Aberfan: Tip Number 7 Podcast
The Aberfan disaster shook the world - 116 children and 28 adults died on 21 October 1966 when a coal tip engulfed a junior school and surrounding homes. How could this happen?
The Aberfan disaster shook the world - 116 children and 28 adults died on 21 October 1966 when a coal tip engulfed a junior school and surrounding homes. How could this happen? It鈥檚 a tale of unheeded warnings, broken promises, and a shattered community鈥檚 fight for justice.
Nine part podcast series from the same stable as 'Shreds'.
Episodes to download
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Part Nine: Epilogue - 'Aberfan is different...'
Wed 8 Dec 2021
55 years on, survivors of the disaster are looking to the future - as well as the past.
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Part Five: The Search for Answers
Wed 10 Nov 2021
What happened at Aberfan & why? The Aberfan Disaster Tribunal seeks to establish the facts
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Part Four: Counting the Cost
Wed 3 Nov 2021
The last survivors are rescued as the full horror of what has happened becomes clear.
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Part Three: Help is coming
Wed 27 Oct 2021
Rescuers race against the clock in an urgent search for survivors.
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Part One: Prologue - the price of coal
Wed 20 Oct 2021
Coal was king. But it was about to exact a terrible price on one small community.
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Part Two: "And then it was blackout...鈥�
Wed 20 Oct 2021
Three young classmates head to school on a misty morning that changes their lives forever
