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00:00["Pomp and Circumstance"]
00:31Stuff it.
00:33I did say you don't mind.
00:35No, no, I don't mind.
00:39Now we've got it to ourselves.
00:43They all seem to get off back there.
00:45Yes, it's a transit now.
00:49My grandchildren are staying the other side of Chester.
00:52I try and see them every month.
00:55I'm going down to see my children.
00:57Evacuated?
01:00My daughter and her husband are both serving.
01:03Otherwise I'd have had them myself.
01:06But I'm still working.
01:08My wife died at the war.
01:12How old are you?
01:14Peter's twelve and Janet's nearly ten.
01:21Those are mine.
01:24You're very sweet, aren't you?
01:26Yes, I'll be coming home soon, thank God.
01:28Jill's being invalided out.
01:30You know, it's come to something,
01:32but it takes an illness to bring a family together.
01:34Mine are in Wales,
01:36but I do manage to get down there quite often.
01:38We're glad when it goes back for good, eh?
01:40Yes, I will.
01:42Husband of the army?
01:43No, the air force.
01:45Oh, in this country?
01:46Yes.
01:47Ah, no, that's our Scotty.
01:49Oh, no, he's in the south, though, mostly.
01:52Oh, that's not so bad, he can keep in touch.
01:54Oh, yes, yes, we do keep in touch.
01:56Now, Scotty, it was given to Jill by her granny
01:59for a birthday present.
02:01Now I'm stuck with the little pig up.
02:04It's my daughter's birthday tomorrow.
02:06Jolly good.
02:07Perhaps next year she'll be having it at home.
02:09I hope so.
02:11It's not very good, but that's how I've got it.
02:15Oh.
02:21I'll have extra.
02:22Bye.
02:27Bye.
02:34Mrs. Thomas?
02:37Mrs. Jones?
02:38Been shopping.
02:39This is his again, is it?
02:41Yes.
02:42Yes, just the one.
02:43Children's ma'am, is it?
02:44Yes.
02:45Yes, it is.
02:46Yes, it is.
02:47One time her, another time him.
02:49Oh, yes.
02:50Would you like a few flowers for our room?
02:52Brighten it up a bit for her.
02:53Oh, that's lovely.
02:55They never seem to manage together, do they?
02:58Shame that, isn't it?
03:00Yes, it is.
03:01But that's the way things are.
03:03Him in the aeroplanes and her on the war work.
03:06Yes.
03:07Oh, have you registered yourself, Mrs. Thomas?
03:10Up to 51 now for women that sit on the wireless.
03:13I'm over 51, Mrs. Jones.
03:15No.
03:16Well, I never thought to look at you, Mrs. Thomas.
03:19Never.
03:21Oh, here's the boy.
03:23Oh, and little Janet with him.
03:25They're a bit late.
03:26Been dawdling, I shouldn't wonder.
03:28What's it say?
03:29Go on, carry on.
03:30Wash your hands before tea.
03:31Peter, put my bike behind the shed.
03:33I'll try and pump.
03:34Swindle.
03:35She's very like her ma'am, isn't she?
03:37It's her birthday tomorrow.
03:38Oh, they're nice for her.
03:40You're going to miss them when they're gone, I shouldn't wonder.
03:46Yes.
03:48I'm joining a new bloody union.
03:51A new bloody union?
03:54Ah, put a sock in it.
03:57What the hell's all that about?
03:58Oh, Baxter's complaining.
03:59He lost the station bike in June and they're taking it out of his pay.
04:03Do you know, he reckons he gets sixpence a night after deductions.
04:07Sixpence for a trip over Hamburg, my God.
04:09Oh, thanks for the book, old chap.
04:11Hey, Peter, have you any idea where we're going tonight?
04:14I've been scrubbed.
04:15So it's leave from now on, my lad.
04:17Oh, thank God for that.
04:19Yes, I thought you'd be pleased.
04:21Um...
04:23I rang Grace last night, as a matter of fact.
04:27Oh, yeah?
04:28Well, Charles is in Scotland and I get the impression they've more or less separated.
04:34Did...
04:35Did she tell you to tell me that?
04:37Well, she dropped a fairly massive hint that she wouldn't object if I did.
04:41So why don't you come down to London with me and see where the bright lights used to be, hmm?
04:46Oof.
04:48Old Hitler and a bunion.
04:52A face like a pickled onion.
04:56And a nose like a squashed tomato.
05:00And legs like matchsticks.
05:07She's not coming.
05:08We'll give her another ten minutes.
05:10I'm hungry.
05:11You just wait there, can't you, sirs?
05:13Why are you really bothered about the present she's bringing you?
05:15Oh, now, Peter, if it was me you were waiting for, I hope you think about more than the present.
05:19I said her, not me.
05:21Her, indeed. Now, is it her?
05:23Your sister's name is Janet.
05:26Mum!
05:27Can I come in?
05:29Oh, there's my very best girl.
05:33Let me have a look at you.
05:34Oh, you've grown.
05:36You're late.
05:37Yes, I know, the train was late.
05:38No, we always started without you, but welcome, Mrs Hadfield.
05:41Hello, you.
05:43Hello, Mum.
05:44Oh, how's my great big boy?
05:46Let me hang up your coat for you.
05:47Are you all right?
05:48Yeah.
05:49I'll take your case, Mrs Hadfield.
05:50Oh, thank you.
05:51Leave the case now.
05:52Tea's almost ready for the table.
05:53I'm playing rugby in school.
05:54You don't, do you?
05:58First of all, Mrs Ashton.
05:59Would you like to watch?
06:01Yes, I can.
06:03Hey, you know Queen Robert's, Mum?
06:05No, yes.
06:06He comes to school.
06:07Does he?
06:08He's a colonel in the army, and he plays rugby for Wales.
06:10But he talks to us, you see.
06:11He does?
06:12Yeah, I miss Mr Ashton.
06:13Oh, he's not, I think, have you?
06:15It'll be very easy to see.
06:17Well, it's very difficult for him, isn't it, Peter?
06:20He sent me a postcard from London in the holidays.
06:22Well, I expect he was on a course there, don't you?
06:25He writes long letters, though.
06:27Does he write long letters to you?
06:28Oh, yes, yes.
06:30Great long letters.
06:36Oh, come along, Captain.
06:37We've got all that much time, you know.
06:39Uh, look, Peter, I'm giving it a miss.
06:42Me?
06:44No, London.
06:45Oh.
06:47Yeah, I'm still in London.
06:50Well, it's all he got, that.
06:52Um, any money for a drink?
06:57Yes.
06:59You can tell her that the medicine worked.
07:02Right.
07:05Medicine, old chap?
07:07Yes, medicine.
07:09Oh.
07:10Yes.
07:11Well, uh, see you next week, then.
07:16You're going home?
07:19Home?
07:25Yes, well, uh, have a good leave, old chap.
07:42Mum?
07:44Oh, Peter, not again.
07:46I've already said goodnight to you five times.
07:49And where's your dressing gown?
07:51It's upstairs.
07:52It's not too cold, is it?
07:53No.
07:54Where did you get Janet for her birthday?
07:55I've told you, wait till tomorrow.
07:58It's her surprise, not mine.
08:00Well, it'll be your surprise, too, then.
08:03Suitcase is heavy.
08:05Must be a heavy present, then, isn't it?
08:09Well, haven't you got me anything?
08:11Ah, now we have it.
08:13She got one that was mine.
08:14She is the cat's mother.
08:15Now, will you please go to bed?
08:17Yes, go on.
08:18Do as Mrs. Thomas tells you.
08:19Goodnight.
08:20I'll see you in the morning.
08:21Goodnight.
08:22And please, close the door.
08:29Peter?
08:35Oh, I do miss them, growing up.
08:38Yes, I'm sure you do.
08:40What a pity Mr. Ashton couldn't have been here.
08:44You could have had the big bed.
08:46You know, any time it's possible for you to be together,
08:48you only have to tell me.
08:49I'd be very pleased.
08:50Yes, well, we don't see each other all that often.
08:53There's terrible old war.
08:55In fact, I don't think I've seen David
08:57more than once in the last 18 months.
09:01But every time you've been here, you said you'd seen him.
09:04And when he's here, he says the same thing.
09:06Yes, I know.
09:07I'm sorry about that.
09:08But, well, we do that for the kids, really.
09:12You had a quarrel.
09:13Quarrel?
09:15Yeah, I suppose so.
09:19One quarrel and another,
09:21and without the kids to hold you together,
09:24you begin to drift apart.
09:27That's why I really feel...
09:28I'm afraid I can't help you.
09:31Gareth and I never had any children.
09:33Oh, we were very happy together as long as he lived.
09:37There was no drifting.
09:39But I do know people in the same predicament as yourselves,
09:42especially these last few years.
09:44It is very sad.
09:47It's only the kids we've got in common now.
09:51Perhaps that's all we ever did have.
09:53I don't know.
09:54They are lovely children.
09:56I must say I've grown very attached to them.
10:00I get very lonely for them.
10:03I can imagine that.
10:05Still, I think you're very wise not to want to take them back,
10:09you know, from their friends and the fresh air to Liverpool,
10:12not in times like these.
10:14We always get round to this, don't we?
10:19Well, I must say when the time comes for me to lose them,
10:23I shall be more than sad.
10:26More than sad.
10:30Well, I think I'll go up. I'm feeling a bit tired.
10:34Well, it's the country air.
10:37Good night, Mrs Ashton. Sleep well.
10:59Good night.
11:29Oh, hello.
11:59Hey, many happy returns.
12:02Thanks.
12:05Oh, Janet, what's the time?
12:09Eight o'clock.
12:10Is it?
12:12How long have you been awake?
12:14Since half past seven.
12:17Well, your present is downstairs in the sideboard cupboard.
12:20Can I go and get it?
12:21Yes, go on.
12:22Thanks.
12:23Happy birthday, my love.
12:27Happy birthday.
12:28Tea, Mum. I made it.
12:31Oh, they bring me tea in bed on Sundays.
12:33And once breakfast, just for a spoil girl.
12:36Hey, Peter.
12:37Yes?
12:38Have you got Janet a present?
12:40Yeah, of course.
12:41Oh, well, you'd better go and give it to her, haven't you?
12:43She's gone down to look for hers in the sideboard cupboard.
12:46And you just might find one there for you if you look hard enough.
12:51Thanks, Mum.
12:52And from me too.
12:53Thanks.
12:56Oh, I got her some paints.
12:57Did I tell you?
12:58Mm.
12:59I do hope she won't make a mess with them.
13:00No, she will make a mess.
13:03What did Peter get her?
13:05Oh, he made her a sewing box at the school.
13:07Oh.
13:08I got him a football.
13:10Only his granddad says that he'll need a pig's bladder to put in it.
13:13Oh, I'm sure Mr. Rees, the butcher, can find one.
13:16Oh, good.
13:18Well, it's good you could be here for the birthday.
13:20Yes.
13:22I'm a bit jealous of you.
13:23You know that, don't you?
13:25Because you're with them and I'm not.
13:28Well, perhaps love from two of us is better than love from just one.
13:33It's them forgetting about me that worries me.
13:36Oh, they won't forget you.
13:38And they are happy.
13:40That's what matters, isn't it?
13:46Yes, and that's from Gwenny and that's from Auntie.
13:49Aren't you going to open them?
13:51Yes.
13:53Ah, you've done well.
13:55Nothing since last year.
13:57Oh, I've got a football for mum.
13:59I know, she told me.
14:01And your grandfather says you'll need a pig's bladder.
14:03Pig's bladder.
14:04Who's that from?
14:06Daddy's.
14:10It's a nice card, isn't it?
14:13Look, Janet, your daddy's very, very busy.
14:17He'd have come if he could have done, wouldn't he?
14:20Yes, come on.
14:21Let's go upstairs and get dressed, shall we?
14:24Yes, she was, and she's growing so.
14:26I hope she's not making a mess.
14:28No.
14:29Ah, that's lovely.
14:31I need King Edward's for baking,
14:33or I was paying Mrs. Hughes the paper and that's all.
14:35I think I will go back and get those stockings.
14:37It's more than I wanted to pay.
14:38That's right.
14:39I won't be long.
14:40All right.
14:41Now, Blodwyn, what about the...
14:46Yes, I expect so. Thanks.
14:52Hello.
14:54Hello.
15:07Where's Mum?
15:08She went to buy some stockings.
15:10Oh, you've started already.
15:13It's still wet.
15:15Yes, I can see.
15:16And you put newspapers down to save the floor.
15:18There's my girl.
15:19Do you like it?
15:20I love it very much indeed.
15:21It's colourful, isn't it?
15:22Janet!
15:23Guess who's here?
15:24Hello, Mrs Thomas.
15:25Oh, lovely.
15:26I met him down at the paper shop.
15:28Hello.
15:30My birthday girl.
15:33Dad?
15:34Yes.
15:37Many happy returns.
15:40Same to you.
15:42Me?
15:43Oh, I've had all the birthdays I want.
15:45Are you old?
15:47I'm old enough.
15:49You came?
15:51Yes, of course I came.
15:53I didn't think I'd miss your birthday, did you?
15:58Glad to see me?
16:00Oh, I'm glad to see you.
16:05Janet, your daddy's got something for you, I expect.
16:09Yes, well, I haven't actually got you a great big exciting present
16:13because I thought a ten-year-old girl...
16:16What she wants is something that she can choose for herself
16:19because she's old enough to know what she wants.
16:21So how would that buy you a nice dress or something?
16:24A nice winter dress, yes.
16:26And make us all a cup of tea.
16:28Well, thank you very much.
16:30Hey there, nice Janet.
16:35Flats.
16:36Flats, oh yes.
16:38Mummy gave me those.
16:39And look what Auntie gave me.
16:41Oh, that's lovely, isn't it?
16:43If we'd known that you were coming,
16:45we could have arranged things for you.
16:47Yes, well, I didn't know myself till last night.
16:49But you see, Janet is in with Mrs Ashton
16:51and Aunt Peter has the only single bed.
16:53Um, well, that's all right.
16:55I'll be able to stay at the pub, I think, if I do stay.
16:58I can move in with Auntie. Then you and Mum can have my bed.
17:01We don't want to go upsetting the whole house, Janet.
17:04There's no upset for Janet to move in with me, is there, my love?
17:07Well...
17:08Be an added little birthday present for her.
17:10Having our Mummy and Daddy all together, isn't it?
17:13Um, um...
17:14Hey, Janet, let's go down and see if they've got your dress.
17:17Yes.
17:18Oh, plenty of time for that now. The kettle's nearly ready.
17:21I'm still happy with my breakfast, thank you.
17:23I'm not all that thirsty, thank you, Mrs Thomas.
17:26I haven't seen Peter yet.
17:27You'll find him with his friends from school.
17:29Right, well, thanks all the same, but I'll see you later.
17:32Yes.
17:34There's not much point in this, then.
17:41BELL RINGS
17:51Sheila.
17:52I'd better go in with her.
17:53Look, she'll be all right for a minute.
17:55Oh.
17:56Why don't you go and find Peter?
17:58I expect he's at the school. It's just at the top of the hill.
18:01Yes, I know where it is.
18:03He'll be pleased to see you.
18:05Yeah, we seem to get on better these days.
18:07You might find that he's a bit jealous, you know, being Janet's birthday.
18:10Look, Sheila, when can we talk?
18:13Talk?
18:14Yes, talk, Sheila.
18:16Mummy, come and look at this!
18:19SHE SIGHS
18:36Come on, Jamie!
18:46Come here!
18:47Come on!
18:52Hey, Miss...
18:54Dad?
18:55Hello, son.
18:59Glad to see me.
19:06KNOCK AT DOOR
19:08Oh, Mrs Jones.
19:09I've just done my way down the shops and I wondered if you wanted anything.
19:12No, I done my shopping.
19:14I saw him arrive.
19:15Yes, Mr Ashton has come.
19:16Yes.
19:17Well, an extra mouth to feed, you know.
19:19I got enough to go round. Thank you.
19:22Well, both of them together at last, then.
19:24And we were only saying.
19:27Oh, there's that lovely box you've got.
19:30MUSICAL TUNE
19:33Musical!
19:34One of Janet's birthday presents, is it?
19:37Yes, it was.
19:38Oh, that's lovely.
19:40Mr Ashton might want to stay at the Tigwyn tonight.
19:43Do you think they'll have room for it?
19:45Oh, yes, I'm sure they will.
19:46Shall I ask the Roberts for you?
19:48Well, just if it's possible.
19:50It's not decided yet. Not yet, it isn't.
19:53Oh, so that's why they've been visiting them apart, is it?
19:57I thought there was something funny going on, you know.
20:00I can tell him that there is room, then.
20:02Well, I don't start my duties till opening time and I'll ask them then.
20:05But you can tell him, yes, I'm sure it's all right.
20:08Oh, Mrs Jones, dear.
20:10Does it carry a bag?
20:12What am I going to do?
20:14She's been talking again about taking them back.
20:18But how can you send children back to a place where the marriage is not a happy marriage?
20:24Well, you'll get your own way then, won't you?
20:28My own way?
20:29The children will stay with you.
20:31Oh, I don't know about that, dear.
20:34You see, I thought if I could just bring them all together.
20:38But how can you bring people all together?
20:42I thought, just let them be with the children.
20:46You know, time to look at one another.
20:49I can't do more than that, can I?
20:51I don't think they'll run away like that, do they?
20:53Gee!
20:54Yeah, Dad, bombs away!
20:56Hey!
20:57I did hit them a little bit.
20:58Yeah, well.
20:59Right?
21:01Yes.
21:02How about that, then?
21:03Oh, good.
21:04The rest of us are back in small leagues.
21:08Hello, Mr Jones!
21:09Hello, Mr Jones!
21:10Hello, Mr Jones!
21:11Hello, Mr Jones!
21:12Hello, Mr Jones!
21:13Hello, Mr Jones!
21:14Hello, Mr Jones!
21:15Hello, Mr Jones!
21:16Hello, Mr Jones!
21:17Hello, Mr Jones!
21:18Hello, Mr Jones!
21:19Hello, Mr Jones!
21:20Yeah, there won't be any more raids on Liverpool, I reckon.
21:27Liverpool's safe enough now.
21:29It's not because of the raids I don't have them back.
21:31It's because I don't think I could look after them properly.
21:33And work.
21:34Come on!
21:36Get your foot on there!
21:37Oh!
21:38Yes, you can.
21:44Look at this!
21:45What?
21:46Hello!
21:47Anyone at home, then?
21:49Didn't pay his rent.
21:55They're very happy here, aren't they?
21:57Peter said he wanted to go back, you know, last time I was here.
22:00Oh, that's probably because he had a row at school.
22:03Now, I don't think either of them really care.
22:08Yes, well, it's just as well the way things are, Sheila.
22:12Hello!
22:31What did you mean, David?
22:33The way things are.
22:36Have my children go home, Sheila.
22:39And find another fella there.
22:43Sheila, you can't expect me to like that.
22:46Another fella?
22:48Oh, don't pretend, Sheila, for God's sake!
22:52I'm not pretending.
22:54What other fella?
22:56The one that was there last time I called to see you.
23:02And I know damn well you've been seeing him since.
23:04And you think I'm living with him?
23:06What do you tell me?
23:07He's not like that.
23:08Oh!
23:11Dammit!
23:12Why did you think that?
23:17Ah, I see. He's respectable, is he?
23:23I suppose he wanted to marry you.
23:25He did once, yes.
23:27Oh, but he couldn't wait.
23:29Is that it?
23:30No, that's not it.
23:33I wouldn't let him.
23:35Just for a hold.
23:38Just for the kids.
23:39You'd marry someone just for that.
23:41You know, this war hasn't touched you, has it?
23:44You haven't changed a bit.
23:46Oh, that's great, that is.
23:48That's funny, coming from you.
23:50What's that supposed to mean?
23:52It's you that hasn't bloody well changed.
23:54Me?
23:55Yes, you.
23:56Listen, while you've been sitting around
23:57sipping tea with your respectable boyfriend,
23:59I've been fighting a bloody war.
24:01This war has put years on me.
24:02Don't you tell me I haven't changed.
24:03Well, don't you tell me then.
24:06Anyway, I want a divorce.
24:12Dad, help!
24:17Dad, stop!
24:36Come on in, we're almost ready.
24:38Watch it, darling.
24:39Oh, never.
24:41Now, Peter, Peter, Peter, now watch it.
24:43Please, now, will you go and wash your hands?
24:45And roll up your sleeves, please.
24:47From the look of the mess that you're in,
24:49you certainly enjoyed yourselves.
24:53Pleasant out, was it?
24:54Yes, yes, it was, it was lovely.
24:56Did you go to the stream?
24:57Yes.
24:58Yes, yes, we did, yes.
24:59Oh, the stream, always the stream.
25:01It's fascinated him.
25:02Ever since he first arrived.
25:03That and the old lead mine.
25:04But they're not allowed there without me.
25:06Orders.
25:07Oh, I say, you have been busy, haven't you?
25:09Well, I've done it.
25:10Had to have a birthday tea.
25:12So there's a jelly.
25:13And there's a fruit salad I've been saving.
25:15But they're not to see that until they've eaten
25:17what's good for them.
25:18And see?
25:19Oh, I say, that's lovely.
25:20Cue me.
25:21Oh, she's honest.
25:22Very nice.
25:23I've not been very clever, I'm afraid,
25:25with the writing.
25:26In icing, you know.
25:27That's very good, darling.
25:29Sheila used to make them in the old days, yes.
25:31David, stop!
25:32David!
25:33Sheila, whatever are you doing here?
25:35I can't leave.
25:36Enough to worry about.
25:37I can't talk to you about it in here.
25:39Go on.
25:41Whilst you were out, I moved Janice's things in with me.
25:44And I put your suitcase upstairs.
25:46So you can have the recipe in it to yourself.
25:48Oh, well, David isn't staying.
25:50But it's done.
25:51It's all ready.
25:52I could stay, Sheila.
25:54No.
25:55I'm not going to stay.
25:56I could stay, Sheila.
25:58No.
25:59No, well, we've been talking about it, you see, Mrs Thomas,
26:02and we decided it wasn't really possible.
26:05I am sorry.
26:06I am.
26:07Yes, well, perhaps Sheila is right.
26:09You know, things are a bit difficult.
26:11What about the children?
26:12I'd like to stay.
26:13David?
26:14Something's missing.
26:15Something's what?
26:16She wants to know where the cake is.
26:18How did you know there was a cake?
26:20I smelled it being baked.
26:22Oh, you did, did you?
26:23What was he about that?
26:26We'll be bringing you tea in the morning,
26:28be breakfast in bed for two.
26:30Well, I might not be here, Janet.
26:32Why not?
26:35Well, I don't get away very often these days, Peter, you know,
26:38and Grandad being on his own now,
26:41well, I sort of promised I might be with him tonight.
26:43Tonight?
26:45Look, I'll...
26:47I want to talk to Mummy after tea,
26:49and then I might get the train.
26:51You won't be for ages.
26:53Ages and ages.
26:54Oh, he doesn't have to go, does he, Mum?
26:56Grandad won't mind. I'll write him a letter.
26:58If you'll excuse me, Mr Ashton, the train goes in an hour,
27:02and I don't think it'll get into Liverpool until 12,
27:04not on a Saturday.
27:06Stay, Dad.
27:07I'll write to Grandad.
27:09Well, look, I...
27:10Tell him to stay, Mum!
27:13Janet, um...
27:15well, didn't you say something about staying at the pub?
27:18Well, they might not have a room.
27:20Well, why can't he stay here with us?
27:23Well, he...
27:25Look, you see, when you're used to sleeping on your own,
27:27it's very difficult to get to sleep with anybody else.
27:31Anyway, I kick a lot, you know.
27:33You'd think I was playing football in my sleep.
27:35You think they would have a room, Mrs Thomas?
27:37Well, Mrs Jones helps out at Tigwyn on Saturday night, you know.
27:41I shall ask her.
27:43If you want me to, of course.
27:45Yes, yes, thank you very much, Mrs Thomas. All right?
27:47Yeah.
27:49Well, then, now that that's settled,
27:51we can all sit round and enjoy Miss Janet Ashton's birthday party,
27:54if you please.
27:56All round the table, please.
28:01Are you ready?
28:07May God make us truly grateful for all his blessings
28:10and may he make us glad that we are all together on our Janet's birthday.
28:14For our health and our strength and our daily bread,
28:18may God make us truly thankful.
28:21Amen.
28:48Amen.
29:18Amen.
29:48Amen.
30:19Tomorrow?
30:31A pint of bitter, please.
30:33Aye, certainly, sir.
30:35Mrs Jones, all this gentleman a pint.
30:37Room all right, sir?
30:39Yes, it's fine, thanks.
30:41Good. And breakfast at half-past eight in the morning.
30:44Right, thank you. Good, good.
30:47Ah, here we are.
30:51You're welcome.
31:13Marla, I gain arrows.
31:15He's a Mrs Thomas.
31:17Mrs Thomas, he's an Edrift Daroller of actuaries.
31:20There's plenty of room for him all as far as I know.
31:23Can't think why he wants to stay here.
31:26Mrs Jones. Yes, Mr Roberts?
31:28Why don't you put another pin in that poster over there so it can be read properly?
31:32Oh, all right, Mr Roberts.
31:36Yes, I'd quite like two.
31:38Aye.
31:43Do you have a light?
31:57Oh, I'm so sorry. Would you like one?
32:00No, thanks.
32:02What's the RAF doing round here?
32:04Just visiting.
32:06Relations? Yes.
32:08It's the only time we see any service types.
32:10There isn't a camp for miles.
32:12It's like being buried alive.
32:14Thank you, David.
32:20You're not from round here, then?
32:22Good God, no.
32:24I'm doing my war work in a farm down the road.
32:27I've been here two years and they still treat me like some new breed of animal.
32:31Regard with suspicion until proved.
32:35And I don't go to chapel on Sundays.
32:39Yes, I suppose that must be a crime around here.
32:42One of a long list of crimes.
32:45Like talking to a man in a pub.
32:47Not that any of the locals are worth talking to.
32:50Either too young or too old.
32:52Yes, I...
32:56I'm so sorry if I'm boring you.
32:59But I don't often get the chance.
33:03You're allowed.
33:18Could you give this to Mr Ashton, please?
33:20Yes, of course, dear.
33:22That's Mr Ashton over there, isn't it?
33:29Mum?
33:31Mum?
33:47Janet?
33:53Janet?
33:59Janet?
34:05Where's Mum?
34:07I think she's run away.
34:10Think she'll come back?
34:14Don't know where she's gone.
34:17Don't know where she's gone.
34:40Soon back?
34:42Yes.
34:44You saw him?
34:46Oh, yes, yes.
34:48I saw him.
34:50Nothing said?
34:52No. Nothing.
34:58That's a pity.
35:00Maybe.
35:02Every time you harden your heart, the next time it's easier.
35:06Good.
35:08You don't really mean that. Not really.
35:10Well, I know it now anyway, don't I?
35:12That's something. I'm glad.
35:14I've been too soft for too long.
35:17Two children.
35:20No father for the rest of their life.
35:22Oh, he'll come and see them.
35:24Whenever he can be bothered, that is.
35:26And you think that that is the same?
35:28No, but it could be a lot worse, couldn't it?
35:33You know, it was quite easy walking out of there tonight.
35:36Quite easy.
35:39Next time it's going to be even easier,
35:41and I say good to that, Mrs Thomas.
35:44You say good now, but this old war won't last forever.
35:47No, it won't. It will for David.
35:49His own private little war.
35:51What are you going to do with two children with no man to keep them
35:55and work for them?
35:57I shall work for them.
35:59I'd have them back now if things weren't so difficult at home.
36:02In fact,
36:04if I were to go part-time at the Naffy...
36:07There you are, minding your own business.
36:11And suddenly you're told you've got to have two children.
36:16The next thing is they're your whole life.
36:20And then someone says they're going to take them back now.
36:27What about this place?
36:29Empty.
36:31Well, I didn't exactly mean now.
36:33Oh, no.
36:35You leave them here just as long as you wish,
36:38even when the time comes for them to go.
36:40I shall take them.
36:44Thank God they must.
36:51COUGHS
36:56Do you fancy another? They'll be shouting time in a minute.
36:59Not for me, thank you.
37:01If I don't make a straight line for the door,
37:03will someone sure to report me to headquarters?
37:06You're staying here, aren't you?
37:08Yes, yes.
37:10You know,
37:12you remind me of somebody.
37:14Oh, somebody nice, I hope.
37:18No.
37:20No, not nice.
37:22Oh, I see. Well, thank you very much.
37:24You remind me in a nice way, though.
37:26I'm not sure that I know what you mean,
37:28but it sounds much better.
37:30She was a bitch.
37:32But she had something I wanted.
37:35Er, needed.
37:37Maybe. I don't know, but...
37:40You're like one without the other,
37:42if that makes sense.
37:44A couple of hours of pub talk, and you know all that.
37:47Well, that's all there's time for these days,
37:49a couple of hours' pub talk.
37:52Well, cheers.
37:54Here's to the beautiful friendship that never was.
37:58Cheers.
38:06Time to go home.
38:08If I can find the way.
38:10Yes, the blackout.
38:12Oh, the country's awful.
38:14London is like a lighted room compared with this.
38:17Gives me the willies.
38:19Well, I could walk you home.
38:21You'd never live it down.
38:24That's one thing about being a fellow like me,
38:26you don't have to live anything down.
38:28People take you for what you are.
38:30The uniform, is that what you mean?
38:32No, not the uniform.
38:34Aren't you being a bit hard on yourself?
38:37No, not hard, just honest.
38:40That's one thing she did teach me, me friend.
38:43My double.
38:45You get less like her every minute.
38:49I'll put my coat on.
39:05DOOR CREAKS
39:26My last double was over Hanover.
39:29Do you know that was still burning two nights and three days
39:32after we'd bloody walked back for it?
39:34A taste of their own medicine.
39:36No.
39:37What we had was a flea bite compared to that, believe you me.
39:40Is it hard for you, what you do?
39:43Well, you don't think about it most of the time.
39:46In fact, once you're over the target, you just start...
39:48You just sit there cracking jokes.
39:50Jokes?
39:52Well, it's not until it's all over
39:54and you're on the way back, you know, and we...
39:56Well, during the radio silence, you know,
39:58then you have plenty of time to think about what you've left behind.
40:01I don't suppose they all think Hitler's God.
40:03They started it.
40:05I don't know who they are any more.
40:07Hitler, Himmler, Göring, millions of jellies.
40:10Well, this is it.
40:13Oh, you live here?
40:15Thank you for seeing me home.
40:19Oh, it's a lovely night.
40:21I suppose you'd call that a bomber's moon.
40:24Yes.
40:27We're expecting my brother next month.
40:29He's lost an arm. I suppose that's why they're repatriating him.
40:32Over 3,000 of them, they say.
40:35Would you like some coffee?
40:39Yes, I would like some.
40:42But I'm thinking of that fella.
40:45The one that doesn't have to live anything down.
40:49Maybe if I said no just for once, it might make it easier.
40:54You're married, aren't you?
40:56Yes, I am.
40:58Children?
40:59Two.
41:01The ones that are staying at Mrs. Thomas's?
41:03Yes.
41:04I thought it might be you.
41:06It's only a village, you know. People talk.
41:09Yeah.
41:12They're sweet.
41:15Well, good night.
41:19I don't even know your name.
41:21David.
41:23What's yours?
41:25Christine.
41:29Good night, Christine.
41:35That's for the beautiful friendship that never was.
41:40They happen all the time these days, don't they?
41:58I said to Mr. Roberts I wouldn't dream of telling her myself, I said.
42:20Oh no, that's up to Mrs. Thomas. That is none of my business, I said.
42:24Well, when she brought the suitcase up to the bar and asked me to give it to him, I didn't say a word to her.
42:29Careless talk costs lives.
42:31Quite right.
42:33And what about that Christine Maver up at the farm?
42:35Everybody knows what she is.
42:37Putting thoughts into men's heads.
42:40And wearing those trousers all the time.
42:42At least they can't see her legs, can they?
42:45Are they coming to chapel with us then?
42:47No, they're going to bicycle ride up to the old lead mine before Mr. Ashton takes the train for Liverpool.
42:52She'll be coming back, won't she?
42:53Oh yes, she'll be back.
42:55You'll tell her then, won't you?
42:57People are not the same these days.
42:59Now look here, Cariad.
43:01Don't you tell me that.
43:03When the children are away and your man starts playing around, that's the end of it.
43:07She'll manage as well as I have.
43:09So she thinks, I'm sure.
43:11But you and I are no different, don't we?
43:13No, Cariad Bach, you are their family now.
43:16That's devil's talk.
43:18Well, there's a nice thing I must say.
43:21Oh, no.
43:23It's just that you put my thoughts into words.
43:27You see, I've been thinking.
43:29Maybe I will be all the family they've got.
43:33If there is a divorce.
43:35Oh, may God forgive me.
43:51Come on, Dad, there's a man down here.
44:14All right.
44:17Hey, Peter.
44:18Go over there with Janet, will you?
44:20Janet, I want to talk to you.
44:22Mum's playing with us, aren't you, Mum?
44:24Of course I am.
44:25Come on.
44:26Go on, then.
44:27All right, then.
44:28We'll talk right here then, shall we?
44:33Janet, go and play with Peter for a minute, will you?
44:35Just for a minute.
44:36I just want to talk to Daddy.
44:58Look, love.
45:00Isn't it about time we started back?
45:02Say nothing like that in front of them.
45:05Now they'll know there's something up.
45:06I said it because I didn't want to talk in front of them.
45:09I mean, do you think they don't know there's something going on?
45:12Timber!
45:15Look, I want to tell you something.
45:20I think we should talk.
45:22We've got nothing left to say, David.
45:25We've said it all.
45:53Sheena.
45:56Look, love, I'd like to talk to you.
45:59I'd like to be honest with you.
46:02What?
46:03Honest.
46:05Oh, honest.
46:08Yeah, all right.
46:10Let's be honest.
46:12I might not get the bloody...
46:21Peter?
46:27Look, love.
46:29I may not be here this time next week, you know.
46:32Well, what do you want to be honest about then?
46:35Your other women?
46:37Yes, if that's what you want.
46:40Oh, you admit it then.
46:41There have been other women.
46:43Yes.
46:45Yes, I admit it.
46:47Well, that makes it easier, doesn't it?
47:05Peter?
47:06Sheena.
47:07Are you in here, Peter?
47:08Listen, what did you say?
47:09Peter.
47:10What?
47:11What?
47:12Makes what easier?
47:13The divorce.
47:14Oh, I see.
47:15Peter.
47:16Look, you can't talk about divorces if it was...
47:18Peter!
47:19...buying a bag of sweets, you know.
47:20What about those kids?
47:21Oh, we're not much good to the kids, are we?
47:23They don't remember us.
47:26Peter.
47:28Peter!
47:29Peter!
47:31Peter!
47:36Peter!
47:41Peter!
48:07I think you're wrong.
48:10Look, all I know is, Sheila, that I need them.
48:13I need you.
48:14I don't want to be needed.
48:16I want to be loved.
48:18Oh, what do you think I've been chasing you around all day for?
48:21Because I don't care.
48:23Look, the least we can do is give it another try.
48:29You're after all your other women.
48:32Look, I've had all that.
48:35That's not what I want.
48:36I know what that's worth.
48:39Anyway, there was only one that ever meant anything.
48:44Peggy?
48:45Yes.
48:49Those letters.
48:52They were all true.
48:54She had my baby.
49:01I want you to try and understand that after I saw you with that fellow,
49:07I thought, well, that's it.
49:09You know, it's finished.
49:11So what can I do?
49:13I can do right by Peg, or for the baby's sake.
49:17Do right?
49:20Don't you love her?
49:21Yes, I loved her.
49:25Go away.
49:45Do you know what I've always said to myself, David, all these years?
49:52That it didn't really matter where you were or who you were with.
49:59Because it was me that you loved.
50:04Isn't that silly?
50:10You can love more than one person, Sheila.
50:30You can love people in different ways.
50:42Sheila.
50:46Sheila!
51:16Sheila!
51:46Sheila!
52:04In December 1942, Celia Porter found out about Margaret's love affair with Michael Armstrong.
52:10For a year, she has said nothing.
52:12In the first week of 1944, Celia makes a journey to Liverpool.
52:16Her family at war next week.
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