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{\an8}  I have always loved the old.

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{\an8}  I have loved them for almost
as long as I have been alive.

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{\an8}  Since I was first aware
of their hands around mine.

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{\an8}  I love them still.

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{\an8}  It is my work, it is my joy.

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{\an8}  It is my purpose.

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{\an8}  Vali.

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{\an8}-Vali.

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{\an8}  But we are all here.
And Nani loves the scarf.

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{\an8}  Okay, listen, listen.

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{\an8}  Your nieces have a question for you.

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{\an8}  Is it true the patients
call you Dr Valentine?

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{\an8}  Haan,   they do.

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{\an8}  Why, when it's not your name?

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{\an8}Because nobody knows how to say

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{\an8}Valinder Singh Vashisht.

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{\an8}-  Bye!
-  Bye!

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{\an8}  Love you. Miss you.

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{\an8}Good morning, Dr Valentine.

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

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

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

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{\an8}The television crew are coming.

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

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

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

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Oh, has he
taken a turn for the worse?

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Worse.

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

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She was of the view
that cremation would be favoured.

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{\an8}Minister.

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

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

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Yeah, well, you know
all these small places

35
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are earmarked for closure,
one way or another.

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

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{\an8}I advised you on it.

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

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Its, er, failings will be legion.

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Good morning to you.
Good morning

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I see Bouncing Betty's

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-back on shift again.

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Morning, good morning

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-Morning.
-Morning.

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Good morning to you

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I hope that girl remembers I have a cup.

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Not a beaker.

48
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They only give you a beaker in The Royal

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if you're terminal.

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

51
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This is chipped.

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

53
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You know the way
we do it, Ambrose.

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Dr Jones and I have seen
to the two certificates.

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And this will remain in situ
till the undertaker comes.

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So, fare thee well, Mr Jessop,

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who died in the night.

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As people do.

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It's rather rude of him.

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Doesn't he realise there's a queue?

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

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I thought nippy work were in order,

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since we're under pressure bed-wise.

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

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It's been twice as bad

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since they shut down
Barbara Cartland Ward.

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

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Goddaughter's in Southampton.

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Infirmary.

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

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In the men's bay.

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

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We have just moved a lady
on to Snowdrop Court,

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

75
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Well, maybe they're nicer
to me than you are.

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Do you want the men's bed or not?

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Yes, thought so.

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There's a pair of glasses.

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

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

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

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This is a busy hospital department,

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and I am Sister Gilpin!

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Helium balloons.

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Well, they're in your honour, Alma.

86
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You've won a prize.

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My service has been acknowledged.

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

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

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- That's nice.
-Right.

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How about this
from a standing start, Dr Valentine?

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-Marks out of ten?
-Twenty.

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The Friends of The Beth
aren't just volunteers.

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We're like the little ships of Dunkirk,

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poised to mobilise in her hour of need.

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We sent a round robin out
about the tabards.

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And the sweatshirts.
People were getting sloppy.

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

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Excuse me, gentlemen.

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Are you the team from Pennine People?

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-Yes.
-Oh. I am Dr Valentine.

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We have spoken on the telephone.

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Hi. I'm Abdul.

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How do?

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Well, thank you for supporting our cause.

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The notice of closure
came as something of a shock.

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

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Founded 1897?

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The year Queen Victoria
celebrated her Diamond Jubilee

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and coincidentally, aspirin was invented.

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Wow, here?

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No, in Germany, I believe.

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Germany won't play on Pennine People.

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I'm sorry. An ambulance is just arriving.

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Right, steady on.

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

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Ambulance. The Royal.

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A night on a trolley. Another ambulance.

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-All present and correct.

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We even had a little singsong
along the ring road.

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

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It was my house!

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Oh, is it any wonder

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she don't know which way is up?

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All is well, my love. All is well.

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We will look after you.

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Greetings, Shirley Bassey Ward.

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

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

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Ooh, that's it.

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I'm definitely wearing my shorty nightie.

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

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

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

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I'm a more interesting case.

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He gives me tissue massage
on my lymphomania.

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Oh, it's your lymphoedema, Hazel.

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And please be advised

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

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

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

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She needs everything clean on.

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Well, pop it in her notes.

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Do you want the toilet, Molly?

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Come on, then. Come on, love.

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

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-Morning.
-Yes. Abdul. Kieran.

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Are you the Chair?

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-Chairman of the Board.
-Yeah.

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Executive or non-executive?

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

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

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No, the bureaucrats administrate,

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I champion. Yeah.

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No, this isn't just a hospital.

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It's The Beth.

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And The Beth is the people.

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{\an8}Yours till the stars lose their glory

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Yours till the birds fail to sing

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Yours to the end of life's story

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This pledge to you, dear, I bring

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Here or on far distant shores

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You have a lovely voice, Mrs Maudsley.

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She sang in concert halls
as a little girl.

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And on the wireless.

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They called her the Pudsey Nightingale.

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A soprano, unless I'm mistaken.

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There is definite recognition

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when we go through her scrapbook with her.

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And her memory for the lyrics
is immaculate.

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Oh, people with dementia
can sometimes sing

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even when they cannot talk.

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The more mobile can even dance
when they hear music.

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I wouldn't push it.

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

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This is Mr Hunsley, Dr Valentine.

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

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Sir.

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Dr Valentine will come
and see you, Mr Hunsley.

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You're in good hands.

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Meanwhile, I have a berth
ready and waiting

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for a Blanche Alice Maudsley.

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Transferred from The Royal A & E.

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This is the lady, and this is her family.

185
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I believe we have a recruit
for music therapy.

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Mrs Maudsley is a soprano.

187
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How nice.

188
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I'll come and examine her on the ward.

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Right.

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Would Mother like to be called
Blanche or Mrs Maudsley

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while she's with us?

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-Oh, I think Mrs Maudsley.
-Yes.

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I favour formal terms. Is she continent?

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It's all relative.

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It was my house.

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Mm.

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Hmm?

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

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The background illustrates
the history of the hospital.

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Meanwhile, I, as Chairman,

201
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represent its essential essence.

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

203
00:11:00,954 --> 00:11:02,789
No, I'm in costume.

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00:11:03,206 --> 00:11:04,541
As Queen Victoria.

205
00:11:04,707 --> 00:11:05,750
It is what one does

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00:11:05,834 --> 00:11:08,128
-when a hospital has to be supported.

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00:11:08,211 --> 00:11:10,839
Look, er, I happened to be Mayor as well

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-when that was taken.
- Hmm.

209
00:11:12,841 --> 00:11:14,134
-You're a busy man.
-Yeah, well...

210
00:11:14,217 --> 00:11:18,471
I've been Mayor twice.
It's a woman currently.

211
00:11:19,097 --> 00:11:20,557
First time for everything, eh?

212
00:11:21,558 --> 00:11:26,604
Meanwhile, we at The Beth
are fighting for our right to care

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00:11:26,688 --> 00:11:28,523
from the cradle to the grave.

214
00:11:29,232 --> 00:11:30,233
Are we ready to...

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00:11:30,733 --> 00:11:31,693
Gentlemen.

216
00:11:32,318 --> 00:11:33,653
I am sorry to have been delayed.

217
00:11:33,862 --> 00:11:36,614
We've made very satisfactory
strides in your absence.

218
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I think we can trust the team
to represent us well.

219
00:11:39,742 --> 00:11:42,120
My hope is that
we can represent the people well.

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

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This is their refuge and their right.

222
00:11:48,251 --> 00:11:49,294
Without The Beth,

223
00:11:50,253 --> 00:11:51,838
I don't like to think
where they will have to go.

224
00:11:53,381 --> 00:11:54,299
Oh.

225
00:11:55,884 --> 00:11:58,011
I don't know why your school
have even sent you here.

226
00:11:58,470 --> 00:12:01,014
We don't offer work experience in nursing.

227
00:12:01,181 --> 00:12:02,849
I shall have to attach you to the porters.

228
00:12:03,224 --> 00:12:06,019
I asked Careers for Computing,
but I applied too late.

229
00:12:06,811 --> 00:12:08,313
I've brought him some theatre pants

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and an occupational therapist top half.

231
00:12:11,065 --> 00:12:12,775
-Right.
-It's all I could find in a medium.

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00:12:15,445 --> 00:12:16,279
What's this?

233
00:12:16,738 --> 00:12:18,781
Well, we endeavour to rise
above leisurewear, Andy.

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Helps the old folks keep their bearings.

235
00:12:22,911 --> 00:12:24,621
I hope those trainers are wipe clean.

236
00:12:24,829 --> 00:12:26,247
They'll be getting urine on them.

237
00:12:27,707 --> 00:12:28,541
Come on.

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00:12:47,894 --> 00:12:49,020
Take me to The Beth.

239
00:12:51,439 --> 00:12:52,565
I can tell you're local.

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00:12:53,566 --> 00:12:55,818
Some people coming from down south
like to have the window open.

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00:12:56,152 --> 00:12:57,612
They reckon they can smell the moors.

242
00:12:58,363 --> 00:13:00,406
All I can smell is the past.

243
00:13:01,366 --> 00:13:04,869
You made me love you

244
00:13:05,286 --> 00:13:09,165
And all the time you knew it
I guess you always knew it

245
00:13:09,541 --> 00:13:15,672
You made me happy sometimes
You made me glad

246
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Lovely!

247
00:13:17,590 --> 00:13:21,052
But there were times when

248
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You made me feel so bad

249
00:13:24,097 --> 00:13:26,933
Now remember
who we're going to be singing this for.

250
00:13:27,267 --> 00:13:31,938
Lovely, lovely Sister Gilpin
at her medal presentation.

251
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Yes, we are.

252
00:13:33,982 --> 00:13:37,735
I want some love that's true

253
00:13:37,944 --> 00:13:40,947
Yes, I do, 'deed I do
You know I do

254
00:13:41,614 --> 00:13:45,535
Gimme, gimme, gimme,
gimme what I cry for

255
00:13:45,785 --> 00:13:47,078
-You know you've got
-Lovely big breath in

256
00:13:47,161 --> 00:13:48,496
-for that massive finish!
-The brand of kisses

257
00:13:48,621 --> 00:13:49,914
That I'd die for

258
00:13:49,998 --> 00:13:50,957
Thanks.

259
00:13:53,751 --> 00:13:55,169
-Save The Beth. Save The Beth.
-Yeah.

260
00:13:56,004 --> 00:13:58,756
Fiver a strip to win a week in Cleethorpes

261
00:13:59,299 --> 00:14:01,092
or guess the name of the teddy
for a pound.

262
00:14:01,175 --> 00:14:03,177
Or you can sponsor me to do a skydive.

263
00:14:03,761 --> 00:14:06,472
Pledge now, pay later. Every little helps.

264
00:14:06,556 --> 00:14:08,891
We're not unaware
we're David against Goliath.

265
00:14:09,392 --> 00:14:13,021
But, really, after nigh
on 122 years' service,

266
00:14:13,271 --> 00:14:15,273
they can't expect us
to go down without a fight.

267
00:14:15,356 --> 00:14:16,899
I'm looking for Dusty Springfield.

268
00:14:17,108 --> 00:14:18,026
In person?

269
00:14:20,153 --> 00:14:21,362
Dusty Springfield Ward.

270
00:14:21,946 --> 00:14:24,115
Straight down, first right, second left.

271
00:14:24,574 --> 00:14:25,491
Thanks.

272
00:14:28,620 --> 00:14:31,205
Neville, are you going to
join in the filming?

273
00:14:31,456 --> 00:14:33,458
Not if I'm the only bloody bloke.

274
00:14:34,125 --> 00:14:36,961
Well, I'm a bloke. And so is Ambrose.

275
00:14:37,128 --> 00:14:38,296
Ambrose don't count.

276
00:14:38,379 --> 00:14:40,214
He always got his headphones on.

277
00:14:40,715 --> 00:14:42,842
Where the other one? Glasses.

278
00:14:43,301 --> 00:14:45,345
-Oh, you mean Mr Jessop?
- Mm.

279
00:14:45,428 --> 00:14:47,180
-He's gone.
-Gone where?

280
00:14:47,764 --> 00:14:48,931
Rattled his clack.

281
00:14:49,641 --> 00:14:50,642
In the night.

282
00:14:51,100 --> 00:14:52,977
He was very obese.

283
00:14:53,144 --> 00:14:55,480
Well, he shall be missed in the choir.

284
00:14:56,022 --> 00:14:56,856
He was a bass.

285
00:14:56,939 --> 00:14:58,900
Yeah, well, maybe he was a bass
because he was obese.

286
00:14:59,776 --> 00:15:01,486
And it's not a choir, it's music therapy.

287
00:15:03,780 --> 00:15:06,366
You can't start filming yet.

288
00:15:07,533 --> 00:15:10,620
I'm still busy whitening the sepulchre.

289
00:15:10,703 --> 00:15:11,913
Er, no, no, don't worry.

290
00:15:11,996 --> 00:15:14,040
We're doing a group interview first,

291
00:15:14,123 --> 00:15:15,875
just so I can get to know everybody.

292
00:15:16,250 --> 00:15:18,252
Then we're hoping to talk
to you one at a time

293
00:15:18,336 --> 00:15:20,880
and ask some quick-fire questions.

294
00:15:22,048 --> 00:15:23,257
I can't hear you.

295
00:15:23,675 --> 00:15:26,469
You've still got
your headphones on.

296
00:15:28,388 --> 00:15:29,472
What's the matter, Molly?

297
00:15:30,264 --> 00:15:31,182
Do you need toilet?

298
00:15:32,558 --> 00:15:34,686
All right. But they're trying
to make a film.

299
00:15:35,061 --> 00:15:36,396
Will you let me mind your tray for you?

300
00:15:36,479 --> 00:15:37,814
-Love, don't bang it...
-What's all this?

301
00:15:38,981 --> 00:15:40,983
She never wallops that tray
for no reason, you know.

302
00:15:41,567 --> 00:15:44,028
You all right, Molly?
You come with me, love.

303
00:15:44,278 --> 00:15:46,280
We'll work our way through the checklist.

304
00:15:46,906 --> 00:15:47,740
Come on.

305
00:15:50,326 --> 00:15:51,661
No, you can have it back when you've been.

306
00:15:51,744 --> 00:15:53,329
I know it's important to you, Molly.

307
00:15:53,955 --> 00:15:55,540
If you're the new registrar,

308
00:15:55,665 --> 00:15:57,875
we have a policy
of nothing below the wrist.

309
00:15:58,668 --> 00:16:00,169
Your watch. You'll have to take it off.

310
00:16:00,545 --> 00:16:01,963
I'm a visitor. Not a doctor.

311
00:16:02,046 --> 00:16:04,090
Oh, yes, of course, the T-shirt.

312
00:16:04,215 --> 00:16:05,842
Still, it's a fine line these days.

313
00:16:06,134 --> 00:16:09,053
If this is Dusty Springfield,
I'm looking for Joe Colman.

314
00:16:09,929 --> 00:16:11,389
Might I ask if you're a relative?

315
00:16:11,681 --> 00:16:12,640
Mm-hm. His son.

316
00:16:13,599 --> 00:16:15,601
The son that works
for the Health Minister?

317
00:16:17,186 --> 00:16:20,064
No. Just the one
who works in his department.

318
00:16:20,732 --> 00:16:22,483
I'm an independent management consultant.

319
00:16:22,817 --> 00:16:25,111
Hmm. Nevertheless,
he's told us all about you.

320
00:16:25,862 --> 00:16:28,448
Your chauffeur-driven car,
your bank holiday at Chequers.

321
00:16:28,531 --> 00:16:29,615
That was purely social.

322
00:16:31,033 --> 00:16:33,077
Right, well, I shall escort you
to the office.

323
00:16:33,202 --> 00:16:36,330
I'll come back and take Molly
to the lavatory. Stay here.

324
00:16:36,873 --> 00:16:37,707
Right, come on.

325
00:16:40,585 --> 00:16:41,502
Mrs Maudsley?

326
00:16:42,503 --> 00:16:43,337
Blanche?

327
00:16:43,796 --> 00:16:45,673
I need to examine your eyes, Blanche.

328
00:16:45,965 --> 00:16:47,300
Just to rule out any anaemia.

329
00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:50,094
It was my house.

330
00:16:51,429 --> 00:16:52,555
They took it from me.

331
00:16:54,390 --> 00:16:55,391
How is her appetite?

332
00:16:56,392 --> 00:16:57,643
She eats like a navvy.

333
00:16:57,894 --> 00:17:00,396
I have her on a full low-fat diet

334
00:17:00,563 --> 00:17:02,565
ever since she was diagnosed
with gallstones.

335
00:17:02,648 --> 00:17:03,483
Mine.

336
00:17:04,358 --> 00:17:06,319
They're no better than thieves!

337
00:17:06,819 --> 00:17:08,529
Is she usually confused?

338
00:17:09,197 --> 00:17:10,823
No. I mean, catch her on a good day,

339
00:17:10,948 --> 00:17:12,283
she's... she's bright as a button.

340
00:17:14,285 --> 00:17:16,496
She might benefit
from some of the activities

341
00:17:16,579 --> 00:17:17,622
we have in the day room.

342
00:17:18,122 --> 00:17:19,290
Singing, for example.

343
00:17:19,415 --> 00:17:21,209
I'm sorry.

344
00:17:22,335 --> 00:17:25,713
Is this a hospital,
or is it Butlin's bandstand?

345
00:17:26,172 --> 00:17:28,049
She doesn't want entertaining.

346
00:17:28,299 --> 00:17:29,300
I'm telling you now,

347
00:17:29,425 --> 00:17:31,385
you do not want her entertaining you.

348
00:17:32,220 --> 00:17:33,346
Pudsey Nightingale.

349
00:17:33,429 --> 00:17:34,430
Mitchell!

350
00:17:36,933 --> 00:17:38,935
Do you know?
You've a lovely manner with her.

351
00:17:39,644 --> 00:17:40,645
I like old people.

352
00:17:40,812 --> 00:17:44,106
Rubbish. Even old people
don't like old people.

353
00:17:44,232 --> 00:17:46,067
So, what's the survival rate?

354
00:17:48,319 --> 00:17:49,362
Survival rate?

355
00:17:50,696 --> 00:17:51,823
Your mother is 92.

356
00:17:52,740 --> 00:17:54,867
Well, yes, I know,
but we wouldn't want to lose her.

357
00:17:55,409 --> 00:17:56,953
Erm... Er...

358
00:17:57,954 --> 00:17:58,871
Yet.

359
00:17:59,205 --> 00:18:00,122
Look,

360
00:18:01,123 --> 00:18:01,999
she's ill.

361
00:18:02,542 --> 00:18:03,584
You're a hospital.

362
00:18:04,252 --> 00:18:05,127
Cure her!

363
00:18:05,962 --> 00:18:08,923
I'm afraid there's no cure,
as such, for old age, sir.

364
00:18:09,799 --> 00:18:11,175
We can't offer long-term care.

365
00:18:12,343 --> 00:18:14,303
It's a bloody good job she's so far gone.

366
00:18:15,429 --> 00:18:17,014
She'd want to know
what she paid her stamp for

367
00:18:17,098 --> 00:18:18,182
for all those years.

368
00:18:19,350 --> 00:18:20,852
-Are you rolling?
-Rolling.

369
00:18:23,104 --> 00:18:27,400
Sir, can I ask you your name,
and what you did in life?

370
00:18:27,984 --> 00:18:31,237
My name is Ambrose Hammersley.

371
00:18:31,737 --> 00:18:35,449
In life, as you put it,
I was a schoolmaster.

372
00:18:36,117 --> 00:18:40,413
Now I'm in a wheelchair
due to osteo-arthritis

373
00:18:40,496 --> 00:18:44,375
and the regulation issue fall.

374
00:18:44,584 --> 00:18:47,128
I've got osteo-arthritis too.

375
00:18:48,087 --> 00:18:51,173
Yes, I... I push his chair sometimes.

376
00:18:51,299 --> 00:18:52,675
We've a lot in common.

377
00:18:52,884 --> 00:18:55,553
Take no notice of this lady.
She's confused.

378
00:18:56,053 --> 00:18:58,180
-We're engaged.
-Oh, bugger off.

379
00:18:58,306 --> 00:18:59,640
Oh, language!

380
00:18:59,724 --> 00:19:01,684
What... Don't you "language" me.

381
00:19:01,934 --> 00:19:03,352
I taught language.

382
00:19:03,519 --> 00:19:04,729
Fratch, fratch, fratch.

383
00:19:05,187 --> 00:19:08,107
Can't we show a bit more support
to these nice young gentlemen?

384
00:19:08,774 --> 00:19:11,193
Er, Lucille, tell them about your life.

385
00:19:12,278 --> 00:19:13,112
Well,

386
00:19:13,738 --> 00:19:15,531
-I was a housewife.

387
00:19:15,823 --> 00:19:17,491
And I brought up a son.

388
00:19:18,034 --> 00:19:19,577
Who emigrated to Australia.

389
00:19:20,161 --> 00:19:21,454
That's an achievement in itself.

390
00:19:22,163 --> 00:19:26,542
Also, my father had a chain
of confectioners shops.

391
00:19:26,626 --> 00:19:30,046
Oh! Did he do vanilla slices?

392
00:19:30,296 --> 00:19:32,548
I don't recall.

393
00:19:33,007 --> 00:19:34,800
Oh, can't be much of a confectioner

394
00:19:34,884 --> 00:19:37,386
if he didn't do vanilla slices.

395
00:19:38,596 --> 00:19:41,265
I had a wild side.

396
00:19:42,183 --> 00:19:44,810
But nobody has ever
interviewed me about it.

397
00:19:44,894 --> 00:19:46,646
I think you should talk to Neville next.

398
00:19:48,898 --> 00:19:49,982
Tell us about yourself, Neville.

399
00:19:50,733 --> 00:19:53,486
Even just tell us why you're in The Beth.

400
00:19:54,362 --> 00:19:55,738
Because I old.

401
00:19:55,863 --> 00:19:57,114
Well, we're all old.

402
00:19:57,323 --> 00:19:59,325
What's the matter with you besides?

403
00:19:59,617 --> 00:20:00,952
Did you have a fall?

404
00:20:01,118 --> 00:20:03,955
Not everybody falls, Mavis.

405
00:20:04,872 --> 00:20:07,333
I'm here because of my dizzy dos.

406
00:20:08,042 --> 00:20:10,294
By rights, I ought
to be a private patient.

407
00:20:10,378 --> 00:20:12,588
Oh. What does that matter?

408
00:20:13,339 --> 00:20:16,676
Dead, we're all on a slab
in our birthday suits.

409
00:20:17,051 --> 00:20:19,053
I used to work in a factory.

410
00:20:20,429 --> 00:20:22,014
I had 10 men under me.

411
00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:24,266
So did I on a good day.

412
00:20:34,568 --> 00:20:35,486
Am I still here?

413
00:20:35,820 --> 00:20:37,363
We haven't sent you back to The Rowans,

414
00:20:37,446 --> 00:20:38,531
if that's what you mean.

415
00:20:39,448 --> 00:20:41,033
The Rowans is a shithole.

416
00:20:41,784 --> 00:20:42,827
Your son's come.

417
00:20:43,995 --> 00:20:44,912
Hello, Dad.

418
00:20:46,288 --> 00:20:47,289
I'm not your dad.

419
00:20:48,332 --> 00:20:49,291
You my son?

420
00:20:50,084 --> 00:20:51,961
My son wears a suit.

421
00:20:52,044 --> 00:20:53,045
He doesn't recognise me.

422
00:20:53,462 --> 00:20:55,840
Well, they can be like that
when they've got an infection.

423
00:20:56,632 --> 00:20:59,093
There again,
perhaps he hasn't seen you in a while.

424
00:21:01,470 --> 00:21:02,555
You're nice and dry.

425
00:21:02,972 --> 00:21:04,348
I'm always nice and dry.

426
00:21:05,182 --> 00:21:06,517
It's my party piece.

427
00:21:09,020 --> 00:21:10,312
Well, you're not that far gone, then.

428
00:21:12,231 --> 00:21:14,650
I tell people you're...

429
00:21:14,942 --> 00:21:16,235
you're chauffeur driven.

430
00:21:21,699 --> 00:21:23,868
Jesus, Dad.

431
00:21:24,785 --> 00:21:27,204
Your chest sounds like wet gravel.

432
00:21:28,414 --> 00:21:30,332
What would you know about wet gravel?

433
00:21:31,167 --> 00:21:32,668
You never went down the pit.

434
00:21:33,586 --> 00:21:34,420
No,

435
00:21:35,421 --> 00:21:36,797
Mam didn't want me to.

436
00:21:38,382 --> 00:21:41,093
I didn't want you coming here in a pink

437
00:21:42,845 --> 00:21:46,974
singlet, looking like a Nancy.
But you did.

438
00:21:48,851 --> 00:21:51,562
It's not that
I was a naughty girl.

439
00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:54,440
You do understand, I'm sure.

440
00:21:54,940 --> 00:21:56,692
Those amongst you who have lived.

441
00:21:59,403 --> 00:22:00,488
Anyway, erm...

442
00:22:01,363 --> 00:22:03,199
-Mary.
-Oh, shh, shh.

443
00:22:05,034 --> 00:22:05,910
What's the matter?

444
00:22:06,410 --> 00:22:07,578
Haven't they asked you to join in?

445
00:22:08,454 --> 00:22:09,580
I don't want to join in.

446
00:22:11,207 --> 00:22:12,541
I don't have a lot to say.

447
00:22:12,792 --> 00:22:14,418
Comes from working in a library.

448
00:22:16,087 --> 00:22:17,755
You know, I have a passion for books, too.

449
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,132
Oh, I didn't have a passion
for books.

450
00:22:20,883 --> 00:22:22,635
I just worked with them,
I kept them in order.

451
00:22:23,677 --> 00:22:25,096
With books, that's all that's required.

452
00:22:25,179 --> 00:22:26,388
They're not like people.

453
00:22:28,849 --> 00:22:31,018
I can still go in and introduce you.

454
00:22:31,477 --> 00:22:32,311
The men from the television

455
00:22:32,394 --> 00:22:33,979
would like to hear about your past career.

456
00:22:34,396 --> 00:22:36,440
No, if you push yourself forward,
you get seen.

457
00:22:36,774 --> 00:22:38,734
I thought,
as you were standing by the door...

458
00:22:39,235 --> 00:22:40,486
I'm not standing by the door.

459
00:22:41,821 --> 00:22:43,489
I've seen people standing by the door.

460
00:22:44,073 --> 00:22:46,617
They're either trying to escape,
or they're waiting for their mothers.

461
00:22:47,701 --> 00:22:49,995
Oh, I never stand by a door.
I make a point of it.

462
00:22:50,746 --> 00:22:54,291
Anyway, I went on
to marry three times,

463
00:22:54,375 --> 00:22:57,253
although I didn't enjoy
any of those marriages,

464
00:22:57,378 --> 00:22:58,337
not really.

465
00:23:05,344 --> 00:23:06,428
Have you brought me owt?

466
00:23:08,848 --> 00:23:09,682
No.

467
00:23:10,224 --> 00:23:11,308
Not even a grape?

468
00:23:11,392 --> 00:23:12,726
I couldn't think of what you'd want.

469
00:23:15,771 --> 00:23:16,814
A clean vest.

470
00:23:17,982 --> 00:23:19,316
When I was in once before,

471
00:23:19,441 --> 00:23:20,943
that's what your mam used to bring.

472
00:23:22,111 --> 00:23:23,154
And grapes.

473
00:23:24,488 --> 00:23:25,656
She was a good 'un.

474
00:23:27,950 --> 00:23:29,076
Yeah, she was.

475
00:23:30,536 --> 00:23:32,496
Until she put me in The Rowans.

476
00:23:32,621 --> 00:23:35,499
No, Dad. I put you in The Rowans.

477
00:23:36,417 --> 00:23:37,710
It's nowt to boast about.

478
00:23:37,835 --> 00:23:39,086
Well, you're forgetting, Dad.

479
00:23:39,170 --> 00:23:41,297
After Mam died,
you couldn't look after yourself.

480
00:23:41,463 --> 00:23:42,673
Or else you wouldn't.

481
00:23:43,716 --> 00:23:45,885
You didn't wash. You didn't eat.

482
00:23:46,802 --> 00:23:48,053
Used to wander the streets.

483
00:23:48,137 --> 00:23:50,639
I had the Miners' Benevolent
calling me up in London.

484
00:23:51,348 --> 00:23:52,892
I used to wander the streets?

485
00:23:55,352 --> 00:23:58,022
You were the one
who used to wander the sodding streets.

486
00:23:58,230 --> 00:23:59,732
Didn't get you put in a home.

487
00:24:00,399 --> 00:24:01,692
Should have got you arrested.

488
00:24:03,777 --> 00:24:05,154
It's what killed your mam.

489
00:24:16,290 --> 00:24:17,124
Er...

490
00:24:24,715 --> 00:24:26,592
Pills and potions to pop down 'em.

491
00:24:26,926 --> 00:24:28,510
-Mm-hm.
-Then I'm off.

492
00:24:30,012 --> 00:24:31,430
I don't know how you do it, Alma.

493
00:24:32,139 --> 00:24:33,098
Chopping and changing

494
00:24:33,224 --> 00:24:34,683
your earlies with your night shifts.

495
00:24:35,267 --> 00:24:37,645
I can't leave the cat
for a 12-hour stretch.

496
00:24:38,187 --> 00:24:40,022
I like being here both ends of the day.

497
00:24:40,606 --> 00:24:42,358
They're our most important times.

498
00:24:42,900 --> 00:24:44,652
You didn't write up that Mary Moss

499
00:24:44,735 --> 00:24:46,362
had an episode of incontinence.

500
00:24:46,570 --> 00:24:47,488
I asked you to.

501
00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:49,114
I'm sorry.

502
00:24:49,657 --> 00:24:51,242
I were hoping it were a one-off.

503
00:24:51,450 --> 00:24:52,910
It was certainly her first offence.

504
00:24:53,285 --> 00:24:54,787
Urine or faeces?

505
00:24:55,788 --> 00:24:56,664
Urine.

506
00:24:57,289 --> 00:24:58,457
With a little bit of faeces.

507
00:24:59,083 --> 00:25:01,961
Hmm. Well, I need to be
fully aware of these things.

508
00:25:02,086 --> 00:25:03,254
I run a clean ward.

509
00:25:03,462 --> 00:25:05,381
And a clean ward starts with a dry one.

510
00:25:06,548 --> 00:25:08,550
I'm sorry. She cried.

511
00:25:09,176 --> 00:25:11,637
When they're like that,
they're just like babies.

512
00:25:12,012 --> 00:25:13,973
Babies don't cry
when they mess themselves.

513
00:25:14,056 --> 00:25:15,182
Babies don't care.

514
00:25:16,392 --> 00:25:18,018
When old people don't care, do you cry?

515
00:25:19,228 --> 00:25:20,145
No.

516
00:25:21,939 --> 00:25:23,983
I think of them
running home from school.

517
00:25:25,442 --> 00:25:27,945
I think of them smiling
for their wedding photographs.

518
00:25:30,406 --> 00:25:32,157
From the cradle to the grave...

519
00:25:33,242 --> 00:25:35,494
...we have been the net
that holds them all.

520
00:25:36,704 --> 00:25:40,040
The playground falls,
the industrial injuries,

521
00:25:41,208 --> 00:25:43,544
their traffic accidents,
and their cancers.

522
00:25:44,670 --> 00:25:46,839
Even now, we fight the tide
on their behalf.

523
00:25:54,722 --> 00:25:57,933
They open their mouths
like birds, or children.

524
00:25:59,059 --> 00:26:00,978
They ask no questions about the dose.

525
00:26:01,895 --> 00:26:03,647
They do not query the side effects.

526
00:26:05,232 --> 00:26:06,942
We have promised them sleep,

527
00:26:07,276 --> 00:26:09,445
or peace of mind, or ease from pain.

528
00:26:10,654 --> 00:26:12,948
All the things they once
enjoyed without a thought,

529
00:26:13,073 --> 00:26:14,783
simply because they were not old.

530
00:26:16,410 --> 00:26:17,453
-And they believe us.
-

531
00:26:19,079 --> 00:26:20,164
That is our blessing.

532
00:26:21,540 --> 00:26:22,833
And if we should fail them,

533
00:26:24,251 --> 00:26:26,128
-it becomes their curse.

534
00:26:28,505 --> 00:26:30,591
It was my house.

535
00:26:32,468 --> 00:26:35,262
She was
in show business, apparently.

536
00:26:36,263 --> 00:26:38,432
You'd think she'd be more refined.

537
00:26:43,020 --> 00:26:45,773
Do you know? I sometimes think
this is my favourite time of the day.

538
00:26:46,565 --> 00:26:48,859
With you all tucked up and tidy,

539
00:26:49,526 --> 00:26:50,903
lathered in talcum.

540
00:26:51,403 --> 00:26:52,571
When everyone's asleep,

541
00:26:52,654 --> 00:26:54,782
you can hear the wind
on the moors from here.

542
00:26:56,283 --> 00:26:58,035
Did we have mince today?

543
00:26:58,369 --> 00:26:59,495
Turkey mince, aye.

544
00:27:00,454 --> 00:27:01,747
Keeps rifting up.

545
00:27:02,956 --> 00:27:04,166
Feel a bit wanny.

546
00:27:04,333 --> 00:27:06,001
I'll fetch you some
peppermint water and a bowl.

547
00:27:06,502 --> 00:27:07,503
I'll be back, Molly.

548
00:27:14,843 --> 00:27:15,761
Hello, stranger.

549
00:27:15,969 --> 00:27:17,930
It's only been a day, George.

550
00:27:19,181 --> 00:27:20,015
Hotel okay?

551
00:27:20,099 --> 00:27:21,934
Er, yeah, it's nice.

552
00:27:22,017 --> 00:27:23,519
They've put me in the wedding suite,

553
00:27:23,602 --> 00:27:26,146
which is, er, novel.

554
00:27:26,230 --> 00:27:27,648
How's your dad?

555
00:27:28,315 --> 00:27:30,275
Er, I've no idea how he is.

556
00:27:30,818 --> 00:27:32,611
Half dead, but keeps forgetting.

557
00:27:33,737 --> 00:27:35,823
I don't know what's good or bad
once they get to this age.

558
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,033
Or how much he's putting it on.

559
00:27:39,118 --> 00:27:40,911
-And how's the hospital?
-Oh...

560
00:27:41,912 --> 00:27:42,746
It's like him.

561
00:27:42,830 --> 00:27:44,373
Half dead, but keeps forgetting.

562
00:27:45,666 --> 00:27:47,960
You will give your dad my love, won't you?

563
00:27:49,545 --> 00:27:50,587
Yeah, of course.

564
00:27:52,297 --> 00:27:53,924
He never knew what the hell
to do with mine.

565
00:28:07,020 --> 00:28:08,230
Excuse me, mate.
Are those grapes?

566
00:28:09,481 --> 00:28:11,066
-Yes.
-Get them in shot, the grapes.

567
00:28:11,733 --> 00:28:13,652
Hi, mate. Do you mind coming in again

568
00:28:13,777 --> 00:28:15,195
and holding the grapes a bit higher?

569
00:28:16,905 --> 00:28:18,991
It's just we need
a shot of visitors coming in,

570
00:28:19,074 --> 00:28:20,701
and the grapes look really good.

571
00:28:20,826 --> 00:28:22,786
What do you need a shot
of visitors arriving for?

572
00:28:23,495 --> 00:28:25,372
I'm sorry. Abdul, Pennine People.

573
00:28:25,456 --> 00:28:26,790
We're making a short documentary...

574
00:28:26,874 --> 00:28:28,250
-Mr Colman?
-Yeah.

575
00:28:29,168 --> 00:28:30,586
Apologies for my tardiness

576
00:28:30,711 --> 00:28:32,546
in offering you a personal welcome.

577
00:28:33,338 --> 00:28:36,258
I've arranged for coffee
to be served in the boardroom.

578
00:28:37,092 --> 00:28:40,345
So, a news and documentary
segment for Pennine People

579
00:28:40,429 --> 00:28:42,055
on the Save The Beth campaign.

580
00:28:42,181 --> 00:28:44,224
Well, I'll have to inform the Minister.

581
00:28:44,475 --> 00:28:46,226
Well, we are out to raise awareness.

582
00:28:46,685 --> 00:28:48,103
And they're lapping it up locally.

583
00:28:48,854 --> 00:28:50,564
This hospital isn't funded locally.

584
00:28:51,732 --> 00:28:53,400
Well, we are in control of our own money.

585
00:28:54,151 --> 00:28:55,527
Where do you get that money from?

586
00:28:56,111 --> 00:28:59,698
Spiritually? Aneurin Bevan, circa 1947.

587
00:28:59,990 --> 00:29:02,910
And fiscally, Whitehall, circa now.

588
00:29:03,202 --> 00:29:04,286
Until we say stop.

589
00:29:04,411 --> 00:29:06,246
No, people aren't gonna let you say stop.

590
00:29:06,955 --> 00:29:09,166
You've been dismembering
this hospital for years,

591
00:29:09,458 --> 00:29:11,418
limb by separately amputated limb.

592
00:29:11,627 --> 00:29:14,004
They have to go to Doncaster
for cataracts now.

593
00:29:14,379 --> 00:29:17,841
And Pontefract for audiology.
And that's a complicated bus.

594
00:29:18,091 --> 00:29:21,386
People voted this government in.

595
00:29:21,678 --> 00:29:24,640
They can skydive out of
as many planes as they like.

596
00:29:24,723 --> 00:29:27,142
They chose this. They chose efficiency.

597
00:29:27,726 --> 00:29:29,978
They chose centres of excellence.

598
00:29:30,062 --> 00:29:31,688
The Beth delivers neither.

599
00:29:31,772 --> 00:29:34,983
We could be a centre
of excellence for geriatrics.

600
00:29:35,442 --> 00:29:36,735
But you're trying to shut us down.

601
00:29:36,860 --> 00:29:39,404
Effective management is target focused,
outcome driven.

602
00:29:39,488 --> 00:29:41,073
You set a goal, and you go for it.

603
00:29:41,156 --> 00:29:43,534
Geriatrics is a waiting game.

604
00:29:43,659 --> 00:29:46,912
It's ungovernable, open-ended,
resource-intensive.

605
00:29:46,995 --> 00:29:50,666
-It makes zero economic sense.

606
00:29:50,874 --> 00:29:51,750
I disagree.

607
00:29:53,001 --> 00:29:54,628
The future is old age.

608
00:29:55,379 --> 00:29:56,213
Everybody knows that.

609
00:29:56,296 --> 00:29:58,674
The people running raffles
in the foyer know that.

610
00:29:59,633 --> 00:30:00,759
They want The Beth.

611
00:30:01,301 --> 00:30:04,721
They want small-scale, local, caring care.

612
00:30:04,846 --> 00:30:07,266
They want something that's over.

613
00:30:08,392 --> 00:30:09,309
Gone.

614
00:30:09,893 --> 00:30:11,228
Because it didn't work.

615
00:30:11,311 --> 00:30:14,106
And if they keep dragging us backwards,

616
00:30:14,606 --> 00:30:17,234
there will be no progress.

617
00:30:18,402 --> 00:30:20,946
{\an8}  What do you think
is the most important thing in The Beth?

618
00:30:22,155 --> 00:30:23,532
{\an8}-The patients

619
00:30:25,117 --> 00:30:26,076
{\an8}  and the coffee machine.

620
00:30:28,287 --> 00:30:30,414
{\an8}  Yeah, definitely the coffee machine.

621
00:30:32,249 --> 00:30:33,542
{\an8}  Non-slip flooring.

622
00:30:33,917 --> 00:30:36,295
{\an8}  As a physio, I just don't really think
you can put a price on that,

623
00:30:37,754 --> 00:30:38,922
{\an8}  if I'm completely honest.

624
00:30:39,464 --> 00:30:42,050
{\an8}  Oh, well, the most important thing isn't,

625
00:30:42,342 --> 00:30:44,845
{\an8}  er, isn't really a thing, is it? It's a...

626
00:30:45,304 --> 00:30:47,347
{\an8}  It's a spirit. An essence. It's, er...

627
00:30:47,639 --> 00:30:50,017
{\an8}  Maybe if you try
to say that in just one word.

628
00:30:52,269 --> 00:30:53,103
{\an8}  Erm...

629
00:30:54,271 --> 00:30:55,147
{\an8}  Pluck.

630
00:30:56,023 --> 00:30:56,898
{\an8}  The grub.

631
00:30:57,691 --> 00:31:00,235
{\an8}  A lovely big bath, with handles.

632
00:31:00,986 --> 00:31:02,112
{\an8}  The volunteers.

633
00:31:02,863 --> 00:31:04,906
{\an8}  -Are we allowed to say that?
-

634
00:31:05,949 --> 00:31:06,908
{\an8}  In one word?

635
00:31:08,285 --> 00:31:09,202
{\an8}  The exit.

636
00:31:10,287 --> 00:31:12,914
{\an8}  Although, if we're being punctilious,
that's two.

637
00:31:13,832 --> 00:31:16,084
{\an8}  -I like him.

638
00:31:17,586 --> 00:31:18,503
{\an8}  The smell.

639
00:31:19,713 --> 00:31:22,007
{\an8}  Or, to be more precise, the lack of one.

640
00:31:29,264 --> 00:31:30,515
Dr Valentine.

641
00:31:31,933 --> 00:31:32,768
Yes, Mary?

642
00:31:34,519 --> 00:31:36,897
I wasn't entirely transparent

643
00:31:38,190 --> 00:31:41,777
when we had our discourse about passion.

644
00:31:44,321 --> 00:31:46,823
There was something
about books that excited me.

645
00:31:48,158 --> 00:31:49,242
Marginalia.

646
00:31:51,119 --> 00:31:51,953
Marginalia?

647
00:31:53,789 --> 00:31:57,084
The things that readers write
at the edges of the page.

648
00:31:57,250 --> 00:32:00,754
They make little notes
about things that strike them.

649
00:32:00,837 --> 00:32:03,173
Words that have meaning, or weight.

650
00:32:04,508 --> 00:32:08,762
Sometimes a cross is deemed
sufficient to mark the spot,

651
00:32:08,845 --> 00:32:09,930
but not always.

652
00:32:11,973 --> 00:32:14,434
I was supposed to rub them out
if they were in pencil.

653
00:32:16,269 --> 00:32:18,647
But sometimes, I left them.

654
00:32:20,941 --> 00:32:22,192
They might be there still.

655
00:32:24,653 --> 00:32:26,071
That is rather a nice thought.

656
00:32:27,322 --> 00:32:30,075
Hmm. Might be a wicked one,
for all you know.

657
00:32:34,162 --> 00:32:35,539
There are too many Marys.

658
00:32:36,498 --> 00:32:39,835
Pushed to the margins,
not part of the story,

659
00:32:39,918 --> 00:32:42,546
doomed to be rubbed out,
to leave no trace.

660
00:32:44,631 --> 00:32:45,924
I want them to matter.

661
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:48,885
I want them to get the best from us.

662
00:32:49,594 --> 00:32:51,638
For us to deliver what we promise.

663
00:32:52,764 --> 00:32:53,765
What they need.

664
00:32:55,434 --> 00:32:56,435
And every day,

665
00:32:57,477 --> 00:32:58,895
I fear that we are failing.

666
00:33:01,064 --> 00:33:04,484
I don't think Sister Gilpin
is gonna like this at all.

667
00:33:04,568 --> 00:33:07,487
The bonbons are bordering
on the froufrou.

668
00:33:08,113 --> 00:33:11,116
And she's got extremely hard hands.

669
00:33:11,366 --> 00:33:13,326
Well, I think
she's going to love everything.

670
00:33:13,827 --> 00:33:16,329
The banners, the balloons,
the cake, and the singing.

671
00:33:16,788 --> 00:33:18,331
The Beth has been her life.

672
00:33:18,415 --> 00:33:21,918
She's done nothing whatsoever
to deserve the singing.

673
00:33:23,003 --> 00:33:26,131
Well, I don't sing for her anyway.

674
00:33:26,548 --> 00:33:27,716
I sing for you.

675
00:33:27,799 --> 00:33:31,052
And I've done absolutely
nothing to deserve it either.

676
00:33:31,136 --> 00:33:35,056
Well, you wouldn't say that
if I was Dorothy Squires.

677
00:33:35,140 --> 00:33:38,310
I'd say that if you were
Kiri Te fucking Kanawa!

678
00:33:38,518 --> 00:33:39,603
That's terrible!

679
00:33:39,811 --> 00:33:42,230
Well, it's a tmesis.

680
00:33:42,314 --> 00:33:44,357
Sounds all right in his accent.

681
00:33:44,983 --> 00:33:47,235
What is a tmesis, Ambrose?

682
00:33:47,319 --> 00:33:50,071
Er, it's a grammatical construction.

683
00:33:50,572 --> 00:33:53,575
"Abso-fucking-lutely"
would be another example.

684
00:33:53,909 --> 00:33:55,327
You're not to put that on your film.

685
00:33:55,535 --> 00:33:57,704
Come and do a close-up of the handicrafts.

686
00:33:58,038 --> 00:34:00,040
-Ambrose, would, erm...
-Hmm.

687
00:34:00,874 --> 00:34:04,544
..."fish 'n' chips" and "rock 'n' roll"

688
00:34:04,961 --> 00:34:07,047
also be examples of this grammar?

689
00:34:07,130 --> 00:34:10,509
No, they would be examples of an enclitic.

690
00:34:10,759 --> 00:34:12,761
-A shortened version of "and".
-Mm-hm.

691
00:34:14,054 --> 00:34:15,972
And the other is tmesis?

692
00:34:16,223 --> 00:34:17,057
Tmesis, yes.

693
00:34:17,140 --> 00:34:19,184
Are you studying for an examination?

694
00:34:20,727 --> 00:34:21,895
It's, er, an interview.

695
00:34:22,813 --> 00:34:24,731
I have applied for UK nationality.

696
00:34:25,524 --> 00:34:27,984
-And English is like medicine.
-Ah.

697
00:34:28,109 --> 00:34:29,486
There is always something new to learn.

698
00:34:44,751 --> 00:34:46,086
I hope they're seedless.

699
00:34:47,379 --> 00:34:49,965
Pips get stuck underneath me plate.

700
00:34:51,758 --> 00:34:52,634
Hello, Dad.

701
00:34:53,593 --> 00:34:54,553
Did you sleep well?

702
00:34:55,554 --> 00:34:58,014
I kept having to ring
the buzzer for the lav.

703
00:34:59,683 --> 00:35:01,226
But I'm in the Sister's good books,

704
00:35:01,351 --> 00:35:03,186
because I sing out. Yeah.

705
00:35:04,104 --> 00:35:06,565
Urination's a religion with her.

706
00:35:06,982 --> 00:35:07,816
Oh.

707
00:35:08,567 --> 00:35:09,568
You do look better.

708
00:35:10,610 --> 00:35:12,696
It... It's deceptive.

709
00:35:17,242 --> 00:35:19,828
I'm not better enough
to go back to The Rowans.

710
00:35:27,544 --> 00:35:29,629
Did you stay with your Auntie Violet?

711
00:35:30,797 --> 00:35:32,632
No. She's been dead three years.

712
00:35:34,050 --> 00:35:36,469
Well, I... I can't remember everything.

713
00:35:36,553 --> 00:35:37,387
No.

714
00:35:41,975 --> 00:35:43,435
I stayed at a new hotel.

715
00:35:44,561 --> 00:35:45,562
York House.

716
00:35:47,731 --> 00:35:48,565
That...

717
00:35:49,608 --> 00:35:51,526
used to be a bank.

718
00:35:53,653 --> 00:35:54,738
I remember that.

719
00:36:00,035 --> 00:36:01,244
I've just found this

720
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:03,747
underneath my mother's bedspread.

721
00:36:05,290 --> 00:36:07,918
We have discussed the fact
that your mother is incontinent.

722
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:11,212
It's Angel Delight.

723
00:36:11,463 --> 00:36:12,881
Butterscotch, by the looks of it.

724
00:36:13,048 --> 00:36:14,257
Complete with spoon.

725
00:36:14,674 --> 00:36:16,676
Now when my mother
starts squirrelling away food,

726
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:18,345
it means she's upset.

727
00:36:18,595 --> 00:36:20,847
And what I want to know
is why is she upset?

728
00:36:21,139 --> 00:36:22,766
Possibly because she's incontinent,

729
00:36:22,849 --> 00:36:25,060
and confused, and has gallstones.

730
00:36:25,602 --> 00:36:27,103
No, she's upset because you've put her

731
00:36:27,187 --> 00:36:29,481
in a geriatric ward, that's why!

732
00:36:29,648 --> 00:36:31,024
Every patient on my ward

733
00:36:31,149 --> 00:36:32,692
is much the same age as your mother.

734
00:36:34,110 --> 00:36:36,071
And as it happens, we've several younger.

735
00:36:37,155 --> 00:36:39,449
Well, they obviously haven't
looked after themselves.

736
00:36:39,783 --> 00:36:42,494
Or been looked after
by somebody who cares.

737
00:36:45,246 --> 00:36:46,081
We care.

738
00:36:48,625 --> 00:36:49,584
Constantly.

739
00:36:53,755 --> 00:36:55,382
No, I've no news on beds.

740
00:36:56,132 --> 00:36:57,801
This is the middle of a working day.

741
00:37:07,394 --> 00:37:10,522
A whole camera, hidden inside there?

742
00:37:10,605 --> 00:37:12,941
Yeah, you can take
still pictures, or a video.

743
00:37:13,024 --> 00:37:14,442
And, as I've explained,

744
00:37:14,859 --> 00:37:16,987
then the filmmakers might use your footage

745
00:37:17,070 --> 00:37:18,071
in their documentary.

746
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,574
It's no thicker than a monthly periodical.

747
00:37:23,660 --> 00:37:25,495
-Has it got a mouse?

748
00:37:25,870 --> 00:37:27,163
You don't need a mouse, Mary.

749
00:37:27,288 --> 00:37:29,916
Everything is operated
via the touch screen.

750
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:33,336
Now, swipe on the icon,
like we did before.

751
00:37:33,420 --> 00:37:35,672
With greater gentleness
as though you've seen

752
00:37:35,755 --> 00:37:39,009
a speck of dust and wish to brush it away.

753
00:37:40,969 --> 00:37:41,970
-Oh.
-Ah!

754
00:37:42,053 --> 00:37:43,555
You'll put us all out of a job.

755
00:37:44,139 --> 00:37:45,306
I said that to my computer

756
00:37:45,390 --> 00:37:47,600
the day they digitalised the library.

757
00:37:48,268 --> 00:37:50,437
I was at the forefront of modernisation.

758
00:37:52,689 --> 00:37:54,941
What... What do you wish me to record?

759
00:37:55,984 --> 00:37:57,444
Well, the filmmakers say

760
00:37:57,610 --> 00:37:59,320
they simply want your point of view.

761
00:38:00,238 --> 00:38:02,824
For you to record what you see,

762
00:38:02,907 --> 00:38:05,201
to tell them what your life is like.

763
00:38:08,204 --> 00:38:09,998
I could tell you something
about that chair.

764
00:38:10,665 --> 00:38:11,624
Only I won't.

765
00:38:19,299 --> 00:38:20,133
Come here.

766
00:38:34,689 --> 00:38:36,983
-You caught me red-handed.

767
00:38:37,108 --> 00:38:39,277
Two hours to turn around
before my night shift,

768
00:38:39,444 --> 00:38:40,987
tucking into sweet and sour pork.

769
00:38:41,488 --> 00:38:42,322
Shocking.

770
00:38:42,405 --> 00:38:43,990
Oh, why shouldn't you treat yourself?

771
00:38:44,532 --> 00:38:46,743
Mine is a deep fried tofu
in black bean sauce.

772
00:38:46,826 --> 00:38:48,787
-Ooh.
-Hmm.

773
00:38:49,954 --> 00:38:51,956
Do you know, I get
substantial discount over there.

774
00:38:52,290 --> 00:38:55,210
I saw their granddad through
a rather nasty gastric cancer.

775
00:38:55,376 --> 00:38:56,628
Oh. How... How did he do?

776
00:38:56,878 --> 00:38:58,046
Deceased. Yeah.

777
00:38:58,755 --> 00:39:00,173
Well, he was lucky we found him a bed.

778
00:39:00,256 --> 00:39:03,259
I mean, at his age, he'd either
choke on his own blood at The Royal

779
00:39:03,343 --> 00:39:05,053
or be bussed off to some council home

780
00:39:05,136 --> 00:39:06,596
where they've no knack with the morphine.

781
00:39:06,679 --> 00:39:07,514
-Hmm.
-Hmm.

782
00:39:09,140 --> 00:39:10,433
I mean, all these managers,

783
00:39:10,892 --> 00:39:13,144
all they ever think about
is movement, isn't it?

784
00:39:13,978 --> 00:39:17,107
Like the hospital system
is just some giant bowel

785
00:39:17,190 --> 00:39:19,067
that has to keep pumping out shit.

786
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:21,736
-But it isn't, is it, Dr Val?
-Hmm.

787
00:39:23,321 --> 00:39:25,782
It's about getting the patient
to the right place, at the right time.

788
00:39:28,076 --> 00:39:29,035
And to the best,

789
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:31,162
most appropriate bed that can be found.

790
00:39:31,996 --> 00:39:33,957
Don't talk to me about beds.

791
00:39:34,415 --> 00:39:36,042
I deal in beds the way some other folk

792
00:39:36,126 --> 00:39:37,252
deal in used hatchbacks.

793
00:39:38,461 --> 00:39:40,839
-Well, I dream about beds.
-Ah.

794
00:39:40,964 --> 00:39:42,924
Yeah, sometimes they're just
beds that I want to lie in

795
00:39:43,007 --> 00:39:44,050
and go to sleep for days,

796
00:39:44,134 --> 00:39:46,553
but mostly, they are for other people.

797
00:39:47,137 --> 00:39:50,056
For people who need them,
to be healed in, or to die.

798
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:51,474
Hmm.

799
00:39:52,308 --> 00:39:54,644
-Empty?
-Oh, they're always empty

800
00:39:55,311 --> 00:39:56,146
'cause I am dreaming.

801
00:40:02,652 --> 00:40:04,320
Dr Val, can I share a worry with you?

802
00:40:06,906 --> 00:40:07,991
Most certainly. Yeah.

803
00:40:10,076 --> 00:40:12,996
It's about my speech, you know,
for the medal presentation.

804
00:40:15,957 --> 00:40:18,459
I don't know what to put.
I don't know what to say.

805
00:40:19,544 --> 00:40:21,880
I'm a woman of deeds,
not a woman of words.

806
00:40:23,965 --> 00:40:27,135
Well, I would advise you
to speak from the heart.

807
00:40:29,846 --> 00:40:30,722
Oh.

808
00:40:33,057 --> 00:40:34,684
All I can think of to say is,

809
00:40:36,227 --> 00:40:37,854
"Don't leave it too late to die."

810
00:40:49,449 --> 00:40:50,617
All right, twat face?

811
00:40:51,326 --> 00:40:52,202
How is it going?

812
00:40:52,702 --> 00:40:54,954
Yeah. Dad will pull through.

813
00:40:56,039 --> 00:40:57,248
The hospital won't.

814
00:40:57,332 --> 00:40:59,751
Although I'm struggling
to convince the Chair of that.

815
00:41:00,043 --> 00:41:01,252
Hmm, that's not like you.

816
00:41:02,003 --> 00:41:05,632
I tried.
But he got the best cups out.

817
00:41:07,425 --> 00:41:09,385
And something
about the place is working.

818
00:41:10,178 --> 00:41:11,304
Must be, otherwise my dad

819
00:41:11,387 --> 00:41:13,097
wouldn't have developed a pantomime cough

820
00:41:13,223 --> 00:41:14,891
out of terror they'll discharge him.

821
00:41:16,142 --> 00:41:19,020
Yet there are less beds than ever,

822
00:41:19,103 --> 00:41:21,314
and money is still swirling down the pan.

823
00:41:22,398 --> 00:41:23,524
You sound tired.

824
00:41:23,650 --> 00:41:25,235
Yes, George.

825
00:41:26,319 --> 00:41:28,947
I am tired. Bloody tired.

826
00:41:29,781 --> 00:41:30,615
I love you.

827
00:41:32,033 --> 00:41:32,992
I know you do.

828
00:41:36,162 --> 00:41:37,622
There are other responses.

829
00:41:41,209 --> 00:41:42,126
All right.

830
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:45,922
You too, you too.

831
00:42:00,395 --> 00:42:02,647
I may well have
24 beds under my jurisdiction,

832
00:42:02,730 --> 00:42:04,899
and every single one of them is occupied.

833
00:42:07,026 --> 00:42:08,903
It's carnage incarnate down The Royal,

834
00:42:08,987 --> 00:42:10,196
and now at the Infirmary.

835
00:42:10,613 --> 00:42:11,781
Begging for beds again?

836
00:42:11,864 --> 00:42:14,784
Hmm, they're failing to hit
their targets, apparently.

837
00:42:15,952 --> 00:42:18,496
Oh, I'll have to give
Snowdrop Court a ring again,

838
00:42:18,579 --> 00:42:19,956
see if we can move somebody there.

839
00:42:20,832 --> 00:42:23,042
Or throw myself on the mercy
of Green Lawns.

840
00:42:23,209 --> 00:42:25,336
Green Lawns? Is it that bad?

841
00:42:26,754 --> 00:42:28,423
I need a black coffee. Two sugars.

842
00:42:45,273 --> 00:42:46,399
What's on the trolley?

843
00:42:48,776 --> 00:42:49,736
You got any cigs?

844
00:42:51,154 --> 00:42:52,613
I've got large-print books.

845
00:42:53,072 --> 00:42:54,198
It's no smoking in here.

846
00:42:55,491 --> 00:42:56,409
Live a little.

847
00:42:57,076 --> 00:42:58,202
I'm on work experience.

848
00:42:58,286 --> 00:43:00,913
And I've been assigned
to wheel you to the shower later.

849
00:43:00,997 --> 00:43:03,249
They'd have had you down a coal mine once.

850
00:43:04,917 --> 00:43:06,919
Have you had sexual intercourse yet?

851
00:43:09,088 --> 00:43:10,340
Yeah, loads of times.

852
00:43:10,423 --> 00:43:11,674
What do you reckon to it?

853
00:43:13,217 --> 00:43:14,052
It's all right.

854
00:43:15,136 --> 00:43:16,721
Do you want to feel my feet?

855
00:43:19,015 --> 00:43:20,224
It wouldn't be top of my list.

856
00:43:21,017 --> 00:43:23,353
Not in a mucky way. In a medical way.

857
00:43:23,436 --> 00:43:24,562
They keep swelling up.

858
00:43:25,188 --> 00:43:26,647
Oh, well, they look all right from here.

859
00:43:28,024 --> 00:43:30,651
Improvement is not in my best interest.

860
00:43:33,613 --> 00:43:35,073
It's Mr Colman, isn't it?

861
00:43:36,324 --> 00:43:37,492
May I join you?

862
00:43:38,284 --> 00:43:39,160
Yeah.

863
00:43:42,997 --> 00:43:45,124
I was with your father earlier.

864
00:43:45,875 --> 00:43:47,001
He's very proud of you.

865
00:43:49,545 --> 00:43:50,630
That's news to me.

866
00:43:52,173 --> 00:43:53,049
That's fathers.

867
00:43:56,302 --> 00:43:59,013
Mr Colman, may I show you something?

868
00:44:01,265 --> 00:44:02,975
They closed this ward six months ago.

869
00:44:04,685 --> 00:44:07,105
Closure was financially appropriate.

870
00:44:07,939 --> 00:44:08,773
Look at this.

871
00:44:09,816 --> 00:44:10,691
Tell me what you see.

872
00:44:13,403 --> 00:44:14,278
A bed.

873
00:44:15,822 --> 00:44:18,199
It's a way out of A & E
when somebody has fallen.

874
00:44:20,243 --> 00:44:21,577
It comes with oxygen,

875
00:44:21,828 --> 00:44:25,164
with intravenous pain relief
for broken bones.

876
00:44:25,998 --> 00:44:29,168
It comes equipped with hoists,
with air flow mattresses,

877
00:44:29,293 --> 00:44:32,422
a hook for catheters,
a bell to summon help.

878
00:44:34,173 --> 00:44:37,677
It carries on its shoulders
care assistants, porters, nurses,

879
00:44:38,636 --> 00:44:43,099
anaesthetists, junior doctors,
housemen, a consultant.

880
00:44:44,016 --> 00:44:44,851
And stretching ahead

881
00:44:44,934 --> 00:44:47,061
are all the possibilities
recovery entails.

882
00:44:47,937 --> 00:44:48,813
Such as?

883
00:44:49,147 --> 00:44:51,441
Occupational therapists and dieticians.

884
00:44:52,191 --> 00:44:55,111
Physios and phlebotomists.
District nurses.

885
00:44:56,946 --> 00:44:58,114
When somebody gets a bed,

886
00:44:58,489 --> 00:45:00,658
they get so much more
than a piece of furniture.

887
00:45:01,951 --> 00:45:03,202
They get everything we are.

888
00:45:05,621 --> 00:45:06,873
Well, if you put it that way.

889
00:45:08,583 --> 00:45:09,542
But at what cost?

890
00:45:10,918 --> 00:45:14,589
The cost is not exorbitant.
The cost is nothing.

891
00:45:14,714 --> 00:45:16,466
Money isn't exactly your strong suit,

892
00:45:17,300 --> 00:45:18,342
is it, Dr Valentine?

893
00:45:20,553 --> 00:45:22,054
It isn't the thing I think of first.

894
00:45:29,812 --> 00:45:30,813
What you up to, Joe?

895
00:45:32,523 --> 00:45:34,775
Trying to get these the right way round.

896
00:45:36,527 --> 00:45:37,612
I was, er,

897
00:45:38,488 --> 00:45:41,115
a banksman at the pit.

898
00:45:41,282 --> 00:45:43,743
I'd give the men their tally
afore they went down,

899
00:45:43,826 --> 00:45:46,204
and they'd hand them back
when they came up safe.

900
00:45:47,205 --> 00:45:48,289
I remember them as much

901
00:45:48,414 --> 00:45:50,458
by their numbers as by their names.

902
00:45:51,334 --> 00:45:52,210
Joe, love.

903
00:45:53,211 --> 00:45:56,714
Dr Valentine thinks it might be better
if we took your wedding ring off.

904
00:45:58,674 --> 00:45:59,634
Better for who?

905
00:46:00,343 --> 00:46:01,177
Well, you.

906
00:46:01,761 --> 00:46:02,803
Your fingers keep puffing up

907
00:46:02,887 --> 00:46:04,680
because your circulation's not behaving.

908
00:46:06,098 --> 00:46:06,933
I'm...

909
00:46:07,642 --> 00:46:09,352
I'm on tablets for that.

910
00:46:09,685 --> 00:46:12,021
Yeah, and if they work,
you can have your ring back.

911
00:46:12,355 --> 00:46:13,648
I'll just need to nip it in half

912
00:46:14,232 --> 00:46:15,525
with a little pair of pliers.

913
00:46:16,317 --> 00:46:18,152
You bloody don't!

914
00:46:18,486 --> 00:46:21,113
Stopping where it is.
Where it's always been.

915
00:46:21,531 --> 00:46:24,367
I have never, ever taken it off. Never.

916
00:46:25,868 --> 00:46:27,286
It's for the good of your health, Joe.

917
00:46:27,453 --> 00:46:31,040
You can sod off with your sodding pliers.

918
00:46:31,165 --> 00:46:32,124
Leave me be.

919
00:46:32,458 --> 00:46:33,292
All right.

920
00:46:34,126 --> 00:46:35,169
Shower time.

921
00:46:42,093 --> 00:46:43,135
Jesus wept.

922
00:46:49,308 --> 00:46:51,310
Right, first,
I'm gonna take your trousers off.

923
00:46:52,061 --> 00:46:53,896
I bet you've said that a few times.

924
00:46:54,063 --> 00:46:56,399
I've got no interest in your penis.

925
00:46:57,316 --> 00:46:58,734
You're not in any danger.

926
00:46:59,151 --> 00:47:00,444
These days, it's swelling

927
00:47:00,528 --> 00:47:02,780
-the ranks of the unemployed.

928
00:47:02,947 --> 00:47:04,949
Oh, sorry. I'm just looking for my father.

929
00:47:09,412 --> 00:47:11,455
He has no interest in my penis either.

930
00:47:15,084 --> 00:47:17,253
Nobody told me
Joan Collins was a bathroom.

931
00:47:18,045 --> 00:47:19,797
Sister Face Ache says
you're to go back in,

932
00:47:20,047 --> 00:47:21,549
sit in a corner and make small talk

933
00:47:21,632 --> 00:47:22,883
because nobody likes to feel

934
00:47:22,967 --> 00:47:24,385
they cause revulsion in a loved one.

935
00:47:24,468 --> 00:47:26,887
It's not revulsion. It's pity.

936
00:47:27,513 --> 00:47:28,389
Is that better?

937
00:47:39,567 --> 00:47:40,943
-He's back.

938
00:47:42,695 --> 00:47:45,781
You're gonna mark the floor
with those shoes.

939
00:47:46,324 --> 00:47:48,367
And I'm not having anyone
saying it was me.

940
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,829
I don't leave marks. I'm a very clean man.

941
00:47:51,912 --> 00:47:54,123
And you'll be all the cleaner
when I've finished with you.

942
00:47:54,832 --> 00:47:56,751
Are you suggesting I do it in my trousers?

943
00:47:56,834 --> 00:47:57,960
Because I never do.

944
00:47:58,794 --> 00:48:00,755
I always sing out when I need to go.

945
00:48:01,505 --> 00:48:02,882
- You're a model.
-Yes.

946
00:48:02,965 --> 00:48:04,342
Otherwise
you'd be on me blacklist.

947
00:48:05,134 --> 00:48:06,010
Now...

948
00:48:06,844 --> 00:48:07,762
Now, is that better?

949
00:48:08,763 --> 00:48:09,722
I smell better.

950
00:48:11,015 --> 00:48:11,891
So, what do you say?

951
00:48:12,767 --> 00:48:14,894
We don't say anything. It's your job.

952
00:48:15,478 --> 00:48:16,312
Dad!

953
00:48:16,729 --> 00:48:18,105
Oh, it speaks.

954
00:48:20,775 --> 00:48:22,693
His feet look swollen.

955
00:48:23,653 --> 00:48:25,071
That's inactivity.

956
00:48:25,863 --> 00:48:26,947
We've a remedy for that.

957
00:48:33,913 --> 00:48:34,872
Right, stop there.

958
00:48:44,340 --> 00:48:45,883
Right, let's get you vertical.

959
00:48:46,258 --> 00:48:47,134
Eh?

960
00:48:47,218 --> 00:48:49,887
He can't stand up.
Dad, you know you can't.

961
00:48:53,391 --> 00:48:54,225
Come towards me.

962
00:48:55,518 --> 00:48:58,270
You're pushing on an open door
with a bossa nova.

963
00:48:59,355 --> 00:49:01,565
You know, sometimes,
even when people can't walk,

964
00:49:01,649 --> 00:49:02,525
they can dance.

965
00:49:03,442 --> 00:49:04,735
We presume it's the music.

966
00:49:05,945 --> 00:49:09,448
Unlocking some long-lost
pattern in the brain.

967
00:49:10,116 --> 00:49:11,033
Wait...

968
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:13,411
Wait till I tell
Gorgeous Gerald about this.

969
00:49:14,829 --> 00:49:15,663
That's it.

970
00:49:18,290 --> 00:49:21,001
Slow. Quick, quick, slow.

971
00:49:25,631 --> 00:49:26,465
Hey,

972
00:49:26,924 --> 00:49:28,634
you're champion at this, you are.

973
00:49:30,094 --> 00:49:32,304
Well, not an actual champion.

974
00:49:32,555 --> 00:49:35,850
I was an actual champion, with his mam.

975
00:49:36,976 --> 00:49:38,185
We won a cup once

976
00:49:39,019 --> 00:49:41,897
at a holiday camp in Filey.

977
00:49:42,064 --> 00:49:43,733
-Ooh!
-It was Scarborough.

978
00:49:44,734 --> 00:49:45,860
Can you dance too?

979
00:49:46,694 --> 00:49:47,528
No.

980
00:49:48,279 --> 00:49:50,948
-He sings.
- I used to.

981
00:49:51,949 --> 00:49:53,951
You had the voice of an angel.

982
00:49:56,078 --> 00:49:57,163
All right. Come on.

983
00:49:57,580 --> 00:49:58,414
Hang on a minute.

984
00:50:00,750 --> 00:50:02,209
-There we go.

985
00:50:04,795 --> 00:50:05,629
Go on...

986
00:50:06,046 --> 00:50:07,006
-...sing.

987
00:50:08,174 --> 00:50:10,134
I can't remember any songs.

988
00:50:11,093 --> 00:50:14,013
Give us  Blow the Wind Southerly.

989
00:50:14,263 --> 00:50:15,473
Bring the house down.

990
00:50:16,849 --> 00:50:17,683
No.

991
00:50:20,394 --> 00:50:23,647
Well, that's your
entertainment over and out

992
00:50:25,816 --> 00:50:28,110
because I've finished
performing for one day.

993
00:50:29,195 --> 00:50:30,613
And I need the lav.

994
00:50:31,155 --> 00:50:31,989
Come on.

995
00:50:32,490 --> 00:50:33,699
And it was Filey.

996
00:50:35,117 --> 00:50:36,035
Scarborough.

997
00:50:39,914 --> 00:50:43,292
Mavis, do you remember eyebrows?

998
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:45,878
Vaguely.

999
00:50:46,962 --> 00:50:48,422
Where do you suppose they go?

1000
00:50:49,465 --> 00:50:52,218
They take up residence inside men's ears.

1001
00:50:52,510 --> 00:50:53,344
Oh.

1002
00:50:54,887 --> 00:50:57,431
I was sat next to Ambrose
in choir the other day,

1003
00:50:57,515 --> 00:50:59,475
and you've never seen so much hair

1004
00:50:59,558 --> 00:51:01,227
as he's got down his lughole.

1005
00:51:02,436 --> 00:51:04,104
What are you playing at, Mary?

1006
00:51:05,731 --> 00:51:08,317
I'm familiarising myself with the iPad.

1007
00:51:09,777 --> 00:51:12,488
The young men are keen
to receive my impressions

1008
00:51:13,197 --> 00:51:14,365
for their documentary.

1009
00:51:14,949 --> 00:51:16,325
I've got carte blanche

1010
00:51:17,451 --> 00:51:19,620
as long as I've got something
sensible on my feet.

1011
00:51:29,338 --> 00:51:31,590
Signal's best if you go round the kitchen
and stand on the bins.

1012
00:51:33,008 --> 00:51:33,884
All right.

1013
00:51:34,635 --> 00:51:36,011
No, I was just heading off, actually.

1014
00:51:40,266 --> 00:51:41,392
Thanks for what you're doing for my dad.

1015
00:51:42,935 --> 00:51:43,853
That doesn't look easy.

1016
00:51:46,021 --> 00:51:47,064
I'll be out of here next week.

1017
00:51:47,690 --> 00:51:48,566
Huh.

1018
00:51:49,817 --> 00:51:50,734
What are you looking at?

1019
00:51:53,028 --> 00:51:53,988
It's your bike.

1020
00:51:55,155 --> 00:51:56,198
Well, it's a rubbish bike.

1021
00:51:57,741 --> 00:51:59,326
Rubbish? No.

1022
00:52:00,786 --> 00:52:01,954
I had one just like that once.

1023
00:52:03,038 --> 00:52:04,331
You're in my good books today.

1024
00:52:05,249 --> 00:52:07,710
A very nice bit of self-directed physio

1025
00:52:08,043 --> 00:52:09,920
and some immaculate bladder management.

1026
00:52:10,045 --> 00:52:11,297
When...

1027
00:52:11,589 --> 00:52:14,216
When was I in your bad book?

1028
00:52:14,592 --> 00:52:15,509
Well, you haven't been yet.

1029
00:52:16,594 --> 00:52:18,679
That said, I do keep tabs on people.

1030
00:52:20,764 --> 00:52:21,891
I had

1031
00:52:23,350 --> 00:52:25,352
tabs on people once.

1032
00:52:29,148 --> 00:52:31,859
I used to be a tally man down the pit.

1033
00:52:34,445 --> 00:52:36,572
Every shift I'd... I'd... I'd...

1034
00:52:36,822 --> 00:52:39,533
I'd count the men down and, er,

1035
00:52:41,243 --> 00:52:42,369
I'd count them up again.

1036
00:52:44,538 --> 00:52:45,497
I had the list.

1037
00:52:46,790 --> 00:52:47,791
And the... And the list

1038
00:52:48,751 --> 00:52:50,377
could mean the difference between

1039
00:52:50,753 --> 00:52:53,839
life and the reverse.

1040
00:52:54,006 --> 00:52:54,840
Well, come along.

1041
00:52:54,965 --> 00:52:56,175
You've done enough for one day.

1042
00:52:56,467 --> 00:52:58,469
Save the past for reminiscence therapy.

1043
00:53:13,651 --> 00:53:14,526
What job do you do?

1044
00:53:16,195 --> 00:53:17,529
I'm a management consultant.

1045
00:53:19,573 --> 00:53:20,616
What, is that computers?

1046
00:53:21,700 --> 00:53:23,452
Eh. Yes and no.

1047
00:53:25,412 --> 00:53:26,330
They're just a tool.

1048
00:53:28,999 --> 00:53:29,959
What's London like?

1049
00:53:33,671 --> 00:53:34,505
Better.

1050
00:53:35,172 --> 00:53:37,257
Better. Better clubs and all that?

1051
00:53:37,758 --> 00:53:39,259
Yeah, better clubs and all that.

1052
00:53:40,260 --> 00:53:43,222
Better food. Better weather.
Better prospects.

1053
00:53:43,973 --> 00:53:46,350
Worse traffic, but can't have everything.

1054
00:53:51,105 --> 00:53:52,022
You should try it.

1055
00:53:53,315 --> 00:53:54,149
Go.

1056
00:53:55,109 --> 00:53:56,402
Just for a week, a day.

1057
00:54:00,364 --> 00:54:01,198
I might.

1058
00:54:04,410 --> 00:54:05,244
I did.

1059
00:54:17,047 --> 00:54:17,923
Mr Colman?

1060
00:54:20,217 --> 00:54:23,137
Nurse Pinkney said you were unhappy
about having your wedding ring removed?

1061
00:54:26,181 --> 00:54:28,642
I was unhappy about having it cut off.

1062
00:54:29,977 --> 00:54:32,354
A ring is round,

1063
00:54:32,438 --> 00:54:33,647
it has no end. If you...

1064
00:54:34,064 --> 00:54:35,482
If you cut it off, it's finished.

1065
00:54:36,984 --> 00:54:37,985
May I see it?

1066
00:54:42,990 --> 00:54:44,158
Your fingers are swollen, Joe.

1067
00:54:45,534 --> 00:54:46,577
This will fluctuate,

1068
00:54:46,660 --> 00:54:48,537
but my worry is that
should things get worse,

1069
00:54:48,620 --> 00:54:51,123
rather than better,
you could be in real pain.

1070
00:54:52,791 --> 00:54:54,376
The ring may cut off your blood flow.

1071
00:54:58,630 --> 00:55:00,007
It were never that comfy.

1072
00:55:00,674 --> 00:55:02,801
I'll soldier on with it.

1073
00:55:05,054 --> 00:55:06,263
I brought some grease.

1074
00:55:06,930 --> 00:55:08,682
Will you let me try
and remove it that way?

1075
00:55:11,727 --> 00:55:12,644
I fell.

1076
00:55:13,103 --> 00:55:15,064
I know, love. You fractured your ankle.

1077
00:55:17,107 --> 00:55:18,233
It was mine.

1078
00:55:19,318 --> 00:55:20,778
It's gonna feel a little bit numb

1079
00:55:20,861 --> 00:55:22,071
until the boot comes off.

1080
00:55:25,199 --> 00:55:27,201
It was my house.

1081
00:55:28,660 --> 00:55:30,871
But we can start you with the physio soon.

1082
00:55:30,954 --> 00:55:33,665
You'll like him.
We call him Gorgeous Gerald.

1083
00:55:35,584 --> 00:55:36,460
Come on, sweetheart.

1084
00:55:37,711 --> 00:55:38,837
Come on. Up we come.

1085
00:55:53,227 --> 00:55:54,061
All done.

1086
00:55:56,939 --> 00:55:57,815
There.

1087
00:55:59,149 --> 00:55:59,983
Oh.

1088
00:56:02,611 --> 00:56:03,487
Thank you.

1089
00:56:04,738 --> 00:56:05,656
All gone.

1090
00:56:07,282 --> 00:56:08,158
Lovely job.

1091
00:56:13,205 --> 00:56:15,040
All together, everybody.

1092
00:56:15,332 --> 00:56:17,709
Good morning, good morning

1093
00:56:18,085 --> 00:56:20,045
We've danced
the whole night through

1094
00:56:20,129 --> 00:56:22,965
Good morning,
good morning to you

1095
00:56:23,048 --> 00:56:23,924
Lovely.

1096
00:56:24,216 --> 00:56:25,384
Deep breaths now.

1097
00:56:25,717 --> 00:56:28,470
Now, see if you can move your arms.

1098
00:56:29,138 --> 00:56:30,514
Wonderful, Mavis.

1099
00:56:30,597 --> 00:56:32,391
Good morning to you

1100
00:56:32,474 --> 00:56:36,895
And remember, everyone,
we're being our best selves.

1101
00:56:37,062 --> 00:56:38,355
The moon was shining bright

1102
00:56:38,772 --> 00:56:41,024
Now the milkman's on his way

1103
00:56:41,233 --> 00:56:42,609
It's too late to say goodnight

1104
00:56:42,693 --> 00:56:44,862
Lively, Mary. Think sunshine.

1105
00:56:44,945 --> 00:56:45,988
Good morning

1106
00:56:46,113 --> 00:56:48,157
Sunbeams will soon shine through

1107
00:56:48,282 --> 00:56:52,619
Good morning,
good morning to you

1108
00:56:52,703 --> 00:56:54,204
-  Lovely.

1109
00:56:54,288 --> 00:56:55,247
- Oh.

1110
00:56:55,831 --> 00:56:58,458
All she had to do
was stay alive.

1111
00:56:59,459 --> 00:57:01,170
All you had to do was keep her that way!

1112
00:57:01,253 --> 00:57:03,797
Well, I...
I think you're mistaking my position.

1113
00:57:04,423 --> 00:57:05,299
Thanks.

1114
00:57:06,258 --> 00:57:08,260
Chairman of the Board is, erm,

1115
00:57:09,178 --> 00:57:11,597
well, it's an honorary role.

1116
00:57:11,930 --> 00:57:14,224
Alive. For three more months.

1117
00:57:14,975 --> 00:57:17,477
I'm... I'm told your mother was,

1118
00:57:17,895 --> 00:57:19,188
well, 92.

1119
00:57:19,271 --> 00:57:20,480
Yeah. Well,

1120
00:57:21,398 --> 00:57:24,443
the  Express   says that 90 is the new 70.

1121
00:57:26,111 --> 00:57:27,446
We want a post mortem.

1122
00:57:27,696 --> 00:57:28,614
-Oh, er...

1123
00:57:29,323 --> 00:57:30,782
Sorry, you said
we could film in here today...

1124
00:57:30,866 --> 00:57:32,117
Oh. No, no, no, not just now. No, erm...

1125
00:57:32,201 --> 00:57:34,786
Look, you're intruding on...
on private grief.

1126
00:57:34,870 --> 00:57:37,539
Actually... Actually,
they can come right in.

1127
00:57:37,706 --> 00:57:39,708
There'll be nothing private about my grief

1128
00:57:39,875 --> 00:57:41,668
when The Beth's had up in court!

1129
00:57:41,877 --> 00:57:43,629
-Oh, please, please!

1130
00:57:43,962 --> 00:57:45,672
These people are heartbroken!

1131
00:57:46,089 --> 00:57:47,716
Oh. Your mother's physician.

1132
00:57:48,050 --> 00:57:49,593
Hey, erm...

1133
00:57:49,676 --> 00:57:53,972
Dr Valentine will be able
to answer your questions.

1134
00:57:55,807 --> 00:57:58,936
It's entirely natural,
upon losing a loved one,

1135
00:57:59,061 --> 00:58:01,855
to ask, well, why.

1136
00:58:02,522 --> 00:58:03,857
Not "why?"

1137
00:58:04,650 --> 00:58:05,525
Why?

1138
00:58:06,485 --> 00:58:08,570
Why, after you got your hands on her,

1139
00:58:08,654 --> 00:58:11,156
did an old lass in perfectly good nick

1140
00:58:11,323 --> 00:58:12,866
suddenly peg out, huh?

1141
00:58:14,618 --> 00:58:15,452
Huh?

1142
00:58:16,870 --> 00:58:19,164
Well, according to Sister Gilpin,

1143
00:58:19,248 --> 00:58:20,958
she had gallstones, you know, and...

1144
00:58:21,500 --> 00:58:23,961
and she was, of course, incontinent.

1145
00:58:24,127 --> 00:58:25,671
-Oh, God.
-Oh. Well, yeah.

1146
00:58:26,421 --> 00:58:28,382
I may not know much about medicine,

1147
00:58:28,465 --> 00:58:31,802
but even I know that you
don't die of wet knickers.

1148
00:58:33,553 --> 00:58:35,555
Your mother slept through
the ending of her life.

1149
00:58:36,098 --> 00:58:37,516
In time, if not today,

1150
00:58:37,599 --> 00:58:39,059
you will come to see it as a blessing.

1151
00:58:39,142 --> 00:58:40,102
Ha!

1152
00:58:41,395 --> 00:58:42,938
Sister Gilpin was at the helm,

1153
00:58:43,021 --> 00:58:45,816
and, well, she is one of our finest.

1154
00:58:46,692 --> 00:58:48,986
She's about to be awarded
the Bywater Medal.

1155
00:58:49,069 --> 00:58:52,572
I don't care if she's about
to be awarded the V-bloody-C!

1156
00:58:52,656 --> 00:58:53,740
Oh, sir, tmesis.

1157
00:58:56,076 --> 00:58:56,952
Shut up!

1158
00:58:58,078 --> 00:59:00,247
We shall be
pushing for an inquiry.

1159
00:59:00,414 --> 00:59:03,375
With a... With a view to compensation.

1160
00:59:03,500 --> 00:59:04,876
You have lost your mother.

1161
00:59:05,544 --> 00:59:07,921
Surely no amount of money
can compensate for that?

1162
00:59:09,006 --> 00:59:11,341
It can compensate us for inheritance tax.

1163
00:59:12,301 --> 00:59:14,136
She made that house over to us

1164
00:59:14,303 --> 00:59:17,681
six years, eight months and 25 days ago.

1165
00:59:19,599 --> 00:59:21,268
In three months, it would have been ours.

1166
00:59:27,774 --> 00:59:28,734
Boys!

1167
00:59:29,985 --> 00:59:31,361
Do you want any? Come on, Dad.

1168
00:59:33,989 --> 00:59:36,033
Am I disturbing you, Ambrose?

1169
00:59:36,283 --> 00:59:37,534
No. I...

1170
00:59:38,076 --> 00:59:41,455
Although I will have
to curtail a conversation

1171
00:59:41,580 --> 00:59:43,040
if my visitor arrives.

1172
00:59:45,125 --> 00:59:50,297
It's always such a pleasure
to chat with a former student.

1173
00:59:50,380 --> 00:59:51,423
Well, I...

1174
00:59:51,882 --> 00:59:54,009
I come to you as a student today.

1175
00:59:54,384 --> 00:59:55,218
Ah!

1176
00:59:55,552 --> 00:59:57,512
{\an8}I am returning the book of  Modern Poetry.

1177
00:59:57,929 --> 00:59:59,639
{\an8}-Uh-huh.
-I enjoyed it very much.

1178
01:00:00,098 --> 01:00:02,100
{\an8}All the help you have given me
with my English

1179
01:00:02,184 --> 01:00:03,810
is most appreciated.

1180
01:00:04,519 --> 01:00:06,355
Ah, yeah, did you read them aloud,

1181
01:00:07,314 --> 01:00:09,066
or just in your head?

1182
01:00:09,274 --> 01:00:11,943
I always said to my pupils,

1183
01:00:12,903 --> 01:00:16,990
"Verse does not live unless it is spoken."

1184
01:00:18,408 --> 01:00:19,743
I did not read them out aloud.

1185
01:00:23,955 --> 01:00:25,332
Page 44.

1186
01:00:25,707 --> 01:00:28,293
Or, er, possibly 49.

1187
01:00:32,339 --> 01:00:33,965
"Ten Types of Hospital Visitor"?

1188
01:00:34,758 --> 01:00:36,760
Read the sixth.

1189
01:00:37,427 --> 01:00:38,929
The sixth is ideal.

1190
01:00:40,430 --> 01:00:42,224
"The sixth visitor says little,

1191
01:00:43,100 --> 01:00:46,269
Breathes reassurance,
Smiles securely,

1192
01:00:46,728 --> 01:00:48,772
Carries no black passport of grapes

1193
01:00:48,855 --> 01:00:50,023
And visa of chocolate..."

1194
01:00:51,441 --> 01:00:53,110
"...has a clutch
Of clean washing,

1195
01:00:53,193 --> 01:00:55,779
Unobtrusively stows it
In the locker,

1196
01:00:55,862 --> 01:00:57,030
Searches out more.

1197
01:00:57,614 --> 01:00:59,324
Talks quietly to the Sister

1198
01:00:59,408 --> 01:01:02,035
Out of sight, out of earshot,
of the patient,

1199
01:01:02,661 --> 01:01:04,413
Arrives punctually as a tide,

1200
01:01:04,704 --> 01:01:06,331
Does not stay for the whole hour.

1201
01:01:07,249 --> 01:01:08,375
When she has gone

1202
01:01:08,667 --> 01:01:10,460
The patient seems to sense her there:

1203
01:01:11,169 --> 01:01:12,754
An upholding Presence"

1204
01:01:17,050 --> 01:01:18,009
Oh, thank you.

1205
01:01:18,301 --> 01:01:19,553
Thank you very much. Thank you.

1206
01:01:24,599 --> 01:01:26,560
Now the last verse.

1207
01:01:27,686 --> 01:01:28,728
It's very short.

1208
01:01:30,021 --> 01:01:31,314
No, Ambrose. I...

1209
01:01:32,691 --> 01:01:33,859
"The last visitor

1210
01:01:35,777 --> 01:01:38,572
Is not generally named"

1211
01:01:39,531 --> 01:01:40,740
It says tenth here.

1212
01:01:43,535 --> 01:01:45,662
We...
We both know what it means.

1213
01:01:53,670 --> 01:01:55,589
Are you going to move me on?

1214
01:01:57,132 --> 01:02:00,260
Not unless we can find
you somewhere better. Okay?

1215
01:02:27,078 --> 01:02:28,872
I don't wanna feed the ducks.

1216
01:02:29,206 --> 01:02:31,416
Feeding the ducks is for kiddies.

1217
01:02:32,125 --> 01:02:33,919
You'll hurt
the volunteers' feelings.

1218
01:02:34,586 --> 01:02:36,463
They went out of their way
to find us something for them.

1219
01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:38,632
Well, it's only
a bit of stale bread.

1220
01:02:39,299 --> 01:02:40,217
All right, then.

1221
01:02:40,634 --> 01:02:42,886
How about the sensory garden?

1222
01:02:44,346 --> 01:02:45,680
It's for blind people.

1223
01:02:48,517 --> 01:02:51,645
This is no way for grown men
to spend their time.

1224
01:02:53,063 --> 01:02:54,606
You could always join that choir.

1225
01:02:58,527 --> 01:03:00,403
Do you remember the strike, Colin?

1226
01:03:02,280 --> 01:03:03,281
Just about.

1227
01:03:04,282 --> 01:03:05,450
What made you think of that?

1228
01:03:05,784 --> 01:03:06,743
Stale bread.

1229
01:03:07,994 --> 01:03:11,331
You'd think it would be
the sound of truncheons on a riot shield,

1230
01:03:11,414 --> 01:03:14,668
or voices raised in anger,
that reminded me.

1231
01:03:14,751 --> 01:03:16,336
Not bloody stale bread.

1232
01:03:18,171 --> 01:03:21,174
Your mam trying to feed us
with nothing in her purse.

1233
01:03:21,341 --> 01:03:23,176
Yeah, the strike was a long time ago, Dad.

1234
01:03:23,260 --> 01:03:24,928
Nobody's picketing any more.

1235
01:03:26,346 --> 01:03:27,430
Nowt to picket.

1236
01:03:30,100 --> 01:03:31,226
Do you know what I remember most?

1237
01:03:32,811 --> 01:03:34,980
Just how bloody dreary it was.

1238
01:03:36,147 --> 01:03:37,440
-Dreary?
-The talk.

1239
01:03:38,024 --> 01:03:40,694
Endless, endless talk, all of the time.

1240
01:03:41,861 --> 01:03:44,698
Though being egged on to hate
Mrs Thatcher was exciting,

1241
01:03:44,781 --> 01:03:45,615
I'll give you that.

1242
01:03:46,533 --> 01:03:48,577
Didn't last long with you, though, did it?

1243
01:03:48,868 --> 01:03:49,869
Dad, I was a kid.

1244
01:03:50,662 --> 01:03:53,498
If you push a kid too far one way,
they do end up going the other.

1245
01:03:54,249 --> 01:03:55,500
I didn't push you.

1246
01:03:56,751 --> 01:03:58,545
You had me rattling collection tins.

1247
01:03:59,546 --> 01:04:01,840
You dragged me to the rallies,
put me on your shoulders.

1248
01:04:02,048 --> 01:04:05,552
You made me sing
at Miners' Benefit concerts.

1249
01:04:06,052 --> 01:04:07,929
There would be pound notes in the hat

1250
01:04:08,013 --> 01:04:09,973
when you sang  Blow the Wind Southerly.

1251
01:04:13,435 --> 01:04:14,436
Where are you taking me now?

1252
01:04:14,519 --> 01:04:16,688
The sensory garden,
before the bloody ducks

1253
01:04:16,771 --> 01:04:18,231
die of a Mother's Pride overdose.

1254
01:04:23,320 --> 01:04:24,946
I've got to head back soon, Dad.

1255
01:04:25,780 --> 01:04:27,532
What, to that bank hotel?

1256
01:04:27,949 --> 01:04:28,783
To London.

1257
01:04:29,242 --> 01:04:32,037
The Minister needs his hand-holding.

1258
01:04:32,329 --> 01:04:33,788
He's not one as well, is he?

1259
01:04:35,248 --> 01:04:37,250
No, he's not. It's...

1260
01:04:38,043 --> 01:04:39,961
It's a figure of speech, Dad.

1261
01:04:54,643 --> 01:04:55,769
There's a threat of a strike.

1262
01:04:57,771 --> 01:04:59,272
He's losing his nerve.

1263
01:05:00,023 --> 01:05:01,650
Who's fighting for what?

1264
01:05:01,733 --> 01:05:05,278
Doctors. For better
work conditions and pay.

1265
01:05:07,113 --> 01:05:09,407
There is no more noble cause.

1266
01:05:11,284 --> 01:05:12,994
I'm on the other side, Dad.

1267
01:05:14,204 --> 01:05:15,330
I forget.

1268
01:05:16,122 --> 01:05:17,374
I don't think you do.

1269
01:05:18,249 --> 01:05:21,294
Your mam used to say
you had the voice of an angel.

1270
01:05:24,130 --> 01:05:25,507
I don't forget that.

1271
01:05:27,300 --> 01:05:30,053
Blow the wind southerly

1272
01:05:30,178 --> 01:05:33,306
Southerly, southerly

1273
01:05:34,015 --> 01:05:39,062
Blow, bonny breeze,
my lover to me

1274
01:05:40,772 --> 01:05:42,941
-They told me last night

1275
01:05:43,024 --> 01:05:45,860
There were ships in the offing

1276
01:05:46,861 --> 01:05:51,866
And I hurried down
to the deep rolling sea

1277
01:05:52,617 --> 01:05:55,787
But my eye could not see it

1278
01:05:56,621 --> 01:05:59,290
Wherever might be it

1279
01:06:01,126 --> 01:06:04,504
The barque that is bearing

1280
01:06:04,671 --> 01:06:10,927
My lover to me

1281
01:06:22,731 --> 01:06:23,690
Lad.

1282
01:06:24,691 --> 01:06:25,525
What?

1283
01:06:26,735 --> 01:06:29,863
Just because a thing has gone,

1284
01:06:31,239 --> 01:06:32,907
doesn't mean it was never good.

1285
01:06:34,159 --> 01:06:35,326
Well, what was never good?

1286
01:06:36,494 --> 01:06:38,246
What went before and

1287
01:06:39,247 --> 01:06:40,331
won't come back.

1288
01:06:42,792 --> 01:06:43,710
The pit.

1289
01:06:45,628 --> 01:06:46,921
Your mam.

1290
01:06:50,133 --> 01:06:51,593
We've still got our memories, Dad.

1291
01:06:51,760 --> 01:06:53,094
-Yeah.

1292
01:06:53,762 --> 01:06:56,848
Right now, I'd settle for memory itself.

1293
01:07:04,439 --> 01:07:05,482
And the lavatory!

1294
01:07:06,566 --> 01:07:07,484
Giddy up!

1295
01:07:11,821 --> 01:07:13,656
-Get off.
-Dad!

1296
01:07:14,741 --> 01:07:16,242
Everybody kisses now.

1297
01:07:16,826 --> 01:07:18,286
Not round here, they don't.

1298
01:07:19,037 --> 01:07:20,288
It doesn't mean anything.

1299
01:07:21,581 --> 01:07:22,582
So why do it?

1300
01:07:26,961 --> 01:07:27,921
Bye, Dad.

1301
01:07:29,631 --> 01:07:30,465
Son.

1302
01:07:31,800 --> 01:07:32,634
Yes?.

1303
01:07:33,676 --> 01:07:34,886
When you stopped

1304
01:07:36,012 --> 01:07:37,472
wandering the streets,

1305
01:07:39,015 --> 01:07:41,601
was it because you found
what you were looking for?

1306
01:07:42,185 --> 01:07:45,104
I... I don't know what you mean.

1307
01:07:45,480 --> 01:07:46,314
You do.

1308
01:07:47,357 --> 01:07:48,191
Wig fella.

1309
01:07:49,359 --> 01:07:50,318
The law man.

1310
01:07:52,320 --> 01:07:53,196
George.

1311
01:07:55,198 --> 01:07:56,699
So I forgot his name.

1312
01:08:01,955 --> 01:08:02,872
I don't know.

1313
01:08:17,804 --> 01:08:19,180
Still expecting your visitor?

1314
01:08:20,056 --> 01:08:22,517
Oh, er, well, he's not been.

1315
01:08:23,351 --> 01:08:24,352
That's good, though, isn't it?

1316
01:08:25,979 --> 01:08:27,021
The important thing

1317
01:08:27,188 --> 01:08:29,023
is always have something
to look forward to.

1318
01:08:29,566 --> 01:08:32,527
Oh, I would look forward
to slipping away like Mr Jessop,

1319
01:08:32,610 --> 01:08:34,571
or Mrs Maudsley,

1320
01:08:34,654 --> 01:08:36,656
but I fear I'm not
going to be so fortunate.

1321
01:08:37,198 --> 01:08:41,077
Life has one in its jaws,

1322
01:08:41,202 --> 01:08:43,246
and it doesn't give one up
without a struggle.

1323
01:08:43,496 --> 01:08:46,291
They... They talk about the jaws of death.

1324
01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:48,835
It's not death that has jaws.

1325
01:08:49,794 --> 01:08:50,795
It's life.

1326
01:08:54,799 --> 01:08:57,760
Now, here comes pain with its gull's beak.

1327
01:08:59,429 --> 01:09:01,598
I'll tell Dr Val
your dose needs adjusting.

1328
01:09:09,314 --> 01:09:10,148
Are you choking?

1329
01:09:11,524 --> 01:09:13,902
No, I'm bursting for a bloody bottle.

1330
01:09:15,486 --> 01:09:17,655
There's one there, but I can't reach it.

1331
01:09:17,864 --> 01:09:19,073
You've already gone in it.

1332
01:09:19,282 --> 01:09:21,117
I know. I need to go again.

1333
01:09:21,784 --> 01:09:23,286
Well, I might break the rules
and give it you,

1334
01:09:23,369 --> 01:09:24,621
but you have to ask me nicely.

1335
01:09:26,289 --> 01:09:27,624
Go on, say "please".

1336
01:09:27,749 --> 01:09:29,792
You little sod!

1337
01:09:29,876 --> 01:09:32,253
-I'm bloody bursting!
-Aw.

1338
01:09:32,670 --> 01:09:34,297
I hope I never live to be your age.

1339
01:09:34,631 --> 01:09:36,090
Help.

1340
01:09:37,091 --> 01:09:37,926
Help.

1341
01:09:38,384 --> 01:09:39,218
Nurse!

1342
01:09:39,469 --> 01:09:40,386
What's all this?

1343
01:09:40,678 --> 01:09:42,764
I don't care for raised voices on my ward.

1344
01:09:42,847 --> 01:09:44,307
It means something's gone awry.

1345
01:09:47,894 --> 01:09:49,270
-He's pissed himself.
-Go.

1346
01:09:51,022 --> 01:09:52,398
It's always hard the first time.

1347
01:09:53,024 --> 01:09:54,150
And you were doing so well.

1348
01:09:55,526 --> 01:09:56,486
I sang out.

1349
01:09:57,654 --> 01:09:59,489
I did. I sang out.

1350
01:10:00,531 --> 01:10:02,158
But nobody would listen.

1351
01:10:03,326 --> 01:10:05,411
It was
when an elderly lady came in,

1352
01:10:05,578 --> 01:10:06,663
and she was afraid.

1353
01:10:07,163 --> 01:10:08,414
So I said to her,

1354
01:10:08,623 --> 01:10:10,500
{\an8}  "Everything is going to be all right.

1355
01:10:11,417 --> 01:10:12,502
{\an8}  "You're in hospital,

1356
01:10:13,628 --> 01:10:14,921
{\an8}  "but you are in The Beth."

1357
01:10:16,089 --> 01:10:18,716
{\an8}  I gave birth to my son here.

1358
01:10:20,093 --> 01:10:22,178
{\an8}  I got put on the pill here.

1359
01:10:25,640 --> 01:10:28,685
{\an8}  They brought me a cup of tea
when somebody died.

1360
01:10:32,230 --> 01:10:33,856
{\an8}  I think it was my husband.

1361
01:10:35,692 --> 01:10:38,152
{\an8}  Our work
is other people's lives.

1362
01:10:39,654 --> 01:10:41,739
I don't quite know
what happens to our own.

1363
01:10:44,325 --> 01:10:45,159
What should I do with this?

1364
01:10:45,243 --> 01:10:46,202
We eat on the run.

1365
01:10:46,452 --> 01:10:47,870
Oh, there'll be a bin somewhere.

1366
01:10:47,954 --> 01:10:49,163
-It's a beauty spot.

1367
01:10:51,249 --> 01:10:52,875
We're always tired.

1368
01:10:54,919 --> 01:10:56,713
Sometimes we are lonely.

1369
01:10:58,297 --> 01:11:00,133
-Come on. I'll race you.

1370
01:11:05,054 --> 01:11:07,140
And sometimes, somehow,

1371
01:11:08,599 --> 01:11:09,517
we make friends.

1372
01:11:10,768 --> 01:11:11,978
You never call me Alma.

1373
01:11:13,813 --> 01:11:15,773
Hey, why did you choose nursing?

1374
01:11:17,150 --> 01:11:18,026
Oh, I didn't.

1375
01:11:18,443 --> 01:11:19,527
Oh, it chose you?

1376
01:11:20,945 --> 01:11:22,488
It was my mother led me to it.

1377
01:11:23,448 --> 01:11:25,908
She ran a sideline
in caring for the elderly

1378
01:11:26,492 --> 01:11:28,619
in the days when the elderly
weren't farmed out.

1379
01:11:30,246 --> 01:11:32,540
There'd come a time
when somebody's daughter,

1380
01:11:32,623 --> 01:11:34,167
and it was always a daughter,

1381
01:11:34,709 --> 01:11:37,045
would sit in my mother's kitchen weeping,

1382
01:11:38,004 --> 01:11:41,632
saying, "And now I have
to do everything for them."

1383
01:11:42,550 --> 01:11:45,094
Whereupon my mother,
being of a practical bent,

1384
01:11:45,470 --> 01:11:46,554
would shoulder that burden

1385
01:11:46,637 --> 01:11:49,057
and pocket whatever cash
was offered in exchange.

1386
01:11:50,141 --> 01:11:51,684
Money was always persuasive

1387
01:11:52,351 --> 01:11:53,978
because there was no Mr Gilpin.

1388
01:11:56,147 --> 01:11:57,774
I became her assistant over time.

1389
01:11:58,733 --> 01:12:00,026
Washing and wiping.

1390
01:12:01,319 --> 01:12:02,278
Learning to say,

1391
01:12:02,945 --> 01:12:04,947
"Don't fret, love. It comes to us all."

1392
01:12:06,365 --> 01:12:07,867
And then it came to my mother.

1393
01:12:10,036 --> 01:12:10,870
How?

1394
01:12:11,829 --> 01:12:13,164
Long story.

1395
01:12:13,831 --> 01:12:14,749
How?

1396
01:12:18,795 --> 01:12:22,090
She were my first patient.
I kept her spotless.

1397
01:12:23,007 --> 01:12:25,593
I pretty much did Mother
instead of A-levels.

1398
01:12:26,344 --> 01:12:28,096
Maybe that is your speech, Sister.

1399
01:12:28,721 --> 01:12:30,723
How life taught you what you had to give.

1400
01:12:31,933 --> 01:12:34,060
Well, I'm not convinced
it did, as a matter of fact.

1401
01:12:36,062 --> 01:12:38,272
Many's the day I've wondered
what it's all been for.

1402
01:12:38,648 --> 01:12:40,566
You must know, in your soul.

1403
01:12:40,983 --> 01:12:43,236
Or you could not have stayed
so long, and served so well.

1404
01:12:44,987 --> 01:12:48,199
Maybe I just found something
other people couldn't do.

1405
01:12:49,158 --> 01:12:50,034
Or wouldn't.

1406
01:12:51,327 --> 01:12:52,328
I was good at it.

1407
01:12:53,454 --> 01:12:55,373
I even excelled at certain aspects.

1408
01:12:57,125 --> 01:12:58,459
It made me necessary.

1409
01:12:58,960 --> 01:12:59,794
To the patients?

1410
01:13:02,839 --> 01:13:03,714
To The Beth.

1411
01:13:04,507 --> 01:13:06,217
You know, I love The Beth.

1412
01:13:07,760 --> 01:13:09,929
Love complicates matters.

1413
01:13:11,013 --> 01:13:12,056
I see it all the time.

1414
01:13:13,349 --> 01:13:15,685
Middle-aged children
with tears in their eyes,

1415
01:13:16,394 --> 01:13:17,270
pleading.

1416
01:13:18,229 --> 01:13:20,523
"I love them. Oh, I love them. But..."

1417
01:13:22,441 --> 01:13:23,901
And I have to bite my tongue.

1418
01:13:25,236 --> 01:13:28,990
Because if they love them,
why do they put them away?

1419
01:13:57,768 --> 01:13:58,686
Coat on.

1420
01:13:59,687 --> 01:14:00,730
Are you not stopping?

1421
01:14:01,856 --> 01:14:02,899
Just arrived.

1422
01:14:05,568 --> 01:14:06,402
What...

1423
01:14:06,527 --> 01:14:09,363
-What are you doing?
-Oh, just checking.

1424
01:14:10,364 --> 01:14:11,782
It was a one-off.

1425
01:14:14,702 --> 01:14:17,330
When it comes to incontinence,
there are no one-offs.

1426
01:14:17,747 --> 01:14:19,415
Only inaugural incidents.

1427
01:14:20,833 --> 01:14:24,128
You're on the list now.
And you know about lists.

1428
01:14:30,134 --> 01:14:32,261
-We've had the Infirmary on the phone.
-Oh.

1429
01:14:32,470 --> 01:14:33,930
Seven trolleys in the corridor.

1430
01:14:34,013 --> 01:14:36,307
Oh! I bet they're all falls.

1431
01:14:36,933 --> 01:14:38,267
There are a couple of hips.

1432
01:14:38,643 --> 01:14:40,102
No hips.

1433
01:14:40,728 --> 01:14:42,271
The minute we admit a fractured femur,

1434
01:14:42,355 --> 01:14:44,148
we kiss goodbye to that bed
for eight weeks.

1435
01:14:45,233 --> 01:14:47,276
-They were pleading.
-Right.

1436
01:14:52,073 --> 01:14:52,907
Colin?

1437
01:14:55,910 --> 01:14:57,620
My dearest

1438
01:14:57,870 --> 01:15:02,667
We will leave Paris forever

1439
01:15:03,668 --> 01:15:07,463
Life will be happy

1440
01:15:07,672 --> 01:15:11,217
Me there beside you

1441
01:15:11,509 --> 01:15:15,012
Sadness will vanish

1442
01:15:15,429 --> 01:15:18,599
Now we're together

1443
01:15:19,600 --> 01:15:22,812
Our lives will prosper

1444
01:15:23,187 --> 01:15:25,147
All will be well

1445
01:15:25,231 --> 01:15:26,899
Jesus Christ.

1446
01:15:32,863 --> 01:15:33,781
You better be dying.

1447
01:15:34,323 --> 01:15:35,449
If I was dying, I...

1448
01:15:35,783 --> 01:15:37,243
I wouldn't be phoning you, would I?

1449
01:15:38,286 --> 01:15:40,705
Dad...   (sighs)  I'm at the opera.

1450
01:15:41,289 --> 01:15:42,957
When did you start liking opera?

1451
01:15:43,958 --> 01:15:44,792
I don't.

1452
01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:47,169
I'm with the Health Secretary.

1453
01:15:47,586 --> 01:15:48,754
And before you ask,

1454
01:15:49,171 --> 01:15:52,008
no, he doesn't like opera either.

1455
01:15:54,010 --> 01:15:56,262
-Dad...
-Colin, I'm on the list.

1456
01:15:56,554 --> 01:16:01,809
And lists make the difference
between life and the reverse.

1457
01:16:01,976 --> 01:16:02,810
What?

1458
01:16:03,352 --> 01:16:06,939
My bladder turned on me. And then she did.

1459
01:16:08,524 --> 01:16:09,442
Who did?

1460
01:16:10,067 --> 01:16:11,068
She might be listening.

1461
01:16:13,738 --> 01:16:17,033
She said she'd put me on the list.

1462
01:16:19,118 --> 01:16:21,996
But nobody's got my tally.

1463
01:16:22,663 --> 01:16:24,540
All right, Dad,
you're... you're not...

1464
01:16:26,000 --> 01:16:27,084
Look, I'll call you in the morning.

1465
01:16:27,251 --> 01:16:29,670
-I can hear a bit of it.

1466
01:16:30,463 --> 01:16:31,339
What, the opera?

1467
01:16:33,132 --> 01:16:34,050
You've, er...

1468
01:16:36,469 --> 01:16:38,554
You've gone far, Colin.

1469
01:16:42,475 --> 01:16:43,768
I'll come and see you soon, yeah?

1470
01:16:45,019 --> 01:16:45,936
Good night.

1471
01:17:13,047 --> 01:17:14,548
Are you on the prowl again?

1472
01:17:15,883 --> 01:17:18,094
I don't prowl, Joe. I patrol.

1473
01:17:19,095 --> 01:17:20,513
You ought to be in bed
at this hour, really,

1474
01:17:20,596 --> 01:17:21,680
not sitting up.

1475
01:17:22,390 --> 01:17:25,309
I have to sit up when I'm in bed.

1476
01:17:26,060 --> 01:17:29,021
I can't remember the last time
me chest let me lay down.

1477
01:17:30,189 --> 01:17:31,315
I brought you some hot milk,

1478
01:17:33,275 --> 01:17:34,276
if you fancy it.

1479
01:17:36,070 --> 01:17:37,196
Oh, and a bit of good news.

1480
01:17:37,279 --> 01:17:38,114
Oh, aye?

1481
01:17:39,281 --> 01:17:40,741
Your infection's cleared up.

1482
01:17:41,867 --> 01:17:42,785
You're getting better.

1483
01:17:44,078 --> 01:17:45,287
How's that good news?

1484
01:17:45,955 --> 01:17:47,665
You can go back to The Rowans
in the morning.

1485
01:17:48,541 --> 01:17:50,126
The Rowans is a dustbin.

1486
01:17:51,752 --> 01:17:53,212
Who gets my bed here then?

1487
01:17:54,964 --> 01:17:56,006
A sick person.

1488
01:17:56,757 --> 01:17:57,633
I'm sick.

1489
01:17:59,176 --> 01:18:00,010
I'm old.

1490
01:18:01,262 --> 01:18:03,389
But your infection's better, Joe.

1491
01:18:03,806 --> 01:18:05,349
You're one of my success stories.

1492
01:18:08,102 --> 01:18:09,687
I can't tell you
how good it feels, you know,

1493
01:18:10,312 --> 01:18:11,939
to wave people off, thinking,

1494
01:18:12,815 --> 01:18:14,108
"That's it. They've gone.

1495
01:18:15,025 --> 01:18:16,819
And I have done my very best for them."

1496
01:18:19,613 --> 01:18:20,656
Oh, come on, now.

1497
01:18:37,339 --> 01:18:38,257
I liked it

1498
01:18:39,550 --> 01:18:40,676
when we danced.

1499
01:18:43,345 --> 01:18:44,221
So did I.

1500
01:18:49,143 --> 01:18:51,979
Don't look so sad

1501
01:18:54,940 --> 01:18:57,651
I know it's over

1502
01:19:00,571 --> 01:19:02,448
But life goes on

1503
01:19:03,199 --> 01:19:05,075
And this old world

1504
01:19:06,118 --> 01:19:08,454
Will keep on turning

1505
01:19:10,039 --> 01:19:11,874
I'll miss you getting your medal.

1506
01:19:11,957 --> 01:19:14,251
-Don't say a word
- Mm.

1507
01:19:14,335 --> 01:19:16,337
About tomorrow...

1508
01:19:16,921 --> 01:19:19,006
Oh, it's all something and nothing.

1509
01:19:19,882 --> 01:19:21,091
Just hoo-ha, really.

1510
01:19:21,842 --> 01:19:24,220
That said, I will be getting
a blow dry in the morning.

1511
01:19:26,388 --> 01:19:28,349
And I'll be back in The Rowans

1512
01:19:30,059 --> 01:19:31,852
staring at four walls.

1513
01:19:38,567 --> 01:19:39,818
You will be missed, Joe.

1514
01:19:41,654 --> 01:19:43,447
I miss people all the time.

1515
01:19:45,115 --> 01:19:46,283
You get over it.

1516
01:19:47,159 --> 01:19:50,538
I'll get along

1517
01:19:52,873 --> 01:19:55,793
You'll find another

1518
01:19:56,794 --> 01:19:58,212
Oh, your milk's cold now.

1519
01:20:00,756 --> 01:20:02,049
Would you take the lid off it?

1520
01:20:02,132 --> 01:20:04,510
I... I don't drink out of beakers.

1521
01:20:09,223 --> 01:20:10,099
Here you go.

1522
01:20:13,852 --> 01:20:15,813
I don't know whether I want it or...

1523
01:20:17,356 --> 01:20:18,190
or I don't.

1524
01:20:21,277 --> 01:20:22,152
Well...

1525
01:20:24,154 --> 01:20:25,281
It's there if you do.

1526
01:20:25,990 --> 01:20:26,907
Hmm.

1527
01:20:28,909 --> 01:20:29,785
Good night.

1528
01:20:31,120 --> 01:20:31,996
God bless.

1529
01:20:39,503 --> 01:20:42,089
Yeah, bit lower.
Just... Just there.

1530
01:20:42,172 --> 01:20:43,716
Yeah, that's right. That's good.

1531
01:20:43,841 --> 01:20:44,675
-That's it?
-Yeah.

1532
01:20:46,176 --> 01:20:47,803
And the other side.

1533
01:20:51,307 --> 01:20:52,766
And... And the same height.

1534
01:20:52,975 --> 01:20:54,602
They... They have to be the same height.

1535
01:20:55,185 --> 01:20:56,562
They're not the same height.

1536
01:20:58,647 --> 01:20:59,773
Will you sign my form?

1537
01:21:00,649 --> 01:21:01,900
You haven't done anything yet.

1538
01:21:03,068 --> 01:21:05,738
And I understand you've extra duties
lined up this morning,

1539
01:21:05,821 --> 01:21:06,780
at the do.

1540
01:21:07,406 --> 01:21:08,324
Will you please sign it?

1541
01:21:08,407 --> 01:21:10,534
I mean, Sister Gilpin
keeps ticking "poor".

1542
01:21:10,743 --> 01:21:11,577
I'm better than poor.

1543
01:21:11,660 --> 01:21:12,786
She should be ticking "average".

1544
01:21:17,708 --> 01:21:20,794
You asked me
to cast my eye over The Beth.

1545
01:21:22,129 --> 01:21:22,963
I did.

1546
01:21:23,380 --> 01:21:25,966
And I saw things I didn't expect.

1547
01:21:28,886 --> 01:21:29,720
It's loved.

1548
01:21:32,306 --> 01:21:33,307
It's believed in.

1549
01:21:35,100 --> 01:21:36,018
And it does its best.

1550
01:21:37,603 --> 01:21:38,812
And I know none of those things

1551
01:21:38,937 --> 01:21:39,897
fit into any of your policies,

1552
01:21:39,980 --> 01:21:42,149
or even my strategic advice.

1553
01:21:42,274 --> 01:21:44,234
Your strategic advice was to shut it down.

1554
01:21:44,318 --> 01:21:46,028
Yeah, I know it was. But...

1555
01:21:48,530 --> 01:21:49,657
It's not what people want.

1556
01:21:50,240 --> 01:21:53,577
Three days up North
and he's preaching democracy.

1557
01:21:55,454 --> 01:21:57,498
Yeah, I was up North
for a lot longer than three days.

1558
01:21:57,623 --> 01:21:58,707
You offered it up

1559
01:21:58,957 --> 01:22:00,793
as a guiding principle of management.

1560
01:22:00,876 --> 01:22:03,045
Success doesn't like small.

1561
01:22:03,379 --> 01:22:06,256
Small's expensive.
Small's a poor investment.

1562
01:22:06,799 --> 01:22:07,633
Small lacks scope.

1563
01:22:07,716 --> 01:22:10,886
Yeah, but nothing about the NHS is small.

1564
01:22:11,470 --> 01:22:13,013
-Everything connects.

1565
01:22:13,097 --> 01:22:15,224
Every single bed links through to someone,

1566
01:22:15,432 --> 01:22:17,142
or something that's part of an entity

1567
01:22:17,309 --> 01:22:19,770
so much bigger,
we can scarcely comprehend it.

1568
01:22:19,853 --> 01:22:21,021
An entity which will soon be gone.

1569
01:22:21,146 --> 01:22:22,398
Yeah, yeah... But that doesn't mean

1570
01:22:22,481 --> 01:22:23,607
it was never any good!

1571
01:22:24,900 --> 01:22:29,154
The NHS was the biggest idea
this country has ever had.

1572
01:22:29,238 --> 01:22:31,490
And you will dismantle it at your peril,

1573
01:22:31,699 --> 01:22:34,159
because people will not forget.

1574
01:22:35,035 --> 01:22:37,121
-Where are you going?
-Oh, I'm going back to The Beth.

1575
01:22:38,580 --> 01:22:40,124
But in a private capacity.

1576
01:22:50,092 --> 01:22:50,926
Aw.

1577
01:23:03,147 --> 01:23:04,314
-Oh, Mary.

1578
01:23:04,398 --> 01:23:06,400
I was watching a video of my nieces.

1579
01:23:06,483 --> 01:23:07,317
Do you want to see it?

1580
01:23:07,651 --> 01:23:08,485
Presently, perhaps.

1581
01:23:08,569 --> 01:23:10,529
But first, I want to show you this.

1582
01:23:10,654 --> 01:23:12,531
Oh, no, you don't have to show me
what you've been filming.

1583
01:23:12,614 --> 01:23:13,991
You just give it to the filmmakers.

1584
01:23:14,408 --> 01:23:19,288
I fear they are not familiar
with the concept of marginalia.

1585
01:23:19,913 --> 01:23:22,791
The importance of things
recorded at the edges.

1586
01:23:26,879 --> 01:23:27,713
Morning.

1587
01:23:28,255 --> 01:23:29,465
Look what I've brought.

1588
01:23:52,738 --> 01:23:53,614
All gone.

1589
01:23:54,698 --> 01:23:55,574
Lovely job.

1590
01:23:58,869 --> 01:24:00,412
Would you take the lid off it?

1591
01:24:00,496 --> 01:24:02,456
I... I don't drink out of beakers.

1592
01:24:06,710 --> 01:24:07,711
Here you go.

1593
01:24:15,093 --> 01:24:16,804
Have I acted appropriately?

1594
01:24:16,887 --> 01:24:18,096
-Dr Valentine.

1595
01:24:19,223 --> 01:24:21,767
We're having trouble waking Joe Colman.

1596
01:24:22,726 --> 01:24:24,019
Yes, you have.

1597
01:25:14,945 --> 01:25:16,446
What do you mean, he died in his sleep?

1598
01:25:17,698 --> 01:25:18,907
Mr Colman,
when you get to us...

1599
01:25:18,991 --> 01:25:20,576
No. All right. Listen to me.

1600
01:25:22,202 --> 01:25:24,454
You leave my father
exactly where he is. Okay?

1601
01:25:24,538 --> 01:25:26,081
I... I... I don't want him touched,

1602
01:25:26,164 --> 01:25:28,000
and I don't want him moved.

1603
01:25:28,083 --> 01:25:29,835
I was... I was already on my way!

1604
01:25:30,544 --> 01:25:31,879
Mr Colman, when you get to us...

1605
01:25:32,004 --> 01:25:33,839
When I get to you, I've got questions!

1606
01:25:33,922 --> 01:25:35,591
And I... I want them answered!

1607
01:25:40,512 --> 01:25:42,806
Ah! I finished
my speech at the salon

1608
01:25:42,931 --> 01:25:43,974
as the rollers were coming out.

1609
01:25:45,475 --> 01:25:47,603
I suddenly knew exactly what to say.

1610
01:26:08,081 --> 01:26:09,374
Greeting the Mayor, hmm?

1611
01:26:17,633 --> 01:26:18,675
All gone.

1612
01:26:19,426 --> 01:26:20,385
Lovely job.

1613
01:26:26,600 --> 01:26:28,060
It's a geriatric ward.

1614
01:26:29,269 --> 01:26:30,854
Death is in the scheme of things.

1615
01:26:32,397 --> 01:26:34,608
Beakers of milk and morphine

1616
01:26:34,691 --> 01:26:36,026
aren't in the scheme of things.

1617
01:26:36,610 --> 01:26:39,112
Joe Colman drank his of his own accord.

1618
01:26:40,197 --> 01:26:42,616
Mrs Maudsley couldn't do
anything of her own accord.

1619
01:26:43,075 --> 01:26:43,992
Well...

1620
01:26:45,535 --> 01:26:47,788
I always helped them
if they were that far gone.

1621
01:26:49,831 --> 01:26:50,707
Always?

1622
01:27:11,937 --> 01:27:13,021
How many were there, Alma?

1623
01:27:20,988 --> 01:27:22,030
How many, Alma?

1624
01:27:25,993 --> 01:27:27,411
I had targets to meet.

1625
01:27:30,122 --> 01:27:31,206
Beds to find.

1626
01:27:33,458 --> 01:27:34,751
Folk to make grateful.

1627
01:27:36,461 --> 01:27:38,422
If you could have seen even one of them,

1628
01:27:38,922 --> 01:27:39,881
just one of them.

1629
01:27:41,174 --> 01:27:42,592
The way they relaxed.

1630
01:27:43,552 --> 01:27:45,429
The way their faces softened.

1631
01:27:46,430 --> 01:27:48,348
All the pain and confusion gone.

1632
01:27:50,475 --> 01:27:51,601
In a single moment,

1633
01:27:52,477 --> 01:27:55,689
I'd accomplished something
no administrator ever could,

1634
01:27:55,772 --> 01:27:57,024
and no doctor either.

1635
01:27:58,483 --> 01:27:59,401
Not even you.

1636
01:28:01,737 --> 01:28:04,448
The Beth had fulfilled
its obligation to the system,

1637
01:28:06,158 --> 01:28:08,118
and I had ended someone's suffering.

1638
01:28:10,620 --> 01:28:12,664
I used to think
you were so good with them.

1639
01:28:13,874 --> 01:28:14,958
I was good.

1640
01:28:16,334 --> 01:28:17,502
But you were lovely.

1641
01:28:21,548 --> 01:28:24,342
Lights, camera, action.
The Mayor's taken her seat.

1642
01:28:38,690 --> 01:28:42,152
The Bywater Medal was established in 1930.

1643
01:28:43,028 --> 01:28:44,029
I like to think

1644
01:28:44,446 --> 01:28:47,074
that the first nurses who won it, and I,

1645
01:28:47,407 --> 01:28:48,658
have something in common.

1646
01:28:49,618 --> 01:28:52,454
Just as we have with Florence Nightingale,

1647
01:28:52,537 --> 01:28:54,081
who founded our profession.

1648
01:28:54,998 --> 01:28:57,167
You'd take one look at all of us

1649
01:28:57,751 --> 01:28:59,503
and think we were old-fashioned.

1650
01:29:02,172 --> 01:29:04,341
We do the things
that have had to be done,

1651
01:29:04,925 --> 01:29:06,551
since time immemorial.

1652
01:29:07,969 --> 01:29:09,471
Since the world was young.

1653
01:29:11,098 --> 01:29:12,682
I have done what they did.

1654
01:29:13,975 --> 01:29:15,811
I have sought to be efficient.

1655
01:29:17,270 --> 01:29:18,605
I tended the sick.

1656
01:29:19,981 --> 01:29:21,775
I consoled the afflicted.

1657
01:29:23,443 --> 01:29:26,113
I comforted the dying.

1658
01:29:28,698 --> 01:29:30,117
I have cared.

1659
01:29:41,378 --> 01:29:42,504
Oh, Lady Mayoress...

1660
01:29:56,143 --> 01:29:59,104
Forget your troubles
Come on, get happy

1661
01:29:59,479 --> 01:30:02,065
We're gonna chase
all your cares away

1662
01:30:02,566 --> 01:30:05,527
Sing allelujah
Come on, get happy

1663
01:30:05,819 --> 01:30:08,572
Get ready
for the Judgement Day

1664
01:30:15,287 --> 01:30:18,540
It's all so peaceful

1665
01:30:18,790 --> 01:30:21,042
On the other side

1666
01:30:21,251 --> 01:30:23,920
Forget your troubles
Come on, get happy

1667
01:30:24,504 --> 01:30:26,756
We're gonna chase
all your cares away

1668
01:30:27,299 --> 01:30:30,302
Sing allelujah
Come on, get happy

1669
01:30:30,385 --> 01:30:33,096
Get ready for the Judgement Day

1670
01:30:33,180 --> 01:30:34,806
Get ready

1671
01:30:34,931 --> 01:30:36,224
Get ready

1672
01:30:36,308 --> 01:30:38,643
Get ready

1673
01:30:38,727 --> 01:30:41,980
For the Judgement Day

1674
01:30:42,105 --> 01:30:43,356
-Allelujah!

1675
01:31:39,454 --> 01:31:40,580
- It's all right.

1676
01:31:41,998 --> 01:31:42,874
It's all right.

1677
01:31:57,847 --> 01:31:58,932
He was meant to be getting better.

1678
01:31:59,891 --> 01:32:00,809
But he was terrified.

1679
01:32:00,892 --> 01:32:03,061
I wanna know who was he terrified of,

1680
01:32:03,144 --> 01:32:04,020
and why?

1681
01:32:08,275 --> 01:32:10,235
We find ourselves
obliged to, er,

1682
01:32:11,653 --> 01:32:12,612
apprise you of

1683
01:32:14,406 --> 01:32:15,448
some developments.

1684
01:32:26,209 --> 01:32:27,085
In the back, please.

1685
01:32:28,503 --> 01:32:30,505
Mary's film
was shown in court.

1686
01:32:31,881 --> 01:32:33,800
Sister Gilpin was jailed for life.

1687
01:32:36,303 --> 01:32:37,429
The Beth closed down.

1688
01:32:44,686 --> 01:32:46,271
Our patients were dispersed.

1689
01:32:47,981 --> 01:32:50,025
And I went to work at another hospital.

1690
01:32:56,573 --> 01:32:58,158
The Beth did not die.

1691
01:32:59,367 --> 01:33:01,786
It was always just a bricks and mortar box

1692
01:33:01,911 --> 01:33:03,121
for the things that mattered.

1693
01:33:03,204 --> 01:33:04,581
I can take a look, thank you.

1694
01:33:04,664 --> 01:33:05,623
And they matter still.

1695
01:33:06,458 --> 01:33:09,711
They pulse on through the system
like blood.

1696
01:33:11,463 --> 01:33:14,507
Care without question,
cost without counting.

1697
01:33:15,008 --> 01:33:17,761
Belief in beds
without boundaries or limits,

1698
01:33:17,886 --> 01:33:19,220
in spite of pandemics.

1699
01:33:21,181 --> 01:33:23,099
I will always love the old.

1700
01:33:24,184 --> 01:33:27,729
I will love them for as long
as they are here to be loved,

1701
01:33:27,812 --> 01:33:30,357
to be nursed, to be encouraged.

1702
01:33:32,025 --> 01:33:33,360
The virus, meanwhile,

1703
01:33:34,402 --> 01:33:35,487
shows no mercy.

1704
01:33:36,988 --> 01:33:38,448
-Ambrose?

1705
01:33:38,531 --> 01:33:39,741
Do you remember me?

1706
01:33:39,824 --> 01:33:40,742
No air.

1707
01:33:42,369 --> 01:33:44,746
I know, my friend.
We are gonna help with that.

1708
01:33:49,250 --> 01:33:53,129
Not generally named.

1709
01:33:53,838 --> 01:33:55,256
Who is not generally named?

1710
01:33:58,218 --> 01:34:00,178
Last visitor.

1711
01:34:33,253 --> 01:34:35,547
We can
make unforgivable mistakes.

1712
01:34:37,507 --> 01:34:39,008
Yes, we are stretched.

1713
01:34:39,092 --> 01:34:40,510
Yes, we stumble.

1714
01:34:40,593 --> 01:34:42,637
Yes, our reach exceeds our grasp.

1715
01:34:43,513 --> 01:34:45,932
But please don't make the perfect
the enemy of the good.

1716
01:34:48,351 --> 01:34:50,353
Don't dismiss us for what we cannot do.

1717
01:34:51,563 --> 01:34:52,605
Don't tear us down

1718
01:34:52,689 --> 01:34:56,025
and use our rubble
to rebuild your other empires.

1719
01:34:56,109 --> 01:34:57,819
Profit will not profit you.

1720
01:35:03,199 --> 01:35:05,869
We may buckle, but we do not waver.

1721
01:35:06,619 --> 01:35:08,663
We are tested, but we do not flinch.

1722
01:35:09,330 --> 01:35:10,999
We are here when night falls,

1723
01:35:11,082 --> 01:35:13,460
here when darkness eases into dawn.

1724
01:35:13,543 --> 01:35:15,211
We are here for your first cry,

1725
01:35:15,295 --> 01:35:16,421
for your last breath,

1726
01:35:16,504 --> 01:35:18,298
when you are broken, when you bleed,

1727
01:35:18,381 --> 01:35:20,508
when others recoil or reject you.

1728
01:35:20,592 --> 01:35:22,302
We will be here when you're old.

1729
01:35:22,927 --> 01:35:24,053
And we would die for you.

1730
01:35:28,725 --> 01:35:29,851
We are love itself.

1731
01:35:30,685 --> 01:35:33,104
And for love, there is no charge.