Andrew Neil, the BBC's most feared political interviewer, has this weekend taken to Twitter complaining that Owen Jones, a friend of the show, has been trying to cancel him. However, ultimately, it was not a left-wing journalist but BBC budget cuts that would put an end to his show at the BBC. The Andrew Neil show, which pitched the presenter against major politicians every Wednesday evening, has been off air since the start of the coronavirus crisis, but the BBC's announcement today means it will not be returning, Neil had previously told the Radio Times. He feared he would be made surplus to requirements. He's apparently been talking to other broadcasters. Obviously, he used to work for Rupert Murdoch at the Sunday Times. He could be going back there to Times Radio. At this point in time, we do not know, but the biggest story other than Andrew Neil, although we will talk about that in a moment, is the numbers behind the scenes. The cuts which have taken out Andrew Neil's show have also taken out 520 jobs at the BBC. That's from a workforce of around 6,000. That includes 450 job cuts that were announced as part of an £80 million savings drive in January and then put on hold because of coronavirus and includes another 70 extra jobs going from the newsroom. This is also in the context of the government really doing one on the BBC. You might have seen all the Tory politicians trying to get you outraged at the fact that the BBC have cut free TV licenses for the over 75s. Everyone will have to pay for it now, whatever your age. What they don't normally mention is that the BBC have been pushed into this position because the government cut their own subsidy. It used to be the government that subsidised directly the free licenses for over 75s. They took that away and then imposed strict budget cuts that the BBC have had to make, you know, a pretty difficult decision.  What do you make of all of this? Andrew Neil is famously, as we've mentioned on this show, a presenter who is far more right-wing than you would ever get away with being left-wing as a mainstream BBC host. He's chairman of The Spectator, which prints some of the worst bile on Britain's newsstands, but he also is pretty good at holding politicians to account of whatever stripe. What's your take? There are two issues here, I think. There is the issue of the cuts to the BBC and what kind of impact that is happening on, you know, our sort of media landscape as a whole. So I think it's sort of sad that this is being reduced to a story that's just about Andrew Neil. I would like to see sort of the breakdown of who are the people that have been axed, particularly kind of like the staff members that sort of make the producers, etc. What is the breakdown of the other people behind those numbers so that we're not just focusing on Andrew Neil? I also think that generally, as we see particularly big media organisations, you know, not just broadcast but also newspaper having to really trim all of the sort of fat right to the bone of their organisations, we see much less work, you know, in terms of sort of more critical and investigative analysis being done. Recently, the Victoria Derbyshire show, which I think, you know, was kind of quite a good example of what a public broadcaster should do, sort of like really thoughtful, interesting, you know, investigative pieces into issues that are often marginalised by by other parts of the media was also axed recently. What I think Andrew, so I think there's that issue of, you know, what is the impact of these BBC cuts in the particular relationship between historically between the Tories and the BBC and how it has both been a very friendly relationship, but also to an extent, a relationship where the Tories have constantly tried to sort of undermine the BBC. But I also think that what is happening here, because before this was announced, what we saw was a lot of, you know, Andrew Neil really getting stuck into this kind of recent iteration of cancel culture debate, where, you know, he sort of, as you know, really went after Owen Jones, blaming him for trying to cancel Andrew Neil just because he was sort of softly critiquing on Twitter like Andrew Neil's politics. And as you said, the fact that Andrew Neil is able to get away with being far more right-wing than anyone else is able to get away with being left-wing and that, you know, apparently amounts to being cancelled. And I think that what we're seeing is a lot of these particularly very right-wing pundits, but not just right-wing pundits, also people that are kind of, you know, not feeling part of the tide when it comes to social justice issues, failing to actually argue on the actual points at hand. So whether that is trans rights, or whether it's anti-racism or things like that, failing to actually talk about the actual issue that you want to talk about and the actual issue that they want to push back on. And so instead framing it, protecting themselves and their jobs by framing their position as an issue of free speech and cancel culture and the Twitter mob, right? So we don't talk about cancel culture and free speech when it comes to talking about the people, the groups, the opinions that are systematically stopped from entering into, you know, the media or academy or research landscape to begin with. We only talk about it from the other way. People who have always felt entitled to have a platform in these various institutions and spaces who are suddenly feeling not necessarily that that platform is being denied, but it's just being contested. And so we're kind of going into that defense mode. And so what my worry is, and I think there is really a conversation that needs to be had about how we conduct our, how we conduct ourselves in these discussions and, you know, how we talk about sort of political education and moving through contradictions and disagreements. That's not the discussion that's being had in this cancel culture sort of more. What's happening here is people who have always felt entitled to having particular positions in influential institutions, having their position contested and feeling defensive about it and sort of positioning themselves as, you know, you have to hire me in the BBC or in the university.  So let's actually talk what we talk about what we really want to talk about, which is, you know, the gains being made by the anti-racist movement, by trans rights, by all of these issues. Let's talk about those issues rather than sort of this red herring of cancelling and no platforming, which actually is a separate conversation that needs to be had, but not when it comes to talking about the eternal right of Andrew Neil to, you know, be the BBC's flagship TV presenter. That's not a God-given right to anyone.  If people aren't paid to investigate things, then things aren't going to get found out and all we're going to have is commentary. Yeah. And the decline of investigative reporting is a perfect way in which the kind of austerity narratives of, you know, cutting back and all of that and, you know, having this whole thing of, you know, something is only valuable if it has lots of clicks and add revenue generated in comparison to how much work is needed. So you pay much less for a shocking comment piece by Katie Hopkins, and you get a lot more ad revenue than you do for, like, the payment of a forensic investigation of, like, circus connections to, like, the detention and border regime in the UK, which might not, which, you know, considering how much, how expensive research like that is, the ad revenue is not as proportionately high as a think piece by Katie Hopkins. So it's a perfect marriage of that austerity politics with the desire to really clamp down on critical journalism. So that is really the conversation that I want to be having about these cuts at the BBC rather than whether or not Andrew Neal's, you know, should for eternity be hosting, you know, his daily politics show or whatever show it is that he hosts. I'm going to go to James because one of my favorite takes on the BBC was actually from your old boss, John McDonnell, when he came on the show, we were sort of asking about, you know, I suppose the Left's love-hate relationship with the BBC. And he was saying, yeah, of course, we should be, we should be critical of their output. But one of the big problems with the BBC is that they're underfunded because the more they are, or the more they have to cut original journalism, the more they have to rely on Britain's corporate-owned press. And so he's saying what you should, if you want an independent BBC, you have to have a well funded BBC, which completely goes against like some Marina Hyde or someone from the garden, she's from the garden who also will mention their cuts in a moment, actually, who sort of tries to castigate the Left as saying they hate the BBC so much they want to privatize it. No one on the Left argues that really, maybe a couple of people on Twitter. But yeah, John McDonnell's line, you've got to fund it properly to get proper investigative journalism. And I mean, what do you see as the significance of this? Will the BBC survive the next five years under this Conservative government in its current form? No, will the BBC survive? Well, yes, because it's actually useful for any government to have the BBC around. And it has a particular relationship with the Conservative Party, because let's be blunt, the Conservative Party are in government most of the time. So that develops there. But obviously, I'm going to agree, well, not necessarily agree with John, but I do agree with him on this, which is that you're not going to get. And it's exactly the point Davia said, and I basically agree with everything she said as well, which is that you're not going to get the quality journalism, you're not going to get the in-depth investigative stuff without the BBC being funded. The people losing their jobs, I would, I would guess, there is some, you know, there are bits of Twitter and bits are left that get very head up about the BBC and serves them right in this sort of thing.  That's not going to be happening. This is going to be like ordinary workers at the BBC are going to be facing the chop here. So of course you support them. But also there's this question of moving to a better funding model. There are, yeah, Tom Mills and other people have done good work about what that might look like and reinforcing the public service broadcasting part of what it is the BBC should be doing. Breaking up, Tom Mills' suggestion is breaking up the BBC board and regionalising the BBC much more, putting it much more closely in touch with different local and regional communities, if you like, throughout the rest of the country as a way of removing that kind of institutionalised sort of very Westminster centric power at the top up there. If you want to sort of embodiment of that institutionalised power, Andrew Neil is part of it. We all know Andrew Neil as many, many other strings to his bow, as they say, not least of which is being chair of the board of the spectator. It doesn't really hurt him that much if he's not the person doing the interviews. He's also, I look personally, I think he's good at a certain set of things with politicians. It'll be nice to have some different kind of conversations with politicians, more developed conversations. One's where we can expand a bit. I think Stephen Sacker at Hard Talk does actually quite a good job with this sort of thing. It's still quite a confrontational interview, but it's a bit more expansive. You can talk a bit more about what you think rather than this hammering away at very, very specific points of detail that has been carefully picked by Andrew Neil's researchers out of the great massive things he could have picked, and you just hammer at that. It's a very particular style. It doesn't necessarily illuminate very much. There would be better ways to do this, and perhaps we could look at the entire pattern of how the BBC and how our mainstream journalist and mainstream media conducts political interviews now would be something to look at. I'm going to go to you, Dahlia, for final comment, and it's going to be on the Guardian cut, so it wasn't just bad news for journalists at the BBC. I'm going to get up a tweet from Jim Waterston, who is the media editor at The Guardian. He's probably one of the people who finds out this particular bit of news first. He says, Guardian announced his plans to cut workforce by 12% with 70 jobs to go in editorial departments and 110 to go in commercial roles. Revenues had been flat until the pandemic hit, now going off financial targets by well over £25 million. Dahlia, what's your take on this? I've seen various interventions on Twitter by people saying, yes, I do read The Guardian. I want it to be around, but because they spent so long trying to destroy the Corbyn project, I can't really part my cash to help them continue. Also, they've been one of the longest holdouts when it comes to putting up a paywall. What do you make of this announcement here? What should we make of it? We have a crisis when it comes to mainstream media that has dominated the airwaves and also print media for so long. I think it's a double crisis of a crisis of faith and the fact that the circulation is simply going down of a lot of these newspapers. That's not just because of the digitisation. I think it's also because, as we've seen in so many of the previous elections, the better or the worse, a lot of these massive sort of hegemonic outlets have really failed to predict what's going to understand where the public are at. I think that that kind of creating that big space between the journalistic class and everyday people is partly to do with this and the fact that a lot of people are, again, for better or worse, turning to, especially better in our situation, turning towards alternative, more independent media. I think that that is part of it. Also, I think that there is a kind of, again, as I said before, I do worry that there is an issue when it comes to how the impact, I don't think that these cuts are going to make that situation better. What these cuts are going to do is it's going to, not only, again, as we said, reduce the amount of critical journalism, but it's also going to, you know, journalism is already an incredibly poorly representative group of people that make up journalists. Not only are they something like, I think, 94% white, but they nearly 50% of UK journalists went to private school. They come from a different world, a completely different class. That's compared to only 7% of the British population went to private school. Cuts and the reduction of well-paid jobs and the increase of, you know, zero-hours contracts, insecure contracts, reliance on freelancers, reliance on poorly paid internships is only going to entrench that. It's only going to increase the number of people who go into journalism, who go into media, who come from those privileged backgrounds and have that safety net, that financial safety net to fall on to. So really, I think it's both the symptom of, you know, the kind of deepening class divide between those who own and also sort of run, make the big editorial decisions at lot of these organizations and with everyday working class people. But unfortunately, these cuts are most likely going to entrench that division. So I think that, you know, the Guardian and other organizations like this should be very worried.


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So right now what you're doing is, you're pitting sweetness of emotion versus sweetness of the surroundings. Pleasantness of surroundings will not happen unless there is a skill to it, there's a talent to it. Now relationship is hard work. You have to build it, you have to manage it, there are many aspects to it. I'm just asking you to upgrade your technology so that yourself start… This is an answer I need. Like, can we survive with love and not in… not enough money or is money important and then we can also find love, like whenever we can, if we do. So yeah. What you call as myself right now is a body, I said an amount of thought and ideas and whatever. We will stick to this dimension. If you go to another dimension, I'll lose you there.  Okay. And there is life energy. Without that energy all this wouldn't be functioning. Okay. So these are four dimensions. What you're referring to as love is a certain sweetness of emotion. The question is not about who triggered it for you. It is just that because of somebody or something, you started experiencing a certain sweetness of emotion which became so valuable at that time, you promised a kidney. At that moment, because that sweetness meant so much that actually in Hindi they say something, what Gurdha, something, what is that? What is that? Something I will give away my kidney. That same thing is said in a more powerful way. So, at that moment I'm willing to pull my kidney out and give it to you, but not the hair. That is clear, okay? So essentially it's sweetness of emotion. What sweetness means is, see if the body becomes sweet, we call this health. You feel healthy because there is a certain sweetness in the body, pleasantness. Sweetness is pleasantness, isn't it?  Because she's pleasant. For you, in your experience she is pleasant, so you say it's sweet. So if your body becomes pleasant, we call this health. If it becomes very pleasant, we call this pleasure. If your mind becomes pleasant, we call this peace. You're feeling pleasant, so you say, I'm peaceful. It became very pleasant, you call this joy.  It became very pleasant. Now you call it compassion. If it is somewhat pleasant only for one person, we call this passion. It became very pleasant, we call it compassion. Now you feel like that absolute sweetness towards the tree and the air, you breathe and the people. You don't even know who they are, it doesn't matter, you have pleasantness. So we say compassion. If your very life energy has become pleasant, we call this bliss. If it becomes very pleasant, we call it ecstasy. If your surroundings become pleasant, we call this success. So right now what you're doing is, you're pitting sweetness of emotion versus sweetness of the surroundings. To create sweetness of the surroundings, we need the cooperation of many forces. Situations have to cooperate, people have to cooperate, many things have to fall into place. Otherwise success doesn't happen. Pleasantness of surroundings will not happen unless there is a skill to it, there's a talent to it, there's a certain amount of management to it, there are many things. But the sweetness of the body, the sweetness of the mind, the sweetness of the emotion and the sweetness of your energy must be one hundred percent you are making, isn't it? Yes or no? The sweetness of the surroundings, everybody has a stake, all of them will play a role in this. But the other four dimensions, the sweetness should be managed by you. So if you are in charge of that, then you would keep this always profusely sweet. Your mind, your emotion, your body, everything, you would keep it that way. Then all these struggles wouldn't even be relevant to you. This is one dimension, money is a means to facilitate external situations. Love is a means to create internal pleasantness. What I'm saying is, the sweetness of inside or sweetness of surroundings both require time to build that sweetness. No, no, no, no. Like if I have to be successful in… Sweetness of outside needs time, energy, effort, resource. Like a relationship needs nurturing, you need to spend time… See that is the different thing, this is what I'm trying to distinguish. See, love is what happens within you. This is the sweetness of your heart. Relationship is… sometimes it's hard work. Oh, when I'm talking about love, I'm not talking spiritual. This is all… I'm not talking anything spiritual. Nothing spiritual, this is emotion. See, right now, you're smiling. Is it spiritual or just a regular smile? Spiritual dimension I don't understand. That is what, you don't have to understand that because you don't even have to name it that. All I'm saying is, if your body is feeling pleasant, you feel healthy and nice. If your mind is feeling pleasant, you feel peaceful and joyful. If your emotion is feeling pleasant, you feel loving and compassionate. So, why do you want to call it spiritual, non-spiritual nonsense? There's no such thing. So right now you sit here, you have very sweet emotion, not towards anything or anybody. You just sitting here, sweet emotions, has it happened to you? Nobody need to be there, just like that. If there is something, you share it. If there is nothing, you can sit here with a very sweet emotion. Now, relationship is hard work. That is external success. You have to build it, you have to manage it, there are many aspects to it. Well, the other person may be looking at your external situations too, all right? They're not just looking at the sweetness of your heart. They're also looking at what you're wearing, what you're driving, how you are, who you are, everything they're looking at it. So, a relationship involves those dimensions. You cannot say it is completely free of that. Well, when the Gurdha thing happens, maybe little bit they will cross that. But it doesn't mean it's completely free of that. No, it's always involved, physical things are involved, isn't it? This sweetness, what did you call love? Sweetness of the heart. Sweetness of your emotion. Sweetness of my emotion, if it happens with two, three people then... It cannot happen with two, three people, it can only happen within you. Ah, in a... okay. It only happens within you. If it is happening within me. No, no, three people are stimulating it. Three people may be stimulating it. I am asking you, do you want to be a push-start machine or a self-start machine? Self-start? Self-start means your sweetness must be turned on by you. If you want to share it, you can share it. If you don't want to share it, you don't share it. But you must be sweet for your own self, not for some... See, love is not about somebody. It's the pleasantness of your existence, isn't it? Is it not important? Forget about other people, relationship stuff. But is it not important, if you sit here, you are pleasant by your own nature, somebody need not come and poke you and crank you to be pleasant. Right now what you're talking about is, three people have to crank me to make me pleasant. Very poor machine. You remember the old ambassadors? Always they parked down slope because morning you have to push. Now all the cars have self-start. Improvement, technological improvement or no? I'm just asking you to upgrade your technology so that you self-start. If you wake up in the morning, you're full of joy and love. If somebody comes, we will share. If nobody comes, we're just fine.


It's now the island starring John Lund, a tale well calculated to keep you in short span. This Corporal Lacey was okay, a good Marine. But the way I looked at it, he'd been hopping too many islands. The battle fatigue can get the best of them. Anyway, here I was somewhere in Okinawa with him. In the middle of the night, and I'd just as least be anywhere else. Okay, Debori, the footprint is deep enough. I guess we're safe for a while. Where are we anyhow? A couple of miles behind the jet line. How safe is that? You worry too much, pal, even for a guy on his first patrol. I was thinking of it as my last. Ah, relax like me in your list forever. What's that? Nothing. I just a scream and me-me. Got some kind of tail adjustment that cuts the wind and sort of screams. The limp fuse it to scare it. They sure succeeded. You scare easy, pal. Sure. I'm a pushover for that shriek like that. Shrekic? What kind of jive is that? It means terror. It's rightfulness. The Germans got a whole arsenal of terror weapons. The Jeffs got a few themselves. You take the first watch. I'm second in. Maybe? Maybe I'll just sit here and dream a while. If you're picking a fine time for it. Did I ever tell you about my island? Yeah, you told me. Well, it's this island. You must have told me fifty-fifty times already. So I'll tell you again. This island is sort of special place. No rain. No jungle rut. No war. That is not the place. On this island a man has never gone hungry. All you got to do is fish a little with the natives. Oh, big man and friendly. Not like the nymphs. All the dames are beautiful. Here are too many comic books. That's where I'm fixing to go. As soon as I find it. Never going back stateside. I'm going to lay down under that little old banyan tree. I let him rage on it. What else could I do? I'll argue with him. There I was a couple of miles behind the enemy lines with a stranger. The guy's narrowed on a thousand yards stairs. Rushed his words like a nervous twitch. He raved on about a place that don't exist. Big men. Beautiful women. This island. Real pretty. Different. Like nothing you ever saw. All surrounded by mist. Then I found myself listening. Sort of hypnotized. I knew I was looking to battle the team. Like I said, the couple has hopped too many islands. They've seen too much death. Too many crack-ups. He was half-cracked and slightly dead himself. So what could I do? Argue with him.  And I'll find me a beautiful girl and we'll... Tabore. Yeah, yeah, I'm listening. Look, Tabore. Out there. Coming toward us. Over there.  Oh, not a bunch. Four. Three men and... a woman. They're heading right for it. Put down that rifle. Is somebody a flip or something? They're not Japs. The men are too big. And a woman. She's beautiful in the moonlight. Japs, I know Japs. I ain't taking no chances.  You hit the dame. Where are you going? I'm going to see if he's hurt. Come on.  There might be a trick. Don't worry about me. Let go of my arm. Don't get yourself killed. Not me, Tabore. I'll lift a spin on your grave. Now let's go. Okay. I hope you know what you're doing. Must be around here somewhere. Listen. Came from over there. Come on. Here she is. Break out your first date, Tabore. Here. Look, ladies. Let me fix your arm, huh? Look, see? Bandages. And he took taste. And a cylinder. You don't get what you're talking about. She gets the idea. Yeah, that's right, lady. Now this won't hurt a bit. You just got nicked a little in the arm. It's just a flesh wound. She trusts you. Yeah, she taught me more than you do. Didn't I tell you she was beautiful? You told me a lot of things. How about the men she was with? The big men. They weren't Japs. Not Japs. In a pig's eye, they weren't Japs. No, they're not Japs. Yeah, you see? And what were they? They were my people. Who are you? What's your name? Man, a duckie. But he's going to leave. I'm going to go home. Now go home. Scram. Lose yourself. Oh, no, you don't. Let her alone, Lacey. You'll keep out of this. Now let her go. Let her go back to her right patty. You still don't catch Tabore. She ain't from Okinawa. She's from that island. That island I was telling you about. I said Yagachi. Yagachi Shima. Shima, see? Shima means island. Yes, island. So what are you doing here? Nothing, no. Japanese bring us in canoe. He's crazier than you are. Whoever.  Chucky, Chucky. Where is your island? Where is your Gachi Shima? In the sea. In China Sea. Half a day from Okinawa by canoe. Canoe? What's it like, Chucky? What's your island like? Never mind the island. Let's find a canoe. But to see Lacey with the canoe we can get back to our lives by water. Chucky, can you find the canoe? Please, I think I can. Let's go. She led us to the wood toward the beach. The moonlight had delicate faces like ancient ivory. Her hair was long and black and drawn tight over her head. She was straight and slim. She walked with dignity. She was beautiful. Beautiful in her dreams. Lacey's dreams. For a moment she had me dreaming too. But only for a moment. Then we were on the beach and there was a canoe. And leaning against the prow of Jap's entry. You never know what hit him. Pretty up talking in the canoe.  You take the bow. Where to? Right off the sea, two weeks. You know what I think? I think we're gonna make it. Okay, Shibori. We can take it easy now. I'm not taking it easy until we cross up the river. How are you gonna tell at night? Maybe you think they got neon signs? What are you gonna do then? We're gonna stand by it all morning. I don't know. I think it'd be better to... However you think you're outvoted. You're outvoted two strikes at once. You're pulling rank corporal? Why not, knucklehead? This ship has got one skipper and I'm it. There you are. I wanted to make stuff out of you. I'll knock it out of you. I'm warning you. Don't follow up this detail. So what was I gonna do, argue with him? Start a private firefight in the middle of the China Sea? I was getting a little combat weary myself. But lately, he was all charged up as though his crazy dream had come true. Buying on the narrow deck of the canoe I could hear them droning on about the islands. It's not like other islands, is it, Haki? Oh, you're giving me the answer. I wish I could tell you how. It's pretty, huh? It's very pretty, but... Is the fishing good? Oh, very good. I knew it would be like that. I knew it. And that's the last thing I remember. I guess I fell asleep. And then suddenly it was daylight and... Kamori! Look! Kamori! What? Look over there. What do you see? An island. Just an island. Not just an island. My island. How do you know? Look. Surrounded by mist, just like I said. Cut it to the Marines when we get back to Okinawa. Stand by the ram, Tabori. We ain't going back to Okinawa. Now, wait a minute. I don't want no more trouble for you, Tabori. And don't make any of... What? What? You looking for your rifle? Don't bother. Because I got it right here. Now get your rump forward. You're crazy. Move, Tabori. You're flirting with a purple heart. Now lean on that paddle. That's right. We're heading for Yagashi. Our canoe scraped the coral beach of Yagashi about four hours later. The place he was right. It was a lovely island. Now here we are. The Inns believe in, huh, Tabori? It's funny. So close to Okinawa, this place looks like I've never heard a shot fired in anger. Where are your people, Tati? I don't know. We ain't over here. You must not come. You go back now. Oh, no. I'm sticking around. How about you, Tabori? I came this far. I'll sweat it out just for last.  It's not too loud. I just have to figure a speech, Taki. Let's go. The trails make couples. Pine trees and casserinas rattle in the sweet, strong winds in the China Sea in the fields of raspberry bushes. There were lilies in the sword grass and scarlet flowers. When I was looking for people, the big men of Lacey's dreams, the girls all as lovely as the girl walking beside it. I was tense with expectancy at each bend in the trail. Lacey's tense of advantage had lost them because he had found Taki. Well, Tabori? Really? No, no, Taki. My name is Lacey. I'll try it again. Lacey. L, I can... Well, this is a lily.  Tabori, I'm going to co-cock you.  The first time, I'm so happy. Yeah, me too. I've been dreaming about you for... for so long. I always knew I'd find you. Oh, you never forget what you see. I'll never let you forget. Oh, Lacey. Oh, Lacey, honey. L, I can love. We walked on together. The tall marine and the slim girl with the ivory skin. Now and then, she'd look up at Lacey in a pained expression clouded her face as though she were afraid to believe it. But I did. Loneliness. The weirdness of war. The rest you can do. Very soon now, that dream would burst like a bubble to become reality. I had to find out. But finally, we reached the summit. Down below it in a little valley was the village of pocket people. Floating up to us was a strange, sad town. Maybe... maybe it's what you call a ceremony or something. Yes, it is. Maybe it's for us. I bet they know we're coming. No. It's a sort of day. What happened, you suppose? The war? It's just... my people died. Well, everybody's people died. It's gonna happen sooner or later. Yes. Soon or later. Like I always say, here today, gone tomorrow. I never heard it so well put.  Let's go, Taki. As we went down the mountainside, the thing stopped. When we got to the village, it was deserted. Taki stopped us at the edge of the clearing. If you want to see us, I'll come back soon with father. This is gonna be good.  No, Lacey, I just want one good look at your big men and beautiful women in their native habitats. Then I'm shoving off Oganawa. Little skeptical, huh? Yeah. Something schooly about this place. I'm not sure what it is, but I gotta find out. He's crazy.  You mean crazy like me? I didn't say that. Since we left Oganawa, you've been giving me a bad time. It was mutual. And now you're calling me crazy. I know what I said. I know what you think. I know what you'll do once you get back to Oganawa. You'll tell the MPs I went over the hill. You'll tell them where I am. And they'll come after me. You are crazy.  Remember, Tabori? I said I'd be around to spit on your grave. Stop kidding around with that right. I ain't kidding.  But first you're gonna see I was right.   Here they come. Get over there by that tree and keep your motion. He's far to help when you see. You the head man? I suppose you could call me then. Well, you're not a... You're not an Oriental. No, I'll see him. But what can I do for you? I want to stay here. But Taki... I'm afraid you can't. I'll work my ways. That's not the point. I don't want no arguments. You cannot stay. Why not? She's a leper. She's so beautiful. I know my son. But in three years... five years... I... I tried to tell you at first, but... I'm not a know-how. And then I could not even if I want to. I wanted to last... another hour, another minute. Goodbye, you see. I'll never forget you. I won't forget you either. It was like a dream come true. That it was. Goodbye. What did you thought about? It's quite simple. Horrible and simple. Two nights ago the Japanese came to the leper colony. They took more than half my patients to Okinawa and headed them towards the American line. But why? To disrupt your advance? There was no chance of contagion, but... Well, my patients aren't all as... beautiful as tart. I see. Shreklicite. Exactly. A weapon of terror. Tabori? Yeah, Laitis? I guess we'd better move out. You ready, pal? Yeah. Long road back to Okinawa. Yeah, for me... the road back is long and met. In which John Lund starred in William and Rookson's production of The Island by Millard Kaufman. 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