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00:01:53 The peace of God, which passes all
00:01:57 in the knowledge and love
00:02:02 and the blessing of God Almighty.
00:02:04 The Father, the Son
00:02:06 be upon you and remain with you,
00:02:15 Will that do the trick,
00:02:17 We're about to find out.
00:02:25 Jimmy!
00:02:31 - Ready?
00:02:34 Mum, please. Lads, wait.
00:02:36 Just get in the car.
00:02:43 Let's get it over with.
00:02:44 Fiona, Fiona!
00:02:46 Read out from the top.
00:02:51 Three A's! I got three A's!
00:02:54 - Chris, what did you get, man?
00:02:58 Three A's! Three A's!
00:03:04 - Told you you would.
00:03:06 - Hey, what did you get?
00:03:12 - Hey, it's Dakin.
00:03:14 Stu, what happened?
00:03:19 - Are you not gonna look?
00:03:23 - I bet you did.
00:03:26 - Lockwood.
00:03:27 - Lockwood.
00:03:30 Why are you dressed as a milkman?
00:03:32 - Working, sir. For the 'olidays.
00:03:38 After the holidays you'll be coming
00:03:41 Your A-level results
00:03:44 and they demand
00:03:47 to work for the examination
00:03:50 One more term, boys. One more push.
00:03:53 In the meantime,
00:03:56 - I'm in a bookshop, sir.
00:03:58 - I'm on the bins.
00:04:00 - Lavatory attendant, sir.
00:04:03 - Congratulations, boys.
00:04:09 Three A's! Three A's!
00:04:16 So, we shall be meeting again after all.
00:04:18 - Yes, sir.
00:04:21 Good behavior
00:04:24 - Ah, you poor boys.
00:04:30 Thank you, Miss.
00:04:31 "The happiest youth,
00:04:35 What perils past,
00:04:38 Would shut the book
00:04:43 Congratulations, Dorothy.
00:05:38 Morning!
00:05:44 You are entitled,
00:05:48 to feel pleased with yourselves.
00:05:50 No one has done as well.
00:05:53 not even, dare I say it,
00:05:57 And you alone are up
00:06:00 So, to work. First essay this term will be
00:06:05 - Not again, Miss.
00:06:08 You don't just need to know it, you need to
00:06:14 They're clever, but they're crass.
00:06:18 And were it Bristol or York,
00:06:22 But Oxford and Cambridge?
00:06:25 We need a strategy, Dorothy,
00:06:30 - They know their stuff.
00:06:34 Culture they can get from Hector.
00:06:37 History from you, but...
00:06:40 I'm thinking aloud now.
00:06:43 Is there something else?
00:06:45 Think charm, think polish.
00:06:49 Think... Renaissance man.
00:06:53 Leave it with me, Dorothy,
00:06:55 Yes, Headmaster.
00:07:00 Wilkes.
00:07:01 Ah, yes.
00:07:06 - PE.
00:07:08 For the Oxbridge set.
00:07:11 This is the biggest hurdle of their lives
00:07:17 Galvanized. Yes, Headmaster.
00:07:23 In the timetable,
00:07:26 has given these periods
00:07:32 I will let you into
00:07:36 There is no such thing
00:07:40 General studies is a waste of time.
00:07:44 Knowledge is not general,
00:07:49 And nothing to do with getting on.
00:07:53 But remember, open quotation marks,
00:07:58 whether or not it serves the slightest
00:08:02 Who said, Akhtar? Timms?
00:08:06 Lockwood, Dakin?
00:08:09 "Loveliest of trees,
00:08:11 - A Housman, sir.
00:08:14 Wasn't he a nancy, sir?
00:08:16 Foul, festering, grubby-minded
00:08:19 - Do not use that word.
00:08:21 I do, sir, I know.
00:08:24 Er, you're not supposed to hit us, sir.
00:08:27 I know, I know.
00:08:29 You should treat us with more respect.
00:08:33 - We're all going in for Oxford and Cambridge.
00:08:38 Old, sir. Tried and tested.
00:08:40 No! It's because other boys
00:08:42 It's the hot ticket,
00:08:45 - Where did you go, sir?
00:08:48 I was happy!
00:08:50 "Happy is England,
00:08:54 Enough her simple
00:08:59 We won't be examined on that,
00:09:01 - Keats?
00:09:09 - You are?
00:09:11 - Irwin?
00:09:14 Quite so.
00:09:17 The examinations are at the end of term,
00:09:19 which gives us, er...
00:09:22 - You were at Cambridge. You know the form.
00:09:27 You see... I-I thought of going.
00:09:29 But this was the... the '50s.
00:09:32 Change was in the air,
00:09:37 So, where did you go?
00:09:40 I was a geographer. I went to Hull.
00:09:46 They're a likely lot, the boys.
00:09:49 All keen.
00:09:52 Determined to try for Oxford.
00:09:57 No hope. No.
00:09:58 Might get into Loughborough,
00:10:01 Er... otherwise, all bright.
00:10:03 But they need polish.
00:10:05 Edge. Your job.
00:10:09 We're low in the league.
00:10:11 I want to see us up there with Manchester
00:10:17 Leighton Park.
00:10:19 Or is that an open prison?
00:10:24 No matter.
00:10:28 There is a vacancy, in history.
00:10:33 That's very true.
00:10:37 In the school.
00:10:40 Ah.
00:10:43 Get me scholarships, Irwin.
00:10:46 Pull us up the table and it's yours.
00:10:48 I-I'm corseted by the curriculum.
00:10:52 But I can find you,
00:10:55 - Not enough.
00:10:58 I think I know where
00:11:32 Où voudriez-vous travailler
00:11:36 Je voudrais travailler
00:11:39 - Oh là là!
00:11:42 - A brothel.
00:11:44 He'd like to work in a brothel.
00:11:46 Très bien.
00:11:48 Mais une maison de passe
00:11:50 où tous les clients utilizent
00:11:55 Bien.
00:11:57 - D'accord, monsieur.
00:11:59 Voilà.
00:12:00 Déjà un client.
00:12:04 - Bonjour, monsieur.
00:12:08 Entrez, s'il vous plaît.
00:12:16 - Et voici votre prostituée.
00:12:21 Je veux m'étendre sur le lit.
00:12:23 Je voudrais. "I would like
00:12:26 in the conditional or the subjunctive.
00:12:29 Continuez, mes enfants.
00:12:31 Mais les chaussures, monsieur.
00:12:34 Oh! Excusez-moi, mademoiselle,
00:12:39 Et votre pantalon, s'il vous plaît.
00:12:43 - Come on! Sir...
00:12:49 Oh! Quelles belles jambes!
00:12:52 Et maintenant- Claudine.
00:12:55 Oui. La prostituée, s'il vous plaît.
00:13:03 - A quel prix?
00:13:05 Dix francs. Pour dix francs,
00:13:12 Ah, non, non, non...
00:13:17 Un autre client.
00:13:20 Ah! Cher monsieur le directeur.
00:13:24 Mr. Hector, what on earth
00:13:26 L'anglais c'est interdit.
00:13:31 En accordant une importance
00:13:36 Oh... Erm...
00:13:39 Qu'est-ce qui s'est passé ici?
00:13:42 Pourquoi ce garçon...
00:13:46 ...est sans... er... trousers?
00:13:49 Ah! Erm... Quelqu'un?
00:13:54 Oh! Ne sois pas timide.
00:13:57 Dites à cher monsieur le directeur
00:14:05 - Je suis un homme qui...
00:14:08 Vous êtes un soldat.
00:14:12 Vous comprenez,
00:14:14 - Soldat blessé.
00:14:16 Ici, c'est un hôpital en Belgique.
00:14:21 Belgique? Pourquoi Belgique?
00:14:25 - À Ypres.
00:14:27 - Ypres.
00:14:29 Pendant la guerre mondiale numéro un.
00:14:31 - Ypres.
00:14:33 Dakin est un soldat blessé.
00:14:36 Un mutilé de guerre.
00:14:38 Et les autres sont des médecins,
00:14:43 et tout le personnel d'un grand établissement
00:14:47 Continuez, mes enfants.
00:14:54 Il appelle sa mère.
00:14:55 Mon père! Mon père!
00:14:57 Il appelle son père!
00:15:00 Il est distrait, il est distrait.
00:15:03 Il est commotionné, peut-être.
00:15:06 Comment?
00:15:09 Commotionné. Shell-shocked.
00:15:15 C'est possible. Commotionné.
00:15:19 Permettez-moi d'introduire Monsieur Irwin,
00:15:24 - Enchanté.
00:15:28 Mr. Hector, you are aware
00:15:32 Nobody's told me.
00:15:33 Mr. Irwin will be coaching them,
00:15:36 I've found him three lessons a week, but I was
00:15:40 - The last time, I promise.
00:15:43 - I'm thinking of the boys.
00:15:48 C'est hors de question,
00:15:51 je dois continuer ma leçon.
00:15:54 Fuck.
00:16:04 It's true, though, sir.
00:16:07 We don't even have to do French.
00:16:09 Now, who goes home?
00:16:15 Well, surely I can
00:16:18 - Who's on pillion duty? Dakin?
00:16:24 - Crowther?
00:16:26 - Akhtar?
00:16:28 - Ah.
00:16:30 Oh, no, never mind.
00:16:34 I'll come, sir.
00:16:37 Ah! Scripps.
00:16:40 The things I do for Jesus.
00:16:43 - It's never me.
00:16:46 It will happen.
00:16:50 If rather late in the day.
00:16:52 Mr. Hector is likely, at some point,
00:16:56 This is because Mr. Hector
00:17:00 The drill is to look at the hand and go,
00:17:05 Well, he has no answer for this
00:17:26 Thrutch up.
00:18:05 - I just think I should have been told.
00:18:08 - So did Anne of Cleves.
00:18:11 He's up to the minute, Dorothy,
00:18:14 Now? I thought history was "then".
00:18:18 Felix.
00:18:21 Anne of Cleves. Remind me.
00:18:23 - Fourth wife of Henry VIII, sir.
00:18:27 She was the one they told him
00:18:29 only, when she turned up, she had a face
00:18:34 Quite so.
00:18:41 - What's the matter with you, lad?
00:18:44 How much for?
00:18:48 - Sir...
00:18:51 Did Jesus say, "Can I be
00:18:55 Actually, sir, I think he did.
00:18:58 Change! One day
00:19:02 Nothing saves anyone's life, sir.
00:19:06 Jesus Christ
00:19:08 if you only let him into your heart!
00:19:11 I'm Jewish, sir.
00:19:15 I'm Muslim, sir.
00:19:22 Very good.
00:19:28 Most excellent.
00:19:31 Ooooh!
00:19:33 Go on!
00:19:35 Lad, lad, lad!
00:19:37 You're letting yourself down,
00:19:40 - What's God got to do with it?
00:19:45 - No?
00:19:46 This body is on loan to you from God.
00:19:49 - Fuck me.
00:19:52 20 what? Hail Marys?
00:19:55 Do it.
00:20:02 - You're late. Get your kit off.
00:20:06 Well, I've never seen you.
00:20:09 What's this?
00:20:12 - Do you need a hand with that, sir?
00:20:16 Mrs. Lintott's given me a view
00:20:19 The experience was interesting.
00:20:25 Dull. Abysmally dull.
00:20:28 A triumph. The dullest of the lot.
00:20:32 - I got all the points.
00:20:35 - Its sheer competence was staggering.
00:20:39 It's your eyesight that's bad
00:20:42 Sir! Is that a coded reference
00:20:45 - It might even be a joke!
00:20:48 Oh. Are jokes gonna be a feature?
00:20:52 You don't object to our using
00:20:55 Mr. Hector doesn't care for it.
00:21:01 At the... er... at the time of the Reformation,
00:21:07 but it was thought the Church of St. John
00:21:11 Don't think we're shocked
00:21:15 No, sir. Some of us even have them.
00:21:17 Not Posner, though, cos he's, well... Jewish.
00:21:22 - Fuck off.
00:21:25 - Isn't it?
00:21:29 Has anybody been to Rome or Venice?
00:21:33 Florence? No.
00:21:35 The other candidates will have been and
00:21:40 So they'll know, when they do an essay
00:21:44 that, oh, look, some silly nonsense
00:21:48 so that their essays,
00:21:52 They're not even bad, they're just boring.
00:21:56 - So, why are we bothering?
00:21:59 You want it. Your parents want it.
00:22:06 Me? I wouldn't waste the money.
00:22:14 - Of course, there is another way.
00:22:17 - Cheat!
00:22:23 - Dakin.
00:22:25 Don't take the piss.
00:22:28 - What a wanker.
00:22:31 - Do what?
00:22:34 Foreskins and stuff.
00:22:36 Have a heart.
00:22:43 What happened with Hector,
00:22:47 As per.
00:22:50 I think he thought he'd got me going,
00:22:52 but, in fact, it was my
00:23:26 So, let's summarize. The First World War,
00:23:29 - Trench warfare.
00:23:32 - On both sides.
00:23:34 - On both sides.
00:23:36 - Keep it coming.
00:23:39 Collapse of the Weimar Republic,
00:23:42 So our conclusion is
00:23:45 lie in the unsatisfactory outcome of the first.
00:23:48 - Yes. Yes.
00:23:52 Bristol welcomes you with open arms.
00:23:55 Manchester longs to have you.
00:23:58 But I'm the fellow of Magdalene College,
00:24:00 I've just read 70 papers saying the same,
00:24:03 - But it's all true.
00:24:08 What's truth got to do with anything?
00:24:10 - The new man seems clever.
00:24:16 - Didn't you try for Oxford?
00:24:22 Cloisters. Ancient libraries.
00:24:25 I was confusing learning
00:24:28 If I had gone I'd probably never
00:24:32 Durham was very good for history.
00:24:37 Other things too, of course,
00:24:44 Er, Dakin's a good-looking boy,
00:24:47 You always think they're sad, Hector.
00:24:52 Actually, I wouldn't have said he was sad,
00:24:56 Dorothy.
00:24:57 I'd have thought you'd have liked that.
00:25:01 - You like compound adjectives.
00:25:05 - Oh. Going walkabout.
00:25:10 The truth was, in 1914,
00:25:13 Yeah, there's an arms race,
00:25:17 So, why does no one admit this?
00:25:21 That's why. The dead.
00:25:24 The body count.
00:25:26 We don't like to admit the war was even partly
00:25:31 And all the mourning's veiled the truth. It's
00:25:36 That's what all this is about - the memorials,
00:25:43 Because there is no better way of forgetting
00:25:47 As for the truth, Scripps, forget it.
00:25:50 In an examination, truth's not an issue.
00:25:53 You really believe this, sir?
00:25:56 Can't explain away the poetry, sir.
00:25:59 - Art wins in the end.
00:26:01 "Those long, uneven lines
00:26:05 As if they were stretched outside
00:26:07 The crowns of hats, the sun
00:26:13 Grinning as if it were all
00:26:16 "Never such innocence,
00:26:18 As changed itself to past
00:26:21 "The men leaving the gardens tidy."
00:26:23 "The thousands of marriages
00:26:26 "Never such innocence again."
00:26:28 How come you know all this by heart?
00:26:33 Not that it answers the question.
00:26:37 So much for our "glorious dead".
00:26:39 Quite.
00:26:42 Actually, Fiona's my Western front.
00:26:44 Well, last night, for instance.
00:26:46 I thought it might be the big push.
00:26:49 So, encountering only token resistance,
00:26:51 I reconnoitered the ground
00:26:54 - Shit!
00:26:56 - Certainly not into it. Up to it.
00:27:01 And the metaphor really fits.
00:27:04 I mean, moving up to the front,
00:27:06 troops presumably had to pass
00:27:11 Well, so it is with me.
00:27:13 Like particularly her tits, which only
00:27:19 And which were indeed the start line
00:27:26 What's the matter?
00:27:30 - No-man's-land.
00:27:33 So, what do I do with this?
00:27:37 Carry out a controlled explosion?
00:27:41 Still, at least I'm
00:27:44 - Felix?
00:27:46 Tries to. Chases her around the desk.
00:27:49 No!
00:27:51 Actually, the metaphor isn't exact
00:27:53 because what Fiona is presumably
00:27:58 You're not forcing her, she's not
00:28:02 - Does she like you?
00:28:05 Then you're not disputing the territory, just
00:28:09 Just let us know
00:28:12 I'm beginning to like him more.
00:28:14 - Who, me?
00:28:21 Jimmy!
00:28:24 Cheer up. At least he speaks to you.
00:28:27 Most guys wouldn't even speak to you.
00:28:30 - Love can be very irritating.
00:28:35 That's what I always think about God.
00:28:37 He must get so pissed off,
00:28:40 Yes. Only you don't catch God
00:30:19 Well done, Posner.
00:30:21 And now for some poetry
00:30:25 Oh, God!
00:30:28 Er, Timms, w-w-what is this?
00:30:30 Sir, I don't always
00:30:33 You don't always understand it?
00:30:39 But learn it now, know it now,
00:30:44 I don't see how we can understand it.
00:30:46 Most of what poetry's about
00:30:48 But it will, Timms, it will.
00:30:51 And when it does,
00:30:53 Grief, happiness,
00:30:58 We're making your deathbeds
00:31:01 Er, we've got an ending, sir.
00:31:03 Oh! Goody! Yes, well...
00:31:10 And we have to smoke, sir.
00:31:12 And I happen to have some, sir.
00:31:14 Very well.
00:31:21 Jerry, please help me.
00:31:24 Shall we just
00:31:26 Yes!
00:31:42 May I sometimes come here?
00:31:44 Whenever you like. It's your home too.
00:31:48 And will you be happy, Charlotte?
00:31:49 Oh, Jerry! Don't let's ask
00:32:04 Lovely.
00:32:06 Hm!
00:32:08 Could it be Paul Henreid
00:32:14 It is famous,
00:32:16 - But we never heard of it, sir.
00:32:21 "The untold want,
00:32:25 Now, Voyager, sail thou forth,
00:32:31 50p, please.
00:32:34 Ah, Rudge.
00:32:38 There's nothing on
00:32:40 - Why? Should there be?
00:32:44 Mr. Irwin said the Carry Ons
00:32:48 How peculiar.
00:32:51 Probably not.
00:32:55 I'm now wondering if there's
00:32:59 Well, Mr. Irwin says that,
00:33:04 Ahem!
00:33:07 "...they achieve some
00:33:11 and acquire incremental significance
00:33:14 Dear me.
00:33:18 Well, it's not like your stuff, Miss.
00:33:37 - Where do you live, sir?
00:33:40 Not far from Mr. Hector, sir.
00:33:43 It's not a loft, is it, sir?
00:33:45 Do you exist
00:33:47 or do you whisk up gourmet meals for one?
00:33:49 - Or is it a lonely pizza, sir?
00:33:52 No questions from you, Dakin?
00:33:54 What they want to know, sir,
00:33:56 Or are we it? Are we your life?
00:33:58 It's pretty dismal if you are,
00:34:03 You get a question, you know the answer.
00:34:06 So, say something different,
00:34:10 OK, look, er... take Stalin.
00:34:12 He's generally agreed
00:34:16 Dissent. Find something, anything,
00:34:22 A question is about what you know,
00:34:26 A question about Rembrandt, for instance,
00:34:30 - Is Degas an old master?
00:34:34 The Old Masters; how it takes place while
00:34:38 - Have you done that with Mr. Hector?
00:34:40 The poem. You're quoting somebody.
00:34:43 Was it, sir? Sometimes it just
00:34:47 Does he have a program
00:34:50 - Knowledge.
00:34:52 Breaking bread with the dead,
00:34:55 - It's higher than your stuff, sir, it's nobler.
00:35:00 Not focused at all.
00:35:02 We know what we're doing with you.
00:35:04 Half the time with him,
00:35:06 We're poor little sheep
00:35:09 - Where are we? Where are we, sir?
00:35:11 You're very young, sir.
00:35:15 I wish it was.
00:35:17 Why, sir?
00:35:20 We're not just a hiccup between the end
00:35:24 like Auden, are we, sir?
00:35:25 - Do you like Auden's poetry, sir?
00:35:30 Mr. Hector does. We know about Auden.
00:35:33 Oh, yes, we do.
00:35:35 - He was a schoolmaster for a bit.
00:35:37 Yeah, he was. Do you think he was
00:35:43 I have no idea.
00:35:45 Oh, I think he was
00:35:48 Bit of a shambles.
00:35:52 Auden, sir, not Mr. Hector.
00:35:55 So, you could answer
00:35:57 No, sir! Mr. Hector's stuff's
00:36:02 It's to make us
00:36:04 Listen! This examination's gonna be about
00:36:09 and if there's a question on Auden
00:36:13 That would be a betrayal of trust.
00:36:15 Yeah! Is nothing sacred, sir?
00:36:18 I would, sir, and they would.
00:36:21 "England, you've been here too long,
00:36:23 And the songs you sing
00:36:25 On a braver day, now they are wrong."
00:36:28 - Who's that?
00:36:30 Sir! It's Stevie Smith of
00:36:34 Don't tell me that's useless knowledge.
00:36:36 If you get an essay on post-imperial decline,
00:36:39 you're losing an empire, finding a role,
00:36:42 A gobbet like that,
00:36:45 A what, sir?
00:36:48 A gobbet. A quotation.
00:36:52 How much more have you up your sleeves?
00:36:54 We've got all sorts.
00:37:01 I really meant to do it.
00:37:06 But I couldn't.
00:37:10 I should like to able to say the thought
00:37:14 But it wasn't. I had no thoughts at all.
00:37:17 Only an overwhelming desire
00:37:21 Not to be unhappy any more.
00:37:24 I went back into the refreshment room.
00:37:28 - What is all this?
00:37:33 - Laura.
00:37:38 Whatever your dream was,
00:37:44 No.
00:37:47 Is there anything I can do to help?
00:37:50 Fred, you always help.
00:37:54 You've been a long way away.
00:37:58 Thank you for coming back to me.
00:38:09 God knows why you've
00:38:13 I think you ought to know
00:38:17 A bit like Mr. Hector's lessons then, sir.
00:38:21 Smart arse. But he's not
00:38:24 Ooooh!
00:38:27 - French Kiss?
00:38:30 Newmarket, three o'clock.
00:38:35 - Dorothy.
00:38:41 So, how are you finding them?
00:38:43 You've taught them too well.
00:38:47 - History? Is it a game?
00:38:50 - Dorothy.
00:38:57 - Dorothy.
00:38:59 - I call him the awful warning.
00:39:02 If you don't watch out,
00:39:06 If this was a 1940s film, he'd be
00:39:10 Who?
00:39:11 He made a speciality of sour-faced judges
00:39:15 - Who would I be played by?
00:39:19 I'm not sure I like that.
00:39:21 - Dorothy.
00:39:22 Ah, Hector! The very man.
00:39:24 - Chin up, Rudge.
00:39:26 Mrs. Lintott.
00:39:27 Our lord and master having grudgingly
00:39:31 I gather I'm supposed to give your
00:39:35 Not my bag, Hazel. Irwin's your man.
00:39:37 - It's really just the icing on the cake.
00:39:50 Michelangelo.
00:39:53 Well... I suppose.
00:39:59 Who've you got?
00:40:05 - Both nancies.
00:40:07 These aren't women.
00:40:11 And the tits look put on
00:40:15 - Do you like Turner, then?
00:40:20 Well, choose someone you do like.
00:40:24 In the long term, maybe,
00:40:29 We haven't time to read the books.
00:40:32 We really need lessons in acting. That's what
00:40:39 So, have the boys
00:40:42 - Not that I'm aware of.
00:40:46 Both in the sense of something won
00:40:50 Of a badge, a blazon.
00:40:52 Unsurprisingly,
00:40:58 Some irony there, one feels.
00:41:01 - Hector has no nickname.
00:41:04 - But he's called Hector.
00:41:07 He isn't called Hector.
00:41:10 Though the only person
00:41:13 is his somewhat unexpected wife.
00:41:21 Posner came to see me yesterday.
00:41:24 No nickname, but at least
00:41:29 Sir, I think I may be homosexual.
00:41:37 - I love Dakin.
00:41:40 Yes. He doesn't
00:41:44 Though Dakin likes girls, basically.
00:41:47 I sympathized, though not so much
00:41:54 - With Dakin?
00:41:59 That's sensible.
00:42:01 One of the hardest things for boys to learn
00:42:05 One of the hardest things for a teacher
00:42:10 - Is it a phase, sir?
00:42:14 Some of the literature
00:42:17 I'm not sure I want it to pass.
00:42:21 But I want to get into Oxford.
00:42:26 Or I might stop caring.
00:42:31 - Do you look at your life, sir?
00:42:39 I'm a Jew, I'm small,
00:42:43 I'm homosexual,
00:42:50 I'm fucked.
00:42:54 So, all this religion.
00:42:58 Go to church. Pray.
00:43:00 Yes?
00:43:02 It's so time-consuming.
00:43:06 Yeah? What else?
00:43:08 Well. Er... it's what you don't do.
00:43:14 You don't not wank?
00:43:17 - Jesus! You're headed for the bin.
00:43:20 Yeah, well, just tell me on the big day
00:43:24 What bothers me is the more you read,
00:43:25 the more you see
00:43:28 - Ugh, no.
00:43:30 It's consolation.
00:43:33 I don't care what Hector says.
00:43:38 This is Irwin, isn't it?
00:43:41 No.
00:43:44 Well, it isn't wholly my idea.
00:43:45 I've been reading
00:43:49 - Who?
00:43:54 Frederick Nieshaw.
00:43:57 I think that's pronounced Nietzsche.
00:44:01 Oh, shit. Shit!
00:44:04 - What's the matter?
00:44:06 He didn't correct me.
00:44:09 - He'll think I'm a right fool. Shit!
00:44:12 Nothing. You've done nothing.
00:44:16 The world doesn't revolve
00:44:19 Ah! Irwin! How are
00:44:23 - Are they on stream?
00:44:27 You think so?
00:44:30 Must always be
00:44:32 A lottery? I don't like
00:44:36 I don't want you to fuck up.
00:44:38 We've been down that road
00:45:16 Oi!
00:45:23 He's coming.
00:45:55 They took the lead off the roofs,
00:45:59 and time did the rest,
00:46:03 If you want to learn about Stalin,
00:46:06 If you want to learn about
00:46:09 While you and Dorothy are taking them
00:46:13 Though, Irwin, I am
00:46:16 for the provision of useful quotations -
00:46:22 "Bare ruin'd choirs, where
00:46:26 Remember, boys, festoon
00:46:30 and you won't go very far wrong.
00:46:32 Actually,
00:46:35 The monks were farmers,
00:46:45 - This was a toilet?
00:46:47 - A bit draughty on the bum.
00:46:51 And then they drank out of it?
00:46:55 What about the Ganges?
00:46:57 - I'm Muslim, knob.
00:47:01 - So, what was this, then? Chapel?
00:47:06 A barn. All the produce
00:47:10 - You know it all, don't ya?
00:47:14 No, that's good. That's good.
00:47:24 - All-male community, was it, sir?
00:47:28 - Bit of that, you think?
00:47:31 - Same-sex stuff.
00:47:34 - Have I fuck blushed.
00:47:38 Not to me, sir.
00:47:40 Only you did blush a bit, sir.
00:47:43 So, is that why Henry VIII put the boot in,
00:47:47 It's what he said.
00:47:48 Not much else for them to do,
00:47:50 - I mean, in the time off.
00:47:53 Posner would make a good monk,
00:47:58 - Do Jews have monks?
00:48:04 In your own time, sir.
00:48:09 Pass the parcel.
00:48:15 Take it, feel it, and pass it on.
00:00:05 Not for me. Not for you.
00:00:09 But for someone, somewhere.
00:00:13 One day.
00:00:15 Pass it on, boys.
00:00:19 Pass it on!
00:00:32 Hector. A word.
00:00:45 Er, this is not the first time, apparently.
00:00:49 But on this occasion, she managed
00:00:53 For the moment,
00:00:57 But, fortunately, it's not long
00:01:01 In the circumstances,
00:01:05 I think we should be
00:01:16 Have you nothing to say?
00:01:22 "The tree of man was never quiet;
00:01:23 Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I."
00:01:28 This is no time for poetry.
00:01:34 Erm, I'm assuming
00:01:37 I've no idea.
00:01:38 What women know or don't know
00:01:44 And are you going to tell her?
00:01:46 I don't know.
00:01:51 Well, erm... there's another thing.
00:01:55 Strange how even
00:01:58 generally resolve themselves
00:02:03 Irwin's been badgering me for more lessons.
00:02:05 In the circumstances,
00:02:08 In future, I think
00:02:10 - Share?
00:02:15 In the meantime,
00:02:19 I do not want to sack you.
00:02:23 People talk.
00:02:25 It's so... untidy.
00:02:30 It would be easier for all concerned
00:02:36 Look, nothing happened.
00:02:40 A hand on a boy's genitals at 50mph
00:02:44 and you call it nothing?
00:02:46 The transmission of knowledge
00:02:49 - In the Renaissance...
00:02:53 And fuck literature and Plato
00:02:59 and all the other shrunken violets
00:03:04 This is a school,
00:03:47 - Still here?
00:03:50 I thought with the day trip
00:03:53 Well, it's only half past four.
00:03:57 - Well, in that case, where's Dakin?
00:04:01 Ah. Of course.
00:04:06 He's showing him
00:04:08 Ah, with all the appropriate gobbets,
00:04:13 Well, no matter. We must
00:04:16 - What have you learned this week?
00:04:20 Ah, nice.
00:04:23 "They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
00:04:28 His landmark is a kopje-crest
00:04:32 And foreign constellations west
00:04:37 "Young Hodge the Drummer never knew -
00:04:41 The meaning of the broad Karoo,
00:04:46 And why uprose to nightly view
00:04:51 "Yet portion of that unknown plain
00:04:57 His homely Northern breast and brain
00:05:02 And strange-eyed constellations reign
00:05:11 Good. Very good.
00:05:21 Any thoughts?
00:05:23 I wondered, sir, if this "portion
00:05:27 is like Rupert Brooke, sir.
00:05:29 "There's some corner of foreign field,
00:05:31 In that dust
00:05:33 It is, it is. It's the same thought.
00:05:39 It's more... more, er...
00:05:44 Quite literally down-to-earth.
00:05:48 - Anything about his name?
00:05:51 The important thing is,
00:05:55 Say Hardy's writing
00:05:58 Or later, or...
00:06:03 And these were the first campaigns
00:06:05 when soldiers, common soldiers,
00:06:08 The names of the dead were recorded
00:06:13 Before this, soldiers - private soldiers -
00:06:18 were all unknown soldiers.
00:06:23 And so far from being revered,
00:06:28 in Yorkshire, of course,
00:06:32 from the battlefields of Europe
00:06:40 So, thrown into a common grave
00:06:44 he's still Hodge, the Drummer.
00:06:48 Lost boy though he is,
00:06:55 he still has a name.
00:07:00 How old was he?
00:07:01 If he was a drummer he'd be a boy soldier.
00:07:05 - No, Hardy.
00:07:08 Oh, erm. When he
00:07:14 My age, I suppose.
00:07:19 A saddish life,
00:07:27 "Uncoffined" is a typical Hardy usage.
00:07:31 It's a compound adjective,
00:07:36 Or verb, of course.
00:07:39 Unkissed,
00:07:42 unrejoicing,
00:07:45 unconfessed,
00:07:50 unembraced.
00:07:54 It's a turn of phrase
00:07:57 that brings with it
00:08:01 Of being out of it, whether
00:08:06 But a holding back.
00:08:09 Not being in the swim.
00:08:12 Can you see that?
00:08:16 Yes, sir.
00:08:21 I felt that a bit.
00:08:38 The best moments in reading
00:08:43 a thought, a feeling,
00:08:46 that you'd thought special,
00:08:51 and here it is,
00:08:54 A person you've never met,
00:09:00 And...
00:09:06 has come out... and taken yours.
00:09:19 Let's just have that last verse again
00:09:26 "Yet portion of that unknown plain
00:09:32 His homely Northern breast and brain
00:09:38 And strange-eyed constellations reign
00:09:52 Shall I tell you what is wrong
00:09:56 And it isn't that he doesn't
00:09:59 But they're unpredictable
00:10:02 And in the current educational climate,
00:10:06 I mean, there's inspiration, certainly.
00:10:14 And I heard one child
00:10:17 and on inquiry I find that his pupils
00:10:19 know all the words of
00:10:24 George Formby, and Gracie Fields.
00:10:28 Dorothy, what has Gracie Fields
00:10:35 So, the upshot is... I'm glad
00:10:41 because that at least
00:10:44 It's a reason for his going
00:10:50 You didn't know.
00:10:54 Not that, no.
00:10:57 I assumed you knew.
00:11:02 - He handled the boys' balls?
00:11:08 You've been married yourself.
00:11:12 And, to be fair, I think it was
00:11:15 But it's... inexcusable, nevertheless.
00:11:20 No. No, it's to everyone's benefit
00:11:23 As soon as possible.
00:11:45 Sir? Can I say something, sir?
00:11:49 Well, we've got the most important exam
00:11:53 and we're just sat here reading literature.
00:11:58 Leaving that aside for the moment,
00:12:02 We know all that, sir.
00:12:05 - How do you know?
00:12:08 - No, no, not that.
00:12:10 It's a question
00:12:14 No, no, this is... something else.
00:12:16 Does that mean your lessons
00:12:19 - More use, sir?
00:12:21 Hush, boys, hush.
00:12:24 Can't you see? I'm not in the mood.
00:12:26 What mood is that, sir? The subjunctive?
00:12:31 Get on with some work. Read.
00:12:33 That's what we're saying.
00:12:36 - Can't you just give us the gist, sir?
00:12:40 Just the outline, sir. Then we can pretend.
00:12:42 - Pretend?
00:12:46 Will you shut up about these exams!
00:12:49 Shut up, all of you!
00:12:57 What made me piss my life away
00:13:04 There's nothing of me left.
00:13:12 Go away.
00:13:17 Go.
00:13:33 Sir...
00:13:39 Sir...
00:13:47 Sir...
00:14:00 Would you like to start?
00:14:05 I don't mind.
00:14:07 How do you normally start?
00:14:12 Well, the boys decide. Ask them.
00:14:16 Anybody? Floor's open.
00:14:21 Oh, come on, boys. Don't sulk.
00:14:24 We don't know where we are, sir.
00:14:29 - Does it matter?
00:14:31 Depends if you want us
00:14:35 He wants you civil,
00:14:38 Hitting us. You're a witness.
00:14:41 I thought we'd
00:14:43 Good gracious!
00:14:47 That would do as a question.
00:14:51 Anybody? Come on.
00:14:53 It has origins, it has consequences.
00:14:57 Not like any other, surely.
00:15:00 No, but it's a topic.
00:15:01 They go on school trips there nowadays,
00:15:06 What's always concerned me
00:15:10 The visitors' center.
00:15:13 Yeah, but do they take
00:15:16 Are they smiling?
00:15:18 Do they hold hands?
00:15:23 What if you were to write
00:15:26 silence is the only proper response?
00:15:28 Mr. Hector's answer to lots of questions,
00:15:32 Er, yes. Yes, Dakin, it is.
00:15:34 "Whereof one cannot speak,
00:15:38 That's right, isn't it, sir?
00:15:40 - Yes, that's good.
00:15:42 It's flip, it's glib,
00:15:46 - It's you that taught us it.
00:15:48 And Wittgenstein did not
00:15:51 in order for you
00:15:54 Why can't we simply just condemn the camps
00:15:59 There's no point, sir.
00:16:01 "The camp's an event
00:16:03 "The evil unprecedented."
00:16:06 No! Can't you see
00:16:10 is... monstrous?
00:16:13 "Et cetera" is what
00:16:16 The dead reduced
00:16:18 All right, not et cetera. But given that
00:16:23 wouldn't another approach be
00:16:26 - Put them, well, in proportion.
00:16:28 Not proportion, then,
00:16:31 But to put something in context
00:16:33 is a step towards saying
00:16:36 And if it can be explained,
00:16:39 Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner.
00:16:41 - That's good, Posner.
00:16:45 When we talk about putting them in context,
00:16:47 it's the same as
00:16:49 Dozens of monasteries
00:16:53 The difference is I didn't lose any relatives
00:16:57 Good point.
00:16:58 You keep saying, "good point".
00:17:03 To you, th-the Holocaust is just another topic
00:17:08 No!
00:17:09 No! But this is history.
00:17:13 Our perspective on the past alters.
00:17:16 And looking back, immediately in front of us
00:17:20 And because we don't see it, this means there
00:17:26 And one of the historian's jobs
00:17:28 is to anticipate what our perspective
00:17:33 Even on the Holocaust.
00:17:38 - Won the argument there, sir.
00:17:41 The Holocaust.
00:17:47 - You flirt!
00:17:50 I've never wanted to please anybody
00:17:52 Girls not excepted.
00:17:56 - He's going, you know.
00:17:59 Yeah. Don't let on. Fiona says.
00:18:02 Sacked? Who complained?
00:18:06 That's why the lifts have stopped.
00:18:08 Poor sod. Though in some ways,
00:18:11 No. No more genital massage
00:18:17 No more of the bike's melancholy,
00:18:20 as he dropped you at the corner,
00:18:23 'Ey.
00:18:28 A lecher though one is,
00:18:31 it occurs to me that
00:18:34 who must suffer such inexpert
00:18:41 Are we scarred for life, do you think?
00:18:43 Well, we must hope so.
00:18:45 "
00:19:14 Dad.
00:19:33 Never gives an inch, does he?
00:19:34 "Lucid and, up to a point, compelling, but
00:19:39 - Seen your handwriting recently?
00:19:41 - You're beginning to write like him.
00:19:45 - You're writing like him and all.
00:19:48 Dakin writes like him.
00:19:51 It's done wonders for the sex life.
00:19:53 Apparently I talk about him so much,
00:19:57 Doing it's about
00:19:59 - Would you do it with him?
00:20:02 I might. Bring a little bit
00:20:07 It's only a wank, after all.
00:20:09 What makes you think
00:20:11 You complacent fuck!
00:20:15 The Archbishop of Canterbury
00:20:18 I like him. Just wish
00:20:24 Irwin does like him.
00:20:28 - How do you know?
00:20:31 Our eyes meet looking at Dakin.
00:20:34 Oh, Pos. With your spaniel heart.
00:20:39 - It will pass.
00:20:42 Who says I want it to pass?
00:20:45 But the pain. The pain!
00:20:51 Hector would say
00:20:54 I just wish there were marks for it.
00:20:59 Mr. Crowther, now,
00:21:01 Tell us about that.
00:21:03 Erm, I'm keen on acting.
00:21:08 Can I stop you?
00:21:10 Oh. Well, it's what I'm interested in.
00:21:12 Then soft-pedal it,
00:21:15 Dons, most dons think
00:21:18 Music is all right, though, isn't it?
00:21:21 No, you should just
00:21:23 - Mozart?
00:21:24 Everybody likes Mozart. Somebody more
00:21:29 - But I don't know them.
00:21:33 Why can they not
00:21:37 I hesitate to mention this
00:21:42 But it may not have
00:21:44 but one of the dons
00:21:49 I'm reluctant at this stage in the game
00:21:53 but, having taught you all history
00:21:57 I just wonder whether it occurs to any of you
00:22:06 - Am I embarrassing you?
00:22:10 It's not our fault.
00:22:12 "The world is everything that is the case."
00:22:16 Yes, yes, I know it's Wittgenstein,
00:22:20 Can you for a moment
00:22:24 to teach five centuries
00:22:30 Why do you think there are
00:22:33 - No tits!
00:22:35 - Hit him!
00:22:38 I'll tell you why!
00:22:40 Because history's not such a frolic
00:22:44 Why should it be? They never
00:22:48 In 1919, for instance,
00:22:52 then gracefully retired.
00:22:55 History is a commentary
00:22:57 on the various and continuing
00:23:06 What is history?
00:23:09 History is women
00:23:20 Erm... Rudge.
00:23:28 Now, how do you
00:23:33 Can I speak freely, Miss?
00:23:36 - Without being hit?
00:23:40 How do I define history?
00:23:43 It's just one fucking thing after another.
00:23:50 I see. And why do you want
00:23:57 It's the one I thought
00:23:59 No other reason?
00:24:03 Do you like the architecture,
00:24:05 But they'll ask me about sport,
00:24:08 If you're as uncommunicative as this,
00:24:11 The point is, Rudge, even if they want to take
00:24:16 you have to help them, at least pretend
00:24:20 Look, I'm shit at all this. Sorry.
00:24:25 If they like me
00:24:28 they'll take me because
00:24:33 I'm no good in interviews, but I've got
00:24:37 and maybe there'll be someone on the board
00:24:41 I may not know much
00:24:45 but I've got a handicap of four.
00:24:48 Where have you heard about Sartre?
00:24:52 - He was a good golfer.
00:24:55 I never knew that. Interesting!
00:24:58 Peter, how did you know
00:25:01 I don't know that he was.
00:25:04 How could I? I don't even know
00:25:07 Well, they keep telling us
00:25:10 I have a feeling Kafka
00:25:14 - I'll see you tomorrow.
00:25:17 What degree did you get, sir?
00:25:19 - Second.
00:25:21 - Didn't the old magic work?
00:25:25 - No, come on.
00:25:37 - What college were you at?
00:25:41 - That's not one anyone's going in for.
00:25:44 - You happy?
00:25:47 Do you think we'll be happy,
00:25:51 - You'll be happy, anyway.
00:25:56 Why? Uncomplicated -
00:26:01 Outgoing? Straight?
00:26:03 They're none of them
00:26:05 It depends. Nice to be
00:26:09 Or to be thought so.
00:26:14 It's Felix!
00:26:16 Oh, Christ!
00:26:22 Shh!
00:26:32 - Not very bright, are you?
00:26:34 No, sir.
00:26:36 - How's Posner?
00:26:39 - He likes you, doesn't he?
00:26:41 - He's growing up.
00:26:43 Boring for me.
00:26:46 You're not suggesting
00:26:49 It happens.
00:26:53 - You still look quite young.
00:26:57 - How do you think history happens?
00:26:59 How does stuff happen, do you think?
00:27:01 People decide to do stuff.
00:27:06 - I'm not sure what you're talking about.
00:27:11 Some do, make moves. I suppose.
00:27:13 Others react to events. In 1939, for instance,
00:27:18 - Gave in.
00:27:20 No.
00:27:22 Not Poland, anyway.
00:27:25 - Was Poland taken by surprise?
00:27:29 Although they knew something was up.
00:27:33 - What was your essay about?
00:27:35 Ah, yeah. That's moments
00:27:39 - Shall I tell you what you've written? Dunkirk.
00:27:41 - Hitler turning on Russia.
00:27:44 - Alamein.
00:27:46 More? That's good.
00:27:49 When Chamberlain resigned
00:27:51 Churchill wasn't the first thought.
00:27:56 But on the afternoon the decision was taken,
00:28:00 If Halifax had had better teeth,
00:28:04 - That's terrific.
00:28:08 Come again?
00:28:10 Subjunctive - the mood used when something
00:28:15 When it's imagined.
00:28:18 Hector's crazy about the subjunctive.
00:28:22 - Why are you smiling?
00:28:27 Good luck.
00:28:40 You may begin.
00:28:58 Shit.
00:29:04 - Yes?
00:29:08 I was so nice about Hitler,
00:29:12 Queen Elizabeth, Miss.
00:29:13 Less remarkable for her abilities
00:29:16 than the fact that, unlike so many of
00:29:20 That's the stuff!
00:29:25 Hope they don't mind trainers.
00:29:28 It's not an exam in footwear.
00:29:29 Somebody told me it's four miles to the bogs.
00:29:32 Do you want somewhere with a shit degree
00:29:35 I say if they don't like me, then fuck 'em.
00:29:38 Oh, Peter, I wish
00:29:40 - What'll you do? Flutter the eyelashes?
00:29:45 Fuck off!
00:29:46 Get in, sit down.
00:29:49 Good luck.
00:30:42 Come in.
00:30:46 Mr. Lockwood?
00:30:56 No Irwin here.
00:31:03 - This is Corpus, isn't it?
00:31:07 They liked my Hitler answer, praised
00:31:12 They said it was
00:31:15 Ah, fucking hell!
00:31:18 It's like a stately home.
00:31:38 This is Mr. Rudge, who, if he comes up,
00:31:46 - Who is he?
00:31:59 - What's he want us for?
00:32:03 - Pep talk?
00:32:06 It's probably about Hector.
00:32:09 - I sort of know.
00:32:13 - Does his wife?
00:32:18 But I imagine she's another one
00:32:22 The husband on a low light.
00:32:26 That's what they want,
00:32:29 The husband's lukewarm attentions.
00:32:36 Oh, he's a fool,
00:32:41 For a start, the lollipop lady's
00:32:45 Five minutes later,
00:32:48 And what if the lights
00:32:50 Or if there'd been
00:32:53 The smallest of incidents,
00:32:59 alternatives.
00:33:01 Any one of which could have
00:33:04 If I was... a bold teacher -
00:33:10 I could spend a lesson dissecting
00:33:14 "this unfortunate incident".
00:33:16 And it would teach the boys
00:33:20 and the utter randomness
00:33:23 well, than I've ever
00:33:34 I wonder how they're going on.
00:33:38 - Don't you ever want to go back?
00:33:44 I'm not clever enough.
00:33:49 I'm not anything enough, really.
00:33:56 Dorothy, a word.
00:34:13 Trouble at t'mill.
00:34:15 That's the news he's aching to impart.
00:34:23 - I sort of knew.
00:34:27 Dakin told me.
00:34:32 Did he tell you why?
00:34:39 I've got this idea
00:34:44 filling it with books and taking it
00:34:49 Shropshire, Herefordshire.
00:34:52 "The open road, the dusty highway."
00:34:54 "Travel, change, interest, excitement."
00:35:05 See, what I didn't want
00:35:07 who would claim in later life
00:35:12 Or who would talk
00:35:15 of the lure of language
00:35:18 "Words" said in a reverential way
00:35:25 Welsh.
00:35:30 That's what the tosh was for -
00:35:33 It's an antidote.
00:35:42 Has a boy ever made you unhappy?
00:35:50 They used to do.
00:35:57 See it as an inoculation, rather.
00:36:02 Briefly painful, but providing immunity
00:36:08 Given the occasional booster,
00:36:13 another reminder of the pain,
00:36:16 it can last you... half a lifetime.
00:36:23 - Love.
00:36:30 - I talk too much.
00:36:38 They know... everything.
00:36:44 Don't touch him.
00:36:52 It's what they think of me.
00:37:04 You knew as well, I gather?
00:37:09 And the boys knew.
00:37:12 Well, of course the boys knew.
00:37:18 I didn't actually do anything.
00:37:20 I mean, it was a laying on of hands.
00:37:24 But more my way of...
00:37:27 Hector, darling, love you as I do,
00:37:30 - Is it?
00:37:33 It is not the Annunciation.
00:37:37 You twerp!
00:37:42 Anyway, what Felix wanted to tell me
00:37:45 he's hoping he can persuade you
00:37:48 Irwin.
00:37:50 For your information,
00:37:56 Chris! Chris!
00:38:00 Adi!
00:38:10 David!
00:38:16 Evening. Lockwood, 4C.
00:38:29 Ah, Irwin!
00:38:31 Splendid news!
00:38:34 Posner, a scholarship.
00:38:38 And places for everybody else!
00:38:42 It's more than one would
00:38:44 Irwin, you're to be congratulated
00:38:48 Oh, and you too. You too, Dorothy, of course,
00:38:53 - Not Rudge, Headmaster.
00:38:55 - The others have all had letters.
00:38:58 It's a pity. It would have been good
00:39:01 Still, as I've said all along,
00:39:12 Rudge!
00:39:21 You haven't heard from Oxford?
00:39:24 Perhaps you'll hear tomorrow.
00:39:27 Why should I?
00:39:29 I'm sorry.
00:39:31 What for? I got in.
00:39:36 How come?
00:39:38 What, how come they told me,
00:39:45 I had family connections.
00:39:47 Somebody in your family
00:39:51 Well, in a manner
00:39:54 Before he got married
00:39:57 This old... parson who'd just been sitting
00:40:02 was I related to Bill Rudge who'd been
00:40:06 So, I said he's my dad,
00:40:09 and they said I was just the kind of candidate
00:40:14 Mind you, I did do
00:40:16 Stalin was a sweetie
00:40:23 They said I plainly thought for myself and
00:40:29 - Are you not pleased?
00:40:37 You see, Miss...
00:40:42 I mean, this, I only wanted it
00:40:47 Now I'm in, I just feel like
00:40:50 I think that's Mr. Hector.
00:40:53 No, it isn't, Miss. It's me.
00:41:19 - I went round to your college.
00:41:25 I was kind of lonely.
00:41:30 - Only no one had heard of you at Corpus.
00:41:33 - You said Corpus.
00:41:40 I never got in. I was at Bristol.
00:41:44 I did go to Oxford but it was
00:41:48 - Does that make any difference?
00:41:54 At least you lied, and lying's good, isn't it?
00:42:00 You ought to learn to do it properly.
00:42:06 Anybody else,
00:42:12 Is that a euphemism - a drink?
00:42:17 Saying "a drink" when you
00:42:21 - It is, yeah.
00:42:27 I'm just kicking the tires on this one,
00:42:31 What I was really wondering was,
00:42:39 Or something similar.
00:42:44 Actually, that would please Hector.
00:42:47 - What?
00:42:50 It's a gerund. He likes gerunds.
00:42:54 And "your being scared shitless",
00:43:00 - I didn't know you were that way inclined.
00:43:04 But it's the end of term, I've got into Oxford.
00:43:15 Anyway, I'll leave it on the table.
00:43:20 I don't understand this.
00:43:23 Reckless, impulsive, immoral.
00:43:27 How come there's such a difference between
00:43:32 Why are you so bold in argument and talking,
00:43:37 when it's something that's actually happening
00:43:44 Is it because
00:43:46 - Obviously that.
00:43:50 You've already had one master touch you up.
00:43:52 Is that what it is?
00:43:57 Well, you won't be.
00:44:01 - Hector's a joke.
00:44:03 - That side of him is.
00:44:08 - All right. Let's go for a drink.
00:44:12 - Maybe next week...
00:44:14 Get this, man -
00:44:17 I've heard of a crowded schedule,
00:44:20 God, we've got a long way to go.
00:44:25 - Do you ever take your glasses off?
00:44:29 - It's a start.
00:44:32 Taking off my glasses
00:44:35 Yeah? I'll look forward to it.
00:44:39 What do you do on Sunday afternoons?
00:44:43 What are you doing
00:44:46 I was going to go through
00:44:48 It's a... it's a Cistercian house.
00:44:56 Only, I think I've just had a better offer.
00:44:58 I think you have.
00:45:06 And we're not
00:45:11 It's going to happen.
00:45:18 I just wanted to say thank you.
00:45:20 So? Give him a subscription
00:45:25 Just cos you got a scholarship
00:45:27 doesn't mean you've got to give him
00:45:31 - Well, how would you say thank you?
00:45:37 I shall want a full report.
00:45:40 - Are you jealous?
00:45:42 - You're jealous, aren't you?
00:45:45 Just... of your being up for it.
00:45:49 - Me, erm...
00:45:58 - Wish me luck.
00:46:02 What for?
00:46:06 Dakin? Can I help you?
00:46:11 I've never known such impertinence! Your
00:46:16 - The point I'm making...
00:46:18 I'm just curious, sir. What's the difference
00:46:23 and your feeling up Fiona?
00:46:26 A comparable situation historically
00:46:28 would be the dismissal
00:46:31 Don't give me
00:46:40 Who else knows about this?
00:46:42 Fiona. Erm... Miss Procter.
00:46:52 - I might try the army.
00:46:55 - They put you through college, pay your fees.
00:47:00 We won't go to war again.
00:47:02 I don't know about a career.
00:47:06 - That goes on.
00:47:07 Now look, everybody.
00:47:16 Is that it? The longed-for moment?
00:47:20 - Well, what's wrong with it?
00:47:23 I was looking for something
00:47:27 Go on, Stu, go on!
00:47:29 Come on, come on!
00:47:37 And what's this? Hector's reward?
00:47:39 It's only polite. Just for old times' sake.
00:47:42 Just don't let him go past the lollipop lady.
00:47:50 Ready, sir?
00:47:52 - Oh, Dakin.
00:47:55 But I'm not leaving.
00:47:58 That's brilliant!
00:48:03 A boy in a motorcycle helmet? Dakin!
00:48:06 No! No-no-no-no!
00:48:09 Hector, I thought
00:48:11 Take... somebody else.
00:48:15 Take... take Irwin.
00:48:18 - Irwin?
00:48:25 Do you want my
00:48:27 Fuck off. Fuck right off!
00:49:10 "How does history happen?"
00:49:16 And he couldn't answer.
00:49:19 But now he knew. Nothing special.
00:49:25 Skid on a corner. Ordinary stuff.
00:49:32 Irwin had never been
00:49:35 maybe going around the corner he leaned out
00:49:42 Trust him to lean the opposite way
00:49:46 But he had no memory
00:49:49 I suppose the last thing he remembered
00:49:53 Something we never did, incidentally.
00:49:56 Still, at least I asked him.
00:49:59 And, barring accidents,
00:50:02 Listen. There is no "barring accidents".
00:50:06 History is just one
00:51:02 If I speak of Hector,
00:51:05 it is of enthusiasm shared,
00:51:11 and seeds sown of future harvest.
00:51:16 He loved language. He loved words.
00:51:22 For each and every one
00:51:25 he opened a deposit account
00:51:31 and made you all shareholders
00:51:47 Will they come to my funeral,
00:51:50 And what will they be?
00:51:52 Akhtar, what are you?
00:51:54 A headmaster, Miss.
00:51:57 One of you is a magistrate, I know.
00:52:02 - And, Timms, what are you?
00:52:05 And I take drugs at the weekend.
00:52:07 And are you all happy?
00:52:11 Kids don't help, though, Miss.
00:52:13 Dakin, you're happy, I'm sure.
00:52:16 Of course I'm happy.
00:52:20 For fuck's sake!
00:52:22 Despite knowing,
00:52:26 that the world is
00:52:28 Lieutenant James Lockwood of the
00:52:33 is wounded by friendly fire
00:52:36 and dies on his way to hospital.
00:52:40 He is 28.
00:52:42 Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner.
00:52:45 - Rudge, I'd forgotten you.
00:52:49 You're a builder.
00:52:53 Rudge homes are at least affordable homes
00:52:58 I take wives around the showhouse.
00:53:01 I tell them I was at Oxford.
00:53:06 There is one journalist,
00:53:10 a career he's always threatening to abandon
00:53:15 Hector always
00:53:17 And so you were. School was just
00:53:22 I enjoy your programmes,
00:53:28 But of all Hector's boys,
00:53:30 there is only one
00:53:34 remembers everything
00:53:37 The songs, the poems,
00:53:43 The words of Hector never forgotten.
00:53:46 Slightly to my surprise,
00:53:50 I'm a bit of a stock figure.
00:53:55 And though I never touch the boys,
00:54:01 But maybe that's why
00:54:04 I'm not happy,
00:54:14 He was a good man.
00:54:16 But I don't think there's time
00:54:20 No. Love apart, it is
00:54:32 Pass the parcel.
00:54:37 Take it, feel it, and pass it on.
00:54:41 Pass it on, boys -
00:54:44 Pass it on.