Another Country By Julian Mitchell

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A classic play about two boys at a public school in the 1930s who find themselves caught up in a battle against the school's oppressive elite.  Judd:………..Tom Hiddleston Bennett:………..Ben Riqhton Menzies:………William Ellis Fowler:……….Paul Richard Bigqin Devenish:………..Steven Webb Delahay:……….Joseph Kloska Barclay:………..Dan Starkey Wharton:………..Josh Freeborn Vaughan:……….Adam Godley  Producer/Director Marc Beeby  The Saturday Play: Betrayal - Another Country Sat 23rd Sep 2006, 14:32 on BBC Radio 4 FM  It premiered on 5 November 1981 at the Greenwich Theatre, London:  World premiere of an absorbing new play by Julian Mitchell. Set in a great English public school in the 1930s, it explores with penetrating insight and humour an apparently exclusive society which comes to realize that it cannot ignore the world outside. The seeds of treachery and betrayal come under the microscope....  The play won the Society of West End Theatre Awards Play of the Year title for 1982. The play takes its title from a lyric in the British patriotic hymn "I Vow to Thee, My Country."  Another Country is loosely based on the life of the spy Guy Burgess, Guy Bennett in the play, and examines the effect his homosexuality and exposure to Marxism has on his life, and the hypocrisy and snobbery of the English public schools.  The setting is a 1930s Eton-esque public school, where Guy Bennett and Tommy Judd are friends because they are both outsiders in their own ways. Bennett is openly gay, while Judd is a Marxist.  One night a house man walks in on Martineau and a boy from another house together in the dark room. Martineau commits suicide because of the shame of having been found in a homosexual embrace, and chaos erupts as teachers and the senior students try their hardest to keep the scandal away from parents and the rest of the outside world. However, the gay scandal gives the army-obsessed house captain Fowler, who dislikes both Bennett and Judd, a welcome reason to scheme against them.    Do you enjoy the variety on Oldtuberadio? Like, Share and Subscribe to be notified of our new shows #radio #crime #thriller #drama To Support this channel please visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/oldtuberadio https://ko-fi.com/oldtuberadio98 https://www.patreon.com/oldtuberadio https://locals.com/Oldtuberadio

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00:37:51I'm leaving you the most frightful mess, I'm afraid, niggas.

00:38:17That's all right.

00:38:20I've just discovered something awful.

00:38:22Farsicle's thinking of asking Fowler to stay on a term to be head of house.

00:38:26Barclay? But he can't.

00:38:27Well, it's all to do with next year's prefect.

00:38:30What about them?

00:38:30Devonish may be leaving at the end of this term.

00:38:35Since when?

00:38:36Since Martineau.

00:38:40Where do I get my fourth prefect?

00:38:41Exactly.

00:38:43The excuse is, if he's going to be a farmer, or manage the estate, or whatever,

00:38:47he might as well go to Agricultural College straight away.

00:38:50But actually, his parents take a very dim view of what's been going on here,

00:38:54and they're hopping mad about his bloody uncle being invited down.

00:38:57Oh, no.

00:38:59It couldn't be worse timing.

00:39:01He's the ripest of fruit, apparently.

00:39:03Anyway, the net result is, you're going to be a prefect short.

00:39:07Unless you can get Judd to take a more responsible attitude.

00:39:10Oh, fat chance.

00:39:11If Farsicle tries to put Fowler in above me, I'll refuse to be a prefect.

00:39:15You could certainly try that.

00:39:17He can't possibly afford to have two senior men who aren't prefects.

00:39:20It's all right about Judd.

00:39:21He's a school joke, but...

00:39:23A lot of the juniors admired Judd, actually.

00:39:25Well, that's another problem I've left you.

00:39:27I am sorry, Jim.

00:39:29As far as I can see, I've been a total failure.

00:39:32Oh, nonsense.

00:39:33I've been thinking, perhaps I shouldn't wait until the end of term,

00:39:36but leave now, before I do any more damage.

00:39:39Oh, don't be ridiculous.

00:39:42I can't get Martnow out of my head.

00:39:45I've never even been up Chapel Tower.

00:39:47But I can't sleep.

00:39:52Every time I close my eyes, I see him hanging there.

00:39:59I'm beginning to think I shall never get him out of my mind.

00:40:02It wasn't your fault.

00:40:04Really, it wasn't.

00:40:05I don't know.

00:40:07Perhaps it would do the house good to have a purge.

00:40:11I'm certainly not immaculate.

00:40:14Are you?

00:40:15I don't think it's something people should talk about.

00:40:17Well, perhaps I am more contaminated than others.

00:40:21I doubt it very much.

00:40:24I can't wait for term to be over.

00:40:27And I was looking forward to it so much.

00:40:38You did cut it.

00:40:40Of course.

00:40:41But the head man told us to do an appraiser.

00:40:43I don't have to hear Vaughan Cunningham to be able to appraise him right down to his little liberal slippers.

00:40:49Oh, it's damn good.

00:40:50Oh, the post-war crisis in art and life.

00:40:53Collapse of faith in public values.

00:40:55Nothing left but to trust in personal relations.

00:40:57Avoid politics at all costs.

00:40:59There's much more to it than that.

00:41:01Oh, yes.

00:41:03Damn the old.

00:41:03Damn the poor.

00:41:04Damn the unemployed.

00:41:06The children with rickets.

00:41:07And minors coughing their lungs up.

00:41:09Oh, and please don't mention the boring old means test to me.

00:41:12I'm a writer.

00:41:13That's stupid.

00:41:14What he said was.

00:41:15It is the act of the civilized man in a time of public turmoil to turn to the private life.

00:41:21What I recommend is letter writing.

00:41:24Pull up a cozy chaise long and settle down with a pen and paper to the composition of a minor masterpiece full of spice and semicolons.

00:41:32And some little insights between dashes to one of the dearest of one's dear, dear friends.

00:41:39Though I do recommend keeping a copy oneself just in case.

00:41:43It would be too sad if posterity would have been denied.

00:41:48The shallow, smelly, sentimental, morally putrid contents of the Victorian wicker-worker waste paper basket.

00:41:57One is pleased, nay delighted, to call one's mind.

00:42:00Oh, shut up.

00:42:03Oh, Lord, hasn't he started even?

00:42:12Who?

00:42:12Walson.

00:42:13Sorry, what?

00:42:14Maying.

00:42:14Devonish is bringing his uncle to tea with you.

00:42:16What?

00:42:16For our school's instructions.

00:42:17Bring him here?

00:42:18Even here.

00:42:19I'm working.

00:42:19Then you must stop.

00:42:20God almighty.

00:42:21If you play your cards right, he may put you in his weekly column.

00:42:23The public school communist is a sign of the times.

00:42:26Must be worth a paragraph at least.

00:42:28Shall we tidy up a bit?

00:42:30No, I'm working.

00:42:32All work and no play make Tommy Jordan dull.

00:42:34I want to be dull.

00:42:35Can't you understand?

00:42:37Revolution is made by dull people doing dull things with tremendous thoroughness and discipline.

00:42:43But once the revolution comes, they're heroes of the people.

00:42:46Not to say commissars.

00:42:48You couldn't be dull if you tried.

00:42:49Boring, but not dull.

00:42:51Thanks a lot.

00:42:52Don't you bore yourself sometimes, being the prophet in the wilderness?

00:42:55It's only one more term.

00:42:57I want to talk to you about that, actually.

00:43:00The answer is no.

00:43:02I wish you'd reconsider.

00:43:03I wish you'd let me work.

00:43:05Savonarola Judd, the scourge of the school.

00:43:08You must feel pretty isolated.

00:43:11I've never felt anything but lonely since the day I came here.

00:43:15Same faces day after day and year after year.

00:43:20And none I ever want to see again.

00:43:22You'll be even more isolated next term.

00:43:24You're also going to make life jolly awkward for the rest of us.

00:43:27Oh, hard cheese.

00:43:28Look, I won't ask you to do anything you don't want to.

00:43:30You'll only have to go through the motions, prep duty, dorms, roll call, nothing, really.

00:43:34Mingies, have you the makings of a politician in you?

00:43:37I'm really speaking as one friend to another.

00:43:40You have?

00:43:42Well, well.

00:43:44What would Vaughan Cunningham say?

00:43:46Personal relations poisoned by political ambition.

00:43:49Damn Vaughan Cunningham.

00:43:50I want you to be one of my prefects.

00:43:52Your prefects?

00:43:53How very proprietary.

00:43:56Oh, Wharton, good.

00:43:57And what do you want?

00:43:59Um, to lay, please.

00:44:00You can't.

00:44:01Judd, I'm on sec of library.

00:44:03No one informed me officially about this.

00:44:05Come on.

00:44:05I wasn't even consulted.

00:44:07I couldn't find you to consult you.

00:44:09Anyway, it's Farcicle's orders.

00:44:10Oh, please, Judd.

00:44:11Oh, for God's sake, do what you're bloody well like.

00:44:13Just don't disturb me.

00:44:14I'm working.

00:44:15Thank you, Judd.

00:44:21I say, cucumber sandwiches.

00:44:24How posh.

00:44:25Oh, Judd, please.

00:44:26They're meant to be eaten, aren't they?

00:44:27Oh, but they're all arranged.

00:44:29I'll eat another one, then, to balance.

00:44:32There.

00:44:33Now I'll notice.

00:44:34Oh, Judd.

00:44:35I'm sorry, Wharton, but being angry makes me hungry.

00:44:39So now the old lecher gets a chance to corrupt our bodies as well as our minds.

00:44:43There's to be no corruption.

00:44:44That's why I'm here.

00:44:45Come on, Wharton.

00:44:46No, you won't be able to stop him.

00:44:48One glance at our fresh pink faces and his palsied hands will scurry to our fresh pink...

00:44:51Judd.

00:44:52Knees, mingies, knees.

00:44:55Watch out for your cartilages.

00:44:57Some of these old crabs can give a fearful nip.

00:45:00Excuse me, Judd.

00:45:01Yes?

00:45:02Shall I make the tea now, or wait?

00:45:04Make it now.

00:45:05But it may get cold.

00:45:06Wait.

00:45:08But then it might not have time to brew.

00:45:10No one will notice.

00:45:11We'll be far too busy being impressed.

00:45:13You think I should wait, then?

00:45:15Or not?

00:45:16I think you should do whatever's most likely to make you least anxious.

00:45:20Oh, but then I will...

00:45:21Wait, Wharton.

00:45:22Thank you, mingies.

00:45:23And whatever you do, when you grow up, don't go in for catering.

00:45:25Of course I won't.

00:45:27We've been in timber since 1773.

00:45:32Poor child.

00:45:34Do you know he talks in his sleep?

00:45:35What was his dog about all night long?

00:45:38Come here.

00:45:39Sit.

00:45:40Fetch.

00:45:40Stop it.

00:45:41Good dog.

00:45:43And all day long he is the wretched dog.

00:45:46He's so anxious to please, he's practically wetting himself.

00:45:49Not to give displeasure, rather.

00:45:51When I follow the Bartley line, the less anxiety, the better.

00:45:54Oh, yes.

00:45:55You're a good, mild moderate.

00:45:57Given a proper education with some real people,

00:45:59you might have turned out quite a useful member of society.

00:46:02Thanks.

00:46:03Too late now, though.

00:46:04You'll have to go.

00:46:05By the time you've finished, will there be anyone left?

00:46:07The whole country will be left.

00:46:09Dear me.

00:46:10Oh, pay no attention.

00:46:12That's Judd, Uncle Vaughn, our tame communist.

00:46:15Not too tame, I trust?

00:46:16And this is Mingus.

00:46:18He's a prefect, but we let him in here sometimes, as he's not too bad.

00:46:21How do you do, Mingus?

00:46:22How do you do, sir?

00:46:23So, this is where you fellows sit, is it?

00:46:26It's where we work, between interruptions.

00:46:28Judd!

00:46:29Oh, but aren't all interruptions welcome?

00:46:31They are with me.

00:46:32Ignore him.

00:46:32He's always like that.

00:46:34Are you?

00:46:35Brusque and uncompromising.

00:46:36How splendid.

00:46:37He'd work 16 hours a day if we let him.

00:46:40We have to stop him for his own good.

00:46:42Oh, I don't like the sound of that.

00:46:43When people claim to be doing things for other people's good,

00:46:46it always means their own.

00:46:48Are you working for a scholarship, Judd?

00:46:49Well, I'm allowed to.

00:46:51Oxford or Cambridge?

00:46:52Cambridge.

00:46:52Well, it always was one for the Puritans.

00:46:55Take that, Judd.

00:46:56But it was.

00:46:57All those tiresome people who made life difficult for Queen Elizabeth.

00:47:00Nothing seems to have changed.

00:47:01I have a nephew at King's.

00:47:03Which college are you going to?

00:47:04Trinity.

00:47:05Well, he's rather too social for you, I think,

00:47:08and you're certainly too socialist for him.

00:47:10He says everything's drearily political these days.

00:47:13No fun at all.

00:47:14No.

00:47:16When I was up, it was all G.E. more.

00:47:18The pleasures of human intercourse and the enjoyment of beautiful objects.

00:47:24Some of us said, why not combine the two

00:47:26and enjoy the pleasures of intercourse with beautiful human objects?

00:47:29But that was before the war, of course, when it was still all right to make jokes.

00:47:35Flippancy's very much frowned on now, one hears.

00:47:39Come in.

00:47:40Um, the tea.

00:47:41Oh, thanks, Wharton.

00:47:45Shall I bring the muffins now, Judd?

00:47:48Don't ask me.

00:47:49It's not my party.

00:47:50Yes, please.

00:47:51Did he say muffins?

00:47:52How wonderful.

00:47:54And look at all those sandwiches.

00:47:57You certainly do yourselves well.

00:47:59I hope no one missed my lecture to prepare them.

00:48:02Naturally.

00:48:03How very kind.

00:48:04Wasn't kind.

00:48:05He was told to.

00:48:05Well, how kind of someone to tell him and how kind of him to obey.

00:48:11And who is this?

00:48:12I'm sorry, it's, uh, Bennett.

00:48:13Guy Bennett.

00:48:14I was arguing with some people about your lecture.

00:48:16I couldn't get away.

00:48:18I thought what you said, I thought it was absolutely illuminating.

00:48:23One likes to think one raises the blinds a little,

00:48:26lets in a chink, a little ray.

00:48:29Let's sit, shall we?

00:48:30Uncle Vaughan, you sit there.

00:48:32A little toady.

00:48:34Shut up and sit.

00:48:37One remembers so well how dark and dreary adolescence is.

00:48:45Confusion of mind worse confounded by utter confusion of body.

00:48:50Even one's voice suddenly betrays one.

00:48:53One's passions are so random and unreliable.

00:48:57Cricket scores one minute, Swinburne the next.

00:49:00I don't suppose any of you read Swinburne?

00:49:02I'm afraid not, sir.

00:49:03Not a set book.

00:49:04A little curious little man, Swinburne.

00:49:09A gnome.

00:49:10Wonderful red hair.

00:49:11But the head, too big for the body.

00:49:14The sordid truth will come out eventually, I suppose.

00:49:17What sordid truth is that, sir?

00:49:19He never got over being swished at Eaton.

00:49:21Obsessed with it all his life.

00:49:23Harold Nicholson tries to make out it's all exaggerated,

00:49:26but it's not.

00:49:26Not at all.

00:49:28I've seen some of the letters, and I can tell you.

00:49:30Hot stuff.

00:49:31Why would Mr Nicholson want to conceal it, sir?

00:49:33Oh, ambition, wouldn't you think?

00:49:35One doesn't get on in the Foreign Office by publishing dirt

00:49:38about eminent men of letters.

00:49:40Mild scandal, yes, but not dirt.

00:49:42I'm going into the essay.

00:49:43Are you?

00:49:45Well, it's an excellent way of seeing the world,

00:49:46if you can stand all the ghastly dinners with the other diplomats.

00:49:50Oh, I hadn't thought of that.

00:49:52Is there much swishing here these days?

00:49:55Ceaseless.

00:49:56Practically none, sir.

00:49:57I must say, one doesn't recall it as nearly so stimulating as Swinburne says.

00:50:00As a master of facts, I'm thinking of doing away with it in this house altogether.

00:50:04What?

00:50:05I'm head of house next time, you see.

00:50:06Well done.

00:50:07What's this?

00:50:08As an experiment.

00:50:09Well, well, well.

00:50:11We must talk about it.

00:50:12I shall have to have the cooperation of my prefects, of course.

00:50:14Oh, you've got mine already.

00:50:16Look here, you can't just spring it on us out of the blue like this.

00:50:18It's not the time or place.

00:50:19Donald, don't tell me you support the beating of little boy's bums.

00:50:22I'm not sure.

00:50:23I don't see any point in change for change's sake.

00:50:25But this would be for the sake of the bums.

00:50:27I think there's rather more to it than that, sir.

00:50:29It's not just the pain given.

00:50:30There's also the pleasure of the one doing the beating.

00:50:33Really?

00:50:35I had no idea.

00:50:36Mingy's, you've been opening books again.

00:50:38You mustn't do it.

00:50:39We'll start thinking and then where will we be?

00:50:41If all that stuff's true.

00:50:43Of course it is.

00:50:44Haven't you ever seen Fowler's...

00:50:46Fowler's what?

00:50:48Fowler's a prefect, sir.

00:50:50He is excited when he's beating someone.

00:50:53Dear, me uncontrollably sometimes.

00:50:56Bennett, do you mind?

00:50:56Yes, I'm sure Mr. Cunningham isn't interested in...

00:50:59Oh, but I am.

00:51:00I'm riveted.

00:51:01I shall write an article.

00:51:02Don't you dare.

00:51:03Oh, I won't mention the school by name.

00:51:05Of course, some schools have abolished it already.

00:51:08Only ludicrous places like Begales and Dartington Hall.

00:51:11It's all rot.

00:51:12Beating's all right so long as there aren't bullies.

00:51:14But there always are.

00:51:16I thought communists were all for discipline.

00:51:18Discipline, yes.

00:51:20Barbarism, no.

00:51:21Well, since you're not going to be a prefect,

00:51:22what you think makes no difference, luckily.

00:51:24Oh, dear.

00:51:25Have you offended authority with your revolutionary views?

00:51:28I refuse to collaborate with a system of repression.

00:51:31Splendid.

00:51:31I am impressed.

00:51:32You're meant to be.

00:51:34You're so corrupt,

00:51:35you can't believe anyone could actually do something on principle, can you?

00:51:38Are you, Donald?

00:51:39I know showing off when I see it.

00:51:40Judd doesn't realise he's here to learn, not teach.

00:51:43Well, you'll never learn.

00:51:45Not that they'd put you in front of a firing squad.

00:51:47Oh, dear.

00:51:48Is there no hope for him at all?

00:51:50If people align themselves with the forces of progress, well and good.

00:51:54If they don't, history will take care of them.

00:51:56History?

00:51:57Does the individual count for nothing, then?

00:51:59Very little.

00:52:01Though the object of the revolution is, of course,

00:52:03to increase the general level of human happiness.

00:52:05Will it increase mine, do you think?

00:52:07If you let it.

00:52:08If you persist in your cult of bourgeois individualism,

00:52:11your middle-class selfishness and egotism obviously not.

00:52:14How very severe.

00:52:16So people like me are to be crushed beneath your chariot wheels, are they?

00:52:19We shall have tanks.

00:52:22You know, I hate to say this,

00:52:24but you sound just like the people who sent me white feathers in the war.

00:52:27Oh, did they really, sir?

00:52:28Oh, Lord, don't let's go into that.

00:52:30Why not?

00:52:31Donald's father was so ashamed of me,

00:52:33he wouldn't even let me labour on his land.

00:52:35I had to go and labour in Monmouthshire.

00:52:37I must say, sir,

00:52:39it's hard to think of you as a horny-handed son of toil.

00:52:41I'm glad the whiff of the bullpen no longer trails about me.

00:52:44Sometimes I think it does.

00:52:46I have to go and have a bath.

00:52:47I'm sure there's some doleful Freudian explanation.

00:52:51Something unmentionable to do with my potty, I expect.

00:52:54You all read Freud, I suppose?

00:52:56Lord, no.

00:52:57We're not allowed stuff like that.

00:52:59Not even under the blanket.

00:53:00Oh, fat chance.

00:53:02Well, perhaps it's as well.

00:53:03He's as depressing as Karl Marx.

00:53:05What's that supposed to mean?

00:53:07More depressing, really.

00:53:08One can at least struggle against historical forces.

00:53:11One can lie down in front of the juggernaut, as it were,

00:53:14and try to slow its progress.

00:53:16Ah, you do recognise that it is progress, then?

00:53:18But one can't lie down in front of one's subconscious.

00:53:22One can't even find it to lie down in front of.

00:53:24And if that really controls everything we do,

00:53:26well, I call it a very gloomy view.

00:53:29One likes to think one has some control over one's life.

00:53:32For instance,

00:53:33I'd like another cup of tea, please, Donald.

00:53:37Oh, sorry.

00:53:39Thank you, dear boy.

00:53:41I can't bear to think it's either history or my subconscious

00:53:44that's making me thirsty

00:53:45any more than I can bear to think

00:53:48I spent two subaqueous years

00:53:49uphill and down dale in Monmouthshire

00:53:52simply at the whim of my id,

00:53:53or the forces of progress, do you call them?

00:53:56Yes.

00:53:57You see, I thought there was a moral principle involved.

00:54:01I thought it was wrong to kill.

00:54:06An eccentric view in a Christian society, of course.

00:54:09But I believe one must obey one's moral intuitions,

00:54:12however eccentric,

00:54:13and however awkward the consequences.

00:54:16It's those intuitions that separate us from the animals.

00:54:19Don't you think?

00:54:20Yes, of course.

00:54:22You say, of course.

00:54:23But Judd doesn't think so.

00:54:25Nor does Freud.

00:54:26They say moral intuitions are all nonsense.

00:54:29And so did the people who sent me feathers.

00:54:32So what's the connection?

00:54:33None of you allow any room for doubt.

00:54:36For me, doubt is the basis of all moral life.

00:54:39If you take away doubt and claim absolute authority,

00:54:42whatever name you give it,

00:54:43you diminish the humanity of man.

00:54:46You diminish mankind.

00:54:48But you had no doubt you were right to be a conscientious objector.

00:54:51I had ceaseless doubts.

00:54:53I was always open to argument.

00:54:55Indeed, I had to be.

00:54:56The local labourers took a very poor view of me.

00:54:59But there's no argument with history, is there?

00:55:01No.

00:55:02And that doesn't worry you?

00:55:03Well, why should it?

00:55:04It's a fact.

00:55:05Oh, dear.

00:55:06You'd have looked pretty silly if the Germans had invaded.

00:55:08Oh, Donald.

00:55:10You're such a chip off the old blob.

00:55:15Sir.

00:55:16Oh, dear boy.

00:55:17There was something in your lecture you said.

00:55:20Nothing in the world was certain except our feelings,

00:55:23the intuitions and so on.

00:55:25Yes.

00:55:26But feelings change.

00:55:27Mine do all the time.

00:55:28Yes, indeed.

00:55:29Then, well, how do you hold on to anything?

00:55:34Why should you want to?

00:55:36But you must have something.

00:55:38Why?

00:55:39Well, it's all chaos, otherwise.

00:55:41Yes.

00:55:43But every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face.

00:55:50Some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest.

00:55:54Some mood or passion or insight or intellectual excitement

00:55:58is irresistibly real and attractive to us for that moment only.

00:56:04You know your Peter, I hope.

00:56:09He's dead.

00:56:10Walter, Peter, the Renaissance.

00:56:13Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself is the end.

00:56:19Oh, you must read it.

00:56:20You really must.

00:56:22He says the purpose of life is to be always at the place

00:56:25where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy.

00:56:29To burn always with this hard gem-like flame

00:56:33to maintain this ecstasy

00:56:36is success in life.

00:56:40That's wonderful.

00:56:42Is it all right if I go and be sick now?

00:56:44Oh, I'm joined.

00:56:44I'm awfully sorry, sir.

00:56:50Oh, but it's the greatest compliment I've been paid in years

00:56:53to annoy someone so much he leaves the room.

00:56:55I must read, Peter.

00:56:57To burn ever...

00:56:58Always.

00:56:59To burn always with this hard gem-like flame.

00:57:04Of course, Judd thinks history will snuff out our little flames like that.

00:57:07But I think I'd rather be snuffed out while ecstatic

00:57:10than gutter down quietly in slavish obedience to its dictates.

00:57:15Oh, that's very fine and large, but am I...

00:57:17Oh, dear.

00:57:19What does that mean?

00:57:20Only that I have to go and take roll call.

00:57:22If you'll excuse me, sir.

00:57:24I'll answer for you, too.

00:57:25Thanks, thanks.

00:57:26It's been fascinating listening to you, sir.

00:57:28Really fascinating.

00:57:29Oh, the pleasure's been all mine.

00:57:31It's not often I have the chance to show off

00:57:33to such a charming and attentive audience.

00:57:35Oh.

00:57:36Donald, is it time I went?

00:57:41The taxi will be here in five minutes, Uncle Vaughn.

00:57:43Oh, my hat.

00:57:44Where did I put my hat?

00:57:46You must have left it with the houseman.

00:57:48Mr. Farcicle, is that what you call it?

00:57:50Among other things.

00:57:51Donald, he did bristle at me, so I don't think I can face him again.

00:57:54He bristles because he wasn't in the war

00:57:56and he thinks he should have been.

00:57:57I certainly got the impression he thought I should have been.

00:58:00Donald, be a dear and rescue it.

00:58:02All right.

00:58:03Shant be a minute.

00:58:06Such a, such a very...

00:58:08Is Donald quite as bluff and straightforward as he seems?

00:58:13Oh, yes, sir.

00:58:13He's got a perfectly good brain, actually,

00:58:15but he doesn't think it gentlemanly to use it.

00:58:17Oh.

00:58:18Bachelors always have such high hopes of their nephews and nieces.

00:58:22You're not afraid to use your brain, anyway.

00:58:24No, sir.

00:58:26It's a pity you're not staying longer.

00:58:28Oh.

00:58:30Oh.

00:58:31We could have had dinner, gone on talking.

00:58:33I could have gone on showing off, you mean.

00:58:36Though you young people have a good deal more to show than me.

00:58:39I don't mind exhibiting myself.

00:58:41Really?

00:58:43Oh, perhaps we could continue our conversation some other time.

00:58:47I should love that, sir.

00:58:48And we do have holidays.

00:58:50So you do.

00:58:52Where do you live?

00:58:53Epping.

00:58:53Just on the edge of the forest.

00:58:55I don't know Epping, but here's my card.

00:58:59If you ever come up to town...

00:59:00Thank you, sir.

00:59:01...telephone first, won't you?

00:59:02One never knows when one's going to be free.

00:59:04Of course, sir.

00:59:06My dear boy, I know you'd call me sir.

00:59:08I've one or two friends might amuse him.

00:59:11Oh, that would be...

00:59:12May I bring a friend?

00:59:14One of these?

00:59:15No, someone else.

00:59:16Someone special.

00:59:18By all means.

00:59:20Judd wouldn't like to come, would he?

00:59:22I'm afraid not.

00:59:23Pity.

00:59:24That sort of frankness is so attractive, so manly.

00:59:28I'm afraid his interests lie elsewhere.

00:59:30Who's lie where?

00:59:31Judd's.

00:59:32I was telling Mr. Cunningham how Judd thinks literature is bosh

00:59:35and we all ought to do economics.

00:59:36Oh, Judd, come on, Uncle Vaughan, it's actually early.

00:59:39There's enough time for you to buy me a drink on the way to the station.

00:59:41Oh, dear, there's only one thing you young men can think of.

00:59:45Goodbye, Bennet.

00:59:46Goodbye, sir.

00:59:48Come on, then, Donald.

00:59:53What do you want, Morton?

00:59:55I've come to clear.

00:59:56Well, carry on, then.

01:00:00Hey, what are you doing with those sandwiches?

01:00:03Those are fags' perks.

01:00:04Fags don't have perks after library tea, Wharton.

01:00:07In it?

01:00:08Here, have these and think yourself lucky.

01:00:10But there's the charwaller and the slices and batterers.

01:00:13Tell them, Mr. Cunningham, mate, everything up.

01:00:15That's not fair.

01:00:16Too bad.

01:00:17Where are those binos?

01:00:18I'll tell Mingus.

01:00:19Wharton, if you're going to clear, clear.

01:00:22If you carry on banging plates like that, I'll bang your head.

01:00:32Oh, my God.

01:00:34What?

01:00:36It's him.

01:00:37Who?

01:00:38Oh, God, I can't look.

01:00:40Are you all right, Bennet?

01:00:41I will be in a moment.

01:00:42Shall I get me to make sure?

01:00:43It was his smile.

01:00:45It made me dizzy.

01:00:47It's slightly off-centre, you know.

01:00:50Everything beautiful is slightly lopsided.

01:00:54There's a little hollow at the base of his throat,

01:00:56which makes me want to pour honey all over him and lick it off again.

01:01:00Hello?

01:01:01Wharton, why isn't this table clear?

01:01:02Mingus, Bennet's taken Fag's perks.

01:01:05Is that any reason not to clear the table?

01:01:06It's not fair.

01:01:07They're ours.

01:01:08It's house practice.

01:01:10Bennet, what have you done with Wharton's perks?

01:01:12Earth hath not anything to show more fair.

01:01:16Nothing at all.

01:01:16Give those binos here.

01:01:18What have you got in your pockets?

01:01:20Oh, for God's sake.

01:01:21Here, now give me those binos back.

01:01:22Certainly not.

01:01:23They're being squashed.

01:01:24Mingus, will you please give me those binos?

01:01:25I'm confiscating them.

01:01:26What the hell are you talking about?

01:01:27I've got fluff on them.

01:01:28Wharton, if this table is not cleared in one minute,

01:01:31you'll be up before Barclay for six strokes.

01:01:33Yes, Mingus.

01:01:34I thought you were supposed to be exempt corporal punishment.

01:01:36Hurry up, Wharton.

01:01:38Thank you, Mingus.

01:01:42Have you completely lost your mind?

01:01:49Yes, actually.

01:01:50After all that's happened, you talk like that in front of a junior?

01:01:53He doesn't understand.

01:01:55Of course he does.

01:01:56You don't understand either.

01:01:58I'm in love, Jim.

01:01:59Don't talk such utter piffle.

01:02:01And taking fags, Burke, that's a filthy trick.

01:02:03It's not funny.

01:02:05You'd better take a pull on yourself.

01:02:06I'd rather do it with you.

01:02:07Oh, for God's sake, will you stop it?

01:02:08Look, I'm warning you, Guy.

01:02:10You carry on like this, and I'll be looking for someone else to be my number two.

01:02:15You don't know what's going on.

01:02:18Devonish may be leaving.

01:02:19What?

01:02:20Fowler may be going to stay on.

01:02:22I thought I might bring you to your senses.

01:02:24Now, perhaps you'll stop this stupid nonsense and start behaving like a responsible citizen.

01:02:29But it can't be true.

01:02:31It can be.

01:02:32It is.

01:02:34I'm not going to stand for it, of course.

01:02:36But I shan't be able to resist unless I have full cooperation from you and Judd.

01:02:41Judd?

01:02:41Why do you think I said that about beating?

01:02:43I have to have another prefect.

01:02:45My God, you are getting sly.

01:02:48You need him too.

01:02:50If Fowler's head of house, you won't be in 22.

01:02:54Oh, God.

01:02:56You're more Judd's friend than I am.

01:02:58I've tried and tried.

01:02:59It's useless.

01:03:01Now, I shouldn't think there's a hope in hell.

01:03:03There must be.

01:03:05Prove your worth for once.

01:03:06Why is Devonish leaving?

01:03:09Martineau.

01:03:10Oh, Christ.

01:03:11I hope I can rely on you.

01:03:14The next few weeks are going to be absolutely crucial.

01:03:17We can't afford the slightest hint of scandal.

01:03:20You really are going to have to take a...

01:03:21Take a...

01:03:22Put myself in hand.

01:03:23The trouble is, I do so much prefer doing it with other people.

01:03:27Don't you?

01:03:28I don't believe in talking about it.

01:03:30It's not the impression I've got when we've done it together.

01:03:33I said I don't believe in talking about it.

01:03:37Besides, I think we're a bit old for that sort of thing now.

01:03:40Suppose by whom?

01:03:41It's only a passing phase.

01:03:42All the books say so.

01:03:43You have been reading.

01:03:46Worried, were you?

01:03:46Weren't we all?

01:03:47I do make myself clear.

01:03:51Oh, yes.

01:03:52Even if we're not actually grown up, whatever that may mean, we must act like it.

01:03:58Precisely.

01:03:58All right, then.

01:03:59Let it be charades.

01:04:02I say, what a ghastly turn up for the book.

01:04:05Hmm.

01:04:05Yes.

01:04:07May I have the biners back now, please?

01:04:09Just you try to be sensible.

01:04:11Thanks.

01:04:15I think perhaps I'll be a spy when I grow up.

01:04:18You couldn't keep a secret for two minutes.

01:04:21You'd be surprised.

01:04:23You can't beat a good public school for learning to conceal your true feelings.

01:04:29What was for House T today?

01:04:31Toad in the Hole.

01:04:32Oh, and I missed it.

01:04:33You don't like Toad in the Hole.

01:04:35Last time you said it was like fried toe jam in flannel.

01:04:39That's what I said, yes.

01:04:41What I really thought would...

01:04:43I'd make a very good spy, actually.

01:04:47There you are.

01:04:48Yes?

01:04:49Bennett.

01:04:49Where?

01:04:49Have you done your brasses yet?

01:04:51I don't wear brasses.

01:04:52I'm not a horse.

01:04:53Where's your belt?

01:04:54I want to see it.

01:04:55All your webbing.

01:04:56And your cap badge.

01:04:57Accoutrements of war are not permitted in the library, I'm afraid.

01:05:00Well, where are they?

01:05:01Why?

01:05:02Don't be silly.

01:05:03Oh, God.

01:05:04Jackapod.

01:05:05Jackapod?

01:05:05What's Jackapod?

01:05:06I'm warning you, Bennett.

01:05:08You're always warning me.

01:05:09You're a sort of Eddiston Light, Fowler.

01:05:11I don't know where you get the energy to keep flashing and flashing.

01:05:14Where's your equipment?

01:05:15Come on, Bennett.

01:05:15In my cubicle.

01:05:17Come on, then.

01:05:18I'm not having you let down the whole house.

01:05:20It won't be the whole house, Fowler.

01:05:21Juniors aren't in the core, nor is Judd.

01:05:22Don't mention Judd to me.

01:05:25Judd?

01:05:26Did you say Judd?

01:05:27Hang on a moment.

01:05:27I thought I heard you say Judd.

01:05:29Don't forget to have a word with him.

01:05:38I do have my reputation, you know.

01:05:41You're what?

01:05:41Shh.

01:05:43I'm a school joke.

01:05:44I quite realise that.

01:05:46But I am, don't you think, a respected joke.

01:05:49Because I do at least stick to my principles.

01:05:51If I abandon them now, I...

01:05:52I don't care what people think.

01:05:54About me personally, no.

01:05:56But they'll say...

01:05:58That's what we said all along.

01:06:01It was all just a form of showing.

01:06:02On the contrary, they'll see the means justifying the end.

01:06:06A triumph for real politics.

01:06:08They'll say it was all a fake.

01:06:10They'll think all communists are fakes.

01:06:12So what?

01:06:13They're the people you say have got to go anyway.

01:06:15There are always recruits to be made, even here.

01:06:18I think they'll be profoundly grateful,

01:06:20sacrificing your integrity for a higher cause.

01:06:24They'll think you're positively noble.

01:06:25That's not what they say about Stalin.

01:06:27Well, Stalin...

01:06:29That man is sweating blood night and day

01:06:33to drag his country into the 20th century

01:06:35and to create a whole new concept of society at the same time.

01:06:39Shh!

01:06:40I can't stand him when people sneer at him.

01:06:44I'm going to bed.

01:06:45Are you going to join the fight against Fowler?

01:06:48I don't know.

01:06:50I hate him so much.

01:06:52It's difficult to think clearly.

01:06:53You're on the right lines, anyway.

01:06:55Judgments must be objective, Guy.

01:06:57The objective fact in this case is

01:06:59Fowler is absolutely objectionable.

01:07:03Please, Tommy.

01:07:04If you appeal to me as your friend,

01:07:06I'll never forgive you.

01:07:08Mingy's tried that.

01:07:09Yeah.

01:07:09I don't mind it from him.

01:07:12He isn't a friend.

01:07:14Thanks.

01:07:15I need time.

01:07:17There isn't much.

01:07:17Oh, God.

01:07:19I shall be in a rage all day tomorrow, too.

01:07:23Why?

01:07:25Oh.

01:07:26Jackapots.

01:07:27Militarism from twelve to half past four.

01:07:30Little haigs and Frenches strutting about.

01:07:33Farsical in his pathetic uniform.

01:07:36God.

01:07:36If I lose as Jackapot,

01:07:39will you agree to be a prefect?

01:07:41If you lose as Jackapot,

01:07:42you'll probably not be a prefect yourself.

01:07:44I'm going to bed.

01:07:45Good night.

01:07:47I could do it, you know.

01:07:48I don't approve of quixotic gestures,

01:07:50however generous.

01:07:52Realism, Guy.

01:07:54Realism.

01:07:59Good night.

01:07:59Right.

01:08:05Quick, march.

01:08:09Shut up.

01:08:11Take up me, lady.

01:08:13Take up me.

01:08:14Hold on.

01:08:15Right.

01:08:16Hold.

01:08:19I do wish you'd sit down, Fowler.

01:08:22I prefer not.

01:08:23Well, stand easy, for God's sake.

01:08:25I never want to stand again.

01:08:27I've had a nail in my boot all day.

01:08:29You were almost as bad as Bennet.

01:08:30What's that supposed to mean?

01:08:31Slopping about when you were supposed to be marching.

01:08:33Fowler, it's all over.

01:08:35I asked for bags of swank,

01:08:36and what did I get?

01:08:37A platoon sergeant like a pregnant penguin.

01:08:40If I wasn't so shagged,

01:08:41I'd punch you in the face.

01:08:43Please, this isn't a barrack room.

01:08:45It's your fault.

01:08:46I'm sure.

01:08:47But you don't seem to care.

01:08:49We've lost a pot we've held for the last three years,

01:08:51and you just don't care.

01:08:53No.

01:08:54You're a disgrace to the school.

01:08:58Come in.

01:08:59Did you want me?

01:09:08Fowler's asked permission to beat you.

01:09:11General attitude, or something special this time.

01:09:14Filthy webbing.

01:09:15Brasso on your cap badge.

01:09:17Creases in your trousers.

01:09:18I thought we were supposed to have creases in our trousers.

01:09:20Not like that.

01:09:21I'm sorry.

01:09:23When I put them under the mattress last night,

01:09:24I must have got them the wrong way round.

01:09:26I warned you.

01:09:27I told you to do everything again.

01:09:29I did do everything again.

01:09:31You made it worse, then?

01:09:32I'm afraid so.

01:09:34What?

01:09:34I'm afraid I made it all worse, like you said.

01:09:38He did it deliberately.

01:09:39I'm hopeless with Brasso.

01:09:41I can only ever get a really good shine on my nails.

01:09:44Look.

01:09:44Let me see your belt.

01:09:46You want me to undress in front of all these people?

01:09:47Give it here.

01:09:49Must I, Barkley?

01:09:51Well, all right, then.

01:09:56I reckon that's worth a full six strokes.

01:10:00Why did you do it, Bennett?

01:10:02Do what?

01:10:02You lost us the pot.

01:10:04Surely not just me.

01:10:05Not all on my own.

01:10:06You were far and away the worst-dressed soldier on parade.

01:10:09I'm not a soldier.

01:10:10I'm a schoolboy.

01:10:10So are you.

01:10:11Come on, Barkley.

01:10:12Let's get it over with.

01:10:13Six.

01:10:15Mingus?

01:10:17I think he was extraordinarily scruffy, even by his own low standards.

01:10:21And I thought you were my friend.

01:10:22But unless we can prove it was deliberate.

01:10:25Well, it'll look as though we're picking on one person for what was.

01:10:28Let's face it.

01:10:28A pretty dreadful performance all round.

01:10:30But it was deliberate.

01:10:32He just admitted it.

01:10:33I most certainly did not.

01:10:34People have often been beaten in this house for dirty boots.

01:10:36Not recently, thank God.

01:10:38Delahaye?

01:10:39I think it's all piffle.

01:10:40He ought to get six.

01:10:42Look at his belt.

01:10:43May I?

01:10:44Oh, Bennet.

01:10:47I deny it absolutely.

01:10:49All right.

01:10:50You can go ahead, Fowler.

01:10:51About time.

01:10:52Four strokes.

01:10:54Four?

01:10:55Six.

01:10:56Oh, all right.

01:10:57Six, then.

01:10:58Come on, Bennet.

01:10:59Into hall.

01:11:00I appeal to 22.

01:11:04It's my right.

01:11:05It won't do you any good.

01:11:06It's still my right.

01:11:09All right.

01:11:10If you insist.

01:11:11Sorry, Fowler.

01:11:12The thing is, if you let him off, we won't.

01:11:22This is very silly, you know.

01:11:24It won't make any difference.

01:11:26I just thought you ought to know.

01:11:27If one stroke of Fowler's Cay lands on my arse,

01:11:30I shall go straight to Farskull

01:11:32and tell him the names of everyone I've done it with

01:11:34in the last three years.

01:11:35That's all.

01:11:37You wouldn't dare.

01:11:39Try me.

01:11:39You can't do this, Bennet.

01:11:41I shall begin at the top.

01:11:43Can I go now?

01:11:45No, you certainly cannot.

01:11:47Of all the filthy, dirty blackmail.

01:11:49Self-preservation, I call it.

01:11:50You bloody little tart.

01:11:52You never thought it bloody at the time.

01:11:54God, I'll thrash you myself.

01:11:56Only cheating, Delahaye.

01:11:58No need to get so excited.

01:12:00I don't cheat.

01:12:01You do deliberate fouls all the time.

01:12:03I don't know what you're talking about.

01:12:04Come on.

01:12:05We all know what goes on in the scrum

01:12:07when you think the ref's not looking.

01:12:08And cricket.

01:12:09That's got nothing to do with it.

01:12:10All you great games players cheat the whole time

01:12:13because you know perfectly well

01:12:14you can get away with it far more often than not.

01:12:17You're not getting away with this.

01:12:19I think I am.

01:12:20It's only a game, Delahaye.

01:12:22Aren't sportsmen supposed to be good losers?

01:12:24Wharton.

01:12:29Yes, Fowler?

01:12:30Aren't you supposed to be umpiring?

01:12:32No.

01:12:33Scoring, then?

01:12:34Not till half past.

01:12:35Well, you've only got 12 minutes.

01:12:40I don't know what I really hate about cricket.

01:12:43It's such a damn good game.

01:12:44Oh, Judd's paradox.

01:12:46Wharton, you're reading.

01:12:47Is this wise?

01:12:48Only a wisdom.

01:12:50How many batsmen, beginning with P,

01:12:52opened for Somerset between 1890 and 1914?

01:12:57Seven.

01:12:58Right.

01:12:58How on earth do you know?

01:12:59I wasted my youth on wisdom.

01:13:02Ah.

01:13:03There he is.

01:13:03Look.

01:13:04On his way to school shop.

01:13:06Don't wave.

01:13:08You're drawing attention to yourself again.

01:13:10And he's not waving back.

01:13:12Of course not.

01:13:13Well, you should learn from his discretion.

01:13:14Wait.

01:13:15You'll see.

01:13:15When he gets to the trees,

01:13:18there.

01:13:19Congratulations.

01:13:20Love makes such a difference, you know.

01:13:23No feelings of guilt or shame.

01:13:24No sense of dirty little secrets.

01:13:26You feel right somehow.

01:13:28Oh, nice.

01:13:29Or in your case, left.

01:13:30Oh, good shot.

01:13:35By the way,

01:13:36I've decided that the greatest happiness

01:13:39of the greatest number

01:13:40will be best served

01:13:41if I do become a prefect.

01:13:44Oh, Tommy!

01:13:44Oh, get off!

01:13:45On the terms set forth by Mingy's.

01:13:48But with one extra condition,

01:13:49I won't take house prayers.

01:13:51Oh, he won't care about that.

01:13:52My decision,

01:13:53I think you should know,

01:13:54has nothing whatever

01:13:55to do with your belt and trousers.

01:13:57I think you are very silly.

01:14:00You should either refuse

01:14:01to have anything to do with the core

01:14:02or play along with it.

01:14:04You've made yourself enemies.

01:14:05Who cares?

01:14:06You won't get far in the foreign office

01:14:07if you can't be a bit more diplomatic.

01:14:10The foul fiend fowler

01:14:11felled at last.

01:14:13God, Tommy, I love you!

01:14:14Let's go and tell Mingy's.

01:14:15I'll tell Mingy's.

01:14:17You stay here.

01:14:18I don't want you butting in

01:14:19when I'm conducting my negotiations.

01:14:21He'll be thrilled.

01:14:22Thrilled as I am.

01:14:23Oh, don't be so emotional.

01:14:24It's a purely logical decision.

01:14:29Wharton?

01:14:30Yes?

01:14:33Would you like to earn yourself

01:14:35an ice cream?

01:14:35Wouldn't mind.

01:14:37If you go to a school shop,

01:14:38you'll find someone

01:14:38from Longford's there.

01:14:39Harcourt.

01:14:40Do you know him?

01:14:41By sight.

01:14:42Give him this.

01:14:44Here's a tunner.

01:14:45Oh.

01:14:46All right, then, a bob.

01:14:48Why are you so keen on Harcourt?

01:14:50If you really don't know,

01:14:51I'm certainly not going to tell you.

01:14:53I was looking at him

01:14:54in chapel this morning.

01:14:55He was yawning

01:14:56the whole way through the service.

01:14:58Too many late nights, I expect.

01:15:00What do you mean?

01:15:01Never you mind.

01:15:03Well, hurry up.

01:15:03We'll miss him.

01:15:06Come.

01:15:07I'm in next.

01:15:08I've told Spongen

01:15:13a thousand times

01:15:14not to follow balls

01:15:14outside the off stump.

01:15:15What does that make it?

01:15:1782 for three.

01:15:19Not too bad, Devish.

01:15:20No one much to come, though.

01:15:22Bennett just slogs.

01:15:24And Barkley.

01:15:25Well, look at the way

01:15:26he's walking in.

01:15:27He's lost his form completely.

01:15:29Are you surprised?

01:15:30Yes, well, look,

01:15:32I'm awfully sorry about all this,

01:15:35but quite frankly,

01:15:36when my father asked me

01:15:37what it was I was staying on for,

01:15:39well, it was damn difficult to say.

01:15:41You could be in first 11 next year.

01:15:44It's a long time to wait

01:15:45just on the off chance.

01:15:46The Colts' wicket keep

01:15:47is just as good as I am anyway,

01:15:49and you and Bennett

01:15:49will be running the house,

01:15:50not me.

01:15:53There!

01:15:53What did I tell you?

01:15:55Barkley out first ball.

01:15:57You'd better go

01:15:58and get your pads on.

01:15:59Vingies!

01:16:00Vingies, read this.

01:16:02What is it?

01:16:03Now I've got him.

01:16:04He can't get away this time.

01:16:07Where did you get this?

01:16:09Bennett gave Wharton

01:16:10a shilling to give it to Harcourt.

01:16:12I knew something was up.

01:16:14Wharton was supposed to be scoring,

01:16:15and I caught him

01:16:16sneaking off to school shop.

01:16:17I'm showing this to Barkley.

01:16:19What on earth

01:16:20is all that about?

01:16:21Devonish,

01:16:23do you think it would make

01:16:25any difference to your attitude

01:16:27and to your father's attitude

01:16:29if you told him

01:16:30you were going to be in 22 next year?

01:16:48Ow!

01:16:51didn't the blackmail work this time?

01:16:54I couldn't use it.

01:16:57I don't see why not.

01:17:01Because?

01:17:02Because what?

01:17:04Because James has two more years here,

01:17:08and if I'd gone to Farcourt,

01:17:10they'd have reported him too.

01:17:13So what?

01:17:13I couldn't do that.

01:17:14I love him.

01:17:15Guy,

01:17:16you still don't believe me,

01:17:17do you?

01:17:17I think you may think

01:17:19you're in love with him.

01:17:20Look,

01:17:21I'm not going to pretend

01:17:22any more.

01:17:24I'm sick of pretending.

01:17:27I'm...

01:17:28I am never going to love women.

01:17:31Don't be ridiculous.

01:17:32It's why Martineau killed himself.

01:17:34He'd known since he was ten.

01:17:36He told me.

01:17:37I didn't know.

01:17:37Well,

01:17:38I wasn't sure.

01:17:40Till James...

01:17:41You can't possibly know a thing like that at ten.

01:17:43Or now.

01:17:44Oh, yes, you can.

01:17:46It doesn't come as any great revelation.

01:17:48It's more like admitting to yourself

01:17:49what you've always known.

01:17:50Owning up to yourself.

01:17:52It's a great relief,

01:17:52in some ways.

01:17:54All this acting up,

01:17:55making a joke of it,

01:17:56even to myself.

01:17:57It was only a way of trying to pretend

01:17:59it wasn't true,

01:18:00but it is.

01:18:01Of course it's not.

01:18:02Tommy,

01:18:03when you come down to it,

01:18:04it's as simple as knowing

01:18:05whether or not you like spinach.

01:18:07I can never make up my mind about spinach.

01:18:09Perhaps you're ambidextrous.

01:18:11No, I am not.

01:18:12You see?

01:18:13You know.

01:18:15You can't trust intuitions like that.

01:18:17What else is there?

01:18:19Are you a communist

01:18:20because you read Karl Marx?

01:18:22No.

01:18:24You read Karl Marx

01:18:25because you know

01:18:26you are a communist.

01:18:30Well, I'm very sorry.

01:18:32Thanks.

01:18:32If that's how friends react.

01:18:34Then what do you want me to do?

01:18:35Get a horse whip?

01:18:36Not after Delahaye, thanks.

01:18:37Why Delahaye?

01:18:38Barclay lost his nerve

01:18:39and Delahaye has a very whippy wrist.

01:18:45I apologise.

01:18:47You're quite right.

01:18:49It was patronising and unforgivable.

01:18:51But you couldn't help it, could you?

01:18:55In your heart of hearts,

01:18:57like Barclay and Delahaye and Mingus,

01:19:00in spite of your talk about equality

01:19:03and fraternity,

01:19:04you really believe that some people

01:19:06are better than others

01:19:07because of the way they make love.

01:19:10There's complete sexual freedom in Russia.

01:19:12That's not a lot of comfort at the moment, actually.

01:19:15Martineau killed himself

01:19:16because he simply couldn't face a lifetime of that.

01:19:19But you said it was a great relief.

01:19:21No.

01:19:21Don't you ever listen!

01:19:24I said in some ways.

01:19:27It's also a life sentence.

01:19:29Poor Martineau.

01:19:30He was just the sort of pathetic dope

01:19:33who'd have got caught all the time,

01:19:35spent his life in prison,

01:19:36being sent down every few months

01:19:38by magistrates called Barclay and Delahaye.

01:19:40I'm sorry, but I don't see

01:19:44how you can be so sure about it.

01:19:45Because I love him.

01:19:47Come on!

01:19:47You've never been in love.

01:19:49You don't understand.

01:19:51Everything seems different.

01:19:52Everything seems possible.

01:19:55Don't cluck at me, Tommy.

01:19:57You don't know what I'm talking about.

01:19:59We've been meeting every night

01:20:01in Gridley Field Pavilion.

01:20:04We don't just...

01:20:05Well, actually, we...

01:20:07don't more often than we do.

01:20:08We just...

01:20:10hold each other.

01:20:13And talk.

01:20:14Or not talk.

01:20:15Till dawn last night.

01:20:18Maintaining ecstasy.

01:20:20Is he getting beaten too?

01:20:22No.

01:20:22He never got the note.

01:20:23They couldn't pin anything on him.

01:20:25And after Martineau and Robbins,

01:20:27Barclay doesn't want anyone in Longford's

01:20:28even suspecting.

01:20:30I understand all about Martineau now.

01:20:32He was in love with Robbins.

01:20:35But Robbins wasn't with him.

01:20:37Don't let your imagination run away with you.

01:20:39For Robbins, it was just a game.

01:20:42Assignation.

01:20:43Excitement.

01:20:44Hands fumbling with buttons in the dark.

01:20:46All perfectly normal.

01:20:48School practice.

01:20:50But then poor Martineau.

01:20:51He went and told him

01:20:52and Robbins was revolted, disgusted.

01:20:55He shoved him away.

01:20:56That's not what he'd come here for.

01:20:58And Martineau knocked something over

01:20:59and Nickers came in to see what was happening.

01:21:01And...

01:21:02Yes?

01:21:02Robbins furiously buttoning.

01:21:04Martineau sobbing and sobbing

01:21:06with his trousers down.

01:21:08Think of that for a lifetime.

01:21:11Think of the names.

01:21:13Pansy.

01:21:14Nancy.

01:21:17Fairy.

01:21:18Fruit.

01:21:20Brown nose.

01:21:24Do I detect just a touch of self-pity?

01:21:27Probably.

01:21:28Fight it.

01:21:30Every time someone calls you a name,

01:21:32thump him.

01:21:32Thanks.

01:21:33I spend my whole life locked up.

01:21:34But the suffragettes didn't get the vote by whining.

01:21:37Suffragettes.

01:21:37You have to change the fundamental social attitudes guy.

01:21:41You have to make people see.

01:21:42It always comes down to that.

01:21:44It does with you.

01:21:44I'm good.

01:21:45You're both here.

01:21:47I've got some news.

01:21:50It was very generous of you, Judd, to offer to be a prefect,

01:21:53but it won't be necessary now.

01:21:54You can keep your principles untarnished.

01:21:57But Devonish is staying on, after all.

01:22:00I never really wanted to leave.

01:22:01Sarah and Cester won't be that much fun.

01:22:03What?

01:22:03I'm sure you're both delighted.

01:22:05No more Fowler.

01:22:06But I have a disappointment for you, Bennet.

01:22:09Though it can hardly come as a surprise after recent events.

01:22:13Devonish is going to be my number two.

01:22:15You bastard!

01:22:16You really gave me no choice, then.

01:22:17Don't you dare call me by my Christian name again.

01:22:21Ever.

01:22:21I understand your feeling.

01:22:22I'm sorry, but there it is.

01:22:24I'm sure I can still count on your cooperation as an ordinary prefect.

01:22:27You were easily bought, Devonish.

01:22:29Well, my father was in 22 himself when I told him.

01:22:32No, and your son will be in 22, I'm sure.

01:22:35And your son's son, even unto the end of the school.

01:22:38Look, we've saved the house from Fowler.

01:22:40We've saved your conscience.

01:22:41Oh, yes.

01:22:41All problems solved.

01:22:42For life.

01:22:44No commies and no queers.

01:22:46You really have no right to take that line, you know.

01:22:48You sanctimonious little fool.

01:22:50Oh, don't let's quarrel.

01:22:51We're all going to have to live together.

01:22:54Let's try and do it as amicably as possible.

01:22:58Well, I thought you should be the first to know.

01:23:03Perhaps we'll get a better reception from Farkast and Donald.

01:23:05Oh, so it's Donald now, is it?

01:23:07Come on.

01:23:20Sorry.

01:23:22Now they say you really wanted to be at Prefect all the time, but they managed to stop you.

01:23:26I took that risk into account.

01:23:28Did you?

01:23:29Honestly?

01:23:30Of course.

01:23:32All actions can have various possible consequences.

01:23:35You have to look at things objectively, Guy.

01:23:38Did you see the way they looked at me?

01:23:40Did you see?

01:23:41Like a piece of snot.

01:23:42There's so much of a personal relations as the basis of civilised life.

01:23:47You know, when Delahaye was beating me, I could see in his face.

01:23:51He was trying to flog me out of his memory.

01:23:53He won't succeed, though.

01:23:55I'll haunt the whole bloody lot of them.

01:23:58That won't do you much good.

01:23:59Well, what will?

01:24:00Objectively.

01:24:02It's not much of a prospect, is it?

01:24:03It's not the end of the world.

01:24:05Isn't it?

01:24:06When people like Mingus run the world, and you want to be ambassador in Paris.

01:24:11Well, Bennett.

01:24:11Oh, nice enough chap.

01:24:12Quite amusing, actually.

01:24:14We had high hopes for him once, but...

01:24:16Oh, you heard.

01:24:17Not quite one of us.

01:24:19Bogota, do you think?

01:24:20Perhaps not, no.

01:24:22Isn't Haiti coming up?

01:24:23That's about his mark.

01:24:25He was never in 22, you know.

01:24:26Only ever a house prefect.

01:24:28There's no reason you have to be any kind of prefect at all.

01:24:31Yes, there is.

01:24:32If I'm spending the rest of my life hiding my true nature from the rest of the world,

01:24:36I'm taking every comfort that's going while it is going.

01:24:39You can't have things both ways, Guy.

01:24:41What do you want me to do?

01:24:42March about the streets shouting slogans with you?

01:24:44I wouldn't get past the first pub.

01:24:46Either you accept the system or you try to change it.

01:24:49There's no alternative.

01:24:50Why not?

01:24:51Why not both?

01:24:53Pretend to do one while you really do the other.

01:24:59Fool the swine.

01:25:02Play along with them.

01:25:03Let them think what they like.

01:25:05Let them despise you.

01:25:07But all the time...

01:25:09Don't talk drivel.

01:25:10I'd have the last laugh.

01:25:12I'd be revenge.

01:25:13That's just romantic twaddle.

01:25:15You wouldn't be in the mess you are now if you had any discretion at all.

01:25:20What better cover for a secret agent than apparent total indiscretion?

01:25:26Hell!

01:25:28Blood, the bastard.

01:25:32Well, if you wouldn't defend yourself in a logical manner.

01:25:39I'll get him.

01:25:42I'll get him somehow.

01:25:43Wouldn't it be wonderful if Das Kapitel was true?

01:25:49It is true.

01:25:51Heaven on earth?

01:25:52No.

01:25:53Earth on earth.

01:25:57A just earth.

01:25:58My trouble is, I prefer love to justice.

01:26:03That's pure Vaughan Cunningham.

01:26:06It sounds tremendous.

01:26:08It doesn't mean a thing.

01:26:10Here.

01:26:18Read it.

01:26:40In Another Country, by Julian Mitchell, Bennett was played by Ben Wrighton, Judd, by Tom Hiddleston,

01:26:51Mingus, William Ellis, Fowler, Paul Richard Biggin, Delahaye, Joseph Kloska,

01:27:00Devonish, Stephen Webb, Barclay, Dan Starkey, and Wharton, by Josh Freeborn.

01:27:07The part of Vaughan Cunningham was played by Adam Godley.

01:27:13Another Country was directed by Mark Beebe.

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