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00:01This morning, I was going to make a lot of food and food.
00:09I would like to go to the ground.
00:09I'm going to eat.
00:17I am going to eat a few minutes.
00:21Let's get some food.
00:39All right, all right, before you go, sit down, please, Rhys.
00:44Who can tell me what's special about tomorrow?
00:46It's Friday!
00:47I've just shouted out, get out hands raised, boy.
00:50Sorry, sir.
00:51Yes, it's Friday.
00:53It's the start of the weekend, and even more importantly, the start of half-term.
00:56And in case you'd forgotten, before you go on half-term, you lot have a job to do tomorrow morning.
01:01You're singing all things bright and beautiful to the whole school in assembly.
01:05So, so, don't forget to practice at home tonight.
01:09Take the words home to memorize them.
01:12Memorize Rhys Edwards.
01:13Commit to memory to learn by heart.
01:16Right, everyone light up.
01:17Come on.
01:23Come on.
01:25Don't forget your cords.
01:26There you go.
01:28Well done today.
01:29Good work.
01:31Peace.
01:34Peace.
01:44Peace.
01:48Peace.
01:50Peace.
01:52Peace.
01:57Peace.
01:58Peace.
02:07All things right and beautiful
02:10In the situation's home
02:14All things right and wonderful
02:19Hello, Nan
02:20Hello, Nan
02:21Right and beautiful
02:24Hello, Dad
02:25Hi, Dad
02:25Clear the table for me, would you?
02:28Can I get you a cup of tea, love?
02:29Please, I am gasping
02:30All things right and beautiful
02:33All creatures great and small
02:36Get in love, it's time for you a bath
02:38I knew that was you
02:40I knew you down the street
02:43Raining cats and dogs out there, Mum
02:45Come on, hey
02:49Show me, show me, show me
02:51All things right and beautiful
02:54All creatures great and small
02:57Yes
02:58The purple-headed mountains
03:00The river running by
03:03The sunset and the morning
03:06That brightens up the sky
03:09Bye-bye
03:09Bye-bye
03:16Bye-bye
03:21Bye-bye
03:22Bye-bye
03:23Bye-bye
03:23Bye-bye
03:24Bye-bye
03:24Bye-bye
03:25Bye-bye
03:25Bye-bye
03:27Bye-bye
03:34Bye-bye
03:40So
04:07Where are we headed then?
04:08Tip 7.
04:10We've got reports of a train now.
04:16I'm going, I'm running late.
04:18Off you go then. See you later.
04:20Bye.
04:25Quickly!
04:27Quickly now, come on!
04:31I'm back here, can I?
04:32I thought we were late.
04:34Do your laces up.
04:35Good morning.
04:37Look at your face, you filthy.
04:42Good morning.
04:48See you later then.
04:49Bye.
05:04Come on boys.
05:05Come on boys.
05:05Go.
05:10Go.
05:11Come.
05:12Go.
05:14Go.
05:17Go.
05:18Go.
05:25Stay home.
05:26And look at this.
05:27You're out of here...
05:27You're out of here.
05:31No way how far.
05:37I've never seen one this far before.
05:51Devon? Sir?
05:52Edwards? Sir?
05:54Phillips? Sir?
05:56Moss?
05:56All things bright and beautiful.
06:02Not yet, boy.
06:04An assembly. Five minutes.
06:06Don't peak too soon.
06:11Come on, man, are you?
06:13Come on!
06:23Who's supervising today, love?
06:25Eric Ellis?
06:25You just missed him.
06:26He's in the canteen.
06:28Eric!
06:29What's up, men boys?
06:30I'm trying to eat my breakfast.
06:31We've got trouble up on seven.
06:32Something's not right.
06:33What do you mean?
06:33We should get a safety team up there now.
06:35Just in case.
06:35What? You can feel it moving.
06:36We better not hang around.
06:37I've never seen anything like this.
06:38Where exactly?
06:39Seven.
06:40There's two lads.
06:41We left them to keep an eye out.
06:42Someone needs to check it out.
06:43I'll get a team up.
06:54I'll get a team up.
07:00I'll bequez.
07:01Okay, Aightll.
07:12Gasp.
07:13Gasp.
07:229ll get into it!
07:23Oh.
07:23Oh, oh.
07:24I need to take a team up with four lights.
07:24On your feet need more light, on your medical, please, quickly and quietly.
07:35Sir.
07:36Jesus Christ.
07:38Sir.
07:39Under the desk for all of you, quickly.
07:42Please get under the desk.
07:44No.
07:44No.
07:46No.
07:46No.
07:54No.
08:01Where are you?
08:02Not far from here.
08:04If we wanted to buy groceries, bread and butter and eggs, we'd go to the local shop.
08:09If we wanted fresh vegetables, we'd have to go to the open market in central Louisville.
08:14And if we wanted meat or fish that wasn't in a tin, we'd have to go to neighbouring Milnesbridge for
08:21the butchers and fishmongers.
08:25Then something bigger came along, which changed everything.
08:29And we were told to call it a supermarket.
08:32Well, now we have this.
08:35A hypermarket.
08:45Which is interesting to me for several reasons.
08:51It's democratic, it's modern, and it changes everything.
08:57I'm afraid you're going to have to excuse me.
09:01There's a girl.
09:06What do you want me?
09:11Oh, my God.
09:12Help me out.
09:15Get out now.
09:16Hee hee.
09:17Oh.
09:26Now, where are you going?
09:41I'm sorry to interrupt, Your Majesty, Michael.
09:44I'm afraid there's been an incident in a mining village in South Wales.
09:47A coal waste tip collapsed and slid into a junior school.
09:51It's clear there's been significant loss of life.
09:53I would suggest an immediate response.
09:55What kind of response?
09:56A statement of condolence. I've taken the liberty of doing a quick draft.
09:59May I?
10:00Of course.
10:05I am shocked and distressed to learn of the terrible disaster which is taking place at Aber Van.
10:11Please convey a message of heartfelt sympathy from my husband and myself to the children's parents
10:15and to the families of those who have lost their lives.
10:18Signed, Elizabeth R.
10:21Downing Street has requested the use of an aircraft of the Queen's flight
10:24so that the PM can visit the site of the tragedy later today.
10:26I assume that's a yes?
10:27Of course.
10:28Unless you were planning to visit today yourself.
10:31Why would I go?
10:33What a question.
10:33The Crown visits hospitals, Martin, not the scenes of accidents.
10:40Thank you, ma'am.
10:45Forgive me, ma'am. There's just one more appointment to confirm today.
10:48Four o'clock reception for Sir Leslie Frye.
10:55At about eight o'clock this morning, the local branch of the National Coal Board received a report
11:00that a depression had formed in tip number seven.
11:04Meaning?
11:05It had sunk.
11:07What's it doing, sinking like that? Isn't it solid?
11:10Apparently not.
11:11Not with all the heavy rainfall that they've been having lately.
11:14It seems that all that water turned enough of the coal waste inside the tip into slurry to cause the
11:21sinkhole.
11:22And then about a quarter past nine, that liquid waste broke free of the tip, slid down the mountain towards
11:28the village.
11:29Hunt plus junior school bore the brunt of it. Several houses, too.
11:34And how much coal was in this tip?
11:36Too much. 300,000 cubic yards.
11:40Plus, guidelines suggest that tips should be no higher than 20 feet tall.
11:44Now, this one was over five times that.
11:49Who from the coal board is there?
11:52Local supervisor, Eric Ellis.
11:54We're gonna need someone higher up than that.
11:56What about Lord Robins, head of the coal board?
11:58He was notified, but he's being invested as Chancellor of Surrey University today and saw no reason to postpone the
12:04investiture.
12:05What?
12:07Make sure he's there by tomorrow morning, will you?
12:09Yes, sir.
12:09Well, we have to be careful.
12:11This could turn nasty very quickly.
12:15Come on, Harold. This is an accident caused by unprecedented rainfall.
12:20It isn't political.
12:21Everything is political, Andrew.
12:40What seems to be the problem?
12:41The road's closed, sir.
12:43All the way up?
12:43Please, sir.
12:44Look out! Somebody out of the school!
12:47Sorry, sir. Roads are blocked.
12:49People have been arriving to help all day.
12:50We might struggle to get through.
12:53Then we'll walk.
13:02Walk up, walk up.
13:11Stand at me.
13:12Let from here.
13:14Boom up.
13:15Boom up.
13:15You're the only reinforcements in from here.
13:16You got it.
13:17One, two, three!
13:20You got it.
13:21You got it.
13:21You got it.
13:22You got it.
13:22You got it.
13:23You got it.
13:4160 bodies recovered so far and count
14:16hard to work everyone
14:18hard to work everyone
14:22Every time the whistle blows, it makes they think they've heard something.
14:26Another child trapped beneath the wreckage.
15:11I guarantee you the highest level independent inquiry into this tragedy.
15:20All the necessary attacks will be given to those in charge to take whatever action.
15:34No intention of adding to anything I've made in my state.
15:38It's a bit late now.
15:41We've been 10 hours in for years. Those chips are dangerous.
15:50There was a disaster waiting to happen.
15:52And no one listened.
15:55A number of casualties in the tip disaster in South Wales could be as high as 200.
15:5936 people remain in hospital.
16:0023 bodies have been recovered.
16:02And estimates suggest that as many as 150 more are still missing.
16:06Most of them children.
16:16What are you doing?
16:17You haven't heard the news.
16:19No?
16:20I've been at Caroline's birthday party.
16:23When you read the papers tomorrow, you'll understand.
16:49I've been at Caroline's birthday party.
17:02The smoke continues to hamper rescue efforts tonight in the village of Appadhan, South Wales.
17:08So far, 67 bodies, mostly children, have been pulled from the wreckage of Pant Glass Junior School,
17:13which was struck by coal waste from a nearby tip.
17:16Hope remains for many more still missing, but work to recover bodies is likely to continue through the night.
17:22The Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, visited the scene today,
17:24and Buckingham Palace have issued a statement of sorrow from the Queen.
17:28The message reads,
17:29I am shocked and distressed to learn of the terrible disaster which has taken place at Appadhan.
17:34Please convey a message of my heartfelt sympathy from my husband and myself
17:38to the children's parents and to the families of those who have lost their lives.
17:42That's the news from us at the moment.
17:44Now back to London.
17:45There will be special reports during the evening.
18:10Prime Minister.
18:14As of an hour ago, the loss of life in Appadhan stands at 116.
18:18Now it appears that over 80 are still missing.
18:2036 of the survivors have been hospitalised.
18:23I see.
18:24Are any more victims expected to be found?
18:27Not alive.
18:29To make matters worse, it has been reported that the north shoulder of Tip 7 has moved
18:33and the village is ready for immediate evacuation.
18:35Mechanical diggers are out of action, bogged down in the soggy mud.
18:39And the military have been brought into hell.
18:42Now, given all this, I was hoping I might persuade you to go.
18:52One of the most unfortunate things about being sovereign I have discovered
18:56is that you've paralysed virtually any situation you walk into.
18:59The very last thing emergency and rescue services need
19:03when they're working against the clock is a Queen turning up.
19:12I'm not sure I agree.
19:15Children have died.
19:17The community is devastated.
19:21What precisely would you have me do?
19:26We'll comfort people.
19:28Put on a show?
19:30The Crown doesn't do that.
19:34I didn't say put on a show.
19:37I said comfort people.
19:54Your Majesty.
19:55I didn't say so.
19:56I didn't say that.
20:11The police is arrested.
20:29morning darling tea what do you want to object if i had something stronger coffee no i was
20:35making whiskey margaret it's nine o'clock yes i know but it's not morning not my world anyway
20:43tony called in the small hours from a call box in the middle of nowhere
20:54hello it's me can you do something for me you told me to go into the children's bedrooms
21:02and kiss them while they slept
21:10as soon as he got to ababan he went straight to the school
21:23it was unimaginably awful miners used to digging for coal now digging to reach their children
21:37many of them spent several hours stuck under the mud beside dead friends
21:41buried alive running out of air
21:47he then went to the mortuary where people were waiting to identify the children's bodies
21:53nurses and salvation army volunteers they were writing a description of each adult
22:00each child noting any possessions they found in their pockets like like the
22:07handkerchief or sweets anything to help identify them
22:25from there i went to the hospital
22:29there he comforted a man who was holding his son's school cap
22:35after the hospitals he wanted to walk back to the house where he had to stay
22:40and he carried on walking
22:45and walking
22:58i've never heard him like that
23:03i hope i never do again
23:14we have jeffrey morgan from the national coal board
23:18i'm george thomas minister of state for wales here to answer our question
23:22will you both accept responsibility
23:27national coal board cannot accept responsibility for the weather
23:31abnormal levels of rainfall have created extraordinary conditions
23:36you've known about the spring under the tip for years
23:39i wrote to you
23:41so did i
23:41that's what's caused this
23:43not rainfall
23:44and nothing was done
23:46buried alive
23:47by the national coal board
23:49that's what i want to see written on my child's desk
23:53what about my mantra sisters
23:55we've got people in dire need now
23:58when's government going to step in
24:02let us be quite clear
24:06a dreadful tragedy has taken place
24:13i had a visit today
24:22from certain members of the cabinet
24:25you need to tell me who
24:26who are concerned that this is all turning political
24:29of course it's turning political
24:32and they want you to do something to deflect the blame
24:35their view is
24:36if the labour government pay the price for this tragedy
24:39and the tories make political capital from it
24:41it would be obscene
24:42and a betrayal
24:43not just of the people of south wales
24:45but of all of us in the movement
24:47we've been waiting for this for too long harold
24:5013 years in opposition
24:52and now we're finally in power
24:54in government
24:55we cannot allow ourselves
24:57to be crucified on the altar of public opinion
24:59over something that isn't our fault
25:01oh when people are angry
25:03they throw stones at their leaders
25:05then it's the duty
25:06not just to deflect that anger
25:08but to show solidarity with our supporters
25:10oh
25:11this is grief marcia
25:13it's injustice
25:14it's just another in a long list of injustices
25:17there's parents grieving their children
25:19it's also cold-hearted refusal
25:21to accept responsibility
25:23by the people who are to blame
25:24the tories
25:25and now they're making us the scapegoats
25:28well
25:29what do you want me to do about it?
25:32make sure they take the blame
25:33and if you can't blame it on the tories
25:35and you won't press it in the house
25:37and you can't go after the ncb
25:39until the tribunal is over
25:40then perhaps
25:41we should look
25:42for another establishment figure
25:44to deflect negative attention
25:48who?
25:50her
25:51the queen
25:52but you must admit
25:54her behaviour is symptomatic
25:56of establishment neglect
25:58her behaviour is unfortunate
26:01you went to see her today
26:03didn't you?
26:04yes
26:04and you asked her again to go?
26:07yes
26:08and what did she say?
26:10the crown doesn't go?
26:12something like that
26:13the Duke of Edinburgh
26:15is now going
26:16they pulled him away
26:18from some duck shoot
26:19yes
26:20but she isn't
26:21perhaps there's good reason for that
26:23maybe she finds
26:25that kind of situation difficult
26:27losing your children
26:29is difficult
26:31losing brothers and sisters
26:33is difficult
26:35living in a mining village
26:36where the coal boards
26:37abandon you
26:38is difficult
26:39and instead of sticking the knife in her
26:41and allowing us all to vent our anger
26:43at someone cold hearted
26:44you'd sooner let your own team
26:45take the blame
26:46you're pathetic
26:47you disgust me
26:48so you keep telling me
26:49if you ever want to be
26:51a real leader
26:52a real man
26:53a real socialist
26:54you're going to have to
26:55grow some balls
26:58the MCB
27:00is a creation of the Labour Party
27:05this is a government made disaster
27:09take responsibility
27:33this is a machine
27:34yes
27:59And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
28:04And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any
28:12more pain, for the former things are passed away.
28:22Fear not, for I am with thee.
28:25He shall feed his flock like a shepherd.
28:28He shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently
28:34lead those that are with young.
28:37And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
28:43And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts.
28:47In that day when I make up my jewels, and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own
28:54son
28:55that serveth him.
28:57I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth.
29:03I heard a voice from heaven.
29:10Amen.
29:16Amen.
29:40Lord.
29:48Amen.
29:53Amen.
30:05Oh, my God.
30:51How was it?
30:53Extraordinary.
30:57The grief, the anger at the government, at the co-board, but at God, too.
31:0581 children were buried today.
31:08The rage in all the faces behind all the guys.
31:14They didn't smash things up.
31:16They didn't fight in the streets.
31:18What did they do?
31:20They sang.
31:22The whole community.
31:23It's the most astonishing thing I've ever heard.
31:33Did you weep?
31:37Did I weep?
31:42What kind of question is that?
31:45Just a question.
31:46Did you weep?
31:49I might have wept, yes.
31:51Are you going to tell me it was inappropriate?
31:54And the fact is, anyone who heard that hymn today would not just have wept.
32:02It would have been broken into a thousand tiny pieces.
32:06It would have been broken into a thousand tiny pieces.
32:38We've had a tip-off from a friendly newspaper editor.
32:42The government, determined not to take the blame for Aberfan, have decided to refocus the subject of the National Conversation.
32:53And as briefed newspaper as that.
32:57One person has been conspicuously absent from Aberfan, and that is our Queen.
33:02The scandalous lack of care and interest, one can only assume it is that, by our head of stead,
33:08is symptomatic of a lack of care from the traditional establishment, not just for the people of Wales, but for
33:14the whole working class.
33:23And the Prime Minister gave that his blessing?
33:28I think we have to assume so.
33:29Bye.
33:31Bye.
33:39Bye.
33:50Bye.cede
33:53Bye.
33:53Bye.
33:54Bye.
33:54Bye.
33:55Bye.
34:11To be continued...
34:26...in the disaster, and scheduled conversations with several other grieving families.
34:32The whole trip should be approximately two and a half hours.
34:36Without wishing to prompt, Your Majesty, you may wish to consider that this is Wales, not England.
34:43A display of emotion would not just be considered appropriate.
34:48It's expected.
35:08To be continued...
37:10This is Councillor Ellis, who lost seven relatives.
37:14Seven?
37:15Yes, ma'am.
37:16Three children, four nephews.
37:17I'm so sorry.
37:20Karen and Alan Jenkins, ma'am, who lost their son, Ewan, and his four cousins, Tegwin, Bryn, Maya, and Ben.
37:30Sorry.
37:32Thomas and Gwen Edwards, ma'am, whose home this is, they lost their two children, and this is Howell, Gwen's
37:40father, who managed to rescue one of the grandchildren.
37:44Sarah, Sarah, she has something for you, ma'am.
37:52From the remaining children of Abelan.
37:56You're welcome.
38:04Come.
38:22We're so glad.
38:23I'm here.
38:24I'm here.
38:25I'm here.
38:26I'm here.
38:27Can I see you?
38:28Can I just...
38:28Say, sir?
38:29No.
38:30Hi, sir.
38:31Hi, sir.
38:32It's very nice.
38:35And it's really good.
39:00The Duke of Edinburgh said the family sang a hymn when they buried their children.
39:05Yes, ma'am.
39:08Is there any way I might hear it?
39:10I'm sure we can find a recording.
39:14And ask the Prime Minister to come and see me.
39:16As soon as possible.
39:18Yes, ma'am.
40:28Thank you, ma'am.
41:02Thank you, ma'am.
41:27Thank you, ma'am.
42:27I have known for some time there is something wrong with me.
42:30Not wrong.
42:33Deficient, then.
42:35How else would you describe it when something is missing?
42:43These meetings are confidential, yes.
42:48I have never done a day's manual work in my life.
42:53Not one.
42:54I am an academic.
42:55A privileged Oxford don.
42:58Not a worker.
43:00I don't like beer.
43:02I prefer brandy.
43:04I prefer wild salmon to tinned salmon.
43:08Chateaubriand to tinned kidney pie.
43:12And I don't like pipe smoking.
43:15I far prefer cigars.
43:18But cigars are a symbol of capitalist privilege.
43:23So I smoke a pipe on the campaign trail and on television.
43:28Makes me more approachable.
43:33Likeable.
43:38We can't be everything to everyone and still be true to ourselves.
43:44We do what we have to do as leaders.
43:46That's our job.
43:48Our job is to calm more crises than we create.
43:53That's our job and you do it very well indeed.
43:58And in a way, your absence of emotion is a blessing.
44:03No one needs hysteria from a head of state.
44:09The truth is, we barely need humanity.
44:27Prime Minister.
44:32Your Majesty.
44:59You're coming to Italy.
45:01No one needs to be there.
45:01I can't do it anymore.
45:02I can't do it anymore.
45:02I can't do it anymore.