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James Dowland campaigns for the parish council on a promise of house-building but Robert challenges him, claiming that he is motivated by profit. When James' opponent withdraws through illness Dorcas puts herself forward as a candidate. In Lark Rise the battle of the sexes continues when the men complain that Lilly, a butch female itinerant laborer, has invaded the male domain of the local inn. This leads to a bitter row between Emma and Robert. During a public debate James patronizes Dorcas. Starring: Julia Sawalha, Olivia Hallinan, Claudie Blakley, Brendan Coyle.
James Dowland campaigns for the parish council on a promise of house-building but Robert challenges him, claiming that he is motivated by profit. When James' opponent withdraws through illness Dorcas puts herself forward as a candidate. In Lark Rise the battle of the sexes continues when the men complain that Lilly, a butch female itinerant laborer, has invaded the male domain of the local inn. This leads to a bitter row between Emma and Robert. During a public debate James patronizes Dorcas. Starring: Julia Sawalha, Olivia Hallinan, Claudie Blakley, Brendan Coyle.
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00:01For all you young men that are going to wed
00:07They'll be caught like a bird with a small piece of bread
00:12A woman, a man
00:19Someone once told me they can find anything to fight over
00:23A piece of land, a slip of the tongue, a jealous heart
00:30Every year field workers came to Lot Rice
00:34Lily Spice are amongst them
00:39But this year was different
01:00The development of the city of Maggie
01:05The town of Maggie
01:07The town of Maggie
01:09The town of Maggie
01:12Cano
01:14We have a new post office,
01:30but we will try to continue with the same old service.
01:35Mr Dowland, I hope you will agree
01:43that now when you look down the street
01:45you have a picture of loveliness.
01:47Yes, and a rather pleasing post office too.
01:51You are a little too forward with your compliments, sir.
01:54Please do not take it personally.
01:56I am a little too forward with everything.
01:59Miss Lane, I should pay you the courtesy
02:01of informing you that I am standing
02:03in the forthcoming parish council elections.
02:06But how can you?
02:09You have hardly been amongst us
02:11more than a blink of an eye.
02:12On the contrary.
02:13I consider myself to be an ideal candidate.
02:16I was raised amongst Larkry's poverty
02:18and live now as a Candleford businessman.
02:21It still doesn't seem right.
02:25But I suppose it is your prerogative to stand
02:27if that is what you choose.
02:29I do.
02:31Choose.
02:33Go, boys.
03:00Go, boys.
03:00Go.
03:01Where is it, Mum?
03:11It is the future, Minnie.
03:18Help me to unwrap it.
03:19If I may be so bold, ma'am.
03:30This is a modernisation too far.
03:32You cannot expect me to take out my delivery
03:34on one of those things.
03:35I do not expect you to, Thomas.
03:38This bicycle is not for you.
03:40It is for me.
03:41Did you hear?
03:43Did you hear?
03:43It's about round.
03:52Child's reading book.
03:53You proved yourself man enough to the whole Hamlet elf,
03:58where you've been like a father to your brothers and sisters.
04:02Ever since I've known you, you've done for others.
04:04What about doing something for yourself now?
04:06One thing, chasing around the world like your pa does.
04:10But a man who can read, the world comes to him.
04:14Now, I can teach you, Alf, and we can start tonight.
04:18I never could get hold of my reading, sir.
04:21Ah, ignorance is a curse, Alfie.
04:24It takes a bit of courage to do something about it.
04:27Just, uh, show willingly, that's all.
04:32How's this warrant?
04:38Wind mills.
04:41Yeah.
04:43That's what's called syllables.
04:47I never knew you had your letters twisted.
04:49I taught myself.
04:51With a candle and a Bible.
04:53But you don't want to let the world know
04:55that you're more educated than you seem.
04:58Well, why?
04:59I decided on that so long ago, I forgot why, now.
05:11I'll have a hat.
05:13Well, wagon and horses is a place
05:16where the men are supposed to get some peace from the women.
05:19Ah, now, I'll agree with that.
05:21A pipe and a beer would be ruined
05:22with all that petticoat chatter.
05:29How are you doing your letters, though, I saw,
05:32when I came in, Alfie?
05:34I have my letters.
05:37Most of them.
05:38Syllables, aren't they?
05:38What?
05:39Oh.
05:40Oh.
05:40Oh.
05:42Syllables.
05:43And what syllables would they be?
05:46Hmm?
05:47Weak-ling and panty-waist?
05:51Well, leave a lad alone.
05:53Oh, I'm only joshing.
05:56I look forward all year long to coming in here
05:58so we can take our elbows to each other.
06:00Oi, oi, oi!
06:05Well, you don't make a word of us, do it.
06:07She'll be gone in a few weeks.
06:08You just have to put up with her till then.
06:10Why are you men grumbling about now?
06:12Lily Spicer coming in the wagon and horses.
06:14Women barred from the ale house.
06:16It's an old-fashioned notion anyway.
06:19We wives would all like to get out of the house
06:21if we didn't have the Littlins to tie us to the stove
06:23and the washtub.
06:24A man must have his hair fight without the nagging.
06:28That's what civilisation is for.
06:30Everything that's wrong with this world is standing before me.
06:34Three men with rheumatism of the brain.
06:36Men and women are different, Queenie.
06:38Oh.
06:39Knitting and cooking and having babbies
06:40ain't what men were born to do.
06:42God made us fit for the ale house.
06:44That's true enough.
06:45Everybody knows that a woman rules the house.
06:48Her job is to let a man think he does.
06:50Do you believe that?
06:54Isn't that right, Queenie?
07:02I've lived my whole life, Wyatt.
07:04This is well you'd never let on before, woman.
07:07You think you can say that in front of my neighbours
07:09and get away with it?
07:11Come on, lads, I need another drink.
07:14That goes for me and all.
07:18Caroline?
07:20Caroline, are you home?
07:24Caroline?
07:37Oh, you can't do that.
07:38I'm home, you can't do it.
07:41Oh, you have a new life.
07:41Oh, you can't, uh.
07:43You're home, you can't do it.
07:44You're home.
07:44I can't do it.
07:45You're home, you can't do it.
07:54Oh.
07:58Oh.
08:00Oh.
08:02Oh, my poor bones.
08:32Lily! Why, Lily?
08:54I was only resting my bones for half a minute. I must have slept like a pain.
08:58I do. You're so good to rest in a bed for a change.
09:05You have some tea, Lil.
09:06No-one can ever say I flinch. Not Lil. But tea do so nice.
09:11Oh, Laura. Ain't you turned into the little lady while I was away?
09:16Laura works in the post office now, Lil. She's one of that lot over there.
09:22Oh!
09:23You'll have to come by my tent and tell me the tales of all them kind little boys been chasing after you.
09:28There ain't nothing to tell.
09:30Penty of time for boys when I get older.
09:33If I was you, I'd be asking myself why should I vote for James Dowling?
09:40I am standing because I want to give something back. This is a time of great change.
09:47You can say that again.
09:52Change and progress, Queenie.
10:00Queenie here has been taking in all of her married life.
10:05She took me in and many others like me.
10:07Her home is full to bursting.
10:10Now why should the kindness of good souls like Queenie be put upon year after year when there is a better way to go?
10:19I want to instigate a program of building homes.
10:24New villas, every one with its own garden and a door knocker.
10:29And who is it, sir, that will build these villas? Who is it that will profit from their sale and from their rent?
10:36I make no attempt to conceal my role as builder and contractor.
10:40And are you working for the good of the community, sir, or for the good of your own pocket?
10:45I see no reason why it cannot be for both.
10:48Not one man standing here before you can afford to live in these homes with door knockers.
10:53Any man here who wants it can have work building these homes for good wages.
10:59Including you, Mr. Timmons.
11:01What else are we to do?
11:03Be the kind of man that never truly tries to escape his own poverty.
11:07I never said we should remain in poverty.
11:10I never said we should remain in poverty.
11:14All I ask is that you put your faith in a man who has shown you what is possible.
11:27You did look handsome on your expounding plank.
11:31That man wants to pull our parish up by the roots.
11:36And all my wife can say is handsome.
11:40There's a woman's thinking for you.
11:43Why is everyone so at war, Marv?
11:56These are changing times, Laura.
11:58Changing times.
12:02Mrs. Lane?
12:15Mr. Fowland.
12:17It's a fine morning.
12:19Yes.
12:20I am going out for a jaunt.
12:21Well, you have the weather for it.
12:24I am the proud owner of the first low safety bicycle in Candleford.
12:29So I see.
12:30Our neighbours are looking at you, ma'am.
12:32It does seem rather unwomanly to be a stride, such a thing.
12:36Nonsense, Thomas.
12:37In no time everyone will have one of these.
12:39How will it stay standing up?
12:40It's only got two wheels.
12:42Isn't it dangerous?
12:43It is perfectly safe, thank you, Minnie.
12:47Miss Lane, I would not care to think that our conversation yesterday evening
12:51had led you to believe I do not value your moral opinion.
12:54My moral opinion is you should not be standing for election.
12:57But I ask that you show respect for my position.
13:00And what exactly is your position?
13:02A man's role is to conquer the world.
13:04Oh, and what is a woman's role?
13:06To love him for it.
13:17Mr. Dowland, I should pay you the courtesy of telling you that
13:21since I hear your opponent, Mr. Judd, has come down with a bad case of the gout,
13:26I intend to put myself forward as a candidate for our parish.
13:31You stand for election.
13:33Do you suppose I'm not up to it?
13:36Miss Lane, in the short while I have been in Candleford,
13:39it has become evident to me that you are the hub of this community.
13:43The people look up to you, come to you for advice,
13:46trust you with their troubles.
13:48Why would you want to put all of that at risk in a political dogfight?
13:52Oh, I think it might be worth it.
13:55It is such a good cause.
13:58Good day to you, sir.
14:03Robert Timmons will tell you to learn your letters for the betterment of yourself, and he's right.
14:09But I say there's something better than betterment to be had.
14:12Robert Timmons will tell you to learn your letters for the betterment of yourself, and he's right.
14:22But I say there's something better than betterment to be had.
14:25It's just... the marvellousness of it.
14:29Alf!
14:33What are you hiding from me, Alf Arliss?
14:36Nothing. Ain't nothing.
14:38I saw you hiding something.
14:40That ain't none of your business, that's what.
14:42That's a love note from his girl.
14:47Oh.
14:50Who is she?
14:52She ain't from nearby.
14:54But prettier than a penny to a poor man's eye.
14:57Does she have a name?
14:59As lovely as her face.
15:02Rose.
15:03Twister, stop this.
15:04It's all right, Alf.
15:06It's my own fault for supposing I have a right to know your affairs.
15:10I'm glad for you.
15:12Truly.
15:14I hope I can meet Rose sometime soon.
15:16Oh, you will.
15:19I always said Alfie would catch herself a beauty.
15:22I know he has.
15:24I best be getting on with my round.
15:25What do you have to tell her that?
15:32Girls need to be kept on their toes.
15:36Make them fear they're missing out on something.
15:38I don't feel that way no more about Laura.
15:41Did you see the look on her face?
15:43She don't like the sound of lovely Rose now, do she?
15:46Twister, you have me lying to Laura.
15:50But what am I supposed to say if she asks me about Rose?
15:53Tell her Rose gives you a lock of her hair.
15:56Tell her Rose can't sleep for pining for you.
15:59Tell her Rose is more beautiful each time you set eyes on her.
16:02Oh, Twister knows.
16:06The best way to outfox a woman is with another woman.
16:13Rose.
16:13Old posty Jasper over at Ingolston
16:32happened to say how a postman can earn another shilling a week
16:35for taking out his delivery on a bicycle.
16:36That is correct.
16:37That's a shilling.
16:39Be worth putting by.
16:40There's no denying that.
16:41Then you can have it, Thomas.
16:43Ma'am, you seem so excited about the bicycle's arrival.
16:49And you had an outfit made especially.
16:52Did Mr. Dowland upset you, ma'am?
16:54He did not.
16:55Not about the bicycle, anyway.
16:56I only thought that him catching you like that seems to have upset you.
17:00I would have quite enjoyed it.
17:02Did he catch you, ma'am?
17:04Not catch, no. Assist.
17:05He assisted me.
17:06As I saw it, he assisted her into his arms.
17:09Minnie, I want you out of my sight.
17:11Am I correct in thinking that is an extra shilling every week, ma'am?
17:18If the bicycle speeds up the delivery, yes.
17:22Then I shall take the thing out.
17:25A man cannot resist progress.
17:27God's creatures weren't meant to live forever in the caves.
17:29I have some news for the both of you.
17:34Ma'am?
17:36I shall be standing in the parish elections.
17:39You?
17:42Ma'am.
17:43Suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use her authority over the man,
17:47but to be in silence.
17:48For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
17:51I might have hoped for a little more enthusiasm from my own staff.
18:10Robert.
18:12Wouldn't it be better if you and I made some peace between us?
18:15We ought at least to be some kind of example to the children.
18:23I'd agree with that.
18:25We'll let it lie.
18:32I only meant that a man and a woman
18:35each has their role in the household.
18:39I am a man worn out by a week's long labour
18:42and trying to teach his children their numbers.
18:47You can show me respect by not pecking at me.
18:50And do you suppose I live the easy life?
18:54You sip tea well enough with your neighbours.
18:56Women all.
18:58Talking about nothing the day long.
19:00Oh, Lord!
19:02And you're hardly through the door most nights
19:05and picking up the newspaper.
19:06You seem to forget too easily.
19:07I go out before dawn every morning
19:10to earn what little money keeps this family going.
19:12Is that so?
19:15Well, I shall do you the favour
19:17of telling you the truth for once.
19:21This tongue that you say only ever pecks at you
19:25has saved you many times
19:28from your own hot temper.
19:32It's kept you in work
19:34with a bit of female persuasion.
19:36Love letters you wrote to me.
19:48I am fool enough to pick these out sometimes
19:51when I'm sat down here alone at night
19:52to sit and read them.
19:54Ethel, Frank, out to play.
19:57Go on.
19:58How did this become a wife?
20:00Wanting to make her husband a dupe in his own home?
20:03Robert, you make too much of everything.
20:06Too much?
20:07Sort your eyes, woman.
20:10You meant it.
20:12My father used to tell me
20:15that it's not a man a woman wants,
20:17it is children.
20:19And she'll use all her wiles
20:20to snare him into providing for them.
20:22I thought he was no more than a bitter old fool.
20:28You make me think it was me who was the fool.
20:31Robert, stop this.
20:32You can have your words back.
20:33All of them.
20:36I have no use for them anymore.
20:38How dare you?
20:40Have you no heart?
20:42I wrote those letters.
20:44Mr. Dublin,
21:03you seem not to be campaigning.
21:06I am merely enjoying a glass of champagne.
21:09Perhaps you would be kind enough to join me.
21:14My neighbours tell me
21:17that you seem to have stopped canvassing
21:18since I announced my candidacy.
21:23Yes.
21:24Are you planning to withdraw?
21:27It would be disrespectful to the parish
21:29to announce that I am standing
21:31and then, on a whim,
21:32abandon the cause.
21:34Then I don't understand.
21:35Why don't you take up the fight?
21:37Because
21:38I seem to be gaining more
21:40by observing my opponent at work.
21:42That is not the true reason I feel it.
21:45You object to the very fact
21:47that I am standing.
21:52Perhaps you are not suited.
21:54Suited?
21:56I can argue, Mr. Darling.
21:58It is my most cherished attribute.
22:00One of them.
22:02I cannot help but believe
22:04that what you take exception to
22:05is that I am a woman.
22:06It does seem such a shame.
22:10A shame?
22:12That your loveliness
22:13is wasted on the cut and thrust of politics.
22:16My loveliness,
22:17as you choose to call it,
22:19is nothing more than appearance.
22:21I mean, clothes.
22:22Not at all.
22:23Your loveliness
22:24is in every ounce of your being.
22:27Every word that you speak.
22:29The way you josh and needle
22:31your neighbours with such delight.
22:32It is a living, breathing spirit,
22:35the like of which
22:36I have never seen before.
22:39Yes.
22:41Well, you are entitled
22:42to your opinion.
22:44Mr. Dowland,
22:45I can only assume
22:46that you do not realise
22:47the offence you cause
22:48nor the antiquated nature
22:50of your thinking.
22:52A woman,
22:52I may be,
22:54but I am your political opponent
22:55and I demand that you show me
22:57the respect of a proper fight.
23:00If I do that,
23:01I will win.
23:02Your arrogance
23:03is only outdone
23:04by the dullness
23:05of your imagination.
23:07You can lose.
23:09I can defeat you.
23:11I will outwit you.
23:13I will outmanoeuvre you.
23:15I will show you
23:16what the true nature
23:17of politics is,
23:19Miss Lane.
23:20Please show me
23:20the regard
23:21of allowing me
23:21to prove you wrong.
23:24How can I refuse
23:25a lady as...
23:26I want no more
23:26of your flattery.
23:30I accept.
23:31until the fight
23:33is done.
23:34If you will agree
23:35that when the results
23:38are declared,
23:39the winner
23:40shall buy supper
23:41to console the defeated.
23:45Surely we value
23:46nothing more
23:47than harmony
23:47in Campbellford.
23:51Agreed.
23:52I've seen Rose.
23:57You've seen her.
24:00What we want now
24:01is for some other
24:02soul to see her.
24:04How are we going to do that?
24:06Thomas Brown,
24:07might I ask you,
24:09did you see a girl
24:10going down the lane?
24:11I've seen plenty of them.
24:13Always do.
24:13Which one are you looking for?
24:14This one's pretty
24:15and her hair is...
24:18Long,
24:19with curls.
24:20That's her
24:21and she's one of those
24:22girls shaped
24:23rather pleasingly
24:24in that way
24:25that is...
24:26Shapely,
24:26not too tall.
24:27And you saw her.
24:29Well,
24:30that's Alfie's girl.
24:32Rose.
24:33How far up the road
24:34was she?
24:34About three mile,
24:36I say.
24:37I expect you'll see her
24:37tomorrow then, Alfie.
24:40Rose.
24:41Pretty Rose.
24:42Is that your bicycle?
24:46Her Majesty's.
24:58Miss Lane,
24:59we heard the most
25:01absurd rumour
25:02that you are to stand
25:03in the parish elections.
25:05It is no rumour, ladies.
25:08In fact,
25:09I came in to see you today
25:10not just to pay my account,
25:11but
25:12to ask you
25:14for your support.
25:16But this must mean
25:17you will be opposing
25:17Mr. Dowland.
25:19It is the reason
25:20I'm putting myself up.
25:21You are indeed
25:22putting yourself up,
25:24Miss Lane.
25:25as long-standing
25:30good neighbours.
25:32And since I am
25:33the first woman
25:34to ever stand
25:35in our district,
25:37I hoped you might show
25:39a little fellow feeling.
25:41It is rather thrilling.
25:44A woman
25:45in politics.
25:46I think you are correct,
25:55both of you.
25:56We should not pass over
25:58opportunities such as these.
26:00Women
26:00banding together
26:02in sisterhood.
26:05That's
26:13pretty enough.
26:16And that's kindly of you
26:18what you've done.
26:20But I shan't be pulling
26:21that finger over
26:22my bones.
26:23You are a woman,
26:24Lily.
26:25As much
26:26a woman
26:26as any of us
26:27with every right
26:28to go out in the world
26:29in a comely dress.
26:30I can make
26:31five bub a week
26:32in the fields.
26:33Mind,
26:34I earns every penny of it.
26:35No one can ever say
26:36Lil Flinch.
26:36Not I.
26:37I never ask nobody
26:38for nothing
26:39and I never shall.
26:40I'm a field worker.
26:42I have to be.
26:44I can't do that
26:45if I'm no more
26:46than a weakling girl
26:48in dresses.
26:50You do want to get
26:50yourself a man,
26:51don't you?
26:53Now,
26:53how can a girl
26:54go her whole life
26:55without knowing
26:57the taste of a kiss?
27:00It's only a dress,
27:04Lil.
27:05It's only us here
27:05together.
27:07Where's the arm
27:08trying it on?
27:11Ain't you just
27:12a bit curious
27:13how you might look?
27:18Ladies!
27:22I wonder if I might
27:24prevail upon your
27:24good nature
27:25and ask you
27:26to display
27:26one of my posters
27:27in your window.
27:30Unfortunately,
27:35Mr. Dowland,
27:36as Miss Lane
27:37is your opponent
27:38and since she
27:39is a sister-in-arms,
27:41so to speak,
27:42your request
27:43is not something...
27:44My sister
27:44has her loyalties
27:46spoken for.
27:47Let me take
27:48the poster.
27:49I will ensure
27:50that it finds
27:51a place of prominence.
27:53Well, I would not
27:53wish to cause a rift
27:55between the most
27:55devoted of sisters.
27:57Not at all.
27:58We are a democratic
27:59family.
28:00My little sister
28:00is free to make
28:01her choices,
28:02and I am free
28:03to make mine.
28:05That's very kind
28:05of you.
28:06And may I say,
28:07Candleford has never
28:08had so dashing
28:09a candidate.
28:11I'm sure he will
28:12sweep us all
28:13off our feet.
28:14Those that aren't
28:15already swept.
28:16Thomas, I can't help
28:30noticing that since
28:33you've been taking out
28:34the bicycle,
28:34you've been taking out
28:36the bicycle.
28:36your round is taking
28:47you longer than ever.
28:48I am becoming
28:49acquainted with it, ma'am.
28:52Have you actually
28:53mounted the thing yet?
28:55It is a dangerous
28:56machine.
28:57It must be approached
28:58with caution.
28:59I can attest to that.
29:01Waringness is understandable,
29:03but I must point out
29:04that until you actually
29:05write it,
29:06there can be no extra
29:07shilling in your wage
29:07packet.
29:09Yes, ma'am.
29:16Dorcas, hello.
29:17Hello.
29:18Mrs. Tori.
29:19Oh, no.
29:20Hello.
29:21Forgive me
29:22dropping you on,
29:23but I was hoping
29:25I might encourage you
29:26to use a little
29:26female persuasion
29:28to convince your
29:29husbands to vote
29:31for me in the election.
29:32Well, I wouldn't
29:34lay your hopes
29:35in that direction,
29:35Miss Lane.
29:37Marital relations
29:39are still frosty
29:41around here.
29:48Why, Lily?
29:49You look a picture.
29:52Didn't we say as much?
29:53That don't sink
29:54the fit right.
29:55Of course it does.
29:57Every bit of you
29:59is shown off perfect.
30:00No, I mean,
30:02I don't feel right.
30:05The way you look
30:06in that thing,
30:07you'll have the men
30:08standing in line
30:09just for one
30:10of your smiles.
30:12Find yourself
30:13the right man,
30:15you could settle
30:15here in Larkrice.
30:17If I don't want
30:17to do that
30:18to some man,
30:19what if I don't
30:20want to do that
30:21to myself?
30:23It is hard
30:24to be always
30:25on the road.
30:26Yes.
30:26I am tired
30:29and I would like
30:31nothing better
30:32than to settle.
30:33But why do I
30:34have to make myself
30:35look like a bunch
30:35of poses
30:37just to have a home?
30:38It ain't me
30:39and I shan't do it!
30:40Ain't you never
30:54like dressing up,
30:55Lily?
30:57When I was
30:58your age,
30:58young Laura,
31:00there was a boy
31:01who took my fancy
31:02and I made myself
31:05a dress
31:05pretty as any
31:07that ever was.
31:08I caught his eye
31:09and I caught
31:12his heart.
31:14At least I thought
31:15I did until
31:16another frock
31:17caught his eye
31:19even better
31:19and he was gone.
31:22Good pair of boots
31:23won't ever go off
31:24and leave you,
31:24that's for certain.
31:30It's such a wonderful
31:32place to point
31:32your eyes at the world,
31:34isn't it?
31:35If you could stay
31:36here, Lil,
31:37stay right here
31:39in your own home,
31:41would you do it?
31:44I went very good
31:45with my numbers,
31:46Miss Lane.
31:47But even I knows
31:49the wages
31:49a woman can earn
31:50ain't gonna pay
31:51no rent.
31:55No sign of Lill tonight.
31:56I thought my eye
31:58was tasting better
31:58without no elbows
32:00sticking in my side.
32:02Let's admit it,
32:02lads.
32:03What we like most
32:04about an hour or two
32:04in here
32:05is that we can
32:05let ourselves
32:06imagine a world
32:07without women.
32:12Gentlemen,
32:14please forgive us
32:15for intruding
32:15on your beer supping,
32:17but the landlord
32:18has kindly given me
32:19permission to address you.
32:22As you may know,
32:23I am standing
32:24in our parish elections
32:25and I hope that our
32:27past associations
32:28will tell you
32:29the kind of woman
32:30I am
32:30and the principles
32:31for which I stand.
32:33It seems to me
32:34that this election
32:35has hit upon
32:35a most important
32:36local issue.
32:38Homes.
32:39New homes.
32:41What I promise
32:42is that
32:42if you should elect me,
32:45I will do my utmost
32:47to ensure
32:48that the rents
32:49are affordable
32:49for any working man.
32:51indeed any working woman
32:54who wished to build
32:55a settled life here.
32:56Miss Lane,
32:59can you tell us
33:00after a man
33:02has waited
33:03all his life
33:04for the right
33:05to vote,
33:06why should he
33:07give it to a woman?
33:10Because I'm sure
33:11your superior
33:13male intelligence
33:14will make clear
33:15to you
33:15that you must
33:16vote on policies
33:17alone.
33:19Miss Lane,
33:20we get bossed
33:23enough by women
33:24at home,
33:25why would we want
33:25to be bossed
33:26by them
33:26in the town hall?
33:28I doubt that
33:28anyone has ever
33:29bossed you,
33:30Mr. Timmins.
33:32Not even your boss.
33:34I will leave you
33:37to enjoy
33:38your leisure,
33:39gentlemen.
33:40If any of you
33:41should wish
33:41to speak with me,
33:43you can find me
33:43in the post office.
33:45Miss Lane,
33:47does it not occur
33:48to you that you
33:49standing might damage
33:50the very cause
33:50you wish to support?
33:52I know the minds
33:53of the men around here
33:54and it's the men
33:55who pay the rates.
33:57The men have the votes.
33:59Are you saying
34:00that men I have known
34:01all my life
34:01might vote against me
34:03simply because of my gender?
34:04We all respect you,
34:07Miss Lane,
34:07and we like you enough,
34:09but put these men
34:11in a booth
34:11and ask them
34:12to put their cross
34:13against a woman's name,
34:14I don't think
34:16they'll wear it.
34:18Then we must go
34:19about changing
34:19their minds.
34:21If I was standing
34:22and you believed
34:24a working man
34:25had no chance
34:26of winning,
34:27would you encourage
34:28me to fight
34:29or would you advise
34:30me to stand down
34:31in favor of a man
34:32in a suit?
34:33Who might win?
34:43Here it is.
34:44Only last year
34:46a woman was elected
34:47to the parish council
34:48in Devon.
34:50Only one woman
34:51in the whole country?
34:52It's a beginning
34:53and it does give us hope.
34:55How is it some women
34:56can vote
34:56and some women can't vote?
34:57Because some ladies
34:59like Miss Pratt
35:01are property owners,
35:02rate payers,
35:03but others like my ma,
35:05well,
35:06they're just women.
35:07Now I see.
35:10And what, Isabel?
35:11I am grateful
35:12for your help,
35:13my friends,
35:14but I have come
35:16to the conclusion
35:16that Mr. Towland
35:17is right.
35:19Our community
35:19does need new homes,
35:21but he is wrong
35:23because the people
35:23who need them most
35:24won't be able
35:25to afford them.
35:25I can't help
35:27that my own
35:28personal antagonism
35:29towards the man
35:30has clouded my vision.
35:34I am not
35:35the best opponent.
35:36You're too hard
35:38on yourself, Dorcas.
35:40I'm convinced
35:40you would make
35:41the most wonderful
35:42parish counselling.
35:44Mum, if I may,
35:45I think you would
35:46like it a lot
35:47because then you can
35:48tell off the whole town
35:49just like you tell off me.
35:50Oh, dear Minnie.
35:52I think you may have
35:53hit on the problem
35:54rather than the solution.
35:57Mr. Timmons is right.
35:58I cannot win.
36:00It was naive of me
36:01to think that
36:01the men are ready
36:02for such a heady notion
36:04as voting for a woman
36:05to rule over them.
36:08Mum, what will you do?
36:10Perhaps there is
36:11someone better suited
36:12to take him on.
36:13I'm always the one
36:23to fix things
36:24between us.
36:27Why?
36:29Because I'm a woman,
36:30that's why.
36:32But not this time.
36:36No.
36:37I shall let you
36:40sulk
36:40and boil
36:41all you like.
36:44You are the one
36:45who can turn
36:48the mere slip
36:49of the tongue
36:49into a quarrel.
36:52You are the one
36:53puffs out your chest
36:55like you know
36:56you are always
36:57in the right.
36:57You are the one
36:59insists
37:00that everyone else
37:02live by your principles.
37:02Have you
37:06any idea
37:09what it's like
37:11living with a man
37:13like Robert Timmons?
37:16How many times
37:18have I forgiven you
37:21for speaking out of turn?
37:24You know a thousand
37:26ways to hurt me
37:27but every time
37:29I let you back in
37:31I am human.
37:35I make mistakes.
37:39But by God
37:41in heaven Robert Timmons
37:42I don't make
37:43half as many
37:43as you do.
37:49I'm done
37:50apologising to you.
37:54I'm done
37:55living my life
37:57to make you
37:58feel good
37:59about yourself.
38:01you're right
38:11perhaps
38:15a little unfair
38:17about puffing out
38:18my chest
38:18but I do know
38:21what it's like
38:22to live with
38:23Robert Timmons
38:23I've had to put up
38:26with him
38:26all my life
38:27I've always
38:30wanted children
38:32a wife
38:34a home
38:36how could a man
38:39get trapped
38:40into something
38:40he longs for
38:41more than anything
38:42else in this world?
38:43it was cruel of me
38:46to say such a thing
38:48a woman
38:51rules the house
38:52thought you were
38:54all done
38:54apologising
38:55girl
38:56don't you pick
38:57at everything
38:58I do
38:59and don't say
39:00good morning
39:14Mr.
39:15darling
39:15I wonder
39:17if I might have
39:17a few minutes
39:18of your time
39:19be careful
39:20what you say
39:20Miss Lane
39:21I reserve
39:22the right
39:23to introduce
39:24anything you might
39:25tell me
39:25into the combat
39:26are you saying
39:28you would attack
39:28me personally?
39:30if it were
39:30to further my case
39:31to bring to light
39:32matters which I think
39:33the voters should
39:34know about
39:34I consider it
39:36my political duty
39:37to do so
39:37very well
39:39I see more clearly
39:41now what you
39:42are capable of
39:43you have seen
39:44nothing yet
39:45Miss Lane
39:45Mr. darling
39:49on the matter
39:49of the villas
39:50you are too late
39:52I have already
39:53ordered the materials
39:54I have signed
39:55the contracts
39:56with the builders
39:57but it is
39:57parish council land
39:59and when I am
40:00elected
40:00I will push
40:01through
40:02permission to build
40:03you are so certain
40:05you will win
40:06only because I have
40:07the moral argument
40:08it is only fair
40:10that I should win
40:11if I am wrong
40:14why don't you put
40:15my argument
40:16to the test
40:17challenge
40:18everything I say
40:20in public
40:21a debate
40:23a debate
40:25you and I
40:28it is in the
40:29great tradition
40:29of British
40:30politics
40:31you would not
40:32shy away from
40:33tradition
40:34would you
40:34Miss Lane
40:34I would relish
40:37such an opportunity
40:38Thomas
40:53are you alright
40:55I am certain
40:57that if I move
40:57one inch
40:58this thing will
40:58crash to the ground
40:59let me help you
41:02off it
41:02steady
41:04truth is Laura
41:08I don't believe
41:09there is a reason
41:09why this thing
41:10should balance
41:10whilst I am upon
41:11it
41:12motion Thomas
41:13forward motion
41:15like life itself
41:16nope
41:17what makes this thing
41:18go is faith
41:19I cannot place
41:20my faith in two
41:21wheels and a
41:22handlebar
41:22well what are we
41:26going to do
41:27with the bicycle
41:28and the dog
41:30bit the cat
41:31ow
41:32I didn't think
41:37Thomas Brown
41:38would ever get
41:39on with the cycle
41:39but isn't that
41:41the cleverest thing
41:42poor old horse
41:44I say
41:45poor old horse
41:47might get a rest
41:47now
41:48Thomas said
41:52how he met
41:52Rose on the lane
41:53how pretty she was
41:56Rose gave me
41:58a lock of her hair
41:58she can't sleep
42:00at night
42:01for a pint
42:01Rose
42:02is more beautiful
42:04each time I see her
42:06why this is my
42:20reading book
42:21from no more
42:22than six
42:23or seven
42:23what's this
42:25doing here
42:26hi
42:29that's my own
42:30childish writing
42:31innit
42:31no part of
42:34loaned it to me
42:35that's a good idea
42:43Alf
42:43I'm keeping you
42:49from your round
42:50yes
42:51you should get on
42:54I'll keep you
43:03dues
43:03who
43:04else
43:04that's a good idea
43:05for a young man
43:06who
43:07can't
43:07ask
43:08things
43:09sam
43:10out
43:10but
43:11no
43:42Miss Lane, I thought perhaps we might toss a coin to decide which of us should speak first.
43:53I cannot object to that.
43:58You call.
43:59Tens.
44:03Heads, I shall speak first.
44:07It should be to your advantage to be the second speaker.
44:10Good luck.
44:11And to you.
44:20Fellow parishioners, a debate like this should be about policies, not personalities.
44:25But we have thrashed out the issues on the hustings, and I cannot let tonight pass without saying a few words concerning Miss Lane.
44:35My opponent has conducted herself with the utmost courtesy and grace.
44:43I would expect nothing else from a woman of such standing in our community.
44:50She has rare integrity.
44:52We would be blessed indeed to have such a woman on our parish council.
44:58Why am I singing a hymn of praise to this lady?
45:02Because if I stood before you and said that this woman was not a remarkable example of the gentle sex, then you would know I was a fool and a liar.
45:16Why does he have to keep seeing all that lady and gentle sex, so I think we know why.
45:21To know what is best for the poorest families in the parish, all the womanly know-how to keep good relations with the gentry, and all the feminine guile to handle herself in those smoke-filled council meetings.
45:38At this rate, I shall be voting for her myself.
45:43You must be asking yourselves then, why should we choose Mr. James Dowland?
45:50Well, in the spirit of fair exchange, I will let Miss Lane tell you that.
45:57Miss Lane.
46:08Thank you, Mr. Dowland. That was most considered of you.
46:13Mr. Dowland seems to think you should vote against me simply because I am a woman.
46:19I wonder why he would do such a thing.
46:22Might he wish to draw your attention away from what really matters?
46:27Since he has only been back amongst us for such a little time, we might think Mr. J.D. is a foreigner.
46:35I could play the mysterious outsider status.
46:39But really, Mr. Dowland is too upset.
46:43It seems to me that this election has hit upon the most important position.
46:48It's true.
46:50A woman does set out to catch a man.
46:53And I set out to catch you.
46:56Sitting up all night making dresses.
47:00Buying ribbons I couldn't afford.
47:03But I would have been a fool not to.
47:07I loved you the first time you spoke to me on that lane.
47:12I wanted to marry you when we sat under that tree and talked about nothing.
47:18And I love you now.
47:21More if that's possible.
47:24I know what it's like to live with Robert Timmons.
47:28And I hope I do so for the rest of my life.
47:33I see you have everything ready.
47:39You clearly expected to win.
47:41I like to be prepared for all eventualities.
47:45It might do me good to face such public humiliation.
47:50Dorcas, defeat is not humiliation.
47:54Defeat is a spur.
47:57When you have your eyes on a goal, each setback merely intensifies the desire to win.
48:04I didn't really object to the idea of a woman standing.
48:09I just said that to rile you.
48:13An opponent disturbed is an opponent weakened.
48:18But I am glad that I have one.
48:31Evidently.
48:35Glad for both of us, I mean.
48:38Most of all for you.
48:41If I am wrong, I will accept it.
48:43If I am right, perhaps you will do me the favour of acknowledging it.
48:50You did not really want to win.
48:53Not in your heart.
48:56The formalities and obligations of office would take away your freedom to be Dorcas Lane.
49:01Post-mistress and chief troublemaker.
49:05Am I right?
49:07You are right.
49:10I did not in my heart want to be a counsellor.
49:14But you are wrong.
49:17I suspect I wanted too much to win.
49:21I wanted to defeat you.
49:24But in the end, none of that really matters.
49:29How can it be that none of that really matters when you have put up such a fight?
49:35Perhaps because an election is only one way to resolve a battle like this one.
49:44At the first council meeting, I shall carry the vote to grant permission to build.
49:50I am sure of it. It is done.
49:52I don't doubt it.
49:54But you have played your hand too early, Mr Dowland.
49:58When I knew that you were to hinge your campaign on the fact that I was a woman, I realised I could not win.
50:07Win the election, that is.
50:10The issue is an altogether different matter.
50:13I took the liberty of visiting the last sitting of the old parish council.
50:22They let me address them.
50:24The outcome of which is that they have fixed the rents of any property to be built on Goldstone Spinney
50:31at a shilling a month for the next twenty years.
50:34It is law.
50:35It is done.
50:37But I have signed the contract for them to be built.
50:39I have ordered the materials.
50:40Mr Dowland, James.
50:43Yes?
50:44May we eat now?
50:47All this electioneering has made me famished.
50:50And as everybody knows, food is my one weakness.
50:57And my name is top of the list.
50:58Where's your girl tonight, Alfie?
50:59I've read all about your own.
51:00Twister.
51:01Is it afraid to bring her?
51:02It's all the boys chase after her.
51:03I know I would, that's for certain.
51:04Hey, how about a song, them boys?
51:05At night when I'm home, sadly tired from my work.
51:08When I opens the door, she lets fly like a turd.
51:11Take that young squalling weep and get it to sleep and she stresses him as good as she
51:32When I opens the door, she lets fly like a turd.
51:37Take that young squalling weed and get it to sleep.
51:41For all the day long, no pinch shall I keep.
51:45In the morning he finds that he's cold at the hip.
51:49Another day's waking to the lash of her lip.
51:53If this is the comfort of a married life,
51:57I wish in my heart I never had a wife.
52:02A woman, a man.
52:08You did look handsome when you expanded.
52:17They will always find something to fight over.
52:22But it seems that the greatest trouble starts when eyes meet.
52:27And what has begun cannot be halted.
52:31In long singing.
52:36And I nooitah Вид's Enter Chantinisa Mai.
52:38I never stopped J commit to dance.
52:40And it tastes not so much no time now.
52:41I am nowhere to go.
52:43And.
52:44Even if this was a Εmator.
52:45Beware One paradox.