A Sense of History

00:00:03 The great house behind me is the ancestral seat of my family.

00:01:19 and here we have lived and farmed in direct male line ever since.

00:02:33 may move with ease over more and more acres of chemically-enriched soil.

00:03:35 Mother was a great, great beauty, of that there can be no doubt

00:04:40 But I was usually asked to refrain.

00:05:45 who gloried in the abasement of the weak and defenceless.

00:06:55 and I was fascinated, I suppose, by the whole ethos of the elite families.

00:08:00 I knew... with a terrifying clarity, that he was a homosexual.

00:09:12 and secondly, small boys lead notoriously dangerous lives in any case

00:10:11 It was a devil's coach-horse, I believe

00:11:05 Until the Reformation, these fields here were church land

00:12:25 - Best I've ever 'ad. - Good. Mind you, it should be at that price.

00:13:32 So, a manager was hired to run the estate until I could take over

00:14:29 Now, there has been an awful lot of the most frightful tosh

00:15:23 as and when they became available.

00:16:16 As I trundled along, happy in the knowledge

00:17:12 where everything was new and exciting.

00:18:03 calculated to cause me as deep a hurt as possible.

00:18:58 but gradually the spasms got less and less...

00:20:10 And when I could resist no longer

00:21:00 Bless you, my darlings, off you go.

00:22:13 There was certainly no evidence of it from his journal.

00:23:23 "and what we do with it is our business."