The Green Hollow by Sheers, Owen

In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children.\nPoet Owen Sheers has given voice to those who still live in Aberfan, the pit village in which tragedy struck, and uses their collective memories to create a striking work of poetic power. This is a portrait not just of what happened, but also of what was lost.\nWhat was Aberfan like in 1966? What were the interests of the people, the social life, the sporting obsessions, the bands of the day?\nWhat was the deeper history of the place? Why had it become the mining village it was, and what had it been before the discovery of coal under its soil?\nPerhaps most significantly: what is Aberfan like today?\nThe Green Hollow is a historical story with a deeply urgent contemporary resonance; a story of what can happen when a community is run by a corporation.\nIt is also a story known along generational rather than geographic borders.\nBased on the BBC One production, The Green Hollow is.