National Disaster

Description: ITV documentary series about national disasters

Newest Review: ... it, because my Mum has often mentioned Aberfan and had obviously been affected by it at the time. I knew only a brief outline of what had happened and was interested to discover more. I expected to feel emotional, but the programme touched me even deeper than I had thought it would. The subject was dealt with very professionally, which worked very well. It explained how the tragedy happened ... more

... and was well-balanced between the computer reconstruction of the events and the interviews. They would talk to someone, hear their version of events, building up a picture of what happened that day in 1966, so you became involved with the ‘...more

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National Disaster: Remembering Aberfan... (487 words)
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National Disaster is an ITV documentary series on Wednesday nights from 10:35pm. (No edition on April 11th, due to the Pride of Britain awards being shown.) Each hour-long programme focuses on one famous news story which is a national tragedy. Using news footage from the time, still photographs, interviews with survivors and relatives of the victims, and some computer simulation, the programme tells the story of each disaster in a compelling way, without resorting to sensationalism. April 4th’s programme concentrated on Aberfan in South Wales, the site of a tragedy in 1966 when a mountain of coal waste slid down onto a school and some houses, killing 28 ... Read the complete review

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