Francis Brett Young 's tale of the Elan Valley in Mid-Wales, adapted for broadcasting by Beryl M. Jones. Produced by T. Rowland Hughes
' N'ant Escob. at last, was going. In the spring of the year, the engineers closed the dam..... No rain fell ; yet the black pools deepened, the stickles grew smooth; "and one morning the voice of the water which had never ceased since the Garon, new-born, had furiously ploughed its first channel through grits and shales and conglomerates, was suddenly stilled — as though that ageless thing had died in the night.....'
The story tells how Nant E:,c->b, home of the Tregaron family, was sacrificed' to the waters of the new. reservoir.