John Humphrys reporting on the Aberfan colliery disaster in October 1966Villagers look on as rescuers dig for survivors in the rubbleMiners and villagers dig in the rubble for survivors Disney+ I used to attend both Pantglas schools and used to, as a boy, play on those tips! Tackling Aberfan posed poignant dilemmas about storytelling, but it also raised significant questions for Morgan about the nature of the monarchy. However, Jeff has criticised The Crown’s “callous” depiction of the Queen (“She says [in the episode], ‘We don’t do disasters sites, we do hospitals’,” says Jeff, who has met the monarch during her various visits. News, photos, videos and full episode guide In the final moment of the episode, while listening to a rendition of the hymn sung at a mass funeral by the residents of Aberfan, she begins to cry—sincerely, and in private. “[When] I first saw that, I thought, ‘Well that’s rather callous’. Sign up to receive our newsletter! https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2019-11-18/the-crown-aberfan-real-life You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. True story behind The Crown’s Aberfan episode, as told by the survivors: “I had nightmares for years”, a mountain of coal waste collapsed onto Pantglas Junior School in spoke exclusively to Aberfan survivors Jeff Edwards and Gaynor Madgwick, both schoolchildren at the time of the disaster. Our best wishes for a productive day. It was a Friday morning on October 21, 1966, shortly after 9:00 a.m. The tragedy of Aberfan needs no embellishment.We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future.
Read our community guidelines in full This content is imported from Twitter. Totally unfeeling [towards the Aberfan community].”While it is a fact that Queen didn’t visit the scene of the disaster for 8 days we do not feel that this depicts her as either “callous” or “totally unfeeling”. Aberfan (7 pianos, percussion, voice and tools of rescue) is a sponsored project of New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), a … He remembers being in a maths lesson, facing the blackboard and turned away from the class windows. Welsh journalist John Humphrys told Prior to the disaster, Aberfan residents had already voiced concern about the fact that there was essentially an 100-foot tall pile of waste hovering above a school full of young children—even in However, the NCB refused to acknowledge their role in the tragedy and pay for the remaining colliery tips above the town to be removed; that money had to be taken out of the Aberfan Disaster Fund. Film Although Jeff says that the scene was artistic licence, “it was effective” as “that song was always sung at the school”.on 27th October 1966 in a mass burial, mourners and members of the congregation were able to fight back tears to sing ‘ Sometimes it was and some were saved. It consisted of waste dug from the colliery at the edge of a village that I knew well.

Aberfan Hymn performed by Treorchy Male Voice Choir at Morriston Tabernacle, Swansea I used to live in Aberfan (left in 1966 to join the Royal Navy). There was the roar, then black.

Photo by Steve Brown On Demand Here is part of what I wrote soon afterwards:“A deep depression had formed within the tip like the crater in a volcano. This is the full story of what happened at Aberfan that day. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.

But still they kept going. You are lucky. “I think it’s really important to actually bring that programme and to actually show what effect it had on the Queen at that time,” she says. Although the local mines had safety inspector engineers the tips did not…unbelievable.The service itself lasted just 15 minutes (perhaps to spare more grief among the families?).

But the most moving scenes were of the parents singing a hymn in the cemetery as their children were laid to rest. Now I was working for the independent television station TWW in Cardiff. Soaps

Her brother-in-law Lord Snowdon, who was of Welsh heritage, headed there early that next morning as well. And they dug around me and got me out.”After he was pulled out of the rubble, “the firemen came, and they dug me out of where I was, they then passed me in a human chain from one to another, out into the yard where we were seen by medics”.By that time all the ambulances were gone, so Jeff was taken to hospital by local grocer Tom Harding in his light blue van: “They had difficult in starting it because he’d parked it in the lane adjacent to the school and there was water coming down from the cliff, so they actually had to push the van to make it go.”The school and 19 houses were engulfed by the coal waste, killing 116 children and 28 adults in the real Aberfan disaster.
I have never seen such utter despair as I witnessed in that little Welsh village when I was a young reporter at the start of my broadcasting career.


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