The Ploughman's Lunch Page #3

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GOLD:

Good, good. Now is someone getting

you a drink.

PERSONAL ASSIATANT

Wrote the Berlin Airlift chapter.

Job done, P.A. fades.

GOLD:

I know, I know! Gentlemen, let me

introduce you to one of our most

talented contributors to The Cold

War. James Penfield. He wrote

the opening chapter, on 'The Berlin

Airlift'. One of the best chapters

in the book.

JAMES:

Hello.

GOLD:

I won't introduce you all by name.

Basically James, this is our UK

sales team. What was I saying?

Yes, these graduate trainees...

Twenty minutes later. JEREMY has just come in and is

surveying the room from the doorway. He takes a drink

from a tray, notices James across the room and smiles

ruefully.

Jeremy Hancock is a journalist, same age as James, good-

looking and well-dressed. A fairly corrupt look about

him, despite this. He is intelligent and intensely self-

regarding.

James makes his way through the crowd towards Jeremy.

They stand on the doorway - a position which affords them

a good view of the guests in the room and those guests who

are still arriving by way of a grand and ornate stairway.

JEREMY:

My dear James.

With mock solemnity, he kisses James on the cheek.

JAMES:

Not here.

JEREMY:

To the airlift.

JAMES:

To the airlift.

JEREMY:

Any sign of the goddess Barrington?

JAMES:

Not yet you know any of these

people?

JEREMY:

One or two. A grey lot. Some

social democrats. Some diligent

anti-communists. A political

section man from the US Embassy.

And this exquisite Californian

wine, courtesy of the CIA.

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