1 00:01:33,693 --> 00:01:34,761 > The audience> 2 00:01:34,794 --> 00:01:37,597 >pricks an intellectual ear.> 3 00:01:37,630 --> 00:01:41,100 >Stravinsky quite the concert of the year.> 4 00:01:41,340 --> 00:01:43,903 >Forgetting now the hullabaloo they made,> 5 00:01:43,970 --> 00:01:47,730 >the audience pricks an intellectual ear.> 6 00:01:48,341 --> 00:01:50,577 >Bassoons begin,> 7 00:01:50,610 --> 00:01:53,947 >sonority envelopes our auditory innocence,> 8 00:01:54,140 --> 00:01:56,850 >and brings to me, I must admit,> 9 00:01:56,883 --> 00:02:01,921 >some drift of things omnific, seminal, and adolescent.> 10 00:02:03,556 --> 00:02:07,127 >Men in boaters, far from Henley,> 11 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:10,363 >girls in pink and blue taffeta.> 12 00:02:10,430 --> 00:02:11,831 >In that long summer,> 13 00:02:11,865 --> 00:02:15,135 >I hunted, played cricket, but only watched tennis.> 14 00:02:16,136 --> 00:02:17,470 >God was in His heaven> 15 00:02:17,504 --> 00:02:19,706 {\an8}>and there were sausages for breakfast.> 16 00:02:24,844 --> 00:02:26,913 >And in small recruiting offices,> 17 00:02:26,946 --> 00:02:31,785 >dull young men wait to inscribe in paper quires,> 18 00:02:31,818 --> 00:02:34,654 >the names of the living and the dead.> 19 00:02:35,922 --> 00:02:37,123 Mr Sassoon. 20 00:02:40,193 --> 00:02:41,194 Yes. 21 00:02:42,829 --> 00:02:44,464 I'm Siegfried. 22 00:02:44,497 --> 00:02:46,299 And I'm Hamo, younger brother. 23 00:02:46,332 --> 00:02:47,467 And we've both come for our fitting. 24 00:02:48,168 --> 00:02:50,300 Just so, sir. 25 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:52,500 I think we should start with the shirts. 26 00:02:53,340 --> 00:02:55,275 You can't have your shirts too dark, sir. 27 00:02:55,942 --> 00:02:58,845 Ah, war!> A la mode!> 28 00:03:01,614 --> 00:03:03,783 > I never said goodbye to him.> 29 00:03:31,111 --> 00:03:33,613 >On the idle hill of summer,> 30 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,882 >sleepy with the flow of streams,> 31 00:03:36,716 --> 00:03:39,219 >far I hear the steady drummer,> 32 00:03:39,252 --> 00:03:42,422 >drumming like a noise in dreams.> 33 00:03:42,455 --> 00:03:45,492 >Far and near and low and louder,> 34 00:03:45,525 --> 00:03:48,280 >on the roads of Earth go by,> 35 00:03:48,940 --> 00:03:51,364 >dear to friends and food for powder,> 36 00:03:51,431 --> 00:03:54,501 >soldiers marching, all to die.> 37 00:03:56,369 --> 00:03:58,805 >East and west in fields forgotten> 38 00:03:58,838 --> 00:04:00,840 >bleach the bones of comrades slain.> 39 00:04:02,375 --> 00:04:05,612 >Lovely lads and dead and rotten.> 40 00:04:05,679 --> 00:04:07,580 >None that go return again.> 41 00:04:09,490 --> 00:04:11,484 >Far the calling bugles hollo,> 42 00:04:11,551 --> 00:04:14,654 >high the screaming fife replies.> 43 00:04:14,721 --> 00:04:16,656 >*** the files of scarlet follow:> 44 00:04:17,557 --> 00:04:20,360 >Woman bore me, I will rise.> 45 00:04:48,421 --> 00:04:51,157 I was anxious to know what you were suffering from. 46 00:04:52,625 --> 00:04:54,794 It's only trench fever, nothing fatal, 47 00:04:55,862 --> 00:04:57,163 just debilitating. 48 00:05:06,206 --> 00:05:07,674 I dread everything now. 49 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:11,177 The telephone... 50 00:05:12,912 --> 00:05:14,140 the telegram. 51 00:05:16,182 --> 00:05:17,217 There's only one thing worse 52 00:05:17,250 --> 00:05:18,752 than remaining in the past, Mother, 53 00:05:18,785 --> 00:05:20,453 and that's begrudging the future. 54 00:05:23,223 --> 00:05:25,425 The future, without either of my sons, 55 00:05:25,458 --> 00:05:28,280 is to be dreaded, not enjoyed. 56 00:05:33,466 --> 00:05:35,301 > I am writing you this private letter> 57 00:05:35,335 --> 00:05:38,171 >with the greatest possible regret.> 58 00:05:38,204 --> 00:05:41,410 >I must inform you that it is my intention> 59 00:05:41,740 --> 00:05:44,177 >to refuse to perform any further military duties.> 60 00:05:45,178 --> 00:05:46,946 >I am doing this as a protest> 61 00:05:47,130 --> 00:05:48,782 >against the policy of the government> 62 00:05:48,848 --> 00:05:50,216 >in prolonging the war> 63 00:05:50,250 --> 00:05:53,219 >by failing to state their conditions for peace.> 64 00:05:54,387 --> 00:05:56,956 >I have written a statement of my reasons,> 65 00:05:56,990 --> 00:05:58,925 >of which I enclose a copy.> 66 00:05:59,859 --> 00:06:01,528 >I am making this statement> 67 00:06:01,594 --> 00:06:04,798 >as an act of wilful defiance of military authority> 68 00:06:04,831 --> 00:06:06,366 >because I believe that the war> 69 00:06:06,433 --> 00:06:08,168 >is being deliberately prolonged> 70 00:06:08,201 --> 00:06:10,804 >by those who have the power to end it.> 71 00:06:11,738 --> 00:06:13,907 >I am a soldier> 72 00:06:13,973 --> 00:06:18,780 >convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.> 73 00:06:18,111 --> 00:06:20,380 >I believe that the war upon which I entered> 74 00:06:20,413 --> 00:06:23,550 >as a war of defence and liberation> 75 00:06:23,583 --> 00:06:27,654 >has now become a war of aggression and conquest.> 76 00:06:27,721 --> 00:06:30,623 >I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers> 77 00:06:30,657 --> 00:06:31,925 >entered upon this war> 78 00:06:31,958 --> 00:06:34,940 >should have been made so clearly stated> 79 00:06:34,127 --> 00:06:37,197 >as to have made it impossible to change them.> 80 00:06:37,263 --> 00:06:41,368 >And that had this been done, the objects that actuated us> 81 00:06:41,401 --> 00:06:45,380 >would now be attainable by negotiation.> 82 00:06:45,710 --> 00:06:49,609 >I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops> 83 00:06:49,676 --> 00:06:51,444 >and I can no longer be a party> 84 00:06:51,511 --> 00:06:53,246 >to prolong these sufferings for ends> 85 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:56,383 >which I believe to be evil and unjust.> 86 00:06:58,418 --> 00:07:01,488 >I am not protesting against the conduct of the war,> 87 00:07:01,554 --> 00:07:03,623 >but against the political errors> 88 00:07:03,656 --> 00:07:05,910 >and insincerities for which> 89 00:07:05,125 --> 00:07:08,128 >the fighting men are being sacrificed.> 90 00:07:09,496 --> 00:07:11,498 >On behalf of those who are suffering now,> 91 00:07:11,531 --> 00:07:13,867 >I make this protest against the deception> 92 00:07:13,900 --> 00:07:16,302 >which is being practised upon them.> 93 00:07:17,570 --> 00:07:20,573 >Also, I believe it may help to destroy> 94 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:22,175 >the callous complacency> 95 00:07:22,208 --> 00:07:24,344 >with which the majority of those at home> 96 00:07:24,377 --> 00:07:26,713 >regard the continuance of agonies> 97 00:07:26,746 --> 00:07:28,615 >which they do not share> 98 00:07:28,682 --> 00:07:32,318 >and which they have not enough imagination to realize.> 99 00:07:57,911 --> 00:07:59,546 I suppose this was your doing. 100 00:08:00,547 --> 00:08:02,949 Yes, and Eddie Marsh. 101 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:05,285 I take this very ill, Robbie. 102 00:08:06,453 --> 00:08:09,989 Why did you involve Marsh? 103 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,625 Because he's Principal Private Secretary to Winston Churchill 104 00:08:12,659 --> 00:08:13,827 and he wanted to help. 105 00:08:15,595 --> 00:08:17,300 He was instrumental in getting you 106 00:08:17,970 --> 00:08:19,265 a Medical Board examination instead of a court martial. 107 00:08:23,536 --> 00:08:25,500 If you were found guilty at a court martial, 108 00:08:25,380 --> 00:08:26,172 you could be shot. 109 00:08:26,206 --> 00:08:27,907 That was a risk I was prepared to take. 110 00:08:27,974 --> 00:08:29,376 But there are those who care for you 111 00:08:29,409 --> 00:08:30,410 and who were not. 112 00:08:32,412 --> 00:08:34,347 A court martial would have been a platform 113 00:08:34,381 --> 00:08:36,916 to state my opposition to the conduct of the war, 114 00:08:36,950 --> 00:08:39,719 and you have prevented me doing so. 115 00:08:40,987 --> 00:08:42,922 And not only for this> Times> article 116 00:08:42,956 --> 00:08:44,457 but for my statement to be read out 117 00:08:44,491 --> 00:08:45,625 on the floor of the House. 118 00:08:47,961 --> 00:08:49,696 You've rendered me impotent, Robbie. 119 00:08:49,763 --> 00:08:52,265 You've robbed me of my dignity. 120 00:08:52,298 --> 00:08:53,867 Better that than a firing squad. 121 00:08:53,900 --> 00:08:55,635 That is a matter of opinion. 122 00:08:57,170 --> 00:08:58,705 Don't be angry with me, Siegfried. 123 00:09:02,420 --> 00:09:03,677 My intentions were honourable. 124 00:09:36,376 --> 00:09:38,345 >An old cowpoke went ridin' out> 125 00:09:38,378 --> 00:09:42,480 >One dark and windy day> 126 00:09:42,820 --> 00:09:46,860 >Upon a ridge he rested as he went along his way> 127 00:09:47,887 --> 00:09:51,858 >When all at once, a mighty herd of red-eyed cows he saw> 128 00:09:51,925 --> 00:09:55,662 >A-ploughing through the ragged skies> 129 00:09:55,695 --> 00:09:59,999 >And up a cloudy draw> 130 00:10:00,330 --> 00:10:03,970 >Yippee-yi-ay> 131 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:07,307 >Yippee-yi-oh> 132 00:10:08,208 --> 00:10:14,214 >The ghost herd in the sky> 133 00:10:16,249 --> 00:10:17,917 >Their brands were still on fire> 134 00:10:17,951 --> 00:10:20,587 >And their hooves were made of steel> 135 00:10:22,122 --> 00:10:23,890 >Their horns were black and shiny> 136 00:10:23,923 --> 00:10:27,827 >And their hot breath he could feel> 137 00:10:27,861 --> 00:10:29,462 >A bolt of fear went through him> 138 00:10:29,496 --> 00:10:31,798 >As they thundered through the sky> 139 00:10:31,831 --> 00:10:35,635 >For he saw the riders coming hard> 140 00:10:35,669 --> 00:10:40,507 >And he heard their mournful cries> 141 00:10:40,540 --> 00:10:44,344 >Yippee-yi-ay> 142 00:10:44,377 --> 00:10:47,447 >Yippee-yi-oh> 143 00:10:48,682 --> 00:10:55,722 >Ghost riders in the sky> 144 00:10:55,755 --> 00:10:58,580 >As the riders loped on by him> 145 00:10:58,910 --> 00:11:01,861 >He heard one call his name> 146 00:11:01,928 --> 00:11:03,797 >If you wanna save your soul from hell> 147 00:11:03,830 --> 00:11:07,534 >A-riding on our range> 148 00:11:07,567 --> 00:11:09,669 >Then, cowboy change your ways today> 149 00:11:09,703 --> 00:11:11,638 >Or with us you will ride> 150 00:11:11,671 --> 00:11:15,342 >Trying to catch the devil's herd> 151 00:11:15,375 --> 00:11:19,846 >Across these endless skies> 152 00:11:19,879 --> 00:11:21,548 >Yippee-yi-ay> 153 00:11:21,581 --> 00:11:24,117 >Yippee-yi-oh> 154 00:11:24,150 --> 00:11:25,652 >Yippee-yi-oh> 155 00:11:25,719 --> 00:11:28,321 >Yippee-yi-oh> 156 00:11:28,388 --> 00:11:35,428 >Ghost riders in the sky> 157 00:11:35,462 --> 00:11:38,998 >Yippee-yi-ay> 158 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:44,400 >Yippee-yi-oh> 159 00:11:48,241 --> 00:11:52,345 I'm intrinsically against any kind of conversion. 160 00:11:53,413 --> 00:11:54,914 It's too much like wishful thinking. 161 00:11:56,950 --> 00:11:58,551 Besides, in a poet, 162 00:12:00,286 --> 00:12:01,421 it seems to imply he has 163 00:12:01,454 --> 00:12:03,560 nothing interesting left to say. 164 00:12:03,890 --> 00:12:05,225 I said I was only thinking about it. 165 00:12:05,258 --> 00:12:07,327 Surely you're not looking for God? 166 00:12:08,995 --> 00:12:10,430 That's one way of putting it. 167 00:12:13,867 --> 00:12:17,737 Well, speaking as one of the spiritually-undernourished, 168 00:12:17,804 --> 00:12:20,373 if you find him, make sure he's still an Englishman, 169 00:12:20,407 --> 00:12:22,409 doesn't live on the wrong side of the park. 170 00:12:26,846 --> 00:12:29,115 I assume that was supposed to be amusing. 171 00:12:35,155 --> 00:12:36,956 Why Catholicism, Father? 172 00:12:40,326 --> 00:12:41,861 Something permanent, 173 00:12:43,930 --> 00:12:44,964 unchanging. 174 00:12:46,366 --> 00:12:48,835 You can get that from dressage but without the guilt. 175 00:12:51,738 --> 00:12:53,873 There is no need to be snide. 176 00:12:56,576 --> 00:12:57,744 If all you can do is ridicule, 177 00:12:57,777 --> 00:12:59,546 it would be better if you remained silent. 178 00:13:01,781 --> 00:13:04,500 Better still, go outside and wait in the car. 179 00:13:17,764 --> 00:13:20,233 Well, it's a long drive back to London, 180 00:13:20,300 --> 00:13:22,202 so the sooner we can get started, the better. 181 00:13:24,971 --> 00:13:26,706 > Siegfried,> 182 00:13:26,740 --> 00:13:29,750 >what do you ask of the Church of God?> 183 00:13:29,876 --> 00:13:31,277 > Faith.> 184 00:13:31,344 --> 00:13:33,580 > What does faith offer you?> 185 00:13:33,613 --> 00:13:36,416 >Life everlasting.> 186 00:13:36,449 --> 00:13:39,586 > If you then desire to enter into life,> 187 00:13:39,619 --> 00:13:41,454 >keep the commandments.> 188 00:13:41,488 --> 00:13:44,958 >"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart> 189 00:13:44,991 --> 00:13:48,528 >"and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind."> 190 00:13:51,364 --> 00:13:54,501 Siegfried, do you renounce Satan? 191 00:13:55,835 --> 00:13:57,203 I do renounce him. 192 00:13:58,710 --> 00:14:00,507 And all his works? 193 00:14:00,540 --> 00:14:02,676 I do renounce him. 194 00:14:02,709 --> 00:14:04,110 And all his pomps? 195 00:14:05,578 --> 00:14:07,380 I do renounce him. 196 00:14:12,318 --> 00:14:14,387 Receive this burning light 197 00:14:14,421 --> 00:14:18,625 and keep thy baptism so as to be without blame. 198 00:14:18,658 --> 00:14:20,694 Keep the commandments of God, 199 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:23,430 that when the Lord shall come to the nuptials, 200 00:14:23,463 --> 00:14:24,798 thou mayest meet Him 201 00:14:24,831 --> 00:14:27,701 together with all the Saints in the heavenly court, 202 00:14:27,734 --> 00:14:31,504 and mayest thou have eternal life for ever and ever. 203 00:14:33,239 --> 00:14:38,780 Siegfried, go in peace and the Lord be with you. 204 00:14:46,219 --> 00:14:50,824 >The fool hath said in his heart there is no God.> 205 00:14:55,161 --> 00:14:57,664 >You will be drawn up in your feelings> 206 00:14:57,697 --> 00:14:59,432 >above understanding> 207 00:14:59,466 --> 00:15:01,801 >to the radiance of divine darkness> 208 00:15:01,835 --> 00:15:04,370 >that transcends all being.> 209 00:15:05,372 --> 00:15:09,750 >Christ, receive my soul> 210 00:15:09,109 --> 00:15:12,212 >and release me from the imprisonment of doubt.> 211 00:15:13,847 --> 00:15:15,415 >And grant me peace.> 212 00:15:20,820 --> 00:15:23,256 > I'm quite appalled by what you've done.> 213 00:15:23,289 --> 00:15:24,924 >I can only hope your CO in Liverpool> 214 00:15:24,958 --> 00:15:26,826 >will ignore your letter.> 215 00:15:26,860 --> 00:15:29,763 >I'm terrified that you will be put under arrest.> 216 00:15:31,598 --> 00:15:35,335 We read your statement, Lieutenant, with some alarm. 217 00:15:35,368 --> 00:15:37,804 You may sit if you wish, Lieutenant. 218 00:15:37,837 --> 00:15:38,838 Thank you, sir. 219 00:15:42,175 --> 00:15:43,443 Why did you make it? 220 00:15:44,744 --> 00:15:46,212 I wanted to state my position 221 00:15:46,246 --> 00:15:48,114 regarding the conduct of the war. 222 00:15:48,181 --> 00:15:50,750 It is not your place to question 223 00:15:50,784 --> 00:15:53,530 how the war is being prosecuted. 224 00:15:53,860 --> 00:15:56,222 Your duty lies in obeying orders. 225 00:15:56,756 --> 00:15:57,824 Duty? 226 00:15:59,592 --> 00:16:02,280 That word covers a multitude of sins. 227 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:04,464 In the face of such slaughter, 228 00:16:04,497 --> 00:16:07,300 one cannot simply order one's conscience. 229 00:16:07,333 --> 00:16:09,200 One can do better than that. 230 00:16:09,736 --> 00:16:11,871 One can ignore it. 231 00:16:11,905 --> 00:16:14,541 That reply was so disgraceful, you ought to be in politics. 232 00:16:14,574 --> 00:16:16,910 That was impertinent, Lieutenant. 233 00:16:19,245 --> 00:16:22,480 Are you pro-German? 234 00:16:22,820 --> 00:16:23,650 No. I'm pro-human. 235 00:16:23,717 --> 00:16:25,719 We are not here to discuss humanity, 236 00:16:25,752 --> 00:16:28,388 that is religion's sphere of operations. 237 00:16:28,421 --> 00:16:29,556 And what of morality? 238 00:16:29,589 --> 00:16:31,324 Morality is a luxury 239 00:16:31,391 --> 00:16:33,626 that we can only afford during peace time. 240 00:16:33,660 --> 00:16:35,662 I would be very grateful if you would take 241 00:16:35,695 --> 00:16:39,165 that offensive tone out of your voice. 242 00:16:39,199 --> 00:16:42,202 Voices raised in anger only perpetuates war. 243 00:16:42,235 --> 00:16:46,390 And passive resistance only invites defeat. 244 00:16:50,577 --> 00:16:52,780 I simply cannot remain silent 245 00:16:52,112 --> 00:16:53,880 in the face of such casualties. 246 00:16:55,849 --> 00:16:58,885 Someone must, should be brought to book. 247 00:16:58,918 --> 00:17:00,820 The casualties, young man, 248 00:17:00,887 --> 00:17:03,790 are a matter for the Imperial General Staff. 249 00:17:03,823 --> 00:17:07,861 And your statement, indeed your entire attitude, 250 00:17:07,927 --> 00:17:09,950 is both offensive 251 00:17:09,129 --> 00:17:11,297 and detrimental to military discipline. 252 00:17:11,331 --> 00:17:12,632 My colleague is quite right. 253 00:17:12,665 --> 00:17:14,834 It is not your place to question your superiors, 254 00:17:14,868 --> 00:17:18,171 much less to imply that they are not honourable. 255 00:17:18,204 --> 00:17:20,373 Perhaps, sir, if you, if any of you 256 00:17:20,407 --> 00:17:22,542 were to visit the front, 257 00:17:22,575 --> 00:17:24,100 then you might at least spare a thought 258 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:27,280 for the many bereaved families and the pain they suffer. 259 00:17:27,347 --> 00:17:30,950 You are out of order, sir! 260 00:17:30,984 --> 00:17:32,285 I thought that was the very reason 261 00:17:32,318 --> 00:17:34,421 for my being brought before you. 262 00:17:34,454 --> 00:17:35,655 This has gone far enough. 263 00:17:37,424 --> 00:17:39,325 Yes, of course. 264 00:17:41,194 --> 00:17:42,495 Yes, I agree. 265 00:17:44,964 --> 00:17:46,533 Myself and my fellow officers 266 00:17:46,599 --> 00:17:48,234 feel that your mind is still in chaos 267 00:17:48,301 --> 00:17:51,905 and that you are unfit to be trusted with men's lives. 268 00:17:51,971 --> 00:17:53,340 It is therefore the Board's decision 269 00:17:53,373 --> 00:17:54,708 that you should be sent to a hospital 270 00:17:54,741 --> 00:17:56,843 for nervous diseases in Scotland. 271 00:17:58,511 --> 00:18:01,514 >We therefore order you to report immediately> 272 00:18:01,548 --> 00:18:03,416 >to Craiglockhart, in Edinburgh.> 273 00:18:32,512 --> 00:18:34,800 Good morning, Lieutenant. 274 00:18:34,114 --> 00:18:36,750 You may leave your coat and luggage here. 275 00:18:36,783 --> 00:18:39,850 A porter will take them up to your room. 276 00:18:51,310 --> 00:18:52,332 > Name?> 277 00:18:52,365 --> 00:18:53,666 >Sassoon, Siegfried.> 278 00:18:53,700 --> 00:18:54,968 > Rank?> 279 00:18:55,100 --> 00:18:56,803 >- Second Lieutenant. - Age?> 280 00:18:56,836 --> 00:18:58,171 > 30.> 281 00:18:58,204 --> 00:19:00,407 >Years of complete service?> 282 00:19:00,473 --> 00:19:02,420 > Two years, eleven months.> 283 00:19:02,750 --> 00:19:03,276 >Completed months> 284 00:19:03,343 --> 00:19:04,844 >with Field Force?> 285 00:19:04,878 --> 00:19:06,880 > Thirteen months.> 286 00:19:06,913 --> 00:19:08,810 Disease? 287 00:19:10,383 --> 00:19:12,152 I've had some sort of breakdown. 288 00:19:13,486 --> 00:19:15,288 Nervous debility? 289 00:19:16,656 --> 00:19:18,825 Yes, I believe that's what they call it. 290 00:19:18,858 --> 00:19:20,527 Enter it as neurasthenia, Matron. 291 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:24,831 As we came in, sir, I noticed several men 292 00:19:24,864 --> 00:19:26,700 with blue dots on their faces. 293 00:19:26,733 --> 00:19:28,340 Morphine. 294 00:19:29,350 --> 00:19:30,203 Morphine? 295 00:19:30,236 --> 00:19:32,672 The dots denote that they've had their doses, 296 00:19:32,706 --> 00:19:36,242 so that they are given no more until the appropriate time. 297 00:19:36,276 --> 00:19:38,545 Who will be treating this man? 298 00:19:38,578 --> 00:19:42,282 - Doctor Rivers. - Rivers' office is next door. 299 00:19:42,349 --> 00:19:44,617 I think it would be polite if you introduced yourself. 300 00:19:44,651 --> 00:19:45,785 Yes, sir. 301 00:19:45,819 --> 00:19:46,920 And in your room, 302 00:19:46,953 --> 00:19:48,540 you will find an armband. 303 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:49,989 It is to be worn at all times, 304 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:52,459 especially outside the hospital grounds. 305 00:19:52,492 --> 00:19:56,129 It is to show that you are a serving soldier in hospital 306 00:19:56,162 --> 00:19:58,665 and not a conscientious objector. 307 00:19:59,933 --> 00:20:01,968 We wouldn't want you to be attacked 308 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:04,537 in Princes Street, now, would we? 309 00:20:05,839 --> 00:20:08,241 Which arm shall I wear it on, sir? 310 00:20:08,308 --> 00:20:10,443 The pleasure of that choice, Lieutenant, 311 00:20:10,510 --> 00:20:13,790 is entirely yours. 312 00:20:13,113 --> 00:20:14,781 Your room is on the upper floor 313 00:20:14,848 --> 00:20:16,683 at the end of the corridor. 314 00:20:20,860 --> 00:20:21,254 Dismissed. 315 00:20:29,195 --> 00:20:31,131 Hmm? 316 00:20:31,164 --> 00:20:33,500 Sassoon, Siegfried, Lieutenant. 317 00:20:37,337 --> 00:20:39,973 Your burgeoning fame precedes you. 318 00:20:41,508 --> 00:20:43,710 I enjoyed> The Old Huntsman >very much. 319 00:20:46,279 --> 00:20:47,447 You may not know, 320 00:20:47,514 --> 00:20:51,484 but we have a house magazine,> The Hydra.> 321 00:20:51,551 --> 00:20:53,753 I'm sure it would welcome a contribution from you. 322 00:20:55,622 --> 00:20:56,823 Well, I'll, erm, 323 00:20:58,124 --> 00:21:00,660 try to write something light and amusing. 324 00:21:00,694 --> 00:21:03,463 Oh, there's no need to go that far. 325 00:21:03,496 --> 00:21:05,932 You have an appointment to see me at 10:30 in the morning. 326 00:21:36,296 --> 00:21:37,597 Dear Mother, 327 00:21:38,765 --> 00:21:40,900 have arrived in Dottyville. 328 00:21:45,205 --> 00:21:46,206 Wish you were here. 329 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:55,281 Good morning, Doctor. 330 00:21:56,583 --> 00:21:58,718 Good morning, Sassoon. 331 00:21:58,752 --> 00:22:01,454 Please, sit down. We're quite relaxed here. 332 00:22:09,662 --> 00:22:10,930 Although we do seem to go through 333 00:22:10,964 --> 00:22:13,166 rather too many chief medical officers, 334 00:22:14,734 --> 00:22:16,403 some are more flexible than others. 335 00:22:16,469 --> 00:22:18,380 Then they're replaced by someone 336 00:22:18,710 --> 00:22:21,307 who wants everything to be as taut as Aldershot. 337 00:22:21,341 --> 00:22:22,609 Then they too are replaced. 338 00:22:23,910 --> 00:22:25,178 And what's your persuasion? 339 00:22:26,413 --> 00:22:29,215 Oh, I prefer a certain measure of laxity. 340 00:22:30,583 --> 00:22:32,850 One can't be at attention forever, 341 00:22:32,118 --> 00:22:33,787 it plays havoc with the nerves. 342 00:22:42,629 --> 00:22:45,310 From the, er, little I know of your method of treatment here, 343 00:22:45,980 --> 00:22:48,368 I understand that from whatever I say 344 00:22:48,401 --> 00:22:49,469 you can deduce whether or not 345 00:22:49,502 --> 00:22:51,805 my grandmother was a dipsomaniac. 346 00:22:52,339 --> 00:22:53,640 Was she? 347 00:22:53,673 --> 00:22:55,375 Alas, no, no. 348 00:22:55,408 --> 00:22:58,411 Just a sweet sherry at Christmas and on birthdays. 349 00:22:58,445 --> 00:22:59,746 Well done, your grandmother. 350 00:23:01,247 --> 00:23:03,249 She didn't know what she wasn't missing. 351 00:23:09,989 --> 00:23:11,791 Well, just tell me whatever it is you want me to do, 352 00:23:11,825 --> 00:23:14,270 and I'll comply with your wishes. 353 00:23:14,940 --> 00:23:15,628 It isn't a question of what I want. 354 00:23:17,163 --> 00:23:19,933 It's a question of what you think you need. 355 00:23:21,401 --> 00:23:24,700 Am I to start? Or do you? 356 00:23:25,338 --> 00:23:27,240 Is there anything you feel you wish to say? 357 00:23:30,443 --> 00:23:33,346 What I feel cannot be talked away or soothed into silence. 358 00:23:34,447 --> 00:23:35,448 Why? 359 00:23:37,450 --> 00:23:38,752 Too many have died. 360 00:23:40,153 --> 00:23:41,755 Too much has been destroyed. 361 00:23:45,225 --> 00:23:48,361 There can be an easement of pain. 362 00:23:50,430 --> 00:23:52,665 A move towards acceptance. 363 00:23:52,699 --> 00:23:54,300 Pain is not the only terror. 364 00:23:55,301 --> 00:23:56,469 There are many more. 365 00:23:58,380 --> 00:23:59,806 Can you name them? 366 00:23:59,839 --> 00:24:02,442 If I could name them, they would cease to be terrors. 367 00:24:02,509 --> 00:24:05,245 That's a very elegant way of avoiding an answer. 368 00:24:05,278 --> 00:24:06,579 All evasions are elegant. 369 00:24:06,613 --> 00:24:08,782 Think of politics. 370 00:24:08,848 --> 00:24:10,383 I've always thought that politicians 371 00:24:10,417 --> 00:24:12,786 were too stupid to be subtle. 372 00:24:12,819 --> 00:24:15,755 Perhaps they're just too subtle to be inelegant. 373 00:24:34,341 --> 00:24:35,942 Are you a good soldier? 374 00:24:37,577 --> 00:24:38,878 Passable. 375 00:24:40,447 --> 00:24:41,514 I was a poor marksman. 376 00:24:41,548 --> 00:24:43,450 I never knew which eye to shut. 377 00:24:43,483 --> 00:24:45,552 I understand you were awarded the MC. 378 00:24:45,585 --> 00:24:47,787 Yes. 379 00:24:47,821 --> 00:24:49,723 It's supposed to signify gallantry. 380 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:54,270 Bravery is only cowardice in extremis. 381 00:24:55,595 --> 00:24:57,697 At the root of bravery lies terror 382 00:24:58,631 --> 00:25:00,500 and the fear of fear. 383 00:25:00,533 --> 00:25:03,403 But you were conspicuous by your courage. 384 00:25:06,573 --> 00:25:09,900 Why did you discard the Military Cross? 385 00:25:10,944 --> 00:25:13,460 Disgust at my own dwindling standards 386 00:25:14,514 --> 00:25:16,820 and the men I felt I had betrayed. 387 00:25:16,116 --> 00:25:17,717 It was nothing short of duplicity. 388 00:25:17,751 --> 00:25:19,152 And yet the men under your command 389 00:25:19,219 --> 00:25:21,421 held you in the highest esteem, I'm told. 390 00:25:21,454 --> 00:25:22,722 And I them. 391 00:25:24,457 --> 00:25:25,492 They seemed to me to be all 392 00:25:25,525 --> 00:25:27,127 that was good and true in this world. 393 00:25:31,164 --> 00:25:32,832 Are you searching for truth? 394 00:25:32,866 --> 00:25:33,900 Isn't everyone? 395 00:25:35,835 --> 00:25:36,970 And if you find it, 396 00:25:39,205 --> 00:25:40,340 what then? 397 00:25:43,343 --> 00:25:46,680 Peace of mind, contentment. 398 00:25:50,417 --> 00:25:52,619 No longer yearning for what's been lost. 399 00:26:11,204 --> 00:26:18,211 >Loveliest of trees> 400 00:26:19,779 --> 00:26:24,840 >The cherry now> 401 00:26:24,117 --> 00:26:28,488 >Is hung with bloom> 402 00:26:28,555 --> 00:26:34,961 >Along the bough> 403 00:26:37,597 --> 00:26:41,668 >And stands about> 404 00:26:41,701 --> 00:26:48,708 >The woodland ride> 405 00:26:52,120 --> 00:26:58,952 >Wearing white> 406 00:26:58,985 --> 00:27:05,492 >For Eastertide> 407 00:27:07,460 --> 00:27:08,828 Come in. 408 00:27:13,666 --> 00:27:15,468 Lieutenant Sassoon? 409 00:27:16,670 --> 00:27:17,671 Yes. 410 00:27:18,571 --> 00:27:21,341 I'm Wilfred Owen. 411 00:27:52,172 --> 00:27:53,673 There was howling last night. 412 00:27:58,678 --> 00:28:00,280 Like a wolf. 413 00:28:01,614 --> 00:28:03,883 Strictly speaking, wolves ululate. 414 00:28:05,318 --> 00:28:06,753 But howling will do. 415 00:28:06,786 --> 00:28:09,789 Now, don't make light of it like that, Doctor, please. 416 00:28:09,823 --> 00:28:11,910 That isn't what I'm doing. 417 00:28:12,592 --> 00:28:14,861 I'm merely keeping it in perspective. 418 00:28:16,696 --> 00:28:19,165 I'm sorry if I sounded uncaring. 419 00:28:24,704 --> 00:28:26,172 His screams were terrible. 420 00:28:29,943 --> 00:28:31,378 Worse than an animal. 421 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:35,615 Such anguish in them. 422 00:28:43,456 --> 00:28:45,992 Why do all the worst terrors come at night? 423 00:28:49,629 --> 00:28:52,665 The night is, I think, 424 00:28:54,501 --> 00:28:55,635 like the unconscious. 425 00:28:58,304 --> 00:29:01,908 Waiting all day so that it can steal over you in the dark. 426 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:13,386 You make it sound almost benign. 427 00:29:15,155 --> 00:29:16,156 Perhaps it is. 428 00:29:39,450 --> 00:29:40,246 I believe Wilfred Owen 429 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,549 introduced himself to you the other day. 430 00:29:43,216 --> 00:29:44,217 Yes. 431 00:29:47,153 --> 00:29:48,288 He seems so gentle. 432 00:29:49,789 --> 00:29:51,458 Feel rather protective of him. 433 00:29:52,992 --> 00:29:55,628 Does that protectiveness hide something deeper? 434 00:29:57,964 --> 00:29:58,965 Yes. 435 00:30:01,134 --> 00:30:02,635 All my friendships do. 436 00:30:05,305 --> 00:30:07,907 But I've never allowed my emotions to mar or spoil them, 437 00:30:07,974 --> 00:30:08,942 I remain passive. 438 00:30:10,777 --> 00:30:12,278 It's how I cope. 439 00:30:13,713 --> 00:30:15,448 You never act on impulse? 440 00:30:15,515 --> 00:30:18,510 No, never. 441 00:30:21,121 --> 00:30:22,722 I'm unable to take risks. 442 00:30:24,991 --> 00:30:26,192 It's the hero in me. 443 00:30:27,293 --> 00:30:28,528 Why not? 444 00:30:29,629 --> 00:30:30,797 Too afraid, 445 00:30:32,499 --> 00:30:33,800 too inhibited. 446 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:37,871 Shamed by an inner corruption. 447 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:42,575 Or perhaps it's simply because of... 448 00:30:44,177 --> 00:30:45,245 What's the phrase? 449 00:30:45,278 --> 00:30:47,714 "The love that dare not speak its name." 450 00:30:53,486 --> 00:30:55,422 You are not alone in that respect. 451 00:31:04,464 --> 00:31:06,299 Frankly, Doctor, I'm surprised. 452 00:31:09,502 --> 00:31:10,503 Why? 453 00:31:12,639 --> 00:31:14,474 The world is full of anomalies. 454 00:31:18,912 --> 00:31:21,881 Well, speaking as one anomaly to another, 455 00:31:21,915 --> 00:31:23,550 how do you cope with the law? 456 00:31:27,787 --> 00:31:30,423 I adopt a less than honest respect for it. 457 00:31:35,829 --> 00:31:39,866 So evasion is not confined solely to second lieutenants? 458 00:31:39,933 --> 00:31:43,236 No, it affects all ranks. 459 00:31:47,907 --> 00:31:50,944 I trust after this disclosure, you will be discreet. 460 00:31:53,790 --> 00:31:54,748 Discretion is my middle name. 461 00:31:56,583 --> 00:31:58,985 Well, it's better than Ethel anyway. 462 00:32:28,348 --> 00:32:32,919 One assumes these theatricals have some deeper purpose. 463 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:35,588 Well, sir, I think they help to give 464 00:32:35,622 --> 00:32:37,991 some sort of ease away from the front line. 465 00:32:38,580 --> 00:32:39,626 I doubt that. 466 00:32:39,659 --> 00:32:41,161 Should the enemy perceive 467 00:32:41,194 --> 00:32:44,297 that the British Army is always preparing for a tango, 468 00:32:44,330 --> 00:32:46,320 the war is lost. 469 00:32:47,330 --> 00:32:50,303 Besides, the spectacle of men 470 00:32:50,337 --> 00:32:53,740 dancing with men is never palatable. 471 00:32:53,807 --> 00:32:55,842 I had always thought such creatures 472 00:32:55,875 --> 00:32:57,243 went into the library 473 00:32:57,277 --> 00:33:00,113 with their service revolvers and did the decent thing. 474 00:33:03,950 --> 00:33:08,588 And how is your treatment progressing, Lieutenant? 475 00:33:08,621 --> 00:33:11,570 Oh, it has its unique moments, sir. 476 00:33:11,910 --> 00:33:13,426 Well, let us hope these unique moments 477 00:33:13,460 --> 00:33:16,629 coalesce enough to get you back to active service, 478 00:33:16,663 --> 00:33:19,165 fighting fit, as it were. 479 00:33:19,199 --> 00:33:20,533 Doesn't that rather depend, sir, 480 00:33:20,567 --> 00:33:22,802 on what's fit to fight for? 481 00:33:22,836 --> 00:33:24,404 But perhaps I'm just being syndromatic. 482 00:33:25,672 --> 00:33:28,174 Or is that a lapsus linguae? 483 00:33:28,208 --> 00:33:29,709 I beg your pardon? 484 00:33:29,743 --> 00:33:31,277 Lapsus linguae, sir. 485 00:33:32,112 --> 00:33:33,179 Slip of the tongue. 486 00:33:33,213 --> 00:33:35,615 I know what it means, Lieutenant. 487 00:33:35,682 --> 00:33:37,484 The rest of us may be unable 488 00:33:37,550 --> 00:33:39,419 to read> Beowulf >in the original, 489 00:33:39,452 --> 00:33:42,589 but we're not all complete Philistines. 490 00:33:42,622 --> 00:33:43,990 Of course not, sir. 491 00:33:51,331 --> 00:33:52,332 Carry on. 492 00:33:58,138 --> 00:34:00,600 > Halitosis!> 493 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,420 >Halitosis!> 494 00:34:02,108 --> 00:34:03,977 Your first poem in> Hydra.> 495 00:34:04,100 --> 00:34:05,845 Long live the editor! 496 00:34:05,879 --> 00:34:07,213 I am the editor. 497 00:34:07,247 --> 00:34:09,516 Hooray for nepotism! 498 00:34:11,351 --> 00:34:13,987 And what do you think of my verse, Siegfried? 499 00:34:15,722 --> 00:34:17,900 It seemed a little too dependent 500 00:34:17,123 --> 00:34:18,725 on 19th century models. 501 00:34:19,559 --> 00:34:20,627 You make it sound like 502 00:34:20,694 --> 00:34:22,128 >The Courtship of Miles Standish.> 503 00:34:22,195 --> 00:34:24,230 Oh, God, no. Nothing's ever as bad as that. 504 00:34:25,432 --> 00:34:29,135 But you do find my work derivative? 505 00:34:33,206 --> 00:34:35,208 While I was at Clare, 506 00:34:35,275 --> 00:34:38,478 I wasted far too much time reading Swinburne. 507 00:34:38,511 --> 00:34:40,980 It was very bad for my adjectives. 508 00:34:41,140 --> 00:34:45,850 You have to speak directly, not with another's voice. 509 00:34:50,357 --> 00:34:53,193 Look, at first, everyone's work is derivative. 510 00:34:53,226 --> 00:34:55,962 We all have to start somewhere. 511 00:34:56,290 --> 00:34:57,664 At Cambridge, apart from Swinburne, 512 00:34:57,731 --> 00:35:00,834 I did nothing except read William Morris in a punt 513 00:35:00,900 --> 00:35:03,403 and staggered through> Maud.> 514 00:35:07,941 --> 00:35:11,378 Perhaps, er, my latest effort 515 00:35:11,444 --> 00:35:12,779 will please you. 516 00:35:15,148 --> 00:35:16,549 It's called> Disabled.> 517 00:36:12,105 --> 00:36:13,306 It's magnificent. 518 00:36:17,544 --> 00:36:19,450 It pierces the heart. 519 00:36:23,416 --> 00:36:24,751 What a gift you have. 520 00:36:31,358 --> 00:36:33,960 I have been passed 521 00:36:34,270 --> 00:36:37,564 by the Medical Board as fit for active service. 522 00:36:48,875 --> 00:36:51,478 When do you rejoin your regiment? 523 00:36:51,511 --> 00:36:52,645 December. 524 00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:55,810 Just before Christmas. 525 00:37:02,389 --> 00:37:03,390 Oh. 526 00:37:06,693 --> 00:37:10,597 > There was I waiting at the church> 527 00:37:10,630 --> 00:37:14,334 >Waiting at the church Waiting at the church> 528 00:37:14,401 --> 00:37:18,271 >When I found he left me in the lurch> 529 00:37:18,304 --> 00:37:22,509 >Lord, how it did upset me> 530 00:37:22,542 --> 00:37:26,460 >All at once he sent me round a note> 531 00:37:26,112 --> 00:37:28,140 >Here's the very note> 532 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,483 >This is what he wrote> 533 00:37:30,517 --> 00:37:33,987 >"Can't get away to marry you today> 534 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:38,558 >"My wife won't let me"> 535 00:37:38,591 --> 00:37:40,593 >There was I> 536 00:37:40,627 --> 00:37:42,395 >Waiting at the church> 537 00:37:42,429 --> 00:37:46,466 >Waiting at the church Waiting at the church> 538 00:37:46,499 --> 00:37:50,403 >When I found he left me in the lurch> 539 00:37:50,437 --> 00:37:54,374 >Lord, how it did upset me> 540 00:37:54,441 --> 00:37:58,378 >All at once he sent me round a note> 541 00:37:58,445 --> 00:38:00,313 >Here's the very note> 542 00:38:00,347 --> 00:38:02,182 >This is what he wrote> 543 00:38:02,215 --> 00:38:06,186 >"Can't get away to marry you today> 544 00:38:06,219 --> 00:38:09,255 >"My wife won't let me"> 545 00:38:16,696 --> 00:38:19,399 What is it, Siegfried? 546 00:38:20,900 --> 00:38:21,901 Nothing. 547 00:38:26,473 --> 00:38:29,609 Wilfred's about to return to duty. 548 00:38:30,377 --> 00:38:31,378 I know. 549 00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:41,921 What will you do? 550 00:38:42,956 --> 00:38:43,957 Nothing. 551 00:38:47,227 --> 00:38:50,300 I will not do anything to make the parting even more painful. 552 00:38:58,872 --> 00:39:00,540 I'd give everything I possess 553 00:39:00,607 --> 00:39:03,900 to have him stay just one more hour. 554 00:39:04,110 --> 00:39:05,311 One more minute. 555 00:39:12,385 --> 00:39:15,755 Quick to tears, slow to love. 556 00:39:21,895 --> 00:39:23,596 You know, when I first met him, 557 00:39:24,798 --> 00:39:26,433 he had a slight stammer. 558 00:39:28,935 --> 00:39:31,338 And spoke, I thought, with a grammar school accent. 559 00:39:34,874 --> 00:39:36,309 How could I be such a snob? 560 00:39:40,113 --> 00:39:41,581 He really is a lovely man. 561 00:39:45,151 --> 00:39:46,753 And I think the greater poet. 562 00:39:54,394 --> 00:39:56,960 What about your poetry? 563 00:39:59,299 --> 00:40:00,734 It's egotism, really. 564 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:06,206 That seems a little harsh. 565 00:40:06,272 --> 00:40:07,474 Truth often is. 566 00:40:16,983 --> 00:40:19,850 I have no idea why I come here. 567 00:40:26,126 --> 00:40:27,761 It's really done no good at all, this. 568 00:40:31,464 --> 00:40:34,234 Think of it as a cleansing of the soul. 569 00:40:37,303 --> 00:40:39,506 Why do you have to put it so beautifully? 570 00:42:09,729 --> 00:42:14,634 Will you stay just for a few more moments? 571 00:42:15,235 --> 00:42:16,236 Yes. 572 00:42:38,625 --> 00:42:39,959 Whenever you're ready, sir. 573 00:43:12,859 --> 00:43:14,260 > Wilfred was killed> 574 00:43:14,294 --> 00:43:16,396 >just a week before the war ended.> 575 00:43:23,837 --> 00:43:27,807 >What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?> 576 00:43:27,841 --> 00:43:30,210 >Only the monstrous anger of the guns.> 577 00:43:31,778 --> 00:43:34,547 >Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle> 578 00:43:34,581 --> 00:43:37,500 >can patter out their hasty orisons.> 579 00:43:38,418 --> 00:43:42,880 >No mockeries for them from prayers or bells,> 580 00:43:42,122 --> 00:43:44,691 >nor any voice of mourning,> 581 00:43:44,724 --> 00:43:46,126 >save the choir's.> 582 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:52,265 >The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells> 583 00:43:52,298 --> 00:43:57,237 >and bugles calling for them from sad shires.> 584 00:43:57,270 --> 00:44:01,474 >What candles may be held to speed them all?> 585 00:44:01,508 --> 00:44:05,311 >Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes> 586 00:44:05,345 --> 00:44:08,515 >shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.> 587 00:44:08,548 --> 00:44:12,152 >The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall,> 588 00:44:12,185 --> 00:44:16,289 >their flowers, the tenderness of silent minds,> 589 00:44:16,356 --> 00:44:21,227 >and each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.> 590 00:44:25,665 --> 00:44:30,637 The woman posing, who appears to be wearing a spinnaker 591 00:44:30,670 --> 00:44:33,640 is Lady Ottoline Morrell. 592 00:44:33,673 --> 00:44:37,510 More hair than self-restraint, but definitely nobody's fool. 593 00:44:37,544 --> 00:44:38,778 She looks as though 594 00:44:38,812 --> 00:44:40,613 she hasn't heard a joke since the Boer War. 595 00:44:40,647 --> 00:44:42,982 For Ottoline, the Boer War was the joke. 596 00:44:44,500 --> 00:44:45,352 Ottoline. 597 00:44:45,385 --> 00:44:47,320 May we pause for a moment, Dorothy, 598 00:44:47,354 --> 00:44:50,900 -before rigor mortis sets in? -Of course, Ottoline. 599 00:44:54,394 --> 00:44:58,398 Who is this extremely beautiful young man, Robbie? 600 00:44:58,431 --> 00:44:59,999 Sassoon, Siegfried. 601 00:45:00,660 --> 00:45:02,435 It sounds Wagnerian. 602 00:45:02,469 --> 00:45:05,138 It's just Home Counties, I'm afraid. 603 00:45:05,171 --> 00:45:08,308 So you are not a keeper of the flame at Bayreuth? 604 00:45:08,341 --> 00:45:10,710 No, no, I'm afraid not. 605 00:45:10,777 --> 00:45:13,179 What are your musical tastes then? 606 00:45:13,213 --> 00:45:20,653 Er, Ravel, Albeniz, Chausson. Scriabin, if I must. 607 00:45:20,687 --> 00:45:22,355 Cesar Franck, when I'm in the mood. 608 00:45:22,389 --> 00:45:24,224 And Bartok? 609 00:45:24,257 --> 00:45:25,892 Oh, no. Never Bartok, no. 610 00:45:27,270 --> 00:45:28,610 His music always sounds to me 611 00:45:28,940 --> 00:45:30,300 like a lunatic playing the xylophone. 612 00:45:30,630 --> 00:45:31,664 Vice versa. 613 00:45:33,166 --> 00:45:36,200 I once heard Paderewski play Bartok at Tunbridge Wells, 614 00:45:36,690 --> 00:45:37,671 but I found it rather disappointing. 615 00:45:37,737 --> 00:45:39,506 Well, what did you expect, Robbie? 616 00:45:40,373 --> 00:45:42,108 It was Tunbridge Wells. 617 00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:48,815 Come into the main house and have tea. 618 00:45:48,848 --> 00:45:50,750 May I join you, Ottoline? 619 00:45:50,817 --> 00:45:52,385 Of course. Dorothy, 620 00:45:52,419 --> 00:45:55,522 you are not a servant, but an honourable. 621 00:45:56,623 --> 00:45:59,693 Now come along, Mr Bassoon, 622 00:45:59,726 --> 00:46:05,265 and tell me what you really have against Mr Bartok. 623 00:46:05,298 --> 00:46:07,734 Not a great deal. I just don't like his music. 624 00:46:07,767 --> 00:46:10,670 > Oh, a word into your shell-like,> 625 00:46:10,737 --> 00:46:13,506 >she'll ask you to stay the night.> 626 00:46:13,540 --> 00:46:16,643 >She always asks attractive young men to stay the night.> 627 00:46:16,676 --> 00:46:19,679 >So lock your bedroom door> 628 00:46:19,713 --> 00:46:22,682 >or wear something very, very severe.> 629 00:46:33,193 --> 00:46:37,197 I thought that I might be more interesting than cocoa. 630 00:46:40,934 --> 00:46:42,969 I'm afraid I prefer cocoa. 631 00:46:44,838 --> 00:46:46,390 Sleep badly. 632 00:46:59,919 --> 00:47:05,258 > ****ie. Curse the Wood! It's time to go.> 633 00:47:05,291 --> 00:47:08,695 > O Christ, what's the good?> 634 00:47:08,728 --> 00:47:13,733 >We'll never take it, and it's always raining.> 635 00:47:13,767 --> 00:47:15,168 > They snipe like hell!> 636 00:47:15,235 --> 00:47:17,637 >O ****ie, don't go out!> 637 00:47:49,736 --> 00:47:51,438 > I fell asleep.> 638 00:47:51,471 --> 00:47:54,107 >Next morning, he was dead.> 639 00:47:54,140 --> 00:47:58,478 >And some slight wound lay smiling on the bed.> 640 00:48:15,862 --> 00:48:17,263 Ivor Novello... 641 00:48:18,765 --> 00:48:21,167 of> Keep The Home-Fires Burning >fame. 642 00:48:21,234 --> 00:48:22,502 Hmm, yes. 643 00:48:22,569 --> 00:48:24,304 That loathsome little tune. 644 00:48:24,337 --> 00:48:27,540 Ah, he always writes at the top of his voice, 645 00:48:27,607 --> 00:48:29,542 but we must try to be charitable. 646 00:48:29,609 --> 00:48:32,479 Ah, Sybil, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. 647 00:48:32,512 --> 00:48:33,813 Ragtime indeed. 648 00:48:33,847 --> 00:48:35,382 Yes, I know. 649 00:48:35,415 --> 00:48:39,686 But Mr Novello plays it so well, it's almost music. 650 00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:42,889 Besides, at the moment, he's appearing in the West End 651 00:48:42,922 --> 00:48:46,259 in a very successful play called> The Rat.> 652 00:48:46,292 --> 00:48:47,794 I know. 653 00:48:47,861 --> 00:48:50,263 Someone asked me if it was autobiographical, 654 00:48:50,296 --> 00:48:52,399 but I said I wasn't sure. 655 00:48:52,432 --> 00:48:55,935 One day, Robbie, you will go too far. 656 00:48:55,969 --> 00:48:58,738 Oh, one day, Sybil, we will all go too far. 657 00:49:00,473 --> 00:49:02,842 Thank you for coming, Mr Sassoon. 658 00:49:02,876 --> 00:49:06,713 We're all very eager to hear your recitation. 659 00:49:06,780 --> 00:49:09,482 Thank you, Lady Colefax. 660 00:49:15,221 --> 00:49:19,559 Ladies and gentlemen, pray silence for 661 00:49:19,592 --> 00:49:24,597 one of our greatest poets, Mr Siegfried Sassoon. 662 00:49:37,377 --> 00:49:39,179 When I'm among a blaze of lights, 663 00:49:40,747 --> 00:49:43,583 with tawdry music and cigars 664 00:49:45,180 --> 00:49:47,687 and women dawdling through delights 665 00:49:48,888 --> 00:49:51,910 and officers in ****tail bars, 666 00:49:52,359 --> 00:49:54,527 sometimes I think of garden nights 667 00:49:56,563 --> 00:49:58,898 and elm trees nodding at the stars. 668 00:50:00,900 --> 00:50:03,169 I dream of a small fire-lit room. 669 00:50:04,504 --> 00:50:06,639 Yellow candles burning straight, 670 00:50:08,108 --> 00:50:10,430 and glowing pictures in the gloom, 671 00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:13,380 and kindly books that hold me late. 672 00:50:15,715 --> 00:50:17,384 Of things like these I choose to think 673 00:50:17,417 --> 00:50:19,190 when I can never be alone. 674 00:50:21,421 --> 00:50:23,723 And then someone says, "Another drink," 675 00:50:25,580 --> 00:50:28,610 and turns my living heart to stone. 676 00:50:33,900 --> 00:50:36,770 Hmm. 677 00:50:41,474 --> 00:50:43,430 Thank you, Mr Sassoon. 678 00:50:43,810 --> 00:50:46,146 That was very touching. 679 00:50:46,179 --> 00:50:47,514 We both thank you, Sybil, 680 00:50:47,547 --> 00:50:49,382 and now go and rejoin Lady Cunard 681 00:50:49,416 --> 00:50:51,217 before she starts launching something. 682 00:51:03,463 --> 00:51:07,300 And to think he once played the triangle so beautifully. 683 00:51:07,333 --> 00:51:09,502 What a waste. 684 00:51:09,569 --> 00:51:13,640 > I seem to be the victim of a cruel jest> 685 00:51:15,141 --> 00:51:20,647 >It dogs my footsteps with the girl I love the best> 686 00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:26,920 >She's just the sweetest thing that I have ever known> 687 00:51:26,986 --> 00:51:33,930 >And yet we never get the chance to be alone> 688 00:51:33,126 --> 00:51:38,131 >My car will meet her and her mother comes, too> 689 00:51:39,566 --> 00:51:44,838 >It's a two-seater Still her mother comes, too> 690 00:51:44,904 --> 00:51:50,610 >At Ciro's when I am free at dinner, supper or tea> 691 00:51:50,643 --> 00:51:53,880 >She loves to shimmy with me> 692 00:51:53,947 --> 00:51:55,648 >And her mother does, too> 693 00:51:57,500 --> 00:52:02,722 >We buy her trousseau And her mother comes, too> 694 00:52:02,756 --> 00:52:08,895 >Asked not to do so Still her mother comes, too> 695 00:52:08,928 --> 00:52:14,801 >She simply can't take a snub I go and sulk at the club> 696 00:52:14,834 --> 00:52:19,472 >Then have a bath and a rub And her brother comes, too> 697 00:52:21,410 --> 00:52:25,979 >To golf we started And her mother came, too> 698 00:52:26,780 --> 00:52:29,490 >Three bags I carted> 699 00:52:30,500 --> 00:52:32,986 >When her mother came, too> 700 00:52:33,190 --> 00:52:36,890 >She fainted just off the tee> 701 00:52:36,122 --> 00:52:39,526 >My darling whispered to me> 702 00:52:39,559 --> 00:52:43,290 >"Jack dear, at last we are free"> 703 00:52:44,431 --> 00:52:45,899 >But her mother came, too> 704 00:52:51,905 --> 00:52:54,441 He is considered very beautiful. 705 00:52:54,474 --> 00:52:56,176 Look at those shoulders. 706 00:52:57,430 --> 00:53:00,113 Yeah, and look at his. 707 00:53:07,187 --> 00:53:08,888 Are we leaving, Ivor? 708 00:53:08,922 --> 00:53:10,590 No, precious. 709 00:53:10,623 --> 00:53:13,426 I'm anxious to meet our distinguished guest, 710 00:53:13,460 --> 00:53:15,295 Mr Sassoon. 711 00:53:15,362 --> 00:53:17,497 I'm eager to have your advice on my next musical. 712 00:53:17,564 --> 00:53:20,600 I'm thinking of writing in terza rima. 713 00:53:20,633 --> 00:53:22,502 That's near Naples, isn't it? 714 00:53:23,503 --> 00:53:25,500 Oh, dear Robbie, 715 00:53:25,710 --> 00:53:26,206 whose silences are always 716 00:53:26,272 --> 00:53:28,708 so much more eloquent than speech. 717 00:53:41,721 --> 00:53:44,570 Robbie will give you a paw to guide you home, Glen. 718 00:53:54,801 --> 00:53:56,770 >- C'est la vie. 719 00:53:57,671 --> 00:53:58,738 >C'est la guerre.> 720 00:54:14,754 --> 00:54:16,523 I think he's still in love with you. 721 00:54:17,424 --> 00:54:19,459 The main drawback with love 722 00:54:19,492 --> 00:54:21,294 is that it descends, all too quickly, 723 00:54:21,327 --> 00:54:22,662 into possessiveness. 724 00:54:28,768 --> 00:54:31,371 That really is a bore. 725 00:54:34,874 --> 00:54:36,409 What shall I do with these? 726 00:54:36,443 --> 00:54:38,978 Oh, they're for you. 727 00:55:11,378 --> 00:55:13,790 Hamo died so far away. 728 00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:17,183 While I have his sword, I still have him. 729 00:55:19,486 --> 00:55:22,220 We never grieved properly for him, Mother. 730 00:55:23,356 --> 00:55:25,325 Before grief, there's anger. 731 00:55:33,199 --> 00:55:37,437 > I watch you on your constant way,> 732 00:55:37,504 --> 00:55:40,206 >in selfless duty long grown grey.> 733 00:55:41,675 --> 00:55:42,809 >and to myself,> 734 00:55:42,876 --> 00:55:45,545 >I say that I have lived my life to learn> 735 00:55:45,578 --> 00:55:48,948 >how lives like your unasking earn.> 736 00:55:48,982 --> 00:55:52,786 >Aureoles that guide and burn> 737 00:55:52,819 --> 00:55:54,454 >in heart's remembrance> 738 00:55:54,487 --> 00:55:57,290 >when the proud who snared the suffrage of the crowd> 739 00:55:57,323 --> 00:56:01,270 >are dumb and dusty browed.> 740 00:56:01,610 --> 00:56:04,330 >For you live onward in my thought> 741 00:56:04,364 --> 00:56:08,168 >because you have not sought rewards that can be bought.> 742 00:56:09,769 --> 00:56:12,672 >And so when I remember you,> 743 00:56:12,706 --> 00:56:15,241 >I think of all things rich and true> 744 00:56:15,275 --> 00:56:17,544 >that I have reaped and wrought.> 745 00:56:21,581 --> 00:56:23,316 Thank God you survived. 746 00:56:34,327 --> 00:56:35,328 Good night, darling. 747 00:56:36,496 --> 00:56:37,497 Good night, Mother. 748 00:56:49,376 --> 00:56:51,711 >Give me your hand, my brother.> 749 00:56:52,612 --> 00:56:53,947 >Search my face.> 750 00:56:55,482 --> 00:56:58,318 >Look in these eyes lest I should think of shame.> 751 00:56:59,652 --> 00:57:02,322 >For we have made an end of all things base.> 752 00:57:03,490 --> 00:57:05,959 >We are returning by the road we came.> 753 00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:11,398 >Your lot is with the ghosts of soldiers dead,> 754 00:57:11,464 --> 00:57:13,867 >and I am in the field where men must fight.> 755 00:57:15,668 --> 00:57:18,710 >But in the gloom, I see your laurelled head> 756 00:57:18,104 --> 00:57:21,875 >and through your victory I shall win the light.> 757 00:57:48,835 --> 00:57:55,542 >Sleep in heavenly peace> 758 00:58:02,248 --> 00:58:05,352 3,500 copies of >Counter-Attack> sold. 759 00:58:06,353 --> 00:58:08,521 Your fame is spreading, Siegfried. 760 00:58:09,656 --> 00:58:10,824 Like a virus? 761 00:58:10,857 --> 00:58:11,958 Oh, don't be contrary. 762 00:58:13,493 --> 00:58:14,861 So I wake up famous. 763 00:58:15,495 --> 00:58:16,563 Like Byron. 764 00:58:17,630 --> 00:58:19,199 And I believe you've been overwhelmed 765 00:58:19,232 --> 00:58:20,834 by visits from all the great and the good. 766 00:58:20,867 --> 00:58:21,901 Mmm. 767 00:58:21,935 --> 00:58:25,672 Massine, Lydia Lopokova, Keynes, 768 00:58:25,705 --> 00:58:27,841 Winston Churchill and mother. 769 00:58:28,908 --> 00:58:30,977 Even "boy actor" Noel Coward. 770 00:58:32,278 --> 00:58:33,747 Have I left anyone out? 771 00:58:33,780 --> 00:58:36,583 The Pope. 772 00:58:36,616 --> 00:58:38,418 That's right, Siegfried, think small. 773 00:58:40,860 --> 00:58:41,688 How did you find Mr Churchill? 774 00:58:43,123 --> 00:58:44,758 Imperial. 775 00:58:44,791 --> 00:58:45,825 And Mr Coward? 776 00:58:47,193 --> 00:58:48,695 Gushing. 777 00:58:48,728 --> 00:58:52,198 What would you have done if Royalty had paid a call? 778 00:58:52,232 --> 00:58:53,566 Oh, well, then I'd have tried to curtsey 779 00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:55,168 from a sitting position. 780 00:58:56,703 --> 00:58:58,438 Speaking of Royalty, I've come with a command 781 00:58:58,505 --> 00:59:02,275 from Her Majesty Edith Sitwell. 782 00:59:02,308 --> 00:59:03,376 You are to attend a performance 783 00:59:03,410 --> 00:59:04,944 at Carlyle Square 784 00:59:04,978 --> 00:59:06,980 of her> Entertainment-Façade.> 785 00:59:08,381 --> 00:59:10,617 Poetry, by Edith. Music, Willie Walton. 786 00:59:11,685 --> 00:59:12,752 I've gone to a great deal of trouble 787 00:59:12,786 --> 00:59:13,953 to get this so don't let me down. 788 00:59:15,321 --> 00:59:16,690 If you don't attend, La Sitwell 789 00:59:16,756 --> 00:59:18,124 has threatened to come to your flat 790 00:59:18,158 --> 00:59:19,492 at Half Moon Street 791 00:59:19,526 --> 00:59:22,280 and hum the whole of> Tannhauser> to you. 792 00:59:23,697 --> 00:59:25,310 You have been warned. 793 00:59:26,866 --> 00:59:27,901 Oh, I, er... 794 00:59:27,934 --> 00:59:29,936 Ottoline Morell popped in 795 00:59:30,300 --> 00:59:31,438 and wished to be remembered to you. 796 00:59:32,500 --> 00:59:33,600 How was she? 797 00:59:34,441 --> 00:59:36,376 Let's just say I've always found lime green 798 00:59:36,409 --> 00:59:37,977 a very unforgiving colour. 799 00:59:39,946 --> 00:59:41,715 Poor Ottoline. 800 00:59:41,748 --> 00:59:43,750 She'll go to her grave overdressed. 801 00:59:46,753 --> 00:59:49,255 I'm looking forward to meeting your mother. 802 00:59:49,956 --> 00:59:51,324 What? 803 00:59:51,358 --> 00:59:54,461 I said I was looking forward to meeting your mother. 804 00:59:56,129 --> 00:59:58,565 All mothers, good or bad 805 00:59:58,631 --> 01:00:00,100 are always fascinating. 806 01:00:02,350 --> 01:00:03,703 I tried to set fire to mine once, 807 01:00:05,380 --> 01:00:06,740 but she was all asbestos. 808 01:00:09,309 --> 01:00:10,577 Oh, do come on! 809 01:00:10,610 --> 01:00:13,413 We shall never get down to Kent at this rate. 810 01:00:13,446 --> 01:00:16,716 Oh, and I found this for you on the floor. 811 01:00:16,750 --> 01:00:18,251 Oh, it'll be from Robbie Ross. 812 01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:22,880 Why are you so antipathetic towards him? 813 01:00:22,122 --> 01:00:25,191 Because I resent the way that he speaks to me. 814 01:00:25,225 --> 01:00:27,527 Like he's always putting me in my place. 815 01:00:29,162 --> 01:00:31,640 You know, the only problem with knowing one's place 816 01:00:31,131 --> 01:00:33,166 is that other people never seem to know theirs. 817 01:00:34,934 --> 01:00:37,337 He's acerbic, I grant you, but he's never malign, 818 01:00:38,371 --> 01:00:40,840 and as a friend, very steadfast. 819 01:00:40,874 --> 01:00:42,409 Robbie Ross took some considerable risk 820 01:00:42,442 --> 01:00:44,411 when he publicly supported Oscar Wilde. 821 01:00:44,444 --> 01:00:46,646 He's been hounded ever since by Lord Alfred Douglas. 822 01:00:46,713 --> 01:00:49,649 Oh, please, Bosie was always vindictive. 823 01:00:49,716 --> 01:00:51,151 Robbie should have known that from the beginning. 824 01:00:51,184 --> 01:00:52,786 He's really only got himself to blame. 825 01:00:52,819 --> 01:00:54,521 That's really unfair. 826 01:00:54,587 --> 01:00:55,989 His loyalty to Wilde was exemplary. 827 01:00:56,220 --> 01:00:59,559 All right, all right. Robbie's a saint. 828 01:00:59,626 --> 01:01:01,695 Now, how about we drop the subject? 829 01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:08,902 Oh, that's a very fine sword. 830 01:01:09,903 --> 01:01:11,338 It was my brother's. 831 01:01:11,371 --> 01:01:12,405 Hmm. 832 01:01:12,439 --> 01:01:14,507 He was killed at Gallipoli. 833 01:01:21,448 --> 01:01:22,549 Oh, God. 834 01:01:23,116 --> 01:01:24,617 What is it? 835 01:01:24,651 --> 01:01:26,786 It's the first performance of> Façade,> 836 01:01:26,820 --> 01:01:28,855 and I was supposed to go to it. 837 01:01:28,922 --> 01:01:31,257 Well, where's it being performed? 838 01:01:31,291 --> 01:01:34,461 Some private performance in Carlyle Square. 839 01:01:34,828 --> 01:01:36,363 Chelsea. 840 01:01:36,396 --> 01:01:37,731 Well, even if we drove like the wind, 841 01:01:37,797 --> 01:01:38,965 we should never make it. 842 01:01:38,998 --> 01:01:40,867 Robbie will be furious. 843 01:01:40,900 --> 01:01:42,502 And so will Edith Sitwell. 844 01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:46,706 It's being given to a very select audience. 845 01:01:46,740 --> 01:01:48,475 I'm sure she'll understand once you explain 846 01:01:48,541 --> 01:01:50,760 why you weren't able to be there. 847 01:01:50,110 --> 01:01:52,780 Oh, no, I don't think so, Mother. 848 01:01:52,112 --> 01:01:53,947 Edith can be a very captious woman. 849 01:01:53,980 --> 01:01:55,315 She isn't a woman. 850 01:01:55,382 --> 01:01:56,983 She's an animated meringue. 851 01:01:57,817 --> 01:01:59,850 And those teeth. 852 01:01:59,119 --> 01:02:01,621 Don't be horrible, Ivor. 853 01:02:01,654 --> 01:02:03,189 She suffers, I believe, from a complaint 854 01:02:03,256 --> 01:02:04,824 known as receding gums. 855 01:02:04,858 --> 01:02:06,260 She's so autocratic, 856 01:02:06,590 --> 01:02:07,894 I'm surprised she gave them permission to. 857 01:02:10,397 --> 01:02:11,865 Oh, well, come along then. 858 01:02:11,898 --> 01:02:14,567 Might as well see if we can catch some of it. 859 01:02:14,601 --> 01:02:16,603 I'm sorry to have to rush off like this, Mother. 860 01:02:16,669 --> 01:02:17,771 It doesn't matter. 861 01:02:22,108 --> 01:02:25,111 Is he just another one of your pretty boys? 862 01:02:26,413 --> 01:02:29,816 No, it's deeper than that, much deeper. 863 01:02:32,619 --> 01:02:34,854 You don't like him, do you, Mother? 864 01:02:34,921 --> 01:02:37,590 He's amusing, but unpleasant. 865 01:02:38,825 --> 01:02:42,328 It's his eyes. I think they're cruel. 866 01:02:48,201 --> 01:02:49,703 Good night, Mother. 867 01:02:49,736 --> 01:02:50,937 Good night, Siegfried. 868 01:02:59,412 --> 01:03:00,413 You never came. 869 01:03:01,448 --> 01:03:03,830 Please forgive me, Edith. 870 01:03:04,351 --> 01:03:05,685 I shall try. 871 01:03:06,586 --> 01:03:07,854 I'm entirely to blame. 872 01:03:07,921 --> 01:03:09,989 We visited my mother in Kent and I simply 873 01:03:10,230 --> 01:03:11,291 lost all sense of time. 874 01:03:12,959 --> 01:03:14,694 - We? - Mmm. 875 01:03:16,363 --> 01:03:18,198 Myself and Ivor Novello. 876 01:03:19,666 --> 01:03:22,369 A man at the cheaper end of poetry. 877 01:03:24,871 --> 01:03:26,439 I do hope you can forgive me, Edith, 878 01:03:26,506 --> 01:03:29,750 for I am mortified by my thoughtlessness. 879 01:03:29,943 --> 01:03:31,644 How was the work received? 880 01:03:32,412 --> 01:03:33,413 They tittered. 881 01:03:34,647 --> 01:03:35,749 Tittered? 882 01:03:35,782 --> 01:03:36,816 Tittered. 883 01:03:38,351 --> 01:03:42,756 I overheard someone say, in the most odious manner, 884 01:03:42,789 --> 01:03:43,990 "It's this sort of thing 885 01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:46,159 "that makes one glad to be semi-conscious." 886 01:03:47,360 --> 01:03:51,297 - I was deeply wounded. - Hmm. 887 01:03:51,331 --> 01:03:55,235 My poetry has wonderful assonances and dissonances. 888 01:03:55,268 --> 01:03:57,337 I use words for their colour, 889 01:03:57,370 --> 01:04:01,107 not merely for what they are supposed to mean. 890 01:04:01,174 --> 01:04:03,977 Great art may sometimes be so ahead of its time, Edith, 891 01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:05,378 that its initial reception 892 01:04:05,412 --> 01:04:08,480 can be considered a> succès d'estime.> 893 01:04:09,382 --> 01:04:10,483 Think of Stravinsky. 894 01:04:11,951 --> 01:04:14,454 But I do not wish to think of Stravinsky. 895 01:04:19,659 --> 01:04:23,329 We are performing> Façade >at the Aeolian Hall next week. 896 01:04:23,363 --> 01:04:24,964 I shall expect you there. 897 01:04:24,998 --> 01:04:26,366 Of course, Edith. 898 01:04:26,399 --> 01:04:29,569 I shall come with the speed of a thousand gazelles. 899 01:04:29,602 --> 01:04:31,438 No need for hyperbole, Siegfried. 900 01:04:32,672 --> 01:04:33,740 A taxi will do. 901 01:04:37,477 --> 01:04:41,648 In the early springtime after their tea, 902 01:04:41,715 --> 01:04:45,819 through the young fields of the springing Bohea, 903 01:04:45,852 --> 01:04:49,522 Jemima, Jocasta, Dinah and Deb 904 01:04:49,589 --> 01:04:53,360 walked with their father Sir Joshua Jebb. 905 01:04:53,393 --> 01:04:56,229 An admiral red whose only notion, 906 01:04:56,296 --> 01:04:59,632 a butterfly poised on a pigtailed ocean 907 01:04:59,666 --> 01:05:03,690 is of the peruked sea whose swell 908 01:05:03,103 --> 01:05:06,840 breaks on the flowerless rocks of Hell. 909 01:05:06,873 --> 01:05:10,577 For Hell is just as properly proper, 910 01:05:10,610 --> 01:05:14,714 as Greenwich, or as Bath, or Joppa! 911 01:05:14,748 --> 01:05:16,249 Oh, Christ! 912 01:05:16,282 --> 01:05:17,784 I have to go backstage. 913 01:05:17,817 --> 01:05:19,786 Rather you than me. 914 01:05:21,621 --> 01:05:22,922 Ah. 915 01:05:23,523 --> 01:05:24,657 The prodigal. 916 01:05:24,691 --> 01:05:28,294 Well, Edith, you've done it again. 917 01:06:16,142 --> 01:06:18,378 All the fine young cannibals. 918 01:06:20,460 --> 01:06:22,549 You make it sound like a raiding party. 919 01:06:22,582 --> 01:06:23,583 Isn't it? 920 01:06:28,922 --> 01:06:30,523 Stephen Tennant. 921 01:06:39,699 --> 01:06:40,867 I am... 922 01:06:40,900 --> 01:06:44,370 Yes, we already know who you are, Stephen. 923 01:06:44,700 --> 01:06:46,720 But who is this absolute dream 924 01:06:46,106 --> 01:06:48,410 in oyster grey silk? 925 01:06:48,740 --> 01:06:49,943 Hester Gatty. 926 01:06:49,976 --> 01:06:51,711 Lady Gatty's daughter? 927 01:06:51,745 --> 01:06:53,613 Yes. 928 01:06:53,646 --> 01:06:56,490 She once invited you to Carlton House Terrace. 929 01:06:56,950 --> 01:06:58,351 But you hardly noticed me. 930 01:06:59,452 --> 01:07:02,922 Then I apologize for my lack of taste. 931 01:07:02,956 --> 01:07:05,525 We're great admirers of your poetry, Siegfried. 932 01:07:07,494 --> 01:07:10,130 Before you take offence, Ivor, we like your work, too. 933 01:07:10,163 --> 01:07:11,297 Careful, Stephen, 934 01:07:11,331 --> 01:07:13,500 that was almost enthusiasm. 935 01:07:16,336 --> 01:07:19,105 Perhaps they will play one of your charming songs, 936 01:07:19,172 --> 01:07:21,174 Mr Novello, and then we can dance to it. 937 01:07:22,142 --> 01:07:23,777 I can't tempt Stephen, though. 938 01:07:23,810 --> 01:07:25,245 Why not? 939 01:07:25,278 --> 01:07:29,549 Because I only do the valeta and only when pressed. 940 01:07:32,285 --> 01:07:33,453 I do love dancing. 941 01:07:33,953 --> 01:07:35,288 So do I. 942 01:07:35,321 --> 01:07:36,790 Come on, then. 943 01:07:50,700 --> 01:07:51,710 Whoo! 944 01:08:20,934 --> 01:08:23,837 I didn't know great poets did the Charleston. 945 01:08:23,870 --> 01:08:26,439 I didn't know the Charleston did that to *** young things. 946 01:08:26,506 --> 01:08:28,241 I think everyone should be ***, don't you? 947 01:08:29,420 --> 01:08:30,377 Only in the wider sense. 948 01:08:33,646 --> 01:08:35,382 And this young man is... 949 01:08:36,616 --> 01:08:37,751 Alexander Fenton. 950 01:08:40,253 --> 01:08:41,321 Doesn't it sound as though 951 01:08:41,354 --> 01:08:43,256 it should have a title in front of it? 952 01:08:43,289 --> 01:08:44,991 Sir Alexander Fenton. 953 01:08:46,526 --> 01:08:49,195 For his services to the theatre. 954 01:08:49,229 --> 01:08:50,797 Well, that hasn't happened yet. 955 01:08:50,830 --> 01:08:51,965 It will, Ivor. 956 01:08:53,166 --> 01:08:54,167 It will. 957 01:09:04,144 --> 01:09:06,379 I hardly see you these days, Ivor. 958 01:09:07,414 --> 01:09:08,415 How are you? 959 01:09:09,382 --> 01:09:10,617 Horizontally speaking. 960 01:09:11,618 --> 01:09:13,153 Oh, busy, old thing. 961 01:09:14,870 --> 01:09:16,156 Very, very busy. 962 01:09:16,189 --> 01:09:18,240 Still gathering lilacs? 963 01:09:18,910 --> 01:09:20,326 You could say that. 964 01:09:20,360 --> 01:09:22,195 Well, when you've exhausted botany, 965 01:09:22,228 --> 01:09:23,296 you might consider moving 966 01:09:23,329 --> 01:09:25,298 into the field of blood sports. 967 01:09:25,331 --> 01:09:27,400 I'm told that the men who indulge in them 968 01:09:27,434 --> 01:09:29,669 are very, very rugged. 969 01:09:30,770 --> 01:09:32,572 Isn't that so, Mr Sassoon? 970 01:09:33,673 --> 01:09:34,708 You know, I think that's what 971 01:09:34,741 --> 01:09:36,710 I'm going to miss most about you, Glen, 972 01:09:36,743 --> 01:09:38,778 your quaint sense of humour. 973 01:09:46,286 --> 01:09:48,621 And how have you been passing your time? 974 01:09:48,655 --> 01:09:50,323 Seeing lots of musical theatre. 975 01:09:50,357 --> 01:09:52,250 Mmm, such as? 976 01:09:52,920 --> 01:09:54,694 >Rose-Marie,> very enjoyable. 977 01:09:54,728 --> 01:09:56,963 Yes, but so Rudolph Friml-ly. 978 01:09:56,996 --> 01:09:58,231 But it is by Rudolph Friml. 979 01:09:58,298 --> 01:10:00,333 It was a joke, Siegfried. 980 01:10:04,170 --> 01:10:05,438 And how about tonight? 981 01:10:06,106 --> 01:10:07,540 >Lady, Be Good!> 982 01:10:07,574 --> 01:10:10,977 Gershwin, an unsurpassed genius. 983 01:10:12,145 --> 01:10:14,748 Oh, we really mustn't keep you then, Glen. 984 01:10:26,260 --> 01:10:27,600 You have to admit it, 985 01:10:27,127 --> 01:10:28,795 Gershwin is an exceptional talent. 986 01:10:28,828 --> 01:10:30,730 I don't have to admit anything. 987 01:10:31,498 --> 01:10:32,499 What's wrong? 988 01:10:33,660 --> 01:10:34,234 We're leaving. 989 01:10:34,267 --> 01:10:35,435 But I thought you wanted supper. 990 01:10:35,502 --> 01:10:36,669 I'm no longer hungry! 991 01:10:46,479 --> 01:10:48,810 Name, sir? 992 01:10:49,416 --> 01:10:50,617 Mr Sassoon. 993 01:10:51,151 --> 01:10:52,452 Sassoon, you say. 994 01:10:52,952 --> 01:10:53,953 -Yes. -Oh. 995 01:10:57,290 --> 01:10:58,525 Hmm. 996 01:10:58,591 --> 01:11:00,360 Would you mind spelling it for me, please, sir? 997 01:11:01,861 --> 01:11:06,866 S-A-S-S-O-O-N. 998 01:11:06,900 --> 01:11:08,902 Hmm. 999 01:11:08,935 --> 01:11:11,370 I'm afraid you're not on the list, sir. 1000 01:11:13,740 --> 01:11:15,750 Well, I'm going up anyway. 1001 01:11:22,549 --> 01:11:24,784 Telephone me in a couple of days, won't you? 1002 01:11:52,479 --> 01:11:54,414 I practically had to force my way in 1003 01:11:54,447 --> 01:11:55,749 past the stage doorman. 1004 01:11:55,782 --> 01:11:57,417 Hmm. You were lucky. 1005 01:11:57,450 --> 01:12:00,860 He's been told to shoot anyone not on my list. 1006 01:12:00,120 --> 01:12:01,154 Why wasn't I on the list? 1007 01:12:01,187 --> 01:12:02,489 Oh, for Christ's sake! 1008 01:12:02,522 --> 01:12:05,225 Look, it's been a long run, Siegfried. 1009 01:12:05,291 --> 01:12:07,394 I am tired. I am exhausted. 1010 01:12:16,936 --> 01:12:18,571 -You still want supper? -Yes! 1011 01:12:26,646 --> 01:12:28,114 I'm surprised to see Fenton here. 1012 01:12:28,448 --> 01:12:29,449 Why? 1013 01:12:30,150 --> 01:12:31,918 I know lots of people. 1014 01:12:31,951 --> 01:12:33,853 -Fenton is just another... -Admirer. 1015 01:12:34,988 --> 01:12:35,989 ...fan. 1016 01:12:37,957 --> 01:12:39,526 You both seemed to me to be very friendly 1017 01:12:39,559 --> 01:12:41,294 after so short an acquaintance. 1018 01:12:41,327 --> 01:12:42,796 Now, I get the distinct impression 1019 01:12:42,829 --> 01:12:44,297 that I am being grilled. 1020 01:12:44,330 --> 01:12:47,233 And that a storm in an egg cup is brewing. 1021 01:12:49,269 --> 01:12:51,538 I'm sorry, I don't mean to be petty, but I am... 1022 01:12:53,440 --> 01:12:55,342 I am very jealous of you. 1023 01:12:55,375 --> 01:12:58,645 Yes, well, affairs are always messy. 1024 01:12:59,879 --> 01:13:02,449 Who can know the secrets of a human heart? 1025 01:13:04,451 --> 01:13:06,653 Usually the people who don't have one. 1026 01:13:06,686 --> 01:13:09,289 Oh, my, my, hasn't it gone chilly in here? 1027 01:13:13,860 --> 01:13:15,295 But I love you. 1028 01:13:19,966 --> 01:13:20,934 Yes, 1029 01:13:22,202 --> 01:13:23,203 you've said. 1030 01:13:42,255 --> 01:13:43,289 Ivor. 1031 01:13:46,726 --> 01:13:47,727 Ivor. 1032 01:14:04,978 --> 01:14:06,790 Let me pass. 1033 01:14:06,112 --> 01:14:07,781 I'm sorry, sir. I can't let you go up. 1034 01:14:08,314 --> 01:14:10,250 Why? 1035 01:14:10,283 --> 01:14:12,852 Mr Novello never sees anyone after a matinee. 1036 01:14:19,159 --> 01:14:21,161 Well, would you please inform Mr Novello 1037 01:14:21,194 --> 01:14:22,696 that I've booked a table for 8 PM? 1038 01:14:22,729 --> 01:14:25,198 And I'll be expecting him for dinner! 1039 01:14:27,330 --> 01:14:28,168 Yes, sir. 1040 01:14:28,201 --> 01:14:29,202 Thank you. 1041 01:14:34,441 --> 01:14:36,109 Is there someone else? 1042 01:14:37,410 --> 01:14:40,460 There's always someone else. 1043 01:14:42,649 --> 01:14:44,617 How do you justify your behaviour? 1044 01:14:44,651 --> 01:14:46,186 By asking myself questions 1045 01:14:46,252 --> 01:14:48,121 to which I already know the answers. 1046 01:14:48,154 --> 01:14:49,322 And when all is said and done, 1047 01:14:49,356 --> 01:14:53,393 my career comes before anyone or anything. 1048 01:14:55,562 --> 01:14:56,563 And my work 1049 01:14:57,697 --> 01:14:59,866 is as popular as I am. 1050 01:14:59,899 --> 01:15:02,569 There is a school of thought that regards musical theatre 1051 01:15:02,602 --> 01:15:04,704 as a second-rate means of expression. 1052 01:15:04,738 --> 01:15:07,507 Before you judge other people's work, Siegfried, 1053 01:15:07,540 --> 01:15:10,110 I would make sure your own is above criticism. 1054 01:15:10,143 --> 01:15:12,312 - What does that mean? - Just this, 1055 01:15:12,379 --> 01:15:15,582 that since 1918, your poetry has gone 1056 01:15:15,615 --> 01:15:18,785 from the sublime to the meticulous. 1057 01:15:18,818 --> 01:15:19,853 And tell me, Mr Novello, 1058 01:15:19,919 --> 01:15:22,220 what did you do during the war? 1059 01:15:22,880 --> 01:15:24,858 I gave my talent to my country. 1060 01:15:24,924 --> 01:15:28,161 I boosted morale by playing every theatre in the land! 1061 01:15:28,194 --> 01:15:29,662 Oh, weren't you the lucky one! 1062 01:15:29,696 --> 01:15:32,532 We had the Somme and you had Rhyl! 1063 01:15:40,400 --> 01:15:43,109 Well, I see no point in prolonging 1064 01:15:43,143 --> 01:15:44,711 this unpleasant conversation. 1065 01:15:44,744 --> 01:15:47,414 No. 1066 01:15:47,447 --> 01:15:48,615 Oh, no. After what's been said, 1067 01:15:48,648 --> 01:15:50,116 I don't expect you to foot the bill as well. 1068 01:15:50,150 --> 01:15:52,919 Oh, always the gentleman, eh, Siegfried? 1069 01:15:52,952 --> 01:15:54,487 It's better than being a cad. 1070 01:15:56,456 --> 01:15:58,324 I suspect this is goodbye then. 1071 01:15:58,358 --> 01:16:00,600 >Au revoir >might have been kinder. 1072 01:16:00,126 --> 01:16:02,495 Please don't undermine yourself, Siegfried. 1073 01:16:02,529 --> 01:16:04,130 That's what friends are for. 1074 01:16:04,164 --> 01:16:06,666 If you wish to see me again, I'll be at my flat. 1075 01:16:07,867 --> 01:16:08,902 Well, at least that's more original 1076 01:16:08,935 --> 01:16:10,370 than going home to mother. 1077 01:16:25,352 --> 01:16:27,200 Snap. 1078 01:16:31,910 --> 01:16:32,892 May I sit down? 1079 01:16:32,959 --> 01:16:34,194 Yes, of course. 1080 01:16:37,130 --> 01:16:38,531 Do you still dine here? 1081 01:16:39,399 --> 01:16:41,368 -Of course. -Why? 1082 01:16:43,570 --> 01:16:47,730 Let's just say I like the trips down memory lane. 1083 01:16:55,480 --> 01:16:56,216 What next? 1084 01:17:00,186 --> 01:17:04,524 Well, I suppose, in a bad melodrama, I'd kill myself. 1085 01:17:04,591 --> 01:17:07,160 And in a really bad melodrama, you kill Ivor. 1086 01:17:11,731 --> 01:17:13,333 Seriously, are you all right? 1087 01:17:15,502 --> 01:17:17,504 The moment passes, but the hurt remains. 1088 01:17:23,209 --> 01:17:24,711 And I was supposed to go and visit my mother 1089 01:17:24,744 --> 01:17:26,146 and now I've missed the train. 1090 01:17:26,212 --> 01:17:27,881 Drive down, why don't you? 1091 01:17:27,914 --> 01:17:29,416 I have no car. I can't drive. 1092 01:17:32,118 --> 01:17:34,454 I was going to motor down to the coast. 1093 01:17:35,588 --> 01:17:37,257 Why don't I give you a lift? 1094 01:17:39,325 --> 01:17:40,660 That would be very kind of you. 1095 01:17:40,694 --> 01:17:41,961 Where does she live? 1096 01:17:42,962 --> 01:17:44,197 Kent. 1097 01:17:44,998 --> 01:17:46,499 Then let's get going. 1098 01:18:01,748 --> 01:18:04,684 I have absolutely no idea where we are. 1099 01:18:17,530 --> 01:18:18,898 Although I, erm, 1100 01:18:20,767 --> 01:18:22,502 don't possess the wit to woo, 1101 01:18:24,738 --> 01:18:25,905 may I see you again? 1102 01:18:28,742 --> 01:18:30,430 I live in Margate. 1103 01:18:31,244 --> 01:18:32,245 Oh. 1104 01:18:34,214 --> 01:18:35,949 Pity Margate is so far away. 1105 01:18:38,685 --> 01:18:39,919 It's not at the moment. 1106 01:18:49,129 --> 01:18:50,130 What about Ivor? 1107 01:18:51,564 --> 01:18:52,565 Oh. 1108 01:18:53,700 --> 01:18:55,869 Ivor's already been to Margate. 1109 01:19:01,908 --> 01:19:05,712 > At dawn, the ridge emerges massed and dun> 1110 01:19:05,745 --> 01:19:08,648 >in wild purple of the glow'ring sun,> 1111 01:19:08,715 --> 01:19:11,518 >smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke> 1112 01:19:11,584 --> 01:19:14,120 >that shroud the menacing scarred slope.> 1113 01:19:14,788 --> 01:19:16,523 >And, one by one,> 1114 01:19:16,589 --> 01:19:19,693 >tanks creep and topple forward to the wire.> 1115 01:19:20,527 --> 01:19:23,697 >The barrage roars and lifts.> 1116 01:19:23,730 --> 01:19:26,332 >Then, clumsily bowed with bombs> 1117 01:19:26,366 --> 01:19:27,867 >and guns and battle-gear,> 1118 01:19:27,901 --> 01:19:32,706 >men jostle and climb to meet the bristling fire.> 1119 01:19:32,739 --> 01:19:37,444 >Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,> 1120 01:19:37,477 --> 01:19:41,247 >they leave their trenches, going over the top,> 1121 01:19:41,281 --> 01:19:45,850 >while time ticks blank and busy on their wrists,> 1122 01:19:45,118 --> 01:19:48,855 >and hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists,> 1123 01:19:48,922 --> 01:19:50,590 >flounders in the mud.> 1124 01:19:52,992 --> 01:19:55,628 >O Jesus, make it stop.> 1125 01:20:07,374 --> 01:20:08,375 We have a guest. 1126 01:20:12,645 --> 01:20:14,470 Oh, he's not a guest. 1127 01:20:14,914 --> 01:20:16,483 He's an afterthought. 1128 01:20:20,854 --> 01:20:23,323 This is my life partner, Bobby Andrews. 1129 01:20:23,356 --> 01:20:25,525 Bobby, Siegfried. Siegfried, Bobby. 1130 01:20:26,960 --> 01:20:28,795 Well, don't look so shocked. 1131 01:20:28,828 --> 01:20:30,697 Love has nothing to do with monogamy. 1132 01:20:31,731 --> 01:20:33,400 Or are you the faithful type? 1133 01:20:35,100 --> 01:20:36,690 I suppose I must be. 1134 01:20:37,404 --> 01:20:41,700 If you want fidelity, Siegfried, buy a pet. 1135 01:20:42,575 --> 01:20:44,477 You kept very quiet about this. 1136 01:20:44,544 --> 01:20:45,812 Well, that's because I didn't want anyone else 1137 01:20:45,879 --> 01:20:46,980 to shake him down from the tree. 1138 01:20:48,615 --> 01:20:50,684 You really are a *******, aren't you? 1139 01:20:50,750 --> 01:20:52,180 I do my best. 1140 01:20:54,754 --> 01:20:56,122 Now you must excuse us. 1141 01:20:57,624 --> 01:20:59,559 We have a casserole waiting. 1142 01:21:03,163 --> 01:21:04,164 Oh. 1143 01:21:08,935 --> 01:21:11,370 Where shall I put your key? 1144 01:21:11,710 --> 01:21:12,372 Back on the floor. 1145 01:21:31,958 --> 01:21:35,610 I can't face tea before 11 AM. 1146 01:21:35,128 --> 01:21:37,630 Drink it, you misery. 1147 01:21:40,734 --> 01:21:42,669 I don't do this for everyone, you know. 1148 01:21:44,204 --> 01:21:45,939 I'm the invalid, remember? 1149 01:21:47,374 --> 01:21:48,375 Like Chekhov. 1150 01:21:53,460 --> 01:21:55,815 Oh, what should I do about my hair? 1151 01:21:55,882 --> 01:21:57,684 Have you considered topiary? 1152 01:22:00,854 --> 01:22:02,155 I think I might dye it. 1153 01:22:04,424 --> 01:22:06,459 Or I could leave it in its natural colour. 1154 01:22:08,561 --> 01:22:13,767 When I'm sunburnt, it looks like spun gold. 1155 01:22:26,790 --> 01:22:27,280 I'll be with you in a moment. 1156 01:22:35,880 --> 01:22:36,256 It's Glen Byam Shaw. 1157 01:22:37,123 --> 01:22:39,250 Isn't that good news? 1158 01:22:44,497 --> 01:22:46,499 Siggy will be down in a trice. 1159 01:22:48,101 --> 01:22:49,602 He's suitably undressed. 1160 01:22:52,539 --> 01:22:55,342 We've just been talking about you. 1161 01:22:55,375 --> 01:22:57,410 So I hope your ears were burning, 1162 01:22:57,444 --> 01:22:58,645 all three of them. 1163 01:23:01,548 --> 01:23:03,350 Is Stephen naturally unpleasant 1164 01:23:03,416 --> 01:23:04,851 or does he take private tuition? 1165 01:23:04,918 --> 01:23:06,119 I heard that! 1166 01:23:06,152 --> 01:23:07,287 You were supposed to. 1167 01:23:19,299 --> 01:23:21,835 Siggy! Siggy! 1168 01:23:28,708 --> 01:23:29,809 I'm sorry. 1169 01:23:32,245 --> 01:23:34,114 What can I say? 1170 01:23:34,147 --> 01:23:35,615 There's nothing to say. 1171 01:23:37,250 --> 01:23:40,860 It's one of the inconveniences of the shadow life we lead. 1172 01:23:41,421 --> 01:23:44,257 Friends may come, friends may go. 1173 01:23:45,692 --> 01:23:47,994 Enemies are always faithful. 1174 01:23:51,631 --> 01:23:52,699 How is Ivor? 1175 01:23:55,100 --> 01:23:56,936 I have no idea. I don't see him any more. 1176 01:24:00,740 --> 01:24:02,142 Did you know about Bobby? 1177 01:24:04,744 --> 01:24:06,379 Yes. 1178 01:24:06,413 --> 01:24:08,214 You might have warned me. 1179 01:24:08,248 --> 01:24:09,716 I didn't want to seem vindictive. 1180 01:24:10,417 --> 01:24:11,418 Sour grapes and all that. 1181 01:24:17,924 --> 01:24:20,560 I wanted to tell you personally 1182 01:24:20,627 --> 01:24:22,195 that I'm planning to marry. 1183 01:24:24,864 --> 01:24:26,700 She's an actress and a good sort, 1184 01:24:26,733 --> 01:24:30,103 I think, and we're very fond of each other. 1185 01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:35,442 When did you decide? 1186 01:24:35,475 --> 01:24:36,943 Some months ago. 1187 01:24:38,445 --> 01:24:39,879 You should give a thought to it, too. 1188 01:24:41,648 --> 01:24:43,216 No, if the intention wasn't pure, 1189 01:24:43,249 --> 01:24:46,653 I don't think I could go through it. 1190 01:24:47,787 --> 01:24:50,156 Purity is like virginity. 1191 01:24:50,190 --> 01:24:52,125 As soon as you touch it, it becomes corrupt. 1192 01:24:57,330 --> 01:24:59,232 I hope you both will be very happy. 1193 01:25:00,500 --> 01:25:02,202 Thank you, Siegfried. 1194 01:25:04,404 --> 01:25:05,405 I shall do my best. 1195 01:25:32,650 --> 01:25:34,234 What's the matter? TB? 1196 01:25:35,935 --> 01:25:37,437 You should have told me. 1197 01:25:37,504 --> 01:25:38,571 Why? 1198 01:25:38,605 --> 01:25:39,906 There's nothing you can do about it. 1199 01:25:39,939 --> 01:25:41,700 I could have taken you somewhere, 1200 01:25:41,410 --> 01:25:42,876 to a warmer, drier climate. 1201 01:25:47,747 --> 01:25:49,616 That rules out Frinton then. 1202 01:25:51,284 --> 01:25:52,852 Is there somewhere we can go to help you? 1203 01:25:54,954 --> 01:25:56,523 Yes. 1204 01:25:56,589 --> 01:25:57,957 I've been there before. 1205 01:25:58,658 --> 01:26:00,126 In Germany. 1206 01:26:00,160 --> 01:26:02,562 Haus Hirt in Bavaria. 1207 01:26:02,629 --> 01:26:06,466 All cow bells, lederhosen and very, very thick thighs. 1208 01:26:07,767 --> 01:26:10,203 So idyllic, you'll want to scream. 1209 01:26:11,104 --> 01:26:14,274 But the German men... Gorgeous! 1210 01:26:15,942 --> 01:26:18,778 I wonder what the collective noun for them is. 1211 01:26:27,870 --> 01:26:28,521 Oh, don't look so glum, Siggy. 1212 01:26:28,588 --> 01:26:30,156 I'm not about to join the Hitler Youth. 1213 01:26:40,333 --> 01:26:41,768 Yes. Who is it? 1214 01:26:41,835 --> 01:26:43,703 > Hello, Siegfried, it's Alexander.> 1215 01:26:43,737 --> 01:26:46,600 >Is Stephen there?> 1216 01:26:46,390 --> 01:26:47,440 >-Hello? >-Don't call here again. 1217 01:26:50,877 --> 01:26:51,878 It was Fenton. 1218 01:26:53,646 --> 01:26:55,915 I don't like this at all. 1219 01:26:55,949 --> 01:26:59,185 We bumped into each other on Piccadilly the other day. 1220 01:26:59,252 --> 01:27:01,321 We had a harmless drink and I gave him your number. 1221 01:27:01,354 --> 01:27:02,655 Don't do it again! 1222 01:27:02,689 --> 01:27:04,791 If that were a request, I might consider it. 1223 01:27:04,824 --> 01:27:07,394 If it's an order, I'll make a point of disobeying it. 1224 01:27:12,565 --> 01:27:13,700 What did Glen want? 1225 01:27:21,410 --> 01:27:23,410 He's getting married. 1226 01:27:24,411 --> 01:27:26,713 The ultimate capitulation. 1227 01:27:28,915 --> 01:27:30,417 I'm sure they'll be very happy. 1228 01:27:31,584 --> 01:27:34,120 She's probably as mediocre as he is. 1229 01:27:35,755 --> 01:27:37,900 You'll be doing it next. 1230 01:28:08,254 --> 01:28:11,910 Thought I'd try my hand at some watercolours. 1231 01:28:11,124 --> 01:28:13,860 -Hmm. -Landscapes and things. 1232 01:28:13,893 --> 01:28:14,894 It's the Magritte in me. 1233 01:28:16,162 --> 01:28:17,864 This is not a pipe. 1234 01:28:17,897 --> 01:28:19,332 Rene will be pleased. 1235 01:28:20,700 --> 01:28:22,350 How would you describe your style? 1236 01:28:22,902 --> 01:28:24,504 Erratic. 1237 01:28:24,537 --> 01:28:25,672 But then I'm giving this to a friend 1238 01:28:25,705 --> 01:28:27,240 whom I really detest. 1239 01:28:34,214 --> 01:28:35,982 You don't remember me at all, do you? 1240 01:28:38,284 --> 01:28:39,285 The spa? 1241 01:28:40,787 --> 01:28:43,923 Ivor Novello? Stephen Tennant? 1242 01:28:45,191 --> 01:28:46,493 Oh, yes, of course. 1243 01:28:47,327 --> 01:28:48,328 Yes. 1244 01:28:49,290 --> 01:28:51,310 The oyster grey silk. 1245 01:28:53,660 --> 01:28:55,402 You're supposed to remember me, not the dress. 1246 01:29:06,880 --> 01:29:09,115 Before I met you for the first time, I'd always thought 1247 01:29:09,149 --> 01:29:12,419 you'd be either mercurial or dark. 1248 01:29:14,287 --> 01:29:15,855 And what am I, dark or mercurial? 1249 01:29:16,456 --> 01:29:17,457 Oh, neither. 1250 01:29:18,625 --> 01:29:20,393 You're more opaque, I think. 1251 01:29:23,496 --> 01:29:24,998 So what brings you down here? 1252 01:29:26,660 --> 01:29:30,360 I... I should like to say the picturesque, 1253 01:29:30,737 --> 01:29:31,938 but it wouldn't be true. 1254 01:29:35,141 --> 01:29:37,377 I came down in the hope of seeing you again. 1255 01:29:38,645 --> 01:29:40,280 I used the painting as a ploy. 1256 01:29:42,282 --> 01:29:43,283 Oh. 1257 01:29:44,250 --> 01:29:45,418 Well, I'm touched. 1258 01:29:47,821 --> 01:29:51,910 No one's ever used subterfuge before in order to see me. 1259 01:29:51,124 --> 01:29:54,627 It's the modern thing, liberated woman and all that. 1260 01:30:03,737 --> 01:30:06,720 It would be very pleasant if you invited me to lunch. 1261 01:30:09,376 --> 01:30:11,478 It would be very pleasant if you accepted. 1262 01:30:41,608 --> 01:30:42,909 You really are very lovely. 1263 01:30:45,712 --> 01:30:46,713 May I kiss you? 1264 01:30:49,549 --> 01:30:50,984 You don't have to ask. 1265 01:31:19,879 --> 01:31:21,614 I've never had an affair with a woman. 1266 01:31:24,984 --> 01:31:25,985 Only men. 1267 01:31:30,590 --> 01:31:32,792 Stephen told me all I needed to know. 1268 01:31:48,875 --> 01:31:50,760 All my life, I feel as though 1269 01:31:50,110 --> 01:31:53,213 I've been waiting for a catastrophe to happen. 1270 01:31:53,246 --> 01:31:56,750 Well, that's optimism for you. 1271 01:31:59,552 --> 01:32:01,588 My whole future could depend on you. 1272 01:32:03,423 --> 01:32:05,291 You must redeem my life for me, Hester. 1273 01:32:07,694 --> 01:32:09,896 That sounds like some sort of proposal. 1274 01:32:12,320 --> 01:32:14,334 If I was selfish enough, I'd ask you to marry me. 1275 01:32:23,760 --> 01:32:24,511 If I were foolish enough, 1276 01:32:26,479 --> 01:32:27,480 I'd accept. 1277 01:32:35,522 --> 01:32:38,525 Oh, I look 500 years old. 1278 01:32:44,300 --> 01:32:45,999 Some say I am beautiful. 1279 01:32:47,400 --> 01:32:48,802 And, as an aesthete, 1280 01:32:49,903 --> 01:32:52,272 I feel that beauty is eternal. 1281 01:32:55,508 --> 01:32:59,913 We see it in the eyes of those who love us. 1282 01:33:03,717 --> 01:33:06,519 Although my mother thinks 1283 01:33:06,586 --> 01:33:09,489 that my eyes are like cold seawater. 1284 01:33:14,527 --> 01:33:19,320 My buttocks and my shoulders are very well-shaped. 1285 01:33:20,400 --> 01:33:26,373 But my best feature is the beauty of my hands. 1286 01:33:26,406 --> 01:33:30,430 Almond milk and lemon creams are perfect for them, 1287 01:33:31,344 --> 01:33:34,547 and one must never laugh too much. 1288 01:33:35,615 --> 01:33:37,751 It coarsens one's face, 1289 01:33:37,784 --> 01:33:40,653 especially if the laughter is gleeful. 1290 01:33:40,687 --> 01:33:43,923 Stephen, how can you be so narcissistic? 1291 01:33:43,957 --> 01:33:46,993 It is my defence against nihilism and the vulgar. 1292 01:33:47,270 --> 01:33:48,995 You cannot conduct a life in that way. 1293 01:33:49,290 --> 01:33:50,630 Course one can. 1294 01:33:50,830 --> 01:33:52,532 My life is my art. 1295 01:33:52,565 --> 01:33:54,667 Yours isn't a life, it's barely a hobby. 1296 01:33:54,701 --> 01:33:56,369 That was an ugly thing to say. 1297 01:33:56,403 --> 01:33:59,500 I know sometimes it's better to be kind than honest, 1298 01:33:59,390 --> 01:34:01,174 but you are frittering your life away 1299 01:34:01,207 --> 01:34:02,942 in pomades and powder. 1300 01:34:04,644 --> 01:34:05,812 And if you don't believe me, 1301 01:34:05,879 --> 01:34:07,714 ask someone with more sense and less love. 1302 01:34:07,747 --> 01:34:10,383 You've made your antipathy to me very obvious. 1303 01:34:10,417 --> 01:34:12,252 I don't need a second opinion. 1304 01:34:13,787 --> 01:34:15,622 I'm going to Salisbury for the weekend. 1305 01:34:17,691 --> 01:34:18,825 Edith Oliver has found me 1306 01:34:18,858 --> 01:34:20,527 a cottage to rent in Teffont Magna. 1307 01:34:22,629 --> 01:34:24,631 I thought we could spend weekends there. 1308 01:34:27,000 --> 01:34:28,234 Will you come? 1309 01:34:28,301 --> 01:34:30,603 I, too, have had an invitation. 1310 01:34:31,838 --> 01:34:33,106 From whom? 1311 01:34:33,173 --> 01:34:36,609 A German prince whom I think you more than know. 1312 01:34:38,945 --> 01:34:40,880 Philip of Hesse, yes. 1313 01:34:40,914 --> 01:34:42,716 And one of Edith Sitwell's proteges. 1314 01:34:43,817 --> 01:34:46,986 A concert pianist called Tchelitchew. 1315 01:34:47,200 --> 01:34:52,158 Very Cyrillic, very Russian and very divine. 1316 01:34:53,326 --> 01:34:55,495 And where are you going to? 1317 01:34:55,528 --> 01:34:57,897 Paris first. 1318 01:34:57,964 --> 01:35:00,900 Then we'll motor down to Bavaria so I can recuperate 1319 01:35:00,967 --> 01:35:01,968 from life. 1320 01:35:04,337 --> 01:35:06,406 After Bavaria, they're going to go on to Venice. 1321 01:35:07,574 --> 01:35:08,608 Philip told me that he once 1322 01:35:08,675 --> 01:35:10,760 tried to make love in a gondola, 1323 01:35:10,110 --> 01:35:11,444 but that there wasn't enough privacy. 1324 01:35:11,511 --> 01:35:12,979 Stability. 1325 01:35:15,480 --> 01:35:16,950 Oh. 1326 01:35:16,983 --> 01:35:20,353 So it was with you, was it? You sly old thing. 1327 01:35:20,420 --> 01:35:22,655 This all seems very sudden. 1328 01:35:22,689 --> 01:35:24,324 Yes, it does, doesn't it? 1329 01:35:25,258 --> 01:35:28,495 But then, that's my life. 1330 01:35:31,231 --> 01:35:32,465 All go. 1331 01:35:37,270 --> 01:35:40,707 Older than God, but without any of the influence. 1332 01:36:10,503 --> 01:36:12,172 Am I welcome, Hester? 1333 01:36:15,408 --> 01:36:17,243 Come in and see. 1334 01:36:30,757 --> 01:36:32,359 Siegfried. 1335 01:36:32,425 --> 01:36:33,927 Stephen. 1336 01:36:37,664 --> 01:36:39,332 How dreadful we all look. 1337 01:36:42,202 --> 01:36:45,205 But I still have beautiful hands, I think. 1338 01:36:50,443 --> 01:36:51,945 I'll make some tea. 1339 01:37:02,188 --> 01:37:04,758 I suppose you've heard of Ivor's death. 1340 01:37:06,920 --> 01:37:07,930 Yes. 1341 01:37:10,296 --> 01:37:13,967 They say the funeral attracted a thousand people. 1342 01:37:16,202 --> 01:37:19,390 Probably made up mostly by all the people he slept with. 1343 01:37:25,912 --> 01:37:28,548 I still have a soft spot for Ivor's work, though. 1344 01:37:28,581 --> 01:37:32,218 All those tortured princesses and lovers 1345 01:37:32,252 --> 01:37:35,121 who have no money, but plenty of *** appeal. 1346 01:37:35,155 --> 01:37:37,791 His work was always sentimental nonsense. 1347 01:37:39,292 --> 01:37:41,294 He cheapened everything he touched. 1348 01:37:41,327 --> 01:37:44,640 I've always thought his particular kind of mawkishness 1349 01:37:44,130 --> 01:37:45,632 was a kind of catharsis 1350 01:37:45,665 --> 01:37:49,836 for the dimmer members among us. 1351 01:37:49,869 --> 01:37:51,370 That's because you have never known 1352 01:37:51,710 --> 01:37:52,272 the difference between the two. 1353 01:37:52,338 --> 01:37:54,341 We can't all possess your purity of thought. 1354 01:37:54,374 --> 01:37:57,110 It isn't a question of purity, 1355 01:37:57,177 --> 01:37:59,479 but of discernment. 1356 01:37:59,546 --> 01:38:03,416 And you were never very good at discernment. 1357 01:38:05,952 --> 01:38:08,655 That was rather too acerbic. 1358 01:38:08,688 --> 01:38:11,825 Mordant would be the more accurate word. 1359 01:38:18,331 --> 01:38:20,233 Are you still very angry? 1360 01:38:21,301 --> 01:38:22,302 What do you expect? 1361 01:38:23,436 --> 01:38:24,504 You ended our relationship 1362 01:38:24,537 --> 01:38:26,172 with a letter from your doctor. 1363 01:38:27,941 --> 01:38:29,843 How was I supposed to feel? 1364 01:38:29,876 --> 01:38:32,245 Still clearly very hurt, I see. 1365 01:38:32,278 --> 01:38:34,781 I had hoped that you might have been 1366 01:38:34,814 --> 01:38:36,149 a little more forgiving. 1367 01:38:36,216 --> 01:38:39,986 If I had treated you the way in which you treated me, 1368 01:38:40,200 --> 01:38:41,921 how forgiving would you be? 1369 01:38:43,456 --> 01:38:45,925 Besides, when the parade's gone by, 1370 01:38:45,959 --> 01:38:47,327 you have to have enough sense to realize 1371 01:38:47,360 --> 01:38:49,290 that you are no longer a part of it. 1372 01:38:49,620 --> 01:38:50,697 I'm trying to apologize. 1373 01:38:50,730 --> 01:38:53,333 You're 30 years too late! 1374 01:38:58,738 --> 01:39:00,507 Can't we still be friends? 1375 01:39:01,374 --> 01:39:02,375 No. 1376 01:39:04,344 --> 01:39:08,214 You once meant so much. Now you mean so little. 1377 01:39:08,248 --> 01:39:09,783 -Sieg... -Don't trivialise it 1378 01:39:09,816 --> 01:39:12,419 by saying something glib. 1379 01:39:12,452 --> 01:39:14,487 Can I see you again? In London perhaps? 1380 01:39:14,521 --> 01:39:15,855 No! 1381 01:39:16,656 --> 01:39:18,910 I rarely go to London now. 1382 01:39:30,837 --> 01:39:32,439 And how is George? 1383 01:39:34,374 --> 01:39:35,375 Young. 1384 01:39:36,409 --> 01:39:37,677 Thriving. 1385 01:39:37,711 --> 01:39:39,446 He's like all children. 1386 01:39:39,479 --> 01:39:41,481 He has the worst aspects of both his parents. 1387 01:39:42,982 --> 01:39:44,784 How about his parents' virtues? 1388 01:39:44,818 --> 01:39:46,686 He's cursed with those as well. 1389 01:39:51,124 --> 01:39:53,593 I am... 1390 01:39:55,161 --> 01:39:57,297 very lonely, Siggy. 1391 01:39:58,198 --> 01:39:59,699 Is it agony? 1392 01:40:00,667 --> 01:40:02,302 One does hope so. 1393 01:40:04,270 --> 01:40:05,772 George has an independent mind, 1394 01:40:05,839 --> 01:40:08,441 which sometimes shocks Siegfried. 1395 01:40:08,508 --> 01:40:10,110 It isn't independence, it's wilfulness. 1396 01:40:17,500 --> 01:40:18,485 Who's died? 1397 01:40:18,551 --> 01:40:20,320 All of us. 1398 01:40:20,353 --> 01:40:22,856 George, the pipe was not a good idea. 1399 01:40:22,922 --> 01:40:24,591 Looks as if it's smoking you. 1400 01:40:24,624 --> 01:40:26,459 Old silver tongue. 1401 01:40:26,493 --> 01:40:28,261 We could do without the smoke. 1402 01:40:29,620 --> 01:40:30,630 Tea, darling? 1403 01:40:30,830 --> 01:40:32,298 No, thank you, Mother. 1404 01:40:36,202 --> 01:40:37,704 Thank you for the tea. 1405 01:40:38,905 --> 01:40:40,340 George will see you out. 1406 01:40:43,510 --> 01:40:46,212 - Goodbye. - Goodbye. 1407 01:40:53,386 --> 01:40:55,488 Charming as ever. 1408 01:40:55,522 --> 01:40:57,290 But there's still malice at the edge of his voice, 1409 01:40:57,323 --> 01:40:58,324 as there always was. 1410 01:40:59,793 --> 01:41:01,861 Sometimes, Siegfried, it's more humane 1411 01:41:01,895 --> 01:41:03,730 to be kind than to be honest. 1412 01:41:05,131 --> 01:41:07,801 He constantly goaded my jealousy. 1413 01:41:07,834 --> 01:41:10,300 It was like being killed by degrees. 1414 01:41:12,272 --> 01:41:14,407 He once told me he thought you were matchless. 1415 01:41:16,376 --> 01:41:20,580 We are unique only to the people who really loathe us. 1416 01:41:22,549 --> 01:41:25,385 > Will you come to dinner tonight at Mother's?> 1417 01:41:25,418 --> 01:41:27,821 She'd have invited God if she thought He'd come. 1418 01:41:30,357 --> 01:41:32,325 I'm uncomfortable with all that distinction. 1419 01:41:33,793 --> 01:41:34,828 I'm not at all an intellectual, 1420 01:41:34,861 --> 01:41:36,663 I have a very cumbersome mind. 1421 01:41:38,164 --> 01:41:40,967 Oh, please come. 1422 01:41:42,202 --> 01:41:44,604 Max Beerbohm said he might drop in for a drink. 1423 01:41:45,271 --> 01:41:46,940 Hmm. 1424 01:41:47,700 --> 01:41:49,576 Then I shall come. 1425 01:41:49,609 --> 01:41:51,378 Just to hear Max's delectable gossip. 1426 01:41:53,446 --> 01:41:55,415 You know, he, er... 1427 01:41:55,448 --> 01:41:57,450 he once described TS Elliot as 1428 01:41:57,484 --> 01:41:59,386 "Poor old Tom who sits there ironically 1429 01:41:59,419 --> 01:42:01,354 "analysing an empty sardine tin." 1430 01:42:04,591 --> 01:42:07,930 Well, you better get your skates on, 1431 01:42:07,127 --> 01:42:09,329 and I better get my glad rags out of mothballs. 1432 01:42:29,649 --> 01:42:31,651 Now don't miss me too much, all right? 1433 01:42:31,718 --> 01:42:33,153 Bye! 1434 01:42:33,920 --> 01:42:35,655 Goodbye, darlings! 1435 01:43:05,719 --> 01:43:06,953 No welcome? 1436 01:43:09,155 --> 01:43:10,357 No bunting? 1437 01:43:12,525 --> 01:43:15,695 Not even, "You're looking frightfully well, Stephen." 1438 01:43:21,501 --> 01:43:24,337 Am I going to get the silent treatment? 1439 01:43:24,371 --> 01:43:27,407 Or are we going to conduct the rest of this conversation 1440 01:43:27,440 --> 01:43:29,676 entirely in Braille? 1441 01:43:29,709 --> 01:43:32,450 Beware the wrath of a patient man. 1442 01:43:32,780 --> 01:43:33,146 Who said that? 1443 01:43:34,881 --> 01:43:36,282 Confucius, I think. 1444 01:43:39,219 --> 01:43:41,588 On one of his better days. 1445 01:43:41,621 --> 01:43:45,125 Well, if you're going to get all profound on me, 1446 01:43:45,158 --> 01:43:48,194 perhaps you could throw in >Ol' Man River> as a bonus. 1447 01:43:49,290 --> 01:43:50,697 How was Bavaria? 1448 01:43:51,197 --> 01:43:53,199 Bavarian. 1449 01:43:53,233 --> 01:43:55,680 Did your companion stay long? 1450 01:43:55,635 --> 01:43:57,537 Long enough. 1451 01:43:57,570 --> 01:43:59,500 And what did you do, Stephen? 1452 01:44:00,273 --> 01:44:02,208 Apart from cough? 1453 01:44:03,430 --> 01:44:06,212 I... Ooh, what's the phrase? 1454 01:44:07,447 --> 01:44:10,417 I lived life to the full. 1455 01:44:10,450 --> 01:44:12,752 -All three of you? -Yes. 1456 01:44:12,786 --> 01:44:14,954 It's called troilism, I believe. 1457 01:44:14,988 --> 01:44:17,190 -Or an orgy. -Yes. 1458 01:44:17,257 --> 01:44:22,529 That's probably more accurate, but I won't go into detail. 1459 01:44:22,562 --> 01:44:24,964 You know how discreet I am in these matters. 1460 01:44:28,234 --> 01:44:33,239 My spies tell me you've been seeing a lot of Hester Gatty. 1461 01:44:33,273 --> 01:44:35,375 Hester Gatty's been seeing a lot of me. 1462 01:44:36,409 --> 01:44:38,144 I'm beginning to see the light. 1463 01:44:39,646 --> 01:44:42,549 A new, secretive you. 1464 01:44:43,283 --> 01:44:44,918 Surely you're not jealous? 1465 01:44:44,951 --> 01:44:46,419 Of course not. 1466 01:44:47,754 --> 01:44:49,756 Now we can all be girls together. 1467 01:44:50,924 --> 01:44:52,792 Like Roedean. 1468 01:44:56,663 --> 01:44:58,331 Have you slept with her? 1469 01:44:58,365 --> 01:45:00,233 No. 1470 01:45:00,300 --> 01:45:02,702 Our relationship is as deep as it is decorous. 1471 01:45:05,171 --> 01:45:08,341 I've even bought myself some passion-killing pyjamas. 1472 01:45:08,375 --> 01:45:09,409 Are you going to marry her? 1473 01:45:09,442 --> 01:45:11,211 Yes, I think I probably shall. 1474 01:45:11,244 --> 01:45:13,546 You'll make a vile partner, Siggy. 1475 01:45:13,580 --> 01:45:16,950 Perhaps, but then I have been taught by a master. 1476 01:45:16,983 --> 01:45:19,552 You'll be taking a great risk. 1477 01:45:19,586 --> 01:45:21,321 I'll be taking the same risk I took with you. 1478 01:45:21,354 --> 01:45:24,491 Couldn't be much worse. May even be better. 1479 01:45:24,524 --> 01:45:28,280 I can see years ahead for both of you. 1480 01:45:28,940 --> 01:45:30,897 Filled with passionless silences 1481 01:45:30,964 --> 01:45:33,967 and compulsory cocoa at bedtime. 1482 01:45:35,201 --> 01:45:37,871 Oh, by the way, 1483 01:45:37,904 --> 01:45:39,739 as we intend to be living in the country, 1484 01:45:39,773 --> 01:45:42,800 I'll be giving up the lease on this flat. 1485 01:45:43,410 --> 01:45:46,246 I didn't want to leave you in the dark unnecessarily. 1486 01:45:46,279 --> 01:45:50,417 But once we've found a house, you'll have to move out. 1487 01:45:50,450 --> 01:45:52,218 That sounds almost like a threat. 1488 01:45:52,252 --> 01:45:54,870 It almost is. 1489 01:45:54,120 --> 01:45:55,255 So you're going to throw baby's 1490 01:45:55,288 --> 01:45:58,992 little body out into the cold, cold snow? 1491 01:45:59,250 --> 01:46:00,694 No, not immediately, no. 1492 01:46:02,328 --> 01:46:04,631 We'll wait for warmer weather. 1493 01:46:14,374 --> 01:46:16,343 Can I get you anything before I leave? 1494 01:46:16,376 --> 01:46:17,377 No. 1495 01:46:25,552 --> 01:46:28,880 I'll write once I get to Scotland. 1496 01:46:32,920 --> 01:46:33,526 I said I'll write once... 1497 01:46:33,593 --> 01:46:35,795 I heard you. I'm trying to listen to the radio. 1498 01:46:41,301 --> 01:46:43,370 -Shall I phone? -No! 1499 01:46:56,149 --> 01:46:57,484 What time's your train, Mother? 1500 01:46:57,550 --> 01:46:59,419 Not for an hour. 1501 01:46:59,452 --> 01:47:01,287 We've got plenty of time to get to the station. 1502 01:47:08,561 --> 01:47:09,996 I'll come back for you later. 1503 01:47:16,903 --> 01:47:19,205 > Remember, marry in haste,> 1504 01:47:19,239 --> 01:47:21,740 >repent at leisure.> 1505 01:47:22,175 --> 01:47:23,777 I was shocked when you got married 1506 01:47:23,843 --> 01:47:26,379 and for exactly the same reason. 1507 01:47:26,413 --> 01:47:27,914 And now it's my turn to be shocked. 1508 01:47:36,322 --> 01:47:38,191 I have given you all a bit of a surprise, haven't I? 1509 01:47:41,861 --> 01:47:45,131 -Who's officiating? -Er, Canon ***. 1510 01:47:45,165 --> 01:47:46,566 Ah. 1511 01:47:50,937 --> 01:47:54,740 Oh, I'm sorry, Lawrence, have you met Glen Byam Shaw? 1512 01:47:54,107 --> 01:47:55,742 Glen this is TE Lawrence. 1513 01:47:57,377 --> 01:47:58,545 Of Arabia? 1514 01:47:58,578 --> 01:48:00,113 Not recently. 1515 01:48:02,482 --> 01:48:04,117 Are you sure you know what you're doing? 1516 01:48:07,253 --> 01:48:08,254 I think so. 1517 01:48:09,322 --> 01:48:11,958 In the end, we few, 1518 01:48:11,991 --> 01:48:14,994 we happy few are always exogamous. 1519 01:48:15,280 --> 01:48:16,996 Christ, what does that mean? 1520 01:48:17,300 --> 01:48:19,899 To marry outside of one's tribe or group. 1521 01:48:19,966 --> 01:48:22,535 Do you specialise in using words no one understands? 1522 01:48:22,569 --> 01:48:25,171 Yes. It's my revenge on people 1523 01:48:25,205 --> 01:48:26,773 who don't know what exogamous means. 1524 01:48:33,146 --> 01:48:34,381 Have you chosen any music? 1525 01:48:35,582 --> 01:48:37,117 No. 1526 01:48:37,150 --> 01:48:39,319 Oh, I'm disappointed. 1527 01:48:39,386 --> 01:48:41,821 I thought we'd get something English and dismal. 1528 01:48:55,402 --> 01:48:56,403 What are you doing here? 1529 01:48:57,771 --> 01:48:59,500 Hester invited me. 1530 01:49:08,810 --> 01:49:09,883 I'm her maid of honour. 1531 01:49:11,551 --> 01:49:13,820 The vows that you are about to take 1532 01:49:13,853 --> 01:49:16,790 are to be made in the presence of God, 1533 01:49:16,823 --> 01:49:18,992 who is the judge of all 1534 01:49:19,250 --> 01:49:22,862 and knows all the secrets of our hearts. 1535 01:49:22,896 --> 01:49:26,666 Therefore, if either of you know any reason 1536 01:49:26,700 --> 01:49:29,369 why you may not lawfully marry, 1537 01:49:29,402 --> 01:49:32,372 you must declare it now. 1538 01:50:02,202 --> 01:50:03,203 How are you? 1539 01:50:05,905 --> 01:50:07,407 Just very tired. 1540 01:50:11,277 --> 01:50:12,712 Is there anything I can get you? 1541 01:50:29,562 --> 01:50:31,398 Have you thought of a name? 1542 01:50:32,732 --> 01:50:33,733 No. 1543 01:50:38,204 --> 01:50:40,407 I thought we might call him George. 1544 01:50:42,842 --> 01:50:43,843 Yes. 1545 01:50:50,750 --> 01:50:52,752 My whole future depends on him. 1546 01:50:56,890 --> 01:50:57,957 You once said that about me. 1547 01:51:06,533 --> 01:51:07,734 Do you want to hold him? 1548 01:51:09,836 --> 01:51:12,672 >...with homes that are rented> 1549 01:51:12,706 --> 01:51:16,843 >So I have invented my own> 1550 01:51:16,876 --> 01:51:20,814 >Darling, this place is a lover's oasis> 1551 01:51:20,880 --> 01:51:25,552 >Where life's weary chase is unknown...> 1552 01:51:25,585 --> 01:51:27,287 I'm very happy. 1553 01:51:28,855 --> 01:51:30,690 And this is the reason. 1554 01:51:34,270 --> 01:51:36,396 >Cosy to hide in> 1555 01:51:36,463 --> 01:51:38,465 >To live side by side in> 1556 01:51:38,498 --> 01:51:42,680 >Don't let it abide in my dream> 1557 01:51:44,738 --> 01:51:48,708 >Picture me upon your knee> 1558 01:51:48,742 --> 01:51:52,812 >Just tea for two and two for tea> 1559 01:51:52,879 --> 01:51:57,117 >Just me for you and you for me> 1560 01:51:57,150 --> 01:52:01,588 >Alone> 1561 01:52:01,621 --> 01:52:05,358 >Nobody near us to see us or hear us> 1562 01:52:05,425 --> 01:52:09,329 >No friends or relations on weekend vacations> 1563 01:52:09,362 --> 01:52:11,464 >We won't have it known, dear> 1564 01:52:11,498 --> 01:52:17,570 >That we own a telephone, dear> 1565 01:52:17,604 --> 01:52:21,675 >Day will break and I'll awake> 1566 01:52:21,708 --> 01:52:25,712 >And start to bake a sugar cake> 1567 01:52:25,745 --> 01:52:32,752 >For you to take for all the boys to see> 1568 01:52:34,200 --> 01:52:38,124 >We will raise a family> 1569 01:52:38,158 --> 01:52:42,228 >A boy for you, a girl for me> 1570 01:52:42,295 --> 01:52:44,798 >Oh, can't you see> 1571 01:52:44,831 --> 01:52:51,838 >How happy we would be?> 1572 01:52:55,709 --> 01:52:57,877 >How beautifully blue the sky.> 1573 01:52:58,878 --> 01:53:01,314 >The glass is rising very high.> 1574 01:53:02,382 --> 01:53:04,584 >Continue fine I hope it may.> 1575 01:53:05,652 --> 01:53:07,954 >And yet it rained but yesterday.> 1576 01:53:08,955 --> 01:53:10,957 >Tomorrow, it may pour again.> 1577 01:53:12,920 --> 01:53:14,361 >I hear the country needs some rain.> 1578 01:53:16,196 --> 01:53:18,331 >I stood with the dead.> 1579 01:53:19,866 --> 01:53:21,968 > Come down from Heaven to meet me> 1580 01:53:22,100 --> 01:53:24,571 >when my breath chokes.> 1581 01:53:24,604 --> 01:53:27,107 >And through drumming shafts of stifling death> 1582 01:53:27,173 --> 01:53:29,420 >I stumble towards escape,> 1583 01:53:30,377 --> 01:53:33,460 >to find the door opening on morn> 1584 01:53:33,790 --> 01:53:35,480 >where I may breathe once more> 1585 01:53:35,810 --> 01:53:36,783 >clear ****-crow airs> 1586 01:53:36,816 --> 01:53:39,986 >across some valley dim with whispering trees.> 1587 01:53:41,488 --> 01:53:44,257 >While dawn along the rim of night's horizon> 1588 01:53:44,290 --> 01:53:45,959 >flows in lakes of fire,> 1589 01:53:47,270 --> 01:53:49,129 >come down from Heaven's bright hill,> 1590 01:53:49,162 --> 01:53:50,830 >my song's desire.> 1591 01:53:52,332 --> 01:53:53,833 >Belov'd and faithful,> 1592 01:53:53,867 --> 01:53:57,103 >teach my soul to wake in glades deep-ranked> 1593 01:53:57,170 --> 01:53:58,872 >with flowers that gleam> 1594 01:53:58,905 --> 01:54:02,208 >and shake and flock your paths with wonder.> 1595 01:54:03,443 --> 01:54:05,211 >In your gaze, show me,> 1596 01:54:05,245 --> 01:54:08,548 >the vanquished vigil of my days.> 1597 01:54:08,581 --> 01:54:12,619 >Mute in that golden silence hung with green,> 1598 01:54:12,652 --> 01:54:15,588 >come down from Heaven and bring me in your eyes> 1599 01:54:15,622 --> 01:54:18,858 >remembrance of all beauty that has been.> 1600 01:54:18,925 --> 01:54:21,861 >And stillness from the pools of Paradise.> 1601 01:54:26,700 --> 01:54:28,568 > Rising,> 1602 01:54:28,635 --> 01:54:32,539 >rising the voices of the muffled dead.> 1603 01:54:42,248 --> 01:54:43,717 Are you going to keep this silence up 1604 01:54:43,750 --> 01:54:44,951 for the rest of the day? 1605 01:54:52,258 --> 01:54:53,860 Look, I brought you down to London 1606 01:54:53,927 --> 01:54:55,128 because I was worried about you! 1607 01:54:55,161 --> 01:54:57,997 -I'm fine. -No, you're not! 1608 01:54:58,310 --> 01:55:00,367 There was no food in the house! No heating! 1609 01:55:00,400 --> 01:55:02,680 And you were sitting there in the dark 1610 01:55:02,135 --> 01:55:03,269 like a Protestant bishop! 1611 01:55:03,336 --> 01:55:06,720 -I can manage! -No, you can't! 1612 01:55:13,880 --> 01:55:16,616 If you're going to sulk, I'm going upstairs. 1613 01:55:27,327 --> 01:55:29,195 Turn that rubbish off! 1614 01:55:29,229 --> 01:55:32,232 I'll do as I like! It's my house! 1615 01:55:32,298 --> 01:55:34,667 -It's my music! -That isn't music! 1616 01:55:34,701 --> 01:55:37,700 It's commercially grotesque noise 1617 01:55:37,103 --> 01:55:40,674 made by stupid people for stupid people! 1618 01:55:40,707 --> 01:55:42,776 Oh, don't be so bigoted! 1619 01:56:06,800 --> 01:56:08,100 > The official numbers> 1620 01:56:08,340 --> 01:56:11,371 >of those killed in the First World War.> 1621 01:56:11,404 --> 01:56:14,174 >The United Kingdom and its colonies:> 1622 01:56:14,207 --> 01:56:19,412 >1,225,914.> 1623 01:56:20,246 --> 01:56:27,870 >France: 1,697,798.> 1624 01:56:27,921 --> 01:56:35,295 >Germany: 2,476,897.> 1625 01:56:35,328 --> 01:56:42,302 >Austria-Hungary: 1,567,202.> 1626 01:56:43,203 --> 01:56:49,420 >Russia: 3,311,251...> 1627 01:56:54,247 --> 01:56:57,817 > These are the statistics of catastrophe.> 1628 01:56:57,884 --> 01:57:03,623 >Yet from Prime to Compline, life goes slowly on.> 1629 01:57:23,510 --> 01:57:25,445 Are you thinking great thoughts? 1630 01:57:25,478 --> 01:57:26,613 No. 1631 01:57:28,915 --> 01:57:30,116 Just sitting here being petty. 1632 01:57:33,153 --> 01:57:37,590 Trying to understand the enigma of other people. 1633 01:57:44,898 --> 01:57:46,132 So many have died. 1634 01:57:51,738 --> 01:57:52,772 Too many. 1635 01:57:58,745 --> 01:58:00,914 Most people live for the moment. 1636 01:58:00,947 --> 01:58:02,449 You live for eternity. 1637 01:58:02,482 --> 01:58:04,217 -Don't say that. -Why not? 1638 01:58:04,250 --> 01:58:05,652 Because I'm afraid I might believe it. 1639 01:58:17,130 --> 01:58:19,299 I would have liked to have been recognised, though. 1640 01:58:20,867 --> 01:58:24,237 In some significant way for my work. 1641 01:58:27,707 --> 01:58:33,790 Eliot got the Order of Merit and the Nobel Prize. 1642 01:58:35,810 --> 01:58:38,118 I've had to make do with the Queen's Award for Poetry. 1643 01:58:43,656 --> 01:58:48,940 But Sir Siegfried Sassoon, it would have been nice. 1644 01:58:49,396 --> 01:58:52,499 -Despite all the sibilants. -Oh, Father. 1645 01:58:55,402 --> 01:58:59,390 How can you be seduced by all that Ruritanian nonsense? 1646 01:59:01,207 --> 01:59:02,575 The greatest argument against 1647 01:59:02,609 --> 01:59:04,344 Damehoods and Knighthoods is... 1648 01:59:05,645 --> 01:59:08,810 Just look at the people who've got them. 1649 01:59:13,953 --> 01:59:16,423 Why do you hate the modern world, Father? 1650 01:59:16,456 --> 01:59:18,910 Because it's younger than I am. 1651 01:59:19,325 --> 01:59:21,895 Well, you've got to bathe and change. 1652 01:59:23,329 --> 01:59:24,998 We're going to the theatre, remember? 1653 01:59:25,865 --> 01:59:26,900 Do I have to? 1654 01:59:26,966 --> 01:59:28,868 Yes, you promised. 1655 01:59:30,136 --> 01:59:32,672 Besides, it's a witty and elegant score. 1656 01:59:33,873 --> 01:59:35,842 Even you might enjoy it. 1657 01:59:41,548 --> 01:59:42,649 I'm sorry I shouted. 1658 01:59:44,417 --> 01:59:46,386 It's... So am I. 1659 01:59:52,158 --> 01:59:53,460 Peace? 1660 01:59:56,329 --> 01:59:57,697 Peace. 1661 02:00:04,871 --> 02:00:07,741 {\an8}>My mother said I never should> 1662 02:00:07,774 --> 02:00:10,710 {\an8}>Play with the young man in the wood> 1663 02:00:10,744 --> 02:00:13,279 {\an8}>If I did, she would say> 1664 02:00:13,313 --> 02:00:16,983 {\an8}>"Naughty little girl to disobey"> 1665 02:00:20,420 --> 02:00:22,655 >I'm a typically English rose> 1666 02:00:22,689 --> 02:00:25,658 >But born of typically English stock> 1667 02:00:25,692 --> 02:00:30,864 >With a typically Anglo-Saxon family tree> 1668 02:00:30,897 --> 02:00:36,169 >I received my education from a typically English way> 1669 02:00:36,202 --> 02:00:40,740 >In a typically English girl's academy> 1670 02:00:43,910 --> 02:00:46,579 >I play typically English tennis> 1671 02:00:46,613 --> 02:00:49,820 >At a typically English club> 1672 02:00:49,115 --> 02:00:54,287 >With my typically English feelings for fair play> 1673 02:00:54,320 --> 02:00:57,157 >I eat typically English crumpets> 1674 02:00:59,359 --> 02:01:01,940 >With my typically English tea> 1675 02:01:01,127 --> 02:01:06,533 >At the end of every typically English day> 1676 02:01:06,566 --> 02:01:11,838 >Father is a typically English colonel> 1677 02:01:11,871 --> 02:01:15,608 >Home is a typically English county town> 1678 02:01:17,177 --> 02:01:21,470 >Mummy and I play typically English patients> 1679 02:01:21,810 --> 02:01:25,819 >As the typically English rain is pouring down> 1680 02:01:27,120 --> 02:01:29,489 >With a typically English spaniel> 1681 02:01:29,522 --> 02:01:32,125 >Who likes typically English walks> 1682 02:01:32,158 --> 02:01:34,627 >Cause there's typically English trees> 1683 02:01:34,661 --> 02:01:36,162 >Upon the heath> 1684 02:01:37,630 --> 02:01:39,733 >And if anyone asked me> 1685 02:01:39,799 --> 02:01:42,635 >How I like this typically English life> 1686 02:01:42,669 --> 02:01:47,440 >I am fed up to my typically English tea> 1687 02:02:07,460 --> 02:02:09,620 Shall we take a cab? 1688 02:02:14,501 --> 02:02:15,502 No, I'll walk home. 1689 02:02:19,739 --> 02:02:21,508 Are you sure? 1690 02:02:21,541 --> 02:02:24,377 It's getting very chilly. 1691 02:02:30,984 --> 02:02:31,985 I'd rather walk. 1692 02:03:48,895 --> 02:03:50,897 > Perhaps my latest effort will please you.> 1693 02:03:51,898 --> 02:03:53,466 >It's called> Disabled. 1694 02:04:00,407 --> 02:04:01,508 I'll come and get you. 1695 02:04:01,541 --> 02:04:02,542 Thank you. 1696 02:04:05,278 --> 02:04:07,414 > He sat in a wheeled chair,> 1697 02:04:07,447 --> 02:04:09,549 >waiting for dark> 1698 02:04:09,582 --> 02:04:13,486 >and shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, legless,> 1699 02:04:14,320 --> 02:04:16,890 >sewn short at elbow.> 1700 02:04:17,624 --> 02:04:18,825 >Through the park,> 1701 02:04:18,858 --> 02:04:22,128 >voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn.> 1702 02:04:22,162 --> 02:04:25,365 >Voices of play and pleasure after day.> 1703 02:04:25,398 --> 02:04:28,340 >Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him.> 1704 02:04:29,302 --> 02:04:30,537 >About this time,> 1705 02:04:30,570 --> 02:04:32,405 >town used to swing so ***> 1706 02:04:32,439 --> 02:04:35,408 >when glow-lamps budded in the light blue trees,> 1707 02:04:35,442 --> 02:04:37,677 >and girls glanced lovelier> 1708 02:04:37,711 --> 02:04:41,981 >as the air grew dim in the old times,> 1709 02:04:43,383 --> 02:04:45,452 >before we threw away his knees.> 1710 02:04:47,287 --> 02:04:51,591 >Now he will never feel again how slim girls' waists are> 1711 02:04:51,624 --> 02:04:54,594 >or how warm their subtle hands.> 1712 02:04:54,627 --> 02:04:58,131 >All of them touch him like some queer disease.> 1713 02:05:00,200 --> 02:05:02,302 >There was an artist silly for his face,> 1714 02:05:03,603 --> 02:05:06,720 >for it was younger than his youth, last year.> 1715 02:05:07,907 --> 02:05:13,790 >Now he is old, his back will never brace.> 1716 02:05:13,113 --> 02:05:16,316 >He's lost his colour very far from here.> 1717 02:05:16,383 --> 02:05:19,119 >Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry,> 1718 02:05:19,152 --> 02:05:22,255 >and half his lifetime lapsed in the hot race.> 1719 02:05:22,288 --> 02:05:24,824 >And leap of purple spurted from his thigh.> 1720 02:05:26,526 --> 02:05:29,396 >One time he liked a blood-smear down his leg,> 1721 02:05:29,462 --> 02:05:32,320 >after the matches carried shoulder-high.> 1722 02:05:33,400 --> 02:05:36,136 >It was after football when he'd drunk a peg,> 1723 02:05:36,169 --> 02:05:38,710 >he thought he'd better join.> 1724 02:05:38,104 --> 02:05:39,539 >He wonders why.> 1725 02:05:40,840 --> 02:05:43,109 >Someone had said he'd looked a god in kilts.> 1726 02:05:44,277 --> 02:05:45,745 >That's why.> 1727 02:05:45,779 --> 02:05:48,148 >And maybe, too, to please his Meg.> 1728 02:05:48,214 --> 02:05:50,216 >Aye, that was it,> 1729 02:05:50,250 --> 02:05:53,420 >to please the giddy jilts, he'd asked to join.> 1730 02:05:53,453 --> 02:05:55,321 >He didn't have to beg.> 1731 02:05:55,355 --> 02:05:56,856 >Smiling they wrote his lie:> 1732 02:05:57,691 --> 02:05:59,693 >aged 19 years.> 1733 02:06:01,261 --> 02:06:04,731 >Germans he scarcely thought of, all their guilt,> 1734 02:06:04,798 --> 02:06:07,330 >and Austria's, did not move him.> 1735 02:06:08,401 --> 02:06:10,870 >And no fears of fear came yet.> 1736 02:06:12,906 --> 02:06:14,341 >He thought of jewelled hilts> 1737 02:06:14,374 --> 02:06:18,812 >for daggers in plaid socks, of smart salutes,> 1738 02:06:18,878 --> 02:06:23,983 >and care of arms, and leave, and pay arrears,> 1739 02:06:24,500 --> 02:06:27,320 esprit de corps, >and hints for young recruits.> 1740 02:06:29,322 --> 02:06:32,325 >And soon, he was drafted out with drums and cheers.> 1741 02:06:34,327 --> 02:06:39,999 >Some cheered him home, but not as crowds cheer goal.> 1742 02:06:40,330 --> 02:06:44,104 >Only a solemn man who brought him fruits thanked him.> 1743 02:06:44,170 --> 02:06:46,740 >And then inquired about his soul.> 1744 02:06:49,409 --> 02:06:53,246 >Now he will spend a few sick years in institutes> 1745 02:06:53,279 --> 02:06:56,416 >and do what things the rules consider wise,> 1746 02:06:56,449 --> 02:06:58,885 >and take whatever pity they may dole.> 1747 02:07:00,453 --> 02:07:02,122 >Tonight he noticed how women's eyes> 1748 02:07:02,155 --> 02:07:05,158 >passed from him to the strong men who were whole.> 1749 02:07:07,861 --> 02:07:10,300 >How cold and late it is.> 1750 02:07:11,631 --> 02:07:13,867 >Why don't they come and put him into bed?> 1751 02:07:16,336 --> 02:07:17,937 >Why don't they come?>