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Aberfan: The Village That Fought Back

BBC iPlayer; available now

Margaret Griffiths in Aberfan: The Village That Fought Back. Photograph: BBC Studios/Helen Griffiths

Summed up in a sentence Sixty years after the Welsh mining disaster, people tell their devastating stories – and their infuriatingly difficult fight to get justice.

What our reviewer said “Further indignities were caused to the stricken villagers, powerfully evoked in this restrained documentary by well-chosen memories from its interviewees. Gaynor remembers her father sitting puce with rage every evening in his chair as the NCB continued to fight liability for the deaths and deny the (expensive) need to remove the tips.” Lucy Mangan

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