The Day They Tried to Close Down Merthyr

Episode 1

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Fri 14^th Oct 2011, 11:30 on BBC Radio Wales FMLatest broadcast: Sat 15^th Oct 2011, 13:05 on BBC Radio Wales MW

Melanie Doel returns to Merthyr Tydfil to discover why a think tank and a Whitehall Mandarin were advocating moving the population out in the 1930s.

Duration: 27 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 16^th Oct 2011, 17:03 on BBC Radio Wales MWLatest broadcast: Sun 16^th Oct 2011, 17:03 on BBC Radio Wales FM

A hundred years after Merthyr's peak at the centre of world industry, Melanie Doel reports on whether the issues of the 1930s resonate today.