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Episode 19: The Aberfan disaster

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4.2839 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2016

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

This year is the 50th anniversary of the tragic events in the quaint mining town of Aberfan in south Wales. Days of heavy rain and an underground spring combined to turn a hillside tip into a dark sludge which slid down and plowed through the Pantglas Junior School, taking away a generation of the town's children.

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0:00.0

Hi everybody. This is Jennifer Matarise. And before I start the podcast, I just wanted to take care of a

0:05.7

couple of things. The first thing I wanted to do is say huge thank you to those of you who've been

0:09.8

able to toss a few bucks my way, whether it's through PayPal, Patreon, or GoFund me, to kind of

0:14.7

help out during my current financial situation. I have started a new job and I'm trying to work to catch up on my bills, but I really do appreciate those of you who've been able to help me keep afloat during this difficult time.

0:29.1

Don, thank you so much.

0:31.0

The rest of you, I can't really remember names right now, but I really do appreciate all the help that you've been able to give me.

0:37.7

And if you still want to help out, I would really appreciate that as well.

0:42.3

I am still behind, like I said.

0:45.3

Hopefully I will be able to catch up eventually and be able to replace my computer,

0:50.6

which has been my goal all year long.

0:52.9

But right now I'm just happy to be able to have a

0:55.9

roof over my head and food in my kitchen the second thing that I wanted to take care of is I

1:03.3

wanted to say thank you to those of you who've been suggesting new disasters on the post

1:07.1

the post that I added on Facebook it's a pinned post so I think you should be

1:11.5

able to still at least I think it's pinned so I think you should be able to find it

1:14.7

at the top of the page if you haven't checked already and you have any new disasters

1:18.7

that you might want to post there I apologize if I don't respond immediately or

1:23.4

at all unfortunately I'm really bad about responding to comments and emails and that sort of

1:29.5

thing. So, yes, it's my kind of fatal flaw right there. So if you do suggest a disaster anywhere,

1:37.9

whether it be on the WordPress blog, on Facebook, on Twitter, anywhere, if I don't respond, trust me, I still got it. I'm just

1:46.7

really, really bad about responding. But I've been adding a lot of new disasters to the list.

1:53.4

I can't really guarantee when exactly I'm going to do them. Things being what they are in terms

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