Search results
The Green Hollow (or Aberfan: The Green Hollow) is a "film-poem", which was broadcast by the BBC on 21 October 2016 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Aberfan disaster of 1966. [1] . Owen Sheers wrote the script of the screenplay using the words of survivors of the disaster whom he interviewed over a period. [2]
17. 1.1K views 4 months ago. A film poem to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, written by Owen Sheers and performed by a stellar cast of Wales's best-known acting talent,...
- 60 min
- 2.9K
- Culture Vulture Rises
- Gwyneth
- Mansel
- Sam Knight
- Sara
- Anne
Around eleven we assembled in the chamber, to be informed of the plans. ‘We’re setting up mortuaries,’ they said. ‘Wherever we can.’ We were stunned, numb. But of course, had to carry on. There was so much to be done. At around four, the women, as well as the men were asked to go to Aberfan. Once there, we gathered in a hall, unsure what would happ...
It sounds odd to say it now, but what it resembled, that scene, was like something from the gold rush – like one of those old photos where every man has staked out his pitch, to prospect for wealth. Except these men were digging for something else and for something more precious too – their little ones. Their sons, daughters, nephews, nieces still ...
When the day started fading they brought in arc lights, powered by canisters of gas. Towers were erected, from which they shone across that whole expanse of ruin and slurry and black. Everyone was covered in muck, me included. I’d worn my best suit to go and see John Beale, but now you’d have thought I’d spent the day down the pit. But we hadn’t. I...
Aberfan, it’s known isn’t it? Anywhere you go, you say the name, and people are like ‘Oh’, nodding, thinking of the disaster. But that’s not the whole story. I mean, if it was, they must think we’re a miserable place, sitting round crying, long in the face. But that’s not true. Take the Young Wives Club. I know it grew from what happened, but then ...
The way I see it, more and more, is that we’re all carbon, aren’t we? At least that’s what Tom keeps telling me. And what happened here, it was the most terrible weight. The worst you can imagine. A weight on lives, families, the community, the town. But what happens to carbon under pressure, if you keep pressing down? Well, at first, you get coal....
People also ask
What is the Green Hollow based on?
Who starred in Aberfan 'the Green Hollow'?
How did Owen Sheers write the Green Hollow?
What time is 'the Green Hollow' on TV?
Oct 9, 2016 · In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Poet Owen Sheers went back to the pit village and, using the people’s own memories, created...
Oct 1, 2016 · Aberfan: The Green Hollow: Directed by Pip Broughton. With Matthew Aubrey, Christopher Benning, Boyd Clack, Aimee-Ffion Edwards. A film poem, by poet Owen Sheers, commemorating the Aberfan disaster. It crosses the "then and now" with a strong cast as well as by showing those who have survived the horror.
- (40)
- Documentary, Drama, History
- Pip Broughton
- 2016-10-01
Find out how to watch Aberfan: The Green Hollow. Stream Aberfan: The Green Hollow, watch trailers, see the cast, and more at TV Guide.
Oct 24, 2016 · No matter. Aberfan: The Green Hollow is the kind of film for which the international television industry invented awards. It will be a contender in so many categories that it’s hard to know where to begin, but writer Owen Sheers is surely the first candidate.
