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Sunday Worship: Aberfan

16/10/2016

Aberfan

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Roy Jenkins marks the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, which killed 116 children.

Roy Jenkins marks the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster which killed 144 people, 116 of them children.

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the disaster in the South Wales mining village of Aberfan which killed 144 people. 116 of the victims were children just starting their day in Pant Glas Junior School. News of the catastrophe, one of the first to be televised, sent shockwaves of grief and sorrow around the world. A generation of children were wiped out, controversy raged in the aftermath and the small tight-knit community of Aberfan would never again be the same. Roy Jenkins meets some of the people who were there at the time, and reflects on the event in the light of Christian faith. With music by the BBC National Chorus of Wales, directed by Adrian Partington. Organist Jeffrey Howard. Producer Karen Walker.

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