The Story of Wales Season 1 Episode 5 - A New Beginning

Airdate: 2012-Mar-19

Episode summary:

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 series:

Huw Edwards presents a major television history of Wales, showing the country in ways it has never been seen before. Telling the story of the natio...Show more >