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426 00:27:49,106 --> 00:27:51,231 -Cake or pastry? -No thank you. 427 00:27:51,397 --> 00:27:54,314 -Are those Bath buns fresh? -Certainly. Made this morning. 428 00:27:54,481 --> 00:27:55,897 Two please. 429 00:27:57,772 --> 00:27:59,439 That'll be sevenpence. 430 00:28:00,814 --> 00:28:03,731 -Take the tea to the table, Beryl. -l'll carry the buns. 431 00:28:08,897 --> 00:28:11,606 -You must eat one of these. -Very fattening. 432 00:28:11,772 --> 00:28:13,231 l don't hold with such foolishness. 433 00:28:13,397 --> 00:28:17,314 -They do look good, l must say. -One of my earliest passions in life. 434 00:28:17,564 --> 00:28:20,106 -What happened then Mrs Bagot? -Well... 435 00:28:20,814 --> 00:28:22,106 lt's all very fine... 436 00:28:22,272 --> 00:28:25,731 expecting me to do this that and the other. 437 00:28:25,981 --> 00:28:29,897 But you can't expect me to be a cook and housekeeper during the day... 438 00:28:30,064 --> 00:28:32,564 and a loving wife in the evening. Just because you feel like it. 439 00:28:32,731 --> 00:28:35,981 There are as good fish in the sea... 440 00:28:36,147 --> 00:28:39,897 as ever came out of it. l packed my boxes and left him. 441 00:28:40,064 --> 00:28:41,647 Didn't you never go back? 442 00:28:41,814 --> 00:28:45,481 Never. l went to my sister's at Folkstone for a bit... 443 00:28:45,647 --> 00:28:49,064 then l opened a tea shop in Hathe. 444 00:28:49,397 --> 00:28:50,606 And what happened to him? 445 00:28:50,772 --> 00:28:53,856 -Dad as a doornail in three years. -Well, l never. 446 00:28:56,147 --> 00:28:58,356 ls tea bad for one? Worse than coffee? 447 00:28:59,189 --> 00:29:01,439 lf this is a professional interview my fee is a guinee. 448 00:29:02,106 --> 00:29:05,064 -Why did you become a doctor? -That's a long story... 449 00:29:05,814 --> 00:29:09,814 -Perhaps because l'm an idealist. -All doctors should have ideals... 450 00:29:09,981 --> 00:29:12,939 -or their work would be unbearable. -Don't encourage me to talk shop. 451 00:29:13,272 --> 00:29:15,356 Why not? lt's what interests you. 452 00:29:15,522 --> 00:29:16,939 Yes, it is. 453 00:29:17,106 --> 00:29:19,189 l'm terribly ambitious really. 454 00:29:19,356 --> 00:29:21,981 Not for myself, for my special pigeon. 455 00:29:22,397 --> 00:29:24,189 -What's your special pigeon? -Preventative medicine. 456 00:29:25,147 --> 00:29:27,981 -l see. -l'm afraid you don't. 457 00:29:28,147 --> 00:29:31,022 -l was trying to be intelligent. -Most good doctors... 458 00:29:31,189 --> 00:29:34,814 have private dreams. lt's the best part of them. 459 00:29:34,981 --> 00:29:38,106 But sometimes they get strangulated. Am l boring you? 460 00:29:38,272 --> 00:29:40,689 No. l don't quite understand but you're not boring me. 461 00:29:40,981 --> 00:29:44,314 What l mean is this... All good doctors must primarily... 462 00:29:44,481 --> 00:29:45,856 be enthusiasts. 463 00:29:46,022 --> 00:29:50,189 They must like writers and painters, have a sense of vocation. 464 00:29:51,231 --> 00:29:53,939 A deep-rooted desire to do good. 465 00:29:54,314 --> 00:29:55,272 Yes, l see that. 466 00:29:55,439 --> 00:29:58,231 Obviously one way of preventing disease is worth 50 ways of curing. 467 00:29:58,397 --> 00:30:00,106 That's where my ideal comes in. 468 00:30:00,272 --> 00:30:02,397 Preventative medicine isn't anything to do with medicine... 469 00:30:02,564 --> 00:30:06,439 but with living conditions, hygiene and common sense. 470 00:30:07,147 --> 00:30:08,897 My speciality is pneumoconiosis. 471 00:30:09,772 --> 00:30:11,189 Oh dear. 472 00:30:11,356 --> 00:30:13,855 Don't be alarmed. lt's simpler than it sounds. 473 00:30:14,314 --> 00:30:16,605 lt's a slow process of fibrosis of the lung... 474 00:30:16,772 --> 00:30:18,772 due to inhalation of dust. 475 00:30:19,064 --> 00:30:23,522 Here, there are splendid opportunities, because of the mines. 476 00:30:23,689 --> 00:30:26,647 -You suddenly look much younger. -Do l? 477 00:30:27,814 --> 00:30:31,272 -Almost like a little boy. -What made you say that? 478 00:30:32,855 --> 00:30:34,230 l don't know... 479 00:30:34,897 --> 00:30:36,397 Yes, l do. 480 00:30:36,814 --> 00:30:38,147 Tell me. 481 00:30:39,189 --> 00:30:42,897 No, l couldn't really. You were saying about the coal mines... 482 00:30:43,980 --> 00:30:46,730 Yes, the inhalation of coal dust. 483 00:30:48,522 --> 00:30:52,022 That's one form of the diseases, called anthracosis. 484 00:30:53,647 --> 00:30:55,189 What are the others? 485 00:30:56,147 --> 00:30:57,605 Chalicosis... 486 00:30:57,980 --> 00:30:59,772 from metal dust. 487 00:30:59,939 --> 00:31:01,814 Steel works. 488 00:31:02,522 --> 00:31:04,397 Yes, of course, steel works. 489 00:31:05,189 --> 00:31:06,647 And silicosis. 490 00:31:07,