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15:51Oh, God.
15:58Oh, God.
16:10Prime Minister?
16:11Yeah.
16:12One, two, three.
16:19Sixty bodies recovered so far.
16:22And counting.
16:26Quiet! Quiet!
16:28Quiet!
16:42Quiet!
16:57Back to work, everyone!
17:03Every time the whistle blows, it means they think they've heard something.
17:07Another child trapped beneath the wreckage.
17:17Come on, let's go.
17:54Come on, let's go.
18:13Come on, let's go.
18:48Come on, let's go.
19:06Come on, let's go.
19:16Come on.
19:21Come on.
19:23Come on.
19:27Come on.
19:29Come on.
19:31Come on.
19:32Come on.
19:35Come on.
19:38Come on.
19:38Come on.
19:41Come on.
19:41Come on.
19:45Come on.
19:46Come on.
19:59Come on.
20:02Come on.
20:09Come on.
20:27Come on.
20:37Come on.
20:54Come on.
20:56Come on.
20:58Come on.
21:11Come on.
21:36Come on.
21:41Come on.
21:43Come on.
21:45Come on.
21:46Come on.
22:06Come on.
22:08Come on.
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23:01Your Majesty.
23:40Morning, darling. Tea? Would anyone object if I had something stronger? Coffee? No, I was making whiskey. Margaret, it's nine
23:48o'clock.
23:48Yes, I know. But it's not morning. Not in my world, anyway. Tony caught in the small hours from a
23:59pall box in the middle of nowhere.
24:07Oh, it's me. Can 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. Miners, 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. Running 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 child.
25:20Noting 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. He 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?
26:15No, 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. I 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.
27:19What 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 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 and the Tories make political capital from
28:12it,
28:12It would be obscene.
28:13And 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 over 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, but 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 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, and 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 to deflect negative attention.
29:24Who?
29:27Her.
29:28The Queen.
29:30But you must admit, her 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.
29:50Something 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.
30:03Maybe 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,
30:22and allowing us all to vent our anger at someone cold-hearted,
30:25you'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.
31:01here.
31:17This is a pandemic.
31:18This is a pandemic.
31:19Yes, sir.
31:19Come in, sir.
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
34:31come on my way
34:32text outside the name of the Gladstone
34:32come on my way
34:32the mouth of the fire
34:51How was it?
34:53Extraordinary.
34:57The grief, the anger.
35:00At 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.
35:18They 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, 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 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, but for the whole working class.
37:36And the Prime Minister gave that his blessing?
37:40I think we have to assume so.
37:57It should be the source of protection.
38:12Coyote's email address doctor Marquis.
38:15On arrival at RAF St. Athan,
38:18you will be received by Sir Kenneth Trehearn,
38:21Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan,
38:22and taken via 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. It's expected.
39:20The
39:20The
39:20The
39:20The
39:20The
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.
43:07It's great.
43:09It's very good.
43:39The Duke of Edinburgh
43:41said the family sang a hymn
43:43when 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 ask the Prime Minister to come and see me
43:57as soon as possible.
43:59Yes, ma'am.
44:28The Duke of Edinburgh
44:47The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.
44:50Your Majesty.
45:02Churchill would have had the character
45:04to do it face to face.
45:06Come to think of it, so would Anthony Eden
45:09and Harold Macmillan.
45:12Each of them would have had the courage
45:13to express their anger to me directly.
45:16None of them would ever
45:17have resorted to going behind my back like that.
45:23I have it on authority.
45:25You tipped off journalists
45:26that I was letting the side down
45:27by not going to Aberfan.
45:30Never.
45:31It wasn't you?
45:32No, ma'am.
45:37But perhaps one or two of my colleagues
45:41concerned at the anger being directed
45:43at 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,
46:13of empathy from their Queen.
46:15And they got it yesterday.
46:17They got nothing.
46:19I dabbed a bone-dry eye
46:21and by some miracle,
46:21no one noticed.
46:32After the Blitz,
46:34when we visited hospitals,
46:37I saw what my parents,
46:39the 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,
46:54whom I loved very much,
46:57when she died,
47:02nothing.
47:05Well, if she'd been ill a long time,
47:07it had been expected.
47:09When I had my first child,
47:11a moment of such significance
47:12for every mother.
47:23I have known for some time,
47:25there is something wrong with me.
47:28Not wrong.
47:30Deficient, then.
47:32How else would you describe it
47:33when something is missing?
47:40These meetings are confidential, yes.
47:46I have never done a day's manual work
47:49in my life.
47:51Not one.
47:51I am an academic.
47:54I 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
48:06to tinned salmon.
48:08Chateaubriand
48:08to stained kidney pie.
48:12And I don't like pipe smoking.
48:15I far prefer cigars.
48:19But cigars are a symbol
48:21of capitalist privilege.
48:23So I smoke a pipe
48:25on the campaign trail
48:27and on television.
48:29Makes me more
48:32approachable.
48:35Likeable.
48:40We can't be everything
48:41to everyone
48:41and still be true
48:42to ourselves.
48:46We do what we have
48:47to do as leaders.
48:49That's our job.
48:51Our job is to calm
48:53more crises
48:54than we create.
48:56That's our job
48:57and you do it
48:58very well indeed.
49:01And in a way,
49:03your absence of emotion
49:04is a blessing.
49:07No one needs hysteria
49:08from a head of state.
49:14I mean, the truth is
49:15we barely need humanity.
49:33Prime Minister.
49:38Your Majesty.
49:51What do you think?
49:53What do you think?
49:53What do you think?
49:57What do you think?
50:01It's easier to see
50:01in the room.
50:02What do you think?
50:02Look at the scene
50:09thatonto asks you
50:10and tell,
50:29Oh, my God.
50:40While the need hath won't us go,
50:45While the tempest still is high,
50:51Of our refuge hath I known,
50:57Hence my help has soared on me.
51:03Leave the need, be not alone,
51:08Still support and support me,
51:15With the love of me on my own,
51:21With my heart is still.
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