 Especially when I have a Penguin biscuit underneath my pillow. 239 00:15:01,820 --> 00:15:03,690 Has it melted? 240 00:15:03,740 --> 00:15:05,780 Strangely enough, no. 241 00:15:11,700 --> 00:15:14,290 I know I'm supposed to go where God calls me. 242 00:15:14,340 --> 00:15:17,010 I just don't know why he would call me away from here. 243 00:15:17,060 --> 00:15:23,020 And if I don't know why, how can I be sure I'm being called at all? 244 00:15:39,220 --> 00:15:41,210 Please tell me it's melted. 245 00:15:41,260 --> 00:15:45,100 The reverse. We've even got ice on the inside of the windows. 246 00:15:46,700 --> 00:15:49,930 I'm not surprised. I was shivering all night. 247 00:15:49,980 --> 00:15:52,170 Serves you right for not wearing a vest. 248 00:15:52,220 --> 00:15:54,170 I don't possess a vest! 249 00:15:54,220 --> 00:15:57,540 I had to hope that two satin camisoles had the same effect. 250 00:16:03,620 --> 00:16:04,610 Good morning. 251 00:16:04,660 --> 00:16:05,740 Oh! 252 00:16:09,860 --> 00:16:13,170 Christopher just saw me in my rollers! 253 00:16:13,220 --> 00:16:15,290 Dentists have scientific training, Trixie. 254 00:16:15,340 --> 00:16:18,140 He can't think your hair looks the way it does naturally. 255 00:16:23,220 --> 00:16:27,850 Stop! Mr Dockerill, stop! Whatever you do, please don't go in there! 256 00:16:27,900 --> 00:16:30,050 Why? What's happened? 257 00:16:30,100 --> 00:16:33,770 Erm... The, er, the drop in temperature has led to unforeseen 258 00:16:33,820 --> 00:16:35,770 circumstances involving the facilities. 259 00:16:35,820 --> 00:16:37,570 I see. 260 00:16:37,620 --> 00:16:41,860 The lavatory is frozen. Emergency measures are required. 261 00:16:50,060 --> 00:16:51,850 Is there anything I can do to help? 262 00:16:51,900 --> 00:16:53,100 No! 263 00:16:55,900 --> 00:16:59,460 Oh! Not now! Oh! 264 00:17:11,540 --> 00:17:14,250 All now appears to be in order! 265 00:17:14,300 --> 00:17:17,050 I recommend the application of boiling water hourly, to the 266 00:17:17,100 --> 00:17:18,730 cistern and to the S bend. 267 00:17:18,780 --> 00:17:21,730 Your ministrations are appreciated, Mr Dockerill. 268 00:17:21,780 --> 00:17:24,330 I will make sure it is taken care of. 269 00:17:24,380 --> 00:17:27,380 Does anyone mind if I go in first? I'm absolutely bursting! 270 00:17:33,580 --> 00:17:37,170 Shelagh, you don't need to make us Scotch pancakes for breakfast. 271 00:17:37,220 --> 00:17:40,170 We'd be perfectly happy with toast and jam. 272 00:17:40,220 --> 00:17:42,090 Teddy's been as good as gold! 273 00:17:42,140 --> 00:17:44,970 I'm glad I stuck with the Truby King method of feeding 274 00:17:45,020 --> 00:17:47,290 and wasn't seduced by that American Spock. 275 00:17:47,340 --> 00:17:51,770 15 minutes on each breast every four hours is absolutely the only way. 276 00:17:51,820 --> 00:17:53,010 Excuse me. 277 00:17:53,060 --> 00:17:55,960 I'm going out to the patio to have a look at the thermometer. 278 00:18:02,940 --> 00:18:07,290 Good morning, ladies. Two points of note before we commence. 279 00:18:07,340 --> 00:18:10,570 Firstly, the London Meteorological Office are of the view 280 00:18:10,620 --> 00:18:15,810 that these conditions will persist for the next ten days at least. 281 00:18:15,860 --> 00:18:19,730 Secondly, with the continued closure of London Aerodrome, 282 00:18:19,780 --> 00:18:24,530 Nurse Franklin has kindly offered to postpone her sporting holiday 283 00:18:24,580 --> 00:18:26,090 until further notice. 284 00:18:26,140 --> 00:18:31,250 Oh! Would you like a pair of thermal drawers, Nurse Franklin? 285 00:18:31,300 --> 00:18:33,810 Sister Julienne ordered a job lot from Damart. 286 00:18:33,860 --> 00:18:38,170 There's a choice of buff or navy blue. 287 00:18:38,220 --> 00:18:42,620 Thank you, Sister Winifred, but I think I've sacrificed enough. 288 00:19:07,620 --> 00:19:10,210 I had a proper boyfriend for a while, 289 00:19:10,260 --> 00:19:12,450 but it never came to anything. 290 00:19:12,500 --> 00:19:14,260 Apart from this. 291 00:19:16,460 --> 00:19:18,970 I had to move lodgings once I couldn't hide it any more, 292 00:19:19,020 --> 00:19:21,340 and my new place was as good as falling down. 293 00:19:22,700 --> 00:19:25,890 Selwyn was one of the builders that came to fix some slates. 294 00:19:25,940 --> 00:19:29,580 And there he was... smiling. 295 00:19:33,140 --> 00:19:37,930 It felt like such a long time since anyone had smiled at me. 296 00:19:37,980 --> 00:19:39,740 Perfect. 297 00:19:40,780 --> 00:19:43,090 Not if I don't love him. 298 00:19:43,140 --> 00:19:46,500 No -- I was talking about your blood pressure. 299 00:19:50,500 --> 00:19:52,850 Selwyn says he doesn't care if it isn't his, 300 00:19:52,900 --> 00:19:55,250 that he wants to take care of us both, 301 00:19:55,300 --> 00:19:58,570 that he'll love the baby regardless, no questions asked. 302 00:19:58,620 --> 00:20:00,650 But how can he? 303 00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:02,260 I don't know, Linda. 304 00:20:03,420 --> 00:20:05,650 But he thinks he can. 305 00:20:05,700 --> 00:20:09,100 And sometimes if you think you can, you're halfway there. 306 00:20:18,540 --> 00:20:21,210 Sister Monica Joan? I have a task for you. 307 00:20:21,260 --> 00:20:23,850 I have a task assigned to me already, 308 00:20:23,900 --> 00:20:26,490 by Nurse Franklin's Titian-haired suitor. 309 00:20:26,540 --> 00:20:30,570 I am charged with preventing the lavatory from freezing. 310 00:20:30,620 --> 00:20:33,770 You can be knitting young Reggie a bobble hat while you're at it. 311 00:20:33,820 --> 00:20:37,290 He'll look a lot more a la mode than he does with that cap 312 00:20:37,340 --> 00:20:39,810 and scarf combination on his head. 313 00:20:39,860 --> 00:20:42,410 Well, you have commenced its manufacture already. 314 00:20:42,460 --> 00:20:46,570 I thought it might help if I got the ribbing off the starting blocks. 315 00:20:46,620 --> 00:20:49,820 I will attend to it when matters are less pressing. 316 00:20:59,500 --> 00:21:01,130 First blade going in. 317 00:21:01,180 --> 00:21:03,210 Just breathe in some air now, Dilys. 318 00:21:03,260 --> 00:21:05,930 What a way to spend a New Year's bloody Eve! 319 00:21:05,980 --> 00:21:09,250 I'm sure we'd all rather be dancing the bossa nova and eating vol au 320 00:21:09,300 --> 00:21:12,650 vents, but Mother Nature has scant regard for the social calendar. 321 00:21:12,700 --> 00:21:15,250 Don't take the gas away! Please, please don't take it away. 322 00:21:15,300 --> 00:21:18,290 It's all right, sweetie. This gas is going nowhere. 323 00:21:18,340 --> 00:21:22,690 And neither am I, until we've got this little rascal into the world. 324 00:21:22,740 --> 00:21:26,770 Which is going to be 1962, and not 1963, I promise you. 325 00:21:26,820 --> 00:21:28,660 Ooh! 326 00:21:30,060 --> 00:21:33,570 Come on, Dilys! Push! 327 00:21:33,620 --> 00:21:36,010 Don't waste a moment of this contraction! 328 00:21:36,060 --> 00:21:39,010 You can do it! Keep pushing! 329 00:21:39,060 --> 00:21:41,340 Come on, Dilys! 330 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:55,220 Well done! 331 00:21:56,860 --> 00:21:59,050 Look, Dilys! You did it. 332 00:21:59,100 --> 00:22:01,570 A gorgeous little girl. 333 00:22:01,620 --> 00:22:05,180 Who will always have a party to go to on her birthday. 334 00:22:13,300 --> 00:22:15,810 Do you reckon them bells are Big Ben? 335 00:22:15,860 --> 00:22:18,570 I don't know. But they've woken the baby up. 336 00:22:18,620 --> 00:22:20,250 It's kicking like mad. 337 00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:21,860 Can I feel it? 338 00:22:27,580 --> 00:22:30,020 It's like he's wishing us a happy new year! 339 00:22:31,540 --> 00:22:35,930 ? We'll take a cup of kindness yet 340 00:22:35,980 --> 00:22:40,220 ? For the sake of Auld Lang Syne. ? 341 00:23:05,300 --> 00:23:08,130 '11 people are now known to have died as a direct 342 00:23:08,180 --> 00:23:10,650 result of Arctic conditions engulfing Great Britain. 343 00:23:10,700 --> 00:23:13,730 Looks like we'll be drinking our breakfast tea black this morning. 344 00:23:13,780 --> 00:23:16,490 I'm sure it will have arrived in time for our elevenses! 345 00:23:16,540 --> 00:23:19,530 I expect the milkman's been detained by grateful housewives 346 00:23:19,580 --> 00:23:21,090 strewing roses at his feet. 347 00:23:21,140 --> 00:23:22,850 It's like the liberation of Paris every time 348 00:23:22,900 --> 00:23:24,450 he gets through with the gold-top. 349 00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:27,890 'Meanwhile, the Milk Marketing Board has announced that after 350 00:23:27,940 --> 00:23:30,730 almost two weeks of battling to deliver the nations' milk, 351 00:23:30,780 --> 00:23:34,090 a large proportion of its operators are suffering from exhaustion. 352 00:23:34,140 --> 00:23:36,610 All milkman are therefore to be given a day's holiday, 353 00:23:36,660 --> 00:23:38,140 with immediate effect. 354 00:23:39,140 --> 00:23:40,620 Oh! 355 00:23:58,060 --> 00:24:01,090 It looks like half of Poplar's without water. 356 00:24:01,140 --> 00:24:02,570 Your mother was right. 357 00:24:02,620 --> 00:24:05,060 Maybe you should've stayed at home today. 358 00:24:08,140 --> 00:24:09,530 What's the trouble, Fred? 359 00:24:09,580 --> 00:24:12,090 Burst sewer, Dr Turner. 360 00:24:12,140 --> 00:24:15,770 There's all sorts bubbling up through this tarmac! 361 00:24:15,820 --> 00:24:17,740 I'd better take a look. 362 00:24:24,140 --> 00:24:26,450 I need to telephone Environmental Health. 363 00:24:26,500 --> 00:24:29,050 We'll also have to get that standpipe shut down -- 364 00:24:29,100 --> 00:24:31,010 it's too close to the burst. 365 00:24:31,060 --> 00:24:34,140 Leave it to me, Doc. There's a phone box just up there. 366 00:24:35,500 --> 00:24:36,970 Let me poke it. 367 00:24:37,020 --> 00:24:39,450 Ere, lads -- what you doing? 368 00:24:39,500 --> 00:24:42,970 All the schools are open today. You've no excuse for running wild! 369 00:24:43,020 --> 00:24:45,810 Oh, my gosh! It looks like a hand. 370 00:24:45,860 --> 00:24:48,460 It's all right. No-one's in trouble. 371 00:24:51,780 --> 00:24:53,660 Run! 372 00:25:15,980 --> 00:25:19,300 I think your ministrations are required in the outhouse, Sister. 373 00:25:20,300 --> 00:25:26,450 I have been distracted from vital work by this pettifogging 374 00:25:26,500 --> 00:25:30,210 and inessential task. 375 00:25:30,260 --> 00:25:34,500 Go and put the kettle on. You leave that to me. 376 00:25:42,220 --> 00:25:45,100 There's no sign of any injury or trauma. 377 00:25:46,540 --> 00:25:50,380 He'll have become disoriented in the blizzard, sought shelter. 378 00:25:51,780 --> 00:25:55,060 Hypothermia will have eased seamlessly into rigor mortis. 379 00:26:03,460 --> 00:26:06,300 Tillerson, Percival. 380 00:26:18,460 --> 00:26:22,700 He's one of my patients. I treated him for leg burns. 381 00:26:33,860 --> 00:26:35,490 Turner residence? 382 00:26:35,540 --> 00:26:38,050 That woman hasn't come in to work again! 383 00:26:38,100 --> 00:26:39,970 Do you mean Miss Plympton? 384 00:26:40,020 --> 00:26:42,370 The one with the glasses you put in charge. 385 00:26:42,420 --> 00:26:45,530 The poor woman might feel more inclined to put in an appearance 386 00:26:45,580 --> 00:26:47,130 if you remembered her name. 387 00:26:47,180 --> 00:26:49,330 I've got enough to do, Shelagh. 388 00:26:49,380 --> 00:26:53,010 Especially today. Th... There's been a fatality. 389 00:26:53,060 --> 00:26:54,770 Oh, no. 390 00:26:54,820 --> 00:26:58,170 I've found the records... I've found the records of his next of kin, 391 00:26:58,220 --> 00:27:02,970 but I have got a full list in the surgery -- mainly bronchial cases. 392 00:27:03,020 --> 00:27:06,530 And I never like sending the police to break bad news. 393 00:27:06,580 --> 00:27:09,170 You need someone there to take care of these things. 394 00:27:09,220 --> 00:27:10,570 Oh, I'll manage. 395 00:27:10,620 --> 00:27:13,330 Oh. Sister Julienne's arrived. 396 00:27:13,380 --> 00:27:16,410 And I shouldn't have bothered you. 397 00:27:16,460 --> 00:27:18,460 I'm sorry. 398 00:27:20,220 --> 00:27:24,340 Sister, may I beg a kindness from you? 399 00:27:26,740 --> 00:27:29,220 Ooh! 400 00:27:37,820 --> 00:27:40,170 Potty, Mummy! 401 00:27:40,220 --> 00:27:42,580 Potty, Mummy, now! 402 00:27:43,780 --> 00:27:47,210 Poor Linda Openshaw. She's only just eight months. 403 00:27:47,260 --> 00:27:49,370 Sounds more like a reassurance visit than anything. 404 00:27:49,420 --> 00:27:50,810 And pound to a penny, 405 00:27:50,860 --> 00:27:53,450 the father needs more reassurance than she does. 406 00:27:53,500 --> 00:27:55,730 Ooh! 407 00:27:55,780 --> 00:27:59,420 That'll teach you to snub complimentary thermals. 408 00:28:11,540 --> 00:28:13,850 Do you happen to know where Mrs Tillerson might be? 409 00:28:13,900 --> 00:28:14,890 Mrs Tillerson? 410 00:28:14,940 --> 00:28:16,450 I was told she was housebound. 411 00:28:16,500 --> 00:28:18,600 I ain't never seen them since they moved in. 412 00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:26,210 I'm afraid we need to break the door down. 413 00:28:30,580 --> 00:28:32,260 Midwife! 414 00:28:33,460 --> 00:28:35,090 Oh! What's going on, Linda? 415 00:28:35,140 --> 00:28:36,970 There's no room in here for a piggy back race. 416 00:28:37,020 --> 00:28:38,370 This bed's soaking wet. 417 00:28:38,420 --> 00:28:41,260 Oh, look at you, you poor chick. 418 00:28:42,340 --> 00:28:45,050 Have you got a couple of towels we can put over the damp bit? 419 00:28:45,100 --> 00:28:47,820 Then we'll get you comfy, have a look at you. 420 00:29:01,580 --> 00:29:03,940 Mrs Tillerson? Mrs Tillerson? 421 00:29:07,260 --> 00:29:08,460 Mabel? 422 00:29:11,900 --> 00:29:13,620 I did what you said! 423 00:29:15,380 --> 00:29:17,330 Don't be afraid, Mrs Tillerson. 424 00:29:17,380 --> 00:29:21,980 I'll light the heater, and make you tea, and you'll soon be warm. 425 00:29:24,540 --> 00:29:25,860 Close the door! 426 00:29:27,100 --> 00:29:29,130 You have to go. 427 00:29:29,180 --> 00:29:30,820 Percy won't have it. 428 00:29:31,900 --> 00:29:33,210 Won't have what? 429 00:29:33,260 --> 00:29:35,900 People coming in. 430 00:29:41,980 --> 00:29:44,090 It's all right, it's all right. 431 00:29:44,140 --> 00:29:47,650 Just let it wash over you, like a wave at the seaside. 432 00:29:47,700 --> 00:29:48,740 The seaside? 433 00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:53,210 I could have phrased it better, I grant you. 434 00:29:53,260 --> 00:29:56,780 Not much chance of a 99 and a kiss me quick hat in this weather. 435 00:29:58,260 --> 00:29:59,970 Linda... 436 00:30:00,020 --> 00:30:03,530 it does look as though you're going to be having this baby very soon. 437 00:30:03,580 --> 00:30:07,100 It's four weeks early, but nothing we can't handle. 438 00:30:17,420 --> 00:30:19,780 Sip this, Mrs Tillerson. It will warm you. 439 00:30:22,740 --> 00:30:25,570 You really were very, very cold. 440 00:30:25,620 --> 00:30:30,130 But I felt warm. That's the last thing I remember thinking, 441 00:30:30,180 --> 00:30:32,050 how warm it was. 442 00:30:32,100 --> 00:30:34,780 Hypothermia has that effect when it takes hold. 443 00:30:37,060 --> 00:30:41,890 I think perhaps you became confused and took your cardigan off. 444 00:30:41,940 --> 00:30:45,130 Percy doesn't like me showing my arms. 445 00:30:45,180 --> 00:30:48,580 He doesn't like any women showing flesh. 446 00:30:50,460 --> 00:30:52,140 When's he coming back? 447 00:30:53,460 --> 00:30:55,820 He's been a long time fetching the paraffin. 448 00:31:03,420 --> 00:31:05,970 Warmth always eases pain. 449 00:31:06,020 --> 00:31:10,300 I'm going to tuck one on each side of your back and see if that helps. 450 00:31:11,300 --> 00:31:14,250 Right, you! Fill that kettle again, and put some towels to warm. 451 00:31:14,300 --> 00:31:16,330 That'll free me up to stay down the business end. 452 00:31:16,380 --> 00:31:18,730 Do you want me to go and phone for help? 453 00:31:18,780 --> 00:31:21,690 Selwyn! I am the help. 454 00:31:21,740 --> 00:31:23,780 And so are you. 455 00:31:35,020 --> 00:31:36,380 I'm sorry. 456 00:31:37,620 --> 00:31:40,660 I know the news is a great deal to take in, Mrs Tillerson. 457 00:31:41,660 --> 00:31:43,340 I have taken it in. 458 00:31:45,980 --> 00:31:50,090 Percy liked to be the one who said what happened when, 459 00:31:50,140 --> 00:31:52,580 what was what, who did what... 460 00:31:54,180 --> 00:31:58,100 Sounds like he had no say at all in how he met his end. 461 00:32:01,420 --> 00:32:03,020 And I'm glad. 462 00:32:20,940 --> 00:32:23,810 Shelagh? Uh, where are the children? 463 00:32:23,860 --> 00:32:26,130 Teddy's asleep in his pram in the corridor 464 00:32:26,180 --> 00:32:28,690 and the nursery took Angela for an extra afternoon. 465 00:32:28,740 --> 00:32:31,930 I left her drinking Ribena and doing Plasticine. 466 00:32:31,980 --> 00:32:34,020 Show me that pie. 467 00:32:37,180 --> 00:32:39,130 I bought it fresh today. 468 00:32:39,180 --> 00:32:41,890 From a shop that was under a contamination warning 469 00:32:41,940 --> 00:32:44,130 from the meat inspectors last October! 470 00:32:44,180 --> 00:32:45,410 Oh, Patrick! 471 00:32:45,460 --> 00:32:48,010 We'll be bringing sandwiches in with us every morning 472 00:32:48,060 --> 00:32:49,570 until further notice. 473 00:32:49,620 --> 00:32:52,290 What do you mean, every morning until further notice? 474 00:32:52,340 --> 00:32:55,250 We've a practice to run, and a crisis to survive. 475 00:32:55,300 --> 00:32:57,890 I can't pretend this girdle isn't pinching, 476 00:32:57,940 --> 00:33:00,660 but -- for now -- I'm back at work. 477 00:33:08,380 --> 00:33:11,810 I want it out. I WANT IT OUT. 478 00:33:11,860 --> 00:33:13,730 That's just your body telling you to push, Linda. 479 00:33:13,780 --> 00:33:15,890 Baby's quite small, it's going to come quickly. 480 00:33:15,940 --> 00:33:18,290 You hold on. Dig your nails in if you need to. 481 00:33:18,340 --> 00:33:19,810 I'm scared I'll hurt your hand. 482 00:33:19,860 --> 00:33:22,420 Only thing that can ever hurt me is what hurts you. 483 00:33:41,860 --> 00:33:45,260 The children will need to be told what has happened, Mrs Tillerson. 484 00:33:47,980 --> 00:33:51,940 Edwin joined up as a boy soldier, when he was 16. 485 00:33:53,660 --> 00:33:57,100 Percy had given him one black eye too many. 486 00:33:58,980 --> 00:34:01,250 In the war, when he was took 487 00:34:01,300 --> 00:34:03,340 prisoner by the Japanese, I thought... 488 00:34:06,300 --> 00:34:08,260 ".. Nah... 489 00:34:10,060 --> 00:34:12,780 ".. he'll be able to bear it." 490 00:34:20,820 --> 00:34:24,810 After VE day, the Red Cross wrote to me 491 00:34:24,860 --> 00:34:27,890 and said Edwin had died of cholera. 492 00:34:27,940 --> 00:34:31,250 I hadn't thought disease might get him, 493 00:34:31,300 --> 00:34:37,420 I just thought how good he was at standing up to blows. 494 00:34:42,180 --> 00:34:45,140 He was hard-faced. 495 00:34:46,340 --> 00:34:47,900 Hard-nosed. 496 00:34:49,700 --> 00:34:51,980 Just hard, really. 497 00:35:01,260 --> 00:35:02,700 I was never brave. 498 00:35:04,100 --> 00:35:07,140 I just learned to do what Percy said. 499 00:35:08,300 --> 00:35:15,620 He used to say, "You can't argue with what God wants." 500 00:35:17,060 --> 00:35:20,300 Your husband wasn't God, Mrs Tillerson. 501 00:35:21,900 --> 00:35:23,180 Maybe not. 502 00:35:24,660 --> 00:35:27,060 But they was as thick as thieves. 503 00:35:29,260 --> 00:35:30,780 Is this your daughter? 504 00:35:32,220 --> 00:35:34,170 A pretty little thing. 505 00:35:34,220 --> 00:35:35,260 Anthea? 506 00:35:36,580 --> 00:35:38,140 I wish she wasn't. 507 00:35:40,020 --> 00:35:43,460 I used to think, if she was plain... 508 00:35:44,780 --> 00:35:48,020 .. would Percy have done what he did to her? 509 00:35:51,380 --> 00:35:55,490 I don't expect you to answer that, Sister. 510 00:35:55,540 --> 00:35:59,860 I never could, in all the years of asking myself. 511 00:36:01,980 --> 00:36:04,340 Even after she ran away. 512 00:36:11,780 --> 00:36:17,060 Would you like me to tell your daughter -- Anthea -- the news? 513 00:36:19,380 --> 00:36:23,050 Anthea ran away... 514 00:36:23,100 --> 00:36:25,620 .. and I was glad. 515 00:36:53,020 --> 00:36:56,090 - Ooh! - Ten dozen mince pies. 516 00:36:56,140 --> 00:36:58,890 Puff or shortcrust, Reverend? 517 00:36:58,940 --> 00:37:01,450 I'm afraid I don't know. 518 00:37:01,500 --> 00:37:05,570 They're also factory seconds, and I worry it might be a bit 519 00:37:05,620 --> 00:37:08,530 unlucky eating them now that all the Christmas trees are down. 520 00:37:08,580 --> 00:37:11,770 They'll fall on them like wolves, Mr Hereward. 521 00:37:11,820 --> 00:37:14,250 Half these old folk didn't even get a Christmas dinner. 522 00:37:14,300 --> 00:37:16,730 They were just sat there staring at four walls! 523 00:37:16,780 --> 00:37:19,090 They're still just sat there, really. 524 00:37:19,140 --> 00:37:21,460 Well, at least they're not alone. 525 00:37:22,460 --> 00:37:26,930 You wonder how it happens, families breaking up, 526 00:37:26,980 --> 00:37:29,770 people cut adrift from their neighbours. 527 00:37:29,820 --> 00:37:34,610 I see it all the time. Perhaps a feud, an unresolved quarrel, 528 00:37:34,660 --> 00:37:40,420 a death. Ties fray so quickly, and once they fray, they snap. 529 00:37:41,580 --> 00:37:43,460 People just stop belonging. 530 00:37:45,780 --> 00:37:49,930 I think people get carried away with notions of belonging. 531 00:37:49,980 --> 00:37:52,810 It shouldn't matter where you're from, or where you're headed. 532 00:37:52,860 --> 00:37:55,090 What it boils down to in my book is, 533 00:37:55,140 --> 00:37:57,580 do we all look out for each other, or not? 534 00:38:01,980 --> 00:38:04,220 Ooh, shortcrust. 535 00:38:09,180 --> 00:38:11,770 These are the records for patients who are on the old books 536 00:38:11,820 --> 00:38:14,210 prior to National Health reorganisation, 537 00:38:14,260 --> 00:38:17,210 but never registered under the new system. 538 00:38:17,260 --> 00:38:19,850 I found Anthea Tillerson quite easily, 539 00:38:19,900 --> 00:38:24,970 but we last saw her in 1941, when she was only 15. 540 00:38:25,020 --> 00:38:26,890 Do you know where she is now? 541 00:38:26,940 --> 00:38:32,570 There's a letter with an address dating from 1954. 542 00:38:32,620 --> 00:38:35,130 It relates to references required 543 00:38:35,180 --> 00:38:38,010 when she applied to be a council foster parent. 544 00:38:38,060 --> 00:38:41,730 She's now known as Anthea Sweeting, so she must have married. 545 00:38:41,780 --> 00:38:46,020 At the very least, she needs to be informed that her father has died. 546 00:38:48,060 --> 00:38:53,970 At her last appointment, Anthea had contusions across her back 547 00:38:54,020 --> 00:38:59,250 and upper arms that were indicative of being thrashed by a belt 548 00:38:59,300 --> 00:39:00,860 with a metal buckle. 549 00:39:02,460 --> 00:39:04,740 She was also three months pregnant. 550 00:39:05,740 --> 00:39:07,610 Aged 15? 551 00:39:07,660 --> 00:39:11,740 And the notes say, "Mother present at examination." 552 00:39:12,980 --> 00:39:16,010 Mrs Tillerson made no reference to that at all! 553 00:39:16,060 --> 00:39:18,690 And I may be surmising, 554 00:39:18,740 --> 00:39:21,860 but I cross-checked Mabel Tillerson's notes. 555 00:39:23,860 --> 00:39:27,490 The very day after that consultation, 556 00:39:27,540 --> 00:39:30,570 the doctor was summoned by a neighbour from the same tenement 557 00:39:30,620 --> 00:39:35,730 block, who had seen Mrs Tillerson crawling to the communal lavatory. 558 00:39:35,780 --> 00:39:40,020 He found her to have a black eye, and several broken ribs. 559 00:39:41,100 --> 00:39:42,700 From a fall downstairs? 560 00:39:43,820 --> 00:39:45,570 It's always "a fall downstairs" 561 00:39:45,620 --> 00:39:48,490 when the ribs are broken, or the spleen is damaged. 562 00:39:48,540 --> 00:39:50,410 And they say, "I walked into a door" 563 00:39:50,460 --> 00:39:52,460 when the bruises are just to their face. 564 00:39:54,140 --> 00:39:57,340 Anthea was never seen by this practice again. 565 00:40:02,820 --> 00:40:04,930 That's it, Linda! That is absolutely fantastic! 566 00:40:04,980 --> 00:40:07,050 Come on, you can do it! 567 00:40:07,100 --> 00:40:10,580 I wish all my first-timers were like you. Baby's almost here! 568 00:40:20,940 --> 00:40:22,450 You did it, Linda! 569 00:40:22,500 --> 00:40:24,250 You did it! 570 00:40:24,300 --> 00:40:25,530 What is it? 571 00:40:25,580 --> 00:40:28,740 A little boy! Little, but absolutely gorgeous! 572 00:40:34,660 --> 00:40:36,330 Come on, dozy drawers. 573 00:40:36,380 --> 00:40:38,880 You're keeping your mummy waiting for her cuddle. 574 00:40:44,100 --> 00:40:46,570 Can I see him? Can I hold him? 575 00:40:46,620 --> 00:40:47,890 Just give us two ticks! 576 00:40:47,940 --> 00:40:50,450 Come on, little 'un, come on. 577 00:40:50,500 --> 00:40:52,340 Show us what you can do. 578 00:40:59,380 --> 00:41:00,810 Please! 579 00:41:00,860 --> 00:41:02,410 Well, can't you slap him or something? 580 00:41:02,460 --> 00:41:03,820 Will that not make him cry? 581 00:41:27,460 --> 00:41:28,980 Come on, little man! 582 00:41:59,980 --> 00:42:02,620 - Could you pass me a towel, please? - Yeah. 583 00:42:11,620 --> 00:42:13,060 No! 584 00:42:16,660 --> 00:42:19,020 Don't cover his face. 585 00:42:36,940 --> 00:42:38,450 He's beautiful, Linda. 586 00:42:38,500 --> 00:42:39,930 Do you want to see him? 587 00:42:39,980 --> 00:42:42,820 No! No! No, I don't! 588 00:42:59,540 --> 00:43:01,660 Will you take it away? 589 00:43:03,980 --> 00:43:07,060 I'll take care of everything. It's what midwives do. 590 00:43:10,100 --> 00:43:12,330 Come on, back to your post. 591 00:43:12,380 --> 00:43:15,220 In a few minutes, you can go and make a phone call for me. 592 00:43:33,980 --> 00:43:35,500 Argh! 593 00:43:58,140 --> 00:44:01,900 I decided you were gone too long for this to be a visit of reassurance. 594 00:44:19,500 --> 00:44:20,940 Placenta's delivered. 595 00:44:25,540 --> 00:44:27,250 Do you want a cigarette? 596 00:44:27,300 --> 00:44:29,740 It's too cold out here, too small in there. 597 00:44:31,820 --> 00:44:33,250 A hug? 598 00:44:33,300 --> 00:44:34,930 No. 599 00:44:34,980 --> 00:44:38,330 If you say so much as one kind word to me, I'll go to pieces. 600 00:44:38,380 --> 00:44:43,130 Valerie, this is the worst thing that could happen to a midwife. 601 00:44:43,180 --> 00:44:46,860 It hasn't happened to me. It's happened to them. 602 00:45:10,220 --> 00:45:12,090 What happens now? 603 00:45:12,140 --> 00:45:13,900 To the little one? 604 00:45:15,980 --> 00:45:19,610 We have an arrangement with a family firm of undertakers. 605 00:45:19,660 --> 00:45:22,260 We'll talk to you about the details tomorrow. 606 00:45:25,060 --> 00:45:27,050 Put that in with him. 607 00:45:27,100 --> 00:45:32,540 It doesn't seem right, sending a baby out into the cold. 608 00:46:28,420 --> 00:46:31,370 If you want me to arrange a transfer to hospital 609 00:46:31,420 --> 00:46:35,570 or our maternity home, you only have to say. 610 00:46:35,620 --> 00:46:38,930 I don't want to be anywhere I might see other babies. 611 00:46:38,980 --> 00:46:40,690 That's probably wise. 612 00:46:40,740 --> 00:46:42,580 I didn't even want to see him. 613 00:46:44,740 --> 00:46:47,130 I was too scared. 614 00:46:47,180 --> 00:46:50,180 And it's like it makes me not his mother. 615 00:47:00,180 --> 00:47:02,220 Selwyn looked at him. 616 00:47:03,500 --> 00:47:05,890 He looked at him, and he saw his face. 617 00:47:05,940 --> 00:47:09,460 And you knew your baby when he was inside of you, Linda. 618 00:47:10,900 --> 00:47:16,540 You knew his smallest movements, every single, little kick... 619 00:47:17,780 --> 00:47:21,340 .. and he knew every beat of your heart. 620 00:47:23,500 --> 00:47:25,650 But we both loved him. 621 00:47:25,700 --> 00:47:27,460 Selwyn and me. 622 00:47:28,540 --> 00:47:31,260 Yes. You did. 623 00:48:32,860 --> 00:48:36,650 Help! Help! Quickly! 624 00:48:36,700 --> 00:48:40,610 He's alive! I thought he was stillborn! 625 00:48:40,660 --> 00:48:44,090 You really are going to have to give the Birmingham parish an answer, 626 00:48:44,140 --> 00:48:46,210 - Tom. - I know. 627 00:48:46,260 --> 00:48:49,890 If you don't grab this chance, I don't know when you'll get another. 628 00:48:50,940 --> 00:48:52,560 Mr Hereward, come quickly, please! 629 00:49:02,380 --> 00:49:05,530 Oh, Valerie! What happened? 630 00:49:05,580 --> 00:49:08,730 I don't know. I don't know! 631 00:49:08,780 --> 00:49:10,490 Is he still crying? 632 00:49:10,540 --> 00:49:12,770 Yes, Valerie. Yes, he is. 633 00:49:23,860 --> 00:49:26,250 His breathing must have been very shallow 634 00:49:26,300 --> 00:49:28,780 and his heartbeat slow and hard to detect. 635 00:49:30,740 --> 00:49:34,580 That hot water bottle did the trick. Temperature's normal. 636 00:49:37,700 --> 00:49:40,170 Thank you, Mr Hereward. 637 00:49:40,220 --> 00:49:42,210 There is no need for you to baptise this baby. 638 00:49:42,260 --> 00:49:44,730 The parents can have the joy of deciding when 639 00:49:44,780 --> 00:49:47,770 and by whom the christening is performed. 640 00:49:47,820 --> 00:49:50,490 First, we must give them the news. 641 00:49:50,540 --> 00:49:53,570 And we must talk to Nurse Dyer. 642 00:49:53,620 --> 00:49:56,820 She must have expanded his lungs. She simply didn't realise. 643 00:50:25,620 --> 00:50:27,420 Linda. And Selwyn. 644 00:50:28,660 --> 00:50:30,610 I know you're grieving. 645 00:50:30,660 --> 00:50:34,620 And I know you're grieving because a-a terrible thing has happened. 646 00:50:36,100 --> 00:50:41,370 But sometimes, when a terrible thing happens, and we survive it, 647 00:50:41,420 --> 00:50:45,940 we find something beautiful waiting for us on the other side. 648 00:51:02,740 --> 00:51:03,970 Here's your baby, Linda. 649 00:51:04,020 --> 00:51:09,210 He's warm, and he's pink, and he's breathing beautifully. 650 00:51:09,260 --> 00:51:10,780 He's yours. 651 00:51:12,180 --> 00:51:13,500 He's alive. 652 00:51:33,340 --> 00:51:36,250 The trouble is Tom simply won't say yes! 653 00:51:36,300 --> 00:51:39,650 I never had him down as the prevaricating sort. 654 00:51:39,700 --> 00:51:42,050 Give that handle a waggle for me, Barbara. 655 00:51:42,100 --> 00:51:44,610 The shank looks slightly suspect. 656 00:51:44,660 --> 00:51:47,730 You could just try repeating yourself, over and over. 657 00:51:47,780 --> 00:51:51,500 Persistent drops of water can pit solid rock in the end. 658 00:51:52,540 --> 00:51:54,810 Hello, Reggie! Nice hat. 659 00:51:54,860 --> 00:51:57,050 Nurse Crane knitted it. 660 00:51:57,100 --> 00:51:58,330 Ooh. 661 00:51:58,380 --> 00:51:59,410 Two more! 662 00:51:59,460 --> 00:52:00,930 What are you doing with those? 663 00:52:00,980 --> 00:52:02,370 Collecting them. 664 00:52:02,420 --> 00:52:05,210 Well, they're a rare enough sight at the moment, I grant you. 665 00:52:05,260 --> 00:52:07,170 Put them in the corner of the porch for now, 666 00:52:07,220 --> 00:52:10,540 and then let's concentrate on rounding up these Cubs. 667 00:52:14,940 --> 00:52:17,140 Pack, pack, pack! 668 00:52:21,020 --> 00:52:23,490 I want everybody to take a shovel, 669 00:52:23,540 --> 00:52:27,540 or a spade or a World War I entrenching tool. 670 00:52:28,660 --> 00:52:31,090 This is an exciting enterprise 671 00:52:31,140 --> 00:52:34,170 that's going to help you towards your second star. 672 00:52:34,220 --> 00:52:35,650 This is Reggie... 673 00:52:35,700 --> 00:52:38,410 - Hello. - .. who's our designated helper for the day. 674 00:52:38,460 --> 00:52:40,050 Reggie's a gardener, 675 00:52:40,100 --> 00:52:44,490 so he knows a lot about the kind of implements we're going to be using. 676 00:52:44,540 --> 00:52:49,090 And Reggie is going to be in charge of the entrenching tool. 677 00:52:49,140 --> 00:52:52,220 So anyone who doesn't make him welcome isn't going to get a go. 678 00:52:53,420 --> 00:52:55,610 So who wants a go? 679 00:52:55,660 --> 00:52:57,260 - Me! - Me! - Me! - Me! 680 00:53:02,540 --> 00:53:04,050 Excuse the knife! 681 00:53:04,100 --> 00:53:07,420 I've got ten pounds of spuds to peel by tea-time. 682 00:53:09,580 --> 00:53:11,570 Is this to do with one of the children? 683 00:53:11,620 --> 00:53:14,340 No. It's to do with your parents. 684 00:53:19,020 --> 00:53:20,900 Save! 685 00:53:23,700 --> 00:53:27,490 How many children have you fostered now, Mrs Sweeting? 686 00:53:27,540 --> 00:53:29,210 The one I'm having is my fourth. 687 00:53:29,260 --> 00:53:31,650 And I've looked after more than 30. 688 00:53:31,700 --> 00:53:34,500 Every time the council have approached me, I've said yes. 689 00:53:35,580 --> 00:53:38,180 I'm sorry. They're having a discotheque! 690 00:53:39,780 --> 00:53:43,690 Lyle! Anthony! Turn that down! 691 00:53:43,740 --> 00:53:45,810 Sorry, Ma! 692 00:53:45,860 --> 00:53:48,730 I've never ever had to raise a hand to a single one of them. 693 00:53:48,780 --> 00:53:50,410 Only my voice. 694 00:53:50,460 --> 00:53:52,810 You should be very proud of that. 695 00:53:52,860 --> 00:53:56,850 I am. And I'm not proud of much. 696 00:53:56,900 --> 00:54:02,130 Everything I did, for years, I did because I hated him. 697 00:54:02,180 --> 00:54:06,770 I know from your mother that your father's attachment to you 698 00:54:06,820 --> 00:54:09,170 was... unnatural. 699 00:54:09,220 --> 00:54:13,890 If beyond that I can only speculate, I ask you to forgive me. 700 00:54:13,940 --> 00:54:15,580 Me forgive you? 701 00:54:17,140 --> 00:54:19,570 I didn't ask you to come here. 702 00:54:19,620 --> 00:54:22,210 And I don't like what you stand for. 703 00:54:22,260 --> 00:54:27,330 But as far as I'm aware, you never raped me once a week 704 00:54:27,380 --> 00:54:29,260 while my mother went to Evensong. 705 00:54:31,940 --> 00:54:33,810 Did she tell you I ran away? 706 00:54:33,860 --> 00:54:35,980 Yes, she did. 707 00:54:37,380 --> 00:54:38,900 She was lying. 708 00:54:40,020 --> 00:54:44,330 He threw me out, after we came home from the doctors. 709 00:54:44,380 --> 00:54:48,170 He threw me out, and she didn't stop him. 710 00:54:48,220 --> 00:54:50,500 I ran back and banged on the door. 711 00:54:51,620 --> 00:54:53,580 And nobody came to open it. 712 00:55:01,100 --> 00:55:04,410 Keep it tight! Keep it tight! That's it! 713 00:55:04,460 --> 00:55:07,290 Now the important thing to remember is that the 714 00:55:07,340 --> 00:55:11,850 top layers of snow are dry and powdery. They won't be 715 00:55:11,900 --> 00:55:15,610 strong enough to support the walls or the dome of our igloo. 716 00:55:15,660 --> 00:55:20,410 Eskimos always compress the snow into hard, square bricks, 717 00:55:20,460 --> 00:55:22,170 and we need to follow their example. 718 00:55:22,220 --> 00:55:24,490 We're going to be like Eskimos. 719 00:55:24,540 --> 00:55:28,500 Thank you, Clinton. That's not what we do with our shovels! 720 00:55:30,020 --> 00:55:33,380 Oh! Splendid, Reggie! That's perfect! 721 00:55:35,260 --> 00:55:38,250 I know you wanted your mother to protect you. 722 00:55:38,300 --> 00:55:41,610 I know you wanted her to fight for you. 723 00:55:41,660 --> 00:55:47,970 But your father's treatment of her beat her -- froze her -- into submission. 724 00:55:48,020 --> 00:55:51,860 And it is now in your gift to break that ice. 725 00:55:53,460 --> 00:55:55,860 To let her into your life again. 726 00:55:58,820 --> 00:56:00,340 Go behind the clock. 727 00:56:02,300 --> 00:56:03,740 Go on. 728 00:56:13,500 --> 00:56:14,620 Look inside. 729 00:56:21,980 --> 00:56:25,690 I found it in my pocket when I was banging on the door. 730 00:56:25,740 --> 00:56:28,610 My mother must've put it there without him seeing. 731 00:56:28,660 --> 00:56:30,450 But you never spent it. 732 00:56:30,500 --> 00:56:33,140 Not even when I got rid of that baby. 733 00:56:34,420 --> 00:56:36,020 I'm not proud of that. 734 00:56:37,140 --> 00:56:40,340 But I am proud I kept the one thing that she gave me. 735 00:56:42,140 --> 00:56:45,010 Because somewhere inside, 736 00:56:45,060 --> 00:56:47,970 somewhere where I never go, 737 00:56:48,020 --> 00:56:50,660 I might not be as angry as I think. 738 00:56:51,780 --> 00:56:54,530 It really would mean the most enormous amount to her... 739 00:56:54,580 --> 00:56:56,260 If I went to the funeral? 740 00:56:59,140 --> 00:57:04,220 Put it back. Those notes aren't even legal tender any more. 741 00:57:20,740 --> 00:57:22,900 I want to call him after you. 742 00:57:23,940 --> 00:57:25,170 Selwyn? 743 00:57:25,220 --> 00:57:28,690 It's not ideal, is it? Do you have a middle name? 744 00:57:28,740 --> 00:57:32,690 In all these months, I've never asked you that. 745 00:57:32,740 --> 00:57:34,340 John. 746 00:57:35,380 --> 00:57:36,580 John. 747 00:57:37,940 --> 00:57:40,580 We like that, don't we, John? 748 00:57:53,380 --> 00:57:56,410 I was told you'd like to see me. 749 00:57:56,460 --> 00:57:58,810 Is the little chap doing well? 750 00:57:58,860 --> 00:58:01,370 We don't need him christened or nothing. Not yet. 751 00:58:01,420 --> 00:58:03,370 But we would like him blessed. 752 00:58:03,420 --> 00:58:07,660 Because if you bless him, you bless the three of us. 753 00:58:12,940 --> 00:58:14,690 Smile! 754 00:58:14,740 --> 00:58:16,090 Yay! 755 00:58:16,140 --> 00:58:17,940 Ooh, in a bit please, Jasvinder. 756 00:58:20,260 --> 00:58:24,810 And can we have two hands on the entrenching tool, Aidan. We want 757 00:58:24,860 --> 00:58:29,170 it brandished aloft in triumph, not accidently buried in someone's head. 758 00:58:29,220 --> 00:58:35,050 Evacuate that treacherous edifice this minute, the lot of you! 759 00:58:35,100 --> 00:58:36,970 And when I say this minute, I mean now! 760 00:58:37,020 --> 00:58:38,060 Oh! 761 00:58:39,420 --> 00:58:40,970 Good morning, Sergeant. 762 00:58:41,020 --> 00:58:43,370 I think you'd have found a simple, "Get out of the igloo!" 763 00:58:43,420 --> 00:58:44,690 more effective. 764 00:58:44,740 --> 00:58:46,770 Small boys respond better to instructions 765 00:58:46,820 --> 00:58:48,330 when they're given in plain English. 766 00:58:48,380 --> 00:58:50,890 And in plain English the instructions 767 00:58:50,940 --> 00:58:54,650 continue as follows -- knock that thing down. 768 00:58:54,700 --> 00:58:56,530 I shall do no such thing. 769 00:58:56,580 --> 00:58:59,570 The boys have spent several hours constructing it, 770 00:58:59,620 --> 00:59:04,450 and it forms a principal component of their Second Star badge. 771 00:59:04,500 --> 00:59:08,650 Namely, the manufacture of a "satisfactory model or article 772 00:59:08,700 --> 00:59:14,410 "in wood, metal, cardboard, clay, Plasticine or similar substance." 773 00:59:14,460 --> 00:59:18,770 But it's not made of wood, metal, cardboard, clay or Plasticine! 774 00:59:18,820 --> 00:59:19,850 It's made of snow. 775 00:59:19,900 --> 00:59:24,930 Which in my book -- namely, Tracks And Tracking by H Mortimer Batten -- 776 00:59:24,980 --> 00:59:28,530 comes under the heading of "similar substance". 777 00:59:28,580 --> 00:59:31,900 You needn't think you can blind me with Scouting science. 778 00:59:33,420 --> 00:59:37,090 I was Baloo to the 19th Stepney for 14 years. 779 00:59:37,140 --> 00:59:42,450 And that is a death trap! Knock it down. 780 00:59:42,500 --> 00:59:43,540 Boooooo! 781 00:59:44,620 --> 00:59:46,300 Pack! 782 00:59:51,700 --> 00:59:54,740 You should have them doing something useful. 783 01:00:05,020 --> 01:00:08,290 Tom, what is the beanstalk doing in our kitchen? 784 01:00:08,340 --> 01:00:12,050 I rescued it from the community centre. 785 01:00:12,100 --> 01:00:14,410 I'm asking small businesses in Poplar to provide 786 01:00:14,460 --> 01:00:17,210 the wherewithal for a Christmas dinner for the elderly, 787 01:00:17,260 --> 01:00:21,460 and Madam Edith has agreed to resurrect the pantomime. 788 01:00:22,860 --> 01:00:25,980 I think the foliage has gone a bit mouldy. 789 01:00:26,980 --> 01:00:32,050 Barbara, I saw such an image of love today. 790 01:00:32,100 --> 01:00:35,690 A hand inside a hand, inside a hand. 791 01:00:35,740 --> 01:00:41,170 And it was a timely reminder of how it doesn't matter where any 792 01:00:41,220 --> 01:00:46,100 of us are from, or where we go, as long as we hold on to one another. 793 01:00:47,460 --> 01:00:51,170 You're going to accept the post in Birmingham, aren't you? 794 01:00:51,220 --> 01:00:53,970 It's only for six months, and wherever I go, 795 01:00:54,020 --> 01:00:56,770 the work I do will have the same meaning. 796 01:00:56,820 --> 01:00:59,650 I just want to leave Poplar with a smile on its face. 797 01:00:59,700 --> 01:01:01,180 Or possibly anthrax. 798 01:01:04,300 --> 01:01:06,210 These need oiling. 799 01:01:06,260 --> 01:01:08,370 Perhaps you can see to them with Fred, tomorrow. 800 01:01:08,420 --> 01:01:11,570 The policeman said to do something useful. 801 01:01:11,620 --> 01:01:16,170 And then he made us knock our igloo down. 802 01:01:16,220 --> 01:01:17,580 Yes. 803 01:01:35,660 --> 01:01:38,010 I must say when you both asked to see me together, 804 01:01:38,060 --> 01:01:42,250 I was expecting news of a slightly different kind. 805 01:01:42,300 --> 01:01:43,660 Oh, no, nothing like that. 806 01:01:44,940 --> 01:01:47,730 Will you still need me, when I come back? 807 01:01:47,780 --> 01:01:51,170 Nonnatus House will always need good midwives. 808 01:01:51,220 --> 01:01:53,970 And we will always need each other. 809 01:01:54,020 --> 01:01:56,970 Little matters more in such a fractured world. 810 01:01:57,020 --> 01:02:01,740 Which is why I like your idea of the dinner and the pantomime so much. 811 01:02:14,380 --> 01:02:16,210 Morning, Sister Monica Joan. 812 01:02:16,260 --> 01:02:20,210 I surmise you rose long before cock-crow, 813 01:02:20,260 --> 01:02:26,420 and have since been forced to pass the time in self-examination. 814 01:02:29,060 --> 01:02:32,940 And the consumption of rapidly cooling tea. 815 01:02:34,500 --> 01:02:37,490 As you have these several mornings past. 816 01:02:37,540 --> 01:02:39,540 It's not quite the same without milk in. 817 01:02:41,740 --> 01:02:47,860 You have witnessed much. And much, I think, beyond your understanding. 818 01:02:49,260 --> 01:02:51,570 I keep going over and over it in my mind. 819 01:02:51,620 --> 01:02:53,810 What I did right, what I must have done wrong, 820 01:02:53,860 --> 01:02:56,780 what I missed... and I can't pin one thing down. 821 01:02:58,180 --> 01:03:03,050 "And the Lord, it was he that did go before thee, he was with thee, 822 01:03:03,100 --> 01:03:05,890 "he did not fail thee, neither forsook thee." 823 01:03:05,940 --> 01:03:09,210 I really don't want you to think I'm being impolite, 824 01:03:09,260 --> 01:03:12,450 but I don't believe in God, Sister Monica Joan. 825 01:03:12,500 --> 01:03:18,290 That matters not one mote, nor one iota. 826 01:03:18,340 --> 01:03:20,810 You carried out your work, 827 01:03:20,860 --> 01:03:25,540 and one much wiser brought your labours to fruition. 828 01:03:34,940 --> 01:03:36,580 Where did that come from? 829 01:03:37,780 --> 01:03:41,250 I should like to say it descended from the heavens, 830 01:03:41,300 --> 01:03:43,970 like manna in the wilderness. 831 01:03:44,020 --> 01:03:46,820 But I have had it secreted in the woodshed. 832 01:03:51,380 --> 01:03:56,250 The hands of the Almighty are so often to be 833 01:03:56,300 --> 01:04:00,020 found at the ends of our own arms. 834 01:04:09,660 --> 01:04:13,660 Water. Water on cornflakes! I'm sorry, Reggie. 835 01:04:14,980 --> 01:04:17,690 They ate better than this in Stalingrad! 836 01:04:17,740 --> 01:04:21,450 I'm surprised that you can sit there in that uniform, Fred Buckle. 837 01:04:21,500 --> 01:04:23,890 The Civil Defence Corps is responsible for the 838 01:04:23,940 --> 01:04:28,250 maintenance of public services and order during the time of crisis, 839 01:04:28,300 --> 01:04:32,420 not for the provision of groceries. 840 01:04:33,820 --> 01:04:35,730 Well, I look forward to you maintaining 841 01:04:35,780 --> 01:04:37,210 order down the rescue centre, 842 01:04:37,260 --> 01:04:40,290 when we can't even offer those poor people a proper cup of tea! 843 01:04:40,340 --> 01:04:43,890 And don't keep telling me that the milkmen are still exhausted, 844 01:04:43,940 --> 01:04:45,730 or that the roads are blocked. 845 01:04:45,780 --> 01:04:47,850 It might be minus five out there. 846 01:04:47,900 --> 01:04:49,890 Minus nine last night. 847 01:04:49,940 --> 01:04:52,690 Well, either way, it hasn't snowed for days, 848 01:04:52,740 --> 01:04:55,370 and the roads are as clear as they've been for two weeks! 849 01:04:55,420 --> 01:04:59,610 Milk has to come from the countryside, Vi, 850 01:04:59,660 --> 01:05:02,650 and-and you know what that's like -- it's miles away from anywhere! 851 01:05:02,700 --> 01:05:05,450 And they've got to get the milk out the cow, into the churns, 852 01:05:05,500 --> 01:05:08,250 got to get the churns on the train, and then they send the churns 853 01:05:08,300 --> 01:05:10,330 all over London where they have to be bottled. 854 01:05:10,380 --> 01:05:11,700 Then where is it? 855 01:05:12,980 --> 01:05:17,170 I would mind less if I hadn't put the shop on short hours again 856 01:05:17,220 --> 01:05:19,930 so that I can help down the Institute! 857 01:05:19,980 --> 01:05:24,980 I reckon this must be the worst-run borough in London. 858 01:05:26,300 --> 01:05:28,300 That looks most appropriate. 859 01:05:31,020 --> 01:05:33,300 Thank you for the loan of it. 860 01:05:34,660 --> 01:05:39,730 Percy was always so careful with money, 861 01:05:39,780 --> 01:05:44,650 I almost felt like splashing out on a great big black titfer, 862 01:05:44,700 --> 01:05:46,500 just to show him who's boss now. 863 01:05:47,900 --> 01:05:50,690 But old habits die hard. 864 01:05:50,740 --> 01:05:53,140 You can make changes, in time. 865 01:05:54,860 --> 01:05:58,980 I used to carry a ten bob note inside my corset. 866 01:06:00,260 --> 01:06:01,780 Just ten bob. 867 01:06:02,740 --> 01:06:05,450 But it was my escape route. 868 01:06:05,500 --> 01:06:10,820 My bus fare, or my train ticket. It could've got me out. 869 01:06:12,420 --> 01:06:15,700 When Anthea went, I put it in her pocket. 870 01:06:17,740 --> 01:06:21,180 It was everything I was never brave enough to do. 871 01:06:23,980 --> 01:06:26,410 I think the cortege will be arriving. 872 01:06:26,460 --> 01:06:28,340 Let's go and wait for the lift. 873 01:06:30,900 --> 01:06:34,570 You pop round for a cup of tea, once the dust is settled, eh? 874 01:06:34,620 --> 01:06:35,860 Thank you. 875 01:06:37,460 --> 01:06:41,100 - I'm so sorry for your loss, love. - Thank you. 876 01:06:42,060 --> 01:06:43,900 We'll be thinking of you. 877 01:06:47,540 --> 01:06:50,900 Corned beef, and the last of that Christmas chutney. 878 01:06:54,340 --> 01:06:55,810 What's all this? 879 01:06:55,860 --> 01:06:58,810 It's Angela's Magic Bean costume. 880 01:06:58,860 --> 01:07:02,210 I never finished it, and now the pantomime's back on, 881 01:07:02,260 --> 01:07:06,090 Madam Edith wants every sequin in apple pie order by dress rehearsal. 882 01:07:06,140 --> 01:07:08,490 You're doing too much, Shelagh. 883 01:07:08,540 --> 01:07:11,100 If I don't do too much, not enough gets done. 884 01:07:16,780 --> 01:07:19,890 Ladies and gentlemen! Ladies, please! 885 01:07:19,940 --> 01:07:22,290 Mr Bentley is not a criminal, 886 01:07:22,340 --> 01:07:25,330 he's a hard-pressed citizen trying to do a job of work. 887 01:07:25,380 --> 01:07:27,330 He's got churns full of milk! 888 01:07:27,380 --> 01:07:29,250 And you heard his explanation! 889 01:07:29,300 --> 01:07:31,450 He hasn't got any bottles to put it in! 890 01:07:31,500 --> 01:07:33,690 They were stolen from abandoned floats, 891 01:07:33,740 --> 01:07:35,210 they were dumped in rubbish chutes, 892 01:07:35,260 --> 01:07:37,810 and those are the ones that didn't go AWOL into the snowdrift! 893 01:07:37,860 --> 01:07:40,810 I've brought two jugs and a billycan. 894 01:07:40,860 --> 01:07:42,810 And I've brought a bloomin' bucket! 895 01:07:42,860 --> 01:07:46,890 Those churns are the property of the Milk Marketing Board 896 01:07:46,940 --> 01:07:50,290 and anyone making an advance on them is liable to charges! 897 01:07:50,340 --> 01:07:52,580 Charges of what? 898 01:07:55,060 --> 01:07:57,770 Looting, and riotous behaviour. 899 01:07:57,820 --> 01:07:59,490 And bodily harm, 900 01:07:59,540 --> 01:08:03,050 if those ladies come any nearer to Mr Bentley with their prams. 901 01:08:03,100 --> 01:08:07,450 Mothers can become quite agitated if their children are deprived. 902 01:08:07,500 --> 01:08:10,530 Nevertheless, I would counsel against decanting 903 01:08:10,580 --> 01:08:14,530 milk from farmyard churns into unsterilized receptacles. 904 01:08:14,580 --> 01:08:18,140 We have hygiene to consider, as well as diet. 905 01:08:19,420 --> 01:08:22,170 Is there anything you need assistance with, Nurse Crane? 906 01:08:22,220 --> 01:08:26,730 Always good to have the support of the Civil Defence Corps, Mr Buckle. 907 01:08:26,780 --> 01:08:28,370 Next stop, the Gurkhas. 908 01:08:28,420 --> 01:08:32,370 I heard that. If you would follow me, please, Mr Buckle. 909 01:08:32,420 --> 01:08:35,580 What plan are you hatching now? 910 01:08:36,660 --> 01:08:41,170 Since you ask, Sergeant Woolf, I'm off to do something useful. 911 01:08:44,260 --> 01:08:48,900 All right, all right, that's no excuse for you to start up again. 912 01:08:55,260 --> 01:08:58,130 Now remember, anybody who wants to touch her has to 913 01:08:58,180 --> 01:08:59,420 wash their hands first! 914 01:09:03,140 --> 01:09:05,300 It's like Battersea Dogs Home in here! 915 01:09:10,900 --> 01:09:13,140 That's a lovely thought, Sister. Thank you. 916 01:09:14,900 --> 01:09:17,660 Would you like me to tell your mother about the baby? 917 01:09:20,740 --> 01:09:24,530 He dragged up too much stuff by dying. I want everything buried. 918 01:09:24,580 --> 01:09:26,100 Not just him. 919 01:09:29,020 --> 01:09:32,290 Anthea, if you think it might help to meet your mother in a more 920 01:09:32,340 --> 01:09:33,890 relaxed setting, 921 01:09:33,940 --> 01:09:36,850 we're giving a Christmas dinner for the elderly in our neighbourhood. 922 01:09:36,900 --> 01:09:40,930 I'm sorry, Sister. But I've just given birth to my last baby. 923 01:09:40,980 --> 01:09:43,890 And it's made me think about my first one. 924 01:09:43,940 --> 01:09:46,530 And I'm just going to get on with doing what I've been 925 01:09:46,580 --> 01:09:48,770 doing for as long as I've been able, 926 01:09:48,820 --> 01:09:52,340 which is making sure nobody ever gets a door shut in their face. 927 01:09:53,980 --> 01:09:55,770 Can you understand that? 928 01:09:55,820 --> 01:09:59,420 Yes. Because it's what we do, too. 929 01:10:05,100 --> 01:10:08,290 I'm going to leave you with your family, 930 01:10:08,340 --> 01:10:13,610 to enjoy the happiness you made with them, and make for them. 931 01:10:13,660 --> 01:10:16,260 And which you so richly deserve. 932 01:10:32,060 --> 01:10:34,100 One, two, three, four. 933 01:10:37,420 --> 01:10:39,410 - How many are there? - Yes! 934 01:10:39,460 --> 01:10:42,290 I've got one more, yes! 935 01:10:42,340 --> 01:10:45,010 I've found another one, I've found another one. 936 01:10:45,060 --> 01:10:47,130 Yes, one more in the bag. 937 01:10:47,180 --> 01:10:49,890 Now, be careful with those bottles, lads. Don't break any. 938 01:10:49,940 --> 01:10:51,650 Give us a hand. 939 01:10:51,700 --> 01:10:54,650 Unbelievable, there's so many. 940 01:10:54,700 --> 01:10:58,140 Whoever gets the most is going to get a humbug. What d'ya reckon? 941 01:12:13,260 --> 01:12:15,420 I like a man who gives credit when it's due. 942 01:12:19,700 --> 01:12:21,250 - Welcome. - Thank you. 943 01:12:21,300 --> 01:12:22,690 Welcome. Enjoy! 944 01:12:28,980 --> 01:12:32,100 - Hello! How are you? - I'm very well, thank you, dear. 945 01:12:34,900 --> 01:12:36,690 - Hope you enjoy it. - Thank you. 946 01:12:36,740 --> 01:12:38,570 Thanks. 947 01:12:38,620 --> 01:12:42,250 Mabel! I'm so glad you're joining us for dinner. 948 01:12:42,300 --> 01:12:44,020 Let me show you to your seat. 949 01:12:46,740 --> 01:12:48,210 We're running out of hessian sacks. 950 01:12:48,260 --> 01:12:51,570 The Beanshoot Babes are going to be in their knickers and vests! 951 01:12:51,620 --> 01:12:54,810 Make sure you put the dots of lipstick in the corner of their eyes, Valerie. 952 01:12:54,860 --> 01:12:57,130 Their features simply won't stand out otherwise. 953 01:12:57,180 --> 01:12:58,810 Well, you might want to do that for me. 954 01:12:58,860 --> 01:13:00,850 These false eyelashes are a bit of a disappointment. 955 01:13:00,900 --> 01:13:04,530 Fred, you're supposed to be a poor, widowed subsistence farmer, 956 01:13:04,580 --> 01:13:06,290 not Sophia Loren! 957 01:13:06,340 --> 01:13:09,170 When it's my turn I'm putting in a bid for cupid bow lips 958 01:13:09,220 --> 01:13:11,210 and periwinkle eye shadow. 959 01:13:11,260 --> 01:13:14,770 Be a bit of a waste on the rear end of a pantomime cow! 960 01:13:14,820 --> 01:13:17,370 I, meanwhile, will be playing the front end. 961 01:13:17,420 --> 01:13:21,370 And in case nobody's noticed, I've had a full manicure and a professional shampoo and set. 962 01:13:21,420 --> 01:13:25,650 Well, there's never any excuse for a lady to look less than her best, as Fred well knows! 963 01:13:25,700 --> 01:13:28,210 Ah. There's no call for frivolity. 964 01:13:28,260 --> 01:13:31,570 I bear the weight of an ancient tradition on my shoulders. 965 01:13:31,620 --> 01:13:35,330 Christopher and I are aware that our combined role is a lowly one, 966 01:13:35,380 --> 01:13:38,900 and we bear it nobly for the greater good of the community. 967 01:14:08,860 --> 01:14:12,250 It's perked me up good and proper, this has. 968 01:14:12,300 --> 01:14:15,490 I hadn't pulled a cracker in 32 years. 969 01:14:15,540 --> 01:14:19,380 And I'm telling you, the jokes in them don't get any better. 970 01:14:26,940 --> 01:14:28,500 Hello, Mum. 971 01:14:31,500 --> 01:14:33,820 Hello, Anthea, love! 972 01:14:35,180 --> 01:14:38,690 I thought you might like to meet your newest grandchild. 973 01:14:38,740 --> 01:14:40,140 We've called her Helen. 974 01:14:41,460 --> 01:14:43,650 The rest of them, some of them are mine, 975 01:14:43,700 --> 01:14:45,580 and some of them aren't mine for long. 976 01:14:49,100 --> 01:14:53,060 I'm sure your mother will want to meet all of your children. 977 01:15:01,460 --> 01:15:03,180 I brought you these. 978 01:15:04,420 --> 01:15:07,050 I don't know how they managed to survive this weather, 979 01:15:07,100 --> 01:15:08,530 but they did. 980 01:15:08,580 --> 01:15:10,860 They must be tough little things. 981 01:15:19,980 --> 01:15:23,010 I wanted to buy the flowers for you with it, 982 01:15:23,060 --> 01:15:26,290 but the bank won't accept those notes any more. 983 01:15:26,340 --> 01:15:27,820 They belong in the past. 984 01:15:38,020 --> 01:15:41,370 I can't believe you'll be leaving before the end! 985 01:15:41,420 --> 01:15:44,810 Another blizzard forecast is another blizzard forecast. 986 01:15:44,860 --> 01:15:47,650 Even if our finale does rival that of The London Palladium! 987 01:15:47,700 --> 01:15:50,890 There won't be a train to be had in the morning. 988 01:15:50,940 --> 01:15:52,440 I'll be back before you know it. 989 01:15:53,460 --> 01:15:54,980 Oh! 990 01:15:59,260 --> 01:16:02,730 Sorry. One of the Magic Beans has trapped her finger in the door. 991 01:16:02,780 --> 01:16:04,220 Oh! 992 01:16:11,460 --> 01:16:13,460 Take care of her. 993 01:16:23,580 --> 01:16:30,090 ? Though we gotta say goodbye for the summer 994 01:16:30,140 --> 01:16:34,570 ? Darling I promise you this 995 01:16:34,620 --> 01:16:38,130 ? I'll send you all my love 996 01:16:38,180 --> 01:16:41,650 ? Every day in a letter... ? 997 01:16:41,700 --> 01:16:46,410 Hold each other close. Keep each other safe. 998 01:16:46,460 --> 01:16:49,930 For there is imperfection everywhere. 999 01:16:49,980 --> 01:16:53,420 There are always wounds that weep. 1000 01:16:56,300 --> 01:17:01,850 ? I'll run to tenderly hold you 1001 01:17:01,900 --> 01:17:06,010 ? But darling you won't be there 1002 01:17:06,060 --> 01:17:13,090 ? I don't want to say goodbye for the summer 1003 01:17:13,140 --> 01:17:17,050 ? Knowing the love we'll miss 1004 01:17:17,100 --> 01:17:24,490 ? Oh let us make a pledge to meet in September... ? 1005 01:17:24,540 --> 01:17:30,370 Year by year by year, we share the season and move on. 1006 01:17:30,420 --> 01:17:36,690 - Barbara? - ? Yes, it's going to be a cold lonely summer 1007 01:17:36,740 --> 01:17:40,650 ? But I'll fill the emptiness 1008 01:17:40,700 --> 01:17:44,370 ? I'll send you all my love 1009 01:17:44,420 --> 01:17:47,250 ? Every day in a letter... ? 1010 01:17:47,300 --> 01:17:49,330 There will always be 1011 01:17:49,380 --> 01:17:53,770 another Christmas and all will be well. 1012 01:17:53,820 --> 01:17:55,900 All will be well. 1013 01:17:59,180 --> 01:18:03,460 ? Sealed with a kiss. ?