The Hour BBC TV series

Freddie: Theyre humouring you. Theyre humouring you. A woman is difficult, hysterical. And you can never really find one who will ever stay. A couple more years, youll probably want a baby.

George Hemmings: Though I share your desire to live in the pages of an Ian Fleming novel, Mr Lyon, I prefer to keep my life separate from a work of fiction.

— The Hour BBC TV series life

Lix : When I was in France, there were these men Id Hmm, Id loosely call them journalists, but they were never at the front. They never stuck their head above the parapet. They were terrified of being shot. Yet they wrote some of the best battle reportage that Ive ever read. Filched most of it from us, and what they didnt know, theyd make up. But youre not one of them. And youll never truly know, will you, Freddie? Unless you stick your neck out and get yourself a little bit muddy. Come on, jump. I dare you.

— The Hour BBC TV series men

Freddie: You can do this job standing on your head, Moneypenny. And dont let anyone tell you otherwise.

— The Hour BBC TV series money

Freddie: After I gave you that lamp, we ate at that terrible Chinese. Its an Anglepoise because you press your face too close to the page when you read and theres never enough light. And you wont wear glasses because you say your nose is too small and with glasses youd look like a mole which you dont. Wouldn’t. Theyd suit you. Youd look just as fairly beautiful as you are. Its yellow because you said no one wants a yellow lamp. So I thought if I got it for you in yellow then no one would steal it from your desk. I do give these things quite a lot of consideration, you see. The devil is in the detail.

— The Hour BBC TV series light

Bel: You know that a monthly subscription to Marvels All-True Crime doesnt make you a real detective?

— The Hour BBC TV series crime

Bel: Five years from now, Ill be doing what I do now a bit better. I wont live in Clapham. Ill have an exquisite apartment.

— The Hour BBC TV series art

Freddie: Land in Tooting Bec Lido each morning. Up on the Northern Line, cross onto the Central and

— The Hour BBC TV series die

Bel: Because youre tenacious. Because you care more about the truth than you do about your own safety. Because if I was scared for my life, I would run to you. And trust that you would know the answer.

— The Hour BBC TV series life

Marnie: At least youre not his secretary. You see, I knew you were an intelligent woman. I knew that I wouldnt have to say much. Normally, its with one of those silly little girls. Im just glad that with a clever women like you, you do fully understand. He just cant control himself. I think its the creative in him. Picasso has a heap of lovers. Not that Im putting Hector on a par with an artiste like that, but there is always someone. And normally I have to unpick their little fingers from his arm. But it is such a relief to finally meet a proper woman. I do like you very much. Youre such fun. Hes always just on loan. And he always comes back.

— The Hour BBC TV series love

Lix: That one was taken just outside of Madrid. They were one of the last to surrender in 39. She was running away from her house, leaving everything. A row of men are being executed just behind that door. Amongst them, her husband. She She didnt look back. And I was irritated because I had my camera in my hand and I couldnt find another film. They were being shot one by one and all I could think was, Ive got no bloody film. Im still proud I got it.

— The Hour BBC TV series men

Freddie: Ladies and gentlemen. If we cannot debate that which troubles our society, and more importantly troubles our government, then we cannot, in all honestly, calls ourselves a democracy. If we cannot question our leaders as they embark on what has been called an illegal military action, an action publicly opposed by the United States government

— The Hour BBC TV series society

Clarence: I dont know why they dont suspect us more, us journalists. Were thrust into world events, life-changing events. And they expect us not to be changed. Well, it changed me. It changed my view of the world.

— The Hour BBC TV series life

Bel: And despite ITVs attempts to colonise many aspects of the show, The Hour is still exemplary in its field.

— The Hour BBC TV series man

Randall Brown: The last time I watched this programme, and admittedly that was some time ago, then, then one could feel the tingle, hear the tick. Let me hear your tick, Miss Rowley.

— The Hour BBC TV series time

Lix: When Hector inquired how well I knew Mr Brown, I said not at all. Please dont make me lie to you as well.

— The Hour BBC TV series you

Randall Brown: Youre an alcoholic. That was the first sentence my head of news ever said to me. The second, Congratulations, youre in good company.

— The Hour BBC TV series good

Lix: You know, really, darling, you are not getting any younger. Surprise me. Buy a bottle of wine, drink yourself silly and dance all night with some inappropriate man like you used to. Its much better than staying in with a good book. Me? Im old. Ive made my mistakes. But you, too pretty. Dont let it go to waste. Run away for too long and they stop loving you back.

— The Hour BBC TV series self

Camille: But hes a terrible husband. He works all the time. Miss Rowley, please make sure hes at home by 7:00 every night.

— The Hour BBC TV series time

Lix: Heroes or villains, were all somewhere in between. The good do bad things and the bad are sometimes kind to their mothers.

— The Hour BBC TV series time

Randall Brown: Youll ruin his career. Youll give him six months on Uncovered, then hell be earmarked for light entertainment. Hell be in a sparkly suit, spinning a cardboard roulette wheel on a quiz show by next Christmas.

— The Hour BBC TV series men

Randall Brown: He is highly corruptible. Im sure hell take whatever is offered. Hes also very self-destructive. Brilliant people often are. Too much money is bad for him. Thats why Id rather you didnt.

— The Hour BBC TV series people

Bel: Do you calculate in advance how to make me look a fool or does inspiration strike you in the moment?

— The Hour BBC TV series inspiration

Mr Cilenti: Mr Lyon, this is a nice club. Youre very welcome here but I ask all my clientele, please, leave your work elsewhere

— The Hour BBC TV series work

Mr Cilenti: This is neither the time nor the place. Good night for now, Mr Lyon. But do become a frequent visitor. I encourage you to make yourself at home. Though a word of advice to you and your friends at The Hour. You know, drink my champagne, eat my oysters. But dont think for a moment you wont pay.

— The Hour BBC TV series time

Lix: Birds. Exactly. But we would not go on to assume that the spokesman they sent us was themselves feathered with a beak.

— The Hour BBC TV series man

Bel: Mr Lyon is insistent. You are overruled. Which is my privilege as producer from time to time, is it not?

— The Hour BBC TV series time

Freddie: I used to think that getting under your skin was a form of sport, now I look on it as a moral duty.

— The Hour BBC TV series you

Randall Brown: A man goes to the doctor, he says, Doctor, Doctor, theres a monster under my bed. The doctor says, Theres nothing I can do. Its all in your head. Next week the doctor passes the man in the street and he says, Good day. You look remarkably well. Man says, Last night I slept like a baby. The doctors amazed. What did you do? Well I looked again. I saw that monster. So I just cut the legs off my bed.

— The Hour BBC TV series man

Randall Brown: No man is sane who doesnt know how to be insane on the proper occasions. Madness is a prerequisite for any good journalist.

— The Hour BBC TV series man

Lix: Maybe we should all find ourselves a nice doctor. Now, theres an idea. Lets marry the whole office off.

— The Hour BBC TV series idea

Isaac: Theyre recording my play. Now. Right now. And Im in a cupboard. Not that I dont like being in a cupboard with you.

— The Hour BBC TV series you

Hector: Because for someone so brutally honest with everyone else, you display such blatant deceit when it comes to yourself.

— The Hour BBC TV series self

Hector: Back. I hear his wife is still away. Well, you always did have a penchant for the married man.

— The Hour BBC TV series man

Freddie:just get on a plane. Just get on a plane and come. And I said And you, you didnt write back. And I told myself, of course, its because you love news more. That doing this would always be more important than any man. So I will see you tonight at El Paradis. Because this is what we do.

— The Hour BBC TV series love

Marnie: What one should love about me is the fact that Im a strong and capable woman, perfectly capable of handling this storm in a teacup.

— The Hour BBC TV series love

Freddie: You are not impossible. Impossible is just what hasnt been done. Its not impossible when its possible.

— The Hour BBC TV series you

Freddie: I am tired of it not being possible, it is possible. You are possible. You are possible with me.

— The Hour BBC TV series you

Mr Cilenti: You know the funny thing? I grew up near a British base in Italy. My mother serviced any number of British soldiers until I was born. What does that make me? An Englishman.

— The Hour BBC TV series funny

Narrator in Bels voice: Dear Freddie, So I got your letter. San Francisco? Amazing. Im sorry its taken me so long to write back. There are lifes natural heroes and then theres you. Your words. You always believed somewhere deep in you that there is a coward. I wish I had told you that thats not true. Because you leapt, while I stayed, feet first, into the unknown. Why should I have expected anything less than fearlessness from you?

— The Hour BBC TV series life

Narrator in Bels voice: But I am not as brave as you. I want to write and say Ill be there, Ill get on a plane, Ill come right now. I really do, but I cant. Not because I dont love you. I love you, Freddie Lyon.

— The Hour BBC TV series love

Narrator in Bels voice: Because I wont ever send it. Im the coward, Freddie, not you. So instead, Im sending this prayer out there.

— The Hour BBC TV series war

Narrator in Bels voice: Just hoping that somehow youll know to come home. Just please come home, now, soon. And maybe your courage will make me brave, too. Just come home and I will leap, too.

— The Hour BBC TV series courage

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