S4 Ep42: Aberfan's Lost Generation

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Students at Pantglas Junior School had just settled in at their desks the morning of Oct. 21, 1966, when an avalanche of slurry swept through the building, trapping hundreds of children and teachers and wiping out nearby homes and businesses. Known as the Aberfan Disaster, the collapse of a colliery spoil tip ultimately killed 116 children and 28 adults. While the official cause was weeks of heavy rain, what happened was no mere act of God.

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1:01.8	Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they change laws, change society, or even
1:09.2	earn the label Crime of the Century.
1:12.5	But the stories that made headlines in decades past aren't necessarily remembered today.
1:19.6	I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author, and in each episode of this show, I'll examine a case that's maybe lesser known today, but was huge when it happened.
1:29.3	This is Crimes of the Centuries.
1:37.3	Nine days after the disaster, Queen Elizabeth II went to the small village in South Wales
1:49.7	to see for herself what nature and negligence had done.
1:54.8	She went, of course, to comfort the living, to assure them that the nation grieved with them.
2:00.4	She wanted them to know she shared in the loss
2:02.6	and heard their building frustration.
2:05.2	She also must have unconsciously shown them
2:07.6	that she could fix none of what had happened here.
2:11.2	What had happened here in Abervan, Wales,
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