1 00:00:02,583 --> 00:00:05,042 (bright music) 2 00:00:26,917 --> 00:00:31,917 (man gasping) (melancholy music) 3 00:01:21,875 --> 00:01:24,542 (dramatic music) 4 00:01:38,500 --> 00:01:39,292 - Billy! 5 00:01:49,292 --> 00:01:50,292 Billy. 6 00:01:55,208 --> 00:01:55,958 Billy. 7 00:02:04,458 --> 00:02:07,250 (train whooshing) 8 00:02:09,083 --> 00:02:13,958 - [Passenger] Shut the door, (indistinct). 9 00:02:54,333 --> 00:02:56,958 (train whistles) 10 00:03:23,167 --> 00:03:25,750 (steam hissing) 11 00:04:16,333 --> 00:04:19,250 (brakes squeaking) 12 00:04:24,292 --> 00:04:26,333 - [Conductor] Oxgodby! 13 00:04:35,375 --> 00:04:37,417 - You've gotta be rearin' soaked. 14 00:04:37,417 --> 00:04:39,917 Right down to the skin, they say. 15 00:05:00,083 --> 00:05:01,375 - Ticket please! 16 00:05:08,042 --> 00:05:10,000 Hey, you can borrow me umbrella if thou wants. 17 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:11,250 - What? 18 00:05:11,250 --> 00:05:13,458 - I said you can borrow me umbrella. 19 00:05:14,583 --> 00:05:15,375 - Oh, that's all right. 20 00:05:15,375 --> 00:05:17,417 I'm not going far. 21 00:05:17,417 --> 00:05:20,250 - Cup of tea then, in the station house? 22 00:05:21,500 --> 00:05:24,208 - Thank you, but I have an appointment. 23 00:05:24,208 --> 00:05:25,417 - Aye, I know. 24 00:05:26,375 --> 00:05:28,375 You've come to the church, haven't ya? 25 00:05:28,375 --> 00:05:31,125 Well, if you don't find what you're looking for there, 26 00:05:31,125 --> 00:05:32,792 come and see us other lot at chapel. 27 00:05:34,125 --> 00:05:35,250 - Thank you. 28 00:05:35,250 --> 00:05:37,958 (rain pattering) 29 00:05:59,875 --> 00:06:00,625 Bugger it! 30 00:06:05,208 --> 00:06:08,125 (thunder rumbling) 31 00:07:54,458 --> 00:07:57,375 (dramatic music) 32 00:08:05,333 --> 00:08:06,208 - What were you doing? 33 00:08:07,292 --> 00:08:09,208 Just now, outside? 34 00:08:09,208 --> 00:08:14,208 - Oh, checking the rain gutters, the downpipes. 35 00:08:16,875 --> 00:08:17,792 - Why? 36 00:08:17,792 --> 00:08:18,458 - Because if they were no 37 00:08:20,708 --> 00:08:21,625 good, there would've been no point 38 00:08:21,625 --> 00:08:22,917 in my bothering to come in. 39 00:08:24,458 --> 00:08:28,042 It would have been destroyed, you see? 40 00:08:29,500 --> 00:08:32,458 - Oh, well, if you'd waited to ask me, 41 00:08:32,458 --> 00:08:35,333 I could've told you they're all functioning perfectly. 42 00:08:36,458 --> 00:08:38,625 You could've saved yourself a run in the rain. 43 00:08:48,583 --> 00:08:50,167 I'm Keach, by the way. 44 00:08:51,500 --> 00:08:55,417 Reverend J. G. Keach. 45 00:08:57,542 --> 00:08:58,708 It was I who wrote you. 46 00:09:00,167 --> 00:09:02,625 If you're Mr. Birkin, that is. 47 00:09:02,625 --> 00:09:04,625 I take it you are. 48 00:09:04,625 --> 00:09:05,417 - Yes. 49 00:09:14,208 --> 00:09:17,208 - At what time did you leave London? 50 00:09:21,875 --> 00:09:22,667 - 11 o'clock. 51 00:09:24,708 --> 00:09:26,917 - I see that in your anxiety to check the gutters, 52 00:09:26,917 --> 00:09:29,250 you didn't take time to drop your things off? 53 00:09:34,667 --> 00:09:36,792 Where do you intend to stay? 54 00:09:36,792 --> 00:09:37,958 - Well I thought here. 55 00:09:42,917 --> 00:09:44,208 - Here? 56 00:09:44,208 --> 00:09:46,083 Where here? 57 00:09:48,750 --> 00:09:50,500 - What about the belfry? 58 00:09:50,500 --> 00:09:51,667 - The belfry? 59 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,667 I can't say that appeals to me, 60 00:09:55,667 --> 00:09:58,708 having somebody live in the belfry. 61 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,750 Shouldn't you take lodgings, a room in the Shepherd's Arms. 62 00:10:03,750 --> 00:10:05,750 - I'm a bit short, you see? 63 00:10:05,750 --> 00:10:06,875 - Oh, I see. 64 00:10:06,875 --> 00:10:08,125 Well then, in that case. 65 00:10:10,208 --> 00:10:11,667 But I should warn you that ropes pass 66 00:10:11,667 --> 00:10:14,292 through the belfry floor when Mossop rings them. 67 00:10:18,542 --> 00:10:19,583 - I don't mind. 68 00:10:22,042 --> 00:10:23,208 - Very well then. 69 00:10:48,708 --> 00:10:50,625 What period is it supposed to be, 70 00:10:50,625 --> 00:10:52,917 the mural, the wall painting? 71 00:10:54,583 --> 00:10:57,708 - Oh, I would guess about 1430 or something like that. 72 00:10:59,708 --> 00:11:00,667 The survivors avoided hellfire 73 00:11:00,667 --> 00:11:04,167 by donating wall paintings to churches. 74 00:11:08,750 --> 00:11:10,417 It's impossible to say for sure but of course 75 00:11:10,417 --> 00:11:13,625 'til I've uncovered some of it. 76 00:11:14,750 --> 00:11:15,792 - In any case about 1430. 77 00:11:17,792 --> 00:11:19,792 We shan't entertain any extras. 78 00:11:19,792 --> 00:11:20,708 - There won't be any. 79 00:11:20,708 --> 00:11:22,417 - There mustn't be any. 80 00:11:22,417 --> 00:11:24,750 Now you've agreed a fee of 25 guineas, 81 00:11:24,750 --> 00:11:27,542 12 pounds, 10 shillings to be paid halfway 82 00:11:27,542 --> 00:11:29,500 and 13 pound 15 shillings when finished 83 00:11:29,500 --> 00:11:31,375 and approved by the executives. 84 00:11:31,375 --> 00:11:32,167 - Not by you? 85 00:11:33,833 --> 00:11:36,417 - Miss Hebron omitted my name 86 00:11:36,417 --> 00:11:37,875 from the form requested, 87 00:11:37,875 --> 00:11:41,500 an oversight, of course, but to all intents and purposes, 88 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:42,667 I represent the executives. 89 00:11:42,667 --> 00:11:43,792 You answer to them through me. 90 00:11:43,792 --> 00:11:46,625 I shan't mind if you touch it up. 91 00:11:47,792 --> 00:11:48,958 - Touch it up? 92 00:11:48,958 --> 00:11:50,708 - Well, it's faded. 93 00:11:50,708 --> 00:11:53,417 You can fill them in as long as it's appropriate. 94 00:11:53,417 --> 00:11:54,625 Turns in with the rest. 95 00:11:55,708 --> 00:11:57,583 - Turns in with the rest? 96 00:11:57,583 --> 00:11:58,542 Of course it isn't absolutely sure 97 00:11:58,542 --> 00:11:59,833 that there's anything there. 98 00:11:59,833 --> 00:12:00,833 - Of course there's something there. 99 00:12:00,833 --> 00:12:03,167 Mr. Birkin, you should know here and now 100 00:12:03,167 --> 00:12:06,917 that your employment here does not have my support, 101 00:12:08,083 --> 00:12:09,833 but as the solicitors refused to pay out 102 00:12:09,833 --> 00:12:12,667 her 1000 pound request to our fabric fund 103 00:12:12,667 --> 00:12:17,250 until your job is finished, I have no choice. 104 00:12:19,042 --> 00:12:20,292 When the painting is uncovered, 105 00:12:20,292 --> 00:12:23,042 it will be in full view of the congregation. 106 00:12:23,042 --> 00:12:24,542 It'll distract from worship. 107 00:12:25,917 --> 00:12:28,833 - After a time, they won't notice it. 108 00:12:31,292 --> 00:12:32,583 - It'll distract. 109 00:12:44,500 --> 00:12:47,750 Well, Mr. Birkin, I shall leave you 110 00:12:47,750 --> 00:12:50,458 to settle into your quarters. 111 00:12:54,750 --> 00:12:55,833 Good night. 112 00:13:02,792 --> 00:13:05,750 (dramatic music) 113 00:13:50,792 --> 00:13:51,583 - Oxgodby. 114 00:14:16,292 --> 00:14:18,917 (man gasping) 115 00:14:56,583 --> 00:14:59,250 (birds chirping) 116 00:15:51,417 --> 00:15:54,000 (wood thudding) 117 00:16:51,083 --> 00:16:54,000 (reverent music) 118 00:17:31,083 --> 00:17:34,250 (door creaks) 119 00:17:34,250 --> 00:17:35,042 - Morning. 120 00:17:36,750 --> 00:17:37,917 Hi, good morning, James Moon. 121 00:17:37,917 --> 00:17:39,958 I'm chap in the bell tent. 122 00:17:39,958 --> 00:17:41,458 It's in the field opposite. 123 00:17:41,458 --> 00:17:42,792 I meant to let you settle in 124 00:17:42,792 --> 00:17:44,708 but I felt I had to come and have a look at you. 125 00:17:44,708 --> 00:17:46,000 Well, it's partly that, 126 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:47,417 but really 'cause I get so stiff in the night, 127 00:17:47,417 --> 00:17:49,333 my legs force me up. 128 00:17:49,333 --> 00:17:50,958 That's how I stumble across most mornings 129 00:17:50,958 --> 00:17:54,167 to see if Leticia's managed to climb out during the night. 130 00:17:54,167 --> 00:17:55,792 Well, I mean, you never know, do you? 131 00:17:58,875 --> 00:18:01,500 Oh, most loving and delightful wife. 132 00:18:03,083 --> 00:18:05,000 I could never make out if that was grief or relief. 133 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,042 Do you mind if I come up for a moment? 134 00:18:12,333 --> 00:18:14,750 I won't if you think I'm invading. 135 00:18:19,083 --> 00:18:19,875 - Come up. 136 00:18:21,250 --> 00:18:22,042 - Good. 137 00:18:35,958 --> 00:18:40,958 So, you think that's something there, eh? 138 00:18:41,625 --> 00:18:43,000 - [Tom] I hope so. 139 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:44,042 - Go with it by hope. 140 00:18:45,458 --> 00:18:47,042 What do you think you'll find? 141 00:18:47,042 --> 00:18:49,208 - Judgment, I expect. 142 00:18:49,208 --> 00:18:50,417 - Ah, yes, yes, a judgment. 143 00:18:50,417 --> 00:18:52,708 Yes, that's what it would be, wouldn't it? 144 00:18:52,708 --> 00:18:54,583 - The judgements always got the plum spot 145 00:18:54,583 --> 00:18:56,125 so the whole parish could see the 146 00:19:02,792 --> 00:19:04,167 God awful things that would happen to 'em 147 00:19:04,167 --> 00:19:07,208 if they didn't fork out their tithes 148 00:19:07,208 --> 00:19:11,958 and marry the girls they got with child. 149 00:19:15,208 --> 00:19:20,042 - St. Michael waves over, Christ in majesty reverie, 150 00:19:20,042 --> 00:19:22,833 and down below the fire, the flame, of evermore, eh? 151 00:19:27,292 --> 00:19:28,542 Look, why don't you come over 152 00:19:28,542 --> 00:19:29,792 and have a cup of tea before you start? 153 00:19:31,500 --> 00:19:33,125 Come on, you got the whole summer. 154 00:19:34,625 --> 00:19:36,250 Spin out the anticipation another half an hour, 155 00:19:36,250 --> 00:19:37,042 why don't you? 156 00:19:39,667 --> 00:19:40,458 Come on. 157 00:19:45,750 --> 00:19:47,208 So officially I'm looking for the grave 158 00:19:47,208 --> 00:19:48,042 of Miss Hebron's forbearer, 159 00:19:48,042 --> 00:19:50,833 one Piers Hebron, born 1373. 160 00:19:50,833 --> 00:19:52,333 He was excommunicated, 161 00:19:52,333 --> 00:19:54,125 buried somewhere outside the graveyard 162 00:19:54,125 --> 00:19:55,625 so all I have to do is spend three or four weeks digging 163 00:19:55,625 --> 00:19:57,708 for his bones and if I can't find him... 164 00:19:57,708 --> 00:20:00,500 - You'll have wasted your time. 165 00:20:00,500 --> 00:20:01,875 - Wasted my time? 166 00:20:01,875 --> 00:20:04,458 Good God, man, can't you see? 167 00:20:04,458 --> 00:20:06,542 I'm not here for Piers' bones. 168 00:20:06,542 --> 00:20:08,917 I'm here for a major discovery. 169 00:20:08,917 --> 00:20:10,417 We're standing on a basilica. 170 00:20:10,417 --> 00:20:13,583 Saxon chapel, probably goes back to 600. 171 00:20:13,583 --> 00:20:15,333 I've already come across a couple of cremation jars. 172 00:20:15,333 --> 00:20:17,167 There must be hundreds of them. 173 00:20:17,167 --> 00:20:18,833 Oh, you'll keep quiet about it though, won't you? 174 00:20:18,833 --> 00:20:20,917 I didn't want anyone to tumble to what I'm up to 175 00:20:20,917 --> 00:20:23,292 until I've got all I want and written it up. 176 00:20:23,292 --> 00:20:28,042 - So you're doing one job and being paid for another? 177 00:20:28,042 --> 00:20:29,083 - Well, that's right. 178 00:20:29,083 --> 00:20:30,417 Why not, if it's money well spent? 179 00:20:30,417 --> 00:20:31,792 And I'll leave some time to prod 180 00:20:31,792 --> 00:20:34,167 around for Piers's bones before I go. 181 00:20:34,167 --> 00:20:35,667 I'll find them, don't you worry. 182 00:20:37,583 --> 00:20:38,958 Oh whoops! 183 00:20:38,958 --> 00:20:39,708 Whoops! 184 00:20:48,542 --> 00:20:51,208 You were over there too. 185 00:20:51,208 --> 00:20:54,125 That's where you developed your twitch and stammer. 186 00:20:54,125 --> 00:20:55,458 (melancholy music) 187 00:20:55,458 --> 00:20:58,542 Well, I developed a great affection for holes. 188 00:21:01,417 --> 00:21:02,583 They make me feel safe. 189 00:21:12,292 --> 00:21:13,792 And they keep me insulated. 190 00:21:40,167 --> 00:21:41,125 Here, have a look at this. 191 00:21:41,125 --> 00:21:43,042 It's my latest cremation jar. 192 00:21:48,333 --> 00:21:49,333 - Moon. 193 00:21:50,292 --> 00:21:52,542 - Morning, Colonel, morning, Mossop. 194 00:21:52,542 --> 00:21:54,542 The Colonel is Miss Hebron's brother. 195 00:21:54,542 --> 00:21:56,125 Mossop looks after the church. 196 00:21:56,125 --> 00:21:58,375 This is Mr. Birkin who's come to uncover the painting. 197 00:21:58,375 --> 00:22:00,708 - Ah, good. 198 00:22:00,708 --> 00:22:01,458 Well done. 199 00:22:03,125 --> 00:22:04,542 And what about you, Moon, making progress? 200 00:22:04,542 --> 00:22:06,667 Any sign of old Piers' bones yet? 201 00:22:07,792 --> 00:22:09,250 - Not yet, Colonel. 202 00:22:09,250 --> 00:22:11,792 - Found anything out of the ordinary? 203 00:22:11,792 --> 00:22:13,292 Gold or silver? 204 00:22:14,125 --> 00:22:15,500 Jugs and jars, et cetera? 205 00:22:16,583 --> 00:22:17,625 - Well, I wish I had. 206 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,333 - Press on, let me know. 207 00:22:23,375 --> 00:22:24,667 Stay as long as you like. 208 00:22:25,875 --> 00:22:28,167 Care to umpire for us on Saturdays? 209 00:22:28,167 --> 00:22:30,042 Mossop here says he can't manage any longer 210 00:22:30,042 --> 00:22:31,250 on account of his legs. 211 00:22:33,792 --> 00:22:37,833 Well, would've liked to lodge up with you. 212 00:22:38,875 --> 00:22:40,250 Another morning, perhaps. 213 00:22:41,125 --> 00:22:42,167 I shall be on my way. 214 00:22:45,750 --> 00:22:48,292 Things to do. 215 00:22:48,292 --> 00:22:50,625 So, Mossop, there's your umpiring taken care of. 216 00:22:50,625 --> 00:22:51,375 Very similar. 217 00:22:55,958 --> 00:22:58,458 - Thou found summat then? 218 00:22:58,458 --> 00:23:01,375 - Oh, just the usual artifacts, Mossop. 219 00:23:01,375 --> 00:23:04,292 (birds chirping) 220 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,458 (men laughing) 221 00:23:17,375 --> 00:23:18,417 There. 222 00:23:22,375 --> 00:23:25,333 (reverent music) 223 00:25:13,542 --> 00:25:16,333 - Yes, well he isn't out of the usual catalog is he? 224 00:25:16,333 --> 00:25:19,458 He's a real wintry hard liner, your Christ. 225 00:25:19,458 --> 00:25:21,083 All justice and no mercy. 226 00:25:22,500 --> 00:25:25,125 I wouldn't fancy being in the dock if he was the beat. 227 00:25:26,333 --> 00:25:28,750 And he shall come with the woundes red 228 00:25:28,750 --> 00:25:30,667 to damn the quick and the dead. 229 00:25:38,542 --> 00:25:41,250 (bells clanging) 230 00:25:53,417 --> 00:25:56,708 - Now hear the words of Jesus 231 00:25:56,708 --> 00:25:59,792 to lead us and encourage us in prayer. 232 00:26:01,500 --> 00:26:04,500 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, 233 00:26:04,500 --> 00:26:07,375 come ye blessed of my father, 234 00:26:07,375 --> 00:26:10,583 inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation 235 00:26:10,583 --> 00:26:11,375 of the world 236 00:26:12,625 --> 00:26:16,000 for I was anhungered and He gave me meat. 237 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,917 I was thirsty and He gave me drink. 238 00:26:20,458 --> 00:26:24,917 I was a stranger and He took me in naked and He clothed me. 239 00:26:27,375 --> 00:26:30,417 I was sick and He visited me. 240 00:26:30,417 --> 00:26:32,583 I was in prison. 241 00:26:32,583 --> 00:26:33,500 - Look behind you, Keach. 242 00:26:33,500 --> 00:26:34,500 - [Keach] He came unto me. 243 00:26:35,542 --> 00:26:37,125 - That's what you're praying to. 244 00:26:37,125 --> 00:26:38,458 - [Keach] Then shall the righteous answer Him saying- 245 00:26:38,458 --> 00:26:40,542 - He doesn't want your prayers. 246 00:26:40,542 --> 00:26:42,250 He wants some answers. 247 00:26:43,750 --> 00:26:45,000 Did you feed the hungry, hm? 248 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,500 - [Keach] And thirsty and gave me drink. 249 00:26:47,500 --> 00:26:49,250 - [Tom] Did you give drink to the thirsty? 250 00:26:49,250 --> 00:26:50,833 - [Keach] I say unto you, come ye blessed of my father. 251 00:26:50,833 --> 00:26:53,500 - [Tom] Did you clothe the naked and needy? 252 00:26:53,500 --> 00:26:55,458 - [Keach] Have the kingdom prepared for you. 253 00:26:55,458 --> 00:26:56,542 - What about me, eh? 254 00:26:57,583 --> 00:26:59,083 Any of you offer me bed and board? 255 00:26:59,083 --> 00:27:02,500 - [Keach] Stranger and took thee in, all naked- 256 00:27:02,500 --> 00:27:04,375 - Smug Yorkshire lot. 257 00:27:06,167 --> 00:27:09,042 I'll have a word with him about the way you've treated me. 258 00:27:09,042 --> 00:27:10,583 He'll get you yet. 259 00:27:11,708 --> 00:27:13,792 - The King shall answer and say unto them, 260 00:27:13,792 --> 00:27:15,833 verily, I say unto you, 261 00:27:15,833 --> 00:27:17,458 in as much as ye have done it unto one 262 00:27:17,458 --> 00:27:19,500 of the least of these, my brethren, 263 00:27:20,333 --> 00:27:22,292 you have done it unto me. 264 00:27:33,792 --> 00:27:36,000 - Hello there, Mr. Birkin. 265 00:27:38,917 --> 00:27:39,708 - Hello. 266 00:27:41,250 --> 00:27:45,083 - I'm Kathy Ellerbeck and this me brother, Edgar. 267 00:27:45,083 --> 00:27:46,708 Our dad's station master. 268 00:27:46,708 --> 00:27:48,167 We brought you rabbit pie 269 00:27:48,167 --> 00:27:50,000 'cause Mum says you need nourishment. 270 00:27:51,458 --> 00:27:52,917 - Thank you. 271 00:27:52,917 --> 00:27:54,708 - Our dad said you must be miserable workin' all day 272 00:27:54,708 --> 00:27:56,292 on your own up there 273 00:27:56,292 --> 00:27:59,250 so he said we could play you some records, didn't he? 274 00:27:59,250 --> 00:28:00,667 - Can we come up now? 275 00:28:00,667 --> 00:28:03,500 - Sorry no one's allowed up. 276 00:28:03,500 --> 00:28:05,500 That's an absolute rule. 277 00:28:06,792 --> 00:28:08,250 - What about Mr. Moon? 278 00:28:08,250 --> 00:28:09,917 Mr. Mossop said you let him up? 279 00:28:09,917 --> 00:28:12,458 - Well, we have a reciprocal agreement. 280 00:28:12,458 --> 00:28:14,917 He looks at my work and I look at his. 281 00:28:14,917 --> 00:28:17,458 - Can we stay down here then? 282 00:28:17,458 --> 00:28:20,083 - As long as you don't mind my turning my back on you. 283 00:28:22,875 --> 00:28:25,958 (bright music) 284 00:28:25,958 --> 00:28:26,917 Why do you want to? 285 00:28:28,042 --> 00:28:29,500 - Me dad says you're an opportunity 286 00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:32,500 that might not come again in a little spot like this. 287 00:28:32,500 --> 00:28:35,333 Watching an artist at work. 288 00:28:35,333 --> 00:28:36,542 - I'm not an artist. 289 00:28:36,542 --> 00:28:39,708 I'm just a laborer who cleans up after artists. 290 00:28:39,708 --> 00:28:41,833 - We have a picture painted on our chapel wall, 291 00:28:41,833 --> 00:28:44,292 behind the pulpit. 292 00:28:44,292 --> 00:28:45,750 - Three big (indistinct) lilies. 293 00:28:45,750 --> 00:28:47,708 It's very beautiful. 294 00:28:47,708 --> 00:28:48,625 - [Tom] Why? 295 00:28:48,625 --> 00:28:50,333 - Why what? 296 00:28:50,333 --> 00:28:51,250 - Why lilies? 297 00:28:51,250 --> 00:28:52,542 Why just lilies? 298 00:28:52,542 --> 00:28:57,458 I mean, why not lilies and roses or just roses. 299 00:28:57,458 --> 00:29:00,958 Or roses and daisies? 300 00:29:02,167 --> 00:29:04,583 - 'Cause around it, it says conceded lilies 301 00:29:04,583 --> 00:29:05,667 in official lettering. 302 00:29:05,667 --> 00:29:07,250 It's a text. 303 00:29:07,250 --> 00:29:10,917 Consider lilies, how they grow, they toil not, you know? 304 00:29:10,917 --> 00:29:14,542 - Well, why couldn't they look at roses or daisies? 305 00:29:14,542 --> 00:29:15,542 - Oh, I don't know. 306 00:29:32,250 --> 00:29:33,917 (crickets chirping) 307 00:29:33,917 --> 00:29:35,167 - Oh, this is very nice. 308 00:29:39,125 --> 00:29:41,167 From the station master's wife, eh? 309 00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:46,708 - Her children brought it. 310 00:29:47,958 --> 00:29:50,625 - And what has the Reverend J.G. Keach brought you? 311 00:29:52,375 --> 00:29:53,167 - Nothing. 312 00:29:55,500 --> 00:29:56,292 - No money yet? 313 00:29:59,625 --> 00:30:03,125 Oh, by the way you said something the other day 314 00:30:03,125 --> 00:30:04,750 about longing for a woodbine. 315 00:30:05,708 --> 00:30:07,833 Well look what I dug up this morning. 316 00:30:11,500 --> 00:30:12,292 - Thanks. 317 00:30:15,667 --> 00:30:16,708 - Well. 318 00:30:23,833 --> 00:30:25,750 I shall see you anon. 319 00:30:29,708 --> 00:30:32,667 (peaceful music) 320 00:31:59,750 --> 00:32:01,625 - [Alice] Oh, I'm sorry, did I wake you? 321 00:32:02,792 --> 00:32:06,500 - That depends on whether I'm awake or not. 322 00:32:13,458 --> 00:32:14,917 You been here long? 323 00:32:16,042 --> 00:32:18,542 - Maybe 10 minutes, I'm not sure. 324 00:32:18,542 --> 00:32:19,792 I'm Alice Keach. 325 00:32:19,792 --> 00:32:21,958 I just came to find out if you're all right 326 00:32:21,958 --> 00:32:24,042 in the bell loft or if there's anything you needed. 327 00:32:24,042 --> 00:32:28,500 It seems so inhospitable, you up there on the floorboards 328 00:32:28,500 --> 00:32:30,042 and we in our beds. 329 00:32:30,042 --> 00:32:31,667 We've got to traveling rug. 330 00:32:31,667 --> 00:32:33,292 - No, I'm all right. 331 00:32:33,292 --> 00:32:35,125 At the end of the day, I'm so tired I sleep sleep like the 332 00:32:38,708 --> 00:32:39,833 dead. 333 00:32:39,833 --> 00:32:41,667 And during the day sometimes too. 334 00:32:43,833 --> 00:32:44,625 - Oh, well. 335 00:32:47,083 --> 00:32:49,792 (James shouting) 336 00:32:53,917 --> 00:32:55,833 - He's working off his cramp. 337 00:32:55,833 --> 00:32:56,833 - Oh. 338 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,750 The painting, when will we be able to see all of it. 339 00:33:02,750 --> 00:33:03,667 - Well, I don't know. 340 00:33:03,667 --> 00:33:04,750 It's a bit like a jigsaw. 341 00:33:06,208 --> 00:33:08,833 A face, a shoe here a bit, there a bit. 342 00:33:09,958 --> 00:33:11,417 Comes together very slowly. 343 00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:17,500 If it comes together at all. 344 00:33:18,167 --> 00:33:19,708 And of course after 345 00:33:23,375 --> 00:33:24,750 500 years I can't be sure. 346 00:33:27,458 --> 00:33:29,125 - But that's the exciting part, isn't it? 347 00:33:29,125 --> 00:33:30,958 Not knowing what's around the corner. 348 00:33:32,250 --> 00:33:34,458 Like opening a parcel at Christmas. 349 00:33:35,667 --> 00:33:37,250 So you must let me see it. 350 00:33:38,583 --> 00:33:41,917 Anyway, I'll haunt you a little until you do. 351 00:33:43,958 --> 00:33:48,833 - You related to the Reverend J.G. Keach, the vicar? 352 00:33:49,917 --> 00:33:51,167 - Yes, I'm his wife. 353 00:33:52,667 --> 00:33:55,250 (peaceful music) 354 00:33:55,250 --> 00:33:56,042 - [James] Mrs. Keach. 355 00:33:56,042 --> 00:33:56,792 - [Alice] Mr. Moon. 356 00:34:06,917 --> 00:34:08,000 - She's a stunner, isn't she? 357 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:09,083 - Is she? 358 00:34:09,083 --> 00:34:10,625 - Of course she is! 359 00:34:10,625 --> 00:34:11,417 And you know it. 360 00:34:11,417 --> 00:34:13,167 Come on, admit you do. 361 00:34:13,167 --> 00:34:14,000 - Oh, I admit it. 362 00:34:16,625 --> 00:34:18,208 Perhaps she wouldn't. 363 00:34:18,208 --> 00:34:19,500 Perhaps she doesn't even know it. 364 00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:21,500 - Rubbish, every woman knows if she's beautiful 365 00:34:21,500 --> 00:34:24,000 and imagine Keach catching her of all people. 366 00:34:26,833 --> 00:34:28,250 You're married too, aren't you? 367 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:33,792 - Sort of. 368 00:34:36,958 --> 00:34:38,292 She went off another chap. 369 00:34:40,333 --> 00:34:42,208 Not for the first time. 370 00:34:44,083 --> 00:34:45,417 Can't say I blame her really. 371 00:34:48,167 --> 00:34:49,000 Her name's Finny. 372 00:34:51,750 --> 00:34:54,583 - Yes, thought it might be something like that. 373 00:34:54,583 --> 00:34:57,792 As for me, never really met the right woman. 374 00:35:00,958 --> 00:35:02,000 Luckily for her. 375 00:35:14,458 --> 00:35:16,958 (bright music) 376 00:35:41,542 --> 00:35:45,167 - That's all for today, Mr. Birkin. 377 00:35:45,167 --> 00:35:45,958 - Right. 378 00:35:47,500 --> 00:35:50,958 - Mum and Dad say you got to come to dinner on Sunday. 379 00:35:50,958 --> 00:35:52,292 - What? 380 00:35:52,292 --> 00:35:55,208 - You're coming to dinner on Sunday. 381 00:35:57,500 --> 00:35:58,917 - Oh, thank you. 382 00:36:01,083 --> 00:36:03,792 - Mr. Douthwaite'll be coming and all, blacksmith. 383 00:36:03,792 --> 00:36:05,875 Comes most Sundays. 384 00:36:05,875 --> 00:36:07,375 - Right, well, thank you. 385 00:36:07,375 --> 00:36:09,000 Oh, what time? 386 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,792 - 11 o'clock, of course. 387 00:36:10,792 --> 00:36:11,708 - [Tom] 11 o'clock? 388 00:36:11,708 --> 00:36:13,500 - Yeah, chapel, it starts at 11. 389 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:31,000 - Brethren and fellow sinners, yea sinners! 390 00:36:33,792 --> 00:36:38,875 I say sinners for are we all not here unto sinners. 391 00:36:40,292 --> 00:36:43,125 Is there one amongst you here 392 00:36:43,125 --> 00:36:47,042 who can say he is not a sinner? 393 00:36:47,042 --> 00:36:48,167 Is there? 394 00:36:49,458 --> 00:36:54,250 If so, I challenge him to come forward and speak. 395 00:37:02,250 --> 00:37:06,375 - Lord, well, what it boils down to Lord 396 00:37:06,375 --> 00:37:08,583 is that we'd like to accept with thanks 397 00:37:09,958 --> 00:37:13,042 and we'd like you to know that as we sit down 398 00:37:13,042 --> 00:37:15,750 to dinner today, we all eat 399 00:37:15,750 --> 00:37:20,750 with great loving heart and gratitude 400 00:37:20,750 --> 00:37:23,417 for we know Lord that without thee, 401 00:37:23,417 --> 00:37:25,417 we wouldn't have a dinner. 402 00:37:25,417 --> 00:37:29,208 And furthermore, we wouldn't be here in first place. 403 00:37:38,750 --> 00:37:41,958 - My father was a butcher, Mr. Birkin. 404 00:37:46,792 --> 00:37:49,458 (birds chirping) 405 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,625 (man snoring) 406 00:38:12,750 --> 00:38:15,208 (bell chiming) 407 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,792 (train whooshing) 408 00:38:28,042 --> 00:38:31,000 (whistle tweets) 409 00:38:37,250 --> 00:38:40,917 - It's Balatton Ferry for me this afternoon, Mother. 410 00:38:40,917 --> 00:38:42,250 - Does it have to be you? 411 00:38:43,167 --> 00:38:44,708 But you're tired out. 412 00:38:46,083 --> 00:38:48,833 You should be lying down, not doing that long walk 413 00:38:48,833 --> 00:38:49,833 in the sun. 414 00:38:51,167 --> 00:38:53,208 - Last time you went, you came back all faint. 415 00:38:53,208 --> 00:38:54,250 Didn't he, Mum? 416 00:38:55,250 --> 00:38:56,167 - Yea, I'd do it for thee, Jack, 417 00:38:56,167 --> 00:38:58,042 thou knows but I promised to teach Bible 418 00:38:58,042 --> 00:38:59,792 at Grimsley Sunday School. 419 00:38:59,792 --> 00:39:02,208 - No, it's all right, George. 420 00:39:03,292 --> 00:39:04,292 I'll manage. 421 00:39:06,458 --> 00:39:07,708 - Mr. Birkin here'll go for ya. 422 00:39:07,708 --> 00:39:08,875 Won't ya, Mr. Birkin? 423 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:10,792 - What? 424 00:39:12,292 --> 00:39:13,417 Go where? 425 00:39:13,417 --> 00:39:14,333 - We'll show ya. 426 00:39:15,583 --> 00:39:17,167 - Well, what do ya say? 427 00:39:17,167 --> 00:39:19,458 - Well, there's no denying that Mr. Birkin's legs 428 00:39:19,458 --> 00:39:20,583 are younger than mine. 429 00:39:22,083 --> 00:39:25,000 - You wouldn't mind going, would you Mr. Birkin? 430 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:25,792 - To do what? 431 00:39:26,667 --> 00:39:28,042 - Just a bit of preaching. 432 00:39:30,083 --> 00:39:34,958 - I've never preached in my life. 433 00:39:34,958 --> 00:39:36,583 - Well, you heard me this morning. 434 00:39:38,292 --> 00:39:40,208 Just do that. 435 00:39:40,208 --> 00:39:41,417 - Yes. 436 00:39:41,417 --> 00:39:43,208 Just do what Dad does. 437 00:39:45,833 --> 00:39:48,500 (people singing) 438 00:40:19,583 --> 00:40:20,375 - Brethren. 439 00:40:23,208 --> 00:40:25,958 And fellow sinners. 440 00:40:28,208 --> 00:40:32,375 My sermon today derives. 441 00:40:33,542 --> 00:40:34,292 Derives. 442 00:40:38,417 --> 00:40:41,208 (kids giggling) 443 00:40:42,542 --> 00:40:45,958 Look here, I only came in place of Mr. Ellerbeck today 444 00:40:45,958 --> 00:40:46,708 because he's- 445 00:40:48,792 --> 00:40:50,292 He's indisposed. 446 00:40:51,708 --> 00:40:52,500 I can't preach. 447 00:40:54,167 --> 00:40:58,583 So all I can do is tell you about what I'm up to in Oxgodby 448 00:40:58,583 --> 00:41:00,083 in the church there. 449 00:41:02,458 --> 00:41:03,958 And if you want to leave or nod off, 450 00:41:03,958 --> 00:41:05,208 then that's all right by me. 451 00:41:07,708 --> 00:41:10,208 Well, I'm cleaning the wall, 452 00:41:11,417 --> 00:41:14,708 the one above the nave because behind the dirt 453 00:41:14,708 --> 00:41:19,375 and the layers of paint, there's a picture. 454 00:41:22,417 --> 00:41:24,833 So there I am, you see, up on my scaffolding 455 00:41:24,833 --> 00:41:27,625 scraping away until I get back to the picture itself. 456 00:41:29,333 --> 00:41:32,042 It's really all patience, you see, my sort of work. 457 00:41:33,417 --> 00:41:35,292 But I don't get any second chances. 458 00:41:35,292 --> 00:41:37,375 That's what makes it so exciting. 459 00:41:38,583 --> 00:41:40,542 One dab too few and some poor chap 460 00:41:40,542 --> 00:41:42,500 won't get back from five centuries ago, 461 00:41:43,750 --> 00:41:47,167 one dab too many and wiped him out forever. 462 00:41:50,792 --> 00:41:52,917 Makes me sound rather like God, doesn't it? 463 00:41:57,125 --> 00:42:02,000 Well, really I'm just a servant like every one of us 464 00:42:03,125 --> 00:42:04,083 except I'm the servant of the painter. 465 00:42:07,333 --> 00:42:11,000 I hope I'm good enough to serve this painter 466 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,250 because he deserves the very best of servants. 467 00:42:16,625 --> 00:42:19,250 (dog barking) 468 00:42:29,375 --> 00:42:31,750 - You from London are ya, Mr. Birkin? 469 00:42:31,750 --> 00:42:32,542 - Yes. 470 00:42:36,250 --> 00:42:37,292 London, that's right. 471 00:42:40,833 --> 00:42:42,583 - We've never met a Londoner before. 472 00:42:44,042 --> 00:42:45,458 - You're the first, Mr. Birkin. 473 00:42:46,667 --> 00:42:47,458 - Oh. 474 00:42:51,417 --> 00:42:52,500 - You were over there, were you? 475 00:42:52,500 --> 00:42:54,042 Mr. Birkin, in France. 476 00:43:01,750 --> 00:43:02,625 - So was our Perc. 477 00:43:05,208 --> 00:43:08,375 He had it taken on his last leave, on his 19th birthday. 478 00:43:12,750 --> 00:43:14,000 - He was a right good lad, Perc. 479 00:43:15,458 --> 00:43:16,333 Real worker. 480 00:43:17,292 --> 00:43:18,667 He'd give hand to anybody. 481 00:43:21,083 --> 00:43:22,083 Everybody liked him. 482 00:43:33,333 --> 00:43:36,708 Well, would you like to look at the farm, Mr. Birkin? 483 00:43:36,708 --> 00:43:40,292 - Yes, Lucy, why don't you show Mr. Birkin round the farm? 484 00:43:40,292 --> 00:43:42,417 - Would you like to see around? 485 00:43:42,417 --> 00:43:44,083 - We can't. 486 00:43:44,083 --> 00:43:45,792 We've gotta visit Emily Clough. 487 00:43:45,792 --> 00:43:47,000 We promised her. 488 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:48,333 And we told our Sunday school teacher 489 00:43:48,333 --> 00:43:50,042 we'd take her her star card. 490 00:43:51,583 --> 00:43:52,500 - Emily Clough? 491 00:43:52,500 --> 00:43:53,667 - We said we'd bring you at all. 492 00:43:53,667 --> 00:43:55,375 She's expecting ya, innit she? 493 00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:57,750 - Aye. 494 00:44:00,917 --> 00:44:02,542 - Oh, well perhaps another Sunday. 495 00:44:06,708 --> 00:44:09,167 (cow moos) 496 00:44:09,167 --> 00:44:11,958 (wings whooshing) 497 00:44:16,208 --> 00:44:18,875 (birds tweeting) 498 00:44:31,333 --> 00:44:33,417 (chickens clucking) 499 00:44:33,417 --> 00:44:34,500 - [Kathy] Mrs. Clough, we've come 500 00:44:34,500 --> 00:44:36,417 to bring Emily some flowers. 501 00:44:36,417 --> 00:44:37,667 - Go on up. 502 00:44:37,667 --> 00:44:39,583 On the way out you can have a jam tart. 503 00:44:40,833 --> 00:44:43,542 (shoes thudding) 504 00:44:54,167 --> 00:44:56,542 - I brought ya your star card, Emily. 505 00:44:56,542 --> 00:44:59,000 Mr. Douthwaite stamped it S for sick. 506 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:00,458 He says count so many stars. 507 00:45:01,792 --> 00:45:04,333 You only need six more stars for a prize. 508 00:45:06,417 --> 00:45:08,125 - Oh, S is for sick. 509 00:45:11,625 --> 00:45:13,750 - I've been thinking about my prize. 510 00:45:13,750 --> 00:45:15,375 I'd like "Forgotten Garden". 511 00:45:16,458 --> 00:45:17,708 What are you two having? 512 00:45:18,958 --> 00:45:20,500 - "Pearl Island" and Edgar's having 513 00:45:20,500 --> 00:45:22,625 "The Children of the New Forest". 514 00:45:22,625 --> 00:45:24,333 - Isn't that a bit beyond him? 515 00:45:24,333 --> 00:45:25,625 - He'll grow to like it later. 516 00:45:25,625 --> 00:45:28,708 I've heard it's a good story with two girls in it. 517 00:45:28,708 --> 00:45:32,125 Mr. Birkin's the man livin' in church, Emily. 518 00:45:32,125 --> 00:45:33,500 - Oh, I've heard about you. 519 00:45:33,500 --> 00:45:36,125 I hope you'll still be there when I'm up, Mr. Birkin. 520 00:45:39,667 --> 00:45:41,000 I like your straw hat, Kathy. 521 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:41,833 Can I try it on? 522 00:45:49,625 --> 00:45:52,583 (Emily coughing) 523 00:45:59,792 --> 00:46:02,458 (birds chirping) 524 00:46:02,458 --> 00:46:04,917 (bright music) 525 00:46:06,417 --> 00:46:08,625 - [Kathy] She knows she's dyin', don't she? 526 00:46:14,917 --> 00:46:16,500 - [Ellerbeck] Hello Kathy. 527 00:46:16,500 --> 00:46:18,583 Is Mr. Birkin here as good as your dad at the preaching? 528 00:46:18,583 --> 00:46:21,000 - Well, he didn't really do no preaching. 529 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,458 Just talked about his painting, didn't he? 530 00:46:23,458 --> 00:46:24,500 - He did and all. 531 00:46:26,500 --> 00:46:29,500 - You feeling all right, Mr. Birkin? 532 00:46:29,500 --> 00:46:31,125 You've hardly touched your tea. 533 00:46:31,125 --> 00:46:33,500 - [Kathy] He had his tea at Lucy Sykes', (indistinct). 534 00:46:34,958 --> 00:46:38,208 - [Mrs. Ellerbeck] She's a fine strong girl is Lucy Sykes. 535 00:46:38,208 --> 00:46:41,500 - [Ellerbeck] That's right, good Christian upbringing too. 536 00:46:41,500 --> 00:46:42,542 - [Mrs. Ellerbeck] Time we asked her 537 00:46:42,542 --> 00:46:45,458 to the Sunday School outing, eh Father? 538 00:46:45,458 --> 00:46:48,500 - Aye, aye, I meant to last year. 539 00:46:50,708 --> 00:46:52,000 - Please excuse me. 540 00:46:53,292 --> 00:46:54,708 I must get back. 541 00:46:59,417 --> 00:47:00,875 - It's that Lucy Sykes. 542 00:47:00,875 --> 00:47:03,417 He's been funny ever since he saw her. 543 00:47:03,417 --> 00:47:06,125 (reverent music) 544 00:47:19,208 --> 00:47:20,625 - God, what God? 545 00:47:21,917 --> 00:47:23,833 There is no God! 546 00:47:23,833 --> 00:47:26,542 (birds chirping) 547 00:47:58,625 --> 00:48:01,458 (James shouting) 548 00:48:10,250 --> 00:48:12,750 (James crying) 549 00:48:48,583 --> 00:48:50,917 - [Tom] I don't really want "Roses of Picardy" this morning 550 00:48:50,917 --> 00:48:51,833 if you don't mind. 551 00:48:53,417 --> 00:48:56,292 - Well, will you accept my traveling rug? 552 00:48:56,292 --> 00:48:57,083 - Oh. 553 00:48:59,833 --> 00:49:01,333 Sorry, I thought you were someone else. 554 00:49:01,333 --> 00:49:04,625 - Yes, I know Kathy Ellerbeck and that gramophone. 555 00:49:04,625 --> 00:49:06,667 Now you'll have to let me come up. 556 00:49:06,667 --> 00:49:07,583 That was our agreement. 557 00:49:07,583 --> 00:49:08,333 May I? 558 00:49:11,417 --> 00:49:14,208 Mr. Moon was saying that he was sure you wouldn't let me. 559 00:49:17,250 --> 00:49:19,875 You wanted to keep it all to yourself. 560 00:49:49,625 --> 00:49:51,292 But this is horrible. 561 00:49:52,667 --> 00:49:53,708 It's horrible. 562 00:49:55,125 --> 00:49:56,750 It's it's like a sort of hell. 563 00:49:58,625 --> 00:50:01,292 - It's probably not so horrible if you believed in it. 564 00:50:04,250 --> 00:50:05,417 - Do you believe in it? 565 00:50:07,792 --> 00:50:09,292 - When I look at it when I'm working on it, 566 00:50:09,292 --> 00:50:10,625 I believe in his belief. 567 00:50:12,667 --> 00:50:14,333 It's impossible not to, really. 568 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:18,500 - But otherwise you don't believe there's a hell? 569 00:50:20,792 --> 00:50:22,125 - Well, I suppose hell means different things 570 00:50:22,125 --> 00:50:23,125 to different people. 571 00:50:29,375 --> 00:50:31,667 - What does it mean to you? 572 00:50:32,667 --> 00:50:33,708 - Hell on earth, I think? 573 00:50:36,583 --> 00:50:37,542 - Yes, of course. 574 00:50:40,375 --> 00:50:43,333 Although I don't really understand. 575 00:50:43,333 --> 00:50:44,833 How could I? 576 00:50:44,833 --> 00:50:45,917 - [Tom] Why should you? 577 00:50:47,375 --> 00:50:48,750 - Well, I suppose one should try. 578 00:50:48,750 --> 00:50:50,667 - No you shouldn't, I'd rather you didn't. 579 00:50:57,792 --> 00:51:02,417 - Were you always in the cleaning business, Mr. Birkin? 580 00:51:08,500 --> 00:51:09,625 - My father traveling 581 00:51:11,958 --> 00:51:12,750 soap. 582 00:51:40,375 --> 00:51:41,375 - Thank you. 583 00:51:43,500 --> 00:51:44,917 For letting me see. 584 00:51:50,833 --> 00:51:53,458 (peaceful music) 585 00:53:35,958 --> 00:53:38,708 (bell ringing) 586 00:54:04,292 --> 00:54:05,083 Hello. 587 00:54:11,750 --> 00:54:14,417 - I came to see your husband but he isn't- 588 00:54:14,417 --> 00:54:16,083 - Oh, he wouldn't be able to hear you. 589 00:54:16,083 --> 00:54:18,292 He's playing right at the end of the house. 590 00:54:19,292 --> 00:54:22,792 (peaceful violin music) 591 00:54:28,917 --> 00:54:32,125 You haven't been here before have you? 592 00:54:32,125 --> 00:54:34,292 We have it all to ourselves. 593 00:54:35,833 --> 00:54:40,083 Most of the rooms are empty, you see, completely empty. 594 00:54:40,083 --> 00:54:41,875 This one and this one. 595 00:54:49,667 --> 00:54:51,542 It can be quite oppressive. 596 00:54:51,542 --> 00:54:52,917 Gives me nightmares sometimes, 597 00:54:52,917 --> 00:54:54,417 well, the same nightmare really, 598 00:54:56,125 --> 00:54:58,042 that the trees are closing in 599 00:54:58,042 --> 00:55:00,792 and there are only the walls to stop them. 600 00:55:17,167 --> 00:55:20,042 I just found Mr. Birkin on the doorstep, 601 00:55:20,042 --> 00:55:22,083 but you couldn't hear the bell. 602 00:55:22,083 --> 00:55:23,125 - No, I suppose not. 603 00:55:24,042 --> 00:55:25,500 At least, I didn't hear it. 604 00:55:28,375 --> 00:55:30,333 - We don't have many visitors, you see. 605 00:55:32,250 --> 00:55:35,125 - No, one gets out of the habit of listening for them. 606 00:55:39,333 --> 00:55:41,125 - I was just saying to Mr. Birkin, 607 00:55:41,125 --> 00:55:43,625 such a big house for the two of us, isn't it? 608 00:55:45,125 --> 00:55:47,750 - Yes, yes it is, really. 609 00:55:52,375 --> 00:55:55,042 - And the rooms, we don't know how to fill them, do we? 610 00:55:55,042 --> 00:55:56,458 - No, no, that's true. 611 00:56:00,542 --> 00:56:01,458 - Except for that. 612 00:56:03,542 --> 00:56:05,167 At least it's big enough. 613 00:56:05,167 --> 00:56:07,167 We don't know what it is or what it does. 614 00:56:07,167 --> 00:56:10,083 It seems to be part of something else. 615 00:56:10,083 --> 00:56:12,292 My husband's father bought it in an auction sale 616 00:56:12,292 --> 00:56:14,750 because nobody else wanted it. 617 00:56:14,750 --> 00:56:16,542 To help fill up the room, didn't he? 618 00:56:18,125 --> 00:56:19,042 - That's right, he did. 619 00:56:25,667 --> 00:56:30,167 - I just came to sort out the question of my money. 620 00:56:31,417 --> 00:56:32,333 - The money. 621 00:56:35,500 --> 00:56:38,375 I suppose you brought a receipt, Mr. Birkin. 622 00:56:38,375 --> 00:56:39,375 - A receipt? 623 00:56:39,375 --> 00:56:40,167 - For the money. 624 00:56:41,958 --> 00:56:45,083 I sent Mossop with your installment this morning. 625 00:56:46,458 --> 00:56:47,750 Didn't he give it to you? 626 00:56:51,750 --> 00:56:53,208 - We must've passed each other. 627 00:56:57,458 --> 00:57:01,375 - Well, perhaps you'd like to see the rest of the house? 628 00:57:01,375 --> 00:57:03,792 - Thank you, I have to get back to work. 629 00:57:08,125 --> 00:57:09,750 - Did you come by the wood? 630 00:57:09,750 --> 00:57:10,542 - No, the road. 631 00:57:12,042 --> 00:57:13,875 - Well, I'll show you the way through the wood. 632 00:57:21,458 --> 00:57:23,125 - When are you going to show my wife the painting. 633 00:57:23,125 --> 00:57:24,833 She's very anxious to see it. 634 00:57:24,833 --> 00:57:26,042 - Oh, I've already seen it. 635 00:57:27,208 --> 00:57:28,250 - Have you? 636 00:57:31,042 --> 00:57:32,250 I haven't realized. 637 00:57:34,958 --> 00:57:37,667 (shoes clacking) 638 00:57:48,292 --> 00:57:50,167 - These are my roses. 639 00:57:52,542 --> 00:57:54,125 I spend a lot of time on then. 640 00:57:55,625 --> 00:57:57,208 But I don't know why, 641 00:57:57,208 --> 00:57:58,958 because there really isn't anyone to look at them but me. 642 00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:02,500 This is a Van Fleet. 643 00:58:04,125 --> 00:58:05,250 Very old variety. 644 00:58:09,125 --> 00:58:12,042 (birds chirping) 645 00:58:19,333 --> 00:58:20,833 Mind the sharp thorns. 646 00:58:22,583 --> 00:58:24,292 They keep blooming until autumn 647 00:58:25,500 --> 00:58:27,125 so you'll know when summer's ended 648 00:58:27,125 --> 00:58:30,917 because I usually wear one of the last in my hat. 649 00:58:37,250 --> 00:58:40,167 (peaceful music) 650 00:59:01,750 --> 00:59:04,500 - This beautiful, a kind of paradise. 651 00:59:10,292 --> 00:59:11,333 - Look. 652 00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:21,792 - Many men would say that you were beautiful, Mrs. Keach. 653 00:59:26,958 --> 00:59:28,292 - Oh. 654 00:59:28,292 --> 00:59:29,625 (gun roars) (Tom gasps) 655 00:59:29,625 --> 00:59:32,333 (birds chirping) 656 01:00:14,208 --> 01:00:18,875 - Yes, well, that's what comes of believing in paradise. 657 01:00:25,083 --> 01:00:28,083 (branches rustling) 658 01:00:36,333 --> 01:00:37,125 - Oh. 659 01:00:44,792 --> 01:00:47,458 (peaceful music) 660 01:01:26,375 --> 01:01:27,458 - Look at this. 661 01:01:33,250 --> 01:01:34,042 Have you ever seen a detail like this 662 01:01:34,042 --> 01:01:35,250 in a medieval painting? 663 01:01:36,667 --> 01:01:38,625 Anticipates the Bruegels by 100 years. 664 01:01:40,333 --> 01:01:42,958 That face meant something to him. 665 01:01:42,958 --> 01:01:44,333 It's a portrait, must be. 666 01:01:46,542 --> 01:01:48,250 And he was covered over years before the rest. 667 01:01:49,333 --> 01:01:50,292 - It's the crescent. 668 01:01:51,833 --> 01:01:54,417 One could swear he was almost meant to be identifiable. 669 01:01:54,417 --> 01:01:56,500 Would he have dared, your painter? 670 01:01:57,917 --> 01:01:59,250 And what was he like? 671 01:01:59,250 --> 01:02:01,167 You must know him pretty well by now. 672 01:02:01,167 --> 01:02:01,958 - I can't even put a name to him. 673 01:02:01,958 --> 01:02:02,875 He hasn't signed it. 674 01:02:04,333 --> 01:02:05,917 Why would he, our idea of person 675 01:02:07,750 --> 01:02:09,708 may have meant nothing to him. 676 01:02:09,708 --> 01:02:12,542 But he was fair-haired and I know that 677 01:02:12,542 --> 01:02:14,375 from hairs that keep turning up 678 01:02:14,375 --> 01:02:15,917 where his beard prodded into the paint. 679 01:02:17,125 --> 01:02:19,708 He was right handed, about your build. 680 01:02:19,708 --> 01:02:22,083 And he needed a step ladder to get up to six foot. 681 01:02:25,208 --> 01:02:28,542 The weird thing is, he didn't finish the job himself. 682 01:02:28,542 --> 01:02:30,417 See this bit here? 683 01:02:30,417 --> 01:02:32,542 It's a rough job, fill in. 684 01:02:32,542 --> 01:02:34,042 Probably done by his apprentice. 685 01:02:35,417 --> 01:02:36,667 I cannot imagine why. 686 01:02:38,250 --> 01:02:41,000 Just when his nose was past the finishing post. 687 01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:42,750 And he knew this was his great work. 688 01:02:46,083 --> 01:02:47,000 You can feel it, can't you? 689 01:02:48,917 --> 01:02:51,375 Everything he'd done before was just a run up to this. 690 01:02:52,792 --> 01:02:54,833 He sweated here. 691 01:02:54,833 --> 01:02:55,667 Tossed in his bed. 692 01:02:58,500 --> 01:02:59,708 Groaned, howled over it. 693 01:03:02,833 --> 01:03:05,708 - And he shall come with woundes red, eh? 694 01:03:11,375 --> 01:03:12,708 Well done. 695 01:03:12,708 --> 01:03:15,583 (melancholy music) 696 01:03:36,292 --> 01:03:39,000 (dramatic music) 697 01:03:52,792 --> 01:03:54,208 - Moon, he fell! 698 01:03:55,292 --> 01:03:56,208 That's why he didn't finish it. 699 01:03:56,208 --> 01:03:57,417 It was his last job, he fell! 700 01:03:59,167 --> 01:04:02,458 - Oh, well you better watch it then, eh? 701 01:04:12,500 --> 01:04:15,875 (train whistle tweets) 702 01:04:25,417 --> 01:04:29,417 - Ah, but Mr. Birkin, you've a real eye for quality. 703 01:04:29,417 --> 01:04:31,375 That anybody can tell. 704 01:04:31,375 --> 01:04:33,708 We want the best there is. 705 01:04:33,708 --> 01:04:35,625 - What's more to the point, Mr. Birkin, 706 01:04:35,625 --> 01:04:38,250 is we want best we can afford. 707 01:04:45,542 --> 01:04:50,542 (people chattering) (animals braying) 708 01:05:21,250 --> 01:05:22,250 (man whistles) 709 01:05:22,250 --> 01:05:23,750 - Look at this lot. 710 01:05:26,417 --> 01:05:29,542 (bright organ music) 711 01:05:50,708 --> 01:05:53,458 - Well I'm no great musician, Mr. Birkin. 712 01:05:53,458 --> 01:05:55,167 I'll freely admit that, 713 01:05:55,167 --> 01:05:58,667 but there's one thing I do know about and that's wind. 714 01:05:58,667 --> 01:06:00,792 Jack, no. 715 01:06:00,792 --> 01:06:02,792 - What do you think, Mr. Birkin? 716 01:06:02,792 --> 01:06:06,750 - Well, this one vibrates. 717 01:06:06,750 --> 01:06:08,875 - That's right, that it does. 718 01:06:08,875 --> 01:06:10,375 - And that one smells odd. 719 01:06:10,375 --> 01:06:15,083 - Then this is the one we test to the limit. 720 01:06:15,083 --> 01:06:15,875 Kathy, lass. 721 01:06:19,167 --> 01:06:22,292 (bright organ music) 722 01:06:31,667 --> 01:06:32,750 - Go and quiet him. 723 01:06:32,750 --> 01:06:35,833 He's gonna make that din for, Mr. Birkin. 724 01:06:35,833 --> 01:06:38,917 (bright organ music) 725 01:06:45,625 --> 01:06:46,625 - Excuse me. 726 01:06:53,583 --> 01:06:58,583 ♪ Love of ages left for me ♪ 727 01:06:59,667 --> 01:07:01,667 ♪ Shall be he ♪ 728 01:07:01,667 --> 01:07:05,917 ♪ Let the water and the plant ♪ 729 01:07:05,917 --> 01:07:09,417 ♪ From thy river site which flowed ♪ 730 01:07:09,417 --> 01:07:12,208 - I must prefer the jollier hints. 731 01:07:39,042 --> 01:07:41,625 - [George] I was impressed, Jack. 732 01:07:41,625 --> 01:07:45,125 There's a deep resonance of its bass notes, 733 01:07:45,125 --> 01:07:46,458 I think you'll agree with me there. 734 01:07:46,458 --> 01:07:47,458 - Aye, sound as a bell. 735 01:07:47,458 --> 01:07:50,000 Now that, Mr. Birkin, was music. 736 01:07:54,083 --> 01:07:54,875 - Beautiful. 737 01:07:57,333 --> 01:07:58,083 - [Jack] That's it then. 738 01:07:58,083 --> 01:07:59,375 We'll have the Albudeck. 739 01:07:59,375 --> 01:08:00,667 - Any discount for cash down? 740 01:08:00,667 --> 01:08:02,750 - Aye, a couple of quid off for cash in hand. 741 01:08:02,750 --> 01:08:04,000 - Good man. 742 01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:05,292 - And to include delivery of course. 743 01:08:05,292 --> 01:08:06,500 - [Organ Salesman] Where to? 744 01:08:06,500 --> 01:08:07,708 - Oxgodby. - Chapel. 745 01:08:07,708 --> 01:08:09,083 - Good day. - Good day. 746 01:08:11,125 --> 01:08:16,125 (people chattering) (bells ringing) 747 01:08:26,542 --> 01:08:27,458 - Actually, I'd quite like to have a look 748 01:08:27,458 --> 01:08:30,042 at the church a moment. 749 01:08:30,042 --> 01:08:31,792 - Come on, (indistinct), come on. 750 01:08:31,792 --> 01:08:33,292 - See thee later. 751 01:08:33,292 --> 01:08:36,792 (townspeople chattering) 752 01:10:00,542 --> 01:10:04,042 - Excuse me, you here from Oxgodby? 753 01:10:04,042 --> 01:10:06,167 - Yes, but just visiting. 754 01:10:07,667 --> 01:10:10,875 - Have you bumped into a chap called Moon over there? 755 01:10:10,875 --> 01:10:13,917 James Moon, digging up some fields or summat? 756 01:10:13,917 --> 01:10:15,458 - Yes I have. 757 01:10:15,458 --> 01:10:20,167 - And is he a stocky fair-haired sorta chap, smiles a lot? 758 01:10:22,083 --> 01:10:23,708 - That's pretty well him, yes. 759 01:10:24,833 --> 01:10:26,917 - A captain in the 18th Norfolk Artillery? 760 01:10:30,917 --> 01:10:32,750 That clinches it then. 761 01:10:32,750 --> 01:10:34,125 Must be the same chap. 762 01:10:35,625 --> 01:10:38,250 Would you give him a salute from me? 763 01:10:38,250 --> 01:10:39,792 - Of course. 764 01:10:39,792 --> 01:10:42,125 - And all the other officers in the 18th Norfolk. 765 01:10:43,750 --> 01:10:45,792 The ones who didn't sit out the last six months 766 01:10:45,792 --> 01:10:48,125 of the war in a glass house, like our hero did. 767 01:10:52,417 --> 01:10:53,667 For buggerin' his batman. 768 01:11:00,333 --> 01:11:03,125 (hooves clopping) 769 01:11:26,875 --> 01:11:28,375 - Want some milk? 770 01:11:29,917 --> 01:11:30,958 - No. 771 01:11:33,250 --> 01:11:34,042 Thanks. 772 01:11:36,958 --> 01:11:39,208 (sheep bleating) 773 01:11:39,208 --> 01:11:40,792 - It agrees with you, doesn't it? 774 01:11:42,625 --> 01:11:43,875 - What does? 775 01:11:43,875 --> 01:11:44,667 - Oxgodby. 776 01:11:46,750 --> 01:11:48,083 Since you've been here, they've almost gone, 777 01:11:48,083 --> 01:11:50,167 your twitch, tremor and stammer. 778 01:11:52,875 --> 01:11:54,042 - Yes, I suppose they have. 779 01:11:56,875 --> 01:11:57,625 Hadn't noticed. 780 01:12:00,750 --> 01:12:03,000 - What about the vicar's lovely lady? 781 01:12:03,000 --> 01:12:04,333 You seen anything of her? 782 01:12:06,917 --> 01:12:07,792 - No, not really. 783 01:12:09,875 --> 01:12:10,917 - Oh, pity. 784 01:12:13,417 --> 01:12:14,208 - Is it? 785 01:12:21,667 --> 01:12:22,458 - No, not really. 786 01:12:28,875 --> 01:12:32,417 Better off without it, aren't we? 787 01:12:32,417 --> 01:12:34,667 We want an easy life. 788 01:12:34,667 --> 01:12:37,375 (birds chirping) 789 01:12:49,792 --> 01:12:52,250 - Well, here's to an easy life. 790 01:12:55,958 --> 01:12:58,833 (peaceful music) 791 01:13:19,583 --> 01:13:21,417 - [Townsman] All right, all right. 792 01:13:21,417 --> 01:13:24,792 Come on, Dan, I'll buy you a pint. 793 01:13:24,792 --> 01:13:27,042 - I have wanted it to happen. 794 01:13:28,667 --> 01:13:31,000 There were times when I'd just had enough. 795 01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:32,583 Well, you know that. 796 01:13:35,833 --> 01:13:36,625 So many had gone. 797 01:13:38,958 --> 01:13:40,167 Chaps I cared for. 798 01:13:42,875 --> 01:13:45,250 Sometimes it seemed like they were the lucky ones. 799 01:13:49,000 --> 01:13:49,875 Night's a bad time. 800 01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:53,000 I expect you've heard me. 801 01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:54,417 I still wake up screaming. 802 01:13:57,125 --> 01:13:58,208 I can still see them. 803 01:14:00,875 --> 01:14:01,958 Still see. 804 01:14:05,333 --> 01:14:08,458 And I tell myself it'll get better as time passes 805 01:14:08,458 --> 01:14:10,042 and it sinks further back. 806 01:14:12,708 --> 01:14:14,250 But it's got nowhere to sink to, has it? 807 01:14:16,458 --> 01:14:17,750 We'll always be different, won't we? 808 01:14:17,750 --> 01:14:19,042 The whole lot of us, 809 01:14:19,042 --> 01:14:21,375 all the millions of us that survived. 810 01:14:21,375 --> 01:14:22,958 If millions did. 811 01:14:24,458 --> 01:14:27,250 Different, I mean, from the generations who went before 812 01:14:27,250 --> 01:14:30,250 who had no idea that anything like that could ever happen. 813 01:14:33,083 --> 01:14:34,042 I don't know if it's worse 814 01:14:34,042 --> 01:14:35,333 not having something to show for it 815 01:14:35,333 --> 01:14:39,958 like a lost limb or two or blindness. 816 01:14:41,708 --> 01:14:46,125 I mean, people like you and me, the intact ones. 817 01:14:49,875 --> 01:14:51,917 Worst part for me was the last six months 818 01:14:53,250 --> 01:14:55,208 when I was kept away from the fighting. 819 01:14:56,625 --> 01:14:59,042 Went for months without seeing a single corpse. 820 01:15:01,167 --> 01:15:02,292 Faces that I did see 821 01:15:08,208 --> 01:15:09,000 passed. 822 01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:16,000 A little bit round the bend, you know? 823 01:15:16,000 --> 01:15:17,292 Always will be, I expect. 824 01:15:22,000 --> 01:15:27,000 Still, no point in letting it get one down, eh? 825 01:15:32,792 --> 01:15:35,083 One has one's life to lead. 826 01:15:36,125 --> 01:15:39,625 And then he shall come with woundes red, eh? 827 01:15:40,875 --> 01:15:43,042 To damn the quick and the dead. 828 01:15:47,083 --> 01:15:49,333 - You got a Military Cross, didn't you? 829 01:15:51,250 --> 01:15:52,375 I saw it in your tent. 830 01:15:56,708 --> 01:16:01,625 - I did. 831 01:16:02,458 --> 01:16:04,167 There go the chapel lot again. 832 01:16:04,167 --> 01:16:06,083 Once they buy themselves a new organ. 833 01:16:07,583 --> 01:16:10,250 (peaceful music) 834 01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:31,208 - Well, what is it? 835 01:16:32,625 --> 01:16:36,875 - Either a boulder deep than it ought to be 836 01:16:36,875 --> 01:16:39,125 or the lid of a stone coffin, perhaps. 837 01:16:46,042 --> 01:16:47,708 Do you know what this is for? 838 01:17:17,125 --> 01:17:18,417 Isn't it exciting? 839 01:17:18,417 --> 01:17:21,083 Digging where someone must've dug 5, 600 years ago hm? 840 01:17:25,250 --> 01:17:27,292 Well, you're spoiled of course. 841 01:17:27,292 --> 01:17:29,292 You clean a wall and uncover a masterpiece. 842 01:17:29,292 --> 01:17:32,750 Turn over the earth and expect to find a pot of gold. 843 01:17:32,750 --> 01:17:36,250 But we diggers, we keep our palates fresh. 844 01:17:37,458 --> 01:17:40,375 Miles of deviation of tinge is all we need 845 01:17:41,708 --> 01:17:43,625 to stir the blood. 846 01:17:43,625 --> 01:17:45,500 Haven't you noticed that you're throwing up soil 847 01:17:45,500 --> 01:17:47,417 that should've been three spits deeper. 848 01:17:48,500 --> 01:17:49,292 Thank you. 849 01:17:54,167 --> 01:17:55,208 Ah! 850 01:18:07,458 --> 01:18:11,208 Horn button, 15th century, right on target. 851 01:18:12,417 --> 01:18:14,250 - Well, come on, is it Piers or isn't it? 852 01:18:25,250 --> 01:18:28,875 (speaking in Latin) 853 01:18:28,875 --> 01:18:30,750 - I of all men, the most wretched. 854 01:18:32,375 --> 01:18:35,375 They really had it in for the poor devil, didn't they? 855 01:18:35,375 --> 01:18:36,375 Wonder why. 856 01:18:38,042 --> 01:18:41,292 Oh, well, I suppose we shall never know. 857 01:18:43,375 --> 01:18:45,292 Come on, let's take a look. 858 01:18:45,292 --> 01:18:48,000 (men groaning) 859 01:18:49,375 --> 01:18:52,375 (suspenseful music) 860 01:18:56,792 --> 01:18:57,583 Third rib down. 861 01:19:13,250 --> 01:19:15,792 (indistinct) 862 01:19:23,167 --> 01:19:27,333 So Piers was a Muslim. 863 01:19:29,375 --> 01:19:30,958 A Muslim in Oxgodby. 864 01:19:32,208 --> 01:19:33,458 He must've got caught up 865 01:19:33,458 --> 01:19:36,042 in some medieval crusade, I suppose. 866 01:19:36,042 --> 01:19:38,250 Converted to save his skin. 867 01:19:38,250 --> 01:19:40,417 Imagine the ruction when he turned up here, 868 01:19:40,417 --> 01:19:42,333 and was still worshiping to the east. 869 01:19:43,917 --> 01:19:46,083 Well, no wonder they buried him outside the churchyard. 870 01:19:47,667 --> 01:19:52,250 Well, well, both our mysteries solved. 871 01:19:53,667 --> 01:19:55,875 - It was the same mystery wasn't it? 872 01:20:45,292 --> 01:20:47,333 - Mossop told me you'd finished. 873 01:20:47,333 --> 01:20:48,250 I can see you have. 874 01:20:50,292 --> 01:20:51,042 Very good. 875 01:20:52,375 --> 01:20:55,333 In accordance with the executives' wishes, 876 01:20:55,333 --> 01:20:57,625 here's the final payment of Miss Hebron's estate. 877 01:21:00,250 --> 01:21:03,583 13 pound 15 shillings, as was agreed. 878 01:21:05,417 --> 01:21:06,792 - What do you think of it? 879 01:21:07,792 --> 01:21:10,083 - Well, it's there. 880 01:21:12,250 --> 01:21:14,500 So you've done the job you're contracted for 881 01:21:14,500 --> 01:21:15,292 and now you've been paid. 882 01:21:15,292 --> 01:21:16,333 - Thank you. 883 01:21:18,667 --> 01:21:21,250 Of course I'll need the scaffolding for several more days. 884 01:21:23,292 --> 01:21:24,333 - Why? 885 01:21:24,333 --> 01:21:25,583 - Because I haven't finished. 886 01:21:27,708 --> 01:21:29,500 - What remains to be done? 887 01:21:29,500 --> 01:21:30,625 - That's for me to decide. 888 01:21:34,833 --> 01:21:36,833 - I shall have the scaffolding removed. 889 01:21:36,833 --> 01:21:37,583 - Oh will you? 890 01:21:38,708 --> 01:21:40,000 Then I shall inform the executives 891 01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:42,458 that you prevented me from completing my work, 892 01:21:43,667 --> 01:21:45,375 which will leave them with the obligation 893 01:21:45,375 --> 01:21:47,667 to contribute 1000 pounds to your fabric fund, won't it? 894 01:21:51,750 --> 01:21:54,125 - I should not wish to quarrel with you, Mr. Birkin. 895 01:22:05,167 --> 01:22:09,583 I know how you see me, Mr. Birkin, the way you want to. 896 01:22:11,708 --> 01:22:13,083 You've never thought what it's like 897 01:22:13,083 --> 01:22:14,583 for a man like me, have you? 898 01:22:16,250 --> 01:22:18,875 The English are not a deeply religious people. 899 01:22:20,042 --> 01:22:22,542 Most of those who attend divine service do so 900 01:22:22,542 --> 01:22:23,917 only from habit. 901 01:22:23,917 --> 01:22:26,250 Their acceptance of the sacrament is perfunctory. 902 01:22:27,500 --> 01:22:29,083 I've yet to meet the man whose hair rose 903 01:22:29,083 --> 01:22:30,458 at the nape of his neck, 904 01:22:30,458 --> 01:22:32,875 because he was about to taste the blood of his dying Lord. 905 01:22:34,458 --> 01:22:36,167 Will I find such a man in Oxgodby? 906 01:22:38,500 --> 01:22:40,542 Even when they come to my church in large numbers 907 01:22:40,542 --> 01:22:44,583 at harvest, Thanksgiving, or Christmas, midnight masses, 908 01:22:45,875 --> 01:22:48,208 it's really a pagan salute to the passing of the seasons. 909 01:22:48,208 --> 01:22:49,208 They do not need me. 910 01:22:51,417 --> 01:22:53,167 They merely find me useful. 911 01:22:54,375 --> 01:22:57,375 Baptisms, weddings, funerals, oh, chiefly funerals, 912 01:22:57,375 --> 01:23:00,167 because I see to the orderly disposal of their dead. 913 01:23:02,917 --> 01:23:04,250 But I'm embarrassing you. 914 01:23:05,542 --> 01:23:07,708 And embarrassing people is a grave sin, is it not? 915 01:23:11,375 --> 01:23:13,417 If you could let me know 916 01:23:13,417 --> 01:23:16,417 when I might have the scaffolding dismantled. 917 01:23:23,792 --> 01:23:26,667 (melancholy music) 918 01:24:12,292 --> 01:24:13,667 - I hear you've finished. 919 01:24:13,667 --> 01:24:14,458 - Yes. 920 01:24:17,708 --> 01:24:21,583 - I brought you some apples to say goodbye with. 921 01:24:21,583 --> 01:24:23,125 - Thank you. 922 01:24:23,125 --> 01:24:24,250 - They're Ribston Pippins. 923 01:24:24,250 --> 01:24:25,583 They do very well up here. 924 01:24:25,583 --> 01:24:27,500 Exactly the right soil and climate. 925 01:24:28,625 --> 01:24:30,583 Lots of other varieties don't take though. 926 01:24:32,333 --> 01:24:34,667 - You're an expert on apples too, are you? 927 01:24:37,292 --> 01:24:38,667 - I am. 928 01:24:38,667 --> 01:24:40,042 My father taught me. 929 01:24:41,542 --> 01:24:43,583 Before he bit into one, 930 01:24:44,875 --> 01:24:49,417 he'd sniff it and roll it around and his cupped palms 931 01:24:51,000 --> 01:24:52,417 and he'd smell his hands 932 01:24:53,542 --> 01:24:56,083 and he'd tap and finger it like a blind man. 933 01:24:57,292 --> 01:25:00,583 Sometimes he'd ask me to close my eyes 934 01:25:00,583 --> 01:25:02,750 and when I'd taken a bite, say which apple. 935 01:25:13,292 --> 01:25:14,125 So. 936 01:25:16,000 --> 01:25:18,625 So this is where you've been living all this time. 937 01:25:20,583 --> 01:25:23,250 (birds chirping) 938 01:25:37,625 --> 01:25:39,708 And there's Mr. Moon. 939 01:25:39,708 --> 01:25:40,458 - Yes. 940 01:25:43,792 --> 01:25:48,792 He's dug up the bones he was commissioned to dig up. 941 01:25:51,583 --> 01:25:53,917 Turned up an Anglo-Saxon basilica in the process. 942 01:25:55,875 --> 01:25:57,667 Basilica's what he really came for. 943 01:26:00,833 --> 01:26:01,625 Knew it was here. 944 01:26:04,583 --> 01:26:06,875 - So you've both found what you came to find. 945 01:26:10,833 --> 01:26:11,625 - Well, I- 946 01:26:22,625 --> 01:26:25,542 (melancholy music) 947 01:26:29,000 --> 01:26:30,542 - Well, I'm glad. 948 01:26:41,750 --> 01:26:42,792 Oh. 949 01:26:58,125 --> 01:26:58,917 Your book. 950 01:28:05,583 --> 01:28:06,375 - Hello? 951 01:28:09,250 --> 01:28:10,125 Mr. Birkin? 952 01:28:13,875 --> 01:28:14,750 Mr. Birkin! 953 01:28:50,417 --> 01:28:51,708 - Letter for you. 954 01:28:55,750 --> 01:28:57,292 Postman asked me to bring it in. 955 01:29:01,542 --> 01:29:02,333 - Thank you. 956 01:29:05,708 --> 01:29:06,750 It's from my wife, Finny. 957 01:29:08,500 --> 01:29:10,875 Probably wants us to start over again. 958 01:29:10,875 --> 01:29:11,667 She usually does. 959 01:29:12,708 --> 01:29:13,750 - And will you? 960 01:29:14,750 --> 01:29:15,792 - I usually do. 961 01:29:20,500 --> 01:29:23,875 So, where are you off to? 962 01:29:24,833 --> 01:29:25,750 - Basra Baghdad. 963 01:29:26,750 --> 01:29:28,208 Big dig going on over there. 964 01:29:28,208 --> 01:29:29,958 Like to get in on it. 965 01:29:29,958 --> 01:29:30,750 - [Tom] Right. 966 01:29:32,208 --> 01:29:33,500 - [James] What about you? 967 01:29:33,500 --> 01:29:34,708 - Oh, I don't know. 968 01:29:36,917 --> 01:29:39,292 Wait for another church, I suppose. 969 01:29:39,292 --> 01:29:41,375 - You'll never get another one like this. 970 01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:43,792 - I know. 971 01:29:43,792 --> 01:29:46,750 (birds chirping) 972 01:29:50,000 --> 01:29:52,083 Been a summer, hasn't it? 973 01:30:03,375 --> 01:30:04,500 - So, anyway. 974 01:30:09,208 --> 01:30:10,000 Well... 975 01:30:11,250 --> 01:30:13,917 (shoes clacking) 976 01:30:24,917 --> 01:30:27,833 (birds chirping) 977 01:32:01,083 --> 01:32:03,750 (reverent music) 978 01:32:50,333 --> 01:32:54,500 - [Kathy] Hello there, Mr. Birkin. 979 01:32:54,500 --> 01:32:55,958 I'm Kathy Ellerbeck! 980 01:32:55,958 --> 01:32:59,042 (triumphant music) 981 01:33:02,958 --> 01:33:06,042 (children murmuring) 982 01:34:47,167 --> 01:34:50,208 (dramatic music)