Aberfan: The Mountain of Waste That Buried a School

On the morning of the twenty-first of October, 1966, in a mining village in South Wales, a man-made mountain of waste began to move. It came down the hillside and it engulfed the village school, and it killed a hundred and sixteen children. This is what happened. CHAPTERS 00:00 Cold open 01:30 Scene 1: The valley and the tips 08:30 Scene 2: The springs beneath the tip 16:00 Scene 3: The years of warning 24:00 Scene 4: The morning of the twenty-first 31:00 Scene 5: The village digs 38:30 Scene 6: The tribunal 46:00 Scene 7: The causes 53:00 Scene 8: What Aberfan changed 60:00 Scene 9: A generation lost 65:30 Scene 10: What endures This is Episode 10 of Post-Mortem Files. New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe so you don't miss the rest of the series. Which warning sign do you think they should have caught first? Tell us below. #Disasters #AccidentInvestigation #AviationDisasters #IndustrialAccidents #accidentinvestigation