Home Fires (TV Series)

Episode #1.3 (2015)

Samantha Bond: Frances Barden

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• [Joyce confronts Frances, brandishing a letter that she has received] 

  Joyce Cameron : What is the meaning of this?

  Frances Barden : It's pretty straightforward, Mrs Cameron. All available non-essential land is to be utilised forthwith for food production.

  Joyce Cameron : I understand what it means.

  Frances Barden : Be that the vicarage rose-beds, the cricket pitch or your tennis courts. Of course it's not legally binding. I merely assumed you'd be happy to opt in, like everyone else.

  Joyce Cameron : I do not... opt in.

  Frances Barden : The problem with not opting *in* is that it rather looks like you're opting *out*. I wonder how well that would go down, when everyone else is pulling together so brilliantly.