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[sombre music playing]

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[grunts]

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[engine starts]

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[opera music playing
over speakers]

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[clinking]

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[music stops]

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Home.

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[newsreader over radio]
<i>Although it'll start off</i>

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<i>with some sunshine
in the morning,</i>

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<i>you'll find cloud coming
along in the afternoon.</i>

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<i>That's all, have a lovely day.</i>

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- [oven beeping]
- [grunts]

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BBC News, <i>and good day.</i>

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<i>Just 24 hours after what many
are calling Black Monday,</i>

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<i>the FTSE 100 Index
lost another 250 points,</i>

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<i>leaving businesses
and investors reeling.</i>

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Well, that's what happens
when you deregulate.

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[newsreader] <i>Global markets
have rallied somewhat</i>

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<i>after yesterday's losses
which saw Wall Street close</i>

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<i>- a full 508 points down.</i>
- Idiots.

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[newsreader] <i>Supporters
and families of Tamil migrants</i>

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<i>have gathered outside a London
refugee detention centre</i>

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<i>to protest against
the government's plan</i>

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<i>to deport them.</i>

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[woman] <i>We came here
because in our country</i>

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<i>our lives are in danger.</i>

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<i>We came to keep
our children safe.</i>

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[newsreader] <i>A Home Office
spokesman described</i>

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<i>Britain's humanitarian record
as outstanding.</i>

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- [grunts]
<i>- We'll have a report.</i>

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- [radio clicks off]
- [Grete speaking indistinctly]

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- [inhales]
- [telephone hangs up]

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[Grete] Hello, darling.

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[Grete sighs]

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I was worried this would be...

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- Huh?
- ...burnt on top.

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[oven closes]

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You all right?

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- [Nicky] What?
- What's that?

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Well, what does it look like?
It's a button.

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- A button?
- Yes.

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Somebody just, uh,
put it in the tin.

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Honestly. People.

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Well, you never know
when it may come in handy.

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Hm.

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[sighs]

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[engine rumbles, stops]

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[Grete] Oh.

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- [Nicky] Oh, hello.
- [Grete] What have you got now?

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Oh, it's a typewriter.

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[chuckles] I know what it is,
but you've already got one.

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I know. It's not for me.
It's, um...

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They don't need it anymore
at the day centre,

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so I thought it would be
all right

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for the new care home.

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And, uh, we can hang on to it
in the meanwhile.

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- No.
- Huh?

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No.

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Why? Uh, I've also got
a desk outside.

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- What? Where?
- Well, I haven't
brought it in yet but...

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- Oh, Nicky. It's too much.
- What?

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How will we fit everyone in
at Christmas?

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[chuckles] I don't know.

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They'll just have to shove up,
won't they?

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Your daughter is
seven months pregnant.

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- I know.
- She cannot "shove up".

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All right.

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Well, I'll move it all
to the study then.

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Oh, the study.

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I bet you have plenty
of room in the study.

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- God. [grunts]
- Let's go and check the study.

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- Oh, Nicky.
- [Nicky] Out.

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Do you still need all this?

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Yes. Why?

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What... What's in
all these drawers?

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- Well, everything I think.
- [Grete] Darling.

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[sighs]

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A domino, a biscuit

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and how many rubber bands
does one man need?

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I don't know.
I've never asked the question.

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And you've got to find
the right home for that.

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Somewhere it will
be appreciated.

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Please, Nicky,

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you have to let go.

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For your own sake.

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[sombre music playing]

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[sighs]

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[sombre music continues]

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[indistinct shouting]

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[whistle blowing]

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[children screaming]

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[gasps, breathing heavily]

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Oh, I'm so looking forward
to it.

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[Barbara] <i>Do you want me
to stay with him?</i>

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No, no. No, he'll be fine.

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[Barbara] <i>Okay, well,
maybe I'll just call him.</i>

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Yes. Yes.
He's a grown man. [chuckles]

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You don't have to wave me off.

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Of course I'm going
to wave you off.

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[Grete] Everyone's here.

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Ah.

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[coins clinking]

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Huh.

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[machine buzzes]

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[chuckles]

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- [kisses]
- [Nicky] Hm.

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Nicky,

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don't let yourself get...

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What?

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[sighs] How you get.

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- I won't. Of course I won't.
- [Grete chuckles]

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You have a wonderful time.

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[bus engine starts]

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[distant easy-going music
playing]

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- Home.
- [Babi] Ah, Nicky.

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- You missed Martin.
- Damn.

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[Babi] Two hearts. Kings.

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Uh, hello. Did Martin say
if he'd call back?

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Seven o'clock sharp.

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[Nicky] Oh.

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Thank you, mother.
You're very welcome, son.

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[guests chuckle]

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[Bernard] Isn't Martin the chap
he was supposed
to be going skiing with?

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Yes. But Martin is
in Prague now,

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helping refugees.

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[Bernard] Prague?

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Well, precisely.

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[telephone ringing]

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- Hello?
- [over telephone] <i>It's Martin.</i>

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<i>- Can you hear me? Nicky?</i>
- I... I can hear you.

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<i>- It's a terrible line.</i>
- I can hear you.

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<i>Listen, I'm not sure
you should come.</i>

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No, it's all arranged.
I have my ticket.

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<i>I have
to leave Prague tonight.</i>

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<i>I'll have a man called
Trevor Chadwick meet you.</i>

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<i>I'm so sorry.
It's just such a mess here.</i>

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[woman] Happy Christmas.

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[knocking on door]

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So, you going?

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I am, yes.

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[inhales sharply]

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Everyone in Prague
is trying to get out.

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My son is trying to get in.

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Did you speak to Martin?

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I did. Uh, turns out
he's not gonna be there.

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He's escorting some refugees
out of the country

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and then he's heading
back home to London.

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- Nicky.
- Look, I have to do something.

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It... Is... [sighs]

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And you, of all people,
should understand that.

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Isn't that what you taught me?

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Well, I can't just sit here
reading about it.

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These people need help.

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I was never in doubt
that the cause was just,

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only whether Prague is safe.

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It's only a week.

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Uh, I'll be back
before you even miss me.

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Nicky, it's not a joke.

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I know, I know.

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I'm sorry, but I...

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I have to go.

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[train rumbling]

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[announcer speaking Czech
over speakers]

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[brakes squealing]

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[child crying]

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Here we are.

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- [Rudi] Mr Chadwick.
- This is Mr Winton.

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- [Rudi] Evening.
- Now, don't go giving him

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a better room than me.

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All our rooms are the best
rooms, Mr Chadwick.

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Rudi takes good care of us.

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Welcome. And Miss Warriner
is in the bar.

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[indistinct chatter]

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Oh, that's Doreen

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with one of our refugees.

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Over here.

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- [waiter speaking Czech]
- [Trevor speaking Czech]

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[in English] Her husband
was picked up

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on the street this morning.

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Picked up by?

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Doreen thinks Nazi spies
doing Hitler's dirty work.

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What will happen?
To him, I mean.

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Ah, thank you, thank you.

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He'll be dumped somewhere.

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Maybe alive,

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but probably not.

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[footsteps approaching]

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[Doreen] You're Martin's
friend, the stockbroker.

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00:12:16,696 --> 00:12:20,700
- Nicky. And you must be, uh...
- Unbelievably angry.

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- [Trevor] So?
- [Doreen] We've managed to get

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Monika into a safe house
for the night

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and her daughter
on the plane out tomorrow.

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00:12:26,539 --> 00:12:29,042
[Trevor] Well,
that's something.

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So, Martin says you know
your way around a desk.

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That's quite an accolade.

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[Doreen] It is here.
Paperwork's everything.

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[in Czech]

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[in English] And can
I just ask, um,

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why... why was that woman's
husband taken?

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He ran a newspaper in Germany.

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Spoke out against the Nazis.

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When it got too dangerous,

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they escaped over the border
into Czechoslovakia.

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- The Sudetenland.
- Where they thought

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they'd be safe.

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[Doreen] And so they fled
to Prague.

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All right, I've got
a lot to do.

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Taking supplies
to the camps tomorrow.

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I could use your help.

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00:13:05,161 --> 00:13:07,539
Can I ask what
brought you out here?

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[chuckles] I came 10 years ago
for a study trip.

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00:13:11,668 --> 00:13:15,755
I just... just love the place,
love the people.

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Now they're in trouble.
So I came back.

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[tram ringing]

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[Nicky] Are they all
from the Sudetenland?

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[Doreen] Mostly.

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Some from Austria and Germany
who fled there first.

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Drive an hour north of here,
towards the German border,

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you'll see the towns
they ran from

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hung with Nazi flags.

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[Nicky] Dear God.

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[Doreen] I know. And there are
thousands more like this.

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<i>Ahoj,</i> Hana.
This is Nicholas Winton.

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He's here to help out.

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[Nicky] Oh.

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00:14:13,563 --> 00:14:15,857
Hana Hejdukova. Liaison
officer for Czech refugees.

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- Hello.
- Your first time

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- in Czechoslovakia?
- Yes, yes, it... Yes, it is.

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Shame you didn't come sooner.
When there was more of it.

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[Doreen] Hana.

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Um, can you get the others?

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[Nicky] Oh, there we go.

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So, you've managed
to get doctors out to them?

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[Doreen] Oh, plenty
of doctors already here.

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Lots of these children grew up
thinking the worst thing

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that was ever gonna happen
to them was piano practice.

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[grunts]

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[man] Nicky.

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[indistinct chatter]

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- [child crying]
- [coughing]

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[woman speaking Czech]

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[girl speaking Czech]

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[indistinct chatter]

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[group speaking Czech]

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[man inhales sharply]

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[crying]

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[child coughing]

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[solemn music playing]

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[children crying]

250
00:16:06,801 --> 00:16:08,052
[child giggles]

251
00:16:14,684 --> 00:16:15,893
- Hello.
- [chuckles]

252
00:16:20,273 --> 00:16:21,649
I'm so... I'm sorry,

253
00:16:21,649 --> 00:16:22,900
I haven't got anything.

254
00:16:24,402 --> 00:16:25,570
Oh, wait,

255
00:16:26,487 --> 00:16:28,239
now hold on a moment.

256
00:16:30,241 --> 00:16:31,701
- [chuckles]
- Chocolate.

257
00:16:33,911 --> 00:16:36,080
Here we go.

258
00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:37,665
- [boy 1 speaking Czech]
- [in English] Oh, yes,

259
00:16:37,665 --> 00:16:39,917
of course you'd like some
as well.

260
00:16:39,917 --> 00:16:42,211
- There we go.
- [speaking Czech]

261
00:16:42,211 --> 00:16:43,713
- [children chattering]
- [Nicky] Oh. [chuckles]

262
00:16:43,713 --> 00:16:45,506
[in English] Let's see
how far we go.

263
00:16:45,506 --> 00:16:47,592
Oh, crikey.

264
00:16:47,592 --> 00:16:48,926
There's only a tiny bit.

265
00:16:48,926 --> 00:16:50,720
- And little bit for you.
- [boy 2 speaking Czech]

266
00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:51,804
[Nicky in English]
Little bit for you.

267
00:16:51,804 --> 00:16:53,514
[boy 3 speaking Czech]

268
00:16:53,514 --> 00:16:55,057
[Nicky in English] That's it.
That's the last of it.

269
00:16:55,057 --> 00:16:56,934
- There you go.
- [baby crying]

270
00:17:00,563 --> 00:17:05,193
I'm sorry. I'll, um...
I'll bring more, another day.

271
00:17:08,029 --> 00:17:09,363
<i>Foto, foto.</i>

272
00:17:13,075 --> 00:17:14,660
Yes, yes. It's a good idea.

273
00:17:15,620 --> 00:17:17,622
What's your name?

274
00:17:17,622 --> 00:17:19,081
- I'm Nicky.
- [chuckles]

275
00:17:19,081 --> 00:17:20,166
Can you say, "Nicky"?

276
00:17:22,335 --> 00:17:24,587
- [camera clicks]
- There we go.

277
00:17:24,587 --> 00:17:26,255
[child speaking Czech]

278
00:17:26,255 --> 00:17:28,299
- [Vaclav in Czech]
- [children shouting]

279
00:17:33,304 --> 00:17:35,598
How will these children
survive the winter?

280
00:17:35,598 --> 00:17:37,934
Well, they probably won't.

281
00:17:37,934 --> 00:17:39,811
And there are
a dozen more places like this.

282
00:17:41,896 --> 00:17:43,981
Surely, they should be
the priority,

283
00:17:43,981 --> 00:17:45,900
the children, families.

284
00:17:45,900 --> 00:17:48,236
My remit is
to rescue politicals

285
00:17:48,236 --> 00:17:50,071
at imminent risk of arrest.

286
00:17:50,071 --> 00:17:51,864
And I've hardly the money
or manpower for that.

287
00:17:51,864 --> 00:17:52,865
What about
the British government trains?

288
00:17:52,865 --> 00:17:54,534
The Kindertransport?

289
00:17:54,534 --> 00:17:56,536
It's only for children leaving
Germany and Austria.

290
00:17:56,536 --> 00:17:58,120
Not from Czechoslovakia.

291
00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:00,164
Unfortunately, His Majesty's
government refuses

292
00:18:00,164 --> 00:18:01,999
to believe these people
are in danger.

293
00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:16,138
[indistinct chatter]

294
00:18:16,138 --> 00:18:17,807
- [Doreen speaking Czech]
- [group speaking Czech]

295
00:18:17,807 --> 00:18:19,433
[Nicky in English] How many
children are we talking about?

296
00:18:19,433 --> 00:18:20,852
Oh, well, we don't know.
That's part of the problem.

297
00:18:20,852 --> 00:18:24,397
Thousands. There's refugees
all over the city.

298
00:18:24,397 --> 00:18:25,940
Jewish people, especially.

299
00:18:25,940 --> 00:18:27,066
But anyone, really,
who doesn't fit

300
00:18:27,066 --> 00:18:28,401
into Hitler's master race.

301
00:18:28,401 --> 00:18:29,777
They're banned from travel

302
00:18:29,777 --> 00:18:31,445
and the UK's
refusing entry visas

303
00:18:31,445 --> 00:18:34,240
to families trying to get out.
It's chaos.

304
00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:36,075
Welcome to
the British Committee

305
00:18:36,075 --> 00:18:38,202
for Refugees
from Czechoslovakia.

306
00:18:38,202 --> 00:18:40,496
Hana, get him those files,
would you?

307
00:18:40,496 --> 00:18:42,248
That's quite a filing system.
[chuckles]

308
00:18:42,248 --> 00:18:45,251
[Doreen] Yes. Well,
if the Germans
send in their spies,

309
00:18:45,251 --> 00:18:47,336
at least they won't be able
to find anything.

310
00:18:47,336 --> 00:18:49,171
- [chuckles]
- In any case,

311
00:18:49,171 --> 00:18:50,673
you're the one who's supposed
to be good with paperwork.

312
00:18:50,673 --> 00:18:51,757
[grunts] This is you.

313
00:18:57,054 --> 00:18:59,473
Uh, yes, this report

314
00:18:59,473 --> 00:19:01,601
details
the political activists

315
00:19:01,601 --> 00:19:02,977
in and around Prague.

316
00:19:05,771 --> 00:19:08,024
What's this?

317
00:19:08,024 --> 00:19:11,444
The Führer's travel plans
in black and white.

318
00:19:11,444 --> 00:19:13,404
He's got his sights set
on half of Europe.

319
00:19:13,404 --> 00:19:14,906
It's just a question of when.

320
00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:17,658
Who else has seen it?

321
00:19:17,658 --> 00:19:18,868
Half of Prague, I imagine.

322
00:19:21,078 --> 00:19:23,164
Meant to intimidate.

323
00:19:23,164 --> 00:19:25,374
Hitler's never made any secret
of his ambitions.

324
00:19:25,374 --> 00:19:26,959
The allies banked
on appeasing him

325
00:19:26,959 --> 00:19:28,711
with a fat slice
of this country.

326
00:19:28,711 --> 00:19:30,254
Now the vicious shit's just
gonna take the rest of it.

327
00:19:31,672 --> 00:19:34,342
The children.
We have to move them.

328
00:19:34,342 --> 00:19:36,344
Says the man
who arrived yesterday.

329
00:19:36,344 --> 00:19:38,763
Well, I'm not suggesting
it's gonna be easy.

330
00:19:38,763 --> 00:19:43,100
A mass transit of children
without money or... or visas?

331
00:19:43,100 --> 00:19:44,852
Well, we'll find a way.

332
00:19:44,852 --> 00:19:48,147
How long are you here for?
A week?

333
00:19:48,147 --> 00:19:49,440
And then you're back
to your bank.

334
00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:50,775
Can we please put that aside
for now?

335
00:19:50,775 --> 00:19:53,069
Well, can we please
be realistic?

336
00:19:53,069 --> 00:19:54,737
We can't give
these people false hope.

337
00:19:54,737 --> 00:19:59,075
Look, we... we have to believe
that this might be possible.

338
00:19:59,075 --> 00:20:00,952
[sighs] Look...

339
00:20:00,952 --> 00:20:03,704
Let me try. Let... Let...
Let me

340
00:20:03,704 --> 00:20:05,790
find out the scale
of the problem.

341
00:20:05,790 --> 00:20:09,919
You know, how many children,
names and ages,

342
00:20:09,919 --> 00:20:11,128
where they're living.

343
00:20:12,755 --> 00:20:14,006
There must be
existing information.

344
00:20:17,635 --> 00:20:20,805
Well, the vulnerable groups,
they do have lists.

345
00:20:20,805 --> 00:20:24,308
But, they are scared
to share them.

346
00:20:24,308 --> 00:20:27,269
Well, then, we need
to earn their trust.

347
00:20:28,270 --> 00:20:30,272
We need those lists.

348
00:20:30,272 --> 00:20:31,607
So, we have to persuade them.

349
00:20:33,526 --> 00:20:35,152
Please, let me try.

350
00:20:39,532 --> 00:20:42,576
Good afternoon.
Uh, my name is Winton.

351
00:20:42,576 --> 00:20:44,745
Nicholas Winton.

352
00:20:44,745 --> 00:20:47,081
Yes, I'm ringing from
the British Committee

353
00:20:47,081 --> 00:20:49,083
for Refugees
from Czechoslovakia.

354
00:20:49,083 --> 00:20:52,044
Well, I'm looking to obtain
a list of vulnerable children.

355
00:20:52,044 --> 00:20:54,380
[phone line disconnects]

356
00:20:54,380 --> 00:20:57,216
No, I understand, but we will
have everything in place.

357
00:20:57,216 --> 00:20:58,843
- [phone line disconnects]
- Hello? Hello?

358
00:21:01,345 --> 00:21:03,139
[Nicky speaking German]

359
00:21:04,473 --> 00:21:06,225
[phone line disconnects]

360
00:21:06,225 --> 00:21:09,186
[in English] Yes.
May I at least come and meet?

361
00:21:11,063 --> 00:21:12,857
Thank you for seeing me.

362
00:21:12,857 --> 00:21:14,358
[Rabbi] How could I resist?

363
00:21:14,358 --> 00:21:16,402
You're offering to get
children out of Prague.

364
00:21:16,402 --> 00:21:17,486
A lot of them.

365
00:21:17,486 --> 00:21:19,155
That is correct.

366
00:21:19,155 --> 00:21:21,449
Hitler will be thrilled
to know you're helping him

367
00:21:21,449 --> 00:21:22,908
eradicate Jews
from the region.

368
00:21:26,370 --> 00:21:30,291
With... With respect, uh,
I'm moving children

369
00:21:30,291 --> 00:21:33,044
of all faiths and none.

370
00:21:33,044 --> 00:21:34,587
Separating them
from their families,

371
00:21:34,587 --> 00:21:37,298
perhaps from their religion?

372
00:21:37,298 --> 00:21:40,051
Accommodating them
in safe homes,

373
00:21:40,051 --> 00:21:42,678
with families in foster homes.

374
00:21:42,678 --> 00:21:43,888
Jewish foster homes?

375
00:21:47,141 --> 00:21:49,393
I don't know.

376
00:21:49,393 --> 00:21:51,479
I don't think
that's a question for now.

377
00:21:51,479 --> 00:21:54,190
But it's a question
I'm asking.

378
00:21:54,190 --> 00:21:56,859
You are not the only person
at this table

379
00:21:56,859 --> 00:21:58,611
concerned about the well-being
of Jewish children.

380
00:21:58,611 --> 00:22:01,280
Parents in London
are preparing

381
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:03,240
to send their children
out of the city

382
00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:05,117
to safety in the event
of a war.

383
00:22:05,117 --> 00:22:08,579
What I'm proposing
is no different.

384
00:22:08,579 --> 00:22:11,248
Your children would
be protected

385
00:22:11,248 --> 00:22:14,043
and returned to their families
as soon as it's safe.

386
00:22:16,837 --> 00:22:19,256
Are you Jewish, Mr Winton?

387
00:22:19,882 --> 00:22:20,883
[scoffs]

388
00:22:22,468 --> 00:22:24,678
Why would you ask that?

389
00:22:24,678 --> 00:22:27,473
Because I wonder why a person
would undertake

390
00:22:27,473 --> 00:22:30,267
this daunting task for people

391
00:22:30,267 --> 00:22:32,686
to whom he has
no real allegiance,

392
00:22:32,686 --> 00:22:35,314
in a place where
he does not belong.

393
00:22:38,567 --> 00:22:40,236
You're a stockbroker
from London

394
00:22:41,570 --> 00:22:43,531
with a comfortable life,
I presume.

395
00:22:44,657 --> 00:22:46,784
You've done some research.

396
00:22:46,784 --> 00:22:50,913
It is a serious matter.
So, why are you doing this?

397
00:22:50,913 --> 00:22:53,791
What I mean is,
who are you, Mr Winton?

398
00:22:54,917 --> 00:22:56,043
Well...

399
00:22:56,043 --> 00:22:58,379
My father's family

400
00:22:58,379 --> 00:23:02,633
came from Germany
to London in the 1870s.

401
00:23:02,633 --> 00:23:04,927
Till just a few months ago,
we were Wertheims.

402
00:23:06,345 --> 00:23:07,721
We went through the last war

403
00:23:07,721 --> 00:23:10,724
with a German surname
and my mother...

404
00:23:10,724 --> 00:23:14,436
my mother couldn't stand
doing it again, so...

405
00:23:14,436 --> 00:23:17,857
And my grandparents
on both sides were Jewish.

406
00:23:20,151 --> 00:23:23,070
But I was baptised
in the Church of England.

407
00:23:23,070 --> 00:23:24,446
So, [chuckles]

408
00:23:26,115 --> 00:23:27,616
I don't know
what you'd call me.

409
00:23:27,616 --> 00:23:28,951
I would call you a Jew.

410
00:23:32,246 --> 00:23:34,665
I consider myself a European,

411
00:23:35,958 --> 00:23:37,084
an agnostic,

412
00:23:38,460 --> 00:23:39,461
and a Socialist.

413
00:23:41,297 --> 00:23:43,549
There are children here,

414
00:23:45,426 --> 00:23:49,597
living in fields, in the open,
in... in... in mud...

415
00:23:51,682 --> 00:23:53,392
The worst of winter's
still to come

416
00:23:53,392 --> 00:23:56,061
and under the threat
of Nazi invasion.

417
00:23:57,229 --> 00:23:58,564
I have seen this

418
00:23:59,690 --> 00:24:01,025
and I cannot unsee it.

419
00:24:03,068 --> 00:24:07,448
And because I may be able
to do something about it,

420
00:24:09,617 --> 00:24:10,618
I must.

421
00:24:12,077 --> 00:24:13,454
At least try.

422
00:24:16,874 --> 00:24:18,334
[sighs]

423
00:24:18,334 --> 00:24:20,294
The task you propose

424
00:24:21,378 --> 00:24:23,672
requires money and visas.

425
00:24:23,672 --> 00:24:25,674
I don't have them. Yet.

426
00:24:30,596 --> 00:24:32,014
But I'll get them.

427
00:24:36,352 --> 00:24:38,270
[clattering]

428
00:24:39,813 --> 00:24:41,106
[drawer opens]

429
00:24:43,567 --> 00:24:46,320
If I send these children
to you,

430
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,657
I'm placing their lives
in your hands.

431
00:24:49,657 --> 00:24:51,825
A very great responsibility.

432
00:24:51,825 --> 00:24:54,912
So, in the end, Mr Winton,

433
00:24:56,705 --> 00:24:58,791
it is a question of trust.

434
00:25:03,128 --> 00:25:05,047
In Hebrew, there is a saying.

435
00:25:06,340 --> 00:25:08,300
[speaking Hebrew]

436
00:25:14,556 --> 00:25:16,433
[in English] Don't start
what you can't finish.

437
00:25:23,983 --> 00:25:25,943
[telephone ringing]

438
00:25:29,947 --> 00:25:32,324
Hampstead, 7946.

439
00:25:32,324 --> 00:25:33,242
Mother?

440
00:25:33,242 --> 00:25:35,494
Nicky! So good to hear you.

441
00:25:35,494 --> 00:25:36,620
Now, listen, I can't be long.

442
00:25:36,620 --> 00:25:38,747
<i>No, of course not. No, uh...</i>

443
00:25:38,747 --> 00:25:39,957
But are you all right?

444
00:25:39,957 --> 00:25:41,333
<i>Are you safe?</i>

445
00:25:41,333 --> 00:25:42,751
I'm perfectly fine.

446
00:25:42,751 --> 00:25:44,878
<i>You don't sound
very convincing.</i>

447
00:25:44,878 --> 00:25:46,422
Just tell me
you're coming home, yes?

448
00:25:46,422 --> 00:25:48,257
Yes, yes, now, listen.

449
00:25:48,257 --> 00:25:49,800
<i>I need you
to do something for me.</i>

450
00:25:50,342 --> 00:25:51,844
Tell me.

451
00:25:51,844 --> 00:25:53,387
<i>And I'm afraid it's not
going to be easy.</i>

452
00:25:55,764 --> 00:25:57,766
Hello, Rudi, I'd like
to send a telegram.

453
00:25:57,766 --> 00:25:59,393
Yes, certainly, sir,
just a moment.

454
00:26:02,730 --> 00:26:04,940
To, Mr Hart, H-A-R-T...

455
00:26:04,940 --> 00:26:06,233
"H-A-R-T."

456
00:26:06,233 --> 00:26:09,069
At Crews Brothers, stockbrokers.

457
00:26:09,069 --> 00:26:10,112
Slight change of plan.

458
00:26:10,112 --> 00:26:13,449
- [Rudi] "Slight change."
- Stop.

459
00:26:13,449 --> 00:26:16,410
Working Prague with Refugees.

460
00:26:16,410 --> 00:26:17,745
[speaking Czech]

461
00:26:17,745 --> 00:26:19,079
[Nicky in English]
<i>Return to office delayed.</i>

462
00:26:19,079 --> 00:26:20,331
[in Czech]

463
00:26:30,507 --> 00:26:33,052
[in English] He thought
you were official. German.

464
00:26:33,052 --> 00:26:35,512
Oh, no, no, no.
I'm sorry. Um...

465
00:26:35,512 --> 00:26:38,349
No, I'm... I'm... I'm trying
to help the families.

466
00:26:38,349 --> 00:26:40,225
[solemn music playing]

467
00:26:47,524 --> 00:26:50,319
- Madam.
- Oh.

468
00:26:50,319 --> 00:26:53,322
Good morning. My name
is Babette Winton.

469
00:26:53,322 --> 00:26:56,742
I'd like to speak
to someone in immigration.

470
00:26:56,742 --> 00:26:58,202
And where have
you arrived from?

471
00:26:58,202 --> 00:27:01,038
From Hampstead, on the 24 bus.

472
00:27:01,038 --> 00:27:03,832
I'm a British citizen
seeking your advice.

473
00:27:03,832 --> 00:27:06,126
- Do you have an appoint...
- An appointment? No.

474
00:27:06,126 --> 00:27:07,711
But I'm happy to wait.

475
00:27:08,629 --> 00:27:10,506
[woman in German]

476
00:27:16,261 --> 00:27:18,055
[solemn music continues]

477
00:27:23,018 --> 00:27:24,228
Mr Jovak?

478
00:27:24,770 --> 00:27:25,854
Here.

479
00:27:25,854 --> 00:27:27,064
[man] Come this way, please.

480
00:27:32,778 --> 00:27:33,946
[Hana] <i>Anyone else?</i>

481
00:27:33,946 --> 00:27:37,241
Yes, actually, um,
there was a young girl

482
00:27:37,241 --> 00:27:39,868
that I first saw when Doreen
brought me here, um...

483
00:27:39,868 --> 00:27:41,328
She was about 11 or 12.

484
00:27:41,328 --> 00:27:43,414
She had a very young
baby sister.

485
00:27:43,414 --> 00:27:45,249
Applications are considered
according to protocol...

486
00:27:45,249 --> 00:27:47,751
Oh, protocol. That is
a meaningless phrase.

487
00:27:47,751 --> 00:27:50,754
You repeating it ad infinitum
really doesn't help.

488
00:27:50,754 --> 00:27:54,425
These are
unaccompanied children.

489
00:27:54,425 --> 00:27:55,884
They're children,
they are desperate,

490
00:27:55,884 --> 00:27:57,136
and they are starving.

491
00:27:57,136 --> 00:27:58,762
Like many poorer
British children.

492
00:27:58,762 --> 00:28:01,390
British children are not
facing the threat

493
00:28:01,390 --> 00:28:03,100
of imminent Nazi invasion.

494
00:28:03,100 --> 00:28:06,061
Mrs Winton, there are
other people waiting.

495
00:28:10,107 --> 00:28:11,650
If you don't mind...

496
00:28:11,650 --> 00:28:14,778
Young man, I have something
to tell you. Sit down.

497
00:28:22,578 --> 00:28:27,583
I came here 30 years ago,
from Germany, to marry.

498
00:28:27,583 --> 00:28:29,793
I raised my family here.

499
00:28:29,793 --> 00:28:32,421
My husband is buried here.

500
00:28:32,421 --> 00:28:37,134
And what I have most admired
about this country

501
00:28:37,134 --> 00:28:41,180
is its commitment
to decency, kindness,

502
00:28:41,180 --> 00:28:43,682
and respect for others.

503
00:28:43,682 --> 00:28:46,935
I raised my son in accordance
with these values

504
00:28:46,935 --> 00:28:51,190
and he is in Prague, now,
as we speak,

505
00:28:51,190 --> 00:28:55,027
putting these values
into practice.

506
00:28:55,027 --> 00:28:58,447
I am merely asking you
to do the same.

507
00:28:58,447 --> 00:29:00,073
Is that too much to ask?

508
00:29:07,956 --> 00:29:10,834
Ask your questions,
Mrs Winton.

509
00:29:10,834 --> 00:29:14,129
Thank you. Now, I need you
to concentrate

510
00:29:14,129 --> 00:29:15,881
and I need you
to be very clear.

511
00:29:17,090 --> 00:29:18,008
[Hana speaking Czech]

512
00:29:19,176 --> 00:29:20,594
[Lenka speaking Czech]

513
00:29:20,594 --> 00:29:21,720
[in English] She's 12.

514
00:29:24,389 --> 00:29:26,725
[Hana in Czech]

515
00:29:26,725 --> 00:29:27,851
[baby whimpers]

516
00:29:30,270 --> 00:29:32,064
[baby crying]

517
00:29:33,023 --> 00:29:34,983
[whispering]

518
00:29:40,781 --> 00:29:44,243
[in English] They don't know
whose baby it is. No one does.

519
00:29:44,243 --> 00:29:45,953
She is helping care for her.

520
00:29:48,956 --> 00:29:51,166
But what about the parents?

521
00:29:52,751 --> 00:29:55,796
Hm, taken or dead.

522
00:29:58,423 --> 00:30:00,384
[baby continues crying]

523
00:30:07,724 --> 00:30:09,685
[clears throat] Right.

524
00:30:10,686 --> 00:30:11,687
Let's get on.

525
00:30:16,817 --> 00:30:17,943
[camera clicks]

526
00:30:18,902 --> 00:30:20,904
[telephone ringing]

527
00:30:32,249 --> 00:30:33,834
[answering machine beeps]

528
00:30:33,834 --> 00:30:35,586
[Nicky over machine]
<i>This is Maidenhead, 3310.</i>

529
00:30:35,586 --> 00:30:38,297
<i>Nicholas and Grete Winton.
Please leave a message.</i>

530
00:30:39,047 --> 00:30:40,382
[beeps]

531
00:30:40,382 --> 00:30:42,092
[Barbara over machine]
<i>Hi, Dad.</i>

532
00:30:42,092 --> 00:30:45,137
<i>It's just me checking in
to see you're okay.</i>

533
00:30:45,137 --> 00:30:47,055
<i>We're all right. Had just been
to the clinic,</i>

534
00:30:47,055 --> 00:30:49,224
<i>everything's fine
with the baby.</i>

535
00:30:49,224 --> 00:30:50,767
<i>Mum says that you're thinking</i>

536
00:30:50,767 --> 00:30:52,894
<i>about what to do
with the briefcase.</i>

537
00:30:52,894 --> 00:30:54,396
<i>Um...</i>

538
00:30:54,396 --> 00:30:56,732
<i>I know that won't
be easy for you.</i>

539
00:30:56,732 --> 00:30:59,860
<i>I'm here if you wanna
talk about it.</i>

540
00:30:59,860 --> 00:31:01,653
<i>Hope you're swimming lots.</i>

541
00:31:07,701 --> 00:31:09,077
[valve squeaks]

542
00:31:09,077 --> 00:31:10,495
[whirring]

543
00:31:10,495 --> 00:31:12,581
[water flowing]

544
00:31:26,553 --> 00:31:27,554
[switch clicks]

545
00:31:44,821 --> 00:31:46,990
[fire crackling]

546
00:31:46,990 --> 00:31:48,241
[exhales]

547
00:31:52,204 --> 00:31:53,372
[exhales]

548
00:32:00,921 --> 00:32:02,881
[piano playing]

549
00:32:24,319 --> 00:32:26,279
[piano continues playing]

550
00:32:30,617 --> 00:32:32,619
[indistinct chatter]

551
00:32:37,666 --> 00:32:39,626
[woman in German]

552
00:32:49,636 --> 00:32:53,348
[man in English] In Munich,
Nazis took my brothers.

553
00:32:53,348 --> 00:32:56,518
My nephews tried to stop them,

554
00:32:56,518 --> 00:33:00,689
12, 10 years old, just boys.

555
00:33:00,689 --> 00:33:04,359
They were beaten and thrown
down the stairs

556
00:33:04,359 --> 00:33:06,653
and taken to the camps.

557
00:33:06,653 --> 00:33:08,697
[speaking Czech]

558
00:33:13,994 --> 00:33:16,705
[in English] Eva and Vera.

559
00:33:16,705 --> 00:33:19,082
These are my sister's boys,

560
00:33:19,082 --> 00:33:22,169
Honza and Tommy.

561
00:33:22,169 --> 00:33:25,297
Our family name is Diamantova.

562
00:33:29,176 --> 00:33:30,469
Oh, thank you.

563
00:33:32,387 --> 00:33:33,388
That's Vera.

564
00:33:34,264 --> 00:33:36,141
Eva.

565
00:33:36,141 --> 00:33:37,225
Honza, Tommy.

566
00:33:39,519 --> 00:33:42,189
Oh, what happened here?

567
00:33:42,189 --> 00:33:45,942
She fell. Skiing.
She loves the mountains.

568
00:33:45,942 --> 00:33:48,236
Oh. You like...
You like skiing?

569
00:33:48,236 --> 00:33:49,738
I love skiing.

570
00:33:50,781 --> 00:33:52,407
[speaking Czech]

571
00:33:55,827 --> 00:33:58,205
[in English] Skiing
and swimming.

572
00:33:58,205 --> 00:34:00,957
And swimming? Me too.
[chuckles]

573
00:34:03,126 --> 00:34:04,920
- Morning, Rudi.
- Morning.

574
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:06,421
Would you mind putting a call
through to this number for me?

575
00:34:06,421 --> 00:34:08,423
- Of course. Give me a moment.
- Thank you.

576
00:34:08,423 --> 00:34:11,134
And Mr Winton,
you have a telegram.

577
00:34:11,134 --> 00:34:12,636
[Nicky] Oh. Thank you.

578
00:34:19,684 --> 00:34:22,604
[Rudi speaking Czech]

579
00:34:27,192 --> 00:34:28,985
[Rudi in English]
Mr Winton, your call.

580
00:34:28,985 --> 00:34:31,613
Cabin number two.

581
00:34:31,613 --> 00:34:33,573
[Babi over telephone] <i>Nicky,
you will not believe</i>

582
00:34:33,573 --> 00:34:36,201
<i>- what they are asking for.</i>
- All right, I'm ready.

583
00:34:36,201 --> 00:34:39,454
<i>A separate visa application
for each child.</i>

584
00:34:39,454 --> 00:34:42,415
An individual sponsor
who must promise to pay

585
00:34:42,415 --> 00:34:45,126
<i>for all the child's needs.</i>

586
00:34:45,126 --> 00:34:50,215
And a fee of 50 pounds to pay
for their eventual return.

587
00:34:50,215 --> 00:34:51,842
- Fifty pounds?
<i>- Yes, I know.</i>

588
00:34:51,842 --> 00:34:52,926
Wait, there's more.

589
00:34:54,177 --> 00:34:55,971
A medical certificate,

590
00:34:55,971 --> 00:34:59,182
uh, and a foster parent
to care for the child

591
00:34:59,182 --> 00:35:00,809
till the age of 17

592
00:35:00,809 --> 00:35:03,520
or until they are able
to return home.

593
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:04,896
Christ, Nicky!

594
00:35:04,896 --> 00:35:05,981
[Nicky] Yeah.

595
00:35:07,482 --> 00:35:08,984
[Hana] Nicky?

596
00:35:10,068 --> 00:35:11,945
Mr Slonek. Hello.

597
00:35:11,945 --> 00:35:14,531
Hello, hello. Uh...

598
00:35:14,531 --> 00:35:16,366
I have changed my mind.

599
00:35:16,366 --> 00:35:18,410
Here are, uh, photos,

600
00:35:18,410 --> 00:35:21,913
I believe now
you will help them?

601
00:35:22,956 --> 00:35:24,249
[chuckles]

602
00:35:26,001 --> 00:35:28,169
Jan. Petr.

603
00:35:29,588 --> 00:35:31,923
- And... Karel. Karel.
- [Jan] Karel.

604
00:35:32,883 --> 00:35:35,969
When will they go... please?

605
00:35:38,179 --> 00:35:39,472
[Doreen] What did I miss?

606
00:35:39,472 --> 00:35:41,182
Nicky was just saying
we have to assume

607
00:35:41,182 --> 00:35:42,934
that this is happening.

608
00:35:42,934 --> 00:35:44,227
[Doreen] Yeah.

609
00:35:44,227 --> 00:35:46,104
We are moving the children.

610
00:35:46,104 --> 00:35:47,898
In big groups. By train.

611
00:35:47,898 --> 00:35:49,065
[Doreen] That's a two-day trip,

612
00:35:49,065 --> 00:35:50,483
which would mean
crossing Holland

613
00:35:50,483 --> 00:35:52,027
and the Dutch have shut
their borders

614
00:35:52,027 --> 00:35:53,153
to Jewish refugees.

615
00:35:53,153 --> 00:35:55,447
And they'd have
to cross Germany.

616
00:35:55,447 --> 00:35:57,073
Yes, but they'd only
be passing through

617
00:35:57,073 --> 00:35:58,450
and on British visas.

618
00:35:58,450 --> 00:36:00,410
With British
foster parents waiting.

619
00:36:00,410 --> 00:36:01,912
Well, that is, if you can find
British foster parents.

620
00:36:01,912 --> 00:36:05,624
There are a thousand children
on that list.

621
00:36:05,624 --> 00:36:08,627
The welcome may not be as warm
as you're all imagining.

622
00:36:08,627 --> 00:36:11,296
Then we have
to heat things up.

623
00:36:11,296 --> 00:36:13,381
We have to get
the press working.

624
00:36:13,381 --> 00:36:16,301
Get them moving
and on our side.

625
00:36:16,301 --> 00:36:18,678
Ordinary people
wouldn't stand for this

626
00:36:18,678 --> 00:36:22,307
if they knew what
was actually happening.

627
00:36:22,307 --> 00:36:24,768
You've a lot of faith
in ordinary people.

628
00:36:26,436 --> 00:36:30,357
I do because
I'm an ordinary person.

629
00:36:30,357 --> 00:36:31,441
[Trevor] So am I.

630
00:36:32,609 --> 00:36:34,486
And me.

631
00:36:34,486 --> 00:36:36,529
Well, there you go.

632
00:36:36,529 --> 00:36:38,198
That's just what we need,
isn't it?

633
00:36:39,199 --> 00:36:41,660
An army of the ordinary.

634
00:36:41,660 --> 00:36:45,789
Nicky, you should go back
to London, raise funds.

635
00:36:46,414 --> 00:36:47,582
Raise a stink.

636
00:36:47,582 --> 00:36:49,709
I can do that. No problem.

637
00:36:49,709 --> 00:36:51,169
What about your job
in the bank?

638
00:36:51,169 --> 00:36:53,296
Well, stock market closes
at half past three.

639
00:36:53,296 --> 00:36:55,715
And I'll take care
of this end.

640
00:36:55,715 --> 00:36:57,550
- With Hana's help?
- Of course.

641
00:36:57,550 --> 00:36:59,302
Oh, God.

642
00:36:59,302 --> 00:37:01,262
We're actually doing this,
aren't we?

643
00:37:02,013 --> 00:37:03,348
[sighs]

644
00:37:03,348 --> 00:37:05,767
Here's to the children's
section of the BCRC.

645
00:37:05,767 --> 00:37:07,769
- [Doreen] There isn't one.
- There is now.

646
00:37:08,937 --> 00:37:10,188
All those in favour.

647
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:16,361
[exhales]

648
00:37:16,361 --> 00:37:18,780
Nicky, if I may.

649
00:37:18,780 --> 00:37:21,032
- [Nicky] What are you doing?
- [Trevor] Excuse me.

650
00:37:21,032 --> 00:37:23,076
- [Doreen chuckles] My God.
- [Hana chuckles]

651
00:37:23,076 --> 00:37:25,245
- Those your socks?
- [group chuckling]

652
00:37:25,245 --> 00:37:26,329
[Trevor] Look,
you'll need something

653
00:37:26,329 --> 00:37:27,539
for all that paperwork.

654
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:30,291
Thank you.

655
00:37:35,922 --> 00:37:37,882
[uneasy music playing]

656
00:37:47,767 --> 00:37:50,145
[Nicky] <i>To</i> The Times'
<i>letter section.</i>

657
00:37:50,145 --> 00:37:53,565
<i>Dear sir, I have just returned
from Prague,</i>

658
00:37:53,565 --> 00:37:55,692
where I was assessing the fate

659
00:37:55,692 --> 00:37:58,319
of refugees in the city.

660
00:37:58,319 --> 00:38:01,406
<i>Among the many
unfortunate souls,</i>

661
00:38:01,406 --> 00:38:03,992
<i>I found about 2,000 children</i>

662
00:38:04,909 --> 00:38:06,661
living in damp,

663
00:38:08,163 --> 00:38:09,706
overcrowded camps.

664
00:38:09,706 --> 00:38:12,625
Overcrowded, insanitary camps.

665
00:38:12,625 --> 00:38:14,544
- Yes, true.
- [typewriter keys clacking]

666
00:38:14,544 --> 00:38:16,254
In one of the camps,

667
00:38:16,254 --> 00:38:18,715
several have already
succumbed to disease.

668
00:38:20,133 --> 00:38:23,928
<i>I saw a mother cradling
her dead child.</i>

669
00:38:23,928 --> 00:38:26,347
<i>The thousands struggling
to survive</i>

670
00:38:26,347 --> 00:38:29,267
<i>find themselves facing
the threat of Nazi invasion</i>

671
00:38:29,267 --> 00:38:32,020
<i>and the horrors
that will bring.</i>

672
00:38:32,020 --> 00:38:35,106
<i>We are working to evacuate
these children by train</i>

673
00:38:35,106 --> 00:38:39,319
<i>to safety in Britain
as a matter of urgency.</i>

674
00:38:39,319 --> 00:38:44,449
<i>Will people please help with
donations or foster homes?</i>

675
00:38:44,449 --> 00:38:47,827
<i>Please contact
Mr Nicholas G Winton,</i>

676
00:38:47,827 --> 00:38:50,914
<i>the British Council for
Refugees in Czechoslovakia,</i>

677
00:38:50,914 --> 00:38:52,832
<i>Children's section.</i>

678
00:38:52,832 --> 00:38:55,919
<i>20 Willow Road, NW Three...</i>

679
00:38:55,919 --> 00:38:59,005
The wanderer returns!

680
00:38:59,005 --> 00:39:01,216
Crikey, Nicky,
Hart's been apoplectic.

681
00:39:01,216 --> 00:39:02,592
Oh, well.

682
00:39:02,592 --> 00:39:03,927
There goes your bonus.

683
00:39:09,474 --> 00:39:11,434
[uneasy music continues]

684
00:39:18,358 --> 00:39:19,359
Mother.

685
00:39:20,235 --> 00:39:22,070
Sorry. Thank you.

686
00:39:28,076 --> 00:39:29,786
I've seen your letter
in the press.

687
00:39:29,786 --> 00:39:31,996
Well, then you understand
the urgency.

688
00:39:33,414 --> 00:39:34,666
The process...

689
00:39:34,666 --> 00:39:36,960
[Nicky] Our first group
consists of 20 children

690
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:38,670
who are in the most dire need.

691
00:39:38,670 --> 00:39:41,339
They will arrive by train
into Liverpool Street Station

692
00:39:41,339 --> 00:39:43,174
in two weeks' time.

693
00:39:45,677 --> 00:39:49,639
Yes, two weeks, a fortnight.

694
00:39:49,639 --> 00:39:52,642
[Nicky] Which is why we're
asking for your help to...

695
00:39:52,642 --> 00:39:54,018
to accelerate the process.

696
00:39:54,018 --> 00:39:56,229
Applications are dealt
with in turn.

697
00:39:56,229 --> 00:39:57,564
The process takes time.

698
00:39:57,564 --> 00:39:59,149
We don't have time.

699
00:39:59,149 --> 00:40:01,651
The German army could
cross the border any day.

700
00:40:04,946 --> 00:40:07,240
Mr Leadbetter...

701
00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:10,660
these are your children, yes?

702
00:40:10,660 --> 00:40:12,036
- They are.
- There are families

703
00:40:12,036 --> 00:40:15,707
just like this,
just like yours,

704
00:40:15,707 --> 00:40:18,877
living in conditions
you cannot imagine.

705
00:40:18,877 --> 00:40:20,879
The threat of war
hangs over them.

706
00:40:20,879 --> 00:40:23,298
What they have done for you

707
00:40:23,298 --> 00:40:26,759
is to stand
against Nazi expansionism.

708
00:40:26,759 --> 00:40:28,970
All they ask, in return,

709
00:40:28,970 --> 00:40:32,056
is a temporary refuge
for their children.

710
00:40:32,056 --> 00:40:35,852
From whatever horror
is yet to come.

711
00:40:35,852 --> 00:40:38,688
Isn't that the least
this country should offer?

712
00:40:43,026 --> 00:40:44,694
Provided your paperwork
is in order.

713
00:40:44,694 --> 00:40:46,029
[Babi] It is in perfect order.

714
00:40:47,614 --> 00:40:49,199
Then I'll do my best.

715
00:40:49,199 --> 00:40:53,036
Two weeks, where are we going
to find the money?

716
00:40:53,953 --> 00:40:54,954
We'll find it.

717
00:40:54,954 --> 00:40:57,540
[stutters] In two weeks?

718
00:40:57,540 --> 00:41:00,835
- And the foster families?
- I know. We'll do it.

719
00:41:00,835 --> 00:41:03,296
- [Babi] Olga Santer...
- [Nicky] Santer, yes.

720
00:41:03,296 --> 00:41:06,758
- [Babi] ... and Petr Slonek.
- [Nicky] Slonek, Petr, yes.

721
00:41:06,758 --> 00:41:09,552
[uneasy music playing]

722
00:41:11,596 --> 00:41:13,765
Right. It's a start.

723
00:41:26,027 --> 00:41:28,696
[Nicky] <i>Jan Slonek, number 174.</i>

724
00:41:29,697 --> 00:41:32,200
Petr Slonek, 144.

725
00:41:35,411 --> 00:41:36,621
<i>Rosa Lenart,</i>

726
00:41:37,413 --> 00:41:40,458
number 529.

727
00:41:40,458 --> 00:41:42,710
- [Babi] Good.
- [Nicky] Tommy Katschinsky,

728
00:41:42,710 --> 00:41:45,713
number nine.
Michael Lappert, 46.

729
00:41:45,713 --> 00:41:48,341
- Landesmann, 19.
- [woman] Next.

730
00:41:48,341 --> 00:41:50,009
[Nicky] <i>Jacob...</i>

731
00:41:50,009 --> 00:41:52,929
[Babi] <i>...number twenty-four.</i>

732
00:41:52,929 --> 00:41:55,848
[Babi and Nicky speaking
over one another]

733
00:41:55,848 --> 00:41:58,184
<i>I have a family
from Shropshire</i>

734
00:41:58,184 --> 00:42:01,729
<i>that will take a girl,
8 to 11 years,</i>

735
00:42:01,729 --> 00:42:03,898
<i>and Mr and Mrs Horrell</i>

736
00:42:03,898 --> 00:42:06,609
that will take a boy,
just one,

737
00:42:06,609 --> 00:42:10,029
but ideally under eight
and brown haired.

738
00:42:10,029 --> 00:42:11,864
- [Nicky] There you go.
- [door bell rings]

739
00:42:15,618 --> 00:42:17,412
Martin. [chuckles]

740
00:42:17,412 --> 00:42:19,205
So sorry I wasn't
with you in Prague.

741
00:42:19,205 --> 00:42:20,581
[Nicky] Not at all.

742
00:42:20,581 --> 00:42:23,501
Anyway, I'm here now.
What can I do?

743
00:42:23,501 --> 00:42:26,337
Well, we've got, uh,
20 children ready to travel

744
00:42:26,337 --> 00:42:27,922
and only eight foster homes.

745
00:42:27,922 --> 00:42:30,008
There's plenty of people
who'd gladly take a child,

746
00:42:30,008 --> 00:42:31,718
but they can't raise
the 50 pounds guarantee.

747
00:42:31,718 --> 00:42:36,264
So, that's what we need
most right now. It's money.

748
00:42:36,264 --> 00:42:37,515
Let me make some calls.

749
00:42:38,224 --> 00:42:39,225
Phone?

750
00:42:39,225 --> 00:42:41,227
Come with me. Coffee?

751
00:42:41,227 --> 00:42:43,688
Nicky, five pounds!

752
00:42:43,688 --> 00:42:47,942
Five pounds, 20 pounds from
the Girl Guides and then...

753
00:42:47,942 --> 00:42:50,445
That's 100 in one day!

754
00:42:50,445 --> 00:42:53,906
<i>And then</i> Picture Post <i>has
raised 90 pounds.</i>

755
00:42:53,906 --> 00:42:55,783
[uneasy music continues]

756
00:43:15,219 --> 00:43:17,430
[Nicky] Ready?
We've foster families

757
00:43:17,430 --> 00:43:20,767
for, uh, Marlia Keller,

758
00:43:20,767 --> 00:43:24,520
<i>- uh, Kristina Novotka...</i>
- [Trevor] Mm-hmm.

759
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:27,440
- ...the Blaufrank twins.
- <i>Yes.</i>

760
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:30,026
[Nicky] <i>And Jan
and Petr Slonek.</i>

761
00:43:30,026 --> 00:43:32,153
And their brother?

762
00:43:32,153 --> 00:43:33,988
No. No one would
take all three.

763
00:43:34,655 --> 00:43:35,656
[Trevor] Goodness.

764
00:43:35,656 --> 00:43:38,034
Tell them
it won't be long now.

765
00:43:38,034 --> 00:43:40,453
- We'll be moving them soon.
<i>- Nicky,</i>

766
00:43:40,453 --> 00:43:42,163
it's getting harder here.

767
00:43:42,163 --> 00:43:44,999
Two more people from Doreen's
list have disappeared.

768
00:43:44,999 --> 00:43:47,085
- [grunting]
- [indistinct chatter]

769
00:43:47,085 --> 00:43:48,503
<i>I don't know
how long we've got.</i>

770
00:43:49,170 --> 00:43:50,671
[crying]

771
00:43:50,671 --> 00:43:52,715
[speaking Czech]

772
00:44:24,789 --> 00:44:26,791
[child crying]

773
00:44:26,791 --> 00:44:28,835
[sombre music playing]

774
00:44:38,886 --> 00:44:39,887
[Karel whimpers]

775
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:42,515
[in Czech]

776
00:44:54,902 --> 00:44:57,071
[in English] Come on, then.
Good lads.

777
00:44:57,071 --> 00:44:59,866
There you go, good lads.

778
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:02,201
All right.

779
00:45:06,831 --> 00:45:08,791
[sombre music continues]

780
00:45:33,149 --> 00:45:35,109
[announcer speaking
indistinctly]

781
00:45:43,618 --> 00:45:45,286
[Doreen] Thank God you're here.
I was worried.

782
00:45:45,286 --> 00:45:46,370
I'm so sorry.

783
00:45:46,370 --> 00:45:48,122
[speaking Czech]

784
00:45:48,122 --> 00:45:49,665
[in English] All right,
all right, all right.

785
00:45:49,665 --> 00:45:51,792
[speaking Czech]

786
00:45:51,792 --> 00:45:54,629
- [in English] Petr Slonek.
- Slonek. Petr and Jan.

787
00:45:54,629 --> 00:45:56,088
174.

788
00:45:56,088 --> 00:45:57,673
Thank you.

789
00:45:57,673 --> 00:45:59,133
- [Hana] 144.
- [Doreen] 144.

790
00:45:59,133 --> 00:46:01,135
So, that's only one
we're missing, now.

791
00:46:01,135 --> 00:46:03,221
- Check them all.
- [speaking Czech]

792
00:46:03,221 --> 00:46:04,305
[in English]
This is our train.

793
00:46:08,851 --> 00:46:10,228
[Doreen speaking Czech]

794
00:46:10,228 --> 00:46:11,395
[in English] Hello.

795
00:46:13,105 --> 00:46:14,482
- [Hana] 141.
- [Doreen] 141.

796
00:46:14,482 --> 00:46:16,567
[child speaking Czech]

797
00:46:16,567 --> 00:46:18,611
[indistinct chatter]

798
00:46:20,488 --> 00:46:21,739
[Trevor in English]
Come on, then, let's go.

799
00:46:21,739 --> 00:46:24,367
Come on, come on, let's go.

800
00:46:24,367 --> 00:46:26,869
- [mother] Okay. Okay.
- [child grunts]

801
00:46:28,079 --> 00:46:29,830
- [Trevor] Good girl.
- [whimpers]

802
00:46:29,830 --> 00:46:31,791
[train whistle blows]

803
00:46:31,791 --> 00:46:34,669
[indistinct chatter]

804
00:46:40,383 --> 00:46:42,343
[solemn music playing]

805
00:46:45,471 --> 00:46:47,431
[indistinct shouting]

806
00:47:09,495 --> 00:47:11,747
[announcer]
<i>The train at platform eight</i>

807
00:47:11,747 --> 00:47:15,167
<i>is the 9:25 service
to Ipswich.</i>

808
00:47:15,167 --> 00:47:19,255
<i>Calling at Shenfield,
Chelmsford, Witham,</i>

809
00:47:19,255 --> 00:47:23,259
<i>Colchester, Manningtree
and Ipswich.</i>

810
00:47:27,179 --> 00:47:29,974
<i>The train now arriving
at platform one</i>

811
00:47:29,974 --> 00:47:32,518
<i>- is the delayed 8:47...</i>
- [train whistle blows]

812
00:47:32,518 --> 00:47:34,645
<i>...international train
from Harwich</i>

813
00:47:34,645 --> 00:47:36,897
<i>to London Liverpool Street.</i>

814
00:47:36,897 --> 00:47:38,941
[train chugging]

815
00:47:47,158 --> 00:47:49,118
[uneasy music playing]

816
00:48:13,059 --> 00:48:14,560
[Trevor] Stay...
Stay together, everyone.

817
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:16,187
Very good.

818
00:48:16,187 --> 00:48:18,481
Trevor! [chuckles] Trevor.

819
00:48:22,401 --> 00:48:24,654
- You made it. Bless you.
- [chuckles] Yes.

820
00:48:24,654 --> 00:48:26,656
Here, let me help you.

821
00:48:26,656 --> 00:48:28,366
This way, this way.

822
00:48:28,366 --> 00:48:29,742
Are you all right?

823
00:48:29,742 --> 00:48:31,744
[indistinct chatter]

824
00:48:33,496 --> 00:48:37,166
[Babi] So, Mr
and Mrs Willou... Willoughby?

825
00:48:37,166 --> 00:48:38,292
[mrs Willoughby] Here.

826
00:48:40,544 --> 00:48:44,215
Nina, Olga. Olga Santer.

827
00:48:44,215 --> 00:48:48,260
And Mr and Mrs Goodfellow.

828
00:48:48,260 --> 00:48:49,595
- [mrs Goodfellow] Yes.
- [mr Goodfellow] Here.

829
00:48:50,888 --> 00:48:53,766
- [Babi] Nina.
- Hello.

830
00:48:53,766 --> 00:48:54,850
[mrs Goodfellow]
Good afternoon.

831
00:48:54,850 --> 00:48:57,812
Jan and Petr Slonek.

832
00:48:57,812 --> 00:48:59,480
- Lovely to meet you.
- Petr?

833
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:01,273
- We'll look after you.
- Hello.

834
00:49:01,273 --> 00:49:02,358
- [Babi] Frank.
- [mr Goodfellow] Come on, boys,

835
00:49:02,358 --> 00:49:03,275
- let's get you home.
- Thank you.

836
00:49:03,275 --> 00:49:05,611
[Babi] Mr and Mrs Harland?

837
00:49:07,405 --> 00:49:08,989
Harland?

838
00:49:08,989 --> 00:49:11,033
[solemn music playing]

839
00:49:31,011 --> 00:49:32,054
[Nicky sighs]

840
00:50:51,675 --> 00:50:53,636
[solemn music continues]

841
00:51:06,982 --> 00:51:08,275
[telephone ringing]

842
00:51:10,194 --> 00:51:11,695
Hi, Nicky.

843
00:51:11,695 --> 00:51:12,822
Oh, hello, Geoff.

844
00:51:12,822 --> 00:51:14,156
You wanna come through?

845
00:51:14,156 --> 00:51:15,616
Yes, thank you.

846
00:51:15,616 --> 00:51:16,909
All right?

847
00:51:16,909 --> 00:51:19,328
Yes, of course I am.

848
00:51:19,328 --> 00:51:20,996
You don't have to look
so nervous.

849
00:51:21,747 --> 00:51:22,873
I can't help it.

850
00:51:22,873 --> 00:51:24,166
Whenever I see you comin',

851
00:51:24,166 --> 00:51:25,668
I know it's gonna
cost me a fortune.

852
00:51:25,668 --> 00:51:27,253
Oh, all in a good cause.

853
00:51:31,257 --> 00:51:33,467
So, which is it this time?

854
00:51:33,467 --> 00:51:36,220
Samaritans? MENCAP?
Abbeyfield?

855
00:51:37,721 --> 00:51:41,684
Oh, something new.
Or rather, old.

856
00:51:41,684 --> 00:51:42,935
Take a seat, Nicky.

857
00:51:42,935 --> 00:51:45,229
Yes. Thank you.

858
00:51:51,944 --> 00:51:57,741
It's about, uh, documents
from the Second World War

859
00:51:57,741 --> 00:52:00,619
- rather relevant for today.
- The war?

860
00:52:00,619 --> 00:52:03,330
- Yes.
- Oh, it's exciting.

861
00:52:03,330 --> 00:52:07,668
It's the, uh, 50th anniversary
of the outbreak coming up.

862
00:52:07,668 --> 00:52:09,128
Yes, I suppose it must be.

863
00:52:09,128 --> 00:52:11,380
Yeah, we're planning
a series of special editions.

864
00:52:11,380 --> 00:52:12,673
- Oh.
- Where did you serve?

865
00:52:12,673 --> 00:52:14,300
Army, Navy?

866
00:52:14,300 --> 00:52:16,635
Oh, well, that's neither
here nor there, is it?

867
00:52:16,635 --> 00:52:18,178
Yeah, I bet you got
some stories.

868
00:52:18,178 --> 00:52:19,388
[Nicky chuckles]

869
00:52:19,388 --> 00:52:21,223
It's really not about me.

870
00:52:21,223 --> 00:52:23,767
It's actually very important.
It's, uh,

871
00:52:24,852 --> 00:52:26,520
about refugees.

872
00:52:28,147 --> 00:52:29,231
Refugees?

873
00:52:30,190 --> 00:52:31,191
Yeah.

874
00:52:32,693 --> 00:52:34,820
I'm not really seeing

875
00:52:34,820 --> 00:52:37,364
the Maidenhead angle
in refugees.

876
00:52:38,741 --> 00:52:41,660
[grunts, sighs]

877
00:52:43,412 --> 00:52:44,455
[engine starts]

878
00:52:44,455 --> 00:52:45,831
[upbeat music playing over TV]

879
00:52:45,831 --> 00:52:48,250
<i>We wanna be famous</i>

880
00:52:48,250 --> 00:52:50,711
<i>We wanna be on TV</i>

881
00:52:50,711 --> 00:52:53,255
<i>Famous, famous
Famous, famous</i>

882
00:52:53,255 --> 00:52:55,299
[audience laughing]

883
00:52:57,092 --> 00:52:59,053
[bouncy music playing]

884
00:53:04,308 --> 00:53:06,268
[audience laughing]

885
00:53:15,653 --> 00:53:17,613
- [joyful music playing]
- [audience applauding]

886
00:53:20,991 --> 00:53:21,992
[TV turns off]

887
00:53:26,997 --> 00:53:28,791
[phone line ringing]

888
00:53:32,002 --> 00:53:34,254
- [man over telephone] <i>Hello?</i>
- Hello. [chuckles]

889
00:53:34,254 --> 00:53:35,756
Guess who this is?

890
00:53:35,756 --> 00:53:37,758
- Oh, good afternoon.
- [hostess] Good afternoon.

891
00:53:37,758 --> 00:53:39,385
I'm meeting Mr Martin Blake.

892
00:53:40,219 --> 00:53:41,345
Thank you.

893
00:53:41,345 --> 00:53:43,389
- Oh, certainly.
- Thank you.

894
00:53:43,389 --> 00:53:44,556
If you'd like to follow me?

895
00:53:44,556 --> 00:53:45,808
Yes. Thank you.

896
00:53:52,314 --> 00:53:54,274
[indistinct chatter]

897
00:54:01,782 --> 00:54:04,535
Hello, Martin. Thank you.
How are you?

898
00:54:04,535 --> 00:54:05,911
- Nicky.
- Good to see you.

899
00:54:05,911 --> 00:54:08,038
So, you're footloose

900
00:54:08,038 --> 00:54:09,415
for a couple of days?

901
00:54:09,415 --> 00:54:10,791
Yes. Looks like it,
doesn't it?

902
00:54:10,791 --> 00:54:12,292
[Martin] Time to catch up.
I'm glad.

903
00:54:12,292 --> 00:54:14,003
Yeah, it's not much time,
I'm afraid,

904
00:54:14,003 --> 00:54:17,381
because, um, I've been given
my to-do list, you know?

905
00:54:17,381 --> 00:54:19,258
Grete's reorganising
everything

906
00:54:19,258 --> 00:54:21,176
- before the baby arrives.
- Oh, yes!

907
00:54:21,176 --> 00:54:23,053
A grandfather. You excited?

908
00:54:23,053 --> 00:54:25,389
- No, I'm bloody terrified.
- [laughs] Why?

909
00:54:25,389 --> 00:54:27,349
- I don't know.
- It'll be fun, I'm sure.

910
00:54:27,349 --> 00:54:29,435
Oh, really? If you say so.

911
00:54:29,435 --> 00:54:32,646
Uh, anyway, at the moment,
we're just, um,

912
00:54:32,646 --> 00:54:34,440
throwing out a lot of old
stuff, you know? And, uh...

913
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:36,942
- Piles up.
- Yes, it does. Yeah.

914
00:54:36,942 --> 00:54:38,110
You have to be ruthless.

915
00:54:38,110 --> 00:54:40,112
- I know.
- Yeah. Box files and,

916
00:54:40,112 --> 00:54:41,905
uh, records of all the old
charity work, you know?

917
00:54:41,905 --> 00:54:43,532
You've always been so busy.

918
00:54:43,532 --> 00:54:45,034
Oh, yeah. [chuckles]

919
00:54:45,034 --> 00:54:47,286
Do you still volunteer
with the Samaritans?

920
00:54:47,286 --> 00:54:48,579
No, no. They kicked me out.

921
00:54:48,579 --> 00:54:50,456
[Martin] What?
What on earth for?

922
00:54:50,456 --> 00:54:53,751
[chuckles] A woman, uh, phoned
in and told me she was, um...

923
00:54:53,751 --> 00:54:55,419
planning on killing herself.

924
00:54:55,419 --> 00:54:57,004
I said, "Oh, dear me,
there must be something else

925
00:54:57,004 --> 00:54:58,297
-"you'd rather be doing."
- [chuckles] You didn't.

926
00:54:58,297 --> 00:54:59,548
[Nicky] Yes, I did.

927
00:54:59,548 --> 00:55:01,592
She told me
that she wanted to visit

928
00:55:01,592 --> 00:55:03,302
her daughter in America.

929
00:55:03,302 --> 00:55:05,179
But her doctor warned her
that the journey

930
00:55:05,179 --> 00:55:06,847
would probably kill her.

931
00:55:06,847 --> 00:55:08,348
I said, "Well, that's exactly
what you want, isn't it?

932
00:55:08,348 --> 00:55:09,475
-"To be killed?"
- [laughing]

933
00:55:09,475 --> 00:55:11,560
Yeah, well,
she had a good laugh.

934
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:13,062
We both had a good laugh.

935
00:55:13,062 --> 00:55:14,897
She went off to America.
She saw her daughter.

936
00:55:14,897 --> 00:55:16,065
Had a wonderful time.
Came back,

937
00:55:16,065 --> 00:55:17,441
- was happy as a lark.
- Oh.

938
00:55:17,441 --> 00:55:20,110
But, uh, ooh, the Samaritans.
Oh, God bless them.

939
00:55:20,110 --> 00:55:21,361
They gave me
a real bollocking,

940
00:55:21,361 --> 00:55:22,696
pardon my French,

941
00:55:22,696 --> 00:55:24,490
and, uh, told me
I'd broken all the rules.

942
00:55:24,490 --> 00:55:26,450
Well, you know, I couldn't
just sit there, could I?

943
00:55:26,450 --> 00:55:28,869
I mean, you're listening
to a bunch of lonely people

944
00:55:28,869 --> 00:55:30,621
when there was something
I could actually say

945
00:55:30,621 --> 00:55:31,830
to help cheer them up.

946
00:55:31,830 --> 00:55:34,208
[both chuckle]

947
00:55:34,208 --> 00:55:35,876
You might wanna
slow down anyway.

948
00:55:35,876 --> 00:55:38,337
What, with the baby coming.

949
00:55:38,337 --> 00:55:39,755
Why would I want to slow down?

950
00:55:39,755 --> 00:55:40,923
[Martin] Oh, to enjoy it.

951
00:55:40,923 --> 00:55:42,633
You've done enough.

952
00:55:42,633 --> 00:55:44,176
No. It's never enough, is it?

953
00:55:46,261 --> 00:55:48,055
Did you, uh, need more time
with the wine list?

954
00:55:48,055 --> 00:55:49,306
[Martin] Oh, yes, um...

955
00:55:50,974 --> 00:55:52,267
They have nice <i>Château Neuf.</i>

956
00:55:54,144 --> 00:55:56,396
[chuckles]

957
00:55:56,396 --> 00:55:57,898
We'll have the <i>Chablis.</i>

958
00:55:57,898 --> 00:55:59,316
- Oh, dear. [chuckles]
- [Martin] Thank you.

959
00:56:00,692 --> 00:56:02,402
Where were we, now? Oh, yes.

960
00:56:02,402 --> 00:56:05,322
When I was clearing out
all the papers,

961
00:56:05,322 --> 00:56:08,242
I came across that old, uh,
scrapbook from Prague.

962
00:56:08,242 --> 00:56:09,409
- Do you remember that?
- I do.

963
00:56:09,409 --> 00:56:11,411
Yes, you're not throwing
that out.

964
00:56:11,411 --> 00:56:12,871
No, I think it could be quite

965
00:56:12,871 --> 00:56:14,581
an important little record,
in its way.

966
00:56:14,581 --> 00:56:17,084
You know, full of history
we should learn from.

967
00:56:17,084 --> 00:56:19,002
- It is.
- Yeah.

968
00:56:21,380 --> 00:56:23,132
Look, maybe the, um,

969
00:56:23,132 --> 00:56:26,426
the Wiener archive
might like it. In London.

970
00:56:26,426 --> 00:56:28,053
[Nicky] Yeah?

971
00:56:28,053 --> 00:56:30,639
I know people on the board,
I could mention it.

972
00:56:30,639 --> 00:56:33,725
Yeah, well, it'll probably
just gather dust there.

973
00:56:33,725 --> 00:56:35,894
I mean, I tried showing it
to the Editor

974
00:56:35,894 --> 00:56:37,896
of the Maidenhead newspaper,
what's it called?

975
00:56:37,896 --> 00:56:40,607
<i>The Advertiser</i> or something.

976
00:56:40,607 --> 00:56:43,277
And, um, it's funny because
when I told him

977
00:56:43,277 --> 00:56:44,987
about the refugees, he said,

978
00:56:44,987 --> 00:56:46,822
"I don't quite get
the Maidenhead angle."

979
00:56:46,822 --> 00:56:48,198
[Martin chuckles]

980
00:56:48,198 --> 00:56:49,700
So, uh, he's a bit
of a twit, really.

981
00:56:49,700 --> 00:56:52,035
Well, you might like
to donate it to a museum.

982
00:56:52,035 --> 00:56:54,204
In Prague? Or in Israel?

983
00:56:54,204 --> 00:56:55,789
Most of the children
were Jewish, after all.

984
00:56:56,373 --> 00:56:57,457
Prague.

985
00:56:58,625 --> 00:57:00,127
[speaking Hebrew]

986
00:57:00,127 --> 00:57:02,713
[in English] Well... Yeah.

987
00:57:03,755 --> 00:57:04,798
Tell me something...

988
00:57:07,301 --> 00:57:08,719
Do you ever think
about the children

989
00:57:08,719 --> 00:57:10,220
and what happened to them?

990
00:57:10,220 --> 00:57:12,472
[Martin] Yes, yes, I do.
From time to time.

991
00:57:12,472 --> 00:57:13,640
Do you?

992
00:57:15,392 --> 00:57:16,977
No, not really.

993
00:57:16,977 --> 00:57:19,605
Well, maybe a little, recently.

994
00:57:19,605 --> 00:57:23,192
It is incredible.
What you achieved.

995
00:57:23,192 --> 00:57:24,526
Oh, I don't think
of it that way.

996
00:57:24,526 --> 00:57:25,903
[Martin] No, no, no, no,
I mean it.

997
00:57:26,737 --> 00:57:28,572
Truly.

998
00:57:28,572 --> 00:57:30,032
I mean, you should be proud.

999
00:57:30,032 --> 00:57:32,075
- Well.
- Save one life,

1000
00:57:32,075 --> 00:57:34,786
save the world. You know?

1001
00:57:34,786 --> 00:57:37,289
Well, it's nothing
to brag about.

1002
00:57:37,289 --> 00:57:39,333
I mean, look at Doreen
and, uh, Trevor.

1003
00:57:39,333 --> 00:57:40,709
They did far more than I did

1004
00:57:40,709 --> 00:57:41,960
and they took all the risks.

1005
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:44,504
And they actually stayed
in Prague.

1006
00:57:44,504 --> 00:57:48,175
You know, Nicky,
telling people isn't bragging.

1007
00:57:49,927 --> 00:57:51,803
No. [chuckles]

1008
00:57:51,803 --> 00:57:53,847
[sombre music playing]

1009
00:58:16,870 --> 00:58:18,830
[telephone ringing]

1010
00:58:24,878 --> 00:58:26,755
Hampstead, 7946.

1011
00:58:26,755 --> 00:58:29,007
The Germans crossed
the frontier this morning.

1012
00:58:29,007 --> 00:58:30,092
<i>They've already taken over</i>

1013
00:58:30,092 --> 00:58:31,635
<i>- the ministry.</i>
- Oh, God.

1014
00:58:31,635 --> 00:58:34,763
[Doreen] Hitler's motorcade
just went past the hotel.

1015
00:58:34,763 --> 00:58:36,098
He was waving.

1016
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:42,062
[officer speaking German
over speakers]

1017
00:58:48,068 --> 00:58:51,571
[in English] What does
this mean? For us?

1018
00:58:51,571 --> 00:58:55,534
I have to go. We need
to check safe houses.

1019
00:58:55,534 --> 00:58:57,536
- Just be careful.
- [phone line disconnects]

1020
00:58:57,536 --> 00:59:00,247
Doreen? Doree...

1021
00:59:06,086 --> 00:59:08,755
[panting]

1022
00:59:08,755 --> 00:59:11,008
It's not safe for them here.
Please, get them home.

1023
00:59:13,093 --> 00:59:15,012
Just make sure all the lists
are locked up.

1024
00:59:23,186 --> 00:59:25,147
[officer speaking German
over speakers]

1025
00:59:34,448 --> 00:59:36,158
[indistinct chatter]

1026
00:59:40,537 --> 00:59:43,790
[radio distortion]

1027
00:59:43,790 --> 00:59:45,625
[man over radio, in english]
<i>Downing Street has advised</i>

1028
00:59:45,625 --> 00:59:48,795
<i>that this development does not
mean that Germany is at war.</i>

1029
00:59:48,795 --> 00:59:50,505
<i>The Germans are understood
to have taken</i>

1030
00:59:50,505 --> 00:59:53,383
<i>an administrative position
in Czechoslovakia,</i>

1031
00:59:53,383 --> 00:59:55,761
<i>replacing the government
in Prague.</i>

1032
00:59:55,761 --> 00:59:56,887
<i>Flights from Prague...</i>

1033
00:59:56,887 --> 00:59:58,597
What happens now?

1034
00:59:58,597 --> 01:00:01,099
[Nicky] We work harder.

1035
01:00:01,099 --> 01:00:04,644
Instead of standing here
wringing our hands in despair.

1036
01:00:04,644 --> 01:00:06,229
We need more trains.

1037
01:00:06,229 --> 01:00:08,440
We do whatever it takes
to make that happen.

1038
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:10,275
We find more homes.

1039
01:00:10,275 --> 01:00:12,736
We place the children faster.

1040
01:00:12,736 --> 01:00:14,446
We're doing as much as we can.

1041
01:00:14,446 --> 01:00:16,448
It's not enough, though,
is it?

1042
01:00:19,701 --> 01:00:21,495
Look, we cannot...

1043
01:00:21,495 --> 01:00:24,581
we cannot let
these people down.

1044
01:00:24,581 --> 01:00:26,833
[Trevor] <i>Well, they tell us
the borders are still open.</i>

1045
01:00:26,833 --> 01:00:29,336
The thing is now every visa
has to be approved

1046
01:00:30,587 --> 01:00:32,214
and stamped by the Gestapo.

1047
01:00:32,214 --> 01:00:34,424
<i>The bastards are all over
bloody everything now.</i>

1048
01:00:34,424 --> 01:00:36,468
[uneasy music playing]

1049
01:00:38,887 --> 01:00:40,472
- [reporter] Mr Winton?
- [Nicky] Oh, yeah. Oh, hello.

1050
01:00:40,472 --> 01:00:42,224
<i>The New Statesman.</i>

1051
01:00:42,224 --> 01:00:43,809
Oh, hi.

1052
01:00:43,809 --> 01:00:45,477
Uh, shall we speak as we go?

1053
01:00:45,477 --> 01:00:46,853
Uh, yes, please.

1054
01:00:46,853 --> 01:00:48,105
[reporter] I don't think
I can recall

1055
01:00:48,105 --> 01:00:51,316
ever seeing anything
quite so moving.

1056
01:00:51,316 --> 01:00:53,944
How many are there? There must
be, uh, nearly a hundred.

1057
01:00:53,944 --> 01:00:55,904
Uh, yes, yes.
Well over a hundred.

1058
01:00:55,904 --> 01:01:00,534
Hello. Uh, and this is
our largest transport so far.

1059
01:01:00,534 --> 01:01:01,618
[reporter] <i>And this is
your fourth train.</i>

1060
01:01:01,618 --> 01:01:02,994
<i>Are there more planned?</i>

1061
01:01:02,994 --> 01:01:04,538
[Nicky] <i>Yes, absolutely.</i>

1062
01:01:04,538 --> 01:01:06,873
<i>The fifth train's
only a few weeks away</i>

1063
01:01:06,873 --> 01:01:08,792
<i>with more trains
already booked.</i>

1064
01:01:08,792 --> 01:01:12,212
<i>The eighth is confirmed,
and the ninth's in preparation</i>

1065
01:01:12,212 --> 01:01:14,381
<i>and, um, hundreds of children
ready to board,</i>

1066
01:01:14,381 --> 01:01:16,842
<i>but there are thousands more
who need our help</i>

1067
01:01:16,842 --> 01:01:18,677
<i>all over Czechoslovakia.</i>

1068
01:01:18,677 --> 01:01:21,513
<i>And these are children who are
homeless, they're starving.</i>

1069
01:01:21,513 --> 01:01:24,224
<i>And we don't know how long
the border will remain open.</i>

1070
01:01:24,224 --> 01:01:27,102
<i>So, we do desperately need
donations and foster homes.</i>

1071
01:01:31,314 --> 01:01:33,525
[telephone ringing]

1072
01:01:34,693 --> 01:01:36,069
- Hello?
- [Doreen] <i>Nicky.</i>

1073
01:01:36,069 --> 01:01:38,029
Nicky, it's me.

1074
01:01:38,029 --> 01:01:40,532
Um, look, we have one or two
missing from the next list.

1075
01:01:40,532 --> 01:01:42,909
<i>- </i>  Missing?
- [Doreen] <i>Yes, I don't know.</i>

1076
01:01:42,909 --> 01:01:47,581
Either they panicked or...
or they were arrested.

1077
01:01:47,581 --> 01:01:50,167
Uh, right. Well, um, you'd
better give me their names.

1078
01:01:52,669 --> 01:01:53,879
[Babi] This one, ah.

1079
01:01:55,005 --> 01:01:57,757
That's her. Lenka Weiss.

1080
01:01:59,593 --> 01:02:00,927
There was a baby, too.

1081
01:02:04,931 --> 01:02:05,932
Damn.

1082
01:02:09,478 --> 01:02:11,646
Nicky,

1083
01:02:11,646 --> 01:02:15,192
you must know we cannot
save them all.

1084
01:02:15,192 --> 01:02:17,360
You have to forgive
yourself that.

1085
01:02:28,288 --> 01:02:30,290
[indistinct chatter]

1086
01:02:45,096 --> 01:02:47,432
If you want Leadbetter,
he's on his hols.

1087
01:02:47,432 --> 01:02:49,726
Week in Eastbourne,
shame about the rain.

1088
01:02:49,726 --> 01:02:51,728
Look, I urgently
need three visas

1089
01:02:51,728 --> 01:02:53,688
for a transport
leaving Prague next week.

1090
01:02:53,688 --> 01:02:56,399
Sorry. Can't help you there.

1091
01:02:57,234 --> 01:02:59,528
[telephone ringing]

1092
01:03:01,571 --> 01:03:02,948
- Trevor.
- Is everything all right?

1093
01:03:02,948 --> 01:03:06,117
[sighs] Listen,
we're three visas short,

1094
01:03:06,117 --> 01:03:10,872
Isabel Keller and Eva
and Vera Diamantova.

1095
01:03:10,872 --> 01:03:13,291
<i>Is there anything you can do?</i>

1096
01:03:13,291 --> 01:03:15,335
[uneasy music playing]

1097
01:03:26,096 --> 01:03:28,807
[Doreen] I don't know
what you're doing.

1098
01:03:28,807 --> 01:03:30,976
But if you're doing
what I think you're doing,

1099
01:03:31,893 --> 01:03:33,520
I don't want to know.

1100
01:03:37,107 --> 01:03:38,775
Train leaves at eight.

1101
01:03:38,775 --> 01:03:39,859
[drawer closes]

1102
01:03:41,987 --> 01:03:43,947
[tense music playing]

1103
01:03:47,576 --> 01:03:48,994
[panting]

1104
01:04:04,843 --> 01:04:05,927
[panting]

1105
01:04:06,928 --> 01:04:08,388
[indistinct chatter]

1106
01:04:14,936 --> 01:04:16,313
- [in English] Where is he?
- I don't know.

1107
01:04:16,313 --> 01:04:17,522
He should have
been here an hour ago.

1108
01:04:17,522 --> 01:04:19,566
[man speaking Czech]

1109
01:04:21,943 --> 01:04:24,237
[tense music continues]

1110
01:04:28,617 --> 01:04:30,452
- Do you have them?
- Yes.

1111
01:04:30,452 --> 01:04:32,787
We have them. [sighs]

1112
01:04:32,787 --> 01:04:34,539
[announcer speaking Czech
over speakers]

1113
01:04:39,961 --> 01:04:41,713
[whistle blows]

1114
01:04:44,883 --> 01:04:46,718
[woman speaking Czech]

1115
01:04:58,980 --> 01:04:59,981
[mother speaking Czech]

1116
01:05:06,488 --> 01:05:08,490
[solemn music playing]

1117
01:05:08,490 --> 01:05:10,450
[train whistle blows]

1118
01:05:19,501 --> 01:05:20,877
[woman speaking Czech]

1119
01:05:20,877 --> 01:05:22,921
[group speaking Czech]

1120
01:05:46,361 --> 01:05:47,362
[sighs]

1121
01:05:47,362 --> 01:05:49,406
[solemn music continues]

1122
01:05:52,158 --> 01:05:53,618
- They've left Prague.
- [gasps]

1123
01:06:00,375 --> 01:06:01,835
[sighs]

1124
01:06:19,185 --> 01:06:21,146
[train brakes squealing]

1125
01:06:23,982 --> 01:06:25,358
[announcer speaking
indistinctly]

1126
01:06:26,776 --> 01:06:28,778
[soldiers speaking german]

1127
01:06:28,778 --> 01:06:30,822
[soldiers banging on doors]

1128
01:06:37,287 --> 01:06:38,413
[soldier speaking German]

1129
01:06:38,413 --> 01:06:40,165
[Trevor in English] Yes.

1130
01:06:40,165 --> 01:06:42,083
[soldier speaking German]

1131
01:06:42,083 --> 01:06:44,127
[ominous music playing]

1132
01:06:56,556 --> 01:06:58,183
[soldiers chuckling]

1133
01:07:01,561 --> 01:07:03,688
[in English] Why does England
want all these Jews?

1134
01:07:07,776 --> 01:07:09,736
[announcer speaking
indistinctly]

1135
01:07:15,867 --> 01:07:17,827
[soldier speaking german]

1136
01:07:18,578 --> 01:07:20,538
[children crying]

1137
01:07:22,415 --> 01:07:25,543
[Babi] Miss Howson
from Putney, please.

1138
01:07:26,461 --> 01:07:29,839
Diamantova, Eva.

1139
01:07:29,839 --> 01:07:32,717
[woman] Um, along here, please.
Uh, yes, sir.

1140
01:07:32,717 --> 01:07:35,053
Thank you, Mrs MacFarlane.

1141
01:07:35,053 --> 01:07:36,429
Mrs MacFarlane?

1142
01:07:36,429 --> 01:07:37,514
Hello.

1143
01:07:39,015 --> 01:07:41,768
[Babi] Thank you.
There they are.

1144
01:07:41,768 --> 01:07:44,354
Thank you.
Uh, Diamantova, Vera.

1145
01:07:44,354 --> 01:07:46,523
[woman] Lovely to meet you.

1146
01:07:46,523 --> 01:07:48,608
Mrs Rainford.

1147
01:07:48,608 --> 01:07:51,194
[mrs Rainford] Yes.
Sorry, excuse me.

1148
01:07:52,320 --> 01:07:53,321
Hello, dear.

1149
01:07:54,656 --> 01:07:55,657
- Hello.
- [Babi] Thank you.

1150
01:07:58,576 --> 01:07:59,577
[mrs Rainford] Come along.

1151
01:08:02,872 --> 01:08:04,123
Are you hungry?

1152
01:08:04,123 --> 01:08:05,667
Someone needs
to tell these people

1153
01:08:05,667 --> 01:08:07,043
that they've only got
the children temporarily.

1154
01:08:07,043 --> 01:08:11,172
They've all got families
to return to.

1155
01:08:11,172 --> 01:08:12,924
Our most urgent cases yet.

1156
01:08:12,924 --> 01:08:15,051
They're booked on a train,
the ninth train,

1157
01:08:15,051 --> 01:08:16,427
in three days' time.

1158
01:08:16,427 --> 01:08:17,929
Please, Leadbetter.

1159
01:08:26,354 --> 01:08:28,439
We'll do it. Of course.

1160
01:08:29,399 --> 01:08:30,400
Thank you.

1161
01:08:32,277 --> 01:08:34,237
[indistinct chatter]

1162
01:08:41,661 --> 01:08:43,621
[bell tolling]

1163
01:08:48,418 --> 01:08:50,378
[telephone ringing]

1164
01:08:55,758 --> 01:08:56,801
Hello?

1165
01:09:02,181 --> 01:09:04,142
[bell tolling continues]

1166
01:09:07,645 --> 01:09:09,439
[newsreader over radio]
<i>Today's main event.</i>

1167
01:09:09,439 --> 01:09:14,485
<i>Germany has invaded Poland
and has bombed many towns.</i>

1168
01:09:14,485 --> 01:09:18,865
<i>General mobilisation has been
ordered in Britain and France.</i>

1169
01:09:18,865 --> 01:09:22,493
<i>Parliament was summoned
for six o'clock this evening.</i>

1170
01:09:22,493 --> 01:09:25,455
<i>The mobilisation of the navy,
army and the air force...</i>

1171
01:09:25,455 --> 01:09:28,791
[mr Hart] Winton,
where're you going? Winton?

1172
01:09:28,791 --> 01:09:30,376
There's nothing you can do
for them now.

1173
01:09:30,376 --> 01:09:31,628
Winton!

1174
01:09:33,546 --> 01:09:35,506
[suspenseful music playing]

1175
01:09:42,847 --> 01:09:44,223
[Nicky] Excuse me. Excuse me.

1176
01:09:44,223 --> 01:09:46,059
- Excuse me.
- [rail worker] Stop pushing.

1177
01:09:46,059 --> 01:09:47,393
Look, listen, what's happening
to the international trains?

1178
01:09:47,393 --> 01:09:48,895
I don't know
any more than you do.

1179
01:09:48,895 --> 01:09:50,688
There's a train due
to leave from Prague.

1180
01:09:50,688 --> 01:09:52,982
You need to go
to the station now.

1181
01:09:52,982 --> 01:09:54,150
I am staying to help.

1182
01:09:54,150 --> 01:09:55,777
No, no.

1183
01:09:55,777 --> 01:09:59,030
If they catch you,
I can't protect you. Go, now!

1184
01:10:11,793 --> 01:10:13,753
[suspenseful music continues]

1185
01:10:30,269 --> 01:10:31,896
[announcer speaking Czech]

1186
01:10:31,896 --> 01:10:33,940
[man speaking Czech]

1187
01:10:44,534 --> 01:10:45,535
[in English] Trevor.

1188
01:10:45,535 --> 01:10:46,619
Are you all right?

1189
01:10:46,619 --> 01:10:47,954
[Hana] Yes, I am.

1190
01:10:47,954 --> 01:10:49,163
I'm... I'm going
to go back to Doreen.

1191
01:10:49,163 --> 01:10:51,290
- Should I...
- You should leave now.

1192
01:10:51,290 --> 01:10:54,627
You have your papers.
Go with the children.

1193
01:10:54,627 --> 01:10:55,712
See you in London.

1194
01:10:55,712 --> 01:10:56,796
[Trevor] Be careful.

1195
01:10:58,881 --> 01:11:00,717
You too. Bye.

1196
01:11:02,552 --> 01:11:04,053
[train whistle blows]

1197
01:11:04,053 --> 01:11:05,596
[rail worker blows whistle]

1198
01:11:05,596 --> 01:11:07,181
[speaking Czech]

1199
01:11:20,611 --> 01:11:21,654
[whistle blows]

1200
01:11:25,283 --> 01:11:27,243
[sombre music playing]

1201
01:11:38,046 --> 01:11:39,088
[car door closes]

1202
01:11:43,509 --> 01:11:45,386
- [Nicky in English] Hello.
- [Grete] Hello, darling.

1203
01:11:45,386 --> 01:11:48,014
[chuckles] Welcome back.

1204
01:11:48,014 --> 01:11:49,515
- [Grete] Ah. Mm.
- [Nicky chuckles]

1205
01:11:50,725 --> 01:11:52,018
[taxi driver] Here you go.

1206
01:11:53,394 --> 01:11:54,562
[Grete sighs]

1207
01:11:58,775 --> 01:12:00,693
[Grete sighs] Goodness.

1208
01:12:00,693 --> 01:12:01,861
Come and see this.

1209
01:12:03,154 --> 01:12:04,155
Big surprise.

1210
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:17,502
Well...

1211
01:12:17,502 --> 01:12:20,588
[sighs] You have got
a lot done.

1212
01:12:20,588 --> 01:12:23,257
Yeah. Do you want
a cup of tea?

1213
01:12:24,842 --> 01:12:26,469
[chuckles]

1214
01:12:28,137 --> 01:12:29,430
[Nicky whistles]

1215
01:12:32,558 --> 01:12:33,935
[answering machine beeps]

1216
01:12:33,935 --> 01:12:35,520
[man over machine]
<i>Hello, Mr Winton.</i>

1217
01:12:35,520 --> 01:12:37,355
<i>This is Karl Caplan
at the Weiner Library.</i>

1218
01:12:37,355 --> 01:12:38,689
<i>Uh, Martin Blake</i>

1219
01:12:38,689 --> 01:12:40,316
<i>- gave us your details.</i>
- [Nicky] Oh.

1220
01:12:40,316 --> 01:12:41,984
<i>We have a researcher
who we think</i>

1221
01:12:41,984 --> 01:12:44,237
<i>might find your archives
very interesting.</i>

1222
01:12:44,237 --> 01:12:50,618
<i>So, if you can, please call us
back on 01-636-7247.</i>

1223
01:12:50,618 --> 01:12:52,954
<i>We look forward to hearing
from you. Many thanks.</i>

1224
01:12:54,831 --> 01:12:55,873
[machine beeps]

1225
01:12:55,873 --> 01:12:58,918
Um, I just mentioned it
in passing.

1226
01:12:58,918 --> 01:13:01,295
- [Grete] Hmm.
- But, uh,

1227
01:13:01,295 --> 01:13:04,257
Martin, uh,
he got straight onto them.

1228
01:13:05,341 --> 01:13:08,719
And, uh... You know...

1229
01:13:08,719 --> 01:13:11,639
But I don't want it
to go into a library.

1230
01:13:11,639 --> 01:13:13,099
Why not?

1231
01:13:13,099 --> 01:13:15,351
Oh, well, it won't
teach anyone anything

1232
01:13:15,351 --> 01:13:16,644
stuck on the shelf.

1233
01:13:16,644 --> 01:13:17,728
[chuckles lightly]

1234
01:13:17,728 --> 01:13:19,438
[chuckles]

1235
01:13:21,482 --> 01:13:22,733
Then call them.

1236
01:13:24,235 --> 01:13:25,236
Talk to them.

1237
01:13:31,033 --> 01:13:33,286
Yes. Well, I'm very grateful.

1238
01:13:33,286 --> 01:13:34,912
[woman over telephone] <i>Well,
we look forward to seeing you.</i>

1239
01:13:34,912 --> 01:13:35,997
Thank you.

1240
01:13:41,210 --> 01:13:43,588
- [Nicky sighs]
- Tell me.

1241
01:13:43,588 --> 01:13:47,049
Well, there's this woman who
wants to see the scrapbook.

1242
01:13:47,049 --> 01:13:48,509
She's a historian,

1243
01:13:48,509 --> 01:13:51,053
married to some... a man
from Czechoslovakia.

1244
01:13:51,053 --> 01:13:52,847
His name is Robert Maxwell.

1245
01:13:52,847 --> 01:13:54,223
The newspaper man?

1246
01:13:54,223 --> 01:13:56,893
Yes, that's right and, uh,

1247
01:13:56,893 --> 01:13:59,395
she's running some
kind of a conference

1248
01:13:59,395 --> 01:14:01,147
and she wants to meet me.

1249
01:14:01,147 --> 01:14:03,399
Elizabeth Maxwell,
she calls herself Betty.

1250
01:14:04,650 --> 01:14:06,611
She's French, apparently.

1251
01:14:08,279 --> 01:14:09,280
[chuckles]

1252
01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:11,324
[gentle music playing]

1253
01:14:26,547 --> 01:14:28,507
[doorbell ringing]

1254
01:14:36,015 --> 01:14:37,350
I'm Nicholas Winton.

1255
01:14:37,350 --> 01:14:38,684
Good afternoon.
We've been expecting you.

1256
01:14:38,684 --> 01:14:40,728
[Betty speaking
French distantly]

1257
01:14:46,484 --> 01:14:48,945
[in English] Oh.
Oh, thank you so much

1258
01:14:48,945 --> 01:14:50,279
for coming all this way.

1259
01:14:50,279 --> 01:14:54,158
Here it is. The scrapbook.

1260
01:14:54,158 --> 01:14:57,870
Um, relates back

1261
01:14:57,870 --> 01:15:01,082
to some time I spent in Prague
before the war.

1262
01:15:01,082 --> 01:15:02,458
It's a little heavy,
I'm afraid.

1263
01:15:02,458 --> 01:15:04,043
[Betty grunts softly]

1264
01:15:05,002 --> 01:15:06,087
Yeah.

1265
01:15:07,880 --> 01:15:10,675
Now, a lot of that stuff
is just touristy stuff.

1266
01:15:10,675 --> 01:15:13,469
Postcards and so on
and so forth.

1267
01:15:13,469 --> 01:15:16,430
And, uh... Yes,
there are all... That's it.

1268
01:15:16,430 --> 01:15:17,765
There're some letters

1269
01:15:17,765 --> 01:15:20,309
relating to the transport
of children,

1270
01:15:20,309 --> 01:15:22,270
- uh, to Britain.
- Ah.

1271
01:15:23,938 --> 01:15:25,815
[Betty] These are
the eight children you saved?

1272
01:15:25,815 --> 01:15:28,109
[Nicky] No, no. It was
a few more than that.

1273
01:15:28,109 --> 01:15:30,486
If you turn the pages,
you can see.

1274
01:15:30,486 --> 01:15:33,197
I sent out those cards, uh
for people to,

1275
01:15:33,197 --> 01:15:35,074
uh, choose, you know?

1276
01:15:35,074 --> 01:15:37,034
And, [chuckles] I must say
it was a bit like, um,

1277
01:15:37,034 --> 01:15:38,661
it was bit like selling
soap powder,

1278
01:15:38,661 --> 01:15:40,413
if you know what I mean.

1279
01:15:40,413 --> 01:15:42,248
I couldn't for the life of me
think how else I could,

1280
01:15:42,248 --> 01:15:45,126
uh, find enough families
to take in so many kids.

1281
01:15:45,126 --> 01:15:46,544
Uh, forgive me
but how many children

1282
01:15:46,544 --> 01:15:47,670
are we speaking about?

1283
01:15:47,670 --> 01:15:51,465
Oh. Uh... [chuckles] 669.

1284
01:15:51,465 --> 01:15:54,593
We successfully placed.

1285
01:15:54,593 --> 01:15:57,805
You... You... You brought
669 children

1286
01:15:57,805 --> 01:15:58,889
from Prague to England?

1287
01:15:58,889 --> 01:16:02,143
Well, I mean
with my colleagues

1288
01:16:02,143 --> 01:16:03,394
Doreen Warriner,

1289
01:16:03,394 --> 01:16:05,396
Trevor Chadwick,
and Hana and um...

1290
01:16:05,396 --> 01:16:07,606
But there were so many other
people involved, you know,

1291
01:16:07,606 --> 01:16:10,484
and my own mother.
She was a great help.

1292
01:16:10,484 --> 01:16:11,944
And I suppose... [chuckles]

1293
01:16:11,944 --> 01:16:13,654
I suppose
I'm the only one left, now.

1294
01:16:13,654 --> 01:16:15,364
At least I think I am.

1295
01:16:17,366 --> 01:16:19,327
Uh, the children
that are crossed out

1296
01:16:19,327 --> 01:16:21,037
are the ones
we found homes for.

1297
01:16:21,037 --> 01:16:24,040
[Betty] And the faces
that are not crossed out?

1298
01:16:24,040 --> 01:16:26,375
Ah, well, they were
the less fortunate

1299
01:16:26,375 --> 01:16:29,962
and, uh, it was a lottery,
I'm afraid.

1300
01:16:34,258 --> 01:16:36,218
You wrote to the president
of the United States?

1301
01:16:36,218 --> 01:16:38,971
[laughs] Fat lot of good
he was.

1302
01:16:38,971 --> 01:16:41,307
[chuckles] I never heard back
from him.

1303
01:16:41,307 --> 01:16:44,185
Yeah, it's disappointing,
I must say.

1304
01:16:44,185 --> 01:16:46,270
Oh, yes, now, these, uh...

1305
01:16:46,270 --> 01:16:48,898
Those there are the names
of the children

1306
01:16:48,898 --> 01:16:50,858
and their new addresses.

1307
01:16:52,860 --> 01:16:54,612
Excuse me, Mr Winton.

1308
01:16:54,612 --> 01:16:56,572
This is not exactly
what I was expecting.

1309
01:16:56,572 --> 01:16:57,823
I'm a little taken aback

1310
01:16:57,823 --> 01:16:59,992
at the scale
of your operation.

1311
01:16:59,992 --> 01:17:01,911
Oh. Oh, you know,

1312
01:17:01,911 --> 01:17:04,914
if we'd had
more money, more time

1313
01:17:04,914 --> 01:17:06,916
and more government support

1314
01:17:06,916 --> 01:17:09,001
we could've done a lot more,
I think.

1315
01:17:11,712 --> 01:17:12,755
[Betty] Blank pages?

1316
01:17:13,923 --> 01:17:17,635
Yeah. That was the last train.

1317
01:17:19,428 --> 01:17:21,514
[Betty] Something happened
to the last train?

1318
01:17:23,224 --> 01:17:26,852
Yes, it was the ninth train.

1319
01:17:26,852 --> 01:17:33,067
It was our largest group
of 250 children and uh...

1320
01:17:33,067 --> 01:17:36,320
<i>It was the 1st
of September, 1939.</i>

1321
01:17:36,320 --> 01:17:38,614
<i>The same day
that Hitler invaded Poland.</i>

1322
01:17:38,614 --> 01:17:40,324
<i>The very start of the war.</i>

1323
01:17:42,576 --> 01:17:44,036
[speaking Czech]

1324
01:17:44,036 --> 01:17:46,163
[whistle blows]

1325
01:17:46,163 --> 01:17:49,583
[Gestapo officers
speaking German]

1326
01:17:49,583 --> 01:17:52,294
[foreboding music playing]

1327
01:17:53,129 --> 01:17:55,381
[indistinct shouting]

1328
01:18:12,815 --> 01:18:14,650
[children screaming]

1329
01:18:15,985 --> 01:18:18,112
[shouting continues]

1330
01:18:28,664 --> 01:18:29,790
[child crying]

1331
01:18:34,712 --> 01:18:37,173
[shouting continues]

1332
01:18:40,176 --> 01:18:41,677
[Trevor in English] Hana.

1333
01:18:41,677 --> 01:18:43,345
[Hana] Trevor! [cries]

1334
01:18:43,345 --> 01:18:44,638
[yelling] Hana!

1335
01:18:45,264 --> 01:18:46,265
Hana!

1336
01:18:47,892 --> 01:18:49,185
[child speaking Czech]

1337
01:18:51,604 --> 01:18:53,397
[in English] That was
the end of that.

1338
01:18:53,397 --> 01:18:55,232
Bloody Hitler,
that's all I can say.

1339
01:18:59,695 --> 01:19:02,448
We had hundreds
of foster families waiting,

1340
01:19:02,448 --> 01:19:04,241
ready to welcome them, but...

1341
01:19:04,909 --> 01:19:06,368
yeah.

1342
01:19:08,287 --> 01:19:09,622
[knocking on door]

1343
01:19:09,622 --> 01:19:10,998
[Betty speaking French]

1344
01:19:13,792 --> 01:19:14,960
[assistant speaking French]

1345
01:19:19,548 --> 01:19:20,549
[Betty] <i>Merci.</i>

1346
01:19:24,094 --> 01:19:25,930
[sighs]

1347
01:19:29,225 --> 01:19:30,309
[in English] Take milk?

1348
01:19:30,309 --> 01:19:31,393
Uh, no, thank you.

1349
01:19:32,978 --> 01:19:34,104
Thank you.

1350
01:19:35,731 --> 01:19:37,358
That's wonderful. Thank you.

1351
01:19:42,821 --> 01:19:43,822
I'm sorry.

1352
01:19:46,617 --> 01:19:47,993
Must be very difficult for you

1353
01:19:47,993 --> 01:19:50,454
knowing what happened
to those children.

1354
01:19:50,454 --> 01:19:52,248
Well, I don't know
what happened, do I?

1355
01:19:52,248 --> 01:19:54,458
They were taken off the train,

1356
01:19:54,458 --> 01:19:56,627
returned to their families
and...

1357
01:19:57,962 --> 01:19:59,630
that was the end of that.

1358
01:20:01,382 --> 01:20:02,967
Surely, I'm almost certain

1359
01:20:02,967 --> 01:20:05,135
that they perished
in the camps?

1360
01:20:08,013 --> 01:20:09,139
Hmm.

1361
01:20:23,112 --> 01:20:26,782
[Nicky breathes deeply]

1362
01:20:31,203 --> 01:20:33,163
[birds chirping]

1363
01:20:47,553 --> 01:20:49,513
[chiming]

1364
01:20:52,391 --> 01:20:56,604
Well, you may be right about
those children, Mrs Maxwell.

1365
01:20:56,604 --> 01:21:00,399
But I've learned to keep
my imagination in check.

1366
01:21:00,399 --> 01:21:02,151
Uh, so I can still be of use

1367
01:21:02,151 --> 01:21:03,986
and not go raving mad.

1368
01:21:03,986 --> 01:21:05,779
[clicks tongue, chuckles]

1369
01:21:09,658 --> 01:21:10,909
Mr Winton,

1370
01:21:12,453 --> 01:21:15,205
around 15,000 children

1371
01:21:15,205 --> 01:21:19,001
went into concentration camps
in Czechoslovakia

1372
01:21:19,001 --> 01:21:23,088
and, uh, less than 200
of them survived,

1373
01:21:23,088 --> 01:21:27,968
and you saved 669.

1374
01:21:28,719 --> 01:21:30,095
Oh. [chuckles]

1375
01:21:31,388 --> 01:21:33,515
Ah.

1376
01:21:33,515 --> 01:21:35,934
Anyway, I'd best, uh,
I'd better be going

1377
01:21:35,934 --> 01:21:38,520
because my wife is expecting
me and I don't want...

1378
01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:40,439
I don't want to get
into any trouble,

1379
01:21:40,439 --> 01:21:41,899
if you know what I mean.

1380
01:21:41,899 --> 01:21:43,275
I would like very much

1381
01:21:43,275 --> 01:21:45,694
to hold on to your scrapbook,
if I may.

1382
01:21:48,030 --> 01:21:51,158
- Well, all right.
- And...

1383
01:21:51,158 --> 01:21:56,205
with your permission, I would
like to show it to my husband.

1384
01:21:56,205 --> 01:22:00,209
I'm sure he will consider it
a very important story.

1385
01:22:01,168 --> 01:22:05,005
Oh. Well, thank you.

1386
01:22:05,005 --> 01:22:06,340
- [laughs]
- Thank you. [chuckles]

1387
01:22:07,883 --> 01:22:09,176
[Grete] As many
of you will know,

1388
01:22:09,176 --> 01:22:12,137
our group was founded in 1965

1389
01:22:12,137 --> 01:22:14,640
to encourage friendship
between Maidenhead

1390
01:22:14,640 --> 01:22:17,101
and its twin towns
across Europe.

1391
01:22:19,395 --> 01:22:23,816
We were met at the airport
by Maria Bechtler

1392
01:22:23,816 --> 01:22:26,527
and travelled by coach
to Bad Godesberg,

1393
01:22:26,527 --> 01:22:28,862
where we were given a warm...

1394
01:22:30,614 --> 01:22:31,615
All right?

1395
01:22:34,952 --> 01:22:37,996
Where we were given
a warm <i>Willkommen...</i>

1396
01:22:37,996 --> 01:22:39,748
- [group chuckles]
- ...by our hostesses.

1397
01:22:39,748 --> 01:22:41,792
[gentle music playing]

1398
01:23:06,066 --> 01:23:09,194
[Grete] Thank you, darling.
Don't trip, it's heavy.

1399
01:23:09,194 --> 01:23:10,404
[Nicky] Hey, Steve.

1400
01:23:10,404 --> 01:23:11,530
Don't strain yourself,
will you?

1401
01:23:11,530 --> 01:23:13,282
- [Steve] Here. Let me.
- Give me a hand.

1402
01:23:13,282 --> 01:23:14,575
Oh, God.

1403
01:23:14,575 --> 01:23:16,118
I can't get over
all the space, Dad.

1404
01:23:16,118 --> 01:23:18,245
Hey, you could fit in
a playpen in here.

1405
01:23:18,245 --> 01:23:19,788
[Nicky] Oh, no.

1406
01:23:19,788 --> 01:23:22,124
- [group chuckles]
- It looks lovely, doesn't it?

1407
01:23:22,124 --> 01:23:24,293
- Doesn't it?
- Yeah. Doesn't it, Dad?

1408
01:23:24,293 --> 01:23:25,461
- Yes.
- [Grete sighs]

1409
01:23:25,461 --> 01:23:26,754
Don't set it on fire.

1410
01:23:26,754 --> 01:23:28,046
[chuckles] Nicky!

1411
01:23:28,046 --> 01:23:29,423
Well, you did last year,
didn't you?

1412
01:23:29,423 --> 01:23:30,674
- [chuckles] I did not.
- Yes, you did

1413
01:23:30,674 --> 01:23:31,759
- and the year before that.
- No.

1414
01:23:31,759 --> 01:23:32,968
He loves to tease, doesn't he?

1415
01:23:32,968 --> 01:23:34,386
- Huh?
- Oh, it looks lovely.

1416
01:23:34,386 --> 01:23:36,889
Some of them new, aren't they?

1417
01:23:36,889 --> 01:23:38,974
- Well, merry Christmas.
- [Barbara] Merry Christmas.

1418
01:23:38,974 --> 01:23:39,933
- [Grete] <i>Merry Christmas.</i>
- [Nicky] <i>Cheers.</i>

1419
01:23:54,198 --> 01:23:55,365
It's for you.

1420
01:23:55,365 --> 01:23:56,450
Oh.

1421
01:24:04,625 --> 01:24:06,585
Oh, this is interesting.

1422
01:24:06,585 --> 01:24:08,128
What is it?

1423
01:24:08,128 --> 01:24:10,464
It's from the Editor
of the <i>Sunday Mirror.</i>

1424
01:24:10,464 --> 01:24:13,509
"We would very much like
to publish a major article

1425
01:24:13,509 --> 01:24:16,136
"detailing
the child evacuation."

1426
01:24:16,136 --> 01:24:18,055
But... That's marvellous.

1427
01:24:18,055 --> 01:24:19,765
[Nicky] Oh, yes. It says,

1428
01:24:19,765 --> 01:24:21,767
"With wider publicity in mind,

1429
01:24:23,101 --> 01:24:24,561
"I have been talking

1430
01:24:24,561 --> 01:24:27,147
"to the BBC Television
programme <i>That's Life!"</i>

1431
01:24:27,147 --> 01:24:28,482
Surely not.

1432
01:24:28,482 --> 01:24:30,776
Yes, they want me
to go in and, uh,

1433
01:24:30,776 --> 01:24:32,569
check the historical accuracy.

1434
01:24:32,569 --> 01:24:35,447
[Grete]
But that's such a silly show.

1435
01:24:35,447 --> 01:24:36,573
- What?
<i>- That's Life!</i>

1436
01:24:36,573 --> 01:24:37,866
It's a very silly show.

1437
01:24:38,784 --> 01:24:39,868
It is.

1438
01:24:39,868 --> 01:24:41,119
Well, it's very popular,
isn't it?

1439
01:24:41,119 --> 01:24:43,121
I mean, a lot of people
watch it.

1440
01:24:44,164 --> 01:24:45,999
Should I come with you?

1441
01:24:45,999 --> 01:24:47,251
Why would you want
to come with me

1442
01:24:47,251 --> 01:24:48,585
if you think it's so silly?

1443
01:24:49,545 --> 01:24:50,712
[snorts]

1444
01:25:01,139 --> 01:25:02,140
[Nicky] Oh.

1445
01:25:04,560 --> 01:25:08,856
Hello. Hi, Mr Winton,
such a pleasure to meet you.

1446
01:25:08,856 --> 01:25:10,274
Just gonna take you
through here.

1447
01:25:10,274 --> 01:25:11,358
- Yes.
- [woman] This way.

1448
01:25:13,777 --> 01:25:15,028
What exactly am I to do?

1449
01:25:15,028 --> 01:25:16,280
Oh, they're going
to explain all that.

1450
01:25:16,280 --> 01:25:18,031
- Oh.
- It's just through here.

1451
01:25:18,031 --> 01:25:19,157
All right.

1452
01:25:20,868 --> 01:25:21,869
Thank you.

1453
01:25:22,911 --> 01:25:23,912
Thanks.

1454
01:25:25,998 --> 01:25:27,833
[indistinct chatter]

1455
01:25:30,919 --> 01:25:32,880
[man 1] Camera six.

1456
01:25:32,880 --> 01:25:34,548
[man 2] Can you come
from the other side?

1457
01:25:36,049 --> 01:25:38,176
Thank you.

1458
01:25:38,176 --> 01:25:39,887
[man 3] Thirty seconds
to on air.

1459
01:25:44,933 --> 01:25:48,562
Okay, and you are just here.

1460
01:25:48,562 --> 01:25:51,148
- Couldn't I sit farther back?
- I'm afraid not.

1461
01:25:51,148 --> 01:25:52,524
Oh, I'd rather be backstage.

1462
01:25:52,524 --> 01:25:53,942
I'm... I'm really,
really sorry.

1463
01:25:53,942 --> 01:25:55,193
It's just they told me
to put you here

1464
01:25:55,193 --> 01:25:56,486
and we're running out of time.

1465
01:25:56,486 --> 01:25:57,446
All right.

1466
01:25:58,447 --> 01:26:00,657
[theme song playing]

1467
01:26:00,657 --> 01:26:02,242
[audience applauding]

1468
01:26:05,454 --> 01:26:07,039
[audience cheering]

1469
01:26:07,956 --> 01:26:09,207
[mouthing] Who's that?

1470
01:26:13,629 --> 01:26:15,464
[theme song continues]

1471
01:26:27,976 --> 01:26:29,937
Hello. Good evening.

1472
01:26:36,193 --> 01:26:38,028
[audience laughing over TV]

1473
01:26:38,028 --> 01:26:40,197
<i>And would you want
to be treated by this dentist</i>

1474
01:26:40,197 --> 01:26:43,825
<i>in Bath who goes
by the name Mr F Illing?</i>

1475
01:26:43,825 --> 01:26:45,869
[audience laughing]

1476
01:26:46,745 --> 01:26:47,746
<i>Esther.</i>

1477
01:26:49,206 --> 01:26:52,334
Now, an extraordinary story
has come to light

1478
01:26:52,334 --> 01:26:54,127
about a young man who,

1479
01:26:54,127 --> 01:26:56,672
many years ago,
visited Prague,

1480
01:26:56,672 --> 01:27:00,842
and what he found there
was a terrible situation.

1481
01:27:00,842 --> 01:27:03,011
Thousands
of refugees stranded,

1482
01:27:03,011 --> 01:27:05,430
living
in desperate conditions,

1483
01:27:05,430 --> 01:27:09,101
<i>and at the mercy of Hitler's
imminent invasion.</i>

1484
01:27:09,101 --> 01:27:12,312
<i>This young man, whose name
was Nicholas Winton,</i>

1485
01:27:12,312 --> 01:27:14,982
<i>decided that something
had to be done.</i>

1486
01:27:14,982 --> 01:27:19,569
And so he managed
to rescue 669 children.

1487
01:27:20,737 --> 01:27:22,155
This is his scrapbook.

1488
01:27:23,490 --> 01:27:28,245
All sorts
of fascinating photographs.

1489
01:27:29,454 --> 01:27:31,331
Perhaps you can see...

1490
01:27:32,874 --> 01:27:35,711
Here's a photograph of
Nicholas Winton himself,

1491
01:27:35,711 --> 01:27:38,797
with one of the children
he rescued.

1492
01:27:38,797 --> 01:27:42,884
But at the very back,
is a list

1493
01:27:42,884 --> 01:27:44,469
of all the children

1494
01:27:44,469 --> 01:27:46,304
<i>that he rescued.</i>

1495
01:27:46,304 --> 01:27:49,933
<i>Here is Vera Diamantova,
now Vera Gissing.</i>

1496
01:27:49,933 --> 01:27:52,978
We found her name on his list.

1497
01:27:52,978 --> 01:27:56,314
And Vera is here
with us tonight. Hello, Vera.

1498
01:27:56,314 --> 01:27:57,733
- Hello.
- [Esther] Now, I should tell

1499
01:27:57,733 --> 01:27:59,401
you that you are, in fact,
sitting next

1500
01:27:59,401 --> 01:28:01,486
to Mr Nicholas Winton.

1501
01:28:02,988 --> 01:28:04,031
Hello.

1502
01:28:06,116 --> 01:28:08,785
- [chuckles]
- Hello.

1503
01:28:12,789 --> 01:28:14,291
[sniffles]

1504
01:28:17,127 --> 01:28:18,128
Thank you.

1505
01:28:27,429 --> 01:28:29,264
[audience applauding]

1506
01:28:33,393 --> 01:28:35,062
[Vera] I was reunited
with my sister

1507
01:28:35,062 --> 01:28:36,980
a few years later.

1508
01:28:36,980 --> 01:28:38,732
[Nicky] And your parents?

1509
01:28:38,732 --> 01:28:42,194
My father was tortured,
in Terezin.

1510
01:28:42,194 --> 01:28:43,278
[Nicky] Mm-hmm.

1511
01:28:43,278 --> 01:28:45,864
And then sent to Auschwitz.

1512
01:28:48,241 --> 01:28:50,660
And then on
to another labour camp.

1513
01:28:50,660 --> 01:28:52,204
Ah.

1514
01:28:52,204 --> 01:28:53,580
A fellow prisoner told me

1515
01:28:53,580 --> 01:28:57,042
he thought he'd been shot
on the Death March.

1516
01:28:58,752 --> 01:28:59,753
Hmm.

1517
01:29:01,171 --> 01:29:04,007
My mother, um, died of typhus.

1518
01:29:05,592 --> 01:29:07,969
- [Nicky] So sorry.
- Contracted at Belsen.

1519
01:29:09,763 --> 01:29:11,932
But she knew
that we were safe.

1520
01:29:11,932 --> 01:29:13,725
For a mother,
that is everything.

1521
01:29:13,725 --> 01:29:14,810
[chuckles]

1522
01:29:16,770 --> 01:29:20,941
And, um, my cousins,
Honza and Tommy

1523
01:29:22,567 --> 01:29:24,277
were on the last train.

1524
01:29:26,154 --> 01:29:27,948
Yeah.

1525
01:29:27,948 --> 01:29:30,200
[Vera] Though I never
saw them again, of course.

1526
01:29:30,200 --> 01:29:32,244
[Vera breathing shakily]

1527
01:29:35,705 --> 01:29:37,457
[keyboard keys clacking]

1528
01:29:38,750 --> 01:29:40,710
[car approaching]

1529
01:29:42,838 --> 01:29:45,340
[sighs]

1530
01:29:47,384 --> 01:29:48,844
[car door closes]

1531
01:29:48,844 --> 01:29:50,846
[car driving away]

1532
01:30:02,023 --> 01:30:03,024
Nicky.

1533
01:30:14,661 --> 01:30:15,829
[whispering] Nicky.

1534
01:30:29,551 --> 01:30:31,386
[sobbing quietly]

1535
01:30:36,391 --> 01:30:38,351
[crying]

1536
01:30:52,699 --> 01:30:53,783
[Nicky] I'm sorry.

1537
01:30:53,783 --> 01:30:55,827
[sobbing]

1538
01:31:06,504 --> 01:31:08,798
I'm sorry. Very sorry.

1539
01:31:08,798 --> 01:31:09,883
Don't.

1540
01:31:12,677 --> 01:31:14,012
[doorbell rings]

1541
01:31:16,806 --> 01:31:17,807
I'll get it.

1542
01:31:23,104 --> 01:31:24,981
Nicky! You've not
called me back.

1543
01:31:24,981 --> 01:31:26,650
I left messages!

1544
01:31:26,650 --> 01:31:29,486
- Doesn't it follow that I don't
want to talk to you?
- Oh, come on, come on,
let me do a piece.

1545
01:31:29,486 --> 01:31:30,820
No, thanks.

1546
01:31:30,820 --> 01:31:32,948
Come on. It's such
a brilliant story, Nicky.

1547
01:31:32,948 --> 01:31:37,077
You're a hero. Nicky, please.
Please.

1548
01:31:37,077 --> 01:31:38,787
- [Grete] What...
- [Nicky] It's not about me.

1549
01:31:38,787 --> 01:31:39,871
- [telephone ringing]
- Nicky, come on,

1550
01:31:39,871 --> 01:31:40,956
give me a chance.

1551
01:31:43,416 --> 01:31:45,001
Maidenhead, 3310.

1552
01:31:45,001 --> 01:31:46,544
[woman] <i>Hello, is
Mister Winton there, please?</i>

1553
01:31:46,544 --> 01:31:49,673
No, he's not available.
Can I ask who's calling?

1554
01:31:49,673 --> 01:31:52,592
<i>This is Katinka Blackford
from</i> That's Life!

1555
01:31:52,592 --> 01:31:54,636
Oh. Oh, I see.

1556
01:31:56,471 --> 01:31:59,766
[Nicky] Two more children, huh?

1557
01:31:59,766 --> 01:32:04,104
They... They phoned in
after last week's show.

1558
01:32:04,104 --> 01:32:06,606
[Nicky] Yeah.

1559
01:32:06,606 --> 01:32:10,151
[clicks tongue] They so
desperately want to meet you.

1560
01:32:10,151 --> 01:32:11,319
[Nicky chuckles]

1561
01:32:14,656 --> 01:32:16,366
You don't have to do it.

1562
01:32:17,617 --> 01:32:18,618
Don't I?

1563
01:32:20,745 --> 01:32:23,456
I asked them to send
the children's details to us.

1564
01:32:24,833 --> 01:32:26,626
I won't have you
ambushed again.

1565
01:32:27,752 --> 01:32:28,962
[chuckles]

1566
01:32:39,055 --> 01:32:40,765
[Grete] Milena...

1567
01:32:40,765 --> 01:32:43,184
Well, goodness. This girl's
done very well for herself.

1568
01:32:43,184 --> 01:32:44,728
[Nicky chuckles] Yeah.

1569
01:32:44,728 --> 01:32:46,521
[Grete] Milena is now
Lady Grenfell Baines.

1570
01:32:46,521 --> 01:32:48,064
Oh.

1571
01:32:48,064 --> 01:32:50,942
[chuckles] All right.

1572
01:32:51,860 --> 01:32:53,153
[printer beeps]

1573
01:32:55,488 --> 01:32:58,325
- Who's that?
- [Nicky] Hanus.

1574
01:32:58,325 --> 01:33:00,785
Perhaps it's too much.
Perhaps you've done enough.

1575
01:33:00,785 --> 01:33:01,995
No, I...

1576
01:33:03,246 --> 01:33:05,790
I started
the whole thing, so...

1577
01:33:05,790 --> 01:33:07,208
I have to finish it.

1578
01:33:10,295 --> 01:33:14,049
Last week was incredible
for us here at <i>That's Life!</i>

1579
01:33:14,049 --> 01:33:17,552
We told a story that touched
the hearts of so many people.

1580
01:33:17,552 --> 01:33:20,972
We've been overwhelmed
by the response.

1581
01:33:20,972 --> 01:33:23,808
One of the people who was
very affected last week

1582
01:33:23,808 --> 01:33:26,144
is with us here tonight.

1583
01:33:26,144 --> 01:33:30,106
Milena Fleischmann,
now Lady Grenfell Baines,

1584
01:33:30,106 --> 01:33:34,194
was also one of the children
that Nicholas Winton rescued.

1585
01:33:34,194 --> 01:33:38,198
Milena, I understand
you still have the name tag

1586
01:33:38,198 --> 01:33:39,574
that you wore around your neck

1587
01:33:39,574 --> 01:33:42,494
when you arrived here
as a little girl.

1588
01:33:42,494 --> 01:33:45,830
Yes, I wore this
around my neck

1589
01:33:45,830 --> 01:33:49,376
and this is the actual pass

1590
01:33:49,376 --> 01:33:52,587
we were given
to come to England.

1591
01:33:52,587 --> 01:33:55,673
So, I am one of the children
that you saved.

1592
01:34:01,638 --> 01:34:04,808
[Esther] Now, Mr Winton, having
introduced you to Milena,

1593
01:34:04,808 --> 01:34:07,977
there's somebody else that
we'd like to tell you about.

1594
01:34:07,977 --> 01:34:12,315
Hanus Schnabel was only 11
when he came over here.

1595
01:34:13,775 --> 01:34:14,943
We have his passport

1596
01:34:16,694 --> 01:34:19,781
with all the official
stamps in it.

1597
01:34:19,781 --> 01:34:22,283
I don't know
whether you can see,

1598
01:34:22,283 --> 01:34:24,828
but this is how he got here.

1599
01:34:24,828 --> 01:34:26,329
And he told us...

1600
01:34:26,329 --> 01:34:28,665
[Gavin] "I don't know how
my rescue was arranged.

1601
01:34:28,665 --> 01:34:31,292
"I had no idea when I left
my parents at Prague station

1602
01:34:31,292 --> 01:34:33,169
"that I would never
see them again.

1603
01:34:33,169 --> 01:34:35,171
"My older brother Franta
was supposed

1604
01:34:35,171 --> 01:34:36,881
"to come here by train
in September,

1605
01:34:36,881 --> 01:34:39,759
"but war broke out and I never
saw him again either.

1606
01:34:39,759 --> 01:34:42,303
"I hoped all through the war
that they would survive,

1607
01:34:42,303 --> 01:34:45,265
"but they were gassed
in a concentration camp.

1608
01:34:45,265 --> 01:34:47,225
"I've often wondered
who was responsible

1609
01:34:47,225 --> 01:34:48,977
"for organising my rescue.

1610
01:34:48,977 --> 01:34:50,395
"I would dearly love
to meet him

1611
01:34:50,395 --> 01:34:52,397
"and thank him
for helping us children

1612
01:34:52,397 --> 01:34:54,983
"without any hope
of acknowledgement."

1613
01:34:54,983 --> 01:34:58,611
Hanus' name is
on Mr Winton's list.

1614
01:34:58,611 --> 01:35:01,239
And Hanus is here
with us tonight.

1615
01:35:04,826 --> 01:35:06,035
Oh. [chuckles]

1616
01:35:06,035 --> 01:35:07,120
[whispering] Thank you.

1617
01:35:10,457 --> 01:35:12,125
[Esther] Now, I don't want
to rush you.

1618
01:35:12,125 --> 01:35:14,711
I know you've waited
a long time for this moment,

1619
01:35:14,711 --> 01:35:17,172
but you'll be able
to talk to Hanus later.

1620
01:35:18,798 --> 01:35:21,968
However, our evening
isn't quite over.

1621
01:35:21,968 --> 01:35:23,595
[sniffles]

1622
01:35:26,055 --> 01:35:29,517
Can I ask, is there anyone
in the audience tonight

1623
01:35:29,517 --> 01:35:32,061
who owes their life
to Nicholas Winton?

1624
01:35:32,061 --> 01:35:33,480
[indistinct chatter]

1625
01:35:33,480 --> 01:35:35,607
If so, could you
stand up, please?

1626
01:35:54,834 --> 01:35:57,128
Mr Winton, would you like
to turn around?

1627
01:36:04,969 --> 01:36:06,930
[captivating music playing]

1628
01:36:16,481 --> 01:36:18,066
You can meet
all of these people

1629
01:36:18,066 --> 01:36:21,069
properly after the programme.

1630
01:36:21,069 --> 01:36:26,074
In the meantime, Mr Winton,
on behalf of all of them,

1631
01:36:26,074 --> 01:36:27,951
thank you very much indeed.

1632
01:36:29,118 --> 01:36:30,954
[applauding]

1633
01:36:49,389 --> 01:36:51,224
[captivating music continues]

1634
01:37:05,113 --> 01:37:06,239
[sniffles]

1635
01:37:12,829 --> 01:37:14,664
[captivating music continues]

1636
01:37:39,314 --> 01:37:41,149
[captivating music continues]

1637
01:37:53,453 --> 01:37:55,288
[birds chirping]

1638
01:38:02,378 --> 01:38:04,380
[squeaking]

1639
01:38:05,632 --> 01:38:07,592
[opera music playing
over speakers]

1640
01:38:18,102 --> 01:38:20,063
[indistinct chatter]

1641
01:38:22,440 --> 01:38:23,983
[baby cooing]

1642
01:38:31,949 --> 01:38:33,284
See Grandpa?

1643
01:38:34,160 --> 01:38:36,120
[doorbell rings]

1644
01:38:39,499 --> 01:38:40,917
[indistinct chatter]

1645
01:38:40,917 --> 01:38:43,544
- Hello. Hello, Vera. Come in.
- Oh, Nicky.

1646
01:38:43,544 --> 01:38:45,672
- Hello.
- [laughter]

1647
01:38:45,672 --> 01:38:48,508
- Good, go through. Hello.
- Hi.

1648
01:38:48,508 --> 01:38:50,343
- [Nicky] What's your name?
- [Nicola] Hi,

1649
01:38:50,343 --> 01:38:52,178
- I'm Vera's daughter.
- [Nicky] Hello.

1650
01:38:52,178 --> 01:38:53,471
- [Nicola] Nice to meet you.
- [Nicky] Hello. Come through.

1651
01:38:53,471 --> 01:38:54,931
[chuckles] This is
so beautiful.

1652
01:38:54,931 --> 01:38:56,307
Oh, this is Nicola.

1653
01:38:56,307 --> 01:38:57,809
- Oh, hello. Hello.
- My daughter.

1654
01:38:57,809 --> 01:38:59,435
And this is Rebecca,
my little grandchild.

1655
01:38:59,435 --> 01:39:01,020
- Wow. Hello.
- [Nicola] Say, "Hello."

1656
01:39:01,020 --> 01:39:02,980
Hi. So, you do have a pool.

1657
01:39:02,980 --> 01:39:04,065
We do have a pool.

1658
01:39:04,065 --> 01:39:05,483
[indistinct chatter]

1659
01:39:05,483 --> 01:39:08,236
Nicky, turn the music down
a little bit, darling.

1660
01:39:08,236 --> 01:39:10,571
[opera music continues]

1661
01:39:12,990 --> 01:39:14,951
Hello, young man. Hello.

1662
01:39:14,951 --> 01:39:16,869
[Barbara] Right,
be careful, though.

1663
01:39:16,869 --> 01:39:17,954
Not too fast.

1664
01:39:17,954 --> 01:39:19,997
Oh, it's beautiful, isn't it?

1665
01:39:19,997 --> 01:39:21,457
Oh, my goodness.

1666
01:39:21,457 --> 01:39:22,792
[Grete] Darling, you must
be really careful here.

1667
01:39:22,792 --> 01:39:25,586
Oh, you have
a lovely pool, Nicky.

1668
01:39:25,586 --> 01:39:27,171
Yeah. I like to swim.

1669
01:39:30,341 --> 01:39:31,551
- You remember?
- Mm.

1670
01:39:34,178 --> 01:39:35,304
[Grete] You all got towels?
Yes, yes, yes, yes.

1671
01:39:35,304 --> 01:39:37,348
- [Rebecca] Can we go in?
- [Grete] Yes!

1672
01:39:37,348 --> 01:39:39,100
What's the temperature like?

1673
01:39:39,100 --> 01:39:40,685
It's all right
if you're a penguin.

1674
01:39:40,685 --> 01:39:42,729
[Vera chuckles]

1675
01:39:42,729 --> 01:39:44,939
[Vera] Let's have
a little go, shall we?

1676
01:39:44,939 --> 01:39:47,567
- Oh. Gotcha!
- [Nicky chuckles]

1677
01:39:48,234 --> 01:39:49,902
Oh! [chuckles]

1678
01:39:55,491 --> 01:39:57,618
- [Nicky chuckles]
- Isn't that lovely.

1679
01:39:58,911 --> 01:40:00,747
[captivating music playing]

1680
01:40:07,628 --> 01:40:09,589
- [indistinct chatter]
- [laughter]

1681
01:41:46,310 --> 01:41:48,145
[gentle music playing]

1682
01:43:57,692 --> 01:43:59,652
[sombre music playing]

1683
01:46:51,365 --> 01:46:53,325
[solemn music playing]

1684
01:47:57,765 --> 01:47:59,642
[uneasy music playing]