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Jon Gower tells the story of the Abercynon-born poet and oral historian George Ewart Evans

Jon Gower tells the story of Abercynon-born poet and oral historian George Ewart Evans, who collected tales of everything from horses and magic to sparrows and toad bones.

Horses, magic, sparrows and toad bones - these were the subjects of just a few of the tales recorded by oral historian George Ewart Evans. On April the 1st this year a plaque was unveiled in Abercynon to honour Evans and recognise him as one of the town's great sons. 

George Ewart Evans left the Valleys during the 1930s Depression and went to live and work in rural Suffolk. He became a writer and a poet and was inspired by his neighbours' stories of their farming lives and realised that he was witnessing a way of life pass away for ever. He set about to record hundreds of stories and through doing that he became a pioneer in oral history. A lot of his work was done in rural England but his inspiration were the stories he heard as a boy growing up in the Cynon Valley. With the help of family, fans and historians, Jon Gower tells the tale of George Ewart Evans.

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