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Why do we put up with this bloody climate?

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I mean, look at us.

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- Gerry can't speak.\N- Uh?

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- Leslie can't hear.\N- What?

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- Margo's got a face like red porridge.\N- Shut up!

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- Mother's looking like an Irish washerwoman.\N- I am not.

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It's August! We need sunshine.

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Yes, dear.

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I've got a friend, lives in Greece, Corfu.

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Says it's wonderful.\NWhy don't we pack up and go?

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I can't just go like that. We have a house here.

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- We'll sell up.\N- Don't be ridiculous, Lawrence.

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- Gerry needs an education.\N- No, I'll be fine.

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We can't just up and leave.\NThat would be madness.

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This is the story of the time I spent on Corfu.

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It was originally intended to be\Na mildly nostalgic account

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of the natural history of the island,

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but I made the grave mistake\Nof introducing my family,

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who proceeded to take over.

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It was only with the greatest difficulty\Nand by exercising considerable cunning,

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that I managed to retain a small space\Nexclusively for the animals.

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- What this?\N- Grubs.

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They're about to turn into beetles.

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You can tell by the way\Ntheir skin's getting darker.

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- He?\N- Roger.

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- It's important to have a dog.\N

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I'm a writer.

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That one's very good.\NChallenges all sorts of received bourgeois crap.

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Good.

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This, no.

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It's bed linen.

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Merchandise. Tax.

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It's our bed linen! You silly man.

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Come away, Mother. Let's put off\Nannoying people as long as possible.

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Is it a bank holiday?

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Not quite the gracious arrival I'd hoped for.

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Come on. Ow! Ow!

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Why doesn't somebody do something?

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Help!

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Go away!

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Eyes! Eyes!

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- Get them off!\N- Gerald, now.

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Well, they all seem very nice.

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- They wouldn't give me any lavatory paper.\N- Sh. Not at the table.

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You didn't look properly.\NYou've got a little boxful by the pan.

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- Margo, dear.\N- What?

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The box is for paper that's been used.

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The plumbing here can't take it.

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Ugh. No.

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I used...

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Yes. It is a bit insanitary.

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Remind me to look up typhoid\Nin the little book in reception.

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- Very emotional age.\N

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Might want to send some disinfectant\Nup to her room.

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Here they come.

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I'm sure I've got typhoid.

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I feel all...

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- typhoidy.\N- I'm sorry,

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but you've shown us ten houses\Nand none of them has a bathroom.

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- Oh, not again.\N- Bathroom? What for you want a bathroom?

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You have the sea.

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But this is the cradle of civilisation.\NThey must have bathrooms.

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We'll find a place for ourselves.

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Er...

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Oh. Erm, er...

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Taxi.

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We don't actually speak Greek.

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We do plan to learn.

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Ooh. Ow.

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Why don't you do something, Larry?

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What? They're just being Greek.

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Oi!

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You need someone who talks your language?

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Thems been worrying youse?

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- No, no.\N- Hey!

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So, taxi?

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Where you wants to go?

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Eh?

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Know what? English always wants bathrooms.

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I got a bathroom in my house.

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Eight years I was in Chicago.

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Then I say, ''Spiro, you has made\Nenough money.'' So I come back, huh?

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I bring this car with me.

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Best car on the island.

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I tell you no word of a lie.

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Keep your eyes on the road.

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All English tourists ask for me\Nwhen they come to the island.

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Yeah. You know, erm...

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if I wasn't Greek...

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yeah, I'd likes to be English.

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There. Villa with bathrooms.

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It was as though the villa had been\Nstanding there waiting for our arrival.

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We felt we'd come home.

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We'll take it.

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Gerry, could...

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Once Spiro had taken charge,

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he stuck to us like a burr\Nand became part of the family.

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Like a great, brown, ugly angel,

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he watched over us tenderly.

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Ah, Leslie, hi. Big guy.

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Mrs Durrells. You have everything?

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- Where are these people's things?\N- They are merchandise.

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We've come to take them.\NCome on, get thems.

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Customs bastards, huh? I know them all.\NHey! Why you open it, you son of a bitch?

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- It is my duty.\N- Duty, yeah?

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Treating decent foreigners like smugglers, uh?

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That's your duty?

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The bastards think they own the place.

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Come on!

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- But you look like him. You look like him.

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Gerry, don't pick your knee.\NCome on, eat your kounoupidi.

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Will you run up to my bedroom\Nand fetch my cigarettes?

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- Fetch them yourself.\N- That's the problem with this family.

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- No give or take, no consideration for others.\N- You don't have much consideration for others.

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Mother, you shouldn't have brought us up\Nto be so selfish.

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I never did anything of the sort.

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We didn't get selfish without some guidance.

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Hey. You ought to be careful what you say.

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- You don't want to hurt your mother.\N- Why? She's never done anything for us.

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- Don't joke... Don't even joke about it.\N- He's quite right.

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- She's really not much good as a mother.\N- Don't say that. Don't say that!

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Honest to Gods, if I had a mother like you,

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I would kiss her feets every morning until I die.

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So we were installed in the villa,

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and we each settled down\Nand adapted ourselves to our surroundings,

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in our respective ways.

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To explain some of our more curious behaviour,

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I feel that I should state\Nthat at the time we were in Corfu,

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the family were all quite young.

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Apart from Mother, whose age we never knew,

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for the simple reason that\Nshe could never remember her date of birth.

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- Oh.

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Who parked that donkey there?

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Why don't you move it if it disturbs you, dear?

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Future generations\Nshould not be deprived of my work

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- because I was outside shooing away donkeys.\N- Try this.

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Bloody hell. What is it?

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- Melitzana horiatiki.\N- Haven't the cornflakes arrived?

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Larry, darling,\Nwe've come away to try new things.

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I found a crab spider.

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If you move it to a different coloured leaf,

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it changes colour if you wait long enough.

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Why's he wearing those boots\Nin this heat?

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- Snakes.\N

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- And the jumper?\N- So we don't lose him.

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Look, it's a large family,

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- it could do with thinning out.\N

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For Christ's sake!

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- Mm.\N- Mm.

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- Now, is Leslie going to do that all day?

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It's his hobby, we all need a hobby.\NHe's not very good at anything else.

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Oh, yes, yes, we all need a hobby.

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- Shut up!

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I'm not sure that sunbathing like that\Nis terribly wise.

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That...costume doesn't cover an awful lot.

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Don't be so old-fashioned.

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You only die once.

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You know those black caterpillars\NI thought were caterpillars?

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They're not. They're ladybirds just hatched.

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- But they look exactly like caterpillars.\N- Hm?

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Yes!

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And the flies I was telling you about,\Nthe lacewing flies...

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- Yes?\N- They lay their eggs inside flowers,

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so that when... I'll tell you later.

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- Where are you going?\N- Exploring.

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Have fun.

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Does Mum know?

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I'm going exploring!

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In those early days of exploration,\NRoger was the perfect companion for adventure,

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affectionate without exuberance,\Nbrave without being belligerent,

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intelligent and full of good-humoured tolerance\Nfor my eccentricities.

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Excuse me.

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Do you know how to spell beware?

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And quiet?

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I'll have a guess.

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Oh, um...

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Ah.

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- Thank you.\N

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Not hatched yet, Roger.

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All right, but that's it.

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No more pets.

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- How are my spots, Mother?\N- Lovely, darling, you're very pretty.

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Mm, pretty vain. Mummy's boy.

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I am not! Am I, Mum?

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It's Achilles' favourite.

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Gerry.

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You can take off your jumper.

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He looks like a badly cooked chicken.

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Oh, and one of Margo's...

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admirers handed this in.

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That was there for a reason.

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Anyway, your spelling is appalling.\NYou need some sort of education.

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- No! No, I don't.\N- Yes, he must learn to dance.

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Or he'll turn into one of\Nthose awful tongue-tied hobbledehoys.

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He needs a good grounding in literature.

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- I recommend Rabelais.\N- Too old for Gerry, I think.

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It's important he gets sex\Nin the right perspective.

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You have a mania about sex,\Nyou drag it into everything.

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A healthy, outdoor life, that's all he needs.\NShooting and sailing.

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You talk like a bloody bishop.

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- You are so opinionated!\N- Shut up.

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Children, stop it.\NLook, we need someone who will teach Gerry,

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- but also encourage his interest in wildlife.\N- Why? It's just a phase.

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- It's been going on since he was two.\N- Why do you always talk about me

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- as though I'm not here?\N- My friend George is still out here.

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- He could try teaching him.\N- That's a good idea.

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Mm-hm.

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Um...

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Can you repeat the question? Again.

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How long would it take six men to build a wall

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if three of them took a week?

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Er...

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Erm...

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All right. Um...

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If it took two slugs

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a week to eat eight leaves,

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how long would it take four slugs\Nto eat the same number?

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What kind of slug?

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Any kind!

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He just doesn't seem to be keen to learn.

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Well, of course he isn't, George, he's 12.

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And he is living in, what amounts to for him,\Na large sweet shop.

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Mother, is there any clean underwear?

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Er...

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A little louder, Margo, dear,\NI'm not sure they got that in Macedonia.

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Maybe you ought to close your mouth\Nbefore an insect flies in.

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My, that's quite a blush.\NWe could toast a bun on you.

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Ah, b-but... She's, um...terribly striking.

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Yes. I should probably have put her\Nin the stout jumper rather than Gerald.

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Talking of whom, I think the answer\Nis to play to his strengths, don't you?

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Well, I have had a go.

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You know, what are six cockatoos\Ntimes seven cockatoos kind of thing.

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42 cockatoos.

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Erm...yes.

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Oh.

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Well, anyway, erm...let's, erm,\Nloosen the reins a little more, shall we?

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And bring him outdoors.\NNot natural to be inside.

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You bastard!

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As you can see.

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That's good.

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And er, let's not forget history.

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Er, name Hannibal's elephants\Nas he crossed the Alps.

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- Bardi.\N- Good.

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Jespa.

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Amito.

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Surus.

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Domito...

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Sextus.

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Titus.

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The Rose-Beetle Man.

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And lessons are over for today.

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Apparently.

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The Rose-Beetle Man turned up fairly regularly

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with some new addition to my menagerie.

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A frog perhaps,\Nor a white pigeon with a broken leg.

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Rich Tea?

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Ah.

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Mmm.

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This is the exciting part.

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Hampered by a reluctant pupil,

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George strove to make my lessons\Nas entertaining as possible.

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So, the French and British fleets\Nwere slowly drawing together,

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for what was to be the decisive sea battle\Nof the war.

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Sea slugs!

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I saw these in a book.

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Right. When the enemy was sighted, Nelson...

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- Ah!\N

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Right. Nelson was on the bridge...

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birdwatching through his telescope...

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..having been warned of the enemy's approach\Nby a friendly gull.

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No. Don't ask me what kind of gull.

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Theo.

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Come on.\NHe's an eccentric nature-lover like you.

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And an expert on practically everything.

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Gerald Durrell. Dr Theodore Stephanides.

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- Oh, very pleased to meet you.\N- Oh, and you.

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Ooh! I'm sorry.

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Interesting.

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A sea slug.

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# Greensleeves was all my joy

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# Greensleeves...

00:23:06.50,00:23:09.70
That really is the last pet he's getting.

00:23:09.74,00:23:14.69
# Greensleeves was my heart of gold

00:23:14.74,00:23:20.69
# And who but my lady Greensleeves #

00:23:26.70,00:23:29.29
- That was haunting.\N- Thank you.

00:23:29.34,00:23:31.69
I love it here.

00:23:32.42,00:23:34.46
I want to be buried on Corfu.

00:23:34.50,00:23:37.30
Can't it wait until tomorrow?\NIt's turned a bit chilly out.

00:23:37.34,00:23:39.85
Under the biggest cypress tree in the garden.

00:23:39.90,00:23:42.41
You said up behind Yani, the shepherd's house.

00:23:42.46,00:23:45.18
Yes. I've been thinking\Nthat might be a bit inaccessible.

00:23:45.22,00:23:48.42
I don't want the mourners dropping like flies\Nhalfway up the hill.

00:23:50.06,00:23:52.18
Hello, Spiro. Spiro.

00:23:52.22,00:23:54.02
You all right?

00:23:54.06,00:23:55.70
No.

00:23:55.74,00:23:57.62
It's Missy Margo.

00:23:59.18,00:24:00.58
What about her?

00:24:00.62,00:24:02.13
She...

00:24:05.58,00:24:08.46
She has a Turkish boyfriend.

00:24:09.42,00:24:12.62
What's wrong with that? Apart from George\Nbeing about to make his move.

00:24:12.66,00:24:14.46
- Bad luck, Georgie.\N- What's wrong?

00:24:14.50,00:24:17.49
It's Missy Margo with a bastard,\Nson of a bitch Turk.

00:24:17.54,00:24:19.50
Swimming together.

00:24:19.54,00:24:22.26
- Is she pregnant?\N

00:24:23.26,00:24:25.57
- Excuse me.\N- I'm sure she'll be fine.

00:24:25.62,00:24:27.42
We'll invite him to tea.

00:24:28.30,00:24:29.78
Tea?

00:24:29.82,00:24:33.21
Gerald, I have a gift for you from Dr Theo.

00:24:34.22,00:24:37.26
- Who's he, dear?\N- He's a friend of George's.

00:24:37.30,00:24:39.37
He knows everything.

00:25:04.62,00:25:06.89
The only person I had met until now

00:25:06.94,00:25:10.45
who seemed to share my enthusiasm\Nfor zoology was Theo.

00:25:11.62,00:25:15.45
I was extremely flattered\Nthat a scientist of considerable repute -

00:25:15.50,00:25:17.77
and I could have told this by his beard -

00:25:17.82,00:25:21.21
talked to me as though\NI was as knowledgeable as he.

00:25:22.30,00:25:25.37
This is the spider cyclops viridis,

00:25:25.42,00:25:28.78
that, erm...\Nthat I caught out near Govino the other day.

00:25:35.10,00:25:36.82
One eye in the middle of its head!

00:25:36.86,00:25:39.74
It's incredible, isn't it? Hence ci-clops.

00:25:39.78,00:25:41.10
Cyclops.

00:25:41.14,00:25:45.93
Wait. I've got a marvellous book\Nabout Greek mythologies somewhere.

00:25:47.14,00:25:48.65
Um...

00:25:49.70,00:25:51.42
I bought some insects.

00:25:53.46,00:25:55.81
I wondered if you knew what they are.

00:25:59.22,00:26:01.37
Gerry, I think we are going to get on rather well.

00:26:05.62,00:26:07.58
Oh. Now, that is... Hoo.

00:26:08.82,00:26:11.65
These are really hard to catch.

00:26:17.54,00:26:19.53
So, now...

00:26:21.22,00:26:22.97
Pregnant.

00:26:23.02,00:26:26.01
I've been meaning to have a talk about this\Nbecause it's...

00:26:26.06,00:26:28.05
an important subject and very...

00:26:29.46,00:26:31.02
beautiful.

00:26:31.06,00:26:32.54
And...

00:26:32.58,00:26:34.38
quite...

00:26:34.42,00:26:36.06
confusing.

00:26:36.10,00:26:38.09
And even...

00:26:39.30,00:26:40.65
shocking.

00:26:40.70,00:26:42.13
What?

00:26:42.18,00:26:46.01
I know all about it. I'm always seeing animals\Nmating and giving birth.

00:26:46.06,00:26:47.57
Well, it did strike me as strange.

00:26:47.62,00:26:50.93
It's like a maternity ward here,\NI thought you must know what goes on.

00:26:50.98,00:26:52.25
- Yes, I do.\N- Excellent.

00:26:52.30,00:26:54.29
- Can I go now?\N- No, because...

00:26:54.34,00:26:57.17
we humans are different from animals.

00:26:58.02,00:26:59.42
We...

00:27:02.26,00:27:05.17
Er, well, perhaps...we think too much.

00:27:05.22,00:27:06.94
And, erm...

00:27:06.98,00:27:09.97
And you'll find that sometimes life,

00:27:10.02,00:27:11.93
and your life too,

00:27:11.98,00:27:14.25
will be painful.

00:27:14.30,00:27:15.94
Especially when it comes...

00:27:19.22,00:27:20.37
to love.

00:27:21.82,00:27:26.05
Well, look at poor George. He's so upset\Nabout Margo, he's gone back to England.

00:27:26.10,00:27:28.37
Why didn't he look for someone else here?

00:27:30.18,00:27:32.33
Well, because he feels...

00:27:32.38,00:27:34.21
hopeless and...

00:27:34.26,00:27:37.17
lonely and...he needs his family...

00:27:37.22,00:27:40.53
There's a man looking all smart\Ncoming up the path.

00:27:41.86,00:27:43.13
God.

00:27:43.90,00:27:45.70
Already?

00:27:45.74,00:27:47.70
Everyone! He's here.

00:27:50.18,00:27:52.85
Margo's told us so much about you.

00:28:18.62,00:28:20.77
We love Margo.

00:28:20.82,00:28:22.65
Do have a scone.

00:28:34.46,00:28:37.37
- You write, I believe.\N- Yes, I, er...

00:28:37.42,00:28:39.54
I always feel I could write superbly if I tried.

00:28:39.58,00:28:43.89
Really? Well, it's a gift, isn't it?

00:28:43.94,00:28:47.38
He swims very well. Goes out terribly far.

00:28:47.42,00:28:49.61
Perhaps he'd like to demonstrate.

00:28:52.06,00:28:53.70
I'm a superb swimmer.

00:28:53.74,00:28:55.14
I know no fear.

00:28:56.14,00:29:00.26
When I ride a horse,\NI have no fear because I ride superbly.

00:29:01.26,00:29:03.30
I can sail a boat in a typhoon.

00:29:03.34,00:29:04.90
Without fear.

00:29:06.66,00:29:07.77
You see,

00:29:07.82,00:29:10.29
I am not a fearful man.

00:29:10.34,00:29:12.49
I wish you wouldn't wear so much perfume.

00:29:18.18,00:29:19.82
It's Achilles.

00:29:19.86,00:29:21.58
He's fallen down a well.

00:29:22.38,00:29:25.50
- I think he's dead.\N- Oh.

00:29:32.74,00:29:34.70
He's a tortoise.

00:29:36.54,00:29:37.69
Ah.

00:30:31.62,00:30:33.21
What are they?

00:30:33.26,00:30:34.58
Rose-beetles.

00:30:34.62,00:30:35.73
Beautiful.

00:30:35.78,00:30:39.33
Sometimes I can see\Nwhy you prefer creatures to people.

00:30:41.34,00:30:43.41
Why are you so interested in them?

00:30:43.46,00:30:45.45
They're just like us, aren't they?

00:30:45.50,00:30:46.57
Families.

00:30:46.62,00:30:48.50
I want to know how they all work.

00:30:49.50,00:30:51.30
Imagine if they weren't there.

00:30:51.34,00:30:54.65
- Does he have to put them on strings?\N- It's better than in a box.

00:30:55.94,00:30:58.45
Let's buy them all.

00:31:01.98,00:31:04.57
For days, the villa was full of rose-beetles,

00:31:04.62,00:31:07.53
falling like emeralds into our laps.

00:31:15.46,00:31:17.73
I've invited one or two people out\Nfor a week or so.

00:31:17.78,00:31:19.42
- Oh, that will be nice.\N- Yeah.

00:31:19.46,00:31:22.69
It will be good to have\Nsome intelligent and stimulating company.

00:31:22.74,00:31:27.34
- Oh, I hope they're not too highbrow.\N- Of course they're not. They are charming.

00:31:27.38,00:31:28.78
Like me.

00:31:45.38,00:31:47.26
Little English lord.

00:31:48.10,00:31:51.69
- Why do they think we are lords and ladies?\N- Because we act like it.

00:31:51.74,00:31:53.97
Tell the Pension Suisse your friends are coming.

00:31:54.02,00:31:56.09
No, no. I invited them to stay with us.

00:31:56.14,00:31:58.94
- How can they possibly stay with us?\N- There's plenty of room.

00:31:58.98,00:32:01.17
- If Margo and Les sleep on the balcony.\N- What?

00:32:01.22,00:32:04.42
- That gives you two rooms.\N- You have to write and put them off.

00:32:04.46,00:32:05.89
I can't. They're on their way.

00:32:05.94,00:32:10.69
Oh, really, you are so thoughtless.\NWhere are they going to sleep?

00:32:11.70,00:32:13.89
We'll move into a bigger villa.

00:32:13.94,00:32:15.93
We can't afford it. Are you simple?

00:32:15.98,00:32:19.18
It's important to live beyond your means,\Nor banks don't respect you.

00:32:19.22,00:32:22.61
- How many people have you really invited?\N- Eight.

00:32:24.26,00:32:25.77
To...twelve.

00:32:27.26,00:32:29.69
Well, we are not moving to another villa.

00:32:43.14,00:32:46.13
Mother went about settling us in again.

00:32:47.46,00:32:51.37
Our neat little house in Bournemouth\Nseemed several lifetimes away.

00:33:07.02,00:33:08.74
Inside of...

00:33:08.78,00:33:11.13
Ah, Mrs Durrells. This is Lugaretzia.

00:33:11.18,00:33:13.17
She, er, she comes with the house.

00:33:48.42,00:33:50.41
She has a bad stomach.

00:34:02.34,00:34:04.61
- Very odd.\N- Well, I'll just...

00:34:15.06,00:34:16.73
Oh.

00:34:19.50,00:34:21.22
I'm going to kill her.

00:34:21.26,00:34:22.93
Put her out of her misery.

00:34:22.98,00:34:26.49
Poor woman. She's obviously suffering. What's the matter?

00:34:26.54,00:34:29.93
- Digestion. She gets these nasty...\N- Don't tell us.

00:34:29.98,00:34:34.58
It's her feet now, apparently. Don't say anything,\Nthere's no one else available.

00:34:35.70,00:34:37.69
Yummy, yummy.

00:34:38.58,00:34:40.73
I told you it was a good idea to move.

00:34:43.98,00:34:46.81
The furniture could be\Na little more sturdy, perhaps.

00:35:11.66,00:35:15.25
Did I ever tell you about the last opera\Nwe had in Corfu?

00:35:15.30,00:35:17.02
Er, no.

00:35:17.66,00:35:19.70
Oh.

00:35:20.26,00:35:25.13
Yes, it was one of those\Ntravelling opera companies performing Tosca

00:35:25.18,00:35:27.82
with a leading lady who was very, er...

00:35:27.86,00:35:29.26
well developed.

00:35:29.30,00:35:33.42
Now, in the final act, as you probably know,\Nshe throws herself to her death

00:35:33.46,00:35:35.45
from the battlements of a castle.

00:35:35.50,00:35:37.06
Well, on the first night,

00:35:37.10,00:35:40.93
it seems the stagehands had forgotten\Nto put anything for her to land on,

00:35:40.98,00:35:43.54
so she fell with a huge crash,

00:35:43.58,00:35:46.57
and then proceeded groaning quite loudly,

00:35:46.62,00:35:51.49
while her lover was singing about\Nhow sad he was that she was dead.

00:35:53.22,00:35:55.69
- Oh.\N- Shall we help him back on?

00:35:55.74,00:35:58.33
- No, I think that might put him off.\N

00:35:58.38,00:36:01.85
The lady was, er, very, very upset,\Nunderstandably,

00:36:01.90,00:36:04.78
so the next night, the stagehands made sure

00:36:04.82,00:36:08.78
that they put a huge pile of mattresses\Nfor her to land on.

00:36:08.82,00:36:12.86
But her landing was now so soft and springy,

00:36:12.90,00:36:17.18
that when the whole cast was singing away\Nabout her tragic death,

00:36:17.22,00:36:20.21
she, the lady in question, reappeared,

00:36:20.26,00:36:22.49
two or three times above the battlements.

00:36:22.54,00:36:24.85
- Do you make these up?\N- No.

00:36:24.90,00:36:28.10
- Nothing ever goes according to plan in Corfu.\N

00:36:30.62,00:36:32.21
Larry's friends.

00:36:32.26,00:36:34.82
- I think Mother's a bit worried about them.\N- Why?

00:36:34.86,00:36:37.98
Not bad, eh? Bleeding enormous.

00:36:52.46,00:36:54.45
A little bit quicker with that.

00:36:59.46,00:37:01.10
When is lunch?

00:37:03.86,00:37:05.85
Yes, it won't be long.

00:37:07.90,00:37:09.30
Oh!

00:37:12.38,00:37:14.50
Look. A tortoise.

00:37:14.54,00:37:17.29
- I watched it hatching.\N- Oh, another tortoise. Splendid.

00:37:17.34,00:37:20.54
Please go and find Larry.\NHis friends are driving me mad.

00:37:24.54,00:37:25.94
Larry!

00:37:31.86,00:37:36.17
After weeks of searching,\NI - I found the perfect trees covered...

00:37:37.18,00:37:39.25
in exquisite blossom.

00:37:39.30,00:37:41.29
I started to paint...

00:37:42.90,00:37:44.54
a masterpiece.

00:37:44.58,00:37:46.93
When I returned the next day...

00:37:48.14,00:37:51.81
I found all the blossom had fallen to the ground.

00:37:51.86,00:37:55.49
- That's the wind for you.\N- I swore I'd never paint again.

00:37:55.54,00:37:57.21
But slowly...

00:37:57.26,00:37:59.73
I am recovering my nerves.

00:37:59.78,00:38:00.97
And...

00:38:01.02,00:38:03.37
And sometime...

00:38:03.42,00:38:05.81
I will start to paint again.

00:38:10.94,00:38:12.01
Larry!

00:38:14.38,00:38:16.42
Out you go, kid. I'm working.

00:38:22.66,00:38:24.65
Hommm.

00:38:25.62,00:38:26.65
Hommm.

00:38:26.70,00:38:30.74
Far from being the ordinary, charming people\Nthat Larry had promised,

00:38:30.78,00:38:34.37
his friends turned out to be\Nthe most extraordinary eccentrics.

00:38:34.42,00:38:37.73
It was like observing a whole new species.

00:38:40.86,00:38:42.26
Ha, ha.

00:39:10.34,00:39:13.57
Larry's too busy mating with Nancy.

00:39:16.94,00:39:18.82
Of course there's going to be a war.

00:39:18.86,00:39:22.49
That's what dictators do when they're bored\Nwith oppressing their own people.

00:39:22.54,00:39:25.66
Is Hitler a dictator? I thought he was a painter.

00:39:25.70,00:39:27.61
So he can't be all bad.

00:39:27.66,00:39:29.85
- Painter and decorator.\N- Oh.

00:39:29.90,00:39:31.89
Europe is a like a big, fat marrow,

00:39:31.94,00:39:34.29
lying in the sun, panting to explode.

00:39:34.34,00:39:37.81
Do you bloody poets not make sense\Non purpose? I mean, what was that?

00:39:37.86,00:39:41.17
At least the Italian fascists\Nare spending their money on nice uniforms.

00:39:41.22,00:39:43.34
Germany's become a bomb-making factory.

00:39:43.38,00:39:47.17
No, that's just to give everybody\Nsomething to do. It's all about business.

00:39:47.22,00:39:49.13
You know nothing. You're Humpty Dumpty.

00:39:49.18,00:39:51.17
Ah. Humpty Dumpty. Now thank you.

00:39:51.22,00:39:56.50
At last, real poetry. Simple, free of clichés,\Nyou could learn from it.

00:39:56.54,00:39:59.05
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall

00:39:59.10,00:40:01.61
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall

00:40:01.66,00:40:03.93
Now, I mean, that could clearly be about Hitler.

00:40:03.98,00:40:06.49
Humpty as Hitler? I don't think that's right.

00:40:06.54,00:40:11.29
I think the more accurate analogy\Nthere might be some... Hickory Dickory Dock.

00:40:11.34,00:40:14.65
- Well, if you're going to do mice...\N- Come on, Larry.

00:40:14.70,00:40:17.09
It's not like you not to have an opinion.

00:40:17.14,00:40:19.05
No, it's not.

00:40:19.10,00:40:21.29
We're cut off from the world here.

00:40:21.34,00:40:25.57
I suppose we've grown rather fond of\Nour glorious isolation.

00:40:25.62,00:40:28.69
Actually, Larry thinks\Nthe world's cut off from him,

00:40:28.74,00:40:32.02
- rather than the other way round.\N- I do now you mention it. Yes, I do.

00:40:32.06,00:40:36.10
Fine. But you may wake up and find\Nthere's no England to go back to.

00:40:36.14,00:40:38.73
Oh, I'm... I'm sure common sense will prevail.

00:40:38.78,00:40:42.17
Why? It never does in this family.

00:40:42.22,00:40:45.21
You'll find that Hickory Dickory Dock

00:40:45.26,00:40:48.46
is the mouse is going up the clock,\Nthat's us being...

00:40:48.94,00:40:53.17
- The mouse being England, used to be...\N- Could you just spit it out?

00:40:53.22,00:40:55.49
..now reduced to little mouse.

00:40:56.26,00:40:59.89
Tricking its way up the top\Nand that's us being chased.

00:41:02.02,00:41:03.85
Oh, God! It's her asthma.

00:41:04.86,00:41:07.90
- She's allergic to cats.\N- That's the only animal we haven't got.

00:41:09.18,00:41:11.53
I'll open the windows.

00:41:11.58,00:41:15.02
Please, don't - don't open the window.\NI'm allergic to fresh air.

00:41:17.62,00:41:20.18
Could it be bats?\NI think we've got some of those.

00:41:20.22,00:41:22.05
- How could it be bats?\N- I don't know.

00:41:22.10,00:41:24.33
Just breathe. God.

00:41:24.38,00:41:26.57
Breathe, breathe, breathe.

00:41:26.62,00:41:28.45
Just breathe.

00:41:36.34,00:41:38.85
Gerry, you're starting to look like a wild animal.

00:41:38.90,00:41:40.54
Thanks.

00:41:40.58,00:41:42.54
Have you ever stuffed a bat?

00:41:42.58,00:41:44.06
No.

00:41:44.10,00:41:46.09
It's harder than it looks.

00:41:46.90,00:41:48.89
If this works, I'm going to do Larry.

00:41:50.18,00:41:52.49
Isn't it enough just to look at them in the wild?

00:41:52.54,00:41:54.85
I like having them around me,

00:41:54.90,00:41:56.70
making noises,

00:41:56.74,00:41:57.97
smelling.

00:41:58.02,00:42:00.14
You're right. It's just like a family.

00:42:02.50,00:42:06.09
Did you hear the others talking about\Nwhat's happening in Germany?

00:42:07.82,00:42:09.22
Yes.

00:42:13.50,00:42:15.49
It seems so safe here.

00:42:47.38,00:42:50.66
No, barn owl! Barn owl, no!

00:42:50.70,00:42:52.42
No!

00:42:55.90,00:42:58.33
- Morning.\N- Morning.

00:43:08.66,00:43:11.62
- What's he doing?\N- The usual.

00:43:11.66,00:43:14.49
He was doing it at 2am\Nthis morning with a torch.

00:43:14.54,00:43:17.58
He says the day shift\Nis totally unlike the night shift.

00:43:17.62,00:43:21.41
Just to warn you, the wild and the woolly\Nare stirring indoors,

00:43:21.46,00:43:23.85
and I don't mean Gerry's animals.

00:43:23.90,00:43:28.02
Larry, you might encourage your friend Mr Miller\Nto experiment with pyjamas.

00:43:28.06,00:43:31.81
Henry sees clothes\Nas the last refuge of the bourgeoisie.

00:43:35.98,00:43:38.86
Watch this. Three, two...

00:43:44.10,00:43:45.53
- Good.

00:43:45.58,00:43:49.25
Perhaps it's just as well your father didn't live\Nto see how you all turned out.

00:43:50.26,00:43:54.09
How extraordinarily insensitive of you.\NI think you nagged him to death.

00:43:54.14,00:43:56.18
We're actually rather well adjusted.

00:43:57.58,00:43:58.98
Well, I am.

00:43:59.02,00:44:00.66
Oh.

00:44:00.70,00:44:04.58
I think I may have over-celebrated\Nthe god of wine last night.

00:44:04.62,00:44:05.94
Erm...

00:44:06.66,00:44:07.73
Larry.

00:44:09.62,00:44:10.89
Don't move.

00:44:14.62,00:44:17.34
- Bloody hell!\N

00:44:19.82,00:44:22.01
What are you doing?

00:44:22.06,00:44:24.81
It's that boy.\NEvery matchbox in this house is a deathtrap.

00:44:24.86,00:44:27.01
Mother, they're coming. Quick, do something!

00:44:27.06,00:44:30.65
- How did those scorpions get on the table?\N- No, no!

00:44:30.70,00:44:32.82
- Margo, where are they?

00:44:32.86,00:44:35.25
- Put the chair down, Leslie.\N- Hit them with a book.

00:44:35.30,00:44:37.05
No! No!

00:44:39.34,00:44:41.33
No!

00:44:43.46,00:44:44.94
Hit them with a book!

00:44:44.98,00:44:47.70
Scorpions won't hurt you\Nunless you're clumsy with them.

00:44:47.74,00:44:52.21
They kill people, you idiot. They sting you,\Nit's excruciating, and then you die.

00:44:52.26,00:44:54.09
What on earth is going on?

00:44:54.14,00:44:55.97
Oh, my God, it's scorpions.

00:44:57.42,00:44:59.25
Oh, God.

00:44:59.30,00:45:01.61
- Breathe slowly.\N- Don't have an attack.

00:45:01.66,00:45:04.38
I got a nosebleed.\NIt feels like I've got a nosebleed.

00:45:04.42,00:45:07.57
- Gerry. - Look, it's fine.

00:45:07.62,00:45:11.61
No! No, he's out of control.\NHe's driven my friends away.

00:45:11.66,00:45:13.93
I know. That's such a shame.

00:45:15.50,00:45:17.09
Well, what should I do?

00:45:17.14,00:45:20.29
Post him back to England in a big package\Nwith his head sticking out?

00:45:20.34,00:45:23.14
- Don't be ridiculous.\N- Don't tell me what to be.

00:45:23.18,00:45:24.82
You're my child, not my husband.

00:45:24.86,00:45:28.82
You are not driving this...\Nslightly ramshackle vehicle.

00:45:28.86,00:45:30.77
You're in the back, being driven.

00:45:31.62,00:45:33.77
Eating chocolates.

00:45:33.82,00:45:35.78
Well, I think it's about to crash.

00:45:35.82,00:45:37.54
Well, we'll see, shall we?

00:45:51.82,00:45:53.54
Gerald.

00:45:53.58,00:45:55.01
This is Peter.

00:45:55.82,00:45:58.38
- Hello, Gerald.\N- Hello.

00:46:00.26,00:46:04.38
All right, thank you, Mrs Durrell.\NI'm sure Gerald and I will be just fine.

00:46:20.58,00:46:22.57
Right.

00:46:24.14,00:46:25.94
Good.

00:46:26.98,00:46:28.81
Let me tell you something about me.

00:46:28.86,00:46:31.17
I believe in the building blocks of education.

00:46:31.22,00:46:35.66
There are no short cuts, there is only repetition,\Nrule learning and hard work.

00:46:37.10,00:46:39.98
Let's start with some basic...

00:46:40.02,00:46:41.61
mathematics.

00:46:48.30,00:46:50.69
Page one, number one.

00:47:08.06,00:47:11.34
When you've done that, move on to page 83,\Nwork through those.

00:47:19.34,00:47:21.33
Hello, I'm Margo.

00:47:24.62,00:47:27.53
What a pleasant surprise.

00:47:31.06,00:47:35.02
I'd offer to teach you too, only you look like\Nyou know everything already.

00:47:37.94,00:47:39.93
- Can I have a biscuit?\N- No.

00:47:39.98,00:47:43.73
- Do call out if you need anything.\N- I might just do that.

00:48:02.02,00:48:03.69
I say.

00:48:08.06,00:48:10.45
She loves being in the garden.

00:48:10.50,00:48:13.09
- Does she?\N- Mm.

00:48:13.14,00:48:14.25
Chatting.

00:48:16.66,00:48:18.65
Shall I write a story?

00:48:20.10,00:48:21.53
A long story?

00:48:27.70,00:48:29.42
Good idea.

00:48:31.18,00:48:33.49
''Larry wrestled with the jaguar,

00:48:33.54,00:48:35.45
''the animal's incisors...

00:48:36.50,00:48:41.73
''inches from the tall, fleshy man's\Nsoft, girlish skin.

00:48:42.70,00:48:44.89
''Larry glanced over to desperately see

00:48:44.94,00:48:50.81
''his brother Gerald having rather more success\Ntackling the massive boa constrictor

00:48:50.86,00:48:54.33
''wrapped round his mother's waist\Nlike a rope of iron.

00:48:55.10,00:48:58.73
''He tore at the creature with a knife,\Ncareful not to hurt it.

00:48:58.78,00:49:02.98
''Gerald finally sent the constrictor packing,\Nthen turned to his older brother,

00:49:03.02,00:49:06.22
''who was whimpering with fear,\Ncornered by the jaguar.''

00:49:06.26,00:49:10.97
Gerry, your stuffed bat smells even worse\Nthan everything else, if that were possible.

00:49:11.02,00:49:13.01
Please get rid of it.

00:49:13.06,00:49:15.78
- Where's Peter?\N- He set me some work.

00:49:15.82,00:49:17.46
I'm working very hard.

00:49:18.46,00:49:20.73
I think he might be somewhere with Margo.

00:49:30.94,00:49:33.98
You can see that this essentially loamy soil

00:49:34.02,00:49:35.58
gives way...

00:49:36.78,00:49:40.37
..gives way further up the scarp,\Nto a more clay strata

00:49:40.42,00:49:44.46
- with the characteristic alluvium.\N- Mm-hm.

00:49:49.86,00:49:52.66
There are publications on the subject\Nif you're interested.

00:49:52.70,00:49:56.82
Baldwin's Dictionary Of Soil\Ngives all types from A to Z,

00:49:56.86,00:49:59.77
and all letters in between.

00:50:01.62,00:50:03.53
Oh, Larry.

00:50:03.58,00:50:05.46
Oh!

00:50:05.50,00:50:07.49
I've grabbed it. I've got it.

00:50:12.34,00:50:15.06
They never let me win.

00:50:15.10,00:50:17.17
Forward. Forward with the Light Brigade.

00:50:17.22,00:50:18.33
Hey!

00:50:19.62,00:50:20.94
Oh!

00:50:20.98,00:50:24.37
- Does this remind you of Bournemouth?\N- Not really, Les, no.

00:50:25.38,00:50:26.86
Was that a porpoise?

00:50:26.90,00:50:29.57
You should buy a costume and come in, Mum.

00:50:29.62,00:50:31.81
Ooh, no. Not at my age.

00:50:31.86,00:50:35.74
We get all the fun we need from sitting down\Nwith a ball of knobbly wool.

00:50:35.78,00:50:37.58
Oh, don't be a wimp.

00:50:38.70,00:50:40.69
Whoa. Whoa.

00:50:53.06,00:50:55.21
When's Margo coming back?

00:50:55.26,00:50:57.45
Dunno. Mother took her shopping.

00:50:58.90,00:51:00.89
How do you spell scimitar?

00:51:04.46,00:51:08.05
You don't expect me to read that drivel\Nwhen you've finished it.

00:51:18.18,00:51:22.49
All right. Stop scribbling. By tomorrow\NI want you to have written out all your tables.

00:51:22.54,00:51:23.61
Eight times.

00:51:25.70,00:51:28.61
I'll tell Mummy and big bro you won't work.

00:51:28.66,00:51:33.53
They'll have you off to that boarding school in\NSurrey they've no doubt got lined up for you.

00:51:37.66,00:51:39.93
- Where's your annoying friend?\N- Gone.

00:51:40.74,00:51:43.54
- You're not still writing that novel?\N- No.

00:51:43.58,00:51:45.65
- Birthday list.\N- Thank God.

00:51:45.70,00:51:48.90
Two obsessive writers in the family,\Nthat's all we need.

00:51:49.78,00:51:52.34
What do you want, then?

00:51:53.58,00:51:55.62
I've done a list for each person.

00:51:56.94,00:51:58.93
And here's yours.

00:52:01.10,00:52:04.01
- A boat.\N- I'm not allowed to use the Sea Cow.

00:52:04.06,00:52:07.05
- You could make me one.\N- Do you know how much time that would take?

00:52:07.10,00:52:09.09
You know so much about boats.

00:52:09.14,00:52:10.54
Oh.

00:52:10.58,00:52:11.98
All right.

00:52:12.02,00:52:14.06
You should have a birthday party, Gerry.

00:52:14.10,00:52:17.69
Small but distinguished gathering,\Nten people you like best.

00:52:17.74,00:52:21.29
- Thank you, Larry.\N- Pleasure. I'll get Mother to arrange it.

00:52:33.06,00:52:37.45
Not only I, but each family member\Ninvited ten people to the party.

00:52:38.22,00:52:41.13
Unfortunately, we didn't all invite the same ten.

00:52:41.18,00:52:44.49
The result was that Mother,\Non the eve of the party,

00:52:44.54,00:52:48.25
suddenly discovered\Nwe were going to have not ten guests, but 50.

00:52:51.46,00:52:55.98
Larry suggested the puppies be called\NWiddle and Puke, and the names stuck.

00:53:09.38,00:53:11.61
Hello.

00:53:18.86,00:53:21.45
When we gots married, I asked my wife,

00:53:21.50,00:53:23.97
''How many childrens you want?''\NShe says two.

00:53:24.02,00:53:26.01
I gives her two, vadoom, vadoom.

00:53:26.06,00:53:28.33
Then I gets her sewed up.

00:53:28.38,00:53:30.18
Uh?

00:53:31.66,00:53:33.65
13 years old, uh?

00:53:33.70,00:53:35.69
Who would believe it?

00:53:42.62,00:53:43.73
Right!

00:55:36.14,00:55:37.70
Can we get this over with?

00:55:46.82,00:55:49.49
- He doesn't like it.\N- I do, I love it.

00:55:50.58,00:55:53.25
Get it into the water, so we can go back to bed.

00:55:53.30,00:55:57.13
- She needs a name before we can launch her.\N- Jolly Roger. Can I go now?

00:55:57.18,00:55:59.17
No. Something more interesting.

00:55:59.22,00:56:01.02
Arbuckle?

00:56:02.66,00:56:03.81
Bootle.

00:56:04.78,00:56:07.37
- The Bumtrinket.\N- Don't be rude, Larry.

00:56:14.54,00:56:17.90
I name this boat the Bootle Bumtrinket.

00:56:31.02,00:56:33.01
Told you the mast was too big.

00:56:35.54,00:56:37.53
He'll have to go, of course.

00:56:37.58,00:56:38.93
Yeah.

00:56:39.98,00:56:41.57
Who? Where?

00:56:41.62,00:56:42.77
Peter.

00:56:42.82,00:56:45.13
He and Margo are obviously...

00:56:45.18,00:56:47.37
becoming too fond of each other.

00:56:48.38,00:56:50.29
Look, I hardly want him as a relative,

00:56:50.34,00:56:52.69
- but you can't blame them for wanting to...\N- Yes.

00:56:52.74,00:56:55.81
I don't want to hear your current word for it,\Nthank you.

00:56:59.22,00:57:01.21
I think it's too short now.

00:57:28.62,00:57:30.93
- This is so unfair.\N- It's so unfair.

00:57:30.98,00:57:32.65
I love him.

00:57:32.70,00:57:34.53
You love him. I know.

00:57:34.58,00:57:36.73
Love is lovely.

00:57:36.78,00:57:38.50
But terrible.

00:57:38.54,00:57:41.90
There's no other work\Nfor Peter here on the island.

00:57:41.94,00:57:44.37
He'll have to go back to Athens.

00:57:44.42,00:57:46.33
I'll shoot him if he tries to come back.

00:57:46.38,00:57:48.37
A little bit reactionary, perhaps.

00:57:48.42,00:57:50.81
You've got to be firm\Nunder these circumstances.

00:57:50.86,00:57:53.21
Family honour is at stake.

00:57:57.06,00:58:01.10
I put the word out. They'll stop him\Nat the docks if he try to get back in.

00:58:01.14,00:58:04.73
I have nothing more to say to you,\Nso if I can show you out...

00:58:09.06,00:58:10.70
I hate you!

00:58:10.74,00:58:12.33
You've destroyed my life.

00:58:12.38,00:58:15.18
Margo, darling.\NI would love you to find someone,

00:58:15.22,00:58:17.05
but I fear Peter was not the one.

00:58:17.10,00:58:19.98
- What do you know?\N- I know how to protect my family.

00:58:20.02,00:58:22.53
- You do not!\N- Yes, I do!

00:58:23.30,00:58:26.97
I'm staying in my bedroom.\NI don't want to see anyone.

00:58:33.98,00:58:36.62
Somebody's been pinching things\Nfrom the Sea Cow.

00:58:36.66,00:58:39.62
- Not on Corfu. Who?\N- Fishermen, presumably.

00:58:41.54,00:58:43.81
- I'm worried about Margo.\N- Mmm.

00:58:43.86,00:58:46.05
She's been in her room for nearly a week.

00:58:46.10,00:58:49.69
- She's never refused food before.\N- I saw Gerry with a tray.

00:58:49.74,00:58:52.62
Well, yes, she takes it from him.

00:58:54.54,00:58:56.45
Perhaps Peter wouldn't have been so bad.

00:58:56.50,00:58:58.89
- He was appalling.\N- Yes, he was, wasn't he?

00:58:58.94,00:59:01.77
He's threatened to come back\Nand snatch Margo away.

00:59:01.82,00:59:02.81
Apparently.

00:59:06.82,00:59:07.81
Aw.

00:59:09.66,00:59:11.85
How romantic.

00:59:26.34,00:59:27.82
What's happening?

00:59:27.86,00:59:30.82
Margo's done something silly. Where is she?

00:59:30.86,00:59:32.66
Margo!

00:59:34.06,00:59:37.10
Thank God. I thought\Nyou'd done something terrible to yourself.

00:59:37.14,00:59:39.70
- Someone's shot Peter!\N- What's wrong?

00:59:39.74,00:59:41.81
Shut up till we know what's happening.

00:59:41.86,00:59:43.61
I need to check he's all right.

00:59:43.66,00:59:46.94
- Come on. Back in.\N- Leave him alone, you cowards!

00:59:46.98,00:59:48.54
Burglars.

00:59:48.58,00:59:50.38
Where? Get the bloody dogs in.

00:59:50.42,00:59:53.09
- Everyone, shut up!

00:59:53.14,00:59:56.53
- I need to check if Peter's all right.\N- What? I wasn't shooting at him!

00:59:57.38,00:59:59.37
It was my burglar warning device.

01:00:20.42,01:00:23.25
Did you expect nobody would hear?

01:00:23.30,01:00:26.45
I'm protecting the family's assets\Nfrom those fishermen.

01:00:26.50,01:00:28.85
In case they were out there.

01:00:29.66,01:00:32.17
I - I don't even have to get out of bed,\Nyou see.

01:00:34.06,01:00:36.25
- Look. Shall I demonstrate?\N- No!

01:00:36.74,01:00:38.54
No, you madman!

01:00:39.58,01:00:41.73
They're too far away to get badly hurt.

01:00:41.78,01:00:46.09
Animals and explosions all day, bloody great\N12-gun salutes in the middle of the night.

01:00:46.14,01:00:49.81
There's eccentricity. And then there's stupidity!

01:01:14.50,01:01:16.89
Do you have to kill quite so many?

01:01:16.94,01:01:19.25
You said I was allowed to hunt.

01:01:19.30,01:01:22.53
- Poor innocent creatures.\N- It's the hunting season.

01:01:22.58,01:01:24.49
They expect to be shot.

01:01:26.14,01:01:27.49
How is she?

01:01:27.54,01:01:29.93
Still sad. Reading poetry.

01:01:29.98,01:01:30.97
Who?

01:01:31.02,01:01:32.85
- Um... Tennyson.\N- Ugh.

01:01:32.90,01:01:35.49
- How can we jolt her out of this?\N- Don't expect me to help,

01:01:35.54,01:01:38.13
- I believe in free love.\N- No, you don't, you silly boy.

01:01:38.18,01:01:42.57
Why doesn't she stop moping around, disguise\Nherself as a peasant and fly into Peter's arms?

01:01:45.98,01:01:49.37
Lugaretzia, that's horrible.\NI'm so sorry that Roger bit you.

01:01:49.42,01:01:52.30
I'd no idea wild boar was so big.

01:01:52.34,01:01:55.17
- Do be careful.\N- It's perfectly safe.

01:01:55.22,01:01:58.42
- Unless they charge. - You can always vault over it.

01:01:59.38,01:02:02.93
- Vault over a charging boar?\N- Why not?

01:02:02.98,01:02:05.94
Well, do come with me today\Nto the marshes and demonstrate.

01:02:05.98,01:02:07.94
I don't profess to be a man of action, Les,

01:02:07.98,01:02:10.17
I supply the ideas,\Nit's your job to carry them out.

01:02:10.22,01:02:11.78
You always think the things

01:02:11.82,01:02:14.29
- other people do are simple.\N- They are.

01:02:14.34,01:02:17.17
He's right. You never put your suggestions\Ninto practice.

01:02:17.22,01:02:19.73
Yes. Are you ever going to actually do anything?

01:02:19.78,01:02:21.58
Fine.

01:02:22.98,01:02:25.41
My honour's at stake.

01:02:25.46,01:02:27.10
Prepare me a gun.

01:02:28.14,01:02:31.02
I'm going down to the beach. Don't follow me.

01:02:44.34,01:02:46.98
I didn't think it was going to be this...dank.

01:02:47.02,01:02:49.90
So, trickiest of all is\Nwhat's called the right and left,

01:02:49.94,01:02:54.93
where you make two kills in quick succession\Nfirst with the right, then the left barrel.

01:02:54.98,01:02:57.25
Sounds easy enough.

01:03:00.98,01:03:03.25
You might want to load it.

01:03:03.30,01:03:05.29
I know.

01:03:21.06,01:03:22.29
Agh!

01:03:26.02,01:03:28.61
Hold the gun above your head\Nand don't stand up,

01:03:28.66,01:03:30.65
or you'll sink. Stay how you are.

01:03:32.22,01:03:34.94
No. Now you've choked the bloody barrels!

01:03:34.98,01:03:37.25
- Would you rather I was sucked under?\N- Yes!

01:03:37.30,01:03:39.49
Ooh. Ah.

01:03:40.86,01:03:42.85
- Get me out of here.\N- Hold the gun out to me.

01:03:42.90,01:03:44.81
Forget the gun, save me!

01:03:44.86,01:03:47.33
I can't reach you unless you give me\Nthe end of the gun.

01:03:52.06,01:03:54.62
Working, working, working, working.

01:03:58.62,01:04:00.53
- Oh.\N- Oh!

01:04:00.58,01:04:02.22
I'm going down. I'm going under.

01:04:02.26,01:04:05.97
I'm going under.\NIt's Shelley, it's Shelley all over again.

01:04:06.02,01:04:07.82
Ooh. Ooh.

01:04:07.86,01:04:09.53
Take it.

01:04:09.58,01:04:10.90
Oh, God!

01:04:12.50,01:04:14.46
Come on.

01:04:20.10,01:04:22.17
- Ow!\N- Oh.

01:04:27.58,01:04:28.81
All right?

01:04:28.86,01:04:30.61
Oh, yes.

01:04:30.66,01:04:32.93
- Having a wonderful time.\N- Good.

01:04:32.98,01:04:34.81
And on with the hunting.

01:05:04.22,01:05:07.21
I don't know what I'll do, Lugaretzia,\Nif Germany...

01:05:13.58,01:05:15.65
You want to gather all your children.

01:05:18.78,01:05:21.85
Gather them up and shout at everyone else\Nto keep away.

01:05:25.94,01:05:27.93
Makes you very selfish.

01:05:39.78,01:05:41.18
How did that go?

01:05:41.22,01:05:42.37
Oh.

01:05:42.42,01:05:44.41
I should ask Larry.

01:05:53.86,01:05:55.85
Don't say a word.

01:06:00.34,01:06:02.33
Was that fun?

01:06:02.38,01:06:04.42
You seem to be missing a shoe.

01:06:04.46,01:06:06.77
Did you fall in a bog?

01:06:12.26,01:06:14.73
It's rather windy out there.

01:06:31.22,01:06:34.66
Margo, dear, I sometimes wonder\Nif you're quite right.

01:06:34.70,01:06:36.69
Oh, leave me alone.

01:06:38.74,01:06:40.73
Are you back with us now?

01:06:44.50,01:06:45.93
Do I look...

01:06:45.98,01:06:47.89
windswept and interesting at all?

01:06:47.94,01:06:49.93
No, dear.

01:06:54.34,01:06:56.33
Larry's really hitting the brandy.

01:06:56.38,01:06:59.45
- Well, he's in shock, the poor boy.\N- Mm.

01:06:59.50,01:07:03.49
# Greensleeves was all my joy... #

01:07:05.18,01:07:08.69
- No, not the singing.\N- # ..my delight #

01:07:16.50,01:07:18.49
Larry.

01:07:21.78,01:07:25.57
Now, come on. Stop being a fool\Nand drink this down at once.

01:07:25.62,01:07:27.74
You're a horrible old woman.

01:07:27.78,01:07:30.50
I'm sure I've seen you somewhere before.

01:07:30.54,01:07:32.29
- Yes, well.\N

01:07:32.34,01:07:34.33
I'll put that down to the drink.

01:07:40.10,01:07:43.30
Not that you're so different when you're sober.

01:07:50.74,01:07:52.73
- Morning.\N- Mm.

01:08:05.22,01:08:06.78
Fire.

01:08:06.82,01:08:08.94
- Fire!\N- Fire!

01:08:08.98,01:08:12.94
- Fire! Fire!\N- Wake up. The house is on fire!

01:08:17.86,01:08:19.85
What's going on?

01:08:19.90,01:08:22.49
- It's not me this time.\N- Larry's on fire!

01:08:26.50,01:08:27.49
Larry.

01:08:28.42,01:08:30.93
Larry! For heaven's sake, wake up!

01:08:31.70,01:08:33.58
Wake up!

01:08:33.62,01:08:35.21
The room's on fire!

01:08:35.26,01:08:37.69
You all put it out. I've got a bit of a headache.

01:08:38.90,01:08:40.49
Pour something on it.

01:08:41.74,01:08:43.78
- No, no, no! Not brandy, you...\N

01:08:44.86,01:08:46.85
Please use it. I've had enough.

01:08:47.74,01:08:50.65
Why did he do that? Are you trying\Nto freeze me to death?

01:08:50.70,01:08:51.42
Oh, shut up!

01:08:56.10,01:08:59.54
Oh, this is nice. Look.\NOrgandie with puffed sleeves.

01:09:01.98,01:09:03.97
Henry's written a filthy book!

01:09:04.02,01:09:05.17
Excellent.

01:09:05.22,01:09:07.53
Oh, now that is...

01:09:07.58,01:09:10.38
Look at that. Telescopic sight.

01:09:10.42,01:09:14.21
- Bolt-action.\N- Great Aunt Hermione wonders how you are.

01:09:14.94,01:09:17.25
Mother, I'm buying a chimpanzee.

01:09:17.30,01:09:19.02
- No, you're not.\N

01:09:19.06,01:09:21.62
She claims doctors don't hold out\Nmuch hope for her.

01:09:21.66,01:09:24.46
- Have they ever?\N- She was doubtful about us rushing to Corfu,

01:09:24.50,01:09:26.89
but after their winter,\Nshe thinks it wasn't stupid.

01:09:26.94,01:09:28.93
- A chipmunk, then?\N-No.

01:09:30.10,01:09:32.01
- Oh, Lord.\N- What?

01:09:32.06,01:09:33.17
Oh, no.

01:09:34.54,01:09:37.45
The doctors have advised a warm climate.

01:09:37.50,01:09:39.65
- She's coming to stay.\N- No!

01:09:39.70,01:09:42.90
It's grim enough being shown\NLugaretzia's latest suppurating wound,

01:09:42.94,01:09:45.45
without having a great aunt\Ndying all over the place.

01:09:45.50,01:09:47.97
- Write and tell her there's no room.\N- I can't.

01:09:48.02,01:09:50.74
- I told her what a big villa we have.\N- I've got it.

01:09:50.78,01:09:53.74
I've got it. I'll write to her\Nand tell her that you've died.

01:09:53.78,01:09:55.77
- Larry!\N- Larry!

01:09:56.66,01:09:58.97
Fine. We'll move to a smaller villa,

01:09:59.02,01:10:02.41
which will also force jungle boy\Nto get rid of some of his bloody animals.

01:10:02.46,01:10:05.53
- They're less trouble than your silly friends.\N- Oh, yes?

01:10:05.58,01:10:08.14
You're an animal too. Let's get rid of you first.

01:10:08.18,01:10:10.77
It is too big, this house.

01:10:10.82,01:10:12.57
The stairs are really tiring.

01:10:12.62,01:10:15.58
Children. We are not moving again.

01:10:40.74,01:10:43.94
We moved in and the bats\Nthat were living there moved out.

01:10:43.98,01:10:46.29
As Margot said, typically,

01:10:46.34,01:10:49.06
''A change is as good as a feast. ''

01:11:50.94,01:11:54.49
I'm sorry we didn't believe you\Nwhen you said you got seasick, Spiro, dear.

01:11:54.54,01:11:56.53
Will you survive?

01:11:59.70,01:12:02.01
- Excuse me.

01:12:02.62,01:12:04.34
Hello. Stop.

01:12:04.38,01:12:05.37
I - I think...

01:12:14.66,01:12:16.85
How you doing, Spiro?

01:12:16.90,01:12:18.54
Feeling better?

01:12:19.82,01:12:20.93
Yeah.

01:12:25.42,01:12:27.41
Perhaps we should have come by car.

01:12:44.30,01:12:46.53
I adore this place.

01:12:47.54,01:12:48.97
Look away, Margo, dear.

01:12:50.10,01:12:51.09
- Theo.\N- Hm?

01:12:51.78,01:12:53.97
- Are you all right?\N- No, I'm fine.

01:12:54.02,01:12:56.01
Yes. No, I'm very good.

01:12:56.06,01:12:58.25
Look at those gulls flying over.

01:12:58.30,01:12:59.94
Yes. Yes.

01:12:59.98,01:13:02.25
All the nice gulls love a sailor.

01:13:04.02,01:13:06.82
Do you know, I should like to be buried here.

01:13:07.94,01:13:09.93
Oh, make up your mind.

01:13:13.38,01:13:17.45
I'm afraid I heard on the wireless yesterday\Nthat Germany...

01:13:17.50,01:13:19.49
Shhh. Stop.

01:13:20.54,01:13:22.29
Let's not spoil it.

01:13:23.50,01:13:24.69
Oi!

01:13:24.74,01:13:26.73
Son of a bitch fish.

01:13:38.18,01:13:42.86
The magic of the island had settled over us\Nas gently and clingingly as pollen.

01:13:44.02,01:13:47.57
Each day had a tranquillity\Nand timelessness about it.

01:13:47.62,01:13:50.09
We wished that it would never end.

01:14:55.34,01:14:57.93
- Where have you been?\N- How do you mean?

01:14:57.98,01:15:00.17
You've been gone for two days.

01:15:00.22,01:15:02.69
- You knew where I was.\N- No. Where?

01:15:02.74,01:15:04.01
Out and about.

01:15:04.06,01:15:05.86
Please.

01:15:06.78,01:15:08.58
No more long trips.

01:15:10.18,01:15:12.77
How will you ever put on shoes again?

01:15:12.82,01:15:14.41
And be normal?

01:15:15.42,01:15:19.89
- Oh, do talk to me. You are not a wild animal.\N- I've given up shoes.

01:15:19.94,01:15:22.98
Oh, you're back. What have you brought\Nthis time, a woolly mammoth?

01:15:23.02,01:15:24.58
- Did you feed everyone?\N- Yes.

01:15:24.62,01:15:26.45
More or less.

01:15:27.18,01:15:29.93
Oh, aren't they sweet?

01:15:29.98,01:15:32.41
Gerry, why do you bring all these animals back?

01:15:32.46,01:15:34.37
How revolting.

01:15:34.42,01:15:36.85
- Golly. What's them?\N- Magpies.

01:15:36.90,01:15:41.26
Oh, maggenpies, huh?\NWhat's you going to do with them bastards?

01:15:41.30,01:15:43.69
Magpies, Spiro, magpies.

01:15:43.74,01:15:45.22
Maggenpies.

01:15:45.26,01:15:47.65
These are maggenpies.

01:15:47.70,01:15:49.02
No.

01:15:49.06,01:15:50.70
Mag-pies.

01:15:50.74,01:15:52.49
Yeah. Maggenpies.

01:15:52.54,01:15:54.61
Maaag...

01:15:54.66,01:15:56.65
pies.

01:15:56.70,01:15:59.29
Maaaggenpies.

01:16:01.70,01:16:03.82
- What's he brought now?\N- Maggenpies.

01:16:03.86,01:16:06.61
Awful thieves, maggenpies,\Nput them back where you found them.

01:16:06.66,01:16:10.33
I can't. Their mother won't take them.\NI'll train them.

01:16:10.38,01:16:13.93
- It will be all right.\N- I could easily shoot them if you'd like.

01:16:13.98,01:16:16.29
- No.\N- No, thank you.

01:16:27.94,01:16:30.41
Come on, Mum. You know you want to.

01:16:30.46,01:16:32.69
No. I've changed my mind.

01:16:32.74,01:16:34.25
Too old.

01:16:34.30,01:16:37.53
- Haven't got a figure for swimming.\N- Don't be ridiculous, woman.

01:16:38.82,01:16:41.70
Oh, come on. If not now, when?

01:16:42.82,01:16:44.81
I won't be here forever.

01:16:54.94,01:16:57.50
- Whoa. I'm gonna drown, I'm gonna drown.\N

01:16:57.54,01:16:59.26
- All right?\N- You can't wear that.

01:16:59.30,01:17:03.09
- It looks like it was made in 1920.\N- It was all they had. Sorry.

01:17:03.14,01:17:04.97
I should have popped over to Paris.

01:17:05.02,01:17:07.61
- Mrs Durrell, you look splendid.\N- Thank you.

01:17:07.66,01:17:10.81
Don't forget to shake the fish out\Nwhen you come out of the water.

01:17:10.86,01:17:13.77
Shut up! This is my moment\Nand I don't want you spoiling it.

01:17:13.82,01:17:16.81
- Going in, the creature is going in.\N

01:17:16.86,01:17:17.93
All right.

01:17:18.82,01:17:20.81
- Ooh.

01:17:23.10,01:17:25.90
Ow! Look, get the dog off.

01:17:25.94,01:17:27.05
Oh!

01:17:27.10,01:17:29.49
Eat up, Roger.

01:17:29.54,01:17:31.77
Here. Mrs Durrell, give me your hand.

01:17:31.82,01:17:34.86
You're all right. You're all right.

01:17:34.90,01:17:36.97
Oh. Ooh. The bum monster.

01:17:37.02,01:17:38.77
That hasn't seen the sun for a long time.

01:17:38.82,01:17:40.81
Oh, my God.

01:17:41.54,01:17:44.05
Don't be embarrassed, I am a doctor.

01:17:44.10,01:17:46.69
Although I am off duty at the moment.

01:17:53.18,01:17:54.41
Gerry.

01:17:57.38,01:18:00.13
Stay back. Stay back.

01:18:00.18,01:18:02.22
OK. I...

01:18:03.50,01:18:08.02
- I'm the king of the ship.\N- You should be proud of yourself.

01:18:08.06,01:18:09.73
Not so sure.

01:18:12.18,01:18:17.30
Who was it who said, ''If you can control your\Nfamily, you've gone terribly wrong somewhere''?

01:18:19.02,01:18:20.37
Aristotle?

01:18:20.42,01:18:22.01
No.

01:18:23.90,01:18:25.70
Was it me?

01:18:25.74,01:18:26.85
Yes.

01:18:32.74,01:18:36.10
My mother steered her vessel\Nfull of strange progeny

01:18:36.14,01:18:39.50
through the stormy seas of life with great skill.

01:18:39.54,01:18:44.25
As Larry rightly pointed out, ''We can be\Nproud of the way we brought her up. ''

01:19:17.54,01:19:19.53
Oh, that sodding boy!

01:19:21.70,01:19:23.69
And that was that.

01:19:26.22,01:19:27.65
No.

01:19:27.70,01:19:30.34
I think you're old enough to sort yourselves out.

01:19:30.38,01:19:33.21
They've made an awful mess of your papers.

01:19:36.94,01:19:39.37
Those bloody birds!

01:19:40.78,01:19:43.82
No more wildlife!

01:19:43.86,01:19:44.89
Gerald!

01:19:44.94,01:19:46.34
Gerald!

01:20:04.30,01:20:05.37
Ah.

01:20:05.42,01:20:07.22
Here.

01:20:08.50,01:20:10.77
- Oh.

01:20:10.82,01:20:13.65
- Theo. What a pleasure.\N- Theo.

01:20:17.38,01:20:19.85
I'm afraid I have some bad news, Mrs Durrell.

01:20:21.58,01:20:23.06
What's Gerry done?

01:20:23.10,01:20:25.09
No, nothing.

01:20:25.14,01:20:27.97
I think you should return to England\Nwith your family.

01:20:28.02,01:20:30.01
Has Larry been annoying people again?

01:20:30.06,01:20:33.69
Britain and Greece\Nwill shortly be engulfed by war.

01:20:33.74,01:20:38.42
If you leave it too late,\Nyou'll have grave difficulties getting back.

01:20:40.38,01:20:42.34
Can't bear to tell Gerry.

01:20:57.98,01:21:00.02
Has Leslie finally shot someone?

01:21:00.06,01:21:02.05
We have to leave the island.

01:21:08.98,01:21:10.05
Right.

01:21:11.10,01:21:13.41
Bad luck, Theo.

01:21:13.46,01:21:15.85
You get Gerry's animals to look after.

01:21:15.90,01:21:17.38
Yes.

01:21:17.42,01:21:18.85
No, I will do it.

01:21:19.82,01:21:20.89
Theo.

01:21:25.54,01:21:27.53
So sorry, Gerry.

01:21:30.02,01:21:31.82
We have to go home.

01:22:05.14,01:22:07.13
- Agh!

01:22:08.82,01:22:10.01
Oh.

01:22:10.06,01:22:12.89
Oh, it feels like I say goodbye\Nto my own peoples.

01:22:14.18,01:22:15.98
I feels you belong to me.

01:22:16.02,01:22:18.01
I'm coming back, Spiro.

01:22:18.06,01:22:19.70
Honestly.

01:22:19.74,01:22:21.86
You come back, honest?

01:22:21.90,01:22:23.73
Goodbye.

01:22:23.78,01:22:25.05
Bye.

01:22:25.10,01:22:26.69
- Bye.\N- Bye-bye, Margo.

01:22:26.74,01:22:28.49
I'll miss you.

01:22:30.66,01:22:32.14
Hey, hey, hey.

01:22:33.18,01:22:36.30
No more shootings for you now, huh?\NThere's a war on.

01:22:38.70,01:22:39.77
Oh.

01:22:49.90,01:22:52.62
I'm, er...actually staying, Spiro.

01:22:53.62,01:22:54.73
Sorry.

01:22:59.98,01:23:01.01
Boys.

01:23:02.22,01:23:04.29
- Goodbye, Lugaretzia.

01:23:05.06,01:23:07.37
And, er, good luck with all...

01:23:07.42,01:23:09.73
your illnesses.

01:23:28.38,01:23:31.85
Right. I've, er...scribbled down\Nsome essential reading.

01:23:31.90,01:23:34.29
Nothing, you know, too arduous.

01:23:36.58,01:23:38.93
But I think...

01:23:40.78,01:23:43.93
the most important thing is, um...

01:23:46.54,01:23:47.53
Well...

01:24:10.86,01:24:12.93
I'm sorry. I don't mean to cry.

01:24:32.98,01:24:34.01
Theo!

01:24:34.06,01:24:37.18
Don't forget to feed Quasimodo.

01:24:37.22,01:24:41.01
And Spiro, you know Aleka likes fresh sardines.

01:24:41.06,01:24:44.05
- Don't worry.\N- Everything's under control.

01:24:44.10,01:24:47.41
- What is Aleka?\N- The huge, angry seagull.

01:24:47.46,01:24:49.77
You'll need some thick gloves. Good luck.

01:25:06.46,01:25:08.45
So when are we coming back?

01:25:10.26,01:25:12.25
Soon, Gerry, soon.

01:25:12.30,01:25:14.42
After you've had a bit of an education.

01:25:14.46,01:25:16.53
So what have I just had?

01:25:17.54,01:25:18.73
Erm...

01:25:18.78,01:25:20.58
Not sure.

01:25:26.38,01:25:28.37
So is it downhill from now on?

01:25:30.26,01:25:33.62
- Yes, I rather think it is.\N- Shall I fire off a ceremonial ten-gun salute?

01:25:33.66,01:25:36.09
- No.\N- Absolutely not.

01:25:37.50,01:25:40.78
You know what, Gerry?\NThey're all right, your stories.

01:25:40.82,01:25:42.81
Not terribly flattering...

01:25:43.86,01:25:45.90
but pretty good.

01:25:49.78,01:25:52.09
It was nice to be all together.

01:25:52.14,01:25:53.89
Yes, it was.

01:25:56.50,01:25:57.90
What a rude man.

01:25:57.94,01:25:59.90
What?

01:26:02.42,01:26:06.49
''Description of passengers:\None travelling circus and staff.''

01:26:07.82,01:26:09.81
An odd thing to write.

01:26:11.86,01:26:14.13
Some people really are peculiar.

01:26:42.34,01:26:45.49
Back in England,\NMother insisted I went to school,

01:26:45.54,01:26:49.09
despite my protestation\Nthat I liked being half-educated.

01:26:50.46,01:26:54.34
You were so much more surprised at everything\Nwhen you were ignorant.