Hope and Glory (1987)

David Hayman: Clive

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• Clive Rowen : Billy, before I go there's something I want to tell you. You're not quite old enough, but, well...

  [he produces a cricket ball] 

  Clive Rowen : ...it's the googly. Your hand is too small to master it, but you can make a start.

• Clive Rowen : [Billy bowls]  That was a googly!

  Mac : A googly?

  Grandfather George : You didn't spot it, Clive.

  Clive Rowen : I taught him how. And now he turns it against me.

  Grandfather George : The law of life. Cruel, isn't it?

• Clive Rowen : [describing his Army duties]  I'll be typing for England!

• Clive Rowen : I made a mess of it all. I'm such a bloody fool.

  Mac : You always were, Smiler. Steady the Buffs.

  Clive Rowen : Bugger the Buffs.

• Clive Rowen : It's German jam. Well, it's all right. It came from a German ship. Got sunk, this stuff washed ashore. Crates of it. Jam. Our boys found it on the beach by the rifle range.

  Grace Rowan : We don't know anything about it.

  Clive Rowen : Well, it's off ration. We know that.

  Grace Rowan : Well, how do we know they didn't plant it there? They know we are mad on jam. They could poison half the country!

• Grace Rowan : Clive, fetch the doctor.

  Clive Rowen : Are you ill?

  Grace Rowan : Not me. Dawn. She's in labor!

  Clive Rowen : Hot water! Lots of hot water.

  Mac : What for?

  Clive Rowen : I don't know. They always say that in the pictures.

• Dawn : Where are my stockings? I can't find my stockings.

  Grace Rowan : Dawn, pet, they've started a war.

  Dawn : Have they? That's not my fault. I still need my stockings, don't I?

  Clive Rowen : I don't want to hear about your stockings!

• Bill Rowen : It's an air raid!

  Clive Rowen : Good God. They've started already. Air raid! Get up! Stay down!

• Clive Rowen : Now... You know the leg break, right? And the off break. Now, the googly looks like a leg break but it's really an off break. Got it? Like this.

  Bill Rowen : That's like telling fibs.

  Clive Rowen : That's it. When you tell a lie, you want to get away with it. But when someone else does, you want to find them out. A good batsman will spot a googly. A good bowler will hide it. Always remember that, son.

• Grace Rowan : Has Sue got it right?

  Clive Rowen : What's that?

  Grace Rowan : You joined up.

  Clive Rowen : Oh, that.

  Grace Rowan : I wish you could have told me yourself.

  Clive Rowen : Oh, Grace, it's not for long. They say it'll be over by Christmas.