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16:10Prime Minister, Captain.
16:20Sixty bodies recovered so far.
16:22And counting.
16:26Quiet! Quiet! Quiet!
16:29Shit!
16:33Quiet!
16:57Back to work, everyone!
16:59Back to work!
17:03Every time the whistle blows, it means they think they've heard something.
17:07Another child trapped beneath the wreckage.
17:09A sudden, a man who'd be in the place.
17:21He's in front of the wreckage.
17:23One to step down, one to step.
17:26Fourth, two to step down.
17:28Fourth, two to step down and step down.
17:32Therese.
17:32Fourth, two to step down and step down and step down.
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 number of 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.
19:16When you read the papers tomorrow, you'll understand.
19:16What?
19:22What?
19:29I don't know.
20:10I don't know.
20:24The message reads,
20:25I am shocked and distressed to learn of the terrible disaster which has taken place at Abadhan.
20:30Please convey a message of my heartfelt sympathy from my husband and myself to the children's parents and to the
20:36families of those who have lost their lives.
20:39That's the news from us at the moment.
20:41Now back to London.
20:43There will be special reports during the evening.
20:45I don't know.
21:10Prime Minister, ma'am.
21:13As of an hour ago, the loss of life in Abadhan stands at 116.
21:18Now it appears that over 80 is still missing.
21:2136 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 and the village
21:35is 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.
21:43Now, 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 paralysed 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?
22:32We'll 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.
23:02Your Majesty.
23:04I said a question.
23:09There you go.
23:14There's always people.
23:21There you go.
23:24There you go.
23:25There you go.
23:29There you go.
23:33There's always people.
23:39morning darling tea would anyone object if i had something stronger coffee no i was thinking
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 running out of
25:04there he then went to the mortuary where people were waiting to identify the children's bodies
25:12nurses 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
25:28or anything to help identify them
25:45from there i went to the hospital but there he comforted a man
25:51he was holding his son he was holding his son's school cap after the hospitals he wanted to walk back
25:59to the house where he is due to stay
26:02he carried on walking
26:06he was walking
26:07and walking
26:09walking
26:10what what what what
26:20no i've never heard him like that
26:26i hope i never do again
26:38we have jeffrey morgan from the national coal board i'm george thomas minister of state for
26:44wales here to answer our question will you both accept responsibility
26:49who is this national 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 i wrote to you
27:06so did i that's what's caused this not rainfall
27:10and nothing was done buried 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 we've got people in dire need now
27:26when's government going to step in
27:30let us be quite clear
27:34a dreadful tragedy has taken place
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
28:05their view is
28:07if the labour government pay the price for this tragedy
28:09and the tories make political capital from it it would be obscene
28:13and a betrayal
28:14not just of the people of south wales
28:17but of all of us in the movement
28:19we've been waiting for this for too long harold
28:2213 years in opposition and 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
28:40but to show solidarity with our supporters
28:43oh this 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 to accept responsibility by the people who are to blame
28:59the tories
29:00and now they're making us the scapegoats
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
29:26her
29:28the queen
29:30but you must admit her behavior is symptomatic of establishment neglect
29:35her behavior 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
29:48the crown doesn't go
29:50something 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
30:02maybe 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 boards abandons you is difficult
30:20and instead of sticking the knife in her and allowing us all to vent our anger at someone cold-hearted
30:24you'd sooner let your own team take the blame you're pathetic you disgust me
30:29so you keep telling me if you ever want to be a real leader a real man a real socialist
30:36you're going to have to grow some balls
30:41the mcb is a creation of the labor party
30:47this is a government-made disaster
30:52take responsibility
31:02the mcb is
31:04the mcb is
31:04the mcb is
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.
32:14He 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 playing in the streets thereof.
32:33And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels.
32:41And I will spare them, as 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.
33:09Amen.
33:18Amen.
33:26Amen.
33:33Amen.
33:41Amen.
33:48Amen.
33:49Amen.
33:50Jesus damsel.
33:59Amen.
34:03I don't know.
34:51How was it?
34:53Extraordinary.
34:57The grief, the anger at the government of the co-board.
35:03God, 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.
35:18They didn't fight in the streets.
35:21What did they do?
35:22They sang.
35:25The whole community.
35:27It's the most astonishing thing I've ever heard.
35:37Did you weep?
35:41Did 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.
36:37I see you.
36:41Thank you for letting me know.
36:48We've had a tip off from a friendly newspaper editor.
36:50That the government, determined not to take the blame for Aberfan, have decided to refocus the subject of the national
37:00conversation.
37:03And, as briefed newspaper as that, one 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?
37:40I think we have to assume so.
38:15On arrival at RAF St. Athan, you will be received by Sir Kenneth Trehearn, Lord-Lieutenant of Glamorgan, and taken
38:23via a car to the school disaster site in Aberfan.
38:28Then on to the Bithania Chapel for the presentation of the heroes and survivors of the disaster
38:35There will then be a visit to the cemetery where you will lay a wreath
38:39And finally a visit to the home of a local miner, Thomas Edwards, who lost relatives in the disaster
38:45And scheduled conversations with several other grieving families
38:50A whole trip should be approximately two and a half hours
38:54Without wishing to prompt your majesty, you may wish to consider that this is Wales, not England
39:02A display of emotion would not just be considered appropriate
39:07It's expected
39:30It was very finest that we were duration of the wrecked
39:31The fact that we wereikka-based on the city of the city of the rescue
39:32Is that a place that we have been fueled by the town of the city?
39:43That was in a place that it was a storm of oregon
39:44A place that we received from the park
39:44But is that a place that is not likely to be considered or somewhat rather
39:44Until they were gathered in a place where we were a place
39:44And left and left and left and left and left and left and left and left
39:45And left and left and left and left and left, when they left and left, was not this inhale
43:57As soon as possible.
43:58Yes, ma'am.
44:47The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.
44:49Your Majesty.
45:02Churchill would have had the character to do it face to face.
45:07Come to think of it, so would Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan.
45:11Each of them would have had the courage to do it, none of them would have had the courage to
45:28express their anger to me directly.
45:30Never.
45:31It wasn't you?
45:38But perhaps one or two of my colleagues concerned at the anger being directed at the government.
45:43It's possible.
46:10It's possible.
46:31It's possible.
46:34It's possible.
46:36It's possible.
46:43It's possible.
46:45It's possible.
46:46Well, you were a child.
46:48It's possible.
46:54It's possible.
46:58It's possible.
47:01It's possible.
47:04It's possible.
47:26It's possible.
47:33It's possible.
47:41It's possible.
47:42It's possible.
47:42You, actually, yes.
47:46I have never done a day's manual work in my life.
47:51Not one.
47:52I am an academic.
47:54A privileged Oxford Dom.
47:57Not a worker.
47:59I don't like beer.
48:01I 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 on the campaign trail and on television.
48:30It makes 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 and you do it very well indeed.
49:01And in a way, your absence of emotion is a blessing.
49:07No one needs hysteria from a head of state.
49:14I mean, the truth is, we barely need humanity.
49:33Prime Minister.
49:38Your Majesty.
49:39Your Majesty.
50:08Your Majesty.
50:27To the power of my soul,
50:33Let me to thy kingdom fly, while the nearer portals roll, while the tempest still is high.
50:51Our refuge have I now, and my helpless soul on thee, leave thou, leave me not alone, still support and
51:12reward me, with thou, God, be thou, my Lord.
51:21Let me to thy kingdom fly, while the tempest still is high, and my helpless soul on thee, leave thou,
51:31my Lord.
51:51Let me to thy kingdom fly, while the tempest still is high.
51:55Let me to thy kingdom fly, while the tempest still is high, and my kingdom fly, and my peace.
52:01Let me to thy kingdom fly, while the tempest still is high, and my reminders may be as if you
52:21will.
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