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16:57Back to work, everyone!
16:59Back to work!
17:03Every time the whistle blows, it makes they think they've heard something.
17:07Another child trapped beneath the wreckage.
17:22One step, one step!
17:25One step!
17:56I guarantee you
17:59the highest level
18:01independent inquiry
18:03into this tragedy
18:04all the necessary
18:08will be given
18:09to those in charge
18:10to take
18:11whatever action
18:21no intention
18:22of adding to
18:23anything I've made
18:24in my step
18:25it's a bit late
18:26now
18:28we've been
18:29turning our room
18:29for years
18:30those tips are
18:30dangerous
18:38there was a
18:39disaster
18:39waiting to happen
18:40and no one
18:41listened
18:43the number of
18:44casualties
18:45in the tip
18:45disaster in
18:45South Wales
18:46could be as
18:46high as 200
18:4736 people
18:48remain in hospital
18:49plenty of bodies
18:50have been recovered
18:51and estimates
18:52suggest that as
18:53many as 150
18:54more are still
18:55missing
18:55most of them
18:56children
19:06what are you
19:07doing
19:07you haven't
19:08heard the news
19:09no
19:11I've been
19:13Caroline's birthday
19:13party
19:14when you read
19:15the papers
19:15tomorrow
19:15you'll understand
19:43you'll understand
19:57the smoke
19:57continues to
19:58hamper
19:58rescue efforts
19:59tonight in the
20:00village of
20:01Appadhan
20:01South Wales
20:02so far 67
20:03bodies
20:04mostly children
20:05have been pulled
20:06from the wreckage
20:07of Pant Glass
20:07Junior School
20:08which was struck
20:09by coal waste
20:10from a nearby tip
20:11hope remains
20:12for many more
20:13still missing
20:14but work to
20:15recover bodies
20:15is likely to
20:16continue through
20:17the night
20:17the Prime Minister
20:18Harold Wilson
20:19visited the scene
20:20today
20:20and Buckingham
20:21Palace have issued
20:22a statement of
20:23sorrow from the
20:24Queen
20:24the message reads
20:25I am shocked
20:26and distressed
20:27to learn
20:27of the terrible
20:28disaster
20:28which has taken
20:29place at
20:30Appadhan
20:30please convey
20:31a message
20:31of my heartfelt
20:32sympathy
20:33from my husband
20:34and myself
20:34to the children's
20:35parents
20:36and to the
20:36families of those
20:37who have lost
20:38their lives
20:39that's the news
20:40from us at the
20:41moment
20:41now back to
20:42London
20:43there will be
20:43special reports
20:44during the
20:45evening
21:09Prime Minister
21:13As of an hour
21:14ago the loss
21:15of life in
21:15Aberfan
21:16stands at
21:17116
21:18now it appears
21:18that over 80
21:19are still missing
21:2036 of the
21:21survivors have
21:22been hospitalised
21:23I see
21:25are any more
21:26victims expected
21:27to be found
21:28not alive
21:29ma'am
21:30to make matters
21:31worse
21:31it has been reported
21:32that the north
21:32shoulder of tip 7
21:33has moved
21:34and the village
21:35is ready for
21:35immediate evacuation
21:36mechanical diggers
21:38are out of action
21:39bogged down
21:39in the soggy mud
21:41the military
21:42have been brought
21:43into hell
21:43now
21:46given
21:47all this
21:48I was hoping
21:50I might persuade
21:50you to go
21:55one of the most
21:56unfortunate things
21:57about being
21:58sovereign
21:58I have discovered
21:59is that you
22:00paralysed virtually
22:01any situation
22:02you walk into
22:02the very last
22:04thing
22:04emergency
22:05and rescue
22:06services need
22:07when they're
22:07working against
22:08the clock
22:08is a queen
22:09turning up
22:17I'm not sure
22:17I agree
22:20children have
22:21died
22:22the community
22:23is devastated
22:26what precisely
22:27would you have
22:28me do
22:32comfort people
22:34put on a show
22:36the crown
22:37doesn't do that
22:41I didn't say
22:42put on a show
22:43I said
22:44comfort people
23:02your majesty
23:08oh
23:14oh
23:39Good morning, darling.
23:41Tea?
23:41Would anyone object if I had something stronger?
23:44Coffee?
23:45No.
23:46I was making whiskey.
23:47Oh.
23:47Margaret, it's nine o'clock.
23:49Yes, I know.
23:50But it's not morning.
23:52Not my world, anyway.
23:55Tony called.
23:57In the small hours.
23:59From a pall box.
24:01In 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.
25:12Nurses and Salvation Army volunteers, they were writing a description of each adult, each
25:18child, noting any possessions they found in their pockets, like a handkerchief or sweets, anything, to help identify them.
25:45And from there I went to the hospital.
25:49But there he comforted a man.
25:51He was holding his son.
25:53He 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.
26:02But he carried on walking.
26:06And walking.
26:09What?
26:10What?
26:10What?
26:11What?
26:20No, 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?
26:51National Coal Board cannot accept responsibility for the weather.
26:57Abnormal levels of rainfall have created extraordinary conditions.
27:01You've known about the spring under the tip for years.
27:05I wrote to you.
27:07So did I.
27:08That's what's caused this, not rainfall.
27:10And nothing was done.
27:12Buried alive by the National Coal Board.
27:16That's what I want to see written on my child's desk.
27:20Talk 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.
27:34A dreadful tragedy has taken place.
27:37But blame for that cannot be placed 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.
28:00Thank you, Marcia.
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, it would be obscene and a betrayal.
28:14Not just of the people of South Wales, but of all of us in the movement.
28:18We'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.
28:34Oh.
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.
29:03What 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.
29:39You 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.
29:52The 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 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.
30:41The MCB is a creation of the Labour Party.
30:48This is a government-made disaster.
30:53Take responsibility.
31:17Take responsibility.
31:18Please, quickly.
31:18Please, quickly, please, please.
31:19Yes, sir.
31:20Give me some.
31:22I'd like to ask.
31:26It's a purely safe place.
31:27This is a good place.
31:27Give me some peace.
31:27Come on.
31:28How do you wanna do this?
31:46and god shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more
31:53death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain for the
32:04former things are passed away fear not for I am with thee he shall feed his flock
32:15like a shepherd he shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his
32:21bosom and shall gently leave those that are with young and the streets of the
32:28city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof and they
32:34shall be mine in that day when I make up my jewels and I will spare them as a man
32:44spare it his own son that serveth him I saw four angels standing on the four
32:52corners of the earth I heard a voice from heaven
33:06let me to thy bosom fly while the nearer waters roll while the tempest still is high
33:23other refuge have I none and my helpless soul on thee
33:35leave I leave me not alone still support and comfort me
33:47all my trust on thee this day all my help from thee I pray
33:58come on my way
34:02do
34:04I don't know.
34:39I don't know.
34:51How was it?
34:53Extraordinary.
34:57The grief, the anger at the government, at the co-board,
35:03at 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.
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
36:04would 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.
36:47We've had a tip off from a friendly newspaper editor.
36:51The government, determined not to take the blame for Aberfan,
36:55have decided to refocus the subject of the national conversation,
37:02and as briefed newspaper as that.
37:07One person has been conspicuously absent from Aberfan,
37:11and that is our Queen.
37:13The scandalous lack of care and interest,
37:15one can only assume it is that by 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.
37:36And the Prime Minister gave that his blessing?
37:40I think we have to assume so.
38:15On arrival at RAF St Athon,
38:18You will be received by Sir Kenneth Traherne, Lord-Lieutenant for Glamorgan, and taken via car to the school disaster
38:24site 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.
39:44The
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.
47:46I
47:47have never
47:47done a days' manual work in my life. Not one.
47:52I am an
47:53academic. A privileged Oxford
47:56don.
47:56not a worker I don't like beer I prefer brandy I prefer wild salmon to tinned
48:06salmon Chateaubriand to stay in kidney pie and I don't like pipe smoking I far
48:17prefer cigars but cigars are a symbol of capitalist privilege so I smoke a pipe
48:26on the campaign trail and on television makes me more approachable likeable
48:40we can't be everything to everyone and still be true to ourselves we do what we have to do as
48:48leaders that's our job our job is to calm more crises than we create that's our job and you do
48:57it very well indeed in a way your absence of emotion is a blessing no one needs hysteria from a
49:09head of
49:13state the truth is we barely need humanity Prime Minister
49:37your majesty
49:49you
49:54you
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