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{\an8}<i>I have always loved the old.</i>

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{\an8}<i>I have loved them for almost
as long as I have been alive.</i>

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{\an8}<i>Since I was first aware
of their hands around mine.</i>

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{\an8}<i>I love them still.</i>

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{\an8}<i>It is my work, it is my joy.</i>

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{\an8}<i>It is my purpose.</i>

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{\an8}<i>Vali.</i>

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{\an8}-<i>-Vali.</i>

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{\an8}<i>But we are all here.
And Nani loves the scarf.</i>

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{\an8}<i>Okay, listen, listen.</i>

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{\an8}<i>Your nieces have a question for you.</i>

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{\an8}<i>Is it true the patients
call you Dr Valentine?</i>

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{\an8}<i>Haan, </i> they do.

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{\an8}<i>Why, when it's not your name?</i>

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{\an8}Because nobody knows how to say

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{\an8}Valinder Singh Vashisht.

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{\an8}-<i>Bye!
- </i>-<i>Bye!</i>

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{\an8}<i>Love you. Miss you.</i>

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{\an8}Good morning, Dr Valentine.

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{\an8}Oh, erm, my grandmother loved the scarf.

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{\an8}Oh! Well, said you couldn't go wrong
with fuchsia, didn't I?

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{\an8}You're a bit earlier than usual,
aren't you?

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{\an8}The television crew are coming.

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{\an8}About the campaign to save the hospital.

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{\an8}Oh, well,
glad someone's taking up the cudgels.

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{\an8}In the meantime, you'd best
head through to Mr Jessop.

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Oh, has he
taken a turn for the worse?

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Worse.

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-No, but he was fine...
-I spoke to the goddaughter.

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She was of the view
that cremation would be favoured.

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{\an8}Minister.

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{\an8}Thanks. He's in the, erm, The Bethlehem.

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{\an8}Oh, or The Beth, as they call it up there.

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Yeah, well, you know
all these small places

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are earmarked for closure,
one way or another.

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{\an8}It's policy. Your policy.

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{\an8}I advised you on it.

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{\an8}Yeah, well, that, er...
that won't be difficult.

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Its, er, failings will be legion.

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<i>Good morning to you.
Good morning</i>

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I see Bouncing Betty's

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back on shift again.

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<i>Morning, good morning</i>

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-Morning.
-Morning.

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<i>Good morning to you</i>

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I hope that girl remembers I have a cup.

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Not a beaker.

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They only give you a beaker in The Royal

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if you're terminal.

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You're not in The Royal now,
Lucille, you're in The Beth.

51
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This is chipped.

52
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No wonder the government
are going to close you down.

53
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You know the way
we do it, Ambrose.

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Dr Jones and I have seen
to the two certificates.

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And this will remain in situ
till the undertaker comes.

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So, fare thee well, Mr Jessop,

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who died in the night.

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As people do.

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It's rather rude of him.

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Doesn't he realise there's a queue?

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I've just cleared out Mr Jessop's locker.

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I thought nippy work were in order,

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since we're under pressure bed-wise.

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Well, we're always
under pressure bed-wise.

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It's been twice as bad

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since they shut down
Barbara Cartland Ward.

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He didn't really have anyone
to bring him things.

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Goddaughter's in Southampton.

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Infirmary.

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I'm delighted to inform you
we've a free bed at The Beth.

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In the men's bay.

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No, I'm afraid I can't oblige you
on the women's side.

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We have just moved a lady
on to Snowdrop Court,

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but her space has gone
to an ankle from The Royal.

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Well, maybe they're nicer
to me than you are.

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Do you want the men's bed or not?

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Yes, thought so.

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There's a pair of glasses.

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I'll put them in the box
for the Africa appeal.

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What do you mean,
you're calling about helium balloons?

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Well, I don't care if they are
for a Sister Gilpin's party.

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This is a busy hospital department,

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and I am Sister Gilpin!

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Helium balloons.

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Well, they're in your honour, Alma.

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You've won a prize.

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My service has been acknowledged.

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There's no call
for the purchase of party novelties.

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-No, soft toys on the right.
-Like this?

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- That's nice.
- Right.

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How about this
from a standing start, Dr Valentine?

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-Marks out of ten?
-Twenty.

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The Friends of The Beth
aren't just volunteers.

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We're like the little ships of Dunkirk,

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poised to mobilise in her hour of need.

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We sent a round robin out
about the tabards.

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And the sweatshirts.
People were getting sloppy.

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Yeah, well, we can't have that
if we're going on television.

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Excuse me, gentlemen.

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Are you the team from Pennine People?

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-Yes.
-Oh. I am Dr Valentine.

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We have spoken on the telephone.

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Hi. I'm Abdul.

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How do?

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Well, thank you for supporting our cause.

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The notice of closure
came as something of a shock.

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Mm. We're a local programme.
This is a local institution.

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Founded 1897?

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The year Queen Victoria
celebrated her Diamond Jubilee

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and coincidentally, aspirin was invented.

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Wow, here?

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No, in Germany, I believe.

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Germany won't play on Pennine People.

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I'm sorry. An ambulance is just arriving.

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Right, steady on.

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Right, you go and park.
I'll go with Mother.

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Ambulance. The Royal.

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A night on a trolley. Another ambulance.

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All present and correct.

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We even had a little singsong
along the ring road.

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It's all right, Mother. I'm here now.

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It was my house!

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Oh, is it any wonder

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she don't know which way is up?

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All is well, my love. All is well.

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We will look after you.

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Greetings, Shirley Bassey Ward.

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We've got a treat lined up
for all of you today.

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Gorgeous Gerald, the physio,
will be paying us a call.

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Ooh, that's it.

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I'm definitely wearing my shorty nightie.

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Well, there'll be some singing first
to open up your lungs,

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and then he'll get to work
with his magic hands.

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Well, last time, he said
my knee would take priority.

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I'm a more interesting case.

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He gives me tissue massage
on my lymphomania.

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Oh, it's your lymphoedema, Hazel.

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And please be advised

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he'll be doing my neck first. Come on.

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You're not a patient, that's incestuous.

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Alma, I'm just giving Mary a freshen-up.

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She needs everything clean on.

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Well, pop it in her notes.

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Do you want the toilet, Molly?

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Come on, then. Come on, love.

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I take it you're the, er...
the Pennine People people?

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-Morning.
-Yes. Abdul. Kieran.

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Are you the Chair?

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-Chairman of the Board.
-Yeah.

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Executive or non-executive?

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Well, non-executive.
It's an honorary position.

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You can't fill a crucial role
like this with a hired hand.

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No, the bureaucrats administrate,

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I champion. Yeah.

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No, this isn't just a hospital.

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It's The Beth.

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And The Beth is the people.

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{\an8}<i>Yours till the stars lose their glory</i>

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<i>Yours till the birds fail to sing</i>

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<i>Yours to the end of life's story</i>

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<i>This pledge to you, dear, I bring</i>

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<i>Here or on far distant shores</i>

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You have a lovely voice, Mrs Maudsley.

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She sang in concert halls
as a little girl.

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And on the wireless.

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They called her the Pudsey Nightingale.

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A soprano, unless I'm mistaken.

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There is definite recognition

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when we go through her scrapbook with her.

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And her memory for the lyrics
is immaculate.

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Oh, people with dementia
can sometimes sing

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even when they cannot talk.

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The more mobile can even dance
when they hear music.

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I wouldn't push it.

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She bust her ankle
just trying to get off the commode.

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This is Mr Hunsley, Dr Valentine.

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He's to wait in here
until his bed's ready.

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Sir.

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Dr Valentine will come
and see you, Mr Hunsley.

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You're in good hands.

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Meanwhile, I have a berth
ready and waiting

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for a Blanche Alice Maudsley.

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Transferred from The Royal A & E.

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This is the lady, and this is her family.

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I believe we have a recruit
for music therapy.

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Mrs Maudsley is a soprano.

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How nice.

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I'll come and examine her on the ward.

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Right.

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Would Mother like to be called
Blanche or Mrs Maudsley

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while she's with us?

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-Oh, I think Mrs Maudsley.
-Yes.

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I favour formal terms. Is she continent?

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It's all relative.

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It was my house.

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Mm.

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Hmm?

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You know, I thought you might like to film
my interview in here.

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The background illustrates
the history of the hospital.

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Meanwhile, I, as Chairman,

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represent its essential essence.

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There's a picture of you
here in a dress.

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No, I'm in costume.

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As Queen Victoria.

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It is what one does

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when a hospital has to be supported.

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Look, er, I happened to be Mayor as well

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- when that was taken.
- Hmm.

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00:11:13,799 --> 00:11:15,092
-You're a busy man.
-Yeah, well...

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I've been Mayor twice.
It's a woman currently.

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First time for everything, eh?

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Meanwhile, we at The Beth
are fighting for our right to care

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from the cradle to the grave.

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Are we ready to...

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Gentlemen.

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I am sorry to have been delayed.

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We've made very satisfactory
strides in your absence.

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I think we can trust the team
to represent us well.

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My hope is that
we can represent the people well.

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-We've been through all that.
-The old people. The patients.

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This is their refuge and their right.

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Without The Beth,

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I don't like to think
where they will have to go.

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Oh.

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I don't know why your school
have even sent you here.

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We don't offer work experience in nursing.

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I shall have to attach you to the porters.

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I asked Careers for Computing,
but I applied too late.

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I've brought him some theatre pants

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and an occupational therapist top half.

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-Right.
-It's all I could find in a medium.

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What's this?

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Well, we endeavour to rise
above leisurewear, Andy.

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Helps the old folks keep their bearings.

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I hope those trainers are wipe clean.

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They'll be getting urine on them.

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Come on.

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Take me to The Beth.

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I can tell you're local.

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Some people coming from down south
like to have the window open.

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They reckon they can smell the moors.

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All I can smell is the past.

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<i>You made me love you</i>

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<i>And all the time you knew it
I guess you always knew it</i>

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<i>You made me happy sometimes
You made me glad</i>

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Lovely!

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00:13:18,549 --> 00:13:22,010
<i>But there were times when</i>

248
00:13:22,386 --> 00:13:24,888
<i>You made me feel so bad</i>

249
00:13:25,055 --> 00:13:27,891
Now remember
who we're going to be singing this for.

250
00:13:28,225 --> 00:13:32,896
Lovely, lovely Sister Gilpin
at her medal presentation.

251
00:13:33,021 --> 00:13:34,189
Yes, we are.

252
00:13:34,940 --> 00:13:38,694
<i>I want some love that's true</i>

253
00:13:38,902 --> 00:13:41,905
<i>Yes, I do, 'deed I do
You know I do</i>

254
00:13:42,573 --> 00:13:46,493
<i>Gimme, gimme, gimme,
gimme what I cry for</i>

255
00:13:46,743 --> 00:13:48,036
<i>-You know you've got
</i>-Lovely big breath in

256
00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:49,454
-for that massive finish!
<i>-The brand of kisses</i>

257
00:13:49,580 --> 00:13:50,873
<i>That I'd die for</i>

258
00:13:50,956 --> 00:13:51,915
Thanks.

259
00:13:54,710 --> 00:13:56,128
-Save The Beth. Save The Beth.
-Yeah.

260
00:13:56,962 --> 00:13:59,715
Fiver a strip to win a week in Cleethorpes

261
00:14:00,257 --> 00:14:02,050
or guess the name of the teddy
for a pound.

262
00:14:02,134 --> 00:14:04,136
Or you can sponsor me to do a skydive.

263
00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:07,431
Pledge now, pay later. Every little helps.

264
00:14:07,514 --> 00:14:09,850
We're not unaware
we're David against Goliath.

265
00:14:10,350 --> 00:14:13,979
But, really, after nigh
on 122 years' service,

266
00:14:14,229 --> 00:14:16,231
they can't expect us
to go down without a fight.

267
00:14:16,315 --> 00:14:17,858
I'm looking for Dusty Springfield.

268
00:14:18,066 --> 00:14:18,984
In person?

269
00:14:21,111 --> 00:14:22,321
Dusty Springfield Ward.

270
00:14:22,905 --> 00:14:25,073
Straight down, first right, second left.

271
00:14:25,532 --> 00:14:26,450
Thanks.

272
00:14:29,578 --> 00:14:32,164
Neville, are you going to
join in the filming?

273
00:14:32,414 --> 00:14:34,416
Not if I'm the only bloody bloke.

274
00:14:35,083 --> 00:14:37,920
Well, I'm a bloke. And so is Ambrose.

275
00:14:38,086 --> 00:14:39,254
Ambrose don't count.

276
00:14:39,338 --> 00:14:41,173
He always got his headphones on.

277
00:14:41,673 --> 00:14:43,800
Where the other one? Glasses.

278
00:14:44,259 --> 00:14:46,303
- Oh, you mean Mr Jessop?
- Mm.

279
00:14:46,386 --> 00:14:48,138
-He's gone.
-Gone where?

280
00:14:48,722 --> 00:14:49,890
Rattled his clack.

281
00:14:50,599 --> 00:14:51,600
In the night.

282
00:14:52,059 --> 00:14:53,936
He was very obese.

283
00:14:54,102 --> 00:14:56,438
Well, he shall be missed in the choir.

284
00:14:56,980 --> 00:14:57,814
He was a bass.

285
00:14:57,898 --> 00:14:59,858
Yeah, well, maybe he was a bass
because he was obese.

286
00:15:00,734 --> 00:15:02,444
And it's not a choir, it's music therapy.

287
00:15:04,738 --> 00:15:07,324
You can't start filming yet.

288
00:15:08,492 --> 00:15:11,578
I'm still busy whitening the sepulchre.

289
00:15:11,662 --> 00:15:12,871
Er, no, no, don't worry.

290
00:15:12,955 --> 00:15:14,998
We're doing a group interview first,

291
00:15:15,082 --> 00:15:16,834
just so I can get to know everybody.

292
00:15:17,209 --> 00:15:19,211
Then we're hoping to talk
to you one at a time

293
00:15:19,294 --> 00:15:21,839
and ask some quick-fire questions.

294
00:15:23,006 --> 00:15:24,216
I can't hear you.

295
00:15:24,633 --> 00:15:27,427
You've still got
your headphones on.

296
00:15:29,346 --> 00:15:30,430
What's the matter, Molly?

297
00:15:31,223 --> 00:15:32,140
Do you need toilet?

298
00:15:33,517 --> 00:15:35,644
All right. But they're trying
to make a film.

299
00:15:36,019 --> 00:15:37,354
Will you let me mind your tray for you?

300
00:15:37,437 --> 00:15:38,772
-Love, don't bang it...
-What's all this?

301
00:15:39,940 --> 00:15:41,942
She never wallops that tray
for no reason, you know.

302
00:15:42,526 --> 00:15:44,987
You all right, Molly?
You come with me, love.

303
00:15:45,237 --> 00:15:47,239
We'll work our way through the checklist.

304
00:15:47,865 --> 00:15:48,699
Come on.

305
00:15:51,285 --> 00:15:52,619
No, you can have it back when you've been.

306
00:15:52,703 --> 00:15:54,288
I know it's important to you, Molly.

307
00:15:54,913 --> 00:15:56,498
If you're the new registrar,

308
00:15:56,623 --> 00:15:58,834
we have a policy
of nothing below the wrist.

309
00:15:59,626 --> 00:16:01,128
Your watch. You'll have to take it off.

310
00:16:01,503 --> 00:16:02,921
I'm a visitor. Not a doctor.

311
00:16:03,005 --> 00:16:05,048
Oh, yes, of course, the T-shirt.

312
00:16:05,174 --> 00:16:06,800
Still, it's a fine line these days.

313
00:16:07,092 --> 00:16:10,012
If this is Dusty Springfield,
I'm looking for Joe Colman.

314
00:16:10,888 --> 00:16:12,347
Might I ask if you're a relative?

315
00:16:12,639 --> 00:16:13,599
Mm-hm. His son.

316
00:16:14,558 --> 00:16:16,560
The son that works
for the Health Minister?

317
00:16:18,145 --> 00:16:21,023
No. Just the one
who works in his department.

318
00:16:21,690 --> 00:16:23,442
I'm an independent management consultant.

319
00:16:23,775 --> 00:16:26,069
Hmm. Nevertheless,
he's told us all about you.

320
00:16:26,820 --> 00:16:29,406
Your chauffeur-driven car,
your bank holiday at Chequers.

321
00:16:29,489 --> 00:16:30,574
That was purely social.

322
00:16:31,992 --> 00:16:34,036
Right, well, I shall escort you
to the office.

323
00:16:34,161 --> 00:16:37,289
I'll come back and take Molly
to the lavatory. Stay here.

324
00:16:37,831 --> 00:16:38,665
Right, come on.

325
00:16:41,543 --> 00:16:42,461
Mrs Maudsley?

326
00:16:43,462 --> 00:16:44,296
Blanche?

327
00:16:44,755 --> 00:16:46,632
I need to examine your eyes, Blanche.

328
00:16:46,924 --> 00:16:48,258
Just to rule out any anaemia.

329
00:16:49,718 --> 00:16:51,053
It was my house.

330
00:16:52,387 --> 00:16:53,514
They took it from me.

331
00:16:55,349 --> 00:16:56,350
How is her appetite?

332
00:16:57,351 --> 00:16:58,602
She eats like a navvy.

333
00:16:58,852 --> 00:17:01,355
I have her on a full low-fat diet

334
00:17:01,522 --> 00:17:03,524
ever since she was diagnosed
with gallstones.

335
00:17:03,607 --> 00:17:04,441
Mine.

336
00:17:05,317 --> 00:17:07,277
They're no better than thieves!

337
00:17:07,778 --> 00:17:09,488
Is she usually confused?

338
00:17:10,155 --> 00:17:11,781
No. I mean, catch her on a good day,

339
00:17:11,906 --> 00:17:13,242
she's... she's bright as a button.

340
00:17:15,243 --> 00:17:17,454
She might benefit
from some of the activities

341
00:17:17,538 --> 00:17:18,579
we have in the day room.

342
00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:20,249
Singing, for example.

343
00:17:20,374 --> 00:17:22,166
I'm sorry.

344
00:17:23,292 --> 00:17:26,672
Is this a hospital,
or is it Butlin's bandstand?

345
00:17:27,130 --> 00:17:29,007
She doesn't want entertaining.

346
00:17:29,258 --> 00:17:30,259
I'm telling you now,

347
00:17:30,384 --> 00:17:32,344
you do not want her entertaining you.

348
00:17:33,178 --> 00:17:34,304
Pudsey Nightingale.

349
00:17:34,388 --> 00:17:35,389
Mitchell!

350
00:17:37,891 --> 00:17:39,893
Do you know?
You've a lovely manner with her.

351
00:17:40,602 --> 00:17:41,603
I like old people.

352
00:17:41,770 --> 00:17:45,065
Rubbish. Even old people
don't like old people.

353
00:17:45,190 --> 00:17:47,025
So, what's the survival rate?

354
00:17:49,278 --> 00:17:50,320
Survival rate?

355
00:17:51,655 --> 00:17:52,781
Your mother is 92.

356
00:17:53,699 --> 00:17:55,826
Well, yes, I know,
but we wouldn't want to lose her.

357
00:17:56,368 --> 00:17:57,911
Erm... Er...

358
00:17:58,912 --> 00:17:59,830
Yet.

359
00:18:00,163 --> 00:18:01,081
Look,

360
00:18:02,082 --> 00:18:02,958
she's ill.

361
00:18:03,500 --> 00:18:04,543
You're a hospital.

362
00:18:05,210 --> 00:18:06,086
Cure her!

363
00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:09,882
I'm afraid there's no cure,
as such, for old age, sir.

364
00:18:10,757 --> 00:18:12,134
We can't offer long-term care.

365
00:18:13,302 --> 00:18:15,262
It's a bloody good job she's so far gone.

366
00:18:16,388 --> 00:18:17,973
She'd want to know
what she paid her stamp for

367
00:18:18,056 --> 00:18:19,141
for all those years.

368
00:18:20,309 --> 00:18:21,810
-Are you rolling?
-Rolling.

369
00:18:24,062 --> 00:18:28,358
Sir, can I ask you your name,
and what you did in life?

370
00:18:28,942 --> 00:18:32,196
My name is Ambrose Hammersley.

371
00:18:32,696 --> 00:18:36,408
In life, as you put it,
I was a schoolmaster.

372
00:18:37,075 --> 00:18:41,371
Now I'm in a wheelchair
due to osteo-arthritis

373
00:18:41,455 --> 00:18:45,334
and the regulation issue fall.

374
00:18:45,542 --> 00:18:48,086
I've got osteo-arthritis too.

375
00:18:49,046 --> 00:18:52,132
Yes, I... I push his chair sometimes.

376
00:18:52,257 --> 00:18:53,634
We've a lot in common.

377
00:18:53,842 --> 00:18:56,512
Take no notice of this lady.
She's confused.

378
00:18:57,012 --> 00:18:59,139
-We're engaged.
-Oh, bugger off.

379
00:18:59,264 --> 00:19:00,599
Oh, language!

380
00:19:00,682 --> 00:19:02,643
What... Don't you "language" me.

381
00:19:02,893 --> 00:19:04,311
I taught language.

382
00:19:04,478 --> 00:19:05,687
Fratch, fratch, fratch.

383
00:19:06,146 --> 00:19:09,066
Can't we show a bit more support
to these nice young gentlemen?

384
00:19:09,733 --> 00:19:12,152
Er, Lucille, tell them about your life.

385
00:19:13,237 --> 00:19:14,071
Well,

386
00:19:14,696 --> 00:19:16,490
I was a housewife.

387
00:19:16,782 --> 00:19:18,450
And I brought up a son.

388
00:19:18,992 --> 00:19:20,536
Who emigrated to Australia.

389
00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:22,412
That's an achievement in itself.

390
00:19:23,121 --> 00:19:27,501
Also, my father had a chain
of confectioners shops.

391
00:19:27,584 --> 00:19:31,004
Oh! Did he do vanilla slices?

392
00:19:31,255 --> 00:19:33,507
I don't recall.

393
00:19:33,966 --> 00:19:35,759
Oh, can't be much of a confectioner

394
00:19:35,843 --> 00:19:38,345
if he didn't do vanilla slices.

395
00:19:39,555 --> 00:19:42,224
I had a wild side.

396
00:19:43,141 --> 00:19:45,769
But nobody has ever
interviewed me about it.

397
00:19:45,853 --> 00:19:47,604
I think you should talk to Neville next.

398
00:19:49,857 --> 00:19:50,941
Tell us about yourself, Neville.

399
00:19:51,692 --> 00:19:54,444
Even just tell us why you're in The Beth.

400
00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:56,697
Because I old.

401
00:19:56,822 --> 00:19:58,073
Well, we're all old.

402
00:19:58,282 --> 00:20:00,284
What's the matter with you besides?

403
00:20:00,576 --> 00:20:01,910
Did you have a fall?

404
00:20:02,077 --> 00:20:04,913
Not everybody falls, Mavis.

405
00:20:05,831 --> 00:20:08,292
I'm here because of my dizzy dos.

406
00:20:09,001 --> 00:20:11,253
By rights, I ought
to be a private patient.

407
00:20:11,336 --> 00:20:13,547
Oh. What does that matter?

408
00:20:14,298 --> 00:20:17,634
Dead, we're all on a slab
in our birthday suits.

409
00:20:18,010 --> 00:20:20,012
I used to work in a factory.

410
00:20:21,388 --> 00:20:22,973
I had 10 men under me.

411
00:20:23,599 --> 00:20:25,225
So did I on a good day.

412
00:20:35,527 --> 00:20:36,445
Am I still here?

413
00:20:36,778 --> 00:20:38,322
We haven't sent you back to The Rowans,

414
00:20:38,405 --> 00:20:39,489
if that's what you mean.

415
00:20:40,407 --> 00:20:41,992
The Rowans is a shithole.

416
00:20:42,743 --> 00:20:43,785
Your son's come.

417
00:20:44,953 --> 00:20:45,871
Hello, Dad.

418
00:20:47,247 --> 00:20:48,248
I'm not your dad.

419
00:20:49,291 --> 00:20:50,250
You my son?

420
00:20:51,043 --> 00:20:52,920
My son wears a suit.

421
00:20:53,003 --> 00:20:54,004
He doesn't recognise me.

422
00:20:54,421 --> 00:20:56,798
Well, they can be like that
when they've got an infection.

423
00:20:57,591 --> 00:21:00,052
There again,
perhaps he hasn't seen you in a while.

424
00:21:02,429 --> 00:21:03,514
You're nice and dry.

425
00:21:03,931 --> 00:21:05,307
I'm always nice and dry.

426
00:21:06,141 --> 00:21:07,476
It's my party piece.

427
00:21:09,978 --> 00:21:11,271
Well, you're not that far gone, then.

428
00:21:13,190 --> 00:21:15,609
I tell people you're...

429
00:21:15,901 --> 00:21:17,194
you're chauffeur driven.

430
00:21:22,658 --> 00:21:24,826
Jesus, Dad.

431
00:21:25,744 --> 00:21:28,163
Your chest sounds like wet gravel.

432
00:21:29,373 --> 00:21:31,291
What would you know about wet gravel?

433
00:21:32,125 --> 00:21:33,627
You never went down the pit.

434
00:21:34,545 --> 00:21:35,379
No,

435
00:21:36,380 --> 00:21:37,756
Mam didn't want me to.

436
00:21:39,341 --> 00:21:42,052
I didn't want you coming here in a pink

437
00:21:43,804 --> 00:21:47,933
singlet, looking like a Nancy.
But you did.

438
00:21:49,810 --> 00:21:52,521
It's not that
I was a naughty girl.

439
00:21:53,438 --> 00:21:55,399
You do understand, I'm sure.

440
00:21:55,899 --> 00:21:57,651
Those amongst you who have lived.

441
00:22:00,362 --> 00:22:01,446
Anyway, erm...

442
00:22:02,322 --> 00:22:04,157
-Mary.
-Oh, shh, shh.

443
00:22:05,993 --> 00:22:06,869
What's the matter?

444
00:22:07,369 --> 00:22:08,537
Haven't they asked you to join in?

445
00:22:09,413 --> 00:22:10,539
I don't want to join in.

446
00:22:12,165 --> 00:22:13,500
I don't have a lot to say.

447
00:22:13,750 --> 00:22:15,377
Comes from working in a library.

448
00:22:17,045 --> 00:22:18,714
You know, I have a passion for books, too.

449
00:22:18,839 --> 00:22:21,091
Oh, I didn't have a passion
for books.

450
00:22:21,842 --> 00:22:23,594
I just worked with them,
I kept them in order.

451
00:22:24,636 --> 00:22:26,054
With books, that's all that's required.

452
00:22:26,138 --> 00:22:27,347
They're not like people.

453
00:22:29,808 --> 00:22:31,977
I can still go in and introduce you.

454
00:22:32,436 --> 00:22:33,270
The men from the television

455
00:22:33,353 --> 00:22:34,938
would like to hear about your past career.

456
00:22:35,355 --> 00:22:37,399
No, if you push yourself forward,
you get seen.

457
00:22:37,733 --> 00:22:39,693
I thought,
as you were standing by the door...

458
00:22:40,194 --> 00:22:41,445
I'm not standing by the door.

459
00:22:42,779 --> 00:22:44,448
I've seen people standing by the door.

460
00:22:45,032 --> 00:22:47,576
They're either trying to escape,
or they're waiting for their mothers.

461
00:22:48,660 --> 00:22:50,954
Oh, I never stand by a door.
I make a point of it.

462
00:22:51,705 --> 00:22:55,250
Anyway, I went on
to marry three times,

463
00:22:55,334 --> 00:22:58,212
although I didn't enjoy
any of those marriages,

464
00:22:58,337 --> 00:22:59,296
not really.

465
00:23:06,303 --> 00:23:07,387
Have you brought me owt?

466
00:23:09,806 --> 00:23:10,641
No.

467
00:23:11,183 --> 00:23:12,267
Not even a grape?

468
00:23:12,351 --> 00:23:13,685
I couldn't think of what you'd want.

469
00:23:16,730 --> 00:23:17,773
A clean vest.

470
00:23:18,941 --> 00:23:20,275
When I was in once before,

471
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:21,902
that's what your mam used to bring.

472
00:23:23,070 --> 00:23:24,112
And grapes.

473
00:23:25,447 --> 00:23:26,615
She was a good 'un.

474
00:23:28,909 --> 00:23:30,035
Yeah, she was.

475
00:23:31,495 --> 00:23:33,455
Until she put me in The Rowans.

476
00:23:33,580 --> 00:23:36,458
No, Dad. I put you in The Rowans.

477
00:23:37,376 --> 00:23:38,669
It's nowt to boast about.

478
00:23:38,794 --> 00:23:40,045
Well, you're forgetting, Dad.

479
00:23:40,128 --> 00:23:42,256
After Mam died,
you couldn't look after yourself.

480
00:23:42,422 --> 00:23:43,632
Or else you wouldn't.

481
00:23:44,675 --> 00:23:46,844
You didn't wash. You didn't eat.

482
00:23:47,761 --> 00:23:49,012
Used to wander the streets.

483
00:23:49,096 --> 00:23:51,598
I had the Miners' Benevolent
calling me up in London.

484
00:23:52,307 --> 00:23:53,851
I used to wander the streets?

485
00:23:56,311 --> 00:23:58,981
You were the one
who used to wander the sodding streets.

486
00:23:59,189 --> 00:24:00,691
Didn't get you put in a home.

487
00:24:01,358 --> 00:24:02,651
Should have got you arrested.

488
00:24:04,736 --> 00:24:06,113
It's what killed your mam.

489
00:24:17,249 --> 00:24:18,083
Er...

490
00:24:25,674 --> 00:24:27,551
Pills and potions to pop down 'em.

491
00:24:27,885 --> 00:24:29,469
-Mm-hm.
-Then I'm off.

492
00:24:30,971 --> 00:24:32,389
I don't know how you do it, Alma.

493
00:24:33,098 --> 00:24:34,057
Chopping and changing

494
00:24:34,183 --> 00:24:35,642
your earlies with your night shifts.

495
00:24:36,226 --> 00:24:38,604
I can't leave the cat
for a 12-hour stretch.

496
00:24:39,146 --> 00:24:40,981
I like being here both ends of the day.

497
00:24:41,565 --> 00:24:43,317
They're our most important times.

498
00:24:43,859 --> 00:24:45,611
You didn't write up that Mary Moss

499
00:24:45,694 --> 00:24:47,321
had an episode of incontinence.

500
00:24:47,529 --> 00:24:48,447
I asked you to.

501
00:24:49,239 --> 00:24:50,073
I'm sorry.

502
00:24:50,616 --> 00:24:52,201
I were hoping it were a one-off.

503
00:24:52,409 --> 00:24:53,869
It was certainly her first offence.

504
00:24:54,244 --> 00:24:55,746
Urine or faeces?

505
00:24:56,747 --> 00:24:57,623
Urine.

506
00:24:58,248 --> 00:24:59,416
With a little bit of faeces.

507
00:25:00,042 --> 00:25:02,920
Hmm. Well, I need to be
fully aware of these things.

508
00:25:03,045 --> 00:25:04,213
I run a clean ward.

509
00:25:04,421 --> 00:25:06,340
And a clean ward starts with a dry one.

510
00:25:07,508 --> 00:25:09,510
I'm sorry. She cried.

511
00:25:10,135 --> 00:25:12,596
When they're like that,
they're just like babies.

512
00:25:12,971 --> 00:25:14,932
Babies don't cry
when they mess themselves.

513
00:25:15,015 --> 00:25:16,141
Babies don't care.

514
00:25:17,351 --> 00:25:18,977
When old people don't care, do you cry?

515
00:25:20,187 --> 00:25:21,104
No.

516
00:25:22,898 --> 00:25:24,942
<i>I think of them
running home from school.</i>

517
00:25:26,401 --> 00:25:28,904
<i>I think of them smiling
for their wedding photographs.</i>

518
00:25:31,365 --> 00:25:33,116
<i>From the cradle to the grave...</i>

519
00:25:34,201 --> 00:25:36,453
<i>...we have been the net
that holds them all.</i>

520
00:25:37,663 --> 00:25:40,999
<i>The playground falls,
the industrial injuries,</i>

521
00:25:42,167 --> 00:25:44,503
<i>their traffic accidents,
and their cancers.</i>

522
00:25:45,629 --> 00:25:47,798
<i>Even now, we fight the tide
on their behalf.</i>

523
00:25:55,681 --> 00:25:58,892
<i>They open their mouths
like birds, or children.</i>

524
00:26:00,018 --> 00:26:01,937
<i>They ask no questions about the dose.</i>

525
00:26:02,855 --> 00:26:04,606
<i>They do not query the side effects.</i>

526
00:26:06,191 --> 00:26:07,901
<i>We have promised them sleep,</i>

527
00:26:08,235 --> 00:26:10,404
<i>or peace of mind, or ease from pain.</i>

528
00:26:11,613 --> 00:26:13,907
<i>All the things they once
enjoyed without a thought,</i>

529
00:26:14,032 --> 00:26:15,742
<i>simply because they were not old.</i>

530
00:26:17,369 --> 00:26:18,412
<i>And they believe us.

531
00:26:20,038 --> 00:26:21,123
<i>That is our blessing.</i>

532
00:26:22,499 --> 00:26:23,792
<i>And if we should fail them,</i>

533
00:26:25,210 --> 00:26:27,087
<i>- it becomes their curse.

534
00:26:29,464 --> 00:26:31,550
<i>It was my house.</i>

535
00:26:33,427 --> 00:26:36,221
She was
in show business, apparently.

536
00:26:37,222 --> 00:26:39,391
You'd think she'd be more refined.

537
00:26:43,979 --> 00:26:46,732
Do you know? I sometimes think
this is my favourite time of the day.

538
00:26:47,524 --> 00:26:49,818
With you all tucked up and tidy,

539
00:26:50,485 --> 00:26:51,862
lathered in talcum.

540
00:26:52,362 --> 00:26:53,530
When everyone's asleep,

541
00:26:53,614 --> 00:26:55,741
you can hear the wind
on the moors from here.

542
00:26:57,242 --> 00:26:58,994
Did we have mince today?

543
00:26:59,328 --> 00:27:00,454
Turkey mince, aye.

544
00:27:01,413 --> 00:27:02,706
Keeps rifting up.

545
00:27:03,916 --> 00:27:05,125
Feel a bit wanny.

546
00:27:05,292 --> 00:27:06,960
I'll fetch you some
peppermint water and a bowl.

547
00:27:07,461 --> 00:27:08,462
I'll be back, Molly.

548
00:27:15,802 --> 00:27:16,720
<i>Hello, stranger.</i>

549
00:27:16,929 --> 00:27:18,889
It's only been a day, George.

550
00:27:20,140 --> 00:27:20,974
<i>Hotel okay?</i>

551
00:27:21,058 --> 00:27:22,893
Er, yeah, it's nice.

552
00:27:22,976 --> 00:27:24,478
They've put me in the wedding suite,

553
00:27:24,561 --> 00:27:27,105
which is, er, novel.

554
00:27:27,189 --> 00:27:28,607
<i>How's your dad?</i>

555
00:27:29,274 --> 00:27:31,235
Er, I've no idea how he is.

556
00:27:31,777 --> 00:27:33,570
Half dead, but keeps forgetting.

557
00:27:34,696 --> 00:27:36,782
I don't know what's good or bad
once they get to this age.

558
00:27:37,199 --> 00:27:38,992
Or how much he's putting it on.

559
00:27:40,077 --> 00:27:41,870
<i>-And how's the hospital?
</i>-Oh...

560
00:27:42,871 --> 00:27:43,705
It's like him.

561
00:27:43,789 --> 00:27:45,332
Half dead, but keeps forgetting.

562
00:27:46,625 --> 00:27:48,919
<i>You will give your dad my love, won't you?</i>

563
00:27:50,504 --> 00:27:51,547
Yeah, of course.

564
00:27:53,257 --> 00:27:54,883
He never knew what the hell
to do with mine.

565
00:28:07,980 --> 00:28:09,189
Excuse me, mate.
Are those grapes?

566
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,025
-Yes.
-Get them in shot, the grapes.

567
00:28:12,693 --> 00:28:14,611
Hi, mate. Do you mind coming in again

568
00:28:14,736 --> 00:28:16,154
and holding the grapes a bit higher?

569
00:28:17,865 --> 00:28:19,950
It's just we need
a shot of visitors coming in,

570
00:28:20,033 --> 00:28:21,660
and the grapes look really good.

571
00:28:21,785 --> 00:28:23,745
What do you need a shot
of visitors arriving for?

572
00:28:24,454 --> 00:28:26,331
I'm sorry. Abdul, Pennine People.

573
00:28:26,415 --> 00:28:27,749
We're making a short documentary...

574
00:28:27,833 --> 00:28:29,209
-Mr Colman?
-Yeah.

575
00:28:30,127 --> 00:28:31,545
Apologies for my tardiness

576
00:28:31,670 --> 00:28:33,505
in offering you a personal welcome.

577
00:28:34,298 --> 00:28:37,217
I've arranged for coffee
to be served in the boardroom.

578
00:28:38,051 --> 00:28:41,305
So, a news and documentary
segment for Pennine People

579
00:28:41,388 --> 00:28:43,015
on the Save The Beth campaign.

580
00:28:43,140 --> 00:28:45,184
Well, I'll have to inform the Minister.

581
00:28:45,434 --> 00:28:47,186
Well, we are out to raise awareness.

582
00:28:47,644 --> 00:28:49,062
And they're lapping it up locally.

583
00:28:49,813 --> 00:28:51,523
This hospital isn't funded locally.

584
00:28:52,691 --> 00:28:54,359
Well, we are in control of our own money.

585
00:28:55,110 --> 00:28:56,486
Where do you get that money from?

586
00:28:57,070 --> 00:29:00,657
Spiritually? Aneurin Bevan, circa 1947.

587
00:29:00,949 --> 00:29:03,869
And fiscally, Whitehall, circa now.

588
00:29:04,161 --> 00:29:05,245
Until we say stop.

589
00:29:05,370 --> 00:29:07,206
No, people aren't gonna let you say stop.

590
00:29:07,915 --> 00:29:10,125
You've been dismembering
this hospital for years,

591
00:29:10,417 --> 00:29:12,377
limb by separately amputated limb.

592
00:29:12,586 --> 00:29:14,963
They have to go to Doncaster
for cataracts now.

593
00:29:15,339 --> 00:29:18,800
And Pontefract for audiology.
And that's a complicated bus.

594
00:29:19,051 --> 00:29:22,346
People voted this government in.

595
00:29:22,638 --> 00:29:25,599
They can skydive out of
as many planes as they like.

596
00:29:25,682 --> 00:29:28,101
They chose this. They chose efficiency.

597
00:29:28,685 --> 00:29:30,938
They chose centres of excellence.

598
00:29:31,021 --> 00:29:32,648
The Beth delivers neither.

599
00:29:32,731 --> 00:29:35,943
We could be a centre
of excellence for geriatrics.

600
00:29:36,401 --> 00:29:37,694
But you're trying to shut us down.

601
00:29:37,819 --> 00:29:40,364
Effective management is target focused,
outcome driven.

602
00:29:40,447 --> 00:29:42,032
You set a goal, and you go for it.

603
00:29:42,115 --> 00:29:44,493
Geriatrics is a waiting game.

604
00:29:44,618 --> 00:29:47,871
It's ungovernable, open-ended,
resource-intensive.

605
00:29:47,955 --> 00:29:51,625
It makes zero economic sense.

606
00:29:51,834 --> 00:29:52,709
I disagree.

607
00:29:53,961 --> 00:29:55,587
The future is old age.

608
00:29:56,338 --> 00:29:57,172
Everybody knows that.

609
00:29:57,256 --> 00:29:59,633
The people running raffles
in the foyer know that.

610
00:30:00,592 --> 00:30:01,718
They want The Beth.

611
00:30:02,261 --> 00:30:05,681
They want small-scale, local, caring care.

612
00:30:05,806 --> 00:30:08,225
They want something that's over.

613
00:30:09,351 --> 00:30:10,269
Gone.

614
00:30:10,853 --> 00:30:12,187
Because it didn't work.

615
00:30:12,271 --> 00:30:15,065
And if they keep dragging us backwards,

616
00:30:15,566 --> 00:30:18,193
there will be no progress.

617
00:30:19,361 --> 00:30:21,905
{\an8}<i>What do you think
is the most important thing in The Beth?</i>

618
00:30:23,115 --> 00:30:24,491
{\an8}-<i>-The patients</i>

619
00:30:26,076 --> 00:30:27,035
{\an8}<i>and the coffee machine.</i>

620
00:30:29,246 --> 00:30:31,373
{\an8}<i>Yeah, definitely the coffee machine.</i>

621
00:30:33,208 --> 00:30:34,501
{\an8}<i>Non-slip flooring.</i>

622
00:30:34,877 --> 00:30:37,254
{\an8}<i>As a physio, I just don't really think
you can put a price on that,</i>

623
00:30:38,714 --> 00:30:39,882
{\an8}<i>if I'm completely honest.</i>

624
00:30:40,424 --> 00:30:43,010
{\an8}<i>Oh, well, the most important thing isn't,</i>

625
00:30:43,302 --> 00:30:45,804
{\an8}<i>er, isn't really a thing, is it? It's a...</i>

626
00:30:46,263 --> 00:30:48,307
{\an8}<i>It's a spirit. An essence. It's, er...</i>

627
00:30:48,599 --> 00:30:50,976
{\an8}<i>Maybe if you try
to say that in just one word.</i>

628
00:30:53,228 --> 00:30:54,062
{\an8}<i>Erm...</i>

629
00:30:55,230 --> 00:30:56,106
{\an8}<i>Pluck.</i>

630
00:30:56,982 --> 00:30:57,858
{\an8}<i>The grub.</i>

631
00:30:58,650 --> 00:31:01,195
{\an8}<i>A lovely big bath, with handles.</i>

632
00:31:01,945 --> 00:31:03,071
{\an8}<i>The volunteers.</i>

633
00:31:03,822 --> 00:31:05,866
{\an8}<i>-Are we allowed to say that?

634
00:31:06,909 --> 00:31:07,868
{\an8}<i>In one word?</i>

635
00:31:09,244 --> 00:31:10,162
{\an8}<i>The exit.</i>

636
00:31:11,246 --> 00:31:13,874
{\an8}<i>Although, if we're being punctilious,
that's two.</i>

637
00:31:14,791 --> 00:31:17,044
{\an8}<i>-I like him.

638
00:31:18,545 --> 00:31:19,463
{\an8}<i>The smell.</i>

639
00:31:20,672 --> 00:31:22,966
{\an8}<i>Or, to be more precise, the lack of one.</i>

640
00:31:30,224 --> 00:31:31,475
Dr Valentine.

641
00:31:32,893 --> 00:31:33,727
Yes, Mary?

642
00:31:35,479 --> 00:31:37,856
I wasn't entirely transparent

643
00:31:39,149 --> 00:31:42,736
when we had our discourse about passion.

644
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,783
There was something
about books that excited me.

645
00:31:49,117 --> 00:31:50,202
Marginalia.

646
00:31:52,079 --> 00:31:52,913
Marginalia?

647
00:31:54,748 --> 00:31:58,043
The things that readers write
at the edges of the page.

648
00:31:58,210 --> 00:32:01,713
They make little notes
about things that strike them.

649
00:32:01,797 --> 00:32:04,132
Words that have meaning, or weight.

650
00:32:05,467 --> 00:32:09,721
Sometimes a cross is deemed
sufficient to mark the spot,

651
00:32:09,805 --> 00:32:10,889
but not always.

652
00:32:12,933 --> 00:32:15,394
I was supposed to rub them out
if they were in pencil.

653
00:32:17,229 --> 00:32:19,606
But sometimes, I left them.

654
00:32:21,900 --> 00:32:23,151
They might be there still.

655
00:32:25,612 --> 00:32:27,030
That is rather a nice thought.

656
00:32:28,282 --> 00:32:31,034
Hmm. Might be a wicked one,
for all you know.

657
00:32:35,122 --> 00:32:36,498
<i>There are too many Marys.</i>

658
00:32:37,457 --> 00:32:40,794
<i>Pushed to the margins,
not part of the story,</i>

659
00:32:40,878 --> 00:32:43,505
<i>doomed to be rubbed out,
to leave no trace.</i>

660
00:32:45,591 --> 00:32:46,884
<i>I want them to matter.</i>

661
00:32:47,759 --> 00:32:49,845
<i>I want them to get the best from us.</i>

662
00:32:50,554 --> 00:32:52,598
<i>For us to deliver what we promise.</i>

663
00:32:53,724 --> 00:32:54,725
<i>What they need.</i>

664
00:32:56,393 --> 00:32:57,394
<i>And every day,</i>

665
00:32:58,437 --> 00:32:59,855
<i>I fear that we are failing.</i>

666
00:33:02,024 --> 00:33:05,444
I don't think Sister Gilpin
is gonna like this at all.

667
00:33:05,527 --> 00:33:08,447
The bonbons are bordering
on the froufrou.

668
00:33:09,072 --> 00:33:12,075
And she's got extremely hard hands.

669
00:33:12,326 --> 00:33:14,286
Well, I think
she's going to love everything.

670
00:33:14,786 --> 00:33:17,289
The banners, the balloons,
the cake, and the singing.

671
00:33:17,748 --> 00:33:19,291
The Beth has been her life.

672
00:33:19,374 --> 00:33:22,878
She's done nothing whatsoever
to deserve the singing.

673
00:33:23,962 --> 00:33:27,090
Well, I don't sing for her anyway.

674
00:33:27,508 --> 00:33:28,675
I sing for you.

675
00:33:28,759 --> 00:33:32,012
And I've done absolutely
nothing to deserve it either.

676
00:33:32,095 --> 00:33:36,016
Well, you wouldn't say that
if I was Dorothy Squires.

677
00:33:36,099 --> 00:33:39,269
I'd say that if you were
Kiri Te fucking Kanawa!

678
00:33:39,478 --> 00:33:40,562
That's terrible!

679
00:33:40,771 --> 00:33:43,190
Well, it's a tmesis.

680
00:33:43,273 --> 00:33:45,317
Sounds all right in his accent.

681
00:33:45,943 --> 00:33:48,195
What is a tmesis, Ambrose?

682
00:33:48,278 --> 00:33:51,031
Er, it's a grammatical construction.

683
00:33:51,532 --> 00:33:54,535
"Abso-fucking-lutely"
would be another example.

684
00:33:54,868 --> 00:33:56,286
You're not to put that on your film.

685
00:33:56,495 --> 00:33:58,664
Come and do a close-up of the handicrafts.

686
00:33:58,997 --> 00:34:00,999
-Ambrose, would, erm...
-Hmm.

687
00:34:01,834 --> 00:34:05,504
..."fish 'n' chips" and "rock 'n' roll"

688
00:34:05,921 --> 00:34:08,005
also be examples of this grammar?

689
00:34:08,090 --> 00:34:11,467
No, they would be examples of an enclitic.

690
00:34:11,717 --> 00:34:13,719
-A shortened version of "and".
-Mm-hm.

691
00:34:15,013 --> 00:34:16,931
And the other is tmesis?

692
00:34:17,181 --> 00:34:18,016
Tmesis, yes.

693
00:34:18,100 --> 00:34:20,143
Are you studying for an examination?

694
00:34:21,687 --> 00:34:22,855
It's, er, an interview.

695
00:34:23,772 --> 00:34:25,690
I have applied for UK nationality.

696
00:34:26,483 --> 00:34:28,944
-And English is like medicine.
-Ah.

697
00:34:29,069 --> 00:34:30,445
There is always something new to learn.

698
00:34:45,710 --> 00:34:47,045
I hope they're seedless.

699
00:34:48,338 --> 00:34:50,924
Pips get stuck underneath me plate.

700
00:34:52,717 --> 00:34:53,594
Hello, Dad.

701
00:34:54,553 --> 00:34:55,512
Did you sleep well?

702
00:34:56,513 --> 00:34:58,974
I kept having to ring
the buzzer for the lav.

703
00:35:00,642 --> 00:35:02,186
But I'm in the Sister's good books,

704
00:35:02,311 --> 00:35:04,146
because I sing out. Yeah.

705
00:35:05,063 --> 00:35:07,524
Urination's a religion with her.

706
00:35:07,941 --> 00:35:08,775
Oh.

707
00:35:09,526 --> 00:35:10,527
You do look better.

708
00:35:11,570 --> 00:35:13,655
It... It's deceptive.

709
00:35:18,202 --> 00:35:20,787
I'm not better enough
to go back to The Rowans.

710
00:35:28,504 --> 00:35:30,589
Did you stay with your Auntie Violet?

711
00:35:31,757 --> 00:35:33,592
No. She's been dead three years.

712
00:35:35,010 --> 00:35:37,429
Well, I... I can't remember everything.

713
00:35:37,513 --> 00:35:38,347
No.

714
00:35:42,935 --> 00:35:44,394
I stayed at a new hotel.

715
00:35:45,521 --> 00:35:46,522
York House.

716
00:35:48,690 --> 00:35:49,525
That...

717
00:35:50,567 --> 00:35:52,486
used to be a bank.

718
00:35:54,613 --> 00:35:55,697
I remember that.

719
00:36:00,994 --> 00:36:02,204
I've just found this

720
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:04,706
underneath my mother's bedspread.

721
00:36:06,250 --> 00:36:08,877
We have discussed the fact
that your mother is incontinent.

722
00:36:10,879 --> 00:36:12,172
It's Angel Delight.

723
00:36:12,422 --> 00:36:13,841
Butterscotch, by the looks of it.

724
00:36:14,007 --> 00:36:15,217
Complete with spoon.

725
00:36:15,634 --> 00:36:17,636
Now when my mother
starts squirrelling away food,

726
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:19,304
it means she's upset.

727
00:36:19,555 --> 00:36:21,807
And what I want to know
is why is she upset?

728
00:36:22,099 --> 00:36:23,725
Possibly because she's incontinent,

729
00:36:23,809 --> 00:36:26,019
and confused, and has gallstones.

730
00:36:26,562 --> 00:36:28,063
No, she's upset because you've put her

731
00:36:28,146 --> 00:36:30,440
in a geriatric ward, that's why!

732
00:36:30,607 --> 00:36:31,984
Every patient on my ward

733
00:36:32,109 --> 00:36:33,652
is much the same age as your mother.

734
00:36:35,070 --> 00:36:37,030
And as it happens, we've several younger.

735
00:36:38,115 --> 00:36:40,409
Well, they obviously haven't
looked after themselves.

736
00:36:40,742 --> 00:36:43,453
Or been looked after
by somebody who cares.

737
00:36:46,206 --> 00:36:47,040
We care.

738
00:36:49,585 --> 00:36:50,544
Constantly.

739
00:36:54,715 --> 00:36:56,341
No, I've no news on beds.

740
00:36:57,092 --> 00:36:58,760
This is the middle of a working day.

741
00:37:08,353 --> 00:37:11,481
A whole camera, hidden inside there?

742
00:37:11,565 --> 00:37:13,901
Yeah, you can take
still pictures, or a video.

743
00:37:13,984 --> 00:37:15,402
And, as I've explained,

744
00:37:15,819 --> 00:37:17,946
then the filmmakers might use your footage

745
00:37:18,030 --> 00:37:19,031
in their documentary.

746
00:37:20,240 --> 00:37:22,534
It's no thicker than a monthly periodical.

747
00:37:24,620 --> 00:37:26,455
Has it got a mouse?

748
00:37:26,830 --> 00:37:28,123
You don't need a mouse, Mary.

749
00:37:28,248 --> 00:37:30,876
Everything is operated
via the touch screen.

750
00:37:30,959 --> 00:37:34,296
Now, swipe on the icon,
like we did before.

751
00:37:34,379 --> 00:37:36,632
With greater gentleness
as though you've seen

752
00:37:36,715 --> 00:37:39,968
a speck of dust and wish to brush it away.

753
00:37:41,929 --> 00:37:42,930
- Oh.
- Ah!

754
00:37:43,013 --> 00:37:44,515
You'll put us all out of a job.

755
00:37:45,098 --> 00:37:46,266
I said that to my computer

756
00:37:46,350 --> 00:37:48,560
the day they digitalised the library.

757
00:37:49,228 --> 00:37:51,396
I was at the forefront of modernisation.

758
00:37:53,649 --> 00:37:55,901
What... What do you wish me to record?

759
00:37:56,944 --> 00:37:58,403
Well, the filmmakers say

760
00:37:58,570 --> 00:38:00,280
they simply want your point of view.

761
00:38:01,198 --> 00:38:03,784
For you to record what you see,

762
00:38:03,867 --> 00:38:06,161
to tell them what your life is like.

763
00:38:09,164 --> 00:38:10,958
I could tell you something
about that chair.

764
00:38:11,625 --> 00:38:12,584
Only I won't.

765
00:38:20,259 --> 00:38:21,093
Come here.

766
00:38:35,649 --> 00:38:37,943
You caught me red-handed.

767
00:38:38,068 --> 00:38:40,237
Two hours to turn around
before my night shift,

768
00:38:40,404 --> 00:38:41,947
tucking into sweet and sour pork.

769
00:38:42,447 --> 00:38:43,282
Shocking.

770
00:38:43,365 --> 00:38:44,950
Oh, why shouldn't you treat yourself?

771
00:38:45,492 --> 00:38:47,703
Mine is a deep fried tofu
in black bean sauce.

772
00:38:47,786 --> 00:38:49,746
- Ooh.
- Hmm.

773
00:38:50,914 --> 00:38:52,916
Do you know, I get
substantial discount over there.

774
00:38:53,250 --> 00:38:56,170
I saw their granddad through
a rather nasty gastric cancer.

775
00:38:56,336 --> 00:38:57,588
Oh. How... How did he do?

776
00:38:57,838 --> 00:38:59,006
Deceased. Yeah.

777
00:38:59,715 --> 00:39:01,133
Well, he was lucky we found him a bed.

778
00:39:01,216 --> 00:39:04,219
I mean, at his age, he'd either
choke on his own blood at The Royal

779
00:39:04,303 --> 00:39:06,013
or be bussed off to some council home

780
00:39:06,096 --> 00:39:07,556
where they've no knack with the morphine.

781
00:39:07,639 --> 00:39:08,473
-Hmm.
-Hmm.

782
00:39:10,100 --> 00:39:11,393
I mean, all these managers,

783
00:39:11,852 --> 00:39:14,104
all they ever think about
is movement, isn't it?

784
00:39:14,938 --> 00:39:18,066
Like the hospital system
is just some giant bowel

785
00:39:18,150 --> 00:39:20,027
that has to keep pumping out shit.

786
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:22,696
-But it isn't, is it, Dr Val?
-Hmm.

787
00:39:24,281 --> 00:39:26,742
It's about getting the patient
to the right place, at the right time.

788
00:39:29,036 --> 00:39:29,995
And to the best,

789
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,122
most appropriate bed that can be found.

790
00:39:32,956 --> 00:39:34,917
Don't talk to me about beds.

791
00:39:35,375 --> 00:39:37,002
I deal in beds the way some other folk

792
00:39:37,085 --> 00:39:38,212
deal in used hatchbacks.

793
00:39:39,421 --> 00:39:41,798
-Well, I dream about beds.
-Ah.

794
00:39:41,924 --> 00:39:43,884
Yeah, sometimes they're just
beds that I want to lie in

795
00:39:43,967 --> 00:39:45,010
and go to sleep for days,

796
00:39:45,093 --> 00:39:47,513
but mostly, they are for other people.

797
00:39:48,096 --> 00:39:51,016
For people who need them,
to be healed in, or to die.

798
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:52,434
Hmm.

799
00:39:53,268 --> 00:39:55,604
-Empty?
-Oh, they're always empty

800
00:39:56,271 --> 00:39:57,105
'cause I am dreaming.

801
00:40:03,612 --> 00:40:05,280
Dr Val, can I share a worry with you?

802
00:40:07,866 --> 00:40:08,951
Most certainly. Yeah.

803
00:40:11,036 --> 00:40:13,956
It's about my speech, you know,
for the medal presentation.

804
00:40:16,917 --> 00:40:19,419
I don't know what to put.
I don't know what to say.

805
00:40:20,504 --> 00:40:22,840
I'm a woman of deeds,
not a woman of words.

806
00:40:24,925 --> 00:40:28,095
Well, I would advise you
to speak from the heart.

807
00:40:30,806 --> 00:40:31,682
Oh.

808
00:40:34,017 --> 00:40:35,644
All I can think of to say is,

809
00:40:37,187 --> 00:40:38,814
"Don't leave it too late to die."

810
00:40:50,409 --> 00:40:51,577
All right, twat face?

811
00:40:52,286 --> 00:40:53,161
<i>How is it going?</i>

812
00:40:53,662 --> 00:40:55,914
Yeah. Dad will pull through.

813
00:40:56,999 --> 00:40:58,208
The hospital won't.

814
00:40:58,292 --> 00:41:00,711
Although I'm struggling
to convince the Chair of that.

815
00:41:01,003 --> 00:41:02,212
<i>Hmm, that's not like you.</i>

816
00:41:02,963 --> 00:41:06,592
I tried.
But he got the best cups out.

817
00:41:08,385 --> 00:41:10,345
And something
about the place is working.

818
00:41:11,138 --> 00:41:12,264
Must be, otherwise my dad

819
00:41:12,347 --> 00:41:14,057
wouldn't have developed a pantomime cough

820
00:41:14,183 --> 00:41:15,851
out of terror they'll discharge him.

821
00:41:17,102 --> 00:41:19,980
Yet there are less beds than ever,

822
00:41:20,063 --> 00:41:22,274
and money is still swirling down the pan.

823
00:41:23,358 --> 00:41:24,484
<i>You sound tired.</i>

824
00:41:24,610 --> 00:41:26,195
Yes, George.

825
00:41:27,279 --> 00:41:29,907
I am tired. Bloody tired.

826
00:41:30,741 --> 00:41:31,575
<i>I love you.</i>

827
00:41:32,993 --> 00:41:33,952
I know you do.

828
00:41:37,122 --> 00:41:38,582
<i>There are other responses.</i>

829
00:41:42,169 --> 00:41:43,086
All right.

830
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:46,882
You too, you too.

831
00:42:01,355 --> 00:42:03,607
<i>I may well have
24 beds under my jurisdiction,</i>

832
00:42:03,690 --> 00:42:05,859
and every single one of them is occupied.

833
00:42:07,986 --> 00:42:09,863
It's carnage incarnate down The Royal,

834
00:42:09,947 --> 00:42:11,156
and now at the Infirmary.

835
00:42:11,573 --> 00:42:12,741
Begging for beds again?

836
00:42:12,824 --> 00:42:15,744
Hmm, they're failing to hit
their targets, apparently.

837
00:42:16,912 --> 00:42:19,456
Oh, I'll have to give
Snowdrop Court a ring again,

838
00:42:19,540 --> 00:42:20,916
see if we can move somebody there.

839
00:42:21,792 --> 00:42:24,002
Or throw myself on the mercy
of Green Lawns.

840
00:42:24,169 --> 00:42:26,296
Green Lawns? Is it that bad?

841
00:42:27,714 --> 00:42:29,383
I need a black coffee. Two sugars.

842
00:42:46,233 --> 00:42:47,359
What's on the trolley?

843
00:42:49,736 --> 00:42:50,696
You got any cigs?

844
00:42:52,114 --> 00:42:53,574
I've got large-print books.

845
00:42:54,032 --> 00:42:55,158
It's no smoking in here.

846
00:42:56,451 --> 00:42:57,369
Live a little.

847
00:42:58,036 --> 00:42:59,162
I'm on work experience.

848
00:42:59,246 --> 00:43:01,874
And I've been assigned
to wheel you to the shower later.

849
00:43:01,957 --> 00:43:04,209
They'd have had you down a coal mine once.

850
00:43:05,878 --> 00:43:07,880
Have you had sexual intercourse yet?

851
00:43:10,048 --> 00:43:11,300
Yeah, loads of times.

852
00:43:11,383 --> 00:43:12,634
What do you reckon to it?

853
00:43:14,178 --> 00:43:15,012
It's all right.

854
00:43:16,096 --> 00:43:17,681
Do you want to feel my feet?

855
00:43:19,975 --> 00:43:21,185
It wouldn't be top of my list.

856
00:43:21,977 --> 00:43:24,313
Not in a mucky way. In a medical way.

857
00:43:24,396 --> 00:43:25,522
They keep swelling up.

858
00:43:26,148 --> 00:43:27,608
Oh, well, they look all right from here.

859
00:43:28,984 --> 00:43:31,612
Improvement is not in my best interest.

860
00:43:34,573 --> 00:43:36,033
It's Mr Colman, isn't it?

861
00:43:37,284 --> 00:43:38,452
May I join you?

862
00:43:39,244 --> 00:43:40,120
Yeah.

863
00:43:43,957 --> 00:43:46,084
I was with your father earlier.

864
00:43:46,835 --> 00:43:47,961
He's very proud of you.

865
00:43:50,506 --> 00:43:51,590
That's news to me.

866
00:43:53,133 --> 00:43:54,009
That's fathers.

867
00:43:57,262 --> 00:43:59,973
Mr Colman, may I show you something?

868
00:44:02,226 --> 00:44:03,936
They closed this ward six months ago.

869
00:44:05,646 --> 00:44:08,065
Closure was financially appropriate.

870
00:44:08,899 --> 00:44:09,733
Look at this.

871
00:44:10,776 --> 00:44:11,652
Tell me what you see.

872
00:44:14,363 --> 00:44:15,239
A bed.

873
00:44:16,782 --> 00:44:19,159
It's a way out of A & E
when somebody has fallen.

874
00:44:21,203 --> 00:44:22,538
It comes with oxygen,

875
00:44:22,788 --> 00:44:26,124
with intravenous pain relief
for broken bones.

876
00:44:26,959 --> 00:44:30,128
It comes equipped with hoists,
with air flow mattresses,

877
00:44:30,254 --> 00:44:33,382
a hook for catheters,
a bell to summon help.

878
00:44:35,133 --> 00:44:38,637
It carries on its shoulders
care assistants, porters, nurses,

879
00:44:39,596 --> 00:44:44,059
anaesthetists, junior doctors,
housemen, a consultant.

880
00:44:44,977 --> 00:44:45,811
And stretching ahead

881
00:44:45,894 --> 00:44:48,021
are all the possibilities
recovery entails.

882
00:44:48,897 --> 00:44:49,773
Such as?

883
00:44:50,107 --> 00:44:52,401
Occupational therapists and dieticians.

884
00:44:53,151 --> 00:44:56,071
Physios and phlebotomists.
District nurses.

885
00:44:57,906 --> 00:44:59,074
When somebody gets a bed,

886
00:44:59,449 --> 00:45:01,618
they get so much more
than a piece of furniture.

887
00:45:02,911 --> 00:45:04,162
They get everything we are.

888
00:45:06,582 --> 00:45:07,833
Well, if you put it that way.

889
00:45:09,543 --> 00:45:10,502
But at what cost?

890
00:45:11,879 --> 00:45:15,549
The cost is not exorbitant.
The cost is nothing.

891
00:45:15,674 --> 00:45:17,426
Money isn't exactly your strong suit,

892
00:45:18,260 --> 00:45:19,303
is it, Dr Valentine?

893
00:45:21,513 --> 00:45:23,015
It isn't the thing I think of first.

894
00:45:30,772 --> 00:45:31,773
What you up to, Joe?

895
00:45:33,483 --> 00:45:35,736
Trying to get these the right way round.

896
00:45:37,487 --> 00:45:38,572
I was, er,

897
00:45:39,448 --> 00:45:42,075
a banksman at the pit.

898
00:45:42,242 --> 00:45:44,703
I'd give the men their tally
afore they went down,

899
00:45:44,786 --> 00:45:47,164
and they'd hand them back
when they came up safe.

900
00:45:48,165 --> 00:45:49,249
I remember them as much

901
00:45:49,374 --> 00:45:51,418
by their numbers as by their names.

902
00:45:52,294 --> 00:45:53,170
Joe, love.

903
00:45:54,171 --> 00:45:57,674
Dr Valentine thinks it might be better
if we took your wedding ring off.

904
00:45:59,635 --> 00:46:00,594
Better for who?

905
00:46:01,303 --> 00:46:02,137
Well, you.

906
00:46:02,721 --> 00:46:03,764
Your fingers keep puffing up

907
00:46:03,847 --> 00:46:05,641
because your circulation's not behaving.

908
00:46:07,059 --> 00:46:07,893
I'm...

909
00:46:08,602 --> 00:46:10,312
I'm on tablets for that.

910
00:46:10,646 --> 00:46:12,981
Yeah, and if they work,
you can have your ring back.

911
00:46:13,315 --> 00:46:14,608
I'll just need to nip it in half

912
00:46:15,192 --> 00:46:16,485
with a little pair of pliers.

913
00:46:17,277 --> 00:46:19,112
You bloody don't!

914
00:46:19,446 --> 00:46:22,074
Stopping where it is.
Where it's always been.

915
00:46:22,491 --> 00:46:25,327
I have never, ever taken it off. Never.

916
00:46:26,828 --> 00:46:28,247
It's for the good of your health, Joe.

917
00:46:28,413 --> 00:46:32,000
You can sod off with your sodding pliers.

918
00:46:32,125 --> 00:46:33,085
Leave me be.

919
00:46:33,418 --> 00:46:34,253
All right.

920
00:46:35,087 --> 00:46:36,129
Shower time.

921
00:46:43,053 --> 00:46:44,096
Jesus wept.

922
00:46:50,269 --> 00:46:52,271
Right, first,
I'm gonna take your trousers off.

923
00:46:53,021 --> 00:46:54,857
I bet you've said that a few times.

924
00:46:55,023 --> 00:46:57,359
I've got no interest in your penis.

925
00:46:58,277 --> 00:46:59,695
You're not in any danger.

926
00:47:00,112 --> 00:47:01,405
These days, it's swelling

927
00:47:01,488 --> 00:47:03,740
the ranks of the unemployed.

928
00:47:03,907 --> 00:47:05,909
Oh, sorry. I'm just looking for my father.

929
00:47:10,372 --> 00:47:12,416
He has no interest in my penis either.

930
00:47:16,044 --> 00:47:18,213
Nobody told me
Joan Collins was a bathroom.

931
00:47:19,006 --> 00:47:20,757
Sister Face Ache says
you're to go back in,

932
00:47:21,008 --> 00:47:22,509
sit in a corner and make small talk

933
00:47:22,593 --> 00:47:23,844
because nobody likes to feel

934
00:47:23,927 --> 00:47:25,345
they cause revulsion in a loved one.

935
00:47:25,429 --> 00:47:27,848
It's not revulsion. It's pity.

936
00:47:28,473 --> 00:47:29,349
Is that better?

937
00:47:40,527 --> 00:47:41,904
He's back.

938
00:47:43,655 --> 00:47:46,742
You're gonna mark the floor
with those shoes.

939
00:47:47,284 --> 00:47:49,328
And I'm not having anyone
saying it was me.

940
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:52,789
I don't leave marks. I'm a very clean man.

941
00:47:52,873 --> 00:47:55,083
And you'll be all the cleaner
when I've finished with you.

942
00:47:55,792 --> 00:47:57,711
Are you suggesting I do it in my trousers?

943
00:47:57,794 --> 00:47:58,921
Because I never do.

944
00:47:59,755 --> 00:48:01,715
I always sing out when I need to go.

945
00:48:02,466 --> 00:48:03,842
- You're a model.
- Yes.

946
00:48:03,926 --> 00:48:05,302
Otherwise
you'd be on me blacklist.

947
00:48:06,094 --> 00:48:06,970
Now...

948
00:48:07,804 --> 00:48:08,722
Now, is that better?

949
00:48:09,723 --> 00:48:10,682
I smell better.

950
00:48:11,975 --> 00:48:12,851
So, what do you say?

951
00:48:13,727 --> 00:48:15,854
We don't say anything. It's your job.

952
00:48:16,438 --> 00:48:17,272
Dad!

953
00:48:17,689 --> 00:48:19,066
Oh, it speaks.

954
00:48:21,735 --> 00:48:23,654
His feet look swollen.

955
00:48:24,613 --> 00:48:26,031
That's inactivity.

956
00:48:26,823 --> 00:48:27,908
We've a remedy for that.

957
00:48:34,873 --> 00:48:35,832
Right, stop there.

958
00:48:45,300 --> 00:48:46,844
Right, let's get you vertical.

959
00:48:47,219 --> 00:48:48,095
Eh?

960
00:48:48,178 --> 00:48:50,848
He can't stand up.
Dad, you know you can't.

961
00:48:54,351 --> 00:48:55,185
Come towards me.

962
00:48:56,478 --> 00:48:59,231
You're pushing on an open door
with a bossa nova.

963
00:49:00,315 --> 00:49:02,526
You know, sometimes,
even when people can't walk,

964
00:49:02,609 --> 00:49:03,485
they can dance.

965
00:49:04,403 --> 00:49:05,696
We presume it's the music.

966
00:49:06,905 --> 00:49:10,409
Unlocking some long-lost
pattern in the brain.

967
00:49:11,076 --> 00:49:11,994
Wait...

968
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:14,371
Wait till I tell
Gorgeous Gerald about this.

969
00:49:15,789 --> 00:49:16,623
That's it.

970
00:49:19,251 --> 00:49:21,962
Slow. Quick, quick, slow.

971
00:49:26,592 --> 00:49:27,426
Hey,

972
00:49:27,885 --> 00:49:29,595
you're champion at this, you are.

973
00:49:31,054 --> 00:49:33,265
Well, not an actual champion.

974
00:49:33,515 --> 00:49:36,810
I was an actual champion, with his mam.

975
00:49:37,936 --> 00:49:39,146
We won a cup once

976
00:49:39,980 --> 00:49:42,858
at a holiday camp in Filey.

977
00:49:43,025 --> 00:49:44,693
- Ooh!
- It was Scarborough.

978
00:49:45,694 --> 00:49:46,820
Can you dance too?

979
00:49:47,654 --> 00:49:48,488
No.

980
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:51,909
- He sings.
- I used to.

981
00:49:52,910 --> 00:49:54,912
You had the voice of an angel.

982
00:49:57,039 --> 00:49:58,123
All right. Come on.

983
00:49:58,540 --> 00:49:59,374
Hang on a minute.

984
00:50:01,710 --> 00:50:03,170
There we go.

985
00:50:05,756 --> 00:50:06,590
Go on...

986
00:50:07,007 --> 00:50:07,966
...sing.

987
00:50:09,134 --> 00:50:11,094
I can't remember any songs.

988
00:50:12,054 --> 00:50:14,973
Give us  <i>Blow the Wind Southerly.</i>

989
00:50:15,224 --> 00:50:16,433
Bring the house down.

990
00:50:17,809 --> 00:50:18,644
No.

991
00:50:21,355 --> 00:50:24,608
Well, that's your
entertainment over and out

992
00:50:26,777 --> 00:50:29,071
because I've finished
performing for one day.

993
00:50:30,155 --> 00:50:31,573
And I need the lav.

994
00:50:32,115 --> 00:50:32,950
Come on.

995
00:50:33,450 --> 00:50:34,660
And it was Filey.

996
00:50:36,078 --> 00:50:36,995
Scarborough.

997
00:50:40,874 --> 00:50:44,253
Mavis, do you remember eyebrows?

998
00:50:45,921 --> 00:50:46,839
Vaguely.

999
00:50:47,923 --> 00:50:49,383
Where do you suppose they go?

1000
00:50:50,425 --> 00:50:53,178
They take up residence inside men's ears.

1001
00:50:53,470 --> 00:50:54,304
Oh.

1002
00:50:55,848 --> 00:50:58,392
I was sat next to Ambrose
in choir the other day,

1003
00:50:58,475 --> 00:51:00,435
and you've never seen so much hair

1004
00:51:00,519 --> 00:51:02,187
as he's got down his lughole.

1005
00:51:03,397 --> 00:51:05,065
What are you playing at, Mary?

1006
00:51:06,692 --> 00:51:09,278
I'm familiarising myself with the iPad.

1007
00:51:10,737 --> 00:51:13,448
The young men are keen
to receive my impressions

1008
00:51:14,157 --> 00:51:15,325
for their documentary.

1009
00:51:15,909 --> 00:51:17,286
I've got carte blanche

1010
00:51:18,412 --> 00:51:20,581
as long as I've got something
sensible on my feet.

1011
00:51:30,299 --> 00:51:32,551
Signal's best if you go round the kitchen
and stand on the bins.

1012
00:51:33,969 --> 00:51:34,845
All right.

1013
00:51:35,596 --> 00:51:36,972
No, I was just heading off, actually.

1014
00:51:41,226 --> 00:51:42,352
Thanks for what you're doing for my dad.

1015
00:51:43,896 --> 00:51:44,813
That doesn't look easy.

1016
00:51:46,982 --> 00:51:48,025
I'll be out of here next week.

1017
00:51:48,650 --> 00:51:49,526
Huh.

1018
00:51:50,777 --> 00:51:51,695
What are you looking at?

1019
00:51:53,989 --> 00:51:54,948
It's your bike.

1020
00:51:56,116 --> 00:51:57,159
Well, it's a rubbish bike.

1021
00:51:58,702 --> 00:52:00,287
Rubbish? No.

1022
00:52:01,747 --> 00:52:02,915
I had one just like that once.

1023
00:52:03,999 --> 00:52:05,292
You're in my good books today.

1024
00:52:06,210 --> 00:52:08,670
A very nice bit of self-directed physio

1025
00:52:09,004 --> 00:52:10,881
and some immaculate bladder management.

1026
00:52:11,006 --> 00:52:12,257
When...

1027
00:52:12,549 --> 00:52:15,177
When was I in your bad book?

1028
00:52:15,552 --> 00:52:16,470
Well, you haven't been yet.

1029
00:52:17,554 --> 00:52:19,640
That said, I do keep tabs on people.

1030
00:52:21,725 --> 00:52:22,851
I had

1031
00:52:24,311 --> 00:52:26,313
tabs on people once.

1032
00:52:30,108 --> 00:52:32,819
I used to be a tally man down the pit.

1033
00:52:35,405 --> 00:52:37,533
Every shift I'd... I'd... I'd...

1034
00:52:37,783 --> 00:52:40,494
I'd count the men down and, er,

1035
00:52:42,204 --> 00:52:43,330
I'd count them up again.

1036
00:52:45,499 --> 00:52:46,458
I had the list.

1037
00:52:47,751 --> 00:52:48,752
And the... And the list

1038
00:52:49,711 --> 00:52:51,338
could mean the difference between

1039
00:52:51,713 --> 00:52:54,800
life and the reverse.

1040
00:52:54,967 --> 00:52:55,801
Well, come along.

1041
00:52:55,926 --> 00:52:57,135
You've done enough for one day.

1042
00:52:57,427 --> 00:52:59,429
Save the past for reminiscence therapy.

1043
00:53:14,611 --> 00:53:15,487
What job do you do?

1044
00:53:17,155 --> 00:53:18,490
I'm a management consultant.

1045
00:53:20,534 --> 00:53:21,577
What, is that computers?

1046
00:53:22,661 --> 00:53:24,413
Eh. Yes and no.

1047
00:53:26,373 --> 00:53:27,291
They're just a tool.

1048
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:30,919
What's London like?

1049
00:53:34,631 --> 00:53:35,465
Better.

1050
00:53:36,133 --> 00:53:38,218
Better. Better clubs and all that?

1051
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:40,220
Yeah, better clubs and all that.

1052
00:53:41,221 --> 00:53:44,183
Better food. Better weather.
Better prospects.

1053
00:53:44,933 --> 00:53:47,311
Worse traffic, but can't have everything.

1054
00:53:52,065 --> 00:53:52,983
You should try it.

1055
00:53:54,276 --> 00:53:55,110
Go.

1056
00:53:56,069 --> 00:53:57,362
Just for a week, a day.

1057
00:54:01,325 --> 00:54:02,159
I might.

1058
00:54:05,370 --> 00:54:06,205
I did.

1059
00:54:18,008 --> 00:54:18,884
Mr Colman?

1060
00:54:21,178 --> 00:54:24,097
Nurse Pinkney said you were unhappy
about having your wedding ring removed?

1061
00:54:27,142 --> 00:54:29,603
I was unhappy about having it cut off.

1062
00:54:30,938 --> 00:54:33,315
A ring is round,

1063
00:54:33,398 --> 00:54:34,608
it has no end. If you...

1064
00:54:35,025 --> 00:54:36,443
If you cut it off, it's finished.

1065
00:54:37,945 --> 00:54:38,946
May I see it?

1066
00:54:43,951 --> 00:54:45,118
Your fingers are swollen, Joe.

1067
00:54:46,495 --> 00:54:47,538
This will fluctuate,

1068
00:54:47,621 --> 00:54:49,498
but my worry is that
should things get worse,

1069
00:54:49,581 --> 00:54:52,084
rather than better,
you could be in real pain.

1070
00:54:53,752 --> 00:54:55,337
The ring may cut off your blood flow.

1071
00:54:59,591 --> 00:55:00,968
It were never that comfy.

1072
00:55:01,635 --> 00:55:03,762
I'll soldier on with it.

1073
00:55:06,014 --> 00:55:07,224
I brought some grease.

1074
00:55:07,891 --> 00:55:09,643
Will you let me try
and remove it that way?

1075
00:55:12,688 --> 00:55:13,605
I fell.

1076
00:55:14,064 --> 00:55:16,024
I know, love. You fractured your ankle.

1077
00:55:18,068 --> 00:55:19,194
It was mine.

1078
00:55:20,279 --> 00:55:21,738
It's gonna feel a little bit numb

1079
00:55:21,822 --> 00:55:23,031
until the boot comes off.

1080
00:55:26,159 --> 00:55:28,161
It was my house.

1081
00:55:29,621 --> 00:55:31,832
But we can start you with the physio soon.

1082
00:55:31,915 --> 00:55:34,626
You'll like him.
We call him Gorgeous Gerald.

1083
00:55:36,545 --> 00:55:37,421
Come on, sweetheart.

1084
00:55:38,672 --> 00:55:39,798
Come on. Up we come.

1085
00:55:54,188 --> 00:55:55,022
All done.

1086
00:55:57,900 --> 00:55:58,775
There.

1087
00:56:00,110 --> 00:56:00,944
Oh.

1088
00:56:03,572 --> 00:56:04,448
Thank you.

1089
00:56:05,699 --> 00:56:06,617
All gone.

1090
00:56:08,243 --> 00:56:09,119
Lovely job.

1091
00:56:14,166 --> 00:56:16,001
<i>All together, everybody.</i>

1092
00:56:16,293 --> 00:56:18,670
<i>Good morning, good morning</i>

1093
00:56:19,046 --> 00:56:21,006
<i>We've danced
the whole night through</i>

1094
00:56:21,089 --> 00:56:23,926
<i>Good morning,
good morning to you</i>

1095
00:56:24,009 --> 00:56:24,885
Lovely.

1096
00:56:25,177 --> 00:56:26,345
Deep breaths now.

1097
00:56:26,678 --> 00:56:29,431
Now, see if you can move your arms.

1098
00:56:30,098 --> 00:56:31,475
Wonderful, Mavis.

1099
00:56:31,558 --> 00:56:33,352
<i>Good morning to you</i>

1100
00:56:33,435 --> 00:56:37,856
And remember, everyone,
we're being our best selves.

1101
00:56:38,023 --> 00:56:39,316
<i>The moon was shining bright</i>

1102
00:56:39,733 --> 00:56:41,985
<i>Now the milkman's on his way</i>

1103
00:56:42,194 --> 00:56:43,570
<i>It's too late to say goodnight</i>

1104
00:56:43,654 --> 00:56:45,822
Lively, Mary. Think sunshine.

1105
00:56:45,906 --> 00:56:46,949
<i>Good morning</i>

1106
00:56:47,074 --> 00:56:49,117
<i>Sunbeams will soon shine through</i>

1107
00:56:49,243 --> 00:56:53,580
<i>Good morning,
good morning to you</i>

1108
00:56:53,664 --> 00:56:55,165
<i>Lovely.</i>

1109
00:56:55,249 --> 00:56:56,208
Oh.

1110
00:56:56,792 --> 00:56:59,419
All she had to do
was stay alive.

1111
00:57:00,420 --> 00:57:02,130
All you had to do was keep her that way!

1112
00:57:02,214 --> 00:57:04,758
Well, I...
I think you're mistaking my position.

1113
00:57:05,384 --> 00:57:06,260
Thanks.

1114
00:57:07,219 --> 00:57:09,221
Chairman of the Board is, erm,

1115
00:57:10,138 --> 00:57:12,558
well, it's an honorary role.

1116
00:57:12,891 --> 00:57:15,185
Alive. For three more months.

1117
00:57:15,936 --> 00:57:18,438
I'm... I'm told your mother was,

1118
00:57:18,856 --> 00:57:20,148
well, 92.

1119
00:57:20,232 --> 00:57:21,441
Yeah. Well,

1120
00:57:22,359 --> 00:57:25,404
the  <i>Express </i> says that 90 is the new 70.

1121
00:57:27,072 --> 00:57:28,407
We want a post mortem.

1122
00:57:28,657 --> 00:57:29,575
Oh, er...

1123
00:57:30,284 --> 00:57:31,743
Sorry, you said
we could film in here today...

1124
00:57:31,827 --> 00:57:33,078
Oh. No, no, no, not just now. No, erm...

1125
00:57:33,161 --> 00:57:35,747
Look, you're intruding on...
on private grief.

1126
00:57:35,831 --> 00:57:38,500
Actually... Actually,
they can come right in.

1127
00:57:38,667 --> 00:57:40,669
There'll be nothing private about my grief

1128
00:57:40,836 --> 00:57:42,629
when The Beth's had up in court!

1129
00:57:42,838 --> 00:57:44,590
Oh, please, please!

1130
00:57:44,923 --> 00:57:46,633
These people are heartbroken!

1131
00:57:47,050 --> 00:57:48,677
Oh. Your mother's physician.

1132
00:57:49,011 --> 00:57:50,554
Hey, erm...

1133
00:57:50,637 --> 00:57:54,933
Dr Valentine will be able
to answer your questions.

1134
00:57:56,768 --> 00:57:59,897
It's entirely natural,
upon losing a loved one,

1135
00:58:00,022 --> 00:58:02,816
to ask, well, why.

1136
00:58:03,483 --> 00:58:04,818
Not "why?"

1137
00:58:05,611 --> 00:58:06,486
Why?

1138
00:58:07,446 --> 00:58:09,531
Why, after you got your hands on her,

1139
00:58:09,615 --> 00:58:12,117
did an old lass in perfectly good nick

1140
00:58:12,284 --> 00:58:13,827
suddenly peg out, huh?

1141
00:58:15,579 --> 00:58:16,413
Huh?

1142
00:58:17,831 --> 00:58:20,125
Well, according to Sister Gilpin,

1143
00:58:20,209 --> 00:58:21,919
she had gallstones, you know, and...

1144
00:58:22,461 --> 00:58:24,922
and she was, of course, incontinent.

1145
00:58:25,088 --> 00:58:26,632
-Oh, God.
-Oh. Well, yeah.

1146
00:58:27,382 --> 00:58:29,343
I may not know much about medicine,

1147
00:58:29,426 --> 00:58:32,763
but even I know that you
don't die of wet knickers.

1148
00:58:34,515 --> 00:58:36,517
Your mother slept through
the ending of her life.

1149
00:58:37,059 --> 00:58:38,477
In time, if not today,

1150
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:40,020
you will come to see it as a blessing.

1151
00:58:40,103 --> 00:58:41,063
Ha!

1152
00:58:42,356 --> 00:58:43,899
Sister Gilpin was at the helm,

1153
00:58:43,982 --> 00:58:46,777
and, well, she is one of our finest.

1154
00:58:47,653 --> 00:58:49,947
She's about to be awarded
the Bywater Medal.

1155
00:58:50,030 --> 00:58:53,534
I don't care if she's about
to be awarded the V-bloody-C!

1156
00:58:53,617 --> 00:58:54,701
Oh, sir, tmesis.

1157
00:58:57,037 --> 00:58:57,913
Shut up!

1158
00:58:59,039 --> 00:59:01,208
We shall be
pushing for an inquiry.

1159
00:59:01,375 --> 00:59:04,336
With a... With a view to compensation.

1160
00:59:04,461 --> 00:59:05,838
You have lost your mother.

1161
00:59:06,505 --> 00:59:08,882
Surely no amount of money
can compensate for that?

1162
00:59:09,967 --> 00:59:12,302
It can compensate us for inheritance tax.

1163
00:59:13,262 --> 00:59:15,097
She made that house over to us

1164
00:59:15,264 --> 00:59:18,642
six years, eight months and 25 days ago.

1165
00:59:20,561 --> 00:59:22,229
In three months, it would have been ours.

1166
00:59:28,735 --> 00:59:29,695
Boys!

1167
00:59:30,946 --> 00:59:32,322
Do you want any? Come on, Dad.

1168
00:59:34,950 --> 00:59:36,994
Am I disturbing you, Ambrose?

1169
00:59:37,244 --> 00:59:38,495
No. I...

1170
00:59:39,037 --> 00:59:42,416
Although I will have
to curtail a conversation

1171
00:59:42,541 --> 00:59:44,001
if my visitor arrives.

1172
00:59:46,086 --> 00:59:51,258
It's always such a pleasure
to chat with a former student.

1173
00:59:51,341 --> 00:59:52,384
Well, I...

1174
00:59:52,843 --> 00:59:54,970
I come to you as a student today.

1175
00:59:55,345 --> 00:59:56,180
Ah!

1176
00:59:56,513 --> 00:59:58,473
{\an8}I am returning the book of  <i>Modern Poetry.</i>

1177
00:59:58,891 --> 01:00:00,601
{\an8}-Uh-huh.
-I enjoyed it very much.

1178
01:00:01,059 --> 01:00:03,061
{\an8}All the help you have given me
with my English

1179
01:00:03,145 --> 01:00:04,771
is most appreciated.

1180
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:07,316
Ah, yeah, did you read them aloud,

1181
01:00:08,275 --> 01:00:10,027
or just in your head?

1182
01:00:10,235 --> 01:00:12,905
I always said to my pupils,

1183
01:00:13,864 --> 01:00:17,951
"Verse does not live unless it is spoken."

1184
01:00:19,369 --> 01:00:20,704
I did not read them out aloud.

1185
01:00:24,917 --> 01:00:26,293
Page 44.

1186
01:00:26,668 --> 01:00:29,254
Or, er, possibly 49.

1187
01:00:33,300 --> 01:00:34,927
"Ten Types of Hospital Visitor"?

1188
01:00:35,719 --> 01:00:37,721
Read the sixth.

1189
01:00:38,388 --> 01:00:39,890
The sixth is ideal.

1190
01:00:41,391 --> 01:00:43,185
"The sixth visitor says little,

1191
01:00:44,061 --> 01:00:47,231
Breathes reassurance,
Smiles securely,

1192
01:00:47,689 --> 01:00:49,733
Carries no black passport of grapes

1193
01:00:49,816 --> 01:00:50,984
And visa of chocolate..."

1194
01:00:52,402 --> 01:00:54,071
"...has a clutch
Of clean washing,

1195
01:00:54,154 --> 01:00:56,740
Unobtrusively stows it
In the locker,

1196
01:00:56,823 --> 01:00:57,991
Searches out more.

1197
01:00:58,575 --> 01:01:00,285
Talks quietly to the Sister

1198
01:01:00,369 --> 01:01:02,996
Out of sight, out of earshot,
of the patient,

1199
01:01:03,622 --> 01:01:05,374
Arrives punctually as a tide,

1200
01:01:05,666 --> 01:01:07,292
Does not stay for the whole hour.

1201
01:01:08,210 --> 01:01:09,336
When she has gone

1202
01:01:09,628 --> 01:01:11,421
The patient seems to sense her there:

1203
01:01:12,130 --> 01:01:13,715
An upholding Presence"

1204
01:01:18,011 --> 01:01:18,971
Oh, thank you.

1205
01:01:19,263 --> 01:01:20,514
Thank you very much. Thank you.

1206
01:01:25,561 --> 01:01:27,521
Now the last verse.

1207
01:01:28,647 --> 01:01:29,690
It's very short.

1208
01:01:30,983 --> 01:01:32,276
No, Ambrose. I...

1209
01:01:33,652 --> 01:01:34,820
"The last visitor

1210
01:01:36,738 --> 01:01:39,533
Is not generally named"

1211
01:01:40,492 --> 01:01:41,702
It says tenth here.

1212
01:01:44,496 --> 01:01:46,623
We...
We both know what it means.

1213
01:01:54,631 --> 01:01:56,550
Are you going to move me on?

1214
01:01:58,093 --> 01:02:01,221
Not unless we can find
you somewhere better. Okay?

1215
01:02:28,040 --> 01:02:29,833
I don't wanna feed the ducks.

1216
01:02:30,167 --> 01:02:32,377
Feeding the ducks is for kiddies.

1217
01:02:33,086 --> 01:02:34,880
You'll hurt
the volunteers' feelings.

1218
01:02:35,547 --> 01:02:37,424
They went out of their way
to find us something for them.

1219
01:02:37,841 --> 01:02:39,593
Well, it's only
a bit of stale bread.

1220
01:02:40,260 --> 01:02:41,178
All right, then.

1221
01:02:41,595 --> 01:02:43,847
How about the sensory garden?

1222
01:02:45,307 --> 01:02:46,642
It's for blind people.

1223
01:02:49,478 --> 01:02:52,606
This is no way for grown men
to spend their time.

1224
01:02:54,024 --> 01:02:55,567
You could always join that choir.

1225
01:02:59,488 --> 01:03:01,365
Do you remember the strike, Colin?

1226
01:03:03,242 --> 01:03:04,243
Just about.

1227
01:03:05,244 --> 01:03:06,411
What made you think of that?

1228
01:03:06,745 --> 01:03:07,704
Stale bread.

1229
01:03:08,956 --> 01:03:12,292
You'd think it would be
the sound of truncheons on a riot shield,

1230
01:03:12,376 --> 01:03:15,629
or voices raised in anger,
that reminded me.

1231
01:03:15,712 --> 01:03:17,297
Not bloody stale bread.

1232
01:03:19,132 --> 01:03:22,135
Your mam trying to feed us
with nothing in her purse.

1233
01:03:22,302 --> 01:03:24,137
Yeah, the strike was a long time ago, Dad.

1234
01:03:24,221 --> 01:03:25,889
Nobody's picketing any more.

1235
01:03:27,307 --> 01:03:28,392
Nowt to picket.

1236
01:03:31,061 --> 01:03:32,187
Do you know what I remember most?

1237
01:03:33,772 --> 01:03:35,941
Just how bloody dreary it was.

1238
01:03:37,109 --> 01:03:38,402
-Dreary?
-The talk.

1239
01:03:38,986 --> 01:03:41,655
Endless, endless talk, all of the time.

1240
01:03:42,823 --> 01:03:45,659
Though being egged on to hate
Mrs Thatcher was exciting,

1241
01:03:45,742 --> 01:03:46,577
I'll give you that.

1242
01:03:47,494 --> 01:03:49,538
Didn't last long with you, though, did it?

1243
01:03:49,830 --> 01:03:50,831
Dad, I was a kid.

1244
01:03:51,623 --> 01:03:54,459
If you push a kid too far one way,
they do end up going the other.

1245
01:03:55,210 --> 01:03:56,461
I didn't push you.

1246
01:03:57,713 --> 01:03:59,506
You had me rattling collection tins.

1247
01:04:00,507 --> 01:04:02,801
You dragged me to the rallies,
put me on your shoulders.

1248
01:04:03,010 --> 01:04:06,513
You made me sing
at Miners' Benefit concerts.

1249
01:04:07,014 --> 01:04:08,891
There would be pound notes in the hat

1250
01:04:08,974 --> 01:04:10,934
when you sang  <i>Blow the Wind Southerly.</i>

1251
01:04:14,396 --> 01:04:15,397
Where are you taking me now?

1252
01:04:15,480 --> 01:04:17,649
The sensory garden,
before the bloody ducks

1253
01:04:17,733 --> 01:04:19,193
die of a Mother's Pride overdose.

1254
01:04:24,281 --> 01:04:25,908
I've got to head back soon, Dad.

1255
01:04:26,742 --> 01:04:28,493
What, to that bank hotel?

1256
01:04:28,911 --> 01:04:29,745
To London.

1257
01:04:30,204 --> 01:04:32,998
The Minister needs his hand-holding.

1258
01:04:33,290 --> 01:04:34,750
He's not one as well, is he?

1259
01:04:36,210 --> 01:04:38,212
No, he's not. It's...

1260
01:04:39,004 --> 01:04:40,923
It's a figure of speech, Dad.

1261
01:04:55,604 --> 01:04:56,730
There's a threat of a strike.

1262
01:04:58,732 --> 01:05:00,234
He's losing his nerve.

1263
01:05:00,984 --> 01:05:02,611
Who's fighting for what?

1264
01:05:02,694 --> 01:05:06,240
Doctors. For better
work conditions and pay.

1265
01:05:08,075 --> 01:05:10,369
There is no more noble cause.

1266
01:05:12,246 --> 01:05:13,956
I'm on the other side, Dad.

1267
01:05:15,165 --> 01:05:16,291
I forget.

1268
01:05:17,084 --> 01:05:18,335
I don't think you do.

1269
01:05:19,211 --> 01:05:22,256
Your mam used to say
you had the voice of an angel.

1270
01:05:25,092 --> 01:05:26,468
I don't forget that.

1271
01:05:28,262 --> 01:05:31,014
<i>Blow the wind southerly</i>

1272
01:05:31,139 --> 01:05:34,268
<i>Southerly, southerly</i>

1273
01:05:34,977 --> 01:05:40,023
<i>Blow, bonny breeze,
my lover to me</i>

1274
01:05:41,733 --> 01:05:43,902
<i>- They told me last night

1275
01:05:43,986 --> 01:05:46,822
<i>There were ships in the offing</i>

1276
01:05:47,823 --> 01:05:52,828
<i>And I hurried down
to the deep rolling sea</i>

1277
01:05:53,579 --> 01:05:56,748
<i>But my eye could not see it</i>

1278
01:05:57,583 --> 01:06:00,252
<i>Wherever might be it</i>

1279
01:06:02,087 --> 01:06:05,465
<i>The barque that is bearing</i>

1280
01:06:05,632 --> 01:06:11,889
<i>My lover to me</i>

1281
01:06:23,692 --> 01:06:24,651
Lad.

1282
01:06:25,652 --> 01:06:26,486
What?

1283
01:06:27,696 --> 01:06:30,824
Just because a thing has gone,

1284
01:06:32,201 --> 01:06:33,869
doesn't mean it was never good.

1285
01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:36,288
Well, what was never good?

1286
01:06:37,456 --> 01:06:39,208
What went before and

1287
01:06:40,209 --> 01:06:41,293
won't come back.

1288
01:06:43,754 --> 01:06:44,671
The pit.

1289
01:06:46,590 --> 01:06:47,883
Your mam.

1290
01:06:51,094 --> 01:06:52,554
We've still got our memories, Dad.

1291
01:06:52,721 --> 01:06:54,056
Yeah.

1292
01:06:54,723 --> 01:06:57,809
Right now, I'd settle for memory itself.

1293
01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:06,443
And the lavatory!

1294
01:07:07,528 --> 01:07:08,445
Giddy up!

1295
01:07:12,783 --> 01:07:14,618
-Get off.
-Dad!

1296
01:07:15,702 --> 01:07:17,204
Everybody kisses now.

1297
01:07:17,788 --> 01:07:19,248
Not round here, they don't.

1298
01:07:19,998 --> 01:07:21,250
It doesn't mean anything.

1299
01:07:22,543 --> 01:07:23,544
So why do it?

1300
01:07:27,923 --> 01:07:28,882
Bye, Dad.

1301
01:07:30,592 --> 01:07:31,426
Son.

1302
01:07:32,761 --> 01:07:33,595
Yes?.

1303
01:07:34,638 --> 01:07:35,848
When you stopped

1304
01:07:36,974 --> 01:07:38,433
wandering the streets,

1305
01:07:39,977 --> 01:07:42,563
was it because you found
what you were looking for?

1306
01:07:43,146 --> 01:07:46,066
I... I don't know what you mean.

1307
01:07:46,441 --> 01:07:47,276
You do.

1308
01:07:48,318 --> 01:07:49,152
Wig fella.

1309
01:07:50,320 --> 01:07:51,280
The law man.

1310
01:07:53,282 --> 01:07:54,157
George.

1311
01:07:56,159 --> 01:07:57,661
So I forgot his name.

1312
01:08:02,916 --> 01:08:03,834
I don't know.

1313
01:08:18,765 --> 01:08:20,142
Still expecting your visitor?

1314
01:08:21,018 --> 01:08:23,478
Oh, er, well, he's not been.

1315
01:08:24,313 --> 01:08:25,314
That's good, though, isn't it?

1316
01:08:26,939 --> 01:08:27,983
The important thing

1317
01:08:28,149 --> 01:08:29,984
is always have something
to look forward to.

1318
01:08:30,527 --> 01:08:33,488
Oh, I would look forward
to slipping away like Mr Jessop,

1319
01:08:33,572 --> 01:08:35,532
or Mrs Maudsley,

1320
01:08:35,616 --> 01:08:37,618
but I fear I'm not
going to be so fortunate.

1321
01:08:38,160 --> 01:08:42,038
Life has one in its jaws,

1322
01:08:42,163 --> 01:08:44,207
and it doesn't give one up
without a struggle.

1323
01:08:44,457 --> 01:08:47,252
They... They talk about the jaws of death.

1324
01:08:47,961 --> 01:08:49,796
It's not death that has jaws.

1325
01:08:50,756 --> 01:08:51,756
It's life.

1326
01:08:55,761 --> 01:08:58,721
Now, here comes pain with its gull's beak.

1327
01:09:00,390 --> 01:09:02,559
I'll tell Dr Val
your dose needs adjusting.

1328
01:09:10,274 --> 01:09:11,109
Are you choking?

1329
01:09:12,486 --> 01:09:14,863
No, I'm bursting for a bloody bottle.

1330
01:09:16,448 --> 01:09:18,617
There's one there, but I can't reach it.

1331
01:09:18,825 --> 01:09:20,035
You've already gone in it.

1332
01:09:20,243 --> 01:09:22,078
I know. I need to go again.

1333
01:09:22,746 --> 01:09:24,247
Well, I might break the rules
and give it you,

1334
01:09:24,331 --> 01:09:25,582
but you have to ask me nicely.

1335
01:09:27,251 --> 01:09:28,585
Go on, say "please".

1336
01:09:28,710 --> 01:09:30,754
You little sod!

1337
01:09:30,837 --> 01:09:33,215
-I'm bloody bursting!
-Aw.

1338
01:09:33,631 --> 01:09:35,259
I hope I never live to be your age.

1339
01:09:35,591 --> 01:09:37,051
Help.

1340
01:09:38,053 --> 01:09:38,886
Help.

1341
01:09:39,345 --> 01:09:40,180
Nurse!

1342
01:09:40,430 --> 01:09:41,348
What's all this?

1343
01:09:41,640 --> 01:09:43,725
I don't care for raised voices on my ward.

1344
01:09:43,809 --> 01:09:45,269
It means something's gone awry.

1345
01:09:48,856 --> 01:09:50,232
-He's pissed himself.
-Go.

1346
01:09:51,984 --> 01:09:53,359
It's always hard the first time.

1347
01:09:53,986 --> 01:09:55,112
And you were doing so well.

1348
01:09:56,488 --> 01:09:57,447
I sang out.

1349
01:09:58,615 --> 01:10:00,450
I did. I sang out.

1350
01:10:01,493 --> 01:10:03,120
But nobody would listen.

1351
01:10:04,288 --> 01:10:06,373
<i>It was
when an elderly lady came in,</i>

1352
01:10:06,540 --> 01:10:07,624
<i>and she was afraid.</i>

1353
01:10:08,125 --> 01:10:09,376
<i>So I said to her,</i>

1354
01:10:09,585 --> 01:10:11,461
{\an8}<i>"Everything is going to be all right.</i>

1355
01:10:12,379 --> 01:10:13,463
{\an8}<i>"You're in hospital,</i>

1356
01:10:14,590 --> 01:10:15,883
{\an8}<i>"but you are in The Beth."</i>

1357
01:10:17,050 --> 01:10:19,678
{\an8}<i>I gave birth to my son here.</i>

1358
01:10:21,054 --> 01:10:23,140
{\an8}<i>I got put on the pill here. </i>

1359
01:10:26,602 --> 01:10:29,646
{\an8}<i>They brought me a cup of tea
when somebody died.</i>

1360
01:10:33,192 --> 01:10:34,818
{\an8}<i>I think it was my husband.</i>

1361
01:10:36,653 --> 01:10:39,114
{\an8}<i>Our work
is other people's lives.</i>

1362
01:10:40,616 --> 01:10:42,701
<i>I don't quite know
what happens to our own.</i>

1363
01:10:45,287 --> 01:10:46,121
What should I do with this?

1364
01:10:46,205 --> 01:10:47,164
<i>We eat on the run.</i>

1365
01:10:47,414 --> 01:10:48,832
Oh, there'll be a bin somewhere.

1366
01:10:48,916 --> 01:10:50,125
It's a beauty spot.

1367
01:10:52,211 --> 01:10:53,837
<i>We're always tired.</i>

1368
01:10:55,881 --> 01:10:57,674
<i>Sometimes we are lonely.</i>

1369
01:10:59,259 --> 01:11:01,094
Come on. I'll race you.

1370
01:11:06,016 --> 01:11:08,101
<i>And sometimes, somehow,</i>

1371
01:11:09,561 --> 01:11:10,479
<i>we make friends.</i>

1372
01:11:11,730 --> 01:11:12,940
You never call me Alma.

1373
01:11:14,775 --> 01:11:16,735
Hey, why did you choose nursing?

1374
01:11:18,111 --> 01:11:18,987
Oh, I didn't.

1375
01:11:19,404 --> 01:11:20,489
Oh, it chose you?

1376
01:11:21,907 --> 01:11:23,450
It was my mother led me to it.

1377
01:11:24,409 --> 01:11:26,870
She ran a sideline
in caring for the elderly

1378
01:11:27,454 --> 01:11:29,581
in the days when the elderly
weren't farmed out.

1379
01:11:31,208 --> 01:11:33,502
There'd come a time
when somebody's daughter,

1380
01:11:33,585 --> 01:11:35,128
and it was always a daughter,

1381
01:11:35,671 --> 01:11:38,006
would sit in my mother's kitchen weeping,

1382
01:11:38,966 --> 01:11:42,594
saying, "And now I have
to do everything for them."

1383
01:11:43,512 --> 01:11:46,056
Whereupon my mother,
being of a practical bent,

1384
01:11:46,431 --> 01:11:47,516
would shoulder that burden

1385
01:11:47,599 --> 01:11:50,018
and pocket whatever cash
was offered in exchange.

1386
01:11:51,103 --> 01:11:52,646
Money was always persuasive

1387
01:11:53,313 --> 01:11:54,940
because there was no Mr Gilpin.

1388
01:11:57,109 --> 01:11:58,735
I became her assistant over time.

1389
01:11:59,695 --> 01:12:00,988
Washing and wiping.

1390
01:12:02,281 --> 01:12:03,240
Learning to say,

1391
01:12:03,907 --> 01:12:05,909
"Don't fret, love. It comes to us all."

1392
01:12:07,327 --> 01:12:08,829
And then it came to my mother.

1393
01:12:10,998 --> 01:12:11,832
How?

1394
01:12:12,791 --> 01:12:14,126
Long story.

1395
01:12:14,793 --> 01:12:15,711
How?

1396
01:12:19,756 --> 01:12:23,051
She were my first patient.
I kept her spotless.

1397
01:12:23,969 --> 01:12:26,555
I pretty much did Mother
instead of A-levels.

1398
01:12:27,306 --> 01:12:29,057
Maybe that is your speech, Sister.

1399
01:12:29,683 --> 01:12:31,685
How life taught you what you had to give.

1400
01:12:32,895 --> 01:12:35,022
Well, I'm not convinced
it did, as a matter of fact.

1401
01:12:37,024 --> 01:12:39,234
Many's the day I've wondered
what it's all been for.

1402
01:12:39,610 --> 01:12:41,528
You must know, in your soul.

1403
01:12:41,945 --> 01:12:44,198
Or you could not have stayed
so long, and served so well.

1404
01:12:45,949 --> 01:12:49,161
Maybe I just found something
other people couldn't do.

1405
01:12:50,120 --> 01:12:50,996
Or wouldn't.

1406
01:12:52,289 --> 01:12:53,290
I was good at it.

1407
01:12:54,416 --> 01:12:56,335
I even excelled at certain aspects.

1408
01:12:58,086 --> 01:12:59,421
It made me necessary.

1409
01:12:59,922 --> 01:13:00,756
To the patients?

1410
01:13:03,800 --> 01:13:04,676
To The Beth.

1411
01:13:05,469 --> 01:13:07,179
You know, I love The Beth.

1412
01:13:08,722 --> 01:13:10,891
Love complicates matters.

1413
01:13:11,975 --> 01:13:13,018
I see it all the time.

1414
01:13:14,311 --> 01:13:16,647
Middle-aged children
with tears in their eyes,

1415
01:13:17,356 --> 01:13:18,232
pleading.

1416
01:13:19,191 --> 01:13:21,485
"I love them. Oh, I love them. But..."

1417
01:13:23,403 --> 01:13:24,863
And I have to bite my tongue.

1418
01:13:26,198 --> 01:13:29,952
Because if they love them,
why do they put them away?

1419
01:13:58,730 --> 01:13:59,648
Coat on.

1420
01:14:00,649 --> 01:14:01,692
Are you not stopping?

1421
01:14:02,818 --> 01:14:03,861
Just arrived.

1422
01:14:06,530 --> 01:14:07,364
What...

1423
01:14:07,489 --> 01:14:10,325
-What are you doing?
-Oh, just checking.

1424
01:14:11,326 --> 01:14:12,744
It was a one-off.

1425
01:14:15,664 --> 01:14:18,292
When it comes to incontinence,
there are no one-offs.

1426
01:14:18,709 --> 01:14:20,377
Only inaugural incidents.

1427
01:14:21,795 --> 01:14:25,090
You're on the list now.
And you know about lists.

1428
01:14:31,096 --> 01:14:33,223
-We've had the Infirmary on the phone.
-Oh.

1429
01:14:33,432 --> 01:14:34,892
Seven trolleys in the corridor.

1430
01:14:34,975 --> 01:14:37,269
Oh! I bet they're all falls.

1431
01:14:37,895 --> 01:14:39,229
There are a couple of hips.

1432
01:14:39,605 --> 01:14:41,064
No hips.

1433
01:14:41,690 --> 01:14:43,233
The minute we admit a fractured femur,

1434
01:14:43,317 --> 01:14:45,110
we kiss goodbye to that bed
for eight weeks.

1435
01:14:46,195 --> 01:14:48,238
-They were pleading.
-Right.

1436
01:14:53,035 --> 01:14:53,869
Colin?

1437
01:14:56,872 --> 01:14:58,582
<i>My dearest</i>

1438
01:14:58,832 --> 01:15:03,629
<i>We will leave Paris forever</i>

1439
01:15:04,630 --> 01:15:08,425
<i>Life will be happy</i>

1440
01:15:08,634 --> 01:15:12,179
<i>Me there beside you</i>

1441
01:15:12,471 --> 01:15:15,974
<i>Sadness will vanish</i>

1442
01:15:16,391 --> 01:15:19,561
<i>Now we're together</i>

1443
01:15:20,562 --> 01:15:23,774
<i>Our lives will prosper</i>

1444
01:15:24,149 --> 01:15:26,109
<i>All will be well</i>

1445
01:15:26,193 --> 01:15:27,861
Jesus Christ.

1446
01:15:33,825 --> 01:15:34,743
You better be dying.

1447
01:15:35,285 --> 01:15:36,411
If I was dying, I...

1448
01:15:36,745 --> 01:15:38,205
I wouldn't be phoning you, would I?

1449
01:15:39,248 --> 01:15:41,667
<i>Dad... </i> I'm at the opera.

1450
01:15:42,251 --> 01:15:43,919
When did you start liking opera?

1451
01:15:44,920 --> 01:15:45,754
I don't.

1452
01:15:46,922 --> 01:15:48,131
I'm with the Health Secretary.

1453
01:15:48,549 --> 01:15:49,716
And before you ask,

1454
01:15:50,133 --> 01:15:52,970
no, he doesn't like opera either.

1455
01:15:54,972 --> 01:15:57,224
-Dad...
<i>-Colin, I'm on the list.</i>

1456
01:15:57,516 --> 01:16:02,771
<i>And lists make the difference
between life and the reverse.</i>

1457
01:16:02,938 --> 01:16:03,772
What?

1458
01:16:04,314 --> 01:16:07,901
<i>My bladder turned on me. And then she did.</i>

1459
01:16:09,486 --> 01:16:10,404
Who did?

1460
01:16:11,029 --> 01:16:12,030
She might be listening.

1461
01:16:14,700 --> 01:16:17,995
She said she'd put me on the list.

1462
01:16:20,080 --> 01:16:22,958
But nobody's got my tally.

1463
01:16:23,625 --> 01:16:25,502
<i>All right, Dad,
you're... you're not...</i>

1464
01:16:26,962 --> 01:16:28,046
<i>Look, I'll call you in the morning.</i>

1465
01:16:28,213 --> 01:16:30,632
I can hear a bit of it.

1466
01:16:31,425 --> 01:16:32,301
<i>What, the opera?</i>

1467
01:16:34,094 --> 01:16:35,012
You've, er...

1468
01:16:37,431 --> 01:16:39,516
You've gone far, Colin.

1469
01:16:43,437 --> 01:16:44,730
I'll come and see you soon, yeah?

1470
01:16:45,981 --> 01:16:46,899
<i>Good night.</i>

1471
01:17:14,009 --> 01:17:15,511
Are you on the prowl again?

1472
01:17:16,845 --> 01:17:19,056
I don't prowl, Joe. I patrol.

1473
01:17:20,057 --> 01:17:21,475
You ought to be in bed
at this hour, really,

1474
01:17:21,558 --> 01:17:22,643
not sitting up.

1475
01:17:23,352 --> 01:17:26,271
I have to sit up when I'm in bed.

1476
01:17:27,022 --> 01:17:29,983
I can't remember the last time
me chest let me lay down.

1477
01:17:31,151 --> 01:17:32,277
I brought you some hot milk,

1478
01:17:34,238 --> 01:17:35,239
if you fancy it.

1479
01:17:37,032 --> 01:17:38,158
Oh, and a bit of good news.

1480
01:17:38,242 --> 01:17:39,076
Oh, aye?

1481
01:17:40,244 --> 01:17:41,703
Your infection's cleared up.

1482
01:17:42,829 --> 01:17:43,747
You're getting better.

1483
01:17:45,040 --> 01:17:46,250
How's that good news?

1484
01:17:46,917 --> 01:17:48,627
You can go back to The Rowans
in the morning.

1485
01:17:49,503 --> 01:17:51,088
The Rowans is a dustbin.

1486
01:17:52,714 --> 01:17:54,174
Who gets my bed here then?

1487
01:17:55,926 --> 01:17:56,969
A sick person.

1488
01:17:57,719 --> 01:17:58,595
I'm sick.

1489
01:18:00,138 --> 01:18:00,973
I'm old.

1490
01:18:02,224 --> 01:18:04,351
But your infection's better, Joe.

1491
01:18:04,768 --> 01:18:06,311
You're one of my success stories.

1492
01:18:09,064 --> 01:18:10,649
I can't tell you
how good it feels, you know,

1493
01:18:11,275 --> 01:18:12,901
to wave people off, thinking,

1494
01:18:13,777 --> 01:18:15,070
"That's it. They've gone.

1495
01:18:15,988 --> 01:18:17,781
And I have done my very best for them."

1496
01:18:20,576 --> 01:18:21,618
Oh, come on, now.

1497
01:18:38,302 --> 01:18:39,219
I liked it

1498
01:18:40,512 --> 01:18:41,638
when we danced.

1499
01:18:44,308 --> 01:18:45,184
So did I.

1500
01:18:50,105 --> 01:18:52,941
<i>Don't look so sad</i>

1501
01:18:55,903 --> 01:18:58,614
<i>I know it's over</i>

1502
01:19:01,533 --> 01:19:03,410
<i>But life goes on</i>

1503
01:19:04,161 --> 01:19:06,038
<i>And this old world</i>

1504
01:19:07,080 --> 01:19:09,416
<i>Will keep on turning</i>

1505
01:19:11,001 --> 01:19:12,836
I'll miss you getting your medal.

1506
01:19:12,920 --> 01:19:15,214
<i>- Don't say a word
</i>-Mm.

1507
01:19:15,297 --> 01:19:17,299
<i>About tomorrow...</i>

1508
01:19:17,883 --> 01:19:19,968
Oh, it's all something and nothing.

1509
01:19:20,844 --> 01:19:22,054
Just hoo-ha, really.

1510
01:19:22,804 --> 01:19:25,182
That said, I will be getting
a blow dry in the morning.

1511
01:19:27,351 --> 01:19:29,311
And I'll be back in The Rowans

1512
01:19:31,021 --> 01:19:32,814
staring at four walls.

1513
01:19:39,530 --> 01:19:40,781
You will be missed, Joe.

1514
01:19:42,616 --> 01:19:44,409
I miss people all the time.

1515
01:19:46,078 --> 01:19:47,246
You get over it.

1516
01:19:48,121 --> 01:19:51,500
<i>I'll get along</i>

1517
01:19:53,836 --> 01:19:56,755
<i>You'll find another</i>

1518
01:19:57,756 --> 01:19:59,174
Oh, your milk's cold now.

1519
01:20:01,718 --> 01:20:03,011
Would you take the lid off it?

1520
01:20:03,095 --> 01:20:05,472
I... I don't drink out of beakers.

1521
01:20:10,185 --> 01:20:11,061
Here you go.

1522
01:20:14,815 --> 01:20:16,775
I don't know whether I want it or...

1523
01:20:18,318 --> 01:20:19,152
or I don't.

1524
01:20:22,239 --> 01:20:23,115
Well...

1525
01:20:25,117 --> 01:20:26,243
It's there if you do.

1526
01:20:26,952 --> 01:20:27,870
Hmm.

1527
01:20:29,872 --> 01:20:30,747
Good night.

1528
01:20:32,082 --> 01:20:32,958
God bless.

1529
01:20:40,465 --> 01:20:43,051
Yeah, bit lower.
Just... Just there.

1530
01:20:43,135 --> 01:20:44,678
Yeah, that's right. That's good.

1531
01:20:44,803 --> 01:20:45,637
-That's it?
-Yeah.

1532
01:20:47,139 --> 01:20:48,765
And the other side.

1533
01:20:52,269 --> 01:20:53,729
And... And the same height.

1534
01:20:53,937 --> 01:20:55,564
They... They have to be the same height.

1535
01:20:56,148 --> 01:20:57,524
They're not the same height.

1536
01:20:59,610 --> 01:21:00,736
Will you sign my form?

1537
01:21:01,612 --> 01:21:02,863
You haven't done anything yet.

1538
01:21:04,031 --> 01:21:06,700
And I understand you've extra duties
lined up this morning,

1539
01:21:06,783 --> 01:21:07,743
at the do.

1540
01:21:08,368 --> 01:21:09,286
Will you please sign it?

1541
01:21:09,369 --> 01:21:11,496
I mean, Sister Gilpin
keeps ticking "poor".

1542
01:21:11,705 --> 01:21:12,539
I'm better than poor.

1543
01:21:12,623 --> 01:21:13,749
She should be ticking "average".

1544
01:21:18,670 --> 01:21:21,757
<i>You asked me
to cast my eye over The Beth.</i>

1545
01:21:23,091 --> 01:21:23,926
I did.

1546
01:21:24,343 --> 01:21:26,929
And I saw things I didn't expect.

1547
01:21:29,848 --> 01:21:30,682
It's loved.

1548
01:21:33,268 --> 01:21:34,269
It's believed in.

1549
01:21:36,063 --> 01:21:36,980
And it does its best.

1550
01:21:38,565 --> 01:21:39,775
And I know none of those things

1551
01:21:39,900 --> 01:21:40,859
fit into any of your policies,

1552
01:21:40,943 --> 01:21:43,111
or even my strategic advice.

1553
01:21:43,237 --> 01:21:45,197
Your strategic advice was to shut it down.

1554
01:21:45,280 --> 01:21:46,990
Yeah, I know it was. But...

1555
01:21:49,493 --> 01:21:50,619
It's not what people want.

1556
01:21:51,203 --> 01:21:54,540
Three days up North
and he's preaching democracy.

1557
01:21:56,416 --> 01:21:58,460
Yeah, I was up North
for a lot longer than three days.

1558
01:21:58,585 --> 01:21:59,670
You offered it up

1559
01:21:59,920 --> 01:22:01,755
as a guiding principle of management.

1560
01:22:01,839 --> 01:22:04,007
Success doesn't like small.

1561
01:22:04,341 --> 01:22:07,219
Small's expensive.
Small's a poor investment.

1562
01:22:07,761 --> 01:22:08,595
Small lacks scope.

1563
01:22:08,679 --> 01:22:11,849
Yeah, but nothing about the NHS is small.

1564
01:22:12,432 --> 01:22:13,976
Everything connects.

1565
01:22:14,059 --> 01:22:16,186
Every single bed links through to someone,

1566
01:22:16,395 --> 01:22:18,105
or something that's part of an entity

1567
01:22:18,272 --> 01:22:20,732
so much bigger,
we can scarcely comprehend it.

1568
01:22:20,816 --> 01:22:21,984
An entity which will soon be gone.

1569
01:22:22,109 --> 01:22:23,360
Yeah, yeah... But that doesn't mean

1570
01:22:23,443 --> 01:22:24,570
it was never any good!

1571
01:22:25,863 --> 01:22:30,117
The NHS was the biggest idea
this country has ever had.

1572
01:22:30,200 --> 01:22:32,452
And you will dismantle it at your peril,

1573
01:22:32,661 --> 01:22:35,122
because people will not forget.

1574
01:22:35,998 --> 01:22:38,083
-Where are you going?
-Oh, I'm going back to The Beth.

1575
01:22:39,543 --> 01:22:41,086
But in a private capacity.

1576
01:22:51,054 --> 01:22:51,889
Aw.

1577
01:23:04,109 --> 01:23:05,277
Oh, Mary.

1578
01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:07,362
I was watching a video of my nieces.

1579
01:23:07,446 --> 01:23:08,280
Do you want to see it?

1580
01:23:08,614 --> 01:23:09,448
Presently, perhaps.

1581
01:23:09,531 --> 01:23:11,491
But first, I want to show you this.

1582
01:23:11,617 --> 01:23:13,493
Oh, no, you don't have to show me
what you've been filming.

1583
01:23:13,577 --> 01:23:14,953
You just give it to the filmmakers.

1584
01:23:15,370 --> 01:23:20,250
I fear they are not familiar
with the concept of marginalia.

1585
01:23:20,876 --> 01:23:23,754
The importance of things
recorded at the edges.

1586
01:23:27,841 --> 01:23:28,675
Morning.

1587
01:23:29,218 --> 01:23:30,427
Look what I've brought.

1588
01:23:53,700 --> 01:23:54,576
<i>All gone.</i>

1589
01:23:55,661 --> 01:23:56,537
<i>Lovely job.</i>

1590
01:23:59,831 --> 01:24:01,375
<i> Would you take the lid off it?</i>

1591
01:24:01,458 --> 01:24:03,418
<i>I... I don't drink out of beakers.</i>

1592
01:24:07,673 --> 01:24:08,674
<i>Here you go.</i>

1593
01:24:16,056 --> 01:24:17,766
Have I acted appropriately?

1594
01:24:17,850 --> 01:24:19,059
Dr Valentine.

1595
01:24:20,185 --> 01:24:22,729
We're having trouble waking Joe Colman.

1596
01:24:23,689 --> 01:24:24,982
Yes, you have.

1597
01:25:15,908 --> 01:25:17,409
What do you mean, he died in his sleep?

1598
01:25:18,660 --> 01:25:19,870
<i>Mr Colman,
when you get to us...</i>

1599
01:25:19,953 --> 01:25:21,538
No. All right. Listen to me.

1600
01:25:23,165 --> 01:25:25,417
You leave my father
exactly where he is. Okay?

1601
01:25:25,501 --> 01:25:27,044
I... I... I don't want him touched,

1602
01:25:27,127 --> 01:25:28,962
and I don't want him moved.

1603
01:25:29,046 --> 01:25:30,797
I was... I was already on my way!

1604
01:25:31,507 --> 01:25:32,841
Mr Colman, when you get to us...

1605
01:25:32,966 --> 01:25:34,801
<i>When I get to you, I've got questions!</i>

1606
01:25:34,885 --> 01:25:36,553
And I... I want them answered!

1607
01:25:41,475 --> 01:25:43,769
Ah! I finished
my speech at the salon

1608
01:25:43,894 --> 01:25:44,937
as the rollers were coming out.

1609
01:25:46,438 --> 01:25:48,565
I suddenly knew exactly what to say.

1610
01:26:09,044 --> 01:26:10,337
Greeting the Mayor, hmm?

1611
01:26:18,595 --> 01:26:19,638
<i>All gone.</i>

1612
01:26:20,389 --> 01:26:21,348
<i>Lovely job.</i>

1613
01:26:27,563 --> 01:26:29,022
It's a geriatric ward.

1614
01:26:30,232 --> 01:26:31,817
Death is in the scheme of things.

1615
01:26:33,360 --> 01:26:35,571
Beakers of milk and morphine

1616
01:26:35,654 --> 01:26:36,989
aren't in the scheme of things.

1617
01:26:37,573 --> 01:26:40,075
Joe Colman drank his of his own accord.

1618
01:26:41,159 --> 01:26:43,579
Mrs Maudsley couldn't do
anything of her own accord.

1619
01:26:44,037 --> 01:26:44,955
Well...

1620
01:26:46,498 --> 01:26:48,750
I always helped them
if they were that far gone.

1621
01:26:50,794 --> 01:26:51,670
Always?

1622
01:27:12,900 --> 01:27:13,984
How many were there, Alma?

1623
01:27:21,950 --> 01:27:22,993
How many, Alma?

1624
01:27:26,955 --> 01:27:28,373
<i>I had targets to meet.</i>

1625
01:27:31,084 --> 01:27:32,169
Beds to find.

1626
01:27:34,421 --> 01:27:35,714
Folk to make grateful.

1627
01:27:37,424 --> 01:27:39,384
If you could have seen even one of them,

1628
01:27:39,885 --> 01:27:40,844
just one of them.

1629
01:27:42,137 --> 01:27:43,555
The way they relaxed.

1630
01:27:44,515 --> 01:27:46,391
The way their faces softened.

1631
01:27:47,392 --> 01:27:49,311
All the pain and confusion gone.

1632
01:27:51,438 --> 01:27:52,564
In a single moment,

1633
01:27:53,440 --> 01:27:56,652
I'd accomplished something
no administrator ever could,

1634
01:27:56,735 --> 01:27:57,986
and no doctor either.

1635
01:27:59,446 --> 01:28:00,364
Not even you.

1636
01:28:02,699 --> 01:28:05,410
The Beth had fulfilled
its obligation to the system,

1637
01:28:07,120 --> 01:28:09,081
and I had ended someone's suffering.

1638
01:28:11,583 --> 01:28:13,627
I used to think
you were so good with them.

1639
01:28:14,837 --> 01:28:15,921
I was good.

1640
01:28:17,297 --> 01:28:18,465
But you were lovely.

1641
01:28:22,511 --> 01:28:25,305
Lights, camera, action.
The Mayor's taken her seat.

1642
01:28:39,653 --> 01:28:43,115
The Bywater Medal was established in 1930.

1643
01:28:43,991 --> 01:28:44,992
I like to think

1644
01:28:45,409 --> 01:28:48,036
that the first nurses who won it, and I,

1645
01:28:48,370 --> 01:28:49,621
have something in common.

1646
01:28:50,581 --> 01:28:53,417
Just as we have with Florence Nightingale,

1647
01:28:53,500 --> 01:28:55,043
who founded our profession.

1648
01:28:55,961 --> 01:28:58,130
You'd take one look at all of us

1649
01:28:58,714 --> 01:29:00,465
and think we were old-fashioned.

1650
01:29:03,135 --> 01:29:05,304
We do the things
that have had to be done,

1651
01:29:05,888 --> 01:29:07,514
since time immemorial.

1652
01:29:08,932 --> 01:29:10,434
Since the world was young.

1653
01:29:12,060 --> 01:29:13,645
I have done what they did.

1654
01:29:14,938 --> 01:29:16,773
I have sought to be efficient.

1655
01:29:18,233 --> 01:29:19,568
I tended the sick.

1656
01:29:20,944 --> 01:29:22,738
I consoled the afflicted.

1657
01:29:24,406 --> 01:29:27,075
I comforted the dying.

1658
01:29:29,661 --> 01:29:31,079
I have cared.

1659
01:29:42,341 --> 01:29:43,467
Oh, Lady Mayoress...

1660
01:29:57,105 --> 01:30:00,067
<i>Forget your troubles
Come on, get happy</i>

1661
01:30:00,442 --> 01:30:03,028
<i>We're gonna chase
all your cares away</i>

1662
01:30:03,529 --> 01:30:06,490
<i>Sing allelujah
Come on, get happy</i>

1663
01:30:06,782 --> 01:30:09,535
<i>Get ready
for the Judgement Day</i>

1664
01:30:16,250 --> 01:30:19,503
<i>It's all so peaceful</i>

1665
01:30:19,753 --> 01:30:22,005
<i>On the other side</i>

1666
01:30:22,214 --> 01:30:24,883
<i>Forget your troubles
Come on, get happy</i>

1667
01:30:25,467 --> 01:30:27,719
<i>We're gonna chase
all your cares away</i>

1668
01:30:28,262 --> 01:30:31,265
<i>Sing allelujah
Come on, get happy</i>

1669
01:30:31,348 --> 01:30:34,059
<i>Get ready for the Judgement Day</i>

1670
01:30:34,142 --> 01:30:35,769
<i>Get ready</i>

1671
01:30:35,894 --> 01:30:37,187
<i>Get ready</i>

1672
01:30:37,271 --> 01:30:39,606
<i>Get ready</i>

1673
01:30:39,690 --> 01:30:42,943
<i>For the Judgement Day</i>

1674
01:30:43,068 --> 01:30:44,319
<i>Allelujah!</i>

1675
01:31:40,417 --> 01:31:41,543
It's all right.

1676
01:31:42,961 --> 01:31:43,837
It's all right.

1677
01:31:58,810 --> 01:31:59,895
He was meant to be getting better.

1678
01:32:00,854 --> 01:32:01,772
But he was terrified.

1679
01:32:01,855 --> 01:32:04,024
I wanna know who was he terrified of,

1680
01:32:04,107 --> 01:32:04,983
and why?

1681
01:32:09,238 --> 01:32:11,198
We find ourselves
obliged to, er,

1682
01:32:12,616 --> 01:32:13,575
apprise you of

1683
01:32:15,369 --> 01:32:16,411
some developments.

1684
01:32:27,172 --> 01:32:28,048
In the back, please.

1685
01:32:29,466 --> 01:32:31,468
<i>Mary's film
was shown in court.</i>

1686
01:32:32,845 --> 01:32:34,763
<i>Sister Gilpin was jailed for life.</i>

1687
01:32:37,266 --> 01:32:38,392
<i>The Beth closed down.</i>

1688
01:32:45,649 --> 01:32:47,234
<i>Our patients were dispersed.</i>

1689
01:32:48,944 --> 01:32:50,988
<i>And I went to work at another hospital.</i>

1690
01:32:57,536 --> 01:32:59,121
<i>The Beth did not die.</i>

1691
01:33:00,330 --> 01:33:02,749
<i>It was always just a bricks and mortar box</i>

1692
01:33:02,875 --> 01:33:04,084
<i>for the things that mattered.</i>

1693
01:33:04,168 --> 01:33:05,544
I can take a look, thank you.

1694
01:33:05,627 --> 01:33:06,587
<i>And they matter still.</i>

1695
01:33:07,421 --> 01:33:10,674
<i>They pulse on through the system
like blood.</i>

1696
01:33:12,426 --> 01:33:15,470
<i>Care without question,
cost without counting.</i>

1697
01:33:15,971 --> 01:33:18,724
<i>Belief in beds
without boundaries or limits,</i>

1698
01:33:18,849 --> 01:33:20,184
<i>in spite of pandemics.</i>

1699
01:33:22,144 --> 01:33:24,062
<i>I will always love the old.</i>

1700
01:33:25,147 --> 01:33:28,692
<i>I will love them for as long
as they are here to be loved,</i>

1701
01:33:28,775 --> 01:33:31,320
<i>to be nursed, to be encouraged.</i>

1702
01:33:32,988 --> 01:33:34,323
<i>The virus, meanwhile,</i>

1703
01:33:35,365 --> 01:33:36,450
<i>shows no mercy.</i>

1704
01:33:37,951 --> 01:33:39,411
Ambrose?

1705
01:33:39,494 --> 01:33:40,704
Do you remember me?

1706
01:33:40,787 --> 01:33:41,705
No air.

1707
01:33:43,332 --> 01:33:45,709
I know, my friend.
We are gonna help with that.

1708
01:33:50,214 --> 01:33:54,092
Not generally named.

1709
01:33:54,801 --> 01:33:56,220
Who is not generally named?

1710
01:33:59,181 --> 01:34:01,141
Last visitor.

1711
01:34:34,216 --> 01:34:36,510
<i>We can
make unforgivable mistakes.</i>

1712
01:34:38,470 --> 01:34:39,972
<i>Yes, we are stretched.</i>

1713
01:34:40,055 --> 01:34:41,473
<i>Yes, we stumble.</i>

1714
01:34:41,557 --> 01:34:43,600
<i>Yes, our reach exceeds our grasp.</i>

1715
01:34:44,476 --> 01:34:46,895
<i>But please don't make the perfect
the enemy of the good.</i>

1716
01:34:49,314 --> 01:34:51,316
Don't dismiss us for what we cannot do.

1717
01:34:52,526 --> 01:34:53,569
Don't tear us down

1718
01:34:53,652 --> 01:34:56,989
and use our rubble
to rebuild your other empires.

1719
01:34:57,072 --> 01:34:58,782
Profit will not profit you.

1720
01:35:04,162 --> 01:35:06,832
We may buckle, but we do not waver.

1721
01:35:07,583 --> 01:35:09,626
We are tested, but we do not flinch.

1722
01:35:10,294 --> 01:35:11,962
We are here when night falls,

1723
01:35:12,045 --> 01:35:14,423
here when darkness eases into dawn.

1724
01:35:14,506 --> 01:35:16,175
We are here for your first cry,

1725
01:35:16,258 --> 01:35:17,384
for your last breath,

1726
01:35:17,467 --> 01:35:19,261
when you are broken, when you bleed,

1727
01:35:19,344 --> 01:35:21,471
when others recoil or reject you.

1728
01:35:21,555 --> 01:35:23,265
We will be here when you're old.

1729
01:35:23,891 --> 01:35:25,017
And we would die for you.

1730
01:35:29,688 --> 01:35:30,814
We are love itself.

1731
01:35:31,648 --> 01:35:34,067
And for love, there is no charge.