South Wales in the 1900s was an abnormal place in the British Isles - a Klondike of industrial expansion whose immigration levels were surpassed only by the United States. Noah Ablett , described by Aneurin Bevan and Arthur Horner as the most powerful influence on their youth, was one of the leaders in that society in the miners' struggle against the coal owners. He died in 1935 almost unknown, an alcoholic. This is a portrait of Ablett and the society which created and destroyed him.
Producer sian LLOYD BBC Wales