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16:10Prime Minister, Captain.
16:20Sixty bodies recovered so far.
16:22And counting.
16:26Quiet! Quiet!
16:28Quiet!
16:31Quiet!
16:57Back to work, everyone!
16:59Back to work.
17:04Every time the whistle blows, it makes they think they've heard something.
17:07Another child trapped beneath the wreckage.
17:09I'll be right back to work.
17:16Come on, go.
17:20Come on!
17:22Come on!
17:37Come on, go!
17:56I guarantee you the highest level independent inquiry into this tragedy.
18:06All the necessary parts will be given to those in charge to take whatever action they need.
18:20No intention of adding to anything I've made in my state.
18:25It's a bit late now.
18:28We've been turning our room for years, those chips are dangerous.
18:38There was a disaster waiting up, and no one listened.
18:43The casualties in the tip disaster in South Wales could be as high as 200.
18:48Thirty-six people remain in hospital.
18:50Plenty of bodies have been recovered.
18:51And estimates suggest that as many as 150 more are still missing, most of them children.
19:06What are you doing?
19:08You haven't heard the news.
19:09No?
19:11I've been at Caroline's birthday party.
19:14When you read the papers tomorrow, you'll understand.
19:17No.
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21:10Prime Minister, ma'am.
21:14As 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 hospitalised.
21:23I 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
21:59is that you've paralysed virtually any situation you walk into.
22:03The very last thing emergency and rescue services need
22:07when they're working against the clock is a queen turning up.
22:16I'm not sure I agree.
22:20Children have died.
22:22And the 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.
23:01Your majesty.
23:04Your majesty.
23:09Your majesty.
23:39Good morning, darling.
23:40Tea?
23:41Would anyone object if I had something stronger?
23:44Coffee?
23:45No.
23:46I was thinking whiskey.
23:47Margaret, it's nine o'clock.
23:49Yes, I know.
23:50But it's not morning.
23:52Not my world, anyway.
23:55Tony caught in the small hours from a call box in the middle of nowhere.
24:07Oh, it's me.
24:10Can you do something for me?
24:13You told me to go into the children's bedrooms and kiss them while they slept.
24:24As soon as he got to Aberfan, he went straight to the school.
24:38It was unimaginably awful.
24:43Miners used to digging for coal, now digging to reach their children.
24:52Many of them spent several hours stuck under the mud beside dead friends.
24:58Buried 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.
25:15They were writing a description of each adult, each child, noting any possessions they found
25:23in their pockets, like a handkerchief or sweets, anything, to help identify them.
25:45And from there I went to the hospital.
25:49There he comforted a man who was holding his son's school cap.
25:56After the hospitals, he wanted to walk back to the house where he was due to stay.
26:01But he carried on walking.
26:06And walking.
26:09What, what, what?
26:14No, I've never heard him like that.
26:26I hope I never do again.
26:39We have Geoffrey Morgan from the National Coal Board.
26:42I'm George Thomas, Minister of State for Wales, here to answer our question.
26:47Will you both accept responsibility?
26:49Who is it?
26:52National Coal Board cannot accept responsibility for the weather.
26:55That is!
26:57Abnormal levels of rainfall have created extraordinary conditions.
27:02You've known about the spring under the tip for years!
27:05I wrote to you!
27:07So did I!
27:08That's what's caused this!
27:09Not rainfall!
27:10And nothing was done!
27:12Buried alive by the National Coal Board.
27:16That's what I want to see written on my child's desk.
27:20What about financial assistance?
27:22We'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 was built in 1958 when the Labour Party wasn't in power.
27:49I had a visit today from 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.
28:06Their view is, if the Labour government pay the price for this tragedy,
28:10and the Tories make political capital from it,
28:12it would be obscene and a betrayal.
28:14Not just of the people of South Wales, but 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, in government.
28:27We cannot allow ourselves to be crucified on the altar of public opinion
28:32over something that isn't our fault.
28:35When people are angry, they throw stones at their leaders.
28:38Then it's the duty not just to deflect that anger,
28:41but to show solidarity with our supporters.
28:43Oh.
28:45This is grief, Marcia.
28:47It's injustice.
28:48It's just another in a long list of injustices.
28:51There's parents grieving their children.
28:53It's also cold-hearted refusal to accept responsibility
28:57by the people who are to blame.
28:59The Tories.
29:00And now they're making us the scapegoats.
29:03Oh.
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,
29:11and 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 we should look for another establishment figure
29:20to deflect negative attention.
29:24Who?
29:26Her.
29:28The Queen.
29:30But you must admit,
29:31her behaviour is symptomatic of establishment neglect.
29:35Her behaviour is unfortunate.
29:38You 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.
29:49Something like that.
29:52The 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.
30:03Maybe she finds that kind of situation difficult.
30:07Losing 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,
30:35you're going to have to grow some balls.
30:40The MCB is a creation of the Labour Party.
30:47This is a government-made disaster.
30:53Take responsibility.
30:55Š°ŠµŃŠµćŖć³!
31:17Yes
31:18John
31:19Come on, James.
31:20Come on, James.
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.
32:20And 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.
33:02Amen.
33:09Amen.
33:12While the richly fear of waters roll,
33:18While the tempest still is high,
33:24Other refuge have I none.
33:29And my helpless soul on Thee, leave me not alone, still support and comfort me.
33:47All my trust on Thee this day, all my help from Thee I pray.
33:59God of my children, and I pray.
34:05And my love from Thee, leave me not alone, still support me.
34:15And my love from Thee, leave me not alone, still support me.
34:22Thee, leave me not alone.
34:51How was it?
34:53Extraordinary.
34:57The grief, the anger at the government, at the co-board, at God too.
35:0681 children were buried today.
35:10The rage in all the faces, behind all the guys.
35:16They didn't smash things up, they didn't fight in the streets.
35:21What did they do?
35:23They sang.
35:25The whole community.
35:27It'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.
35:51Did you weep?
35:54I might have wept, yes.
35:56Are you going to tell me it was inappropriate?
35:59And the fact is, anyone who heard that hymn today would not just have wept.
36:09It would have been broken into a thousand tiny pieces.
36:35Right.
36:39I see.
36:41Thank you for letting me know.
36:47We've had a tip off from a friendly newspaper editor.
36:51The government, determined not to take the blame for Aberfan,
36:56have decided to refocus the subject of the national conversation.
37:02And as briefed newspapers as that.
37:07One person has been conspicuously absent from Aberfan, and that is our queen.
37:13The scandalous lack of care and interest, one can only assume it is that by our head of state,
37:19is symptomatic of a lack of care from the traditional establishment, not just for the people of Wales, but for
37:26the whole working class.
37:36And the prime minister gave that his blessing?
37:39I think we have to assume so.
37:44I think we have to assume so.
38:21We can't see...
38:26I think we're gonna have to assume so.
38:26You have to assume so.
38:29I think we're going to be able to understand that.
38:32heroes and survivors of the disaster there will then be a visit to the cemetery where you will
38:37lay a wreath and finally a visit to the home of a local miner thomas edwards who lost relatives
38:44in the disaster and scheduled conversations with several other grieving families a whole trip should
38:51be approximately two and a half hours without wishing to prompt your majesty you may wish to
38:59consider that this is wales not england a display of emotion would not just be considered appropriate
39:07it's expected
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48:00i don't like
48:00i don't like beer
48:01i prefer
48:02i 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
48:24so i smoke a pipe
48:25on the campaign trail and on television
48:30makes me more
48:32approachable
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
48:48that's our job
48:51our job
48:52our job is to calm more crises than we create
48:56that's our job and 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
49:13you know the truth is
49:16we barely need humanity
49:20our job
49:33prime minister
49:37your majesty
49:39I'll see.
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