:32:01
It wasn't just ambition
:32:03
with the Victorians,
you see.
:32:05
There was confidence as well.
:32:07
Confidence in ambition.
:32:09
I mean,
can you imagine?
:32:10
They wanted to join
the Metropolitan Line up
:32:12
with Northampton
and Birmingham.
:32:14
Have a great link through
from Yorkshire and Lancashire
:32:16
through Quainton Road,
through London
:32:18
joining up
with the Old Southeastern
:32:19
and through
a channel tunnel
:32:22
to the Continent.
:32:24
Monumental.
:32:27
Is that when they started
calling it Metroland here?
:32:32
That bloody nonsense.
:32:34
No, that was
just a name made up
:32:35
to please the estate agents
during the war
:32:38
to please the estate agents
during the war
:32:38
before Hitler's.
:32:39
Catchy name
to make it sound cozy.
:32:42
Cozy homes for cozy heroes.
:32:44
25 minutes from Baker Street
:32:46
and a pension
at the end of the line.
:32:48
Turned it into
what it is now...
:32:51
bourgeois dormitory.
:32:57
Aren't you bourgeois, then?
:32:59
[ Chuckles ]
:33:01
'Course, I am.
:33:03
So are you...
:33:05
I shouldn't wonder.
:33:07
No, I'm not staying
in Metroland.
:33:08
I'm gonna live in Paris
and take pictures.
:33:11
French never could run
a decent rail service.
:33:24
You see, it doesn't matter
:33:26
where you go.
:33:28
Metroland isn't a place.
:33:30
It's a state of mind.