Land of my Father

Drama of the Week

BBC

Drama, Fiction

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

It’s 1984. In a mining village in the Welsh Valleys, Alys is doing her O-Levels, falling in love, and just being a teenager.

Then, the Miners’ Strike starts. And everything changes.

Forty years later, reeling from her marriage break up, Alys takes her son on a day out in the Valleys: to the zip wire above the site of Tower Colliery. Soon, she finds herself revisiting the year that altered her family’s lives irrevocably.

Siân Owen’s drama is about the children of the Miners’ Strike - and its legacy.

By Siân Owen

Young Alys... Caitlin Griffiths

Older Alys... Mali Harries

Cai.... Shaheen Jafargholi

Samuel.... Nicholas McGaughey Sue... Lisa Zahra

Jacob.... Jamie Redford

Cai’s Dad and Eddie.... Rhys Ap William

Sarah.... Jemima Nicholas

Paul.... Rory Kelleher

Production Co-ordinator, Lindsay Rees

Sound Design, Catherine Robinson and Nigel Lewis

Director and Producer, Fay Lomas

A BBC Audio Drama Wales Production

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan
0:05.2	I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy
0:10.2	podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really.
0:13.0	Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,
0:18.0	making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.
0:22.0	But you know I also know that comedy is really
0:24.4	subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer
0:29.6	from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you
0:36.2	fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.
0:41.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio podcasts.
0:45.0	This is Drama of the Week. Picked is the heart of a valley and if the pit closes the blood supplies just run out. This is a strike to end all strikes.
1:07.0	In five years time you'll be able to look back and say that together we're not only
1:15.4	save the pit, we're not only save our job, but we restored our dignity in our face as
1:20.6	human beings. Land of my father by Shan Owen.
1:29.0	Okay, here we go.
1:31.0	Tree, die, in a wheel!
1:35.0	Oh, whoa!
1:37.0	Oh, whoa, look at that.
1:40.0	Whoa, whoa. Amazing.
1:43.0	Yeah, can we just step over by there, over just away from just
1:48.0	just to be there?
1:50.0	Ma'am?
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