Margaret Griffiths
The interviewee's chapel had to change the times of its services when television arrived. She remembers her pride watching the Investiture ceremony and the tensions and the worry that protesters would cause trouble. She discusses the relationship between Rhondda people and the Labour Party. She discusses her anger at the drowning of Tryweryn but doubts the effect it had on people in south Wales at the time; she says that the foced removal of people from Epynt was much more of an issue. She suggests that the Welsh, after centuries of battling against the English, were too weak to stand their ground by the 1950/1960s. The Miners' Strike showed the power of the government and their influence on the media. The thing which has affected her most on television is seeing the bodies of soldiers returning from Afghanistan - war does not belong to the past.
