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15:29Let's go.
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16:58Back to work, everyone!
17:03Every time the whistle blows, it makes they think they've heard something.
17:07Another child trapped beneath the wreckage.
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21:10Prime Minister.
21:13As of an hour ago, the loss of life in Aberfan stands at 116.
21:18It appears that over 80 is still missing.
21:2036 of the survivors have been hospitalized.
21:24I see.
21:25Are any more victims expected to be found?
21:28Not alive, ma'am.
21:30To make matters worse, it has been reported that the north shoulder of Tip 7 has moved
21:34and the village is ready for immediate evacuation.
21:37Mechanical diggers are out of action, bogged down in the soggy mud.
21:41The military have been brought in to help.
21:44Now, given all this, I was hoping I might persuade you to go.
21:55One of the most unfortunate things about being sovereign I have discovered is that you've paralyzed virtually any situation you
22:02walk into.
22:02The very last thing emergency and rescue services need when they're working against the clock is a queen turning up.
22:16I'm not sure I agree.
22:20Children have died.
22:22The community is devastated.
22:26What precisely would you have me do?
22:32Well, comfort people.
22:34Put on a show?
22:36The Crown doesn't do that.
22:41I didn't say put on a show.
22:43I said comfort people.
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23:46whiskey margaret it's nine o'clock yes i know but it's not morning not my world anyway
23:55tony court in the small hours from a poor box in the middle of nowhere
24:07oh it's me can you do something for me you told me to go into the children's bedrooms
24:16and kiss them while they slept
24:24as soon as he got to abban he went straight to the school
24:38it was unimaginably awful miners used to digging for coal now digging to reach their children
24:53many of them spent several hours stuck under the mud beside dead friends buried alive
25:01running out of there
25:04he then went to the mortuary where people were waiting to identify the children's bodies
25:11nurses and salvation army volunteers they were writing a description of each adult each child
25:20noting any possessions they found in their pockets like like a handkerchief or sweets
25:28anything to help identify them
25:45from there i went to the hospital
25:49there he comforted a man he was holding his son's school cap
25:56after the hospitals he wanted to walk back to the house where he's due to stay
26:02he carried on walking
26:06walking
26:09walking
26:09I want to walk to walk to walk to walk to walk
26:20yeah I've never heard him like that
26:26I hope I never do again
26:38We have Geoffrey Morgan from the National Coal Board
26:42I'm George Thomas, Minister of State for Wales
26:45here to answer our question
26:47Will you both accept responsibility?
26:49Who is it?
26:52National Coal Board cannot accept responsibility for the weather
26:56Abnormal levels of rainfall have created extraordinary conditions
27:01You've known about the spring under the tip for years
27:05I wrote to you
27:06So did I
27:08That's what's caused this, not rainfall
27:10And nothing was done
27:12Buried alive by the National Coal Board
27:15That's what I want to see written on my child's desk
27:20What about financial assistance?
27:23We've got people in dire need now
27:26When's government going to step in?
27:30Let us be quite clear
27:33A dreadful tragedy has taken place
27:37But blame for that
27:39And I'll keep this at the door of the Labour Party
27:42Tip number seven
27:43Was made in 1958
27:45When the Labour Party wasn't in power
27:49I had a visit today
27:51From certain members of the cabinet
27:54You need to tell me who
27:56Who are concerned that this is all turning political
27:59Of course it's turning political
28:02And they want you to do something to deflect the blame
28:05Their view is
28:06If the Labour government pay the price for this tragedy
28:09And the Tories make political capital from it
28:12It would be obscene
28:13And a betrayal
28:14Not just of the people of South Wales
28:16But of all of us in the movement
28:19We've been waiting for this for too long, Harold
28:22Thirteen years in opposition
28:24And now we're finally in power
28:26In government
28:27We cannot allow ourselves
28:29To be crucified on the altar of public opinion
28:32Over something that isn't our fault
28:34Oh, when people are angry
28:36They throw stones at their leaders
28:38Then it's the duty
28:39Not just to deflect that anger
28:40But to show solidarity with our supporters
28:43Oh
28:45This is grief, Marcia
28:46It's injustice
28:48It's just another in a long list of injustices
28:50There's parents grieving their children
28:53It's also cold-hearted refusal
28:55To accept responsibility by the people who are to blame
28:58The Tories
29:00And now they're making us the scapegoats
29:02Well
29:03What do you want me to do about it?
29:06Make sure they take the blame
29:08And if you can't blame it on the Tories
29:10And you won't press it in the House
29:12And you can't go after the NCB until the tribunal is over
29:15Then perhaps
29:17We should look for another establishment figure
29:21To deflect negative attention
29:24Who?
29:27Her
29:28The Queen
29:30But you must admit
29:31Her behaviour is symptomatic of establishment neglect
29:35Her behaviour is unfortunate
29:39You went to see her today, didn't you?
29:41Yes
29:42And you asked her again to go?
29:44Yes
29:46And what did she say?
29:47The Crown doesn't go
29:50Something like that
29:51The Duke of Edinburgh is now going
29:55They pulled him away from some duck shoot
29:58Yes, but she isn't
30:00Perhaps there's good reason for that
30:02Maybe she finds that kind of situation difficult
30:06Losing your children is difficult
30:11Losing brothers and sisters is difficult
30:15Living in a mining village where the coal board abandons you is difficult
30:19And instead of sticking the knife in her
30:21And allowing us all to vent our anger at someone cold hearted
30:24You'd sooner let your own team take the blame
30:27You're pathetic
30:28You disgust me
30:29So you keep telling me
30:30If you ever want to be a real leader
30:33A real man
30:34A real socialist
30:36You're going to have to grow some balls
30:40The MCB is a creation of the Labour Party
30:48This is a government made disaster
30:53Take responsibility
31:15Thank you
31:46And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes
31:51And there shall be no more death
31:55Neither sorrow nor crying
31:58Neither shall there be any more pain
32:03For the former things are passed away
32:10Fear not, for I am with thee
32:13He shall feed his flock like a shepherd
32:17He shall gather the lambs with his arm
32:19And carry them in his bosom
32:22And shall gently leave those that are with young
32:26And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls
32:30Playing in the streets thereof
32:33And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts
32:38In that day when I make up my jewels
32:41And I will spare them
32:43As a man spareth his own son that serveth him
32:48I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth
32:55I heard a voice from heaven
33:00Amen
33:01Do the love of my soul
33:06Let me to thy bosom fly
33:12While the nearer waters roll
33:18While the tempest still is high
33:23Other refuge have I none
33:29And my helpless soul on thee
33:35Leave, I, leave me not alone
33:41Still support and comfort me
33:47All my trust on thee this day
33:52All my help from thee I pray
33:59Come on, I pray
34:44Come on, I pray
34:51How was it?
34:53Extraordinary
34:58Grief, the anger
35:00At the government, at the co-board, but at God too
35:0681 children were buried today
35:10The rage in all the faces behind all the guys
35:16And they didn't smash things up, they didn't fight in the streets
35:21What did they do?
35:23They sang
35:25The whole community
35:26It's the most astonishing thing I've ever heard
35:37Did you weep?
35:42Did I weep?
35:47What kind of question is that?
35:50Just a question, did you weep?
35:54I might have wept, yes
35:56Are you going to tell me it was inappropriate?
35:59And the fact is
36:00Anyone who heard that hymn today
36:04Would not just have wept
36:09It would have been broken into a thousand tiny pieces
36:34Right?
36:39I see
36:41Thank you for letting me know
36:48We've had a tip-off from a friendly newspaper editor
36:51That the government
36:53Determined not to take the blame for Aberfan
36:55Have decided to refocus the subject of the national conversation
37:02And
37:03As briefed newspaper as that
37:07One person has been conspicuously absent from Aberfan
37:10And that is our queen
37:12The scandalous lack of care and interest
37:15One can only assume it is that
37:17By our head of state
37:19Is symptomatic of a lack of care from the traditional establishment
37:23Not just for the people of Wales
37:25But for the whole working class
37:35And the Prime Minister gave that his blessing?
37:40I think we have to assume so
38:15On arrival at RAF St. Athan
38:18You will be received by Sir Kenneth Trehearn, Lord-Lieutenant for Glamorgan
38:22And taken via car to the school disaster site
38:25In Aberfan
38:28Then on to the Bithania Chapel
38:30For the presentation of the heroes and survivors of the disaster
38:35There will then be a visit to the cemetery
38:36Where you will lay a wreath
38:39And finally a visit to the home of a local miner
38:42Thomas Edwards
38:43Who lost relatives in the disaster
38:45And scheduled conversations with several other grieving families
38:50A whole trip should be
38:52Approximately two and a half hours
38:54Without wishing to prompt your majesty
38:57You may wish to consider that this is Wales
39:00Not England
39:02A display of emotion would not just be considered appropriate
39:07It's expected
39:35To be continued...
42:04Thomas and Gwen Edwards, ma'am, whose home this is, they lost their two children, and this is Howell, Gwen's
42:13father, who managed to rescue one of the grandchildren.
42:18Sarah, she has something for you, ma'am.
42:25From the remaining children of Abelan.
42:59We're so glad to have you.
43:02Oh, wow.
43:04Can I have you, ma'am?
43:05Say this, ma'am.
43:10It's very dark.
43:39The Duke of Edinburgh.
43:40Sarah, said the family sung a hymn when they buried their children.
43:45Yes, ma'am.
43:48Is there any way I might hear it?
43:50I'm sure we can find a recording.
43:55And I'll ask the Prime Minister to come and see me as soon as possible.
43:59Yes, ma'am.
44:08The Duke of Edinburgh.
44:08I don't know.
44:47The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.
44:50Your Majesty.
45:02Churchill would have had the character to do it face to face.
45:06Come to think of it, so would Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan.
45:12Each of them would have had the courage to express their anger to me directly.
45:16None of them would ever have resorted to going behind my back like that.
45:23I have it on authority.
45:25You tipped off journalists that I was letting the side down by not going to Aberfan.
45:30Never.
45:31It wasn't you?
45:32No, ma'am.
45:37But perhaps one or two of my colleagues concerned at the anger being directed at the government.
45:44Broke ranks.
45:45Took matters into their own hands.
45:50It's possible.
46:03Perhaps they're right.
46:06The people of Aberfan deserved a prompt response.
46:09They didn't get one.
46:10They deserved a display of compassion, of empathy from their Queen.
46:15And they got it yesterday.
46:17They got nothing.
46:19I dabbed a bone-dry eye and by some miracle no one noticed.
46:32After the Blitz, when we visited hospitals, I saw what my parents, the King and Queen, saw.
46:41They wept.
46:43I couldn't.
46:45Well, you were a child.
46:48What do you expect?
46:49Not just as a child.
46:51When my grandmother, Queen Mary, whom I loved very much, when she died, nothing.
47:05Well, if she'd been ill a long time, it had been expected.
47:09When I had my first child, a moment of such significance for every mother.
47:23I have known for some time, there is something wrong with me.
47:28Not wrong.
47:30Deficient, then.
47:32How else would you describe it when something is missing?
47:40These meetings are confidential, yes.
47:46I have never done a day's manual work in my life.
47:51Not one.
47:51I am an academic.
47:54I am an academic.
47:54A privileged Oxford dom.
47:56Not a worker.
47:59I don't like beer.
48:02I prefer brandy.
48:04I prefer wild salmon to tinned salmon.
48:08Chateaubriand to stained kidney pie.
48:12And I don't like pipe smoking.
48:15I far prefer cigars.
48:19But cigars are a symbol of capitalist privilege.
48:23So, I smoke a pipe.
48:26On the campaign trail and on television.
48:29Makes me more approachable.
48:35Likeable.
48:40We can't be everything to everyone and still be true to ourselves.
48:46We do what we have to do as leaders.
48:49That's our job.
48:51Our job is to calm more crises than we create.
48:56That's our job.
48:57And you do it very well indeed.
49:01And in a way,
49:03your absence of emotion is a blessing.
49:07No one needs hysteria from a head of state.
49:14I mean, the truth is,
49:16we barely need humanity.
49:33Prime Minister.
49:38Your Majesty.
49:40Your Majesty.
49:48Your Majesty.
49:52I don't know.
50:27I don't know.
50:57I don't know.
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