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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.
17:09Back to work.
17:23One step, two step.
17:57I guarantee you, the highest level independent inquiry into this tragedy.
18:06All the necessary matters will be given to those in charge to take whatever action they need.
18:14Have they neglected the truth?
18:15Does the blame lie in the last of the dead?
18:17Have they neglected the truth?
18:18Have they neglected the truth?
18:19Have they neglected the truth?
18:19Have they neglected the truth?
18:21No intention of adding to anything I've made in my step.
18:25It's a bit late now.
18:28We've been turning our room for years, those tips are dangerous.
18:38There was a disaster waiting to happen, 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.
19:11No.
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.
19:22I have the news.
19:23Oh.
19:45I can't have any pictures that've been there.
19:46I can't do that.
19:57The smoke continues to hamper rescue efforts tonight in the village of Abadhan, South Wales.
20:02There's so far 67 bodies, mostly children, have been pulled from the wreckage of Pantglass Junior School,
20:08which was struck by coal waste from a nearby tip.
20:11Hope remains for many more still missing, but work to recover bodies is likely to continue through the night.
20:18The Prime Minister Harold Wilson visited the scene today,
20:20and Buckingham Palace have issued a statement of sorrow from the Queen.
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
20:34to the children's parents and to the families of those who have lost their lives.
20:39That's the news from us at the moment. Now back to London.
20:43There will be special reports during the evening.
21:09The Prime Minister
21:13As of an hour ago, the loss of life in Aberfan stands at 116.
21:18It appears that over 80 are still missing.
21:2036 of the survivors have been hospitalised.
21:24I see. Are any more victims expected to be found?
21:28Not alive, ma'am. To make matters worse,
21:31it 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.
22:22The 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.
22:45I said comfort people.
23:01I said comfort people.
23:12That's what we need.
23:15I said comfort people.
23:39Good morning, darling.
23:41Tea?
23:41Would anyone object if I had something stronger?
23:44Coffee?
23:45No.
23:46I was making whiskey.
23:47Margaret, it's nine o'clock.
23:49Yes, I know.
23:50But it's not morning.
23:52Not in my world, anyway.
23:55Tony called in the small hours from a pall box in the middle of nowhere.
24:07Hello, 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 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.
25:51He 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?
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.
30:59channel two-year-old police corps free
31:14at state position.
31:19Call one other forces for a long time.
31:46And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
31:51And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither 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.
33:36Amen.
33:57A man says,
34:03Amen.
34:03Oh, my God.
34:33Oh, my God.
34:51How was it?
34:53Extraordinary.
34:57The grief, the anger,
35:00the government,
35:01the co-board,
35:02and God, too.
35:0681 children were buried today.
35:10The rage in all the faces,
35:13behind 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.
35:27It'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,
36:01anyone who heard that hymn today
36:04would not just have wept.
36:09It would have been broken into a thousand tiny pieces.
36:12It would have been broken into a thousand tiny pieces.
36:35Right.
36:40I see.
36:42Thank 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.
37:03And 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.
37:43Better.
37:57Better.
38:08Better.
38:09Better.
38:10Better.
38:10Better.
38:12Probably not with him,
38:14Where are you from?
38:42Thomas Edwards, who lost relatives in the disaster and scheduled conversations with several other grieving families.
38:51A 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.
39:27This is the one that has been하지 or has done and affected.
39:27Are you ever in a relationship with a person or an Aboriginal community?
39:34I hope that we are in the same place for another sustainable climate,
39:35land and land and land.
39:42In the same place, we believe that the holidays are still non-alcoholic.
41:41This is Councillor Ellis, who lost seven relatives.
41:45Seven?
41:45Yes, ma'am.
41:47Three children, four nephews.
41:49I'm so sorry.
41:52Karen and Alan Jenkins, ma'am, who lost their son Ewan and his four cousins, Tegwin, Bryn,
42:00Maya, and Ben.
42:02Sorry.
42:04Thomas and Gwen Edwards, ma'am, whose home this is, they lost their two children, and this
42:12is Howell, Gwen's father, who managed to rescue one of the grandchildren.
42:18Sarah.
42:19Sarah.
42:20Oh.
42:20She has something for you, ma'am.
42:25From the remaining children of Abelan.
42:32You're welcome.
42:58I'm so glad.
43:02Oh.
43:04Oh.
43:04Oh.
43:05Oh.
43:05Oh.
43:10Oh.
43:10Oh.
43:13Oh.
43:39The Duke of Edinburgh
43:41Said the family sang 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 ask the Prime Minister to come and see me
43:57As soon as possible
43:59Yes, ma'am
44:38I'm sure we can find a recording
44:47The Prime Minister, Your Majesty
44:50Your Majesty
45:02Churchill would have had the character to do it face to face
45:07Come 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
45:24You 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
45:38But perhaps one or two of my colleagues
45:41Concerned at the anger being directed at the government
45:43Broke ranks
45:44Took 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
46:11They deserved a display of compassion
46:13Of empathy from their Queen
46:15And they got it yesterday
46:16They got nothing
46:19I dabbed a bone-dry eye
46:21And by some miracle, no one noticed
46:32After the Blitz
46:34When we visited hospitals
46:37I 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
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
47:10A moment of such significance for 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 in my life
47:50Not one
47:51I am an academic
47:53A privileged Oxford dom
47:56Not a worker
47:59I don't like beer
48:01I prefer brandy
48:03I 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
48:18But cigars are a symbol of capitalist privilege
48:23So I smoke a pipe
48:25On the campaign trail and on television
48:29Makes me more approachable
48:35Likeable
48:40We can't be everything to everyone
48:41And still be true to ourselves
48:46We do what we have to do as leaders
48:48That'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
49:02Your absence of emotion is a blessing
49:07No one needs hysteria from a head of state
49:14The truth is
49:15We barely need humanity
49:33Prime Minister
49:37Your Majesty
49:39Your Majesty
49:39Your Majesty
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