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Blainthorp Village's Golden Voice competition is a tradition, but someone is systematically eliminating the contestants. Starring: Patricia Routledge, Dominic Monaghan, Derek Benfield.
Blainthorp Village's Golden Voice competition is a tradition, but someone is systematically eliminating the contestants. Starring: Patricia Routledge, Dominic Monaghan, Derek Benfield.
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00:00Dribble it! Dribble it!
00:10We'll tackle it, Martin, you craven beast!
00:15Darryl, keep your position!
00:18Darryl, you're a winger, not a lead guitarist!
00:20Pass!
00:22Go on, Gary, shoot!
00:24Shoot, Gary!
00:26Shoot!
00:31It's Miriam Hambra, Mrs Muscropp, phoning about Harry.
00:38It's his voice, I'm afraid.
00:40I've had him inhaling balsam since four o'clock, but it does no good.
00:44His lower register's completely naked.
01:00...
01:01...
01:02...
01:07...
01:10...
01:46And that's the fourth, with five days to go before the final, leaving six.
02:08We saw the poster.
02:10They're all over town, but only a few are within reach of vandals.
02:13If it is a vandal defacing them and not...
02:16Not the nameless knobbler marking up his successes on street corners for every passerbar to admire.
02:21Yes.
02:22Don't worry, Mrs. Mosscropp.
02:24We'll have him.
02:25It's his own vanity defeats the criminal nine times out of ten.
02:28Just take the notes, please, Geoffrey.
02:30I'll do the theories.
02:32Shall we start at the beginning?
02:35The Blainthorpe Music Festival has been going 50 years.
02:39I'm the organiser.
02:40A great responsibility.
02:42More than you think.
02:43If you can't find someone frightening enough to keep the mothers out of the judge's eye line,
02:47you might as well raffle off the prizes.
02:50What are the prizes?
02:51That's the point.
02:53Usually just certificates.
02:55But this year, we've the Golden Voice competition.
02:59Five hundred pounds in prize money and a glittering career beckons.
03:03Or so says our sponsor.
03:04Hardiman's Herbal Healing.
03:07You've certainly done your homework on that poster.
03:11Yes.
03:12Finalists have already been given a set of Hardiman's Herbal Preparations for nose and throat.
03:16in cup-glass crystal with 18-carat gold stoppers.
03:20The winner gets to promote the range countrywide on radio and TV.
03:25And you believe that one of your competitors is nobbling the others?
03:29You're the detective, Mrs. Wainthorpe.
03:32It's not up to me what to believe.
03:34You're the client.
03:35You're entitled to an opinion.
03:38Mr. Hardiman's the client.
03:40I'm to look you over and take you to him if I'm satisfied.
03:43Mr. Hardiman was born the year the festival started.
04:09By the time he was 15, he'd won 12 certificates with distinction and 10 cups.
04:16Born in this house?
04:18Oh, no.
04:19As he likes telling people, he's of humble stock.
04:22Not that you could use the word humble in connection with Mr. Hardiman.
04:26No, he bought this place 15 years ago when he married.
04:30There's a Mrs. Hardiman, then?
04:31Was.
04:32She left.
04:33We'll use the kitchen entrance.
04:38He's left the door open.
04:39Nobody uses the front.
04:43He began with a nasal inhaler that could shift industrial strength guitar.
04:49It all grew from that.
04:51Herbal.
04:51Of course, everything's herbal.
04:53No nasty chemicals.
04:55People will buy anything these days, as long as there are herbs involved.
04:59He'll be waiting for us in his office.
05:08As you can see, he doesn't use much of the house since Mrs. Hardiman left.
05:12I've had a tape of the finalists made for you.
05:23Each bit reduced to 10 seconds.
05:25You won't need more.
05:31Harry Hambra, light baritone, teaches geography at the local comprehensive.
05:37I'll have to wipe him up the tape now, I suppose.
05:42Beverly Prendergast, soprano, single mother, calls herself a student, works part-time in
05:51a hairdressing salon.
05:58Simon Letby, bass baritone.
06:02You don't have to worry about him.
06:04Why not?
06:05Gentleman farmer, doesn't need the money.
06:07Anyway, he's a friend of mine.
06:08In the Poirot books, it's always the best friend who commits the crime.
06:17Glenda Jason, contrato.
06:19A furnace of passion with a husband in a wheelchair.
06:23That's not fair.
06:24Gosset never is.
06:25Brian Boromir, boy treble.
06:40He does a lot of competitions.
06:43There's something about that boy that worries me.
06:45I'll put my finger on it eventually.
06:54I always do.
06:59Rita Lockheed.
07:00Mezzo.
07:01Single.
07:02Fashion buyer for a department store in Manchester.
07:05Fairly a passionate furnace.
07:07Nah, she spreads it about too much.
07:10She's not banked up like Glenda.
07:11And last, Les Maynard.
07:21Bass.
07:23Works for an estate agent.
07:29Prime suspect, in my view.
07:32Why?
07:33No talent.
07:34Couldn't opt to win without knobbling the others.
07:37If it is knobbling, it might actually be an illness.
07:41A virus.
07:42I do have some medical knowledge, Mrs. Moscrop.
07:45Find me a virus which only strikes finalists.
07:49But it's not simple knobbling.
07:52There's no pattern.
07:54I suppose they'd have been practicing.
07:56Rehearsal kind of thing.
07:57They'd all be anxious.
07:58They could have overstrained, you know.
08:00Oh, I like a lad who thinks for himself.
08:04If he keeps his mouth shut and doesn't interrupt his betters.
08:07I won't have my associate insulted.
08:09We don't have to accept this case.
08:12No, but you will.
08:13The super grand sleuth doesn't refuse a challenge.
08:16Now, there's five days to go before the final.
08:20Two hundred a day, plus reasonable expenses.
08:24Free board and lodging provided here at the manor.
08:27Have a home and husband.
08:28Get him over here if you think you need a chaperone.
08:31I'm hiring you as a detective, Mrs. Wainthrop, not a call girl.
08:36I'll phone my husband at the festival office,
08:38but may I ask you to fetch him?
08:40Our transport won't take three,
08:42and anyway, Geoffrey and I will be needed in Blainthorpe.
08:45I'll give you a list of things for him to bring.
08:47Fingerprint powder, cameras, bugging devices.
08:50Underwear.
08:51An IT, of course.
08:53And something for Geoffrey to change into.
08:58Mrs. Mosscropp will take you straight to the manor.
09:08Just pick out a couple of rooms, unpack and wait for us.
09:12Is it a full-time job working for the festival?
09:14Three weeks of the year.
09:15My degree's in media studies.
09:16I can't expect much better.
09:18The rest of the time, I'll live with my grandfather.
09:20He's a herbalist.
09:21It depends, Robert.
09:24It depends what our investigation's on earth.
09:27A herbalist?
09:28Like Mr. Hardeman?
09:29The most unlike.
09:31Grandad's a proper herbalist.
09:33People consult him and he prescribes
09:35Hardeman's herbal humbug getting by over the counter.
09:39I can't say more at the moment.
09:41No, please don't annoy me.
09:43There's nothing on the allotment that can't wait if you're patient.
09:46I'd like the addresses of all the finalists, please.
09:51Even the ones who've withdrawn?
09:53Particularly the ones who've withdrawn.
09:55If I was knocking out the opposition by causing them to lose their power of speech,
10:00a lost voice would be my best disguise.
10:03Then at the last minute, I'd find what was never really lost
10:07and sail through on wings of song.
10:10But they've withdrawn, Mrs. Wainthrop.
10:12What's to stop them withdrawing the withdrawal?
10:15The rules of the competition.
10:17Don't muddle me with facts.
10:20Is this one of your finalists over here?
10:23Brian Burramey?
10:24Yeah.
10:25Yeah, he comes in most days.
10:27He listens to the classes, gets to know the judges' likes and dislikes.
10:30Competitions are his life.
10:32Hey, Brian, this lady's a private detective.
10:35She wants to interview all the finalists.
10:37You being here saved her a pillion ride to Rochdale.
10:39Well, I've just seen you on videotape, young man.
10:44Singing beautifully.
10:48Have you had any trouble with your voice lately, Brian?
10:52Touch of laryngitis?
10:54Anybody offering you sweets with a funny taste?
10:57I never have trouble with my voice.
11:00I never eat sweets.
11:02And I never accept guests from strangers.
11:04I'm always extremely careful.
11:06That is why I succeed.
11:08Oh.
11:08And now, if you'll excuse me,
11:11the open-entry traditional ballads has just begun.
11:13And I should like to hear it.
11:16How can he lose?
11:18Now, we might as well start with the closest.
11:29That's the hairdressing salon
11:32and the estate agents.
11:40Mr Maynard?
11:42Right.
11:43Have you come to view?
11:44You might find it's too big for you.
11:46I've come to see you.
11:47They told me we had to find you at the office.
11:49Shall we go in?
11:50Be a bit more private.
11:52You didn't make the sale, then?
11:54How can you tell?
11:55Body language.
11:58Here we have the light and airy entrance hall
12:00leading to all downstairs rooms.
12:03You don't mind me doing the patter, do you?
12:04It's good to keep me hand in.
12:06They call me Des Res Les.
12:09The truth to tell,
12:10I haven't moved so much as a caravan in the last three months.
12:13Mr Hardiman says you're the prime suspect.
12:15Why?
12:17Because you need the money and you have no talent.
12:19Well, that's just his opinion, mine.
12:21I wouldn't know myself.
12:22Well, he's right in one respect.
12:23I do need the money.
12:25As for talent,
12:26I wouldn't be in the final if I was no good,
12:27but it's true,
12:29I'm not the best.
12:31Now,
12:32if you want to see the rest of the house,
12:33I'll show you.
12:34You're a student?
12:38Yeah.
12:38Where?
12:39Oh,
12:39Open University.
12:41I can't go away to study,
12:42not with a five-year-old kid.
12:44How can you study singing by correspondence?
12:46Oh,
12:46I don't.
12:47It's pharmacology.
12:48Oh.
12:48To be a pharmacist
12:49and a chemist.
12:50My mum does it.
12:52It's secure
12:52and you're always in demand.
12:54But I heard
12:55that if you win the competition...
12:57Oh,
12:57I'll turn professional if I win.
12:59That's where me heart is singing.
13:01Pharmacology is something to fall back on.
13:05You've heard what's happened to some of the others.
13:08Have you had any trouble with your own voice?
13:11You what?
13:13She's asking me if I've lost me voice.
13:15Why?
13:16What is she?
13:17Deaf?
13:18No,
13:19she's a private detective.
13:21Well,
13:22it takes all sorts.
13:25Pharmacist.
13:26It means people come to you
13:28asking about their ailments.
13:30Well,
13:30I'm qualified.
13:31If you wanted to make people
13:32lose their voices,
13:34what would do the trick,
13:35do you think?
13:35She's going to be
13:37the golden voice
13:38of Blamethrower.
13:39Oh,
13:39yes.
13:40I've got a fiver on them,
13:42really.
13:42And she's studying
13:43to be a chemist.
13:46A dancer,
13:47I've got strength
13:47and poncing about
13:49with a camera,
13:50spying on folk
13:52who want to get divorced.
13:54I wonder where to start.
13:56I'd try and help people
13:57get well,
13:58not make them ill.
13:59Of course.
14:02Who'll got to have
14:03joined together?
14:05Let no proud
14:06detective
14:07put us to under.
14:08We ignore her.
14:09She gets notions.
14:10Would they cancel
14:11the competition?
14:12It's only four dropped out.
14:13I don't think so.
14:14It means so much
14:15to me to win
14:16and I really have a chance.
14:18Yes.
14:19We don't do divorce!
14:26I feel as if I'm being
14:27manipulated.
14:29Well,
14:29you belong,
14:30do you think,
14:30with the food?
14:31Pushed one way
14:32to stop me looking another.
14:34There was a place
14:34outside town
14:35I noticed as we came in.
14:37Gourmet,
14:38continental cuisine.
14:39If one of them
14:40nobbled the others,
14:42then one
14:43for want of any competition,
14:45we'd know at once
14:46that he or she
14:47was the nobbler.
14:48You're right.
14:48Select dinner parties
14:49as speciality.
14:50Hmm?
14:51I expect he's gone there.
14:53How's it done?
14:54That's the problem.
14:56Find that out
14:56and we'll know
14:57who's doing it.
14:59Eileen Hargreaves'
15:00face swelled up.
15:02She still looks
15:02like a boiled beetroot.
15:05The others have just got
15:06coughs,
15:08sneezes,
15:08sore throats
15:09that anybody could get.
15:10But nobody else has.
15:12It could be
15:13a different motive
15:14altogether.
15:15What?
15:16Someone out
15:17to spoil the festival.
15:19Why?
15:19It's been going
15:20for 50 years.
15:22Not the prize
15:23in the promotions.
15:24You're right.
15:25Might be some
15:26business rival
15:27out to scupper
15:28the sponsorship.
15:29He hasn't got
15:29any business rivals.
15:32Ooh.
15:33It says on the label
15:34Hardiman's
15:35herbal healing
15:36is unique.
15:42Some enemy there.
15:43Somebody doesn't like him.
15:45He's back.
15:46Come on,
15:47move on.
15:47If it's just people
15:51who don't like him,
15:52I don't get through
15:52them all by Sunday.
15:53Hey.
15:59Pie and chips.
16:01Northern food
16:02for northern folk.
16:04No bread.
16:08No afters.
16:09I brought some lettuce
16:10if you want a salad.
16:11Men don't eat salad.
16:13Only women
16:13and puffs eat salad.
16:17My wife
16:18hates salad.
16:19You don't need
16:20plates.
16:27When did she leave,
16:29your wife?
16:30What's it to you?
16:31I'm not one of your
16:31suspects.
16:33Only making
16:33conversation.
16:39Must have been
16:39ten years ago.
16:40She was never right
16:41after the boy was born.
16:43Some post-natal
16:44rubbish.
16:45Nothing pleased her.
16:47A year of that
16:47and off she went.
16:48Good riddance
16:49of them both.
16:51She took your son
16:52with her?
16:53Why not?
16:54Sickly little devil.
16:55Just as well
16:56to let him go.
16:57He could never
16:58have run a business
16:58like mine.
16:59You're not eating?
17:02Well, I think
17:03I'd like some salad.
17:04You're going out
17:21again.
17:23That car's done
17:2480 miles since
17:25Monday.
17:26Checking up on me,
17:26are you?
17:28You bet
17:28your miserable
17:29stunted life
17:30I am, woman.
17:31Are you worried
17:32I might find
17:32myself a toy boy
17:33or something?
17:34More likely
17:34to be your something.
17:36Even toy boys
17:37have their pride.
17:39To find a man
17:39without pride
17:40or self-respect
17:40is bound to
17:41wear the tyres out
17:42and put a few
17:43thousand miles
17:43on the clock.
17:44I might be late
17:45I might be late
17:45again tonight.
17:46Don't wait up.
17:47Don't wait up.
18:14This is good.
18:16What's the extra
18:17taste?
18:19Berberis
18:19and Aquilegia.
18:21Aquilegia.
18:22A cure for the
18:23plague
18:23which never
18:25worked.
18:26No Valerian.
18:28Why?
18:28Do you want
18:28to be put to sleep,
18:29Grandad?
18:30Why not?
18:30If I can never
18:31teach you enough
18:31to take over
18:32I'd go to sleep
18:34happily and never
18:34wake up.
18:36Who is this
18:37Betty Maincrop?
18:39Hetty Wainthrop.
18:40She's a private
18:41detective.
18:42Could we start?
18:44I may have to
18:45go out.
18:47I'm a 65 year old
18:48woman with
18:49asthma and
18:49arthritis.
18:51My voice has
18:52started to go
18:53because of the
18:53beclamethazone I've
18:54been taking for
18:55the asthma.
18:56What do you
18:57prescribe?
18:58Hardiman's herbal
18:59linked us to
19:00lubricate the
19:00throat.
19:01Don't wind me
19:02up lad.
19:03It's all herbs
19:04isn't it?
19:04Herbs?
19:05What herbs?
19:07Two drops of
19:07menthol, a
19:09tincture of
19:09comfrey and let
19:10the problem solve
19:11itself.
19:12That's what you
19:12always say, help
19:13the disease to
19:14cure itself.
19:15If I say that
19:15it's out of
19:16knowledge.
19:17With Oliver
19:18Hardiman it's
19:19pig ignorance.
19:21My hope is
19:22whoever's doing
19:23it will stop
19:24the moment they
19:25know we've a
19:25detective on the
19:26case.
19:28Mrs.
19:29Muscroft said
19:30you were quite a
19:31wizard these
19:32competitions
19:32yourself.
19:33I was.
19:34A boy wonder.
19:35At 18 I was
19:37all set for a
19:38music school in
19:39London.
19:40Then I started
19:41getting more
19:41colds than
19:42were good for
19:43me.
19:43I realised the
19:44potential for
19:45nose and throat
19:45remedies.
19:47Winter and
19:48summer there are
19:48more blocked
19:49snouts in
19:49Lancashire than
19:50there are pie and
19:51chip dinners.
19:51and you
19:54stayed with the
19:55pie and
19:55chip dinners.
19:56La la la la la la la la la la.
20:16La la la la la...
20:23Oh, no, Leslie, no.
20:38You can't get it cold now.
20:40Do we need the money so bad?
20:45Geoffrey was asking who's this mystery celebrity judge.
20:49I wish I knew.
20:51From Dame Joan Sutherland down, they keep refusing.
20:54Oh, aye.
20:59It was the smallest bedroom I could find.
21:09Dust.
21:12I don't think we have to draw the curtains of the four-poster,
21:16unless we want to.
21:20I haven't even found the bathroom yet.
21:24I'm sorry, will you play with fire?
21:28Oh, my God.
21:32Don't ever cry, you son.
21:37My friend, will you play with fire?
21:40In my life, will you play with fire?
21:44Will the neighbours ever complain about the way you react to spiders in the bath?
21:59Now, would you please stand exactly where the burglar stood?
22:13Now, standing where I am, what was the first thing you noticed?
22:17A hat with a feather, big, like a plume of smoke twirling round,
22:22and a huge lace collar, lots of it, very pretty.
22:27Sounds like Prince Rupert of the Rhine without the horse.
22:30How do you go in here?
22:31Oh, the front door's a Phillips lock.
22:33Anyone can open a Phillips with a piece of plastic.
22:35She hadn't locked up properly because I...
22:37Because you hadn't gone yet.
22:38What happened next?
22:41He turned and shone his torch on me.
22:45I was dazzled.
22:46It was all so confusing.
22:49He knocked over a glass and ran off downstairs.
22:52Hardiman?
22:53Did you see his face?
22:56I don't know.
22:57I suppose I must have, but it wasn't a proper face.
23:01Thank you for letting me know.
23:02It all happened so fast.
23:04Right, we'll change places.
23:07Les Maynard's lost his voice.
23:08We'd had a fire of contestants.
23:10Oh, I may win yet, then.
23:13Close your eyes.
23:16Open.
23:19Describe the face you saw.
23:22Cat-like.
23:24Cat-like.
23:25Smiling.
23:26How tall?
23:27How about your height?
23:28And one hand out towards the bathroom cabinet.
23:35Oh, there's nothing in here of any value.
23:38The presentation case.
23:39That's valuable.
23:41Cut glass with 18 caracol trimmings.
23:44Meant to be handed down from one generation to another.
23:46And refilled from plastic bottles.
23:48Have you used any of these yet?
23:54No.
23:55I've no reason.
23:57Then you can take that scarf off.
23:59You're not losing your voice.
24:00It's just shock.
24:03Don't touch these.
24:04Geoffrey, get me the presentation case of a finalist who has lost his voice.
24:08Les Maynard, he's just withdrawn.
24:10Don't touch the contents.
24:11Okay.
24:12And you can make yourself useful by phoning the rest of the finalists and warning them
24:16not to use any of Hardiman's herbal cures.
24:19Hang on.
24:19I assume you have a lab somewhere in your factory that can make a chemical analysis of the contents
24:25of Les Maynard's presentation case.
24:30Ammonium phosphate.
24:33Ammonium sulfate.
24:35That's a lot of ammonium you've got there.
24:37Is it that choking stuff they put into smelling salts?
24:43Potassium metabytes.
24:45Oh, isn't science wonderful?
24:47I told you she's at work.
24:49Who'd have thought you could make wine from peeled bananas and marigolds?
24:55And what's this other one again?
24:57Birch sap.
24:58It's a hobby.
25:00It'd have to be.
25:01Who drinks it?
25:02Me and Glenda.
25:03And call winter nights in front of the fire.
25:08And she hasn't had any trouble at all with her voice.
25:10It's top class.
25:12She'll walk away with that cup.
25:14Then she'll be singing for our supper.
25:16All those radio jingles for chest rubs.
25:19Hardiman's Herbils proudly presents Glenda Jason.
25:22The Blainthorpe Nightingale.
25:33Down to five?
25:36Seems so.
25:39Your grandson tells me you need the money.
25:42I do?
25:44Good luck then.
25:48With only five finalists left,
25:51and two of them actually present,
25:52when the mysterious Cavalier made his nefarious attempt...
25:55...leaves three.
25:56One of which is a twelve-year-old boy.
25:58So it's Beverly Prendergast or Glenda Jason?
26:04Beverly's training to be a pharmacist,
26:06which means she knows all about medicines.
26:09And Glenda's house is chock full of chemicals.
26:12Interesting that the cat burglar dresses as a cavalier,
26:16and Mr Hardiman's name is Oliver.
26:19Maybe Oliver beat this cavalier first in a singing contest
26:23when they were both young at Mastermore.
26:25Just concentrate on the fry-up, will you, Robert?
26:29No.
26:30The cavalier costume's easy.
26:33Floppy clothes, long hair,
26:34feather in the hat to make you look taller.
26:37Much better than a polo neck pullover and a balaclava
26:39if you're trying to hide any feminine bits and pieces.
26:43What about Rita?
26:44Wants to back out.
26:46She says what's happened was a warning,
26:48and if she competes, she'll be punished.
26:49Down to four.
26:51Can't have that.
26:53Talk her round.
26:54You know the whole thing's on local radio.
26:57It can't be.
26:59I'm a major shareholder.
27:00Was.
27:01They had a lot of fun with it.
27:04I think we need to delve into Oliver Hardiman's past.
27:07There were some scrapbooks in his office.
27:08And there'd be yellow pages by the phone.
27:11We need to find out where around here
27:13you'd go to hire a theatrical costume.
27:16Better a journalist meeting to his office
27:18before he gets back.
27:19Don't tell me you don't know.
27:30You're paid to know.
27:31Who released that information to local radio
27:33without my sanction?
27:34It's not a secret, Mr. Hardiman.
27:37Everybody in Blainthorpe knows.
27:42There's that poster where someone keeps crossing off the faces.
27:46He's got everything here from the age of eight.
27:50He went all over, like young Brian.
27:52Theatrical costumes, the fancy dress.
27:54He won it all.
27:56I suppose if he didn't win it, he didn't keep the programme.
27:59Fancy dress.
28:00There's hundreds.
28:02Manchester, Preston, all over.
28:06Medieval mantles from Macclesfield
28:08with guaranteed genuine fake fur.
28:10He had a restricted repertoire, I'll tell you that.
28:12How do I have to start?
28:14The nearest.
28:15Aye.
28:16P.A.G.
28:17P.A.G.
28:18P.A.G.
28:18P.A.G.
28:18P.A.G.
28:18P.A.G.
28:19Panis Angelicus.
28:21Now, there's something tickling my memory buds.
28:23Horse, come in!
28:24Oh, out!
28:25Oh, here.
28:27Quick.
28:27I've had the report from the lab.
28:42No alien substance, whatever,
28:44has been added to the herbal preparations
28:46in Les Maynard's presentation case.
28:48Could they have done the analysis too quick
28:55and made a mistake?
28:56My full technical team has been working flat out,
28:59Mrs. Wainthrop.
29:00They've checked and double-checked.
29:02So, since your team is now back at first base,
29:05perhaps you'd like to stop lounging about in my kitchen
29:07and get on with your work!
29:09Watch it!
29:28The siblings are creeping in again.
29:32I'll be late again tonight, you know that, don't you?
29:34You'll be the deaf of me, you really will.
29:44Lookie, Heather!
29:45Oh, thank you!
29:47And don't let the buggers get you down!
29:50Enda!
29:51I'll be in there rooting for you, baby!
29:57If only we had enough singers left to make a show of it,
30:00the publicity would be wonderful for putting bums on seats.
30:05What's the position with regard to your celebrity judge?
30:08Nobody's noblet him, I trust.
30:10Her.
30:11We had a bit of trouble finding one,
30:14and we ended up with the resident contralto
30:16from the Wintergarden Siltsy.
30:19Now, she's cancelled because of the bad publicity.
30:21It puts us in rather a spot.
30:24I'd better get out of your hair and on me way.
30:25You've a lot to do.
30:26Sorry, I'm late.
30:34Erin's for Grandad.
30:35She's talking about protection for the remaining finalists.
30:39I don't know how she's going to manage it
30:41with just the one school day.
30:57What class is this?
30:59Twelve to sixteen.
31:01Songs from the shows.
31:02All waiting to perform?
31:04Nervous?
31:08I think as you go through that door,
31:10I'll enjoy it even if they don't.
31:19What are you going to sing?
31:21I'm not.
31:22They won't be fair in the others
31:24when I'm a Golden Voice finalist.
31:26Also, my mother doesn't like me
31:28doing songs from the shows.
31:30She says adult emotions
31:31sung by children are sick making.
31:36What about your dad?
31:37Does he throw up easily as well?
31:39I don't know.
31:41He hasn't lived with us for years.
31:43Do you know how many years?
31:46Um, I'm afraid not.
31:47It doesn't often come up in conversation.
31:50Stop that, Colin.
31:52What?
31:52Winding Georgina up just before
31:54she has to go on and face the public.
31:56It's not professional.
31:57In fact, it's almost cheating.
31:59Pardon me for living.
32:07There's a picture on a poster
32:08in the office.
32:09When did you last see your father?
32:13My son used to have the jigsaw.
32:17I've been wondering exactly
32:19when you last saw yours.
32:20I'm never rude to all the people,
32:24Mrs. Wainthrop,
32:25because one never knows
32:27when one might need them.
32:29So I'll just say au revoir
32:30for the present.
32:31I'm sure I'll see you around.
32:40Excuse me.
32:42Where's she gone?
33:02She looks out behind the bar
33:04at the Green Bay Tree
33:05and does a cabaret for the dinner guests.
33:07We've come to protect her.
33:09It isn't necessary.
33:12They're all friends there.
33:15Why don't you come in
33:15for a glass of homemade wine?
33:19Oh, thank you.
33:21Not for Geoffrey.
33:23He's driving.
33:28It must get a bit lonely
33:30in the evenings
33:31with Glenda out.
33:33I know where she is.
33:34What time does she leave
33:36the restaurant?
33:38About eleven.
33:40But sometimes
33:41she's a bit late
33:43getting back,
33:44I dare say.
33:46She was late last night.
33:48How the hell do you know that?
33:50Has someone been talking?
33:52That Mavis at the Bay Tree,
33:53well, it's no business
33:54of anyone else's.
33:55So you want to keep it quiet?
33:57There don't want people
33:58talking about it.
34:00Who would?
34:02Trust me.
34:04Not in front of the lad.
34:10Oh, right.
34:12Geoffrey, would you
34:12wait outside, please?
34:15Do as you're told.
34:16Hold.
34:16She'd seen some play
34:39in Manchester
34:41at a cultural evening
34:43with a town's woman's guild.
34:45It was about husbands
34:48and wives pretending
34:49to be other people.
34:52Lovers,
34:53toyboys,
34:54scuba divers.
34:57It was all pretense,
34:58but it raised the temperature like.
35:01She and me were going
35:01through a rough patch
35:03at the time.
35:04We gave it a whirl.
35:07And ever since.
35:08So she comes home late
35:11and pretends
35:13you're a lover?
35:16It goes
35:16all through the day.
35:19As a married woman yourself,
35:20perhaps you'd understand.
35:23Well,
35:24what I can't get into my head
35:26is how you could know.
35:28Who told you?
35:31Nobody.
35:31I was just fishing.
35:35If you'd said
35:36she always comes home on time,
35:37I'd have believed you.
35:38I'd sacrifice
35:40and they'd think
35:41come what might
35:42for the sake of
35:44having you near
35:45in spite
35:46of a warning voice
35:48that comes in the night
35:49and repeats
35:51and repeats
35:51in my ear.
35:53Don't you know,
35:55little fool,
35:56you never can win.
36:00Use your mentality,
36:03wake up to reality.
36:05But each time
36:08that I do
36:09just the thought
36:10of you
36:11makes me stop
36:12before
36:15I begin
36:18cause
36:22I've got you
36:26Hey,
36:28I want to work with you.
36:31You're late.
36:33We had ours in town.
36:34I've got work to do.
36:36May I use your study?
36:37I'd like to have a look
36:38at those scrapbooks
36:38of yours
36:39if you don't mind.
36:40I had to rescue
36:41your husband
36:41from a police cell.
36:43Eh?
36:45He's a bit the worse
36:46for wear
36:46as you can see.
36:47I'm all right,
36:48though.
36:48Just a bit of a
36:49misunderstanding,
36:50that's all.
36:50Robert!
36:51You get on with
36:52what you've got to do,
36:53please.
36:56I'd rather.
36:57Oh.
37:04beat you up,
37:06did they?
37:08I should never
37:08have tried to run.
37:20Coco.
37:21What's this
37:22Northwest Young
37:24Singer of the Year
37:25competition?
37:26It doesn't seem to have
37:26been a festival as such.
37:28more important.
37:32That's when everyone
37:33decided that I had
37:34a career in music.
37:36Oh, Oliver Hardiman,
37:38PA G's you,
37:40yet again.
37:42Did you ever see
37:43any of the other
37:44finalists?
37:45Eric Leavesden,
37:48Mary Ann Winterbottom,
37:51Ethel Warders,
37:52Michael Maroney?
37:53Too long ago.
37:54Oh, so much
37:55has happened since.
37:59Yes.
38:07Robert and Geoffrey
38:08are packing.
38:08We're going home.
38:09Giving up on the job?
38:10I'm not.
38:11You won't get paid?
38:12It's my professional
38:13opinion that there'll
38:14be no more trouble
38:15before the final.
38:16I shall be at that,
38:18of course,
38:18as I want to make sure
38:19that it all goes off
38:20safely.
38:21And I should like you
38:22to invite a few people
38:23round here after
38:24afterwards.
38:25Why?
38:26Because that's how
38:26it's done in the
38:27Poirot Brooks.
38:28He gets all the
38:29suspects together
38:30and then puts his
38:31finger on the murderer.
38:32I've not had the
38:33opportunity in any
38:34of my cases up to now.
38:36Now, I'll have a
38:37quick bite and then
38:38I'll pop round to
38:39Les Maynard's and
38:40pick up a tube of
38:41toothpaste.
38:43You're not so
38:44greenish a cabbage
38:44looking, Mrs.
38:45Wainthrop.
38:46Nothing like Mr.
38:47Hardiman.
38:50Now, take it kindly
38:51if you'd give
38:52Robert a lift.
38:52Please, too.
38:56And there's just one
38:57thing I'd like you
38:58to do for me.
38:59hand.
38:59And there's just one
39:03hand at the
39:05ladder day
39:07upon the earth,
39:10upon the earth.
39:15I know that my Redeemer liveth, and he shall stand and live.
39:31I know that thy kindness shall not depart, but thy kindness, thy kindness shall not depart.
40:01I know that thy kindness shall not depart, but thy kindness shall not depart, but thy kindness shall not depart.
40:31I know that thy kindness shall not depart, but thy kindness shall not depart, but thy kindness shall not depart.
41:01He's your son.
41:05That being so, I don't think I should give him the prize.
41:09And the cup and the cheque for £500 goes to Miss Beverly Prendergast.
41:29Don't worry, lad. You don't need a cup. You've the whole of the Hardiman Empire to inherit.
42:16I'll throw you up, then. Someone who doesn't believe that Hardiman's herbal healing actually heals.
42:25What caused them to lose their voices, Mr. Hardiman? That's the knob.
42:29How should I know?
42:30Aren't you an expert on herbs?
42:33Mr. Slater.
42:35It has to be something like cinchia leaf, a Chinese herb.
42:40In substantial amounts over a period, it causes inflammation of the nose and throat.
42:45How long a period?
42:46A week or so.
42:47I give it to my patients homeopathically, in tiny doses, to stimulate the body's own defences against A fever.
42:54How would you give it in substantial amounts without anybody knowing?
43:01Add it to something with a strong taste where it wouldn't be noticed.
43:06Tea caddy, instant coffee.
43:09Homemade wine?
43:10If you like.
43:12Make a tincture and inject it into the mixture.
43:15Toosh paste.
43:17Les Maynard's wife has dentures, so she doesn't use it.
43:22Does your grandson, Freddy, have access to this herb and know its properties?
43:28It's me, Mrs. Weyntrop.
43:29There's no manner of use for this quack, Oliver Hardiman.
43:33Not me grandson.
43:34Are you saying you did it?
43:36I'm not saying I didn't.
43:38I'll have you.
43:39A dim-pod herbalist in a country town.
43:41I'll ruin you.
43:42That'll do, Oliver Cromwell.
43:44You can bully your way around Blainthorpe, but I'm in charge of this meeting.
43:49Anyway, Mr. Slater was never the cavalier.
43:52Breaking and entering.
43:54Bolting downstairs at his age.
43:56You're enjoying this?
43:58Of course.
43:59Shall I go around with the champagne for refills?
44:02Not yet.
44:03I'm just reaching the best bit.
44:06Step forward, the wardrobe mistress of the Blainthorpe amateur operatic.
44:12A.K.A. Mary Ann Winterbottom.
44:16Is this the bit in the Poirot stories when the criminal makes a run for it?
44:21You.
44:24Me.
44:26When did you last see your father?
44:30Cavaliers and roundheads.
44:35Why?
44:36Revenge.
44:39Robert was right.
44:41The cavalier was getting his own back.
44:43I've never harmed you.
44:45I think you have.
44:52Mary Ann.
44:53Annie.
44:55Married named Moskrop.
44:57Born Winterbottom.
44:59In every one of your scrapbooks, she was one of the contestants.
45:04And suddenly, she wasn't.
45:16Northwest Young Singer of the Year competition, 1960.
45:19You were 12.
45:25I was 14.
45:27You winked and smiled at me.
45:30And you whispered it was a two-horse race.
45:32You sang.
45:36She moved through the fair.
45:38It was beautiful.
45:40And it moved me through to the final.
45:43You joked about the obsessive way I wiped and blew my nose just before going on stage.
45:50And while I was in the loo, you opened my purse and put sneezing powder onto my hanky.
45:57You must have planned it or you wouldn't have had the sneezing powder with you.
46:01Dad.
46:01I had to walk off in the middle of my second verse.
46:05They couldn't even give me a merit mark.
46:10After that, Aunt Amy changed her mind about paying for my musical education.
46:14I scraped a place at a third-rate university, then marriage, divorce, finally revenge.
46:27I'm proud of what I did.
46:30I'd have pulled it off completely if Mrs. Wainthrop hadn't come a bit too close.
46:35Even so, a final with only five golden voices can't have done Hardiman's herbal healing much good.
46:43You won't get away with it.
46:45I'll sue you for every penny you've got.
46:48No, Dad. We don't want the publicity.
46:51Five finalists, nobbled, robbed of the chance of fame, they'll do the suing and I'll pay the lawyers.
46:57Would you? Les, Harry, all of you?
47:01Even if he pays out, would you sue?
47:03We'd look stupid.
47:05We all knew we didn't stand a real chance.
47:08It was always going to be Beverly.
47:10Or Brian.
47:10That's right.
47:11I won't give you the satisfaction, Mr. Hardiman.
47:15No. No.
47:18What really hurt was that after you'd stolen my chance of fame, you threw your own away.
47:24Just to make money.
47:25I would have liked, just once, to sing in a really big hall with a full orchestra.
47:37Geoffrey.
47:42I'll have that refill now.
47:46A good job well done.
47:48Mr. Hardiman's found a son.
47:49Young Brian's got a dad he probably deserves.
47:51Beverly's won the prize.
47:53Annie's got her own back.
47:54And nobody hurt at the end.
47:55That's the way I like it.
47:56The one thing I don't care for in these parrot books is somebody always ends up being hanged.
48:01That's amazing.
48:11Whatever.
48:12Maybe.
48:13Maybe.