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BLITZ
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Estimated duration
476s
Location
MUNITIONS FACTORY
Time of day
MORNING 25 25
Characters
RADIO PRODUCER, GODFREY, TILDA, RITA, AGNES, CROWD
The factory has been transformed into a kind of make-shift studio and the place is packed to the rafters with WORKERS gathered wherever they can find space. Some perch on work benches, others on crates. There are happy, excited smiles all around, everyone welcoming the distraction. 17. -- 18 of 109 -- 18. Space has been cleared for instruments and radio equipment. The meters of thick black cabling snake around the factory floor to the transmission van parked outside. Microphone stands, with BBC proudly emblazoned on the front, are placed in preparation. An officious looking radio producer, head set on, oversees proceedings. -- 19 of 109 -- 19. -- 20 of 109 -- 20.
RADIO PRODUCER
(to factory workers) Right you are ladies and gentlemen, we’re going live to the nation in 5,4.. He mouths and mimes with his hands - 3,2,1 - nodding to the CONDUCTOR. A 20-strong BRASS BAND, dressed in military style uniform, play a rousing tune. There are trumpets, trombones and big wheel sized drums all keeping time to the baton wielding conductor. As the band comes to its final crescendo, the factory workers explode into raucous cheering and applause. Rita stands in a corner, nervous. GODFREY BASELY (50, dressed in a pin-stripe double-breasted suit, clean-shaven, a middle-aged Rex Harrison lookalike) steps up to a microphone.
GODFREY
Well that was the Work’s Brass Band, under its conductor William Laughton, playing Trumpeter Bob. It opens our contribution to Works Wonder from this factory in East London. As you know, we travel the length and breadth of Britain to find factory workers with talent who can help cheer up the nation. Today we will feature munitions worker, Miss... (checks his notes) Miss Rita Hanway! Rita, cheered on by Doris and Tilda and others, steps up to the microphone. There’s a moment of silence and anticipation, all eyes on her.
TILDA
Go on Rita! Go on girl! Give it some! Clive glares at her. 18.
RITA
This is for all the parents whose children have been evacuated, and for my boy George. Silence descends all around. CLOSE ON AGNES Her eyes fill with tears. The introduction to a familiar melody begins. Rita opens her mouth and for the first few lines of the song her voice can’t seem to grab hold of the melody. Tilda and Doris exchange a concerned look. Then suddenly Rita’s voice comes into sync.
RITA
Grab your coat, Don’t forget your hat But leave your worries Leave ‘em on the doorstep... Her voice soars as she gains in confidence and loses herself in the rhythm and the words. Her timing is impeccable; she hits every note. Tilda and Doris share a thumbs-up and a grin.
RITA
Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street... Radio crew and factory workers alike transfixed in the moment, fingers clicking, feet tapping along. We see a group of five women factory workers, led by Agnes, inconspicuously weaving their way to the front.
RITA
... and if I never had a cent, I’d be rich as Rockefeller, With gold dust at my feet.. Our vantage point is right at the back of this surreal colliding of a war factory, missiles at the ready, and cheerful song.
RITA
... On the sunny side of the street. The crowd applauds and whistles, on their feet. Suddenly, Agnes and the other four women mount the stage. Agnes takes the microphone from Rita. 19.
AGNES
We need shelters! Open up the underground! The chant is taken up.
AGNES
(mouths to Rita) Sorry. Rita gives her a reassuring nod. She joins in with the chant.
CROWD
We need shelters! We need shelters! Pandemonium has broken out. Clive the foreman’s face is one of horror as he surveys the scene. He is red-faced and sweating. An embarrassed and panicked looking Godfrey lunges at the microphone.
GODFREY
And now ladies and gentlemen we head back to Broadcasting House.
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