First broadcast 21st January 1977.
The local Labour party ask Jack to speak on behalf of their candidate Geordie Watson, a good man but a less impassioned orator than Jack, at the up-coming elections.
James Bolam ... Jack Ford
Susan Jameson ... Jessie Seaton
Malcolm Terris ... Matt Headley
Geoffrey Rose ... Arthur Ashton
Catherine Terris ... Miss Laidlaw
Rosalind Bailey ... Sarah Lytton
Ian Cullen ... Geordie Watson
Roger Avon ... Stan Liddell
Lizzie McKenzie ... Mrs. Thoburn
Brian Appleton ... Jimmy Thoburn
Cilla Mason ... Mrs. Burns
Alan Fox ... Mr. Purdie
The local Labour party ask Jack to speak on behalf of their candidate Geordie Watson, a good man but a less impassioned orator than Jack, at the up-coming elections.
James Bolam ... Jack Ford
Susan Jameson ... Jessie Seaton
Malcolm Terris ... Matt Headley
Geoffrey Rose ... Arthur Ashton
Catherine Terris ... Miss Laidlaw
Rosalind Bailey ... Sarah Lytton
Ian Cullen ... Geordie Watson
Roger Avon ... Stan Liddell
Lizzie McKenzie ... Mrs. Thoburn
Brian Appleton ... Jimmy Thoburn
Cilla Mason ... Mrs. Burns
Alan Fox ... Mr. Purdie
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00:00Come hear me little Jacky, now I've smoothed me backy, have a bit of cracky, till the boat
00:10comes in.
00:11Dance to the daddy, sing to the mummy, dance to the daddy, to the mummy, sing, thou shalt
00:16have the fishy on a little dishy, thou shalt have the fishy when the boat comes in.
00:21Thou shalt have the fishy on a little dishy, thou shalt have the fishy when the boat comes
00:38in.
00:53Mrs Thoburn is it?
00:54That's right.
00:55Perhaps you'll remember me, you came to see me three weeks ago, I'm your son's headmaster.
00:59Oh yes, Mr Ashton, I remember.
01:03I wonder if I might have a word with you.
01:07Keep me place for us, will you?
01:10Yes, sir?
01:12Your son's been absent since the day you came to see me.
01:15Suffers with his chest, you see, sir, he gets that many colds.
01:18Cold?
01:19But it's three weeks, Mrs Thoburn.
01:20Well, there's a weakness there, there always was, just like his father before him.
01:25First a cold, then the flu, then it was pneumonia, and then it was the cemetery.
01:30Mrs Thoburn.
01:31He suffered chronic, poor Thoburn, he could cough through a brick wall.
01:34You asked me if your son could leave school, go to work.
01:36Well, he's no handbook learner now at gym.
01:38The law says he can't, not until he's 14.
01:40The law's the law, Mr Ashton, and we wouldn't want it any different, now would we?
01:44So your gym is not working now?
01:46Flat on his back, Mr Ashton, coughing like a steam engine, God's honour.
01:50I shall want to see him as soon as he's well.
01:52Me word on that, Mr Ashton.
01:56Thank you for enquiring.
02:08Jimmy!
02:14Yes, mum?
02:15Watch where you're going, my boy, your headmaster's after you.
02:26Oh, that's him now, Mr. Liddle.
02:28Oh, thanks.
02:30Order, Miss Laidlaw.
02:32Mr. Ford, there's a Mr. Liddle to see you.
02:38Oh, what can I do for you, Stan?
02:40Why, can't you guess?
02:42Do you wear that many hats?
02:44Which one is it today?
02:46Labour Party secretary?
02:48Councillor? Miners' union?
02:50All three of them, Jack.
02:52It's Geordie Watson.
02:54Oh, what about him?
02:56We're the by-election man.
02:58Geordie's got my vote. You should know that.
03:00I've always been Labour.
03:02Oh, want a bit more than your vote, Jack?
03:04Go on.
03:06Well, old Pinner was a rotten M.D.
03:08This town's not so liberal any more, you know.
03:10Not now.
03:12It was you put paid to him, come to that.
03:14The day you and your mates hired your medals at him.
03:16He never got over that.
03:18Oh, that was a canny bit of gold.
03:20I was young and daft in them days.
03:22For you, Jack.
03:24Let's have it.
03:28Geordie could win, Jack.
03:30He's got the miners solid behind him.
03:32Well, they would be. He was a pitman himself.
03:34Aye, but the miners kind of do it on their own.
03:36He needs the rest of them if he's got to get in.
03:38But they're lazy. They won't turn out.
03:40I mean, Geordie and me,
03:42we've got promises, a lot of promises,
03:44but why promises is no good.
03:46We want votes.
03:48Shipyard votes.
03:50We can't get them,
03:52but you can.
03:54Jack,
03:56I want you to speak for him.
03:58Oh, I'm pretty busy, Stan.
04:00Why, we're all busy, but...
04:02Why, you are a leader.
04:04I mean, like Geordie, you've got obligations.
04:06I'm an expert, Stan. Industry's my game,
04:08not politics.
04:10Why, I knew it,
04:12but why the lads'll listen to you.
04:14The lads'll listen to anybody that tells them what they want to hear.
04:16I'm sorry, Stan.
04:18Give Geordie my regards
04:20and tell him I'll be voting for him.
04:40I saw Mrs. Thoburn this morning.
04:42Thoburn?
04:44You remember, she wanted to withdraw her son before his 14th birthday.
04:46That was three weeks ago.
04:48He hasn't been to school since.
04:50What did she tell you?
04:52That her son has a persistent cold.
04:54Has she seen the doctor?
04:56There was no mention of it.
04:58I bet she's lying.
05:00Well, of course she is.
05:02She does it rather well.
05:04Quite a stylist, in her way.
05:06You'll report the boy to the school board?
05:08I must.
05:10But she was in a queue for the soup kitchen
05:12on Copland Street.
05:15Better get back, I suppose.
05:22Arthur.
05:24You know I'm on Geordie Watson's election committee.
05:27I should. I hear of very little else.
05:29Then you know I've got to put a poster up.
05:32Not in my house.
05:34Not yours, no. Ours.
05:36I shall be late.
05:38I mean what I say.
05:40You always do, so this time I don't want you to say anything.
05:42Bye.
06:12Bye.
06:42Charlton.
06:44And Mason.
06:46Right, now then. 50 yards dash.
06:48Get to your marks.
06:52Tape you two.
06:54Found us any athletes, Mr. Purdy?
06:56This lot? They're not even trying, Mr. Ashton.
06:59What are they going to be like on sports day?
07:01I should have to think.
07:03This lot's rubbish.
07:05Rubbish!
07:09On your marks. Get set.
07:11Go!
07:18Mason...
07:20and Burrus.
07:22See what I mean, Mr. Ashton?
07:24The only good one we ever had was Jimmy Thorburn.
07:27If you ask me, Thorburn's turned professional.
07:41Come on.
08:12There's a Mrs. Burns and a Mrs. Ashton to see you, Mr. Ford.
08:17Well, show them in, then.
08:19And you'd better make us some tea.
08:21Yes, Mr. Ford.
08:26Well, Mrs. Ashton.
08:28A Mrs. Burns, is it?
08:30I'll take a seat, won't you?
08:37Now, ladies, what can I do for you?
08:40It's about the election.
08:42That's right.
08:44We've organised a women's committee to support George Watson.
08:47I see. Come for a contribution, have you?
08:49Working men's never all that flush, are they, Mrs. Burns?
08:52That's right.
08:54The union better give you something.
08:56We've got to keep our wives happy.
08:58We didn't come for money.
09:00What, then?
09:02We want you to address a few meetings.
09:05Talk to a hall full of women? I'd be terrified.
09:08Not just women, Mr. Ford. We don't believe in that.
09:11What do you believe in, then, Mrs. Ashton?
09:13Men and women working together.
09:15Equal partners, that's what we believe in.
09:17Working for social justice. That's right.
09:19Do you want a man to speak to you?
09:21We want an orator. Man or woman, doesn't matter.
09:24That's what I am. An orator.
09:26When you want to be, you know you are.
09:28If you don't mind, Mrs. Ashton, I'd rather hear Mrs. Burns tell it.
09:32We've got to talk in the committee rooms.
09:35Geordie Watson's a good man.
09:37Talks well, means well.
09:39Are we coming to the word but, Mrs. Burns?
09:41Don't let her finish.
09:43There's no fire there, Mr. Ford.
09:45The words don't lift you.
09:47Now, I've heard you speak. Have you?
09:49Ah, you have.
09:51A couple of years back, that would be.
09:53You went to prison for it.
09:55No offence meant, Mr. Ford.
09:57None taken, Mrs. Burns. Go on.
09:59You'd been helping a poor widow in her bends.
10:01The landlord was going to take her furniture
10:03because she hadn't paid her rent.
10:05Only you stepped in and took it first.
10:07Saved it for her.
10:09And there in court,
10:11you stood up and made a speech.
10:13And there we all were listening.
10:15And by the time you finished,
10:17we were all up on our feet and cheering.
10:19And neither the magistrates
10:21nor the bobbies could stop us.
10:23And I went to prison.
10:25Ah, you did. But you're out now
10:27and working for us again.
10:29Only we need to hear you, Mr. Ford.
10:31We need your words,
10:33if you don't.
10:35I'm listening.
10:37I don't think Geordie Watson will get in.
10:39He's never had your gift.
10:41I'm telling you straight.
10:43Now, then.
10:45Well, it'll take a bit of thinking about.
10:47Will it?
10:49It will.
10:51All these, Mrs. Burns, and more come on in every day.
10:53Men's wages,
10:55men's hours of work, men's injuries.
10:57It doesn't leave us much spare time.
10:59Ah, you've always worked for your own.
11:01I know that. But...
11:03That word again?
11:05We need Geordie Watson, Mr. Ford,
11:07just like we need you.
11:13Well,
11:15I'll think about it. I promise you.
11:17Just a few words.
11:19That's all we'll ask.
11:21I wonder if I could have a word about your billy,
11:23Mrs. Ashton.
11:25If you don't mind, Mini.
11:27I'll wait outside.
11:29Thank you, Mrs. Burns.
11:37What about Billy?
11:39Billy's all right.
11:41Is he?
11:43Just doesn't like doing what he's told, that's all.
11:45He's learning.
11:47Then why do you want to talk about him?
11:49I don't. Billy was just an excuse.
11:51What you up to, Jessie?
11:53I don't know what you're talking about.
11:55That's what I'm talking about. Who put you up to it?
11:57Up to what?
11:59Asking me to speak.
12:01You heard Mini Burns.
12:03Mini, it would be.
12:05Don't make fun of her.
12:07It was like she said.
12:09She heard you that time in court,
12:11and she's never forgotten.
12:13You're needed, Jack.
12:15It was just your committee he said so.
12:17Isn't that enough?
12:19All of us adoring women just pleading
12:21for a chance to hear this great big wonderful man.
12:23Adoring?
12:25You?
12:27Oh, sorry, I didn't know you had visitors.
12:29I was just leaving, Mr. Headley.
12:31Well, what's your answer?
12:33I'll let you know tomorrow.
12:35Thank you for asking.
12:39I'm sorry, Jack, I didn't mean it.
12:41Come off it, Matt. Not exactly courting, you know.
12:43What's she after?
12:45There's another one outside, no?
12:47Aye, Mini Burns, the chairman of me supporters club.
12:49They're the Labour Party's
12:51women's committee.
12:53They want me to speak for Geordie Watson.
12:55Well, they've left it a bit late, haven't they?
12:57They should have had you on weeks ago.
12:59Think so? I know so.
13:01I've knocked on a few doors myself, but you, you'd pack them in.
13:03Good turn, haven't I?
13:05Well, you're a bit more than that when you want to be.
13:07What about Dolly, Matt? What about her?
13:09Well, suppose I'm up there blathering away
13:11about the starving masses and the brotherhood of man.
13:13What about if some joker comes up and says,
13:15never mind preaching to us, comrade,
13:17just tell us where your wife is first?
13:19How am I going to handle that?
13:21Well, none of our lot would do that.
13:23Well, a Liberal would or a Tory, they want to get in and all, you know.
13:25Aye, maybe.
13:27But you wouldn't cry off just for that.
13:31They've gone.
13:33Oh.
13:35Well, leave it, leave it.
13:45There's another thing, Matt.
13:47What?
13:49I should have been doing this weeks ago.
13:51Why didn't they ask us?
13:53You think then they're scared you might take Geordie Watson's place?
13:55But you can't, man.
13:57He's their candidate, official.
13:59He is this time.
14:01But suppose I don't speak for him and he loses?
14:03You think I couldn't take his job off him?
14:05No.
14:07They've left it this late because I'm their only chance.
14:09They don't want us,
14:11but they've got to have us.
14:13Mrs. Ashton said that?
14:15No, not her.
14:17Stan Little.
14:19Well, he came here, no? Aye.
14:21What did you say?
14:23He came empty-handed, Matt,
14:25then he left the same way.
14:45He'll be alone.
15:11He's late.
15:13War Jack's a professional man now, Stan.
15:17You won't catch him belting across the cobbles
15:19the minute the hooter blows.
15:21Professional men don't come running in
15:23with their tongues hanging out.
15:25They've got dignity, Stan.
15:27Decorum. Presence.
15:31You don't like him much either, do you?
15:33I don't like him at all,
15:35but I've got to have him.
15:39You didn't handle him right, Stan.
15:41I told him how things were.
15:43I said he was needed.
15:45What did you offer him?
15:47Offer him?
15:49Surely to God he wasn't expecting money.
15:51Keep your voice down, can't you?
15:53There's more things he wants than money, Stan.
15:55What? How the hell do I know?
15:57That's what you were supposed to find out.
16:03See you at the pool?
16:11I know what he wants.
16:13Your job.
16:15Mr. John Ford, MP.
16:17Aye, well, if I get in,
16:19he can't have it, can he?
16:29Hello, Mum.
16:31Well, bonnie lad?
16:33Where's the little ones?
16:35Out thieving.
16:37Got a grand deal for it.
16:39Waiting for a pile of brothy.
16:43Where in the world do you get them?
16:45Well, the greengrocer was just getting his turn
16:47and I'm still a lad when I bought the meat in.
16:49Onions from Elm Avenue,
16:51carrots from Sycamore Crescent,
16:53a few here, a few there.
16:55Mount up, Mum.
16:57It does that.
16:59And this is for you.
17:01Eee, Jimmy, me bin.
17:03Oh, it's me birthday.
17:09And these...
17:11Here's to you, bonnie lad.
17:13A mother couldn't wish for a better son.
17:15And these are for us.
17:21Have you seen old Smailor again?
17:23Who?
17:25Oh, last year, me hen master.
17:27We call him Smailor.
17:29What on earth for?
17:31Because he know I does.
17:33By, that's a good'un that is.
17:35Him, Smailor.
17:37He doesn't reckon you've got a cold.
17:39And I haven't, neither.
17:41Aye, and you won't have no butcher boy's job, neither.
17:43Not if I have to send you back to school.
17:46BEEPING
18:04Gentlemen.
18:06Oh, can I get you one, Jack?
18:08That's very nice of you. Star and whiskey, please.
18:10I hope I see you well, Jack.
18:12Mustn't grumble. Yourself?
18:14Busy. Aye.
18:25BELL RINGS
18:29Thanks, Dan.
18:31Well, good luck to you, Geordie.
18:33Ta.
18:37Matt Headley, not, were you?
18:39No, he lets me out on me own these days.
18:41Just now and again, like.
18:44We wanted to have a talk with you, Jack.
18:46We're talking.
18:48Stan came round to ask you a favour.
18:50For you?
18:52That's right, for me.
18:54I need that favour, Jack.
18:58It's gonna be a tight one.
19:00Think so? Oh, I know so.
19:02Tory'll do now, but me and the Liberal...
19:06I'll need every vote that you can get for us.
19:09That's off to Westminster, eh, Geordie?
19:11Why not? He's a good man.
19:13The best.
19:15Always been the champion of the working lads.
19:17Aye, writing me speeches for me now, are you, Stan?
19:19You will speak, then? Oh, not so fast, funny lad.
19:21I read your last speech in the papers.
19:23All about the miners.
19:25As I said, the working lads... Not a word about the shipyards.
19:28My poor lads didn't even get on board the ship.
19:30That could be rectified. It'll have to be.
19:33Anything else?
19:35Two of your women's committee came to see me today.
19:38Well, I didn't send them. Which two?
19:40Mrs Burns...
19:42and Mrs Ashton.
19:44I see. Now, two Cs, the Geordie.
19:46Except I must be popular.
19:48Jesse Ashton? Well, I'll be...
19:50Stan, get him in again, will you?
19:52He's a good lad.
19:58He'll never learn, will he?
20:00He does his best.
20:02I had a private in my platoon once, the name of Hodge.
20:05Nice lad, well-meaning.
20:07He was doing his best when he threw a mills bomb.
20:09He still managed to blow his own hand off with it.
20:12Stan didn't mean anything, Jack.
20:14He couldn't. He hasn't got the brains.
20:16Just shut him up.
20:18All right.
20:20Me word on it.
20:22I trust your word, Geordie.
20:26There's one more thing.
20:28Getting to it at last, are we?
20:30I think so.
20:32Matt Headley. Your loyal assistant.
20:34Why not? You've got one.
20:37I want to marry a councillor and a JP.
20:42What?
20:44Didn't you hear me? Do you want me to speak up?
20:46No, for God's sake.
20:48What's up, Geordie?
20:50He wants his mother Headley on the council.
20:52And a JP, Jack.
20:54Why, you don't want much, do you?
20:57Not as much as he wants.
20:59But be reasonable, Matt.
21:01It's not even as if there was a vacancy.
21:03Isn't there?
21:05What about the priestgate ward?
21:07I heard old Tommy Jackson is retiring.
21:11You heard right, Jack.
21:13As usual.
21:15Even so, it's not as though I'm bound to get in.
21:17Neither would Matt be.
21:19But I'll speak for him and all.
21:21When you speak for me, you'll really try?
21:23Oh, well. You'll swear to that?
21:25Your word's good enough for me, Jack.
21:28Then you've got it.
21:30Headley can have priestgate ward.
21:33Now, wait a minute, Geordie. Wait a minute, son.
21:35That's up to me.
21:37I'm the party secretary.
21:39Ah, you're Geordie's agent and all.
21:41Oh, I don't like this.
21:45I mean, it's our movement we're talking about.
21:47You'd think we were swapping cigarette cards.
21:53Oh, all right.
21:55Don't worry, Stan.
21:57You and Matt will get along fine.
21:59Aye, but I can't guarantee the JP, though.
22:01I'll know that as a list.
22:03Just make sure that Matt's name is on it.
22:07All right.
22:09You'll swear to that?
22:13The Lidlens is late.
22:15I hope the police hasn't got them.
22:17Let's go and look.
22:22Mum, I'll have to go back to school.
22:24But we need your five bob a week.
22:26If the school board man gets us, it could be the court.
22:28I could be put away.
22:31Oh, well, it'll not be easy.
22:33Aye, all right.
22:35Well, you'll need a note.
22:37Now, I'm no scholar. You'd better write it yourself.
22:39They know me writing. Always I'll do it.
22:41Oh, she won't know what to say.
22:43I'll tell her. I better fetch her.
22:48What in the world is that?
22:50Oh, well, I suppose it'll burn lovely.
22:53Burn?
22:55This lot came from the asbestos factory.
22:58That's marvellous.
23:00Hey, we might even sell some.
23:02I'm off, Aunt Mum.
23:04Do you have to?
23:06Well, it's school tomorrow.
23:08Well, be careful. I'll pray for you soon.
23:12Right, where do I start?
23:14Your own members.
23:16No trouble there.
23:18No?
23:20Not if I ask them nicely. What else?
23:22Meetings. Don't worry about the minors.
23:24It's the casuals I need now.
23:26Lava Street, school, marketplace, stuff like that.
23:28How many? All you can give me.
23:30Tonight?
23:32Tomorrow. It's the Labour Hall tonight.
23:34All the old stalwarts. You won't need me, then.
23:36That's right.
23:38Tomorrow, the women's section's having a try at the marketplace.
23:42Friday night, it'll be a good turnout.
23:46I'll be there.
23:48Well, that's it, then.
23:50I'll be duty. Quick one before you go, lads.
23:52No, thanks. We've got some doors to knock on.
23:54Come on, son.
24:18Oh!
24:20Here.
24:23Sorry, mister.
24:25Sorry? So you should be, you stupid little...
24:27What's your rush?
24:29I promised to be home early, you see.
24:31My mum says she wants the canvas for Mr Watson.
24:33All right, son.
24:35Away you go.
24:37I think I'll live.
24:39Coy, fair knock the breath out of us.
24:43What's up?
24:45Me watch! The little bugger's took me watch!
24:53PANTING
24:57There, Mr Mitchell.
25:14Good evening, my dear. You're rather late.
25:16Where's Mrs Charlton?
25:18I sent her home.
25:20Did you take the baby's bottle? No, I did that.
25:22Everything's been attended to.
25:24We can have our row in peace.
25:26You had no right! Absolutely no right!
25:28But I had, Jessie.
25:30Making me a laughingstock.
25:32Then there are two of us. Don't be ridiculous.
25:34Laughingstocks are always ridiculous.
25:36Why should you think you're a...
25:38Because of Jack.
25:40Because of Jack.
25:42Second best can't help but be ridiculous.
25:44If it's shown to be second best.
25:46I believe in my party, too, you know.
25:48King and country!
25:50The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate.
25:52If you like.
25:54You should remember how it goes on, Arthur.
25:56God made them high or lowly and ordered their estate.
25:58Estate means their station in life.
26:00It means if you're born poor, you stay poor.
26:03Some of us, most of us, will always be poor.
26:10You and I, we're not in the rich man's castle,
26:12but we're not begging at his gate either.
26:14You should be grateful for that.
26:16It gives you the financial security you need.
26:18For what?
26:20To tear down the things I hold sacred.
26:28Arthur.
26:30Please.
26:32I'll beg you, if you like.
26:34Please take down that poster.
26:36You corrected me quite rightly today.
26:38I spoke of my house and you pointed out that it's ours.
26:40In our house.
26:42Each of us is entitled to his or her political beliefs.
26:46So long as we both live in it.
27:00Me? A councillor?
27:02That's what they said.
27:04But why, man?
27:06Because they trust you, Matt.
27:08They need people they can trust.
27:10You remember when I was off?
27:12God almighty, man.
27:14Them's eggs you're cooking, not boot leather.
27:16Oh, I'm sick of bloody eggs.
27:18Find a cook, then.
27:22Maybe a half.
27:24Oh, aye?
27:26I thought you weren't in the blue belt tonight.
27:28Well, go ahead.
27:30Nobody's stopping you, councillor.
27:32Why not you, Jack?
27:34Two reasons, Matt.
27:36You do a better job than me,
27:38you'll do better.
27:40Better means your job.
27:42You can do it.
27:50Matt,
27:52this cook of yours,
27:54how soon can she get here?
28:08Oh, yeah, Matt!
28:20Oh, so we're back, Thorburn, are we?
28:22You can still run, I see.
28:24Yes, sir.
28:26Do you call lol better?
28:28Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.
28:38School.
28:40Attention!
28:42As you were.
28:44Stand at ease, that was sloppy.
28:46Attention!
28:50Right!
28:52Wait for it, wait for it.
28:54Face the front.
28:56Right! Turn!
28:58By the left.
29:00Quick!
29:02One moment, Mr Burdett.
29:04This won't do at all.
29:06Most of your fathers
29:08were soldiers, serving in the war.
29:10As Mr Purdy was,
29:12as I was.
29:14They fought for king and country.
29:16Lord Kitchener's very words.
29:18They were good soldiers,
29:20they were brave soldiers,
29:22and they were smart soldiers.
29:24And look at you!
29:26They'd be ashamed of you.
29:30Purvis with his mouth open,
29:32Jackson with his shoulders sagging,
29:34Turnbull?
29:36What is so fascinating
29:38about your feet, Turnbull?
29:40Answer, boy!
29:42Nothing, sir.
29:44Then stop looking at them.
29:46Now then,
29:48let's do it properly.
29:50School!
29:52Attention!
29:54As you were.
29:58Attention!
30:00As you were.
30:02Attention!
30:04That's better.
30:06Now.
30:08Right turn!
30:10By the left.
30:12Wait for it.
30:14Wait for it.
30:16By the left.
30:18Quick march.
30:20Thank you, Mr Burdett.
30:28One moment, Fulburn.
30:30Sir?
30:32You've been absent for three weeks, I believe.
30:34I've got a note, sir.
30:42A very persistent colt.
30:44And a very childish handwriting.
30:46I didn't write it,
30:48honest, sir.
30:50No, at your age you can do better than that,
30:52but you'll agree it's childish.
30:54My mum never had much schooling, sir.
30:56If you like, I'll ask her to come up.
30:58I'll tell you, she won't.
31:00Oh, go away, Fulburn.
31:04And don't catch any more colts.
31:10Yours faithfully,
31:12area secretary, etc.
31:14And I'd like that one straight away, please, Miss Laidlaw.
31:16Yes, Mr Ford.
31:20Good morning, Mr Headley.
31:22Lady Inmat.
31:24Hi.
31:26You set off first and get here last.
31:34How is, er, Courtney?
31:36Funny time for it, nine in the morning.
31:40She's a skivvy.
31:42Or I'd say it's same as Dolly.
31:44No wrong with skivvy and mat, we both know that.
31:46She's a good lass?
31:48She'll need to be, to deserve you.
31:50Where does she work?
31:52Sea Road. She's leaving.
31:54Got the push. What for? Answering back.
31:56Sounds like just the lass you're looking for.
32:10You didn't say you'd enjoyed your lunch.
32:12I didn't. You ate it?
32:14I was hungry. You don't know what hunger is.
32:16I know what three days old stew is.
32:18I am busy, you know that.
32:20I haven't got time. For your husband? For your child?
32:22When the election's over.
32:24I never cheated you, did I, Jessie?
32:26Well, of course not.
32:28You know to a ha'penny how much I earn
32:30and I've never played, what do you call it, keepy back.
32:32Well, I know that.
32:34In other words, I give everything.
32:36Can you honestly say the same?
32:38I'd be a liar if I did.
32:40There's a whole town out there needs me
32:42and you two come to that.
32:44We'll leave me out of this for the moment.
32:46I love you, Arthur, and I love our son
32:48but I can't just stand by and watch people suffer.
32:50Ford does.
32:52I'm not Jack. And neither are you.
32:54Indeed not.
32:56Unfortunately.
32:58I'd better get back. Goodbye.
33:14Told you.
33:16Looks like you're telling me, you know.
33:18What are you telling?
33:20That you were coming to cook for us.
33:22And that's all?
33:24So far.
33:26Well, I might have dropped a hint. Why not?
33:28Mr. Ford was married to a skivvy and all.
33:30That's why not.
33:32Mr. Ford was married to my sister.
33:34Oh, Jack.
33:36This is Sarah Lytton,
33:38Mr. Ford.
33:40How do you do? Have a seat, won't you?
33:42Can I get you a drink?
33:44Oh, go on. A nice drop of port will do you good.
33:46And you, Matt? I'll get them.
33:48All in here.
33:52Not that we don't think you're front room company,
33:54Miss Lytton, only Matt here
33:56said you were going to do some cooking.
33:58That's what I'm here for. Champion. What we having?
34:00Liver and onions. Sounds like a dream come true,
34:02Miss Lytton. You'd better taste it first.
34:06Matt here tells me you're a parlour maid.
34:08Then he told you wrong, Mr. Ford.
34:10I'm a skivvy. Slave more like.
34:12All skivvies is slaves.
34:14I'm on me notice.
34:16Oh, aye? What for?
34:18Answering back. Is that a fact?
34:20I'm a pretty fair-handed that meself.
34:22Make mine underdone, will you, Miss Lytton?
34:24Where you off to? Front room, read over me speech.
34:26Well, I'll be fair, bonny lad.
34:28I'm the last one in the world to play gooseberry.
34:32Russian things
34:34appear, isn't he?
34:36What did you make of him?
34:38Scamp. Oh, that he's not.
34:40I bet your sister thought so.
34:42Aye, she did.
34:44What sort of a fella should run off with?
34:46Do you mind us asking?
34:48I'm nosy, you see. Always was.
34:50I don't mind.
34:52He was...
34:54quiet. Not very clever.
34:56Family sort of fella.
34:58Widower. Left with a ben.
35:00Maybe your dolly did right.
35:02And maybe it's none of my business.
35:04But I'll tell you one thing.
35:06If we're ever married, and mind you, I say if,
35:08he's not living with us.
35:10But you will do the housekeeping?
35:12I mean, till we're wet like? If we're wet.
35:14I don't know. It doesn't seem right all alone
35:16in a house with two single fellas.
35:18Well, it's not as if you're living in.
35:20I should think not indeed.
35:22I'd be the talk of the place.
35:28The baby's asleep.
35:30I'll be back in time for its next feed.
35:32I'd better know where I can reach you.
35:34Just in case there's an emergency.
35:36It's an open air meeting.
35:38The marketplace.
35:40Will it public display for you?
35:42Don't worry. I'm just introducing the speaker, that's all.
35:44And who is the speaker?
35:46Jack Ford.
35:56By, that was grand.
35:58Haven't had a feed like that
36:00for I don't know how long.
36:02Thanks, pet. You're welcome, I'm sure.
36:04What are you giving us tomorrow?
36:06I'll leave Matt here to persuade you.
36:08He can give you on with the dishes and all.
36:10Barry won't? Well, I'd better be off.
36:14Mine know I'm trusting you.
36:18He's got a nerve.
36:20I wouldn't trust him for a start.
36:30Now, you all know what to do.
36:32You sure?
36:34Right.
36:36Now, just a minute.
36:38Just a half a piece
36:40and do the job you're being paid for
36:42and after that we'll celebrate.
36:44All right?
36:56Away, lads.
36:58Away, labour. Come on, lads.
37:04Come on.
37:24Mrs. Ashton. Mr. Ford.
37:26Do you know Mrs. Russell?
37:28How do you do? Mrs. Burns.
37:31Well, I think we should make a start.
37:33Any time, bonnie lass.
37:42Comrades, our speaker this evening
37:44needs no introduction from me.
37:46I bet we're going to get one anyway.
37:48Oh, you're there, are you?
37:50I didn't see you.
37:52What I should have said was
37:54the speaker this evening needs no introduction
37:56to decent working men and women.
37:58That doesn't include liberals.
38:00You tell her, missus.
38:02No, I'll leave the speaker to do that.
38:04Comrades, I give you
38:06the organising secretary
38:08of the Fidders' Union,
38:10Jack Ford.
38:16Come to give us a present, have you?
38:18I doubt if you'd fancy a taste
38:20of this, bonnie lad.
38:22Aye.
38:24I say, you know who I am.
38:26I'm a fella
38:28who knows what a hammer's for.
38:30And you know that and all.
38:32I used this very hammer
38:34to get a poor old widow's furniture back.
38:36Furniture that her landlord
38:38was going to sell
38:40for back rent.
38:42Until I took it off him
38:44and went to jail for it.
38:46Oh, aye. I'm a fella
38:48who knows what a hammer's for, all right.
38:50And I'll tell you what else I am.
38:52I'm a fella who knows
38:54what a vote is for.
38:56A vote is a weapon,
38:58friends. A weapon that
39:00can hit as hard as any hammer.
39:02And it's a weapon
39:04against the bosses and all.
39:06And I'll tell you what else it is.
39:08It's a weapon
39:10that some of you are too
39:12daft to use.
39:14Who's this boy?
39:16Oh, he lives at Lavender Avenue,
39:18number 17. How do you know?
39:20Clever dick. Because I deliver
39:22roses at his house. Clever dick.
39:24He live north of Port Charles.
39:26Oh, that's great. No,
39:28not anymore. She left him.
39:30Did she?
39:32By God, I'd be off.
39:36Geordie Watson!
39:38The hammer of the bosses!
39:40CHEERING
39:48You look comfortable.
39:50I am.
39:52I'm glad to see you're not one for Russian things,
39:54Mr. Headley. I'm not.
40:04All the same, I think it's
40:06time you started
40:08calling us mutt.
40:14It's our
40:16duty to vote. Our
40:18sacred duty.
40:20Not just for ourselves,
40:22but for our loved one. How do you
40:24know your loved one left you?
40:26You see, friends?
40:28You see what the bosses
40:30are? I'm no boss.
40:32Aren't you? Then you're even lower than a boss.
40:34You're a boss's man.
40:38I was married to a wife
40:40and she was dear to me.
40:42And I'm not too
40:44proud to admit it, but
40:46God in his infinite wisdom decided that
40:48our happiness should end.
40:50She left me.
40:52I'm a man on his own
40:54now,
40:56except for the brotherhood of his union
40:58and the comradeship
41:00of the Labour Party.
41:02And maybe that's enough,
41:04but I'll tell you this, friends.
41:06Only a boss's man
41:08would mock a man's
41:10private grief.
41:12No, no, let him be, friends,
41:14let him be. Maybe he'll learn something.
41:16God knows he needs to.
41:24And I said you weren't one
41:26for Russian things.
41:28I'm not.
41:32Now what?
41:34Shh!
41:36Somebody upstairs. Get away.
41:38I'll tell you there is.
41:44You stay here.
41:46You heard what I said.
42:06Why, it's only a bed.
42:08Do I want to appeal
42:10to you, friends?
42:12No.
42:14I want more
42:16than that.
42:18I want a solemn promise
42:20from each and every one of you.
42:22I want you to swear.
42:24I want your Bible oath.
42:26I want you to tell me
42:28as you hope for salvation
42:30that you will do what I ask.
42:32I don't want
42:34idle promises.
42:36I want your sacred word.
42:38Now then,
42:40who's willing
42:42to give me that word?
42:44God's honour, that come what may
42:46you will go to the polls
42:48and vote for Geordie Watson.
42:50If it rains,
42:52if it sleets, if it snows,
42:54if you've got to crawl,
42:56if you've got to get your friends to carry her.
42:58Now, who among you
43:00is willing to give me
43:02your sacred word?
43:04Not one.
43:06Oh,
43:08ye of little faith.
43:10I will.
43:12And me.
43:14I will.
43:18God bless you, friends.
43:20God bless you.
43:37You were great, Jack.
43:39Marvelous even.
43:41She weren't real.
43:43You didn't ask for reality, Bonnie lass.
43:45You asked for votes. You've got them.
43:47Yes. I should say thank you.
43:49And I do.
43:51All the same, I'm glad it's not your name on the ballot paper.
43:53Never mind thanks.
43:55You owe me six bob.
43:57Six shillings? What for?
43:59The first six hounds that went up
44:01cost me a bob each.
44:03No, er,
44:05Geordie Watson shouldn't hear about bribery.
44:07I understand little it ever fit.
44:09This one's on the house, Mrs Ashton.
44:23What's up?
44:25Breaking and entering. That's what's up.
44:27I saw you in the market a bit back, didn't I?
44:29What's your name, Bonnie lad?
44:31What did you get?
44:33A few bob off the dresser, packet of fags.
44:35That's not bad for a night's work.
44:37Call the police.
44:39Why, he's only a band, Jack.
44:41Why didn't you let him go, then?
44:43What's your money?
44:45I see.
44:47What's your name?
44:51Suit yourself. I've got all night.
44:53It's like a pen, like a bloody pen.
44:55What's it called?
44:57When did you last see your father?
44:59I'll gut up you when you see yours.
45:01I'm gonna love you, mister.
45:03No.
45:05Please, mister.
45:07No. I've got to.
45:09Shut up, Matt.
45:11Name and address and you can go.
45:13James Thorburn, 144 Williamson Street.
45:15Mister, please.
45:17Take him, Matt.
45:19I'll take him.
45:21So that's the way you went on a Murmansk, is it?
45:23Murmansk? You have no idea, Matt.
45:25No idea at all.
45:27Go and fetch his da.
45:29What are you gonna do?
45:31Depends on his da.
45:33Get him, Matt.
45:51CLATTERS
45:57I hope you're proud of yourself.
45:59Sit down and shut up or leave.
46:01You stand over here.
46:03Move yourself!
46:05By God, when I say jump, you jump!
46:07Now, then.
46:09You and me is gonna get the truth.
46:11And you can wet yourself all you want, Bonnie lad,
46:13because you're gonna clean it all up afterwards anyway.
46:15Doing that to her, Ben.
46:17You should think shame.
46:19Steady on, missus. He's a thief.
46:21We're all thieves when we have to be.
46:23Did he have to be?
46:25Me man's dead. Pneumonia.
46:27There's an out coming in.
46:29See anything, Matt?
46:31Bottle of gin empty.
46:33I didn't buy it.
46:35Thieved that for you and all, did he?
46:37You have got a loving son.
46:39I know that, mister.
46:41He mightn't be so loving if he goes to Borstal.
46:43He's lost.
46:45Lost his nerve already by the looks of him.
46:47Thanks to you.
46:49I don't want thanks, but maybe I deserve them.
46:51He tells me he can run.
46:53Like a gazelle in the Bible.
46:55And get him trained, missus. Powder Hall's the place for him.
46:57Powder Hall?
46:59Professional racing up in Edinburgh.
47:01There's money in it, missus.
47:03Aye, there's fiddling and all. You and your Jimmy should do very canny.
47:05Take him home.
47:07Go on.
47:09I suppose
47:11I ought to thank you.
47:13No, you're hungry.
47:15You had to eat, so he had to steal.
47:17But enough's enough.
47:19He's a good looking lad.
47:21If he goes to Borstal, he'll come back a Nancy boy.
47:23Here.
47:25Look at this funny lad.
47:29Your last bundle of swag.
47:35But you can't have the cigarettes.
47:37They're for the wind.
47:59Decent of you to turn out.
48:01You said I had to present the prizes.
48:03Had to. Did I really say I had to?
48:05No need.
48:07I think we're in, Arthur.
48:09Good God.
48:11What on earth's he doing here?
48:19Ready. Steady.
48:21Whistle.
48:25Come on!
48:27Yeah!
48:29Yeah!
48:31Yeah!
48:33Yeah!
48:35Like I said, missus.
48:37The lad's a flyer.
48:39Now, don't you forget Powderhall
48:41and you be his manager.
48:45He's a smarting fella, isn't he, Mum?
48:47Mum, isn't he a smarting fella, I said?
48:49You think so, dear?
48:51Aye, well, maybe you're right.
48:55I hope you don't end up like him, that's all.
49:03Dance to the daddy, sing to the mommy
49:05Dance to the daddy, to the mommy, sing
49:15Thou shalt have the fishy on a little ishy
49:17Thou shalt have the fishy when the boat comes in
49:19When the boat comes in
49:33Thou shalt have the fishy on a little ishy
49:35Thou shalt have the haddock when the boat comes in
49:37Thou shalt have the fishy on a little ishy
49:39Thou shalt have the bloater when the boat comes in
49:43Thou shalt have the fishy on a little ishy
49:45Thou shalt have the mackerel when the boat comes in
49:47Thou shalt have the fishy on a little ishy
49:49Thou shalt have the salmon when the boat comes in