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00:00I
01:00They played this in the service on the actual day.
01:07St. Margaret's Church opposite the House of Parliament.
01:10Yeah?
01:11Maybe we could get Peggy to play it in a bit later on.
01:14There's loads more. I downloaded loads last night.
01:18Gene, come and have a look at this.
01:21You're, uh, not dressed up yet.
01:25Everyone's got to be in their best bib and tucker today, you know.
01:28He's a little bit confused as well.
01:30I can see.
01:31I'll leave it with you.
01:338th of May, 1945.
01:3650 years. Who'd have thought?
01:38Nigel.
01:39Look, this is what I wanted to show you.
01:41That's the real East End.
01:44Blitz spirit.
01:46It was right on the square.
01:52See those people there?
01:54People like Arthur.
01:55Would know them.
01:56Probably neighbours.
01:57There were times I thought this day would never come.
02:26You almost did.
02:27Yeah, if that explosion had done any more damage.
02:29No, we ain't looking back, though, are we?
02:31You know, we're not doing what if this, what if that.
02:34That was then.
02:36And this is now.
02:38And the outside looks great.
02:41Well, shall we go inside?
02:44See what it looks like now it's finished?
02:46Just a bit.
02:47I don't believe it.
03:06It's good as new.
03:08Oh, look.
03:09We were never not going to put that back up.
03:16We like it.
03:17It's not the same one, though.
03:20It's close enough.
03:23Talking of familiar faces.
03:27Hello, old girl.
03:30It's like nothing ever happened.
03:31It did, though, didn't it?
03:40Half of me wants to throw open the doors and let everyone else see all this.
03:48Is that Martin's tankard?
03:52He'd have been the first one through that door.
03:55Hmm.
03:55And that's why we can't open up.
03:59Not today.
04:02Let the rest of the country celebrate what Mo said was right.
04:07He lost his life here.
04:10And he wasn't the only one, either.
04:14It'd be like dancing on his grave.
04:17The newest one that was set off from Stepney.
04:19Right through the East End.
04:20Magel, listen.
04:22There is...
04:22I know, it's not going to be quite like that today.
04:26No, things have been a bit difficult lately, so...
04:28Not as difficult as it was for that long.
04:32Six years of a world war they went through.
04:37Hope Debbie can get time off the bookies.
04:40No, she asked.
04:42Claire will be gutted if she don't.
04:44They are guarding the frontiers of...
04:46Harvey, I had to see you.
05:12Oh, what's up here?
05:13It seemed...
05:14Oh, wait, I come here.
05:16Oh, I'm sorry.
05:20Oh!
05:21Kathy!
05:22What are you doing here?
05:26Oh, it's not anything to do with the baby, is it?
05:29Um, no.
05:30No, I...
05:30I just remembered I thanked Harvey for taking Cindy and Lauren to the hospital the other night.
05:35Or paid him for that, Madsen.
05:37No, I already said there's no need.
05:38Um, well, I've got me purse now anyway.
05:41My head's all over the place at the moment.
05:43I've just...
05:44Um, well, I'd better go, yeah.
05:50She's not the only one.
05:52Nigel's head's all over the place as well.
05:53And it's going to get even worse when he realises nobody's doing anything for VE Day.
05:57I think Phil should have told him.
06:00Well, I suppose there was always a chance it might slip his mind.
06:03No, he's just built it up even more.
06:06Well, anyway, isn't this Phil's job?
06:07I mean, he's caring, eh?
06:09Yes, well, I think he was hoping it would slip his mind.
06:12I think Phil needs to tell him.
06:15Yeah.
06:16That was very good of you, by the way.
06:18Not charging Kathy for the cab.
06:20Oh, well...
06:21You're a lovely man, Harvey Munro.
06:24Mwah!
06:33Ah!
06:35There you are.
06:35I've been trying to call you for the last half hour.
06:37Oh, my phone was on silent.
06:39What's the point of having a mobile phone if it's on silent?
06:42I mean, what is it?
06:42You don't want to be disturbed?
06:43What are you trying to say?
06:44I've got something to hide.
06:47Oh, er...
06:48What did you want to see me for, anyway?
06:50We're all going up to the hospital.
06:51Something happened?
06:53No.
06:53No, Peter's arranged a photographer and, you know,
06:55going to get her some pictures with Jimmy, you know, all the family.
06:58I knew you wouldn't want to miss it.
06:59No, no, of course not.
07:03Everything OK?
07:05Yeah, er...
07:06I've been thinking about Jimmy and all, you know.
07:09That's what I've been doing, walking around.
07:12I mean, today is going to be a lovely day.
07:14And he's coming home soon, and that's going to be lovely too, but...
07:18How much am I going to see of him, eh?
07:22I mean, left to Cindy, I'll be banged up any minute.
07:24Oh, Mum, you won't get banged up.
07:26Oh, fortune-telling, how are you?
07:27Well, at worst, the police will start asking a few questions.
07:30Yeah, and a lot of people could be giving them the wrong answers right now.
07:34Look, I'll... I'll fix this.
07:36How, Ian?
07:37Just... leave it to me. I'll...
07:40I'll sort it, OK?
07:44Right.
07:44How are you?
08:07She blanking, yeah?
08:08No.
08:09Looks like it to me.
08:10Yeah, what do you know?
08:11I know a big, fat freeze when I see one.
08:13No, you don't know nothing.
08:15Get us a drink, I'll show you.
08:22Everything's cool.
08:23We've turned back time, have you?
08:25Made it as if it didn't happen.
08:27Look at your dad's face when he saw us.
08:29No, he's cool now, too.
08:30Come on, you.
08:38Minus one.
08:45Vic!
08:45We are the boys who will stop your little game.
09:06We are the boys who will make you feel a game.
09:11Because who do you think you are kidding, Mr. Clark?
09:17If you think old England is done.
09:22Mr. Brown was off to town on the 821.
09:26But he comes home as he...
09:28It's been like that since this morning.
09:34And we hear you watching old newsreels.
09:36He's...
09:36He's banging on about some street party.
09:38Back in the 90s, half a phone are organised.
09:40Well, it's not as if we can get away from it, either.
09:42I mean, turn the radio, television on, someone's talking about it.
09:46It's everywhere you look.
09:47Except here.
09:49Yeah, well, there's a good reason for that.
09:51Well, cruel as it sounds, someone's going to have to burst his bubble.
09:54What's that going to do to it?
09:55Well, what's the alternative?
09:57Because banging on the doors of the Queen Vic
09:58only to have them slammed in his face?
10:00I'll get it!
10:02Someone has to bring him back down to earth.
10:04And what better than a person who knows him?
10:07All right, all right.
10:09I'll have a word with him.
10:10Right, well, I'll stay with you.
10:11Anyway, doing good at staying.
10:13You know, he's been going out on his own a bit too much lately.
10:16Yeah.
10:17Look at these.
10:18Oh!
10:19Who are they from?
10:20Me.
10:21Who are they for?
10:23Debbie!
10:23Debbie!
10:25You know, all the flowers of remembrance there in one bouquet.
10:29Nigel, I should...
10:31You should put the flowers down, yeah?
10:33What?
10:33Just...
10:34Just put the flowers down.
10:35Just put the flowers down in the house.
10:36Why?
10:39Because they need to have some water.
10:43Beautiful bouquet.
10:44Need to keep them looking fresh.
10:45Thanks, Jean.
10:50What are you playing at?
10:51I was just about to tell him.
10:54We've got work to do.
10:56And what does that mean?
10:57A party to organise.
10:59Everyone's saying that we can't have one
11:00because we're supposed to be remembering Martin.
11:01Well, what better way of remembering him
11:03than all being together
11:04in the one place on the square
11:06that he loved the best.
11:07But how?
11:08You just said yourself that the Vic's closed.
11:10Well, wasn't there something called the Blitz spirit?
11:12Hey, what's happened?
11:22What do you need to sing with her?
11:25It's Cindy.
11:27Now what's she done?
11:28It's what she's about to do
11:30and she's serious about it.
11:31Okay.
11:32Just tell me.
11:32She wants everything, Harvey.
11:35The house, Bill's Hills.
11:37What?
11:37Yeah, and the chippy.
11:39That doesn't make sense.
11:41I mean, how could she even think that?
11:43Well, because she's mad, isn't she?
11:46You know, she's making up all sorts.
11:48You don't know her like I do.
11:50And whatever she's saying,
11:51she's going to keep on saying it
11:52until some of it sticks.
11:55I can't handle this.
11:57Every time I walk onto that square, I see her.
11:59And if I'm not seeing her, I'm seeing Jean.
12:02I know that's difficult.
12:05Well, it wouldn't be
12:06if you'd done what you promised
12:06and broken up with her.
12:07Yeah, and I will.
12:08I told you.
12:09But not one thing's in Martin
12:11that's still so raw.
12:13Oh, look, I'm sorry.
12:14I know.
12:15I'm just lashing out.
12:18Hey.
12:20You know what we need?
12:22What?
12:23A break.
12:24You know, a chance to breathe.
12:26Get away from it all.
12:28What do you think?
12:29Stace!
12:35Get out the way!
12:37Jean, what are you doing?
12:38Now!
12:45What's all this?
12:47It's for the party.
12:48What party?
12:49The B.U. party we're having in about an hour.
12:52How many more times?
12:54It's wrong to have any kind of party
12:56after what's happened.
12:57This is all Nigel's been talking about
12:59for the last three days
12:59and all everyone else has been doing
13:01is listening to you stick your oar in.
13:03But you could change your mind.
13:05No, I ain't.
13:06Right, well,
13:06everyone has been mourning, Martin,
13:08on their own,
13:09behind closed doors.
13:10I think that we should all be together.
13:12Oh, you can think all you like.
13:13Yeah, you see, I knew you'd say that.
13:14Oh, I've got principles.
13:15So, I had a look in the garage
13:17and I've had a shifty upstairs.
13:18And this is all the stuff
13:20that you got in
13:21for the last royal wedding.
13:22Well, I say got in,
13:23I mean picked up
13:24when it fell off the back of the lorry.
13:26No, bunting and flags and scarves and...
13:30Do you remember you had to hide it pretty sharpish
13:31because the coppers came sniffing round?
13:34Yeah, I would have made a fortune that day too.
13:36You still can.
13:39Fee Day, Jubilee Day,
13:41royal weddings.
13:42It's all king and country, isn't it?
13:44Yeah, talk about hotcakes.
13:47Oh, I forgot.
13:50You've got principles, haven't you?
14:05So, I know you don't want to ruffle any feathers.
14:07It ain't just that.
14:09But...
14:09I know, Phil, OK?
14:11Nigel's got a real bee in his bonnet about it,
14:13but...
14:14He's one punter
14:16and there's lots of other punters
14:18who don't think this should be happening.
14:19Yeah, a lot of people think it should, too.
14:22Yeah, OK.
14:23There's two.
14:24You and Nigel.
14:25And they're free.
14:26Well, aside from the three wise monkeys.
14:29And Jean.
14:30Oh.
14:33No.
14:34OK, I'm sorry.
14:35But that's that.
14:36What's this?
14:45The cavalry?
14:46Oh, it's not just us.
14:47No.
14:48All the other market traders,
14:49they come in once Jean's helped and close up.
14:52No.
14:53You were the one telling me this was a bad idea.
14:55Look, I had my doubts, too, Linda, to be honest.
14:57But everywhere you go, it's all you see.
15:00Yeah.
15:01Well, it's like Jean said.
15:04You know, we can all lock our front door,
15:06all the curtains,
15:08sit in the dark and have a cry about Martin.
15:12I know.
15:12But all, we could come together as a community,
15:15raise a glass for Martin and remember him
15:17and, well, remember them.
15:19Yeah.
15:22Are you sure?
15:23Yeah.
15:23Yeah.
15:23Yeah.
15:23Yeah.
15:23Yeah.
15:24Yeah.
15:24Yeah.
15:24Yeah.
15:24Yeah.
15:24Yeah.
15:25Yeah.
15:25Yeah.
15:25Yeah.
15:25Yeah.
15:26Yeah.
15:26Yeah.
15:29Hello, darlings.
15:37What?
15:40Okay.
15:44Come in.
15:47Here you go.
15:57Can I get you the first pint?
15:59Yeah, that'd be lovely, wouldn't it?
16:02Cheers.
16:03Cheers.
16:03Cheers.
16:04Cheers.
16:04Cheers.
16:05Cheers.
16:05Cheers.
16:14I knew you'd get time off.
16:16And you brought Claire with you.
16:18Great.
16:18You know, me and Grant were getting poppies earlier from that cellar by the tube.
16:28This bloke comes up, how city type he was, and he starts giving him earache,
16:35saying, you shouldn't be looking back all the time.
16:39The past don't matter, he kept saying.
16:42Look to the future. That's what counts.
16:44Grant says, yeah, you're right.
16:51We should look to the future.
16:56That's what they died for.
17:14Look, I thought the Vic weren't doing anything today.
17:20Well, yeah, they've changed their mind, according to Shrimpy.
17:22Well, the last I heard, Linda was banging on about it being disrespectful.
17:27Well, they had to change their mind about that and all.
17:30That's a good one, I think.
17:31No, he's not. The nurse is stood right in front of me.
17:34Oh, perfect.
17:34Oh, ha, ha.
17:35Right, that's the one we're using, sorry.
17:36Oh, look at him.
17:40He looks so fit and healthy, doesn't he?
17:42Yeah, all his family around him and all.
17:45Well, everyone except Mum.
17:47Yeah, even better.
17:48Right, print that one off, put it in the frame and let's get going, yeah?
17:52Yeah, look, you go.
17:55Ian, if the Vic are doing something, we really should support it.
17:58Yeah, I'll catch up.
18:00It's been so long since we've been able to have a proper drink for Martin.
18:03I know, Mum, I've just got to do something first.
18:07All right.
18:19I put that in the bin.
18:20Yeah, and I took it out.
18:22Ain't you getting the message?
18:23Stupid little treats ain't going to cut it, Ross, not now.
18:25Well, go on then, dump it.
18:27And I'll just take it out again.
18:28And again, until you get the message.
18:31Look, I know I should have told you before.
18:33But I was scared.
18:37I was scared of losing you.
18:38And do you know what?
18:39I was wrong.
18:40But you know everything now.
18:43There's nothing else.
18:44I promise.
18:47I'm not giving up on this.
18:49I'm in this for the long haul.
18:50For you, for me, and for Joel.
18:53Now, he's turned a corner.
18:55He knows what he's done is wrong.
18:57And he's going to make it right.
18:58Just let me do the same.
19:06Talk about getting blanked.
19:08Oh, no, it was a wind-up, mate.
19:09Looked like she was airing you to me.
19:11Oh, no, I'll sort it, don't worry.
19:14So?
19:15What are you going to do?
19:17Is it chocolate or flowers?
19:20Mate, what planet are you living on?
19:23What have you been back to 1940s, something like these?
19:27What's that mean?
19:28It means that girls these days don't want flowers or chocolate, right?
19:37Look what I hid in my recently deleted.
19:40Is that a warning?
19:43I didn't think...
19:45You see, it doesn't matter what they do in public.
19:47It's what they do in private.
19:49That tells us what they're really like.
19:52Here you go.
20:05Lovely, thank you.
20:06And here you go.
20:08What's that?
20:10What's that?
20:10It's a shilling.
20:10Well, it's not actually shit as close as I can get to it.
20:13Kinder, don't give me the look, darling.
20:14I mean, you know, it's a Vic tradition.
20:16Well, Phil was telling me Peggy started it back in the day, right?
20:19And what she used to do was charge all the punters for their first pint on V-Day prices.
20:25Come on, let's have it.
20:27Come on.
20:27Didn't anybody tell you there was a war on?
20:30Okay, fair comment.
20:31There you go.
20:32Oh, that'll be a nice round bob, thanks, soldier.
20:35Oh, lovely.
20:37Welcome home!
20:39Yeah, we are home!
20:41That was a stroke of luck, wasn't it?
20:43What's that?
20:44The wallpaper.
20:45Oh, yeah.
20:45The fact that the old wallpaper shop didn't get bombed.
20:49And they still have some of the old stock.
20:51I'm Danny.
20:53This is what it's all about, isn't it?
20:55What is?
20:56It's about Britain.
20:58The East End, all pulling together.
21:00The best of times, eh?
21:02Yeah.
21:03My mums and dads used to put their kids in different rooms.
21:05Just in case a bomb fell in the night, they wouldn't all be killed.
21:08My old mum used to tell me about that.
21:10Yeah.
21:11When they lied awake at night, terrified to close their eyes, in case they never opened them.
21:16Yeah.
21:17And then you'd leave the shops and turn into your street, only to find your street weren't
21:21there anymore, eh?
21:22That's it, Billy.
21:24The best.
21:28Ta-da!
21:30What do you think?
21:32Someone really should go and fetch him, you know.
21:35Who?
21:36Arthur.
21:37All the effort he's put into this.
21:40Oh.
21:41He'll be here, one way or another.
21:43They all will.
21:46Most important person's here, though.
21:51Oh.
21:52Who's that, then?
21:55Oh.
21:56Thanks, Debbie.
22:00Well, this takes me back.
22:03Come and meet me, just you and me.
22:06Just like the old days.
22:08Don't flatter yourself.
22:10Actually, I was, er, talking about me and David.
22:16So, what's all this about, Ian?
22:19We, er, we went to the hospital.
22:23Is Jimmy okay?
22:26Yeah.
22:28We had some photos done.
22:33Look, we're going to have to, er, take it slow, but I was, er, I was thinking you, me,
22:40Jimmy, we could, er, meet up away from the square so you could get to see him.
22:44And, obviously, if that goes well, then maybe in time you could even come here and, er, spend some time with him.
22:53And this would all be, er, the goodness of your heart, would it?
22:57Well.
22:59No.
23:00No way, Ian.
23:02No.
23:03I'd have to forget all about going to the police, about Cathy, and all about the business.
23:07And then what?
23:08We'll be back to square one.
23:10You all here and me out in the cold.
23:13So, is that it?
23:14Is that why you got me over here?
23:16Is this your pathetic attempt at getting back at me?
23:18Well, it's not going to work, Ian.
23:20Well, you going to the police about me mum, that ain't going to work either.
23:22She's got an alibi for that night.
23:23Oh, come on.
23:24The police have cracked that in seconds.
23:26And what about all the people in Harry's barn she confessed to?
23:29Do you think they're going to keep schtum?
23:30No, Ian.
23:34Nothing's changed.
23:35I want what I've asked for.
23:38Signed, sealed, and delivered.
23:41Is that all that matters to you?
23:42The money, the business?
23:43No.
23:44My children matter to me and my grandchildren.
23:48But you've taken all that away, haven't you?
23:50Even after everything I did, there is no going back.
23:55So, if you don't give me what I want,
23:59then it's bye-bye, Cathy.
24:00If, if I do this,
24:06it's going to take ages.
24:10Fine by me, Ian.
24:12More time to watch Eskiver.
24:23Harvey, Harvey, you got any five Ps?
24:26Gabby's always have change.
24:28Linda's doing a promotion.
24:29First drink to an old-fashioned shilling.
24:30I've got a walk, Cathy.
24:31Oh, all right.
24:31I want you to say so.
24:33Come on.
24:37Come on.
24:38Cheers.
24:38Camper van holiday.
24:43Oh, Harvey.
24:44You sly old dog, you kept that one quiet.
24:46Nice.
24:47Oh, this is just what we need.
24:49I can't wait to tell Stacey and Lily.
24:52You really are, aren't you?
24:54A lovely, lovely man.
24:54A lovely, lovely man.
24:56What were you saying to Billy earlier about what it was like back then?
25:04Well, honey, we were just saying, it wasn't all about the soldiers, you know.
25:08Tell them about your mate, Ada.
25:10I can't.
25:11I can't.
25:11It upsets me even now.
25:14They hadn't spent a single day apart since they were nippers.
25:18And then her mum sent her out to get some chips.
25:22Five minutes later, the air raid siren sounded and...
25:25She never came back.
25:26So, yeah, it's about a little girl of six and all, you know.
25:32A little girl of six who didn't make it to seven.
25:36Oh.
25:37Yeah, but we do have to think how many other children may not have had the chance to have grown up
25:41if it hadn't been for what the soldiers did.
25:44Yeah.
25:45I was thinking that when I was at the war memorial.
25:49Arthur's dad's on there.
25:51C Fowler.
25:52I don't know what the C stands for.
25:53I have to ask Arthur when he comes.
25:55It's Christopher.
25:57Chris.
25:58Christopher.
25:59Right.
26:01To Christopher Fowler.
26:03And all the other names on there.
26:05Let's remember them, too.
26:06And Martin.
26:07I'll drink to that.
26:09And Martin.
26:11I don't be wise with that old saying, you know.
26:15But as it goes again.
26:16We will remember them.
26:19We will remember them.
26:21Right, get on that Joanna, shrimpy.
26:27Yay!
26:28And if anyone fancies a dance, there's life in it, I'll talk you out.
26:32And if anyone wants to buy a flag, I've still got some left over.
26:39So get your money out.
26:39Yay!
26:40I want to make money out of that.
26:42I want to make money out.
26:47And I'll talk to them.
26:49We'll never be whoa.
26:50Make of the pruds to stop your little game.
26:54We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when.
27:03But I know we'll meet again some sunny day.
27:14Keep smiling through, just like you always do.
27:24Till the blue skies dry and the dark clouds far away.
27:34So will you please say hello to the folks that I know.
27:40Tell them I won't be long.
27:45They'll be happy to know that as you saw me go,
27:50I will sing in this song.
27:56We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when.
28:04But I know we'll meet again some sunny day.