- 08/07/2025
Ep 3: March. Kenneth confesses to Edith that his marriage is in trouble and he is feeling low. It isn't helped by brother Bernard's new friend Arthur Mathieson's political views, but later he introduces Edith to his actress sister Edith Wynne Mathieson. Frank sets up the Cinderella Club for impoverished children with Arthur Holden's help, while Edith and Evelyn's art ambitions come to fruition, but with differing results.
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00:00Gowan Bank, Olten, Warwickshire.
00:17Nature Notes for 1906.
00:23By Edith B.
00:30Holden.
00:46To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell,
00:50To slowly trace the forest's shady sea,
00:53Where things that own not man's dominion dwell,
00:56And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been,
00:59To climb the trackless mountain all unseen,
01:02With the wild flock that never need a fold,
01:05Alone on steeps and foaming falls to lean.
01:09This is not solitude,
01:12It is but to hold converse with nature's charms,
01:15And view her stores unrolled.
01:17To be continued...
01:24This month was called Martius by the Romans from the god Mars,
01:51and it received the name Hlidmonath, that is loud or stormy month from the Anglo-Saxons.
02:07March'll search ye, April try ye, May'll tell whether live or die ye.
02:21March hack ham, comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb.
02:41March first, March has come in like a lamb with a warm wind from the southwest.
02:48March fourth, glorious sunshine, first warm day of spring, went for a long walk.
03:00All the skylarks are up and singing in the blue.
03:03Found the colt's foot and speed well in flower.
03:10Down at the edge of a copse where a little stream ran, the celandine buds were very large.
03:25Another week or two of warm weather will bring them all quite out.
03:40Everywhere the birds were very active, and such a chorus of voices from every hedge and tree.
03:47Oh, heavens!
03:52Do be careful, Ken.
03:55Winnie?
03:58Kenneth's like a bear with a sore head. It's impossible.
04:02Oh, poor Ken. It's because he's so unhappy.
04:05Is that any excuse for barging into me?
04:07Half-mother's best china might have been broken.
04:09He gives in to his feelings. He always did.
04:11Winnie!
04:13Please forgive me.
04:15I haven't damaged anything, have I?
04:17Well, of course she forgives you, don't you, Winnie?
04:20There.
04:26There is something wrong, though, isn't there?
04:29Is it some new quarrel at the factory?
04:32Or is it Ena again?
04:34My wife and I no longer speak often enough to quarrel, you know that, Edith.
04:40I just feel my life is worth nothing to anyone now.
04:43Oh, hush!
04:45That's a terrible thing to say.
04:47Think of the new baby coming.
04:50Let's not talk about that.
04:54I was rather hoping to meet Macbeth Bain.
04:57Well, so you shall.
04:58He's in the drawing room with Frank and Evelyn.
05:01It's just like old times.
05:03And Arthur Matheson's there, too.
05:06So please, Ken, don't argue.
05:09Father's trying so hard in front of his old friend.
05:12No quarrel with Father or Macbeth Bain.
05:15What times they were.
05:18Hopeful times.
05:19How close the new age seemed.
05:22Who could have guessed what things would go wrong?
05:25Quarrels everywhere.
05:27Fitchwick brothers.
05:29No, Father.
05:30We must be grateful for what we have.
05:32I agree with you, Father.
05:34Things have changed for the worse.
05:36I can remember a time not so long ago
05:39when all the directors of the Holden firm put people's welfare before everything else.
05:43We were proud to call ourselves socialists.
05:45Go ahead, James.
05:49Ken, the socialist millennium, if it ever arrives,
05:51will still have its share of work shies and incompetence.
05:55When times are prosperous, they're allowed a good run.
05:58But when times are bad, as they are now, they have to be weeded out.
06:01If the Holden firm is to survive, there have to be changes.
06:06And what does the Speaker for the Labour Church say to these changes, Macbeth Bain?
06:10Where is the brotherhood of man now?
06:13Don't forget the fatherhood of God, Kenneth.
06:15The Labour Church exists to prevent the socialist movement from being sidetracked into atheism.
06:21We should all be concerned for the Spirit.
06:24The health of the Spirit is our concern.
06:26If we understand that, we shall choose wisely.
06:29Well, I agree to that.
06:31It wouldn't surprise me to hear that you'd started voting Conservative.
06:34I should never have invited you to join this firm.
06:37My dear brother would never have dared stand alone against me.
06:40The stormy march has come at last with wind and cloud and changing skies.
06:52I hear the rushing of the blast that through the snowy valley flies.
06:57Ah, passing few are they who speak wild stormy month in praise of thee.
07:02Yet, though thy winds are loud and bleak, thou art a welcome month to me.
07:09For thou to northern lands again the glad and glorious sun dost bring,
07:15And thou hast joined the gentle train, and wear'st the gentle name of spring.
07:21Mother!
07:31Mother!
07:33Mother!
07:35Mother!
07:37Look at this!
07:38What is it, Edie? Good news!
07:40I've had a picture accepted by the Royal Society.
07:43Oh, Edith! That's wonderful!
07:47Father!
07:48Look!
07:51Well...
07:53Congratulations. Thanks very much.
07:54Do you think this will lead to some sort of commission?
07:56You'll soon be supporting all of us.
07:58Arthur! She may well prefer to get married.
08:01She's only just finished art school. She doesn't know what she wants yet.
08:05Mother, Edith, I want you to meet Arthur Matheson.
08:08Mr. Matheson?
08:09Some women do know what they want, and Edith just might be one of them.
08:12Matheson's sister is a professional actress.
08:14I hope her brother knows what he wants, because I've just given him the job.
08:17On your recommendation.
08:18I must just tell Evelyn my news.
08:20I must just tell Evelyn my news.
08:49Let the music cease, and the windows be closed.
08:53Let the music cease, and the windows be closed.
08:55My dear husband, there is much I would say to you about your business concerns.
09:16But I know you would pay as little heed as you used to when I lay in my little corner upstairs.
09:24But I send you all greetings and love at this time of trial.
09:29March 6th. Tonight a toad was discovered jumping about in the hall.
09:42It must have come in through the garden door which has been standing open all day.
09:59I'm sorry about the row this afternoon, Arthur.
10:05We wouldn't want you to feel unwelcome here.
10:10We've all known each other for such a long time.
10:13It does seem a shame you two can't agree.
10:16Rows between friends who once held the same views are always bitter.
10:20Kenneth hasn't changed his views on anything since I first met him.
10:24Perhaps I've grown up since then.
10:26Or perhaps you've forgotten what it was like.
10:29Even a gentleman with lots of money cannot buy matches from every child.
10:46There are so many poor children in the streets, you see.
10:49But the little match girl wouldn't go.
10:52Edith?
11:01Evelyn Holden.
11:02My sister, Edith Wind Matheson, the actress.
11:06I'm delighted to meet you. Hello.
11:08Hello.
11:09Come along, Arthur. You're on next.
11:11Would you like a seat?
11:12A little match girl set the gentleman thinking.
11:14What a good idea it would be if all the little poor children could go to a party and dance and play
11:19and have dolls and fairy tales.
11:22And that's how we came to start the Cinderella Clubs.
11:25Well, now, your speakers arrived for the Magic Lantern Show,
11:28so let's have our food now and then we'll begin.
11:44Poor little thing's half-starved, I suppose.
11:49Just a minute.
11:50Please, ma'am.
11:51I'll take it off.
11:52Oh.
11:53That's all right.
11:54I wonder when the other half's going to wander in.
11:55Oh, you don't mean...
11:56Ah, just a moment.
11:57This isn't the right ticket.
11:58Oh, please, ma'am.
11:59Just let me stay a few minutes.
12:00Are we going to have food?
12:01I won't eat anything.
12:02Only watch the pictures.
12:03Oh, all right.
12:04Go on, then.
12:05Lanternist, please.
12:06Billy's Rose.
12:07In a vile and filthy alley.
12:08Long ago, one winter's day.
12:10Dying, quick.
12:11From wanton fever.
12:12Hapless, patient Billy lay.
12:13While we're going to have food.
12:14I won't eat anything.
12:15I only watch the pictures.
12:16Oh, all right.
12:17Go on, then.
12:18Go on, then.
12:19Go on, then.
12:20Lanternist, please.
12:22Billy's Rose.
12:25In a vile and filthy alley.
12:31Long ago, one winter's day.
12:34Dying, quick.
12:36From wanton fever.
12:38Hapless, patient Billy lay.
12:41While beside him sat his sister.
12:45In the garret's dismal gloom.
12:47Cheering with her gentle presence.
12:49Billy's pathway to the tomb.
12:52Said Billy to his sister.
12:55I should like to take away something that you gave me.
12:58I might look at every day.
13:04In the summer, you remember how the mission took us out.
13:08To a great, green, lovely meadow.
13:11Where fine blossoms grew about.
13:14Nell.
13:15I asked the good, kind teacher what they called such flowers as those.
13:21And he told me I remember that the pretty...
13:23They'll all go back to their freezing homes tonight.
13:25Not a word.
13:26Evelyn seems to thrive on it.
13:29She spends all her spare time with Frank and he thinks of nothing else.
13:34On she flung her scanty garments and then down the stairs she crept.
13:40Lo, that night a wild, fierce snowstorm swept in fury o'er the land.
13:49And next morn they found Nell frozen.
13:55With a red rose in her hand.
13:58Billy's dead and gone to glory so has Billy's sister Nell.
14:03Am I bold to say this happened in the land where angels dwell?
14:07That the children met in heaven after all their earthly woes.
14:13And that Nellie kissed her brother.
14:16And said,
14:18Billy, here's your rose.
14:22Oh dear, I wonder if that was quite the right choice.
14:36I should think a rose is a luxury they can't afford to dream of.
14:39I heard a thousand blended notes while in a grove I sat reclined in that sweet mood
14:53When pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
14:57Through primrose tufts in that green bower the periwinkle trailed its wreaths
15:04And tis my faith that every flower enjoys the air it breathes.
15:09The birds around me hopped and played, their thoughts I cannot measure
15:14But the least motion which they made it seemed a thrill of pleasure.
15:21The budding twigs spread out their fan to catch the breezy air
15:26And I must think, do all I can, that there was pleasure there.
15:30If this belief from heaven be sent, if such be nature's holy plan,
15:39Have I not reason to lament what man has made of man?
15:46March 10th.
16:03Cycle to the withy beds within half a mile of bush wood.
16:06As I spun along between the hedges I saw numbers of birds carrying on their house building operations.
16:18I went a little out of my way down the lane to Kingswood to visit the steep banks where the blue periwinkle grows.
16:25I had to carry my cycle nearly a quarter of a mile down a steep muddy foredruff set thick with thorns with high banks on each side.
16:35On these sheltered banks I found numbers of the small celandine blossom and the first flowers of the little strawberry-leaved sanquefoil.
16:45When I got to the bottom of the lane I set my bicycle against a bank and picnicked by a fence.
16:55A beautiful jail in all the glory of his spring plumage flew screaming across the lane into a spinny of larch trees opposite.
17:04He seemed to resent the intrusion of a human being in such an unfrequented spot.
17:09I was glad to find the periwinkle still trailing its wreaths on the bank.
17:19A yellow bunting was perched up on top of the hedge repeating his cry one can hardly call it a song.
17:26With its last peculiar long drawn out note over and over again.
17:32A little bit of bread and no cheese the country people liken it to.
17:39March 12th. After a wet windy day we woke this morning to a regular snowstorm.
17:50The air was full of whirling flakes but in the midst of it all I heard a skylark singing.
18:04March 13th. Another heavy fall of snow in the night.
18:07The cold has almost silenced the birds this morning.
18:12Numbers of them came onto the lawn to be fed.
18:15The starlings and cock chaffinches look specially gay just now in their spring coats.
18:21Edith?
18:22Oh Ken. You've missed Macbeth Bane. You wanted to go early because of the snow.
18:23I'd spared another lecture on my personal selfishness then.
18:24It seems I spent far too much time worrying about my own problems.
18:25It seems I spent far too much time worrying about my own problems.
18:27fed. The starlings and cock chaffinches look specially gay just now in their spring coats.
18:42Edith. Oh Ken, you've missed Macbeth Bane. You wanted to go early because of the snow. It spared
18:48another lecture on my personal selfishness then. Seems I spent far too much time worrying about
18:53my own problems. Edith, I had to talk to somebody. Seems to be no way to be equity. Wait Ken, what
19:00is it? Can I explain even to you what it is to watch and suspect and fear. How it demeans
19:10everything. You're talking about Ena? The worst of it is I know the man. He was a friend
19:18of mine. Kenna, I don't know what to say. Are you sure? I wish I could pretend. We were
19:28all so innocent once. And the spring arose on the garden fair, like the spirit of love felt
19:41everywhere. And each flower and herb on earth's dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry
19:48rest. The snowdrop and then the violet arose from the ground with warm rain wet. And their
19:55breath was mixed with sweet odour sent from the turf, like the voice and the instrument.
20:02So now the sky is cloudless, clear. And here's an end to doubt and fear. Now safely we may
20:09walk through life. I your husband, thou my wife. Aha! Behold, the fiend has come again!
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20:35will all this play acting bring the revolution any closer?
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20:44I don't want anybody getting killed.
20:46Well done.
20:47Slower.
20:49Can I help you?
20:55Ken said you were a perfectionist.
20:58Will it be ready in time?
21:00Perhaps you would prefer a professional artist.
21:04Have I said something to hurt you?
21:07Oh.
21:09You know the story, I'm sure.
21:13I'm not bitter about it.
21:16It's just that Evelyn already has a commission to illustrate a book.
21:20She's younger than I am, so...
21:23I know it means I'm just not good enough.
21:26Oh, I doubt if it's quite so simple.
21:29Quick success hasn't always been the fortune of the best. You must know that.
21:33In my profession, charm plays a great part. We have to accept as much.
21:38Perhaps Evelyn is more willing to conform. I don't think you are.
21:42You'll need stamina, courage. You'll need to be able to stand alone.
21:49Look at Evelyn.
21:52One day she'll marry Frank. There's nothing wrong with that.
21:55Exactly.
21:57Do most women choose to give up everything when they marry?
22:01No. But you have to be very tough to do both.
22:05It isn't always an advantage to be coddled. Remember that.
22:09Be strong.
22:11Daffodils that come before the swallow dares and take the winds of march with beauty.
22:28Daffodil Dilly has come up to town in her yellow petticoat and her green gown.
22:44March 20th. When to the daffodil field again, the buds have broken into yellow.
22:50I found two thrush's nests, both in holly bushes. One nest was empty. The bird was sitting on the other.
23:06She looked at me with such brave, bright eyes. I could not disturb her,
23:11much as I would have liked to peep at her speckled blue eggs.
23:18How sweet the hedge that hides a cunning nest and curtains off a patient, bright-eyed thrush
23:24with five small worlds beneath her mottled breast.
23:28At last, the thin blue veils are backward-furled. Existence pipes into a bird as infant music bursts into the world.
23:41That's the wise thrush. He sings his song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture
23:58that first fine, careless rapture.
24:03Father, what are you doing now?
24:18Oh, I can never sleep after one of James' visits.
24:22You mustn't worry about us.
24:25Kenneth will be all right.
24:28Hmm.
24:31I hope you're not too bored.
24:34Shut up here with little other company than a selfish old man.
24:39I have all the adventure I need.
24:50Hmm.
24:52What a pity no one has ever put any work your way.
24:56As they did with Evelyn.
24:59All in good time, Father.
25:03March 31st.
25:05It has been a very cold month.
25:07There were two or three bright genial days in the first week
25:10that were like a foretaste of summer.
25:25There's been a pretty good one.
25:26There was a nice 사랑.
25:27It has been a beautiful day for us.
25:28It has been a long way.
25:29It, it has been a long-term for us.
25:30There were a few memories that were made.
25:31I have to get big luck.
25:32I have to get big enough.
25:33There were a good luck for you.
25:35It has been a special place to yacht.
25:36And I have to go for the kit.
25:37The Great Academic of the Wine.
25:38I have to go for four years.
25:39It has been a special time.
25:41The Great Adventure for the Light.
25:42The Great Adventure for the Light.
25:44The Great Adventure of The Great Adventure for the Light.
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