The Story of Wales — Season 1, Episode 5: A New Beginning
Documentary • 58 min • 1 season, 6 episodes • ★ 4.5/10
Episode synopsis
It's boom time as Wales becomes known the world over for one particular product - Welsh steam coal, the best you can get. In the space of 50 years, 'black gold' builds a new Wales. The coalfield pulls in hundreds of thousands of migrants with a different language and culture, becoming a bustling modern world of its own. Yet no sooner has Wales found itself at the centre of global trade, than the Depression causes an industrial crash with a bitter social fallout.
About The Story of Wales
Huw Edwards presents a major television history of Wales, showing the country in ways it has never been seen before.