1 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,990 'The day me and my family came to the village 2 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:36,030 'was the summer of the last year of the First World War. 3 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:38,110 'Heat oozed from the ground 4 00:00:38,160 --> 00:00:42,000 'and snow clouds of elder blossom banged in the sky.' 5 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:48,030 'The chatter of haymakers drifted on waves of air from the fields, 6 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,790 'humming with blundering bees 7 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:54,630 'and flickering with scarlet butterflies.' 8 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,020 - Morning! - Morning! 9 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,500 Oh, my God, I'm going to have my baby! 10 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:33,750 Just look at this place. 11 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:35,910 What did I tell you, Doth? 12 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:37,630 Marj, isn't it somethin'? 13 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:39,680 Beautiful, Ma! 14 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:49,270 See, didn't I tell you? We got veggies! Look, we got veggies! 15 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:51,830 Marj! Look at this! 16 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:54,040 Didn't I tell you?! 17 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:59,140 I can't pick you up, my love! 18 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,630 'My first memories are of being washed up 19 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:12,190 'in this strange new land, 20 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:14,270 'dizzy with scent 21 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:18,760 'and burnt all over with hot white flowers.' 22 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,630 Look, we got strawberries here! 23 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:27,680 Oh, look at this place. Reg is going to love it! 24 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:34,750 Lol! 25 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:39,300 Lol? Come and get some strawberries. 26 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,000 Marj, he's not 'ere! 27 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,230 Oh, he's gone a-wandering. Lol! 28 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:49,880 Lol? 29 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:55,990 There you are. 30 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:58,790 'The world was a miracle to me. 31 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:01,230 'And one day I would record what I had seen 32 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:04,380 'so that others could see it too.' 33 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,720 'Before it was lost and gone forever.' 34 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:13,840 Now you go away... 35 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,310 Oh, I want the place filled with flowers! 36 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:20,830 You can make a posy here. 37 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:26,110 ♪ As I was a-walking for my recreation... ♪ 38 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:30,990 'The eldest were my father's of another marriage, 39 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:34,510 'Marj, Doth and Phyll. 40 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:37,630 'These half-sisters I cherished. 41 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:40,110 'And my mother cared for the halves 42 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,230 'just as much as she did for the wholes. 43 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:47,360 'Me, my brother Jack and my sister Frances.' 44 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,240 Reg, where'd I put him? 45 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,870 - Is he there? - Yeah. - You got him? - Yeah. 46 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:56,350 Safe and sound. 47 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,150 Pride of place. 48 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:01,430 'My father was away in London, 49 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:03,550 'working in the War Office. 50 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:08,750 'His picture was the only thing I'd seen of him since I was three.' 51 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:10,560 Home. 52 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:38,140 Hello, darling. 53 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:41,510 How is everyone? 54 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:43,430 Oh, all right. 55 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:46,030 You behaving yourself? 56 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:47,670 I've not broken nothin'. 57 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:49,440 Good boy. 58 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:53,670 What's everybody up to? 59 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:55,710 Marj is out in the yard, 60 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:57,790 Doth's peeling spuds. 61 00:04:57,840 --> 00:04:59,550 What about the others? 62 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:04,390 Frances is cleaning her trolley and Phyll is sitting on the steps. 63 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:06,580 What about our Lol? 64 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:09,550 Lol's dead. Turned yellow. 65 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:12,340 Mrs Moores is laying him out. 66 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:16,870 Lol's dead? 67 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:19,630 What're you doing? 68 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:21,790 Poor boy. He's gone. Fled to the angels. 69 00:05:21,840 --> 00:05:23,630 I... I was getting him ready for the box. 70 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:25,990 No, Lol ain't dead, no. Our Lol ain't dead, no, no. 71 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:27,830 Doth, go and mind the baby. 72 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:30,030 Marj, go and get the vicar. Now! 73 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:31,990 And send to Stroud for the doctor! 74 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:34,310 Get me some blankets. 75 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,230 Oh, my darling. Oh, my darling. 76 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:55,150 Come on! 77 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:00,790 Please, hurry! 78 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,640 Please! Please! Please! 79 00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:12,710 In the name of God, and trusting in his might alone, 80 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,270 receive Christ's healing touch to make you whole. 81 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:18,590 - May Christ bring you wholeness of body, mind and spirit... - My darling! 82 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:22,030 .. deliver you from every evil, and bring you his peace. Amen. 83 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,320 My darling, amen. 84 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:28,990 'I came close to death.' 85 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:32,950 'But somehow I clung on. 86 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,350 'But it was a very near thing. 87 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,830 'A very near thing indeed.' 88 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:40,220 Through the hole, see? 89 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:44,960 She's coming! 90 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:59,230 'My sister Frances was a beautiful, fragile child.' 91 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:01,070 Come on. 92 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:03,110 'We were full of mischief 93 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:05,700 'and as thick as thieves.' 94 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:18,030 Think she'll be a while. 95 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:19,750 Here it is. 96 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,350 "A murdered cad-a-ver 97 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:32,360 "will be shocking-ly un-covered..." 98 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:35,670 What's a cad-a-ver? 99 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:38,830 I think it's a kind of... bird. 100 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:48,360 Varmints been in again. 101 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:54,030 'Our two old neighbours were rival ancients. 102 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:57,380 ' 'Er-Up-Atop we called Granny Trill.' 103 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,470 Keep it down, you great troll! 104 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:05,920 'And 'Er-Down-Under was Granny Wallon.' 105 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:13,040 You keep it down up THERE, you great boar! 106 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:22,400 Miserable old trout. 107 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,520 'We had a feeling that the summer would never end.' 108 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,030 Little varmints. 109 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:39,630 'All sights twice brilliant 110 00:08:39,680 --> 00:08:41,590 'and smells twice sharp.' 111 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:43,150 Come on! 112 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:45,740 'All games twice as long.' 113 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:51,390 'It seemed that here, no disaster could happen, 114 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:54,480 'that nothing could ever touch us.' 115 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:18,830 Never been as bad as this before. 116 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:21,620 It's cruel. Poor little mite. 117 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:26,430 Don't you fret. He always fights back. 118 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:32,200 Come on. Let's leave him be. 119 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:49,800 I'll make sure you're all right, Lol. 120 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:26,990 'As I lay in my bed, 121 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:29,190 'I could sense the whole valley 122 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:32,710 'by the surfaces of my skin, 123 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:34,910 'the turn of the hour, 124 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:37,510 'the set of the year, 125 00:10:37,560 --> 00:10:41,240 'the weather and all the life to come.' 126 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:49,640 'I was made one with the valley...' 127 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:53,470 '.. so that I felt part of its destination. 128 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:56,030 'Washed of my fever, 129 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,670 'ice-cold but alive, 130 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:02,240 'it seemed I would never lose it again.' 131 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:20,070 Lol? 132 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:23,520 Hey, darlin'. 133 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:32,920 I've cut you some lovely thin bread and butter to go with it. 134 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:40,910 Tummy ache! 135 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:44,550 Darlin', that's because you haven't eaten in a week. 136 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:48,640 Look, just don't eat it too fast, cos you'll make yourself sick. 137 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:57,510 Hey, I'm going to walk into Stroud later on. 138 00:11:57,560 --> 00:12:00,500 I'm going to buy you a paintbox. 139 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:04,520 Maybe some liquorice. Would you like that? 140 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:07,390 Everyone's been asking about you. 141 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:09,110 Fancy that. 142 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:17,040 Where's Frances? 143 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:24,670 We buried her yesterday. 144 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:31,630 Cos of me? 145 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:34,390 No, darlin', no. 146 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:38,230 No, you mustn't think that. You mustn't. 147 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:40,150 Understand me? 148 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:50,080 I'm sorry. 149 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:01,120 Come here. 150 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:06,020 Oh, my darling. 151 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:11,470 'Frances died suddenly, silently. 152 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:15,150 'Hers was a death which should never had happened. 153 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,300 'like so many children at the time.' 154 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:23,110 'I've always believed she gave me her life, 155 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:25,510 'something so precious 156 00:13:25,560 --> 00:13:28,360 'I would live it to the full.' 157 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:31,480 'For both of us.' 158 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:34,350 Stop messin' me! 159 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:37,510 Give over, Lol. Doth, pass us Jack's old jumper. 160 00:13:37,560 --> 00:13:39,190 Oi, that's mine! 161 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,240 It's more holes than jumper anyway. 162 00:13:44,680 --> 00:13:47,020 Marj, he's here again. 163 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:55,390 'I knew all about war. 164 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:59,030 'My ears from birth had been full of the talk of it. 165 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:02,230 'This man did not look like a soldier. 166 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,870 'He was not Brassoed, leather-belted 167 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:07,430 'and wax-whiskered, like my father.' 168 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:09,350 You tell me all about it. (Shh!) 169 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:11,710 Don't really know where to start. Um... 170 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:15,150 Well, the mud's a foot deep at the bottom of the trenches. 171 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:18,710 Shells crashing down on you from above. 172 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:20,990 And you can hear the bullets snap 173 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:23,550 and crack past your ears like a whip. 174 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:25,630 You oughtn't to be in the woods. 175 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:27,350 You ought to be at home. 176 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:28,870 That wouldn't do. 177 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:31,310 They'd jump on you before you could say "knife". 178 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:32,590 Pow! Pow! 179 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:33,710 Hey, Jack. 180 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:35,430 You got me. 181 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:39,920 - He's all right. - Are you a sodger? 182 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:43,310 I'm a "sodger", aye. 183 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:46,430 And you'd make a better "sodger" than me any day. 184 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,190 - Would you like some more tea? - Erm, I've still got half a mug. 185 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:52,840 - All right. - How's the war in the wood? 186 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:56,880 Have you lost it? 187 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:00,590 I'm doing my best not to. 188 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,310 You seen my dad? He's a sodger, fighting the war. 189 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,390 Not much fighting goin' on in London. 190 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:10,680 He's doin' his bit for the country. For all of us. 191 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:14,790 I'll tell you what, if I see your old man, 192 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,580 I'll tell him you said hello. 193 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:20,790 I'd er... I'd best be off. 194 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:22,790 You can stay a bit longer. 195 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:25,510 That's kind of you to offer. 196 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:32,560 Why are you staring? 197 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:38,470 Erm, I-I... I'd best be going. 198 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:41,430 - Don't want to get you in no trouble. - You mind yourself. 199 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:44,420 - Thank you. - Take care. Marj? 200 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:51,070 - Poor lad. - Goodbye. - No good'll come of it. 201 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:53,360 Come on, let's go. 202 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:57,430 Is that all right? Arms out. 203 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:00,390 - There we go. - What's going on? 204 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,830 - You're starting school today. - No, I ain't. I'm stopping home. 205 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:07,110 - No, you're going to school. - Come on. You're a big boy now. 206 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:09,310 - Don't want to be. - Don't be silly... 207 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:11,360 Marj, Doth. Bye! 208 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:14,110 Gerroff! 209 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:25,760 Don't want to go to school! 210 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:32,270 - Bye. - Bye. 211 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:36,590 - Come on, Lol, we got work. - Go on, you'll be late. 212 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:38,180 Let's go. 213 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,270 'It was my first amazed vision of any world 214 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,920 'outside the womanly warmth of my family.' 215 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:50,360 'I didn't expect to survive it for long.' 216 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:55,960 Look in his pockets. 217 00:16:57,240 --> 00:16:59,750 It's a tater. Give it 'ere. 218 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,140 You ain't got a tater. 219 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:05,910 I got his cap! 220 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,030 Get off me! 221 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:15,790 Good morning, children. 222 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:20,480 Good morning, Miss Buckley. 223 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:28,150 - Who we got here, then? - Laurie Lee. 224 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:32,080 Well, Laurie, how about you sit over there for the present? 225 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:39,070 'My desk companions were two girls, 226 00:17:39,120 --> 00:17:42,000 'already puppyishly pretty.' 227 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:45,190 'Jo Jenkins...' 228 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:47,840 When do we get the present? 229 00:17:48,120 --> 00:17:50,670 '.. and Rosie Burdock.' 230 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:53,550 Jack Lee, don't be laughing at your brother. 231 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:55,870 Now, children, hands together... 232 00:17:55,920 --> 00:18:00,030 'They were to distract and haunt me for the next ten years.' 233 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,950 Hands together, Spadge Hopkins. 234 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:08,670 Our Father who art in heaven, 235 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,310 Hallowed be thy name. 236 00:18:11,360 --> 00:18:13,790 Thy Kingdom come. 237 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:17,670 Thy will be done 238 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:20,390 on earth as it is in heaven. 239 00:18:21,120 --> 00:18:25,230 Give us this day our daily bread... 240 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:28,110 'The first and last years of school 241 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:31,260 'reside most vividly in the memory.' 242 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:34,710 'We entered the door marked "infants", 243 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:38,790 'moved gradually through the years, 244 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:43,400 'till we were ready to be handed back to the world.' 245 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:48,830 Thy Kingdom come. 246 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:50,790 Thy will be done 247 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:54,150 on earth as it is in heaven. 248 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,070 Give us this day our daily bread, 249 00:18:57,120 --> 00:19:00,110 and forgive us our trespasses, 250 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:04,030 as we forgive those who trespass against us, 251 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:07,190 and lead us not into temptation, 252 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:10,070 but deliver us from evil. 253 00:19:10,120 --> 00:19:14,270 For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, 254 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,830 for ever and ever. 255 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:18,150 Amen. 256 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:22,200 - Come on! - Jones' pond's frozen! 257 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:27,200 - Come on, Lol, you snail. - Wait for me! 258 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:02,160 Go on, Lol, quicker! 259 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:06,670 - Careful, Lol! Mind yourself! - Timber! 260 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:08,190 Shove off, Rosie Burdock! 261 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,430 You be careful on this ice, it'll crack underneath. Great big heifer! 262 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:14,070 You come over here and say that -- I'll box your ears. 263 00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:16,320 Like to see you try. 264 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:18,950 Getting the hang of this skating lark. 265 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,510 Jo! 266 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:23,560 Didn't know you could skate, Lol. 267 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:25,510 Jo, watch this! 268 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:27,750 Look at him showing off! 269 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:30,590 Lol, careful, you don't want to break nothin'. 270 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:33,150 Jo! Watch this, then. 271 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:35,870 Don't say I didn't warn you. 272 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:38,640 - Argh! - Man down! 273 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,190 - You all right there, Rosie? - Great big heifer? 274 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:45,780 Meant in a nice way, like. 275 00:20:53,360 --> 00:20:57,470 'We were all afraid of the gobbling Miss B.' 276 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,030 Four goes into two, how many times, class? 277 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:01,910 'She was a terror. 278 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,880 'We christened her Crabby.' 279 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:09,140 No times, it's nought. Dullards. 280 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,200 Carry the two to the next column, making... Class? 281 00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:17,310 How many does it make, if you carry the two? 282 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:19,440 Class? 283 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:23,200 26. Makes 26. 284 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:26,750 Nothin' but straw between their ears. 285 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:30,080 Two and six makes 26. 286 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:33,270 Waste of bloomin' time. 287 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:34,520 Ow! 288 00:21:37,120 --> 00:21:40,070 Lee? What's that you got? 289 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:41,920 Give it 'ere. 290 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:46,320 You'll only earn yourself more strokes. 291 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:50,830 "The old red trees threw arches above us, 292 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:53,880 "making tunnels of rusty darkness." 293 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:57,840 "You, like a slip of a yew..." 294 00:21:58,360 --> 00:22:01,550 "You, like a slip of a yew"?! What is this grubbiness? 295 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,390 - Poem, Miss. - It's for his sweetheart. 296 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:06,270 Shut up! 297 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:08,830 I will not have this kind of talk in my classroom. 298 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,980 What've you got to say for yourself? 299 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,000 It's my aunt, Miss. 300 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:25,430 What about it, Jack? 301 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:29,160 I er... I never got on with her. 302 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:32,990 Well, best get on, then. 303 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,510 Oh, but, Miss, she's my cousin. 304 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:37,100 Mine too. 305 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,110 What, where do you think you're going? 306 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:45,760 Where do you think you're going? Come back here. Come back here! 307 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:54,150 'We would do anything to get out of lessons.' 308 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:57,550 'Many a lone coffin was followed to its grave 309 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,640 'by a straggle of long-faced children.' 310 00:23:02,360 --> 00:23:05,300 'All strangers to the bereaved.' 311 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,840 'Memories mark you.' 312 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:22,550 'Moments in time to cast a shadow over your life 313 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,070 'and change you forever.' 314 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,990 'Remembering is to relive. 315 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:33,720 'To be in the same moment all over again.' 316 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:01,630 What you doin', Ma? 317 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,080 Just my scrapbook, Lol. 318 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:05,590 How was school? 319 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:07,240 All right. 320 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:12,470 Where you off to? I want to hear all about school. 321 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,560 Lol? What you up to? 322 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:22,700 Aw, look at you! 323 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,830 I'm a sodger. 324 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:27,270 Like Pa. 325 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,350 I can see that. 326 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,070 And a fine one you are, too. 327 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:35,990 (But I think you're missing something.) 328 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:39,040 Every soldier needs his rifle, see? 329 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,110 In here somewhere. 330 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:36,550 Argh! 331 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,040 Shh! 332 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:53,340 (It's all right. I'm not going to hurt you.) 333 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,220 That were close! 334 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:09,990 It ain't got no doors. 335 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:11,230 Got no walls, neither. 336 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,560 Set yourself down next to the fire. Get the heat back in your bones. 337 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:24,230 You mustn't tell no-one you saw this place. 338 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,470 The Hun's got spies everywhere, Do you understand? 339 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:29,830 Good lad. 340 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:31,190 It's Laurie, ain't it? 341 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,070 Lol. 342 00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:36,190 James Harris. Private, first class. 343 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,710 Why does your hand shake? 344 00:26:39,120 --> 00:26:42,440 It's just the cold. Wind blowing it in my bones. 345 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,000 Looking for someone? 346 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,390 Lol? What are you doin' out here? 347 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,270 There was Hun sodgers. 348 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,190 We hid from them. 349 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,670 He ain't got no doors. 350 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,790 Can't get no privacy. 351 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,430 His name's James. 352 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,470 Is it? 353 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,550 Well, you're in luck, James. 354 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:18,030 I happen to have some food, clothes here you can have. 355 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:19,680 Thank you. 356 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,000 We was playing -- weren't we, Lol? 357 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,300 Argh, you got me. You got me. 358 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:39,800 We better be off. 359 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:45,310 Say goodbye to James. 360 00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:47,520 Bye, James. 361 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,630 You take care, you hear? 362 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,230 'We were green and innocent. 363 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,750 'Not fully understanding what we did, 364 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:13,830 'imitating the rituals and roles that were played out before us.' 365 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,510 Was Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated, class? 366 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,270 In which country? Class? 367 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:21,670 Ow! 368 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,590 What do you think you're doing? 369 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:26,510 Spadge Hopkins, sit up straight! 370 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,590 This is straight as I get. 371 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,710 And you can settle down, Miss Burdock! 372 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,830 - Hopkins, sit up! Now! - I am, Miss. 373 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,030 Tell us which city 374 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,990 Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. 375 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,390 (Sarajevo.) 376 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:43,910 Dunno. 377 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,310 - London? - Hmph! 378 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:50,390 Ah! 379 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:51,980 Sarajevo. 380 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,990 And why was this act of aggression such an important moment? 381 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,600 Well... he was dead. 382 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:03,830 That was important for him, I suppose. 383 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,280 And for the rest of us? 384 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,870 - Come on, puddin' head! - You better watch it. 385 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:12,670 What can you tell us? 386 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,470 Nothing. 387 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,670 Because you don't know nothin'. 388 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:20,070 You're a great slouching know-nothing! 389 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,030 Sod it all! 390 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:23,790 Where are you going, young man? 391 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:25,230 If it's any business of yours. 392 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,030 - No, get back in your chair, this instant! - Ta-ta. 393 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,680 No! I won't have it! You're going nowhere. 394 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:33,870 Put me down! 395 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:35,660 Put me down! 396 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:41,070 Help me get down! Someone help get me down! 397 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,510 Three cheers for Spadge Hopkins! 398 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:45,830 Stop that, and get me down! 399 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,510 Stop that, I won't have it! 400 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:50,600 I won't have it! 401 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:10,750 Oh, all the woods and the meadows, 402 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:14,390 Woods where we hid from the wet, 403 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:17,550 Stiles where we stayed to be kind, 404 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,070 Meadows in which we met! 405 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,910 Light, so low in the vale 406 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,670 You flash and lighten afar, 407 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:28,510 For this is the golden morning of love, 408 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,300 And you are his morning star. 409 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,710 Flash, I am coming, I come, 410 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:36,710 By meadow and stile and wood, 411 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,470 Oh, lighten into my eyes and my heart, 412 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,310 And into my heart and my blood! 413 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:43,950 Heart, are you great enough 414 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,830 For a love that never tires? 415 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,350 O heart, are you great enough for love? 416 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,750 I have heard of thorns and briers. 417 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:53,550 Over the thorns and briers, 418 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:55,470 Over the meadows and stiles, 419 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,030 Over the world to the end of it 420 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,550 Flash of a million miles. 421 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:03,510 What was that all about? 422 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,430 What do you think? 423 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:06,950 Love an' that? 424 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,550 The kind that goes on and on? 425 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:10,350 Nothing lasts forever. 426 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,150 Well, it don't. 427 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,030 What about you an' Jo? 428 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,470 - Oh, shut up! - Not Jo Jenkins? 429 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:17,990 Look at his blushin'! 430 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:19,510 She ain't nothin' or no-one. 431 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:20,710 He's been pining for her. 432 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:22,510 Hey, Jack, now leave him be. 433 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,230 "Jo, I love you. Jo, I want to marry you." 434 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,620 I told you to shut up! 435 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,790 Pull 'em apart. Before they break summat. 436 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:32,550 Stop it! Stop it! 437 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,700 Stop it! Pa might arrive any minute. 438 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:38,710 That's enough! 439 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:41,300 Stand up, the pair of you. 440 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,710 What will your father think if he comes home and finds you like this? 441 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,670 He'll think we've descended into anarchy! 442 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,760 Now, go upstairs, the pair of you! 443 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,150 'The war had ended long ago 444 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:10,670 'but our father still did not return to live with us.' 445 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,230 Are you going to play that for your dad? 446 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:14,910 If he likes. 447 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,910 Course he will. Lovely, it is. 448 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:19,550 It is?! 449 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,110 What time did he say? 450 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,110 'There was the occasional promise of a visit, 451 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,710 'and each time we attended dutifully, 452 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,030 'lest we shake our mother's faith.' 453 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,790 Oh, he says he's bringing home a whole leg of lamb! 454 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:36,140 We'll have a time of it tonight. It'll be lovely! 455 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,990 Lol, I think... I think that's enough practising for now. 456 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:43,120 - I ain't finished yet. - No, but I-I... I think that's enough. 457 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:48,520 Lol! 458 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,500 - Telegram, ma'am. - Thank you. 459 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,320 He's been kept back in London. 460 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,040 But he sends his best to you all. 461 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,500 'A serious drought hit the country.' 462 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:00,790 'Springs dried up, 463 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,390 'wells filled with frogs. 464 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,230 'Trees shrivelled, 465 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,430 'crops burned in the fields. 466 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:12,390 'Small naked winds blew over our faces, 467 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:16,870 'dandelion seeds floated by, 468 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:21,950 'burnt sap and roast nettles tingled our nostrils 469 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:27,080 'together with the dull rust smell of dry ground.' 470 00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,670 There's none coming, Ma! 471 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,870 Oh, Lol, darling, come here. 472 00:34:37,240 --> 00:34:40,340 Doth, get some mugs, will you, love? 473 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,350 - Well, we ain't got much, have we? - No. 474 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,910 Right, then. Right, come on, then. 475 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,550 - 'Ere you are, missus! Try this on for size! - Granny Wallon! 476 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,750 It's the first of my last year's cowslip wine. 477 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,550 Oh, you don't be giving 'em too much though, Granny Wallon, 478 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:56,030 cos they'll have a funny turn. 479 00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,670 Conduct yourselves with some dignity 480 00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:01,510 else you shan't be getting nothing. 481 00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,960 You'd think you'd learned your manners from 'Er-Up-Atop. 482 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,390 Ooh, did you hear him, missus? 483 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,590 The screech bird? 484 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,510 Last night it was, 485 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,110 and the night before that. 486 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,070 No, I can't say I did, Granny Wallon. 487 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:23,070 You mark my words, 'Er-Up-Atop is going. 488 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:24,550 You mark my words! 489 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,070 This heat will have her. 490 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,270 Is there something wrong with her? 491 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,310 There's not a lot right, that's for certain. Ha-ha! 492 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,910 Here, don't look so sour, you. 493 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:37,360 If you're so worried... run this up to her. 494 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,430 That you again, varmint? 495 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:53,990 I'm on a visit. 496 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:57,230 Well, just mind my pots or I'll cut you to pieces. 497 00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:58,870 Brought you some wine. 498 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:00,630 From 'Er-Down-Under? 499 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:02,310 Poison, it'll be! 500 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,160 No, it ain't! 501 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,710 Bleurgh! It's awful stuff! 502 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:15,950 I'll take it back, then. 503 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,270 No, no, no. I'll take it. 504 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,550 Might make use of it... 505 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,670 scouring the pots. 506 00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:27,790 You going bald? 507 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,470 Bald?! Never! 508 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,950 I got my bits! 509 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,550 Look at the dead stuff dropping off your comb. 510 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:37,830 That's healthy, that is. 511 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:41,000 Just making room for more. 512 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,470 'Er-Down-Under, 513 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,760 I got more than 'er! 514 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:56,280 'Er's as bald as a tater root! 515 00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,020 Wicked old lump! 516 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:09,430 I'll see 'er gone. 517 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,190 'Er's failing. 518 00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:14,510 You mark my words. 519 00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,230 'Right, lads, up the hill!' 520 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,630 There's sodgers! 521 00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:24,360 'Left, right, left. Left, left. Left, right, left...' 522 00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:47,990 'Soldiers with rifles marched to the top of the hills 523 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:51,550 'and began shooting at passing clouds...' 524 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,590 Fire! 525 00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:56,470 '.. hoping that bursting them 526 00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:58,670 'might bring rain.' 527 00:37:58,720 --> 00:38:00,710 Take aim! 528 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,190 Fire! 529 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:06,190 Don't get too close, Lol! 530 00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:09,630 Has Marj gone to see the sodger in the woods? 531 00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:11,310 Shh. Come on. 532 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:12,550 Fire! 533 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,440 Reload! 534 00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,950 'Whether from prayers or shooting, 535 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,750 'or from a simple return of nature, 536 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,740 'the drought broke soon after... 537 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:32,240 '.. and it began to rain as it never rained before.' 538 00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:36,820 Sweet saints above! 539 00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:41,870 It's coming in! Bring brooms! 540 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,110 It's coming in! 541 00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:47,260 Stop it, Doth, Marj, get the boys! 542 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,350 Right, you got to sweep it, my darlin'! Sweep it away! 543 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,400 Sweep it away! 544 00:39:45,720 --> 00:39:48,120 I've got you something. 545 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,110 It's my mum's. 546 00:39:56,160 --> 00:40:00,110 Some of the lads, when we, erm... 547 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,390 When THEY go over the top, 548 00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:04,990 they give something away to be remembered by. 549 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:08,040 But I got you to remember you by. 550 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,110 Lol? 551 00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:34,790 You little sneak, Laurie Lee! 552 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:36,350 I never done nothin'! 553 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,310 - Oh, come 'ere, you! - Gerroff! 554 00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,190 What you doin out here, anyway? 555 00:40:40,240 --> 00:40:42,180 Playing sodgers! 556 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,360 Was he tryin' to hurt you? 557 00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:50,910 How do you mean? 558 00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:52,630 Bitin' you? 559 00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:56,910 That wasn't... That weren't no bite. 560 00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,150 It was a kiss. 561 00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,990 Like off Ma when I'm in bed? 562 00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:05,550 I suppose -- a little bit. 563 00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,670 When two people like each other a lot, 564 00:41:08,720 --> 00:41:10,870 they want to find a way to show it. 565 00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,390 You could just tell him. 566 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,630 Sometimes you might want to do more than that. 567 00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:19,270 Get close to someone. 568 00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:21,910 Like Ma and Pa. You understand? 569 00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,990 Is the sodger going away, then? 570 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:26,590 Why do you say that? 571 00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,750 Pa went away. 572 00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:31,590 James isn't going anywhere. 573 00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:33,390 Can't catch me! 574 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,630 - Lol? Lol! Where you going? - Can't catch me! 575 00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:38,870 Lol, get back here! 576 00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:40,860 Can't catch me! 577 00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,200 Come back here, Lol! 578 00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,190 So what shall we do now then, Jo? 579 00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:09,830 I don't mind. 580 00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,030 Go on -- you tell. 581 00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:13,950 No. YOU do it. 582 00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:17,350 No. 583 00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:19,470 Do it like before. 584 00:42:21,720 --> 00:42:25,920 What seems to be the trouble then, Miss Jenkins? 585 00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:07,110 'The early exploration of Jo's body 586 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:10,360 'was a solitary studying of maps.' 587 00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:14,990 'The signs upon her 588 00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,830 'showed me the way I should go, 589 00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:22,470 'over flesh smoother than candleskin, 590 00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:26,320 'like something thrown down from the moon.' 591 00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,220 That'll be all, Miss Jenkins. 592 00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:44,840 6 goes into 12, twice. 593 00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:50,470 One foot, 0.304. 594 00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:52,550 One inch, 595 00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:55,160 2.54. 596 00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:05,550 - Ow! - What you doin', Lol? 597 00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:08,030 None of your business! 598 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:11,480 I'll tell Miss you're on your way. Don't want to miss the test. 599 00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:15,600 Ow! 600 00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:19,470 There will be no talking, 601 00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:22,030 no cheating, no peeking -- 602 00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:25,280 Spadge Hopkins, I'll be watching you. 603 00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:27,670 Mmm. What's up with you? 604 00:44:27,720 --> 00:44:31,070 Please, Miss, I think I got the measles. 605 00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:35,590 - Strange it's only on your arms. - That's nettle rash! 606 00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:36,910 Shut up, Rosie. 607 00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,710 I seen him in the field getting them so he could miss the test. 608 00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:41,700 Miserable child. 609 00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:43,510 Slow! 610 00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:45,600 And lazy! 611 00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:48,470 Right, class -- begin test. 612 00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:50,830 Write your names on top of the sheet. 613 00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:52,470 Question one: 614 00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:55,870 x over 6 plus 7 equals 3½. 615 00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,030 What is x? 616 00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:00,020 Get out the way! 617 00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:02,150 Move! 618 00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:08,270 Slow and lazy! Can't catch me! 619 00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:10,190 I'll 'ave you! 620 00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:17,630 Ah! 621 00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:20,390 Get off me! Get off me! 622 00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:21,590 Argh! 623 00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:25,190 - You're a pain in the neck, Rosie Burdock! - Ow! 624 00:45:25,240 --> 00:45:26,880 Gerroff! 625 00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:29,150 Argh! 626 00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:30,510 Ow, you're hurtin' me! 627 00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:32,030 Good! Teach you to go bitin'. 628 00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:33,510 Ugh! 629 00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:35,040 Get off! 630 00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:46,240 You got something in those shorts of yours. 631 00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:50,600 I don't mind. 632 00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:58,860 You got any wine gums? I'll show ya, if you want. 633 00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:02,750 You got any wine gums? 634 00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:05,070 Not for you, I ain't! 635 00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:07,080 Oh! 636 00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:20,830 - All right there, Lol? Want a lift home? - Yeah. 637 00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,710 Hop on, then. I been practising. 638 00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,190 - All right there, Rosie? - All right? 639 00:46:26,240 --> 00:46:29,230 - How's your ma? - She's all right, Mrs Lee, yeah. 640 00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:30,790 Hold on tight, then! 641 00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:32,710 Not too fast, mind. 642 00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:34,900 No, no, no, no, no. 643 00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:37,590 Hee-hee-hee-hee! Whoo-hoo! 644 00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:43,870 ♪ As I was a-walkin' for my recreation 645 00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:47,150 ♪ Down by the green meadows... ♪ 646 00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:49,990 That way a little bit. A little bit more. That's it, that's great. 647 00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:51,230 Margaret? 648 00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:54,070 ♪ There I met a fair maid 649 00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:57,430 ♪ Making great lamentation 650 00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:02,950 ♪ Oh, Jimmy will be slain in the wars, I'm afraid... ♪ 651 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,310 All right, ladies and gentlemen. 652 00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:11,550 ♪ The blackbirds and thrushes sing in the green bushes 653 00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:17,910 ♪ The lark and the doves seem to mourn for this maid... ♪ 654 00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:20,320 Whoa! Ha-ha! 655 00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:23,590 Only thing now is stopping the thing! Ha-ha! 656 00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:25,670 You 'ave mended the brakes right, Ma? 657 00:47:25,720 --> 00:47:28,030 No, no, no, no. But we'll make do! 658 00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:29,470 How?! 659 00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:31,870 Help! 660 00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,830 - Argh! - Hey! 661 00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:36,710 Use the brakes! 662 00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:39,230 Help! 663 00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:41,240 HELP! 664 00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:46,870 Oh, no. Oh, my gosh! Aargh! 665 00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:50,820 All right, Mrs Lee? 666 00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:53,480 Ta, Jerry. 667 00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:56,020 Deary me! 668 00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:03,350 Where did you buy that? 669 00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:04,670 It's broken. 670 00:48:04,720 --> 00:48:08,070 When I worked up at Gaviston Court 671 00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:10,550 I always dreamed of owning one of these. 672 00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:14,200 Now I got one. Bit of glue, it'll be fine. 673 00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:17,470 We can't afford broken china, Ma. 674 00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:22,550 So, have you been giving that Rosie Burdock the run-around, then? 675 00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:24,800 Ain't nothin' doing. 676 00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:27,630 I remember when you two were little. 677 00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:31,430 You know you pushed her in the fire? Weren't burnin', of course. 678 00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:32,950 Shame(!) 679 00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:36,180 The path of true love. 680 00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:39,470 Can I ask you something? 681 00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,230 You just did. Didn't you? 682 00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,390 How did you meet Dad? 683 00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:51,400 Well... 684 00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:56,550 I was working in your granddad's pub at the time 685 00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:58,990 and there was an advert in the newspaper: 686 00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:02,750 "Widower, four children, seeks housekeeper." 687 00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:04,540 That was it. 688 00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:08,830 I got lucky with his four. 689 00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,350 They took to me straightaway. 690 00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:15,510 You know, which was hard, considering they'd just lost their mother. 691 00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:18,030 Good as gold, they were. 692 00:49:20,240 --> 00:49:22,510 Then I had Frances... 693 00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:25,710 .. Jack... 694 00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:28,230 then you came along. Hey! 695 00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:34,100 The first four years of us together was just magic. 696 00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:38,230 I do love him, you know. 697 00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:58,310 'The year revolved around the village, 698 00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:00,310 'the festivals round the year, 699 00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:02,630 'the Squire round the festivals, 700 00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:05,190 'and the village round the Squire.' 701 00:50:05,240 --> 00:50:06,990 Squire's been good to us this year. 702 00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:08,390 'The Parochial Church Tea...' 703 00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:09,430 Lol! Don't pick! 704 00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:12,990 '.. and Annual Entertainment was his winter treat.' 705 00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:16,740 You practised enough -- it'll go all right. 706 00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:19,950 You two on tonight, then? Should be good for a laugh. 707 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:22,800 Leave some for the rest of us! 708 00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,480 The Parochial Church Tea... 709 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:33,320 .. is with us again, I suggest. 710 00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:37,790 Another year. 711 00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:40,510 Another year comes around... 712 00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:45,230 .. when I see you gathered here, once more. 713 00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:46,510 When I see... 714 00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:48,750 When I think... 715 00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:51,070 And here you all are. 716 00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:55,190 It comes to me... 717 00:50:55,240 --> 00:50:56,840 friends... 718 00:50:58,320 --> 00:50:59,710 He's lost it! 719 00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:01,790 Stop it! 720 00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:03,780 All of you, shh! 721 00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:06,000 Once again... 722 00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:20,590 Thank you, Squire, once again, for such a generous feast. 723 00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:22,230 Now... 724 00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:24,110 Not yet! 725 00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:27,160 Rosie Burdock, that means you, too. 726 00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:30,440 We must wait to say grace. 727 00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:36,790 - O, bountiful Father... - O, bountiful Father... 728 00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:39,910 We thank Thee for our daily bread. 729 00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:43,560 May it strengthen and refresh our bodies. 730 00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:47,630 And we pray Thee, nourish our souls with Thy heavenly grace... 731 00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:49,510 Amen. 732 00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:51,590 .. through Jesus Christ, our Lord. 733 00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:52,870 Amen. 734 00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:54,990 What's up wi' you? 735 00:51:56,240 --> 00:51:58,400 Carry on. 736 00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:02,390 Excuse me, Waiter. 737 00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:04,150 Yes, ma'am? 738 00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:09,150 What is the meaning of this fly in my tea? 739 00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:11,230 I wouldn't know. 740 00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:13,750 I'm not a fortune teller! 741 00:52:15,720 --> 00:52:18,470 And my soup tastes funny! 742 00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:21,720 Well, why aren't you laughing, then?! 743 00:52:26,720 --> 00:52:29,110 For the next item, ladies and gentlemen, 744 00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:31,190 we have an instrumental duet 745 00:52:31,240 --> 00:52:34,910 by Miss Jenkins and young Laurie Lee. 746 00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:51,910 - Get on with it! - Shh! 747 00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:09,550 #.. the pipes are calling 748 00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:13,190 ♪ From glen to glen 749 00:53:13,240 --> 00:53:18,990 ♪ And down the mountainside 750 00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:22,830 ♪ The summer's gone 751 00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:29,550 ♪ And all the flowers are dying 752 00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:33,550 ♪ 'Tis you, 'tis you 753 00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:38,760 ♪ Must go and I must bide 754 00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:43,750 ♪ But come ye back 755 00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:49,550 ♪ When summer's in the meadow 756 00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:55,350 ♪ Or when the valley's hushed 757 00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:58,280 ♪ And white with snow 758 00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:04,270 ♪ 'Tis I'll be here 759 00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:09,960 ♪ In sunshine or in shadow 760 00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:13,630 ♪ Oh, Danny boy 761 00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:15,950 ♪ Oh, Danny boy 762 00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:19,840 ♪ I love you so. ♪ 763 00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:28,400 Brilliant! 764 00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:33,510 Didn't he do us proud? 765 00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:34,670 I'll take it. 766 00:54:34,720 --> 00:54:37,190 That were great, Lol. 767 00:54:37,240 --> 00:54:40,510 - Yeah, good 'un, Lol. - Did all right, I suppose. 768 00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:41,870 Ta. Where's Jo? 769 00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:43,710 Probably with the other babies. 770 00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:46,270 Right then, we going up there or not? 771 00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:48,870 - I'm up for it. - Lol, how about it? 772 00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:51,430 - Where you off to, then? - Goin' by Bulls Cross. 773 00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:53,950 Harry Lazbury seen the phantom coach two nights ago. 774 00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,390 There ain't no phantom coach. 775 00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:57,870 All right, if you're scared... 776 00:54:57,920 --> 00:54:59,230 I ain't. 777 00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:02,350 And I got no wine gums, neither, if that's what you're after. 778 00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:03,790 Your loss. 779 00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:06,150 I said I'd wait for Jo. 780 00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:08,630 Wasting your time with goody two-shoes. 781 00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:11,750 - Get a shift on. - Leave him behind, if he ain't coming. 782 00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:13,270 Well, I had it with this. 783 00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:16,920 Go home to your ma, if you're too scared. 784 00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:22,830 Oh, all right then. Wait up! 785 00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:25,880 I ain't waitin'. Slow'n'lazy Lee! 786 00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:36,990 'Bulls Cross was an ancient staging post 787 00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:39,510 'that cast up beasts and spirits.' 788 00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:42,070 Anyone else hear that? 789 00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:43,470 That weren't nothing. 790 00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:44,790 Just an owl. 791 00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:47,550 'We were afraid to go up there at night, 792 00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:50,310 'which is probably why we did it so often.' 793 00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:52,990 You hear what they say about the phantom coach? 794 00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:55,350 Anyone who sets eyes upon it 795 00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:58,590 be cursed to die an 'orrible death. 796 00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:02,510 Martin Fowler saw it. 797 00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:04,110 Two weeks later? 798 00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:05,390 Dead. 799 00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:07,190 Run over by a coach and horses. 800 00:56:07,240 --> 00:56:08,710 Ain't no curse. 801 00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:10,870 Martin Fowler was deaf and near blind. 802 00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:13,550 I heard the phantom's an old coach driver. 803 00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:17,190 One time, his horses got spooked. 804 00:56:17,240 --> 00:56:20,910 They bolted, throwing the driver from his seat. 805 00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:23,950 His head was dashed on the rocks. 806 00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:26,470 That's not what I heard. 807 00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:31,390 There was once a hangman, used to string up felons from that gibbet. 808 00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:33,230 He worked nights, 809 00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:36,390 taking thieves and murderers up to them gallows, 810 00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:38,190 where they be hung, 811 00:56:38,240 --> 00:56:41,200 till they be dead, dead, dead. 812 00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:45,960 One storm-black night, he's handed a shivering boy. 813 00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:50,030 So he takes this boy up the gallows, 814 00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:53,280 pts the noose around his neck, pulls the knot tight. 815 00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:58,470 A cloud moved from the moon and lit up the gallows. 816 00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:00,990 The hangman looked up... 817 00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:05,280 .. to see the face of his own son looking back at him. 818 00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:09,740 The hangman went home. 819 00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:14,600 Drove a nail into the wall and did what he did best. 820 00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:17,430 Now he haunts this place. 821 00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:23,230 We should get out of here. 822 00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:25,820 I think I can hear horses. 823 00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:28,950 Lol? 824 00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:30,800 You see that? 825 00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:33,550 It's the phantom! 826 00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:35,760 - Go. - Go. 827 00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:38,960 Shh, shh! 828 00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:13,870 There's your phantom! 829 00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:21,200 Oh, come on. Let's follow him. 830 00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:02,790 Look at him. 831 00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:05,780 He's cock of the walk, ain't he? 832 00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:16,800 We should go. 833 01:00:13,520 --> 01:00:15,030 'Come on, lazy bones!' 834 01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:16,630 Give us a minute. 835 01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:18,310 What're you playing at? 836 01:00:18,360 --> 01:00:20,900 You'll be late for school. 837 01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:23,800 What?! 838 01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:26,480 What?! 839 01:00:34,480 --> 01:00:36,750 Mornin'. 840 01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:38,870 Something attack you in the night? 841 01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:42,550 - Just shavin'. - What for? You've got nothin' but fluff! 842 01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:44,430 - Them's whiskers! - Get on! 843 01:00:44,480 --> 01:00:46,510 Be hairs on his chest next. 844 01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:47,910 And everywhere else. 845 01:00:47,960 --> 01:00:49,760 Leave him be. 846 01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:54,470 Ma? 847 01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:57,110 If I could unsee what I just saw... 848 01:00:57,160 --> 01:00:58,910 What d'you see? 849 01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:00,870 It's terrible. 850 01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:02,190 What is? 851 01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:04,550 Come on, we're not bleedin' mind-readers. 852 01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:06,270 Don't talk like that. 853 01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:09,320 Right, are you telling us or not? 854 01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:11,870 I was... 855 01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:15,270 I was just passing the Woolpack, 856 01:01:15,320 --> 01:01:18,830 and he... He's just lying there. 857 01:01:18,880 --> 01:01:21,960 Just lying there and his... His eyes are open. 858 01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:26,470 I think he's dead. 859 01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:35,630 'We all knew what had happened. 860 01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:38,270 'We could taste the violence, 861 01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:41,510 'even if we'd not seen it with our own eyes.' 862 01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:44,870 'It was bloody and raw 863 01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:48,350 'and more terrifying than anything imagined.' 864 01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:50,470 Has anyone seen anything? 865 01:01:50,520 --> 01:01:54,310 'But the men that murdered him belonged to the village 866 01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:58,030 'and the village looked after their own.' 867 01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:00,280 What about you, boy? 868 01:02:06,720 --> 01:02:08,790 You know anything? 869 01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:14,350 Right, lads, let's get him up. 870 01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:16,910 'The culprits were never punished, 871 01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:21,120 'but neither we, nor they...' 872 01:02:22,480 --> 01:02:24,680 '.. ever forgot it.' 873 01:02:34,800 --> 01:02:37,740 Have you seen him? The deserter? 874 01:02:38,880 --> 01:02:41,750 A farmer seen him in the woods. 875 01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:46,660 You sure you haven't see him? 876 01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:49,030 You get yourself home, lad. 877 01:02:49,080 --> 01:02:50,680 Come on. 878 01:03:08,920 --> 01:03:11,040 Why are you sad? 879 01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:16,680 Because I miss Frances. 880 01:03:18,160 --> 01:03:20,630 What's a deserter? 881 01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:23,110 Where'd you hear that word? 882 01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:26,100 From a sodger with a red hat on. 883 01:03:27,120 --> 01:03:30,510 Oh, Marj, it's too late. There's nothing you can do now, darling. 884 01:03:30,560 --> 01:03:31,830 I've got to warn him. 885 01:03:31,880 --> 01:03:33,790 This'll only break your heart, it's too late. 886 01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:36,830 - Don't you understand? - Of course I understand. 887 01:03:36,880 --> 01:03:39,150 Well, then you know I have to go to him. 888 01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:40,830 Oh, darlin'. 889 01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:43,630 Can I go with her to the war? 890 01:03:43,680 --> 01:03:45,150 No, Lol. 891 01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:48,260 Oh, sweetheart. 892 01:03:52,520 --> 01:03:55,520 Is the war coming to our house? 893 01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:02,060 No, sweetheart. We're safe here. 894 01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:23,200 Thank you, Lol. 895 01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:27,510 He's safe. 896 01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:29,040 For now. 897 01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:49,840 Come on, Lol! Hurry up! 898 01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:54,150 Jack, wait up! 899 01:04:54,200 --> 01:04:55,840 So slow! 900 01:04:57,320 --> 01:04:58,840 Jack! 901 01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:07,230 'That summer, mysterious senses clicked into play. 902 01:05:07,280 --> 01:05:11,870 'Our thighs seemed to burn like dry grass, 903 01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:14,670 'emotions swung wildly 904 01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:19,390 'and our bodies seemed tilted out of all recognition. 905 01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:22,030 'We knew what was happening to us, 906 01:05:22,080 --> 01:05:25,680 'we just didn't know what to do with it.' 907 01:05:26,240 --> 01:05:27,670 She ain't comin'. 908 01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:29,830 Oh, she's always through after church. 909 01:05:29,880 --> 01:05:31,470 Won't she... mind? 910 01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:34,670 Mind? Lizzy's keen, let us do all we want. 911 01:05:34,720 --> 01:05:36,110 All we want? 912 01:05:36,160 --> 01:05:37,870 - Shurrup, Lol. - You shurrup. 913 01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:40,190 Both of you, shurrup! 914 01:05:41,200 --> 01:05:43,000 She's coming. 915 01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:48,720 Go on! 916 01:05:57,520 --> 01:05:59,920 All right there, Lizzy? 917 01:06:01,600 --> 01:06:02,990 Hello. 918 01:06:03,040 --> 01:06:05,230 What're you doin'? 919 01:06:05,280 --> 01:06:07,230 Whatever you want us to be doin'? 920 01:06:07,280 --> 01:06:08,550 Yeah. 921 01:06:09,680 --> 01:06:12,920 Go on, then. What've you got in mind? 922 01:06:16,960 --> 01:06:18,160 Ow! 923 01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:22,190 What do we do now, then? 924 01:06:22,240 --> 01:06:24,640 I dunno. Let's go. 925 01:07:31,880 --> 01:07:33,950 You all right, Ma? 926 01:07:35,400 --> 01:07:37,230 What happened? 927 01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:39,350 It's Granny Trill. 928 01:07:45,920 --> 01:07:47,910 'So many of my childhood days 929 01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:52,720 'had been spent prowling slowly round Granny Trill's treasures.' 930 01:07:55,920 --> 01:07:58,060 'Now she was gone.' 931 01:08:15,520 --> 01:08:17,460 Lord have mercy. 932 01:08:45,480 --> 01:08:49,310 'Not two weeks after Granny Trill died, 933 01:08:49,360 --> 01:08:53,000 'Granny Wallon gave up in her sleep.' 934 01:11:03,480 --> 01:11:05,680 You comin' in, then? 935 01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:09,430 'It was as though I'd been dipped in hot oil...' 936 01:11:09,480 --> 01:11:11,190 Stone me. 937 01:11:11,240 --> 01:11:13,350 '.. baked, dried 938 01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:16,070 'and hung throbbing on wires.' 939 01:11:16,120 --> 01:11:19,060 I know you're there, Laurie Lee. 940 01:11:20,440 --> 01:11:23,240 'I was an unexploded bomb.' 941 01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:44,990 Where's Ma? 942 01:11:45,040 --> 01:11:46,710 Away with Dad. 943 01:11:46,760 --> 01:11:49,750 You can smile, Lol. The war's finished. 944 01:11:49,800 --> 01:11:53,230 Everyone's in the Woolpack, Marj. There's music. Everyone's dancing. 945 01:11:53,280 --> 01:11:54,670 Let's go, Jack. 946 01:11:54,720 --> 01:11:57,800 Stop a minute longer. Only a minute won't do no harm. 947 01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:09,390 Will Pa die now the war's over? 948 01:12:09,440 --> 01:12:12,030 No. Course he won't. 949 01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:14,550 So he'll be coming home? 950 01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:20,550 You got all the people you need already. 951 01:12:20,600 --> 01:12:22,750 Ma, Doth, Phyll an' me. 952 01:12:22,800 --> 01:12:24,870 We look after you. 953 01:12:26,280 --> 01:12:28,790 I told you, leave me be! 954 01:12:28,840 --> 01:12:31,710 The sodger! Maybe he's seen Pa. 955 01:12:32,360 --> 01:12:33,800 Oh, no! 956 01:12:36,400 --> 01:12:39,070 I never told. I never told anyone. 957 01:12:39,120 --> 01:12:42,510 James! Stop it, you're hurting him! 958 01:12:42,560 --> 01:12:45,030 Stop it! Leave him alone! 959 01:12:47,480 --> 01:12:49,030 Marj! 960 01:12:49,080 --> 01:12:50,470 Marj! 961 01:12:50,520 --> 01:12:52,400 I love you! 962 01:13:02,920 --> 01:13:04,860 I love you too. 963 01:13:06,080 --> 01:13:08,030 Step away, please. 964 01:13:08,080 --> 01:13:11,160 'I knew something momentous was happening.' 965 01:13:13,080 --> 01:13:14,590 'The war was over 966 01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:17,740 'and the end of the world was come.' 967 01:13:18,600 --> 01:13:21,750 'Mother had disappeared 968 01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:25,520 'and I never expected to see another day.' 969 01:13:48,680 --> 01:13:53,160 You weren't there when the war ended, were you? 970 01:13:55,040 --> 01:13:57,640 You were in London with Pa. 971 01:14:01,680 --> 01:14:04,020 You should've seen it. 972 01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:07,640 Trafalgar Square. 973 01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:11,240 The fountains. 974 01:14:13,360 --> 01:14:16,030 Soldiers dancing with girls. 975 01:14:17,400 --> 01:14:19,470 And there was Reg. 976 01:14:20,320 --> 01:14:22,430 His uniform. 977 01:14:22,480 --> 01:14:24,520 His uniform on. 978 01:14:27,080 --> 01:14:29,350 His hair was just so. 979 01:14:31,920 --> 01:14:33,720 That night... 980 01:14:35,120 --> 01:14:36,990 .. were magic. 981 01:14:38,160 --> 01:14:40,100 Magic, it were. 982 01:14:42,080 --> 01:14:44,950 Was that the night he told you? 983 01:14:46,560 --> 01:14:50,750 That he wasn't coming back to live with us no more? 984 01:14:50,800 --> 01:14:54,200 No, no. He, he never said that, see. 985 01:14:55,880 --> 01:14:58,750 Got a job in the civil service. 986 01:14:59,800 --> 01:15:03,300 We've never wanted for nothing, have we? 987 01:15:05,200 --> 01:15:07,600 But we were his family. 988 01:15:45,120 --> 01:15:46,590 All right, Lol. 989 01:15:46,640 --> 01:15:49,230 Go on. Get out of 'ere. 990 01:15:49,280 --> 01:15:51,480 You must be thirsty. 991 01:15:53,000 --> 01:15:54,390 I ain't. 992 01:15:54,440 --> 01:15:57,320 You be. C'mon, I'll show you. 993 01:15:58,920 --> 01:16:01,840 C'mon! Unless you're scared. 994 01:16:11,120 --> 01:16:15,230 'The day Rosie Burdock decided to take me in hand 995 01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:18,870 'was a motionless day of summer, 996 01:16:18,920 --> 01:16:24,070 'creamy, hazy, and amber-coloured, 997 01:16:24,120 --> 01:16:27,950 'with beech trees standing in heavy sunlight 998 01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:32,080 'as though clogged with wild wet honey.' 999 01:16:37,160 --> 01:16:39,950 What're you doin', Rosie? I ain't playin' no more games. 1000 01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:41,670 Get under 'ere before someone sees. 1001 01:16:41,720 --> 01:16:43,590 'I was terrified of her. 1002 01:16:43,640 --> 01:16:46,670 'In her eyes I saw unnatural wisdoms 1003 01:16:46,720 --> 01:16:49,830 'more threatening than anything I could imagine.' 1004 01:16:49,880 --> 01:16:51,350 What you got there? 1005 01:16:51,400 --> 01:16:52,740 Cider. 1006 01:16:55,320 --> 01:16:57,390 How does it taste? 1007 01:16:58,520 --> 01:16:59,830 Like... 1008 01:16:59,880 --> 01:17:01,640 Like fire. 1009 01:17:09,520 --> 01:17:10,990 Here, don't drink it all. 1010 01:17:11,040 --> 01:17:12,230 Ain't finished. 1011 01:17:12,280 --> 01:17:14,080 Give it 'ere! 1012 01:17:23,440 --> 01:17:24,910 Rosie... 1013 01:17:29,480 --> 01:17:32,870 I like you better than Walt, Ken and Boney Harris. 1014 01:17:32,920 --> 01:17:37,240 I... I think you're even prettier than Betty Carpenter. 1015 01:17:39,680 --> 01:17:41,620 Should hope so. 1016 01:17:49,000 --> 01:17:53,030 'We kissed, so dry and shy, 1017 01:17:53,080 --> 01:17:57,190 'it was like two leaves colliding in air.' 1018 01:17:57,240 --> 01:17:59,120 'Lol!' 1019 01:18:02,280 --> 01:18:04,000 'Lol!' 1020 01:18:06,520 --> 01:18:08,120 Lol? 1021 01:18:43,480 --> 01:18:45,030 You really like me more than Walt? 1022 01:18:45,080 --> 01:18:46,680 Do I heck! 1023 01:18:54,200 --> 01:18:57,000 You do like me more than Walt. 1024 01:18:59,520 --> 01:19:00,790 Look at this place. 1025 01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:02,710 What about it? 1026 01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:05,790 The hills running together, 1027 01:19:05,840 --> 01:19:09,350 the trees, the whole valley. 1028 01:19:09,400 --> 01:19:12,390 You ever feel like you're a part of it? 1029 01:19:12,440 --> 01:19:14,910 That cider's gone to your head! 1030 01:19:14,960 --> 01:19:17,240 It's magnificent! 1031 01:19:55,160 --> 01:19:58,200 - You got your boots on! - Don't matter! 1032 01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:11,680 Timber! 1033 01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:16,800 You get home safe, Laurie Lee. 1034 01:20:21,280 --> 01:20:23,550 Rosie? 1035 01:20:23,600 --> 01:20:25,230 Rosie! 1036 01:20:25,280 --> 01:20:27,510 'Oh, Rosie. 1037 01:20:27,560 --> 01:20:30,350 'There's something about that evening 1038 01:20:30,400 --> 01:20:33,400 'that dilates the memory even now.' 1039 01:20:43,640 --> 01:20:47,240 'I was bursting with power and pleasure.' 1040 01:20:52,440 --> 01:20:55,270 'I felt valiant, fateful, 1041 01:20:55,320 --> 01:20:57,670 'and for the first time in my life, 1042 01:20:57,720 --> 01:21:01,020 'invulnerable to the perils of night.' 1043 01:21:03,320 --> 01:21:06,060 'I was never the same again.' 1044 01:21:08,400 --> 01:21:10,800 I think they're pretty. 1045 01:21:11,520 --> 01:21:13,230 What are you meant to be!? 1046 01:21:13,280 --> 01:21:14,750 Night! 1047 01:21:14,800 --> 01:21:19,190 'The year after the war ended we were celebrating peace.' 1048 01:21:19,240 --> 01:21:21,390 Rosie! 1049 01:21:21,440 --> 01:21:23,350 Don't you look a picture! 1050 01:21:23,400 --> 01:21:25,750 Oh, my goodness. 1051 01:21:25,800 --> 01:21:27,870 You both do. 1052 01:21:27,920 --> 01:21:29,960 All of you. 1053 01:21:32,080 --> 01:21:34,430 I'm a fairy. 1054 01:21:34,480 --> 01:21:36,220 You can fly? 1055 01:21:37,480 --> 01:21:39,550 You got wings? 1056 01:21:39,600 --> 01:21:41,830 Then fly. 1057 01:21:41,880 --> 01:21:43,550 Fly! 1058 01:21:48,030 --> 01:21:49,030 Rosie. 1059 01:21:49,080 --> 01:21:50,830 Rosie! 1060 01:21:50,880 --> 01:21:53,550 Lol, what d'you do that for? 1061 01:21:56,120 --> 01:21:59,630 'On that spring day of magical transformations, 1062 01:21:59,680 --> 01:22:02,750 'of tears and dusty sunlight, 1063 01:22:02,800 --> 01:22:06,070 'of brass bands and cakes by the cartload, 1064 01:22:06,120 --> 01:22:11,750 'we couldn't know what the future held for any of us. 1065 01:22:11,800 --> 01:22:16,280 'Pretty Jo grew fat with a Painswick baker.' 1066 01:22:18,160 --> 01:22:22,870 'And Rosie, having baptised me with her ciderous kisses, 1067 01:22:22,920 --> 01:22:26,720 'married a soldier and I lost her forever.' 1068 01:22:28,200 --> 01:22:30,990 Could you all move over to your right a little, keep very still. 1069 01:22:31,040 --> 01:22:33,390 'Suns rose and fell. 1070 01:22:33,440 --> 01:22:36,630 'Years passed almost without us knowing.' 1071 01:22:41,080 --> 01:22:44,990 'Now the last days of my family drew near. 1072 01:22:45,040 --> 01:22:49,070 'The girls were grown and they wished to be gone.' 1073 01:22:49,120 --> 01:22:52,030 You're not leaving! Doth, Phyll, she's not leaving. 1074 01:22:52,080 --> 01:22:53,390 Stay out of this, you two. 1075 01:22:53,440 --> 01:22:56,070 - Put your case down! - No! We're getting married. 1076 01:22:56,120 --> 01:22:57,950 You're not taking her! 1077 01:22:58,000 --> 01:22:59,590 It's time, Ma. 1078 01:22:59,640 --> 01:23:03,240 You can't keep her here forever, Mrs Lee. 1079 01:23:04,720 --> 01:23:06,750 Who do you think you're talking to? 1080 01:23:06,800 --> 01:23:08,480 Huh? 1081 01:23:09,640 --> 01:23:11,040 Mother! 1082 01:23:13,520 --> 01:23:15,870 Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! 1083 01:23:15,920 --> 01:23:17,390 Stop it. 1084 01:23:18,760 --> 01:23:21,230 I cannot be without him. 1085 01:23:22,840 --> 01:23:24,710 We're in love! 1086 01:23:27,040 --> 01:23:30,840 Do you think I don't understand about love? 1087 01:23:31,360 --> 01:23:34,630 'He had tried to carry off our willing sister 1088 01:23:34,680 --> 01:23:37,590 'and we had all of us very near killed him.' 1089 01:23:37,640 --> 01:23:40,630 All right, come here. Oh, me darlin'. 1090 01:23:40,680 --> 01:23:42,710 It's OK. 1091 01:23:42,760 --> 01:23:45,510 You're right, there we go. You sit down, go on. 1092 01:23:45,560 --> 01:23:47,070 Come 'ere, me darlin'. 1093 01:23:47,120 --> 01:23:49,800 Oh, Marj. Oh, Marj! 1094 01:24:36,840 --> 01:24:39,000 That's me, then. 1095 01:25:00,440 --> 01:25:03,030 D'you remember Blackbirds And Thrushes? 1096 01:25:03,080 --> 01:25:04,230 Yeah. 1097 01:25:04,280 --> 01:25:06,590 It was your dad's favourite. 1098 01:25:06,640 --> 01:25:09,760 He'd get me to sing it all the time. 1099 01:25:11,560 --> 01:25:17,680 ♪ As I was a-walkin' for my recreation 1100 01:25:19,320 --> 01:25:22,270 ♪ Down by the green meadow... ♪ 1101 01:25:22,320 --> 01:25:26,350 'The three or four years my mother spent with my father, 1102 01:25:26,400 --> 01:25:29,190 'she fed on for the rest of her life.' 1103 01:25:29,240 --> 01:25:31,790 ♪ There I met a fair maiden... ♪ 1104 01:25:31,840 --> 01:25:37,190 'She raised his two families, faithfully and alone. 1105 01:25:37,240 --> 01:25:42,470 'And for 30 years, she clung to one fantasy -- 1106 01:25:42,520 --> 01:25:45,600 'that he might one day return to her.' 1107 01:25:47,040 --> 01:25:49,310 'But he never did.' 1108 01:25:49,360 --> 01:25:53,110 ♪ With his heart full of yearning 1109 01:25:53,160 --> 01:25:56,870 ♪ He found his dear Mary 1110 01:25:56,920 --> 01:25:59,360 ♪ All dead in her grave 1111 01:26:01,120 --> 01:26:04,550 ♪ He cried, "I'm forsaken 1112 01:26:04,600 --> 01:26:09,240 ♪ "My poor heart is breaking"... ♪ 1113 01:26:21,920 --> 01:26:25,830 ♪ I wish that I never 1114 01:26:25,880 --> 01:26:28,550 ♪ Had left this fair maid. ♪ 1115 01:26:34,000 --> 01:26:36,000 You're my sodger. 1116 01:26:40,320 --> 01:26:42,710 Off you go, then. 1117 01:26:42,760 --> 01:26:44,700 Sit up straight. 1118 01:26:47,480 --> 01:26:49,840 Off you go. Go on. 1119 01:26:59,040 --> 01:27:02,470 'My mother loved this world 1120 01:27:02,520 --> 01:27:07,190 'and saw it fresh with hopes that never clouded. 1121 01:27:07,240 --> 01:27:09,590 'She was an artist, 1122 01:27:09,640 --> 01:27:13,390 'a light-giver, and an original, 1123 01:27:13,440 --> 01:27:17,040 'and she never for a moment knew it.' 1124 01:27:24,920 --> 01:27:30,150 'As for me, I was 19 years old, 1125 01:27:30,200 --> 01:27:33,550 'still soft at the edges, 1126 01:27:33,600 --> 01:27:37,400 'but with the confident belief in good fortune.' 1127 01:27:38,840 --> 01:27:41,150 'I was vainglorious, 1128 01:27:41,200 --> 01:27:44,230 'full of raging excitement, 1129 01:27:44,280 --> 01:27:46,920 'knowing I had far to go.' 1130 01:27:50,200 --> 01:27:52,670 'I left behind a village life 1131 01:27:52,720 --> 01:27:54,710 'that was soon to break, 1132 01:27:54,760 --> 01:27:58,190 'dissolve and scatter. 1133 01:27:58,240 --> 01:28:01,590 'The valley would change forever 1134 01:28:01,640 --> 01:28:03,640 'and so would I.' 1135 01:28:06,160 --> 01:28:08,470 'I felt doomed, 1136 01:28:08,520 --> 01:28:11,880 'and of all things wonderful.'