[00:07.668]A New Start
[00:46.724]'Mr Duncan? Come in please. Mr Wilson will see you now.'
[00:52.537]'Thank you.'
[00:55.460]John Duncan stood up and walked nervously towards the door.
[01:02.420]He was a tall, thin man, about forty-five years old, in an old grey suit.
[01:09.924]It was his best suit, but it was ten years old now.
[01:16.221]He had grey hair and glasses.
[01:19.882]His face looked sad and tired.
[01:23.333]Inside the room, a man stood up to welcome him.
[01:29.236]'Mr Duncan?
[01:31.674]Pleased to meet you.
[01:34.006]My name's David Wilson.
[01:36.684]This is one of our chemists, Mary Carter.'
[01:41.565]John Duncan shook hands with both of them, and sat down.
[01:48.164]It was a big office,with a thick carpet on the floor and beautiful pictures on the walls.
[01:57.093]David Wilson was a young man, in an expensive black suit.
[02:04.124]He had a big gold ring on one finger.
[02:08.757]He smiled at John.
[02:12.157]'I asked Miss Carter to come because she's one of our best Chemists.
[02:17.756]She discovered our wonderful new paint, in fact.
[02:21.820]When…I mean, if you come to work here,  you will work with her.'
[02:29.772]'Oh, I see.'
[02:32.788]John looked at Mary.
[02:36.100]She was older than Wil-son—about thirty-five, perhaps—with short brown hair, and a pretty, friendly face.
[02:46.628]She was wearing a white coat with a lot of pens in the top pocket.
[02:53.895]She smiled at him kindly, but John felt miserable.
[02:59.335]I'll never get this job, he thought.
[03:04.479]I'm too old! Employers want younger people these days.
[03:10.320]David Wilson was looking at some papers.
[03:13.675]'Now, Mr Dun-can,' he said,
[03:16.981]'I see that you are a very good biologist.
[03:21.819]You worked at a university…and then for two very famous com-panies.
[03:28.525]But…you stopped working as a biologist nine years ago.
[03:34.189]Why was that?'
[03:36.132]'I've always had two interests in my life,' John said,
[03:42.892]'biol-ogy and boats.
[03:45.932]My wife was a famous sailor…Rachel Hors-ley…Perhaps you remember her.
[03:53.165]She sailed around the world alone in a small boat.'
[03:58.144]'Yes,'said David Wilson,' I remember her.'
[04:05.765]'So we started a business,' said John. 'We made small boats together, and sold them.'
[04:13.276]'And did the business go well?' asked Wilson.
[04:19.045]'Very well at first.
[04:21.220]Then we wanted to build bigger, better boats.
[04:26.272]We borrowed too much money. And then my wife…'John stopped speaking.
[04:34.294]'Yes, the Sevens Race.
[04:39.826]I remember now,' said David Wil-son.
[04:46.503]Both men were silent for a moment.
[04:49.237]Wilson remembered the newspaper reports of the storm and the lives lost at sea.
[04:55.241]He looked at the man who sat sadly in front of him.
[05:00.708]'So, after my wife died,' continued John,'I closed the business.That was five years ago.'
[05:13.634]'I see,' said David Wilson.
[05:19.180]'It's a hard world, the world of business.'
[05:23.292]He looked at John's old grey suit.
[05:29.960]'So now you want a job as a biologist.
[05:32.900]Well, this is a chemical company, Mr Duncan.
[05:37.500]We make paint.
[05:39.813]But we need a biologist to make sure that everything in this factory is safe.
[05:46.468]We want someone to tell the government that it's safe to work here, and that it's safe to have a paint factory near the town.
[05:57.867]That's impor-tant to us.'
[06:00.902]'And if something's not safe, then of course we'll change it,' mary Carter said.
[06:08.404]David Wilson looked at her, but he didn't say anything.
[06:14.293]'Yes, I see,'　John began nervously.
[06:20.436]'Well, I think I could do that.
[06:24.693]I mean, when I worked for Harper Chemicals in Lon-don I…'
[06:29.437]He talked for two or three minutes about his work.
[06:35.764]David Wilson listened, but he didn't say anything.
[06:40.860]When he smiled, it was a cold, hard smile, and it made John feel un-comfortable.
[06:50.045]He remembered his old suit and grey hair, and he wished he hadn't come.
[06:57.241]'You really need this job, don't you, Mr Duncan?' david Wilson said.
[07:04.715]'You need it a lot.'
[07:07.813]'Yes, I do,' he said quietly.
[07:12.405]But he thought: I hate you, Wilson.
[07:18.466]You're enjoying this.
[07:20.606]You like making people feel small.
[07:24.894]I hate people like you.
[07:28.556]Wilson's smile grew bigger.
[07:31.286]He stood up, and held out his hand.
[07:35.948]'OK,' he said.
[07:40.820]'When can you start?'
[07:42.252]'What?' John was very surprised.
[07:46.708]'What did you say?'
[07:48.994]'I said, 'When can you start?', Mr Duncan. We need you in our factory as soon as possible. Will Monday be OK?'
[08:00.151]'You mean I've got the job?'
[08:04.431]'Of course. Congratulations!' Wilson shook John's hand.
[08:13.348]'My secretary will tell you about your pay.
[08:17.264]You'll have your own office, and a company car, of course.
[08:21.531]I'd like you to start work with Mary on Monday.
[08:25.844]Is that OK?'
[08:29.044]'I…Yes, yes, of course.
[08:33.988]That's fine.
[08:35.966]Thank you, thank you very much.'