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| Ref No. | Description | Dates |
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| AUD/77 | "Lewis Jones". BBC recording of a documentary given in the series "Wales and the Welsh", being a tribute by the historian Gwyn Thomas to Lewis Jones. Covers period : 1910-1940 (c). Running time : 19mins 20secs. |
4.2.1977 |
| AUD/132 | Interview of Francis, Dai. Recorded memoirs of Dai Francis of his life and career. Includes his forth-coming retirement; his early family life; and his early interest in the trade union movement. Covers period : 1920-1950 (c). Running time : 10mins 14secs. |
1976 |
| AUD/133 | "Father And Son". BBC Recording in the series "Father and Son", focusing on the lives of Dai and Hywel Francis. Includes experiences of being underground; their general opinions, and the differences between their careers; role of DF within the union; role of HF as a historian; opinions of the working class, mining communities, women and work, and the changing attitudes to sex over generations; and the devolution of Wales. Covers period : 1920-1980 (c). Running time : 30mins 28secs. |
1960-1980 |
| AUD/141 | Interview of Lewis, Mair. Recorded memoirs of the childhood of Mair Lewis (sister of Alun Lewis, poet), including activities undertaken with her brother, and concerning his poetry. She reads one of his poems. Covers period : 1944- 1960. Running time : 23mins 21secs. |
1964-1974 |
| AUD/163 | BBC Documentary on the 1926 General Strike. Background information to the General Strike. Includes experiences of miners and their wives during the 1926 lock-out and strike. Covers period : 1920-1950 (c). Running time : 1hr 33mins. |
1965-1979 |
| AUD/248 | Interview of Rogers, Lance. Recorded memoirs of Lance Rogers, Cefn Coed. Includes a discussion of the situation before he volunteered for Spain; his involvement in politics; empathy of the Merthyr community with the Spanish working class; his service in Spain; working on a newspaper 'Volunteer for Liberty'; attitude of his family to his decision to go to Spain; how he left Spain; his refusal to join military service during World War II on political grounds, and his imprisonment. Covers period : 1930-1950 (c). Running time : 34mins 18secs. |
1972-1979 (c) |
| AUD/276 | Interview of Lush, Archie (Sir). Recorded memoirs of Sir Archie Lush, of his life in Tredegar. Includes the dominance of the Tredegar Coal Company in the community, and the establishment of a medical aid society. Also his experiences during World War I, later unemployment and socialist attitudes, and his relationship with Aneurin Bevan; influence of the institutes and libraries and attending Oxford University; political attitudes, and his knighthood. (Interviewed by Gerald Monte, for the BBC Overseas Regional Service). Covers period : 1900-1972 (c). Running time : 14mins. |
1972 |
| AUD/306 | "May Among The Mountains". A recording of a programme by BBC 2 Wales, entitled "May Among The Mountains", encounting the history of the South Wales Miners' Federation on the 75th anniversary of its foundation. Includes memories of founder members, a discussion of the minimal impact of nationalisation in the collieries, the closure of collieries, and strikes. Covers period : 1898-1973 (c). Running time : 27mins 36secs. |
14.10.1973 |
| AUD/383 | Recording of Brewer, Jim. Recorded memoirs of Jim Brewer, mainly concerning his experiences in the Spanish Civil War. Includes volunteering to fight in Spain; persecution of those who fought for the Spanish cause; his education in Rhymney, and use of the Welfare Hall library; his scholarship and studying at Ruskin College, and the development of his political consciousness; his journey to Spain, military training and battle experiences whilst there; experiences of prisoners of war and the death of his comrades; his contribution to a newspaper; and the withdrawal of the International Brigades from the war, and his return home. Covers period : 1930-1979 (c). Running time : 2hrs 5mins 42secs. |
1972-1979 |
| AUD/384 | Recording of Price, Leo. Recorded memoirs of Leo Price, mainly concerning his experiences in the Spanish Civil War. Includes scab unionism in Bedwas Colliery; his interest in the Spanish Civil War and volunteering; his journey to Spain, including the food eaten; his military training; officers in the International Brigades; weapons used; his battle experiences and injuries sustained; his treatment and recovery; correspondence with people from home; his journey home, and difficulties of Spanish volunteers in finding work. Covers period : 1920-1979 (c). Running time : 47mins 19secs. |
1972-1979 |
| AUD/385 | Recording of Price, Lilian May. Recorded memoirs of Lilian Price. Includes her interest and involvement in politics; her membership with the Communist Party; the arrest and imprisonment of women during the Bedwas dispute, including LP; her attitude to her husband (Leo Price) volunteering for the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, and their correspondence during the war; fund raising for the Spanish cause; and her husband's return home. Covers period : 1920-1979 (c). Running time : 31mins 53secs. |
1972-1979 |
| AUD/386 | Recording of Rees, Rita (Mrs). Recorded memoirs of Rita Rees, daughter of Leo and Lilian May Price. Includes a discussion of her parents' political convictions; her father volunteering for the Spanish Civil War; correspondence from her father; and his return home, with RR failing to recognise him. Covers period : 1920- 1979 (c). Running time : 6mins 56secs. |
1972-1979 |
| AUD/387 | Recording of Jones, Tom. Recorded memoirs of Tom Jones. Includes the recreation of the community, mainly centred around the church; education in the village; working in the colliery and accidents underground; the anti-War movement; his personal reasons for volunteering for the International Brigades; his journey to Spain, including his imprisonment in France for having no passport and consequently breaking the international law of non-intervention; the horror of his battle experiences; the food eaten whilst in Spain; his injury and capture, and the medical treatment he received; his imprisonment in Spain, and the campaign back home in Wales to release him; women fighting in the war; and his return home. Covers period : 1930-1979 (c). Running time : 1hr 49mins 25secs. |
1972-1979 |
| AUD/429 | "Y Streic Fawr". Cofnod o raglen 'Llwyfan' BBC Radio Cymru, parthed y Streic Fawr 1926. Recording made for the BBC Radio Cymru 'Llwyfan' programme, concerning the 1926 General Strike. Covers period : 1920- 1930 (c). Running time : 1hr. |
1976 |
| AUD/438 | Recording of Morgan, Morian. Recorded memoirs of Morian Morgan. Includes his political beliefs, and influences and experiences which led him to fight in the Spanish Civil War; his capture and imprisonment in a Spanish concentration camp, including the conditions, moral, activities, and attitude of the guards; also his military training and battle experiences, and return to Ynysybwl. Covers period : 1930-1940 (c). Running time : 53mins 50secs. |
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| AUD/439 | Recording of Fernandez, Maria. Recorded memoirs of Maria Fernandez, a Spanish immigrant. Included is her families journey to Wales; her childhood recollections of Spanish Dowlais; her opinions during the Spanish Civil War, and involvement in the Spanish Aid Committee; the Basque refugee children in Cambria House; and the role and support of the South Wales miners. Covers period : 1920-1940 (c). Running time : 39mins. |
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| AUD/441 | Recording of Williams, Alun Menai. Recorded memoirs of Alun Menai Williams. Includes joining the medical corp in 1931; his political awareness and activities, and joining the International Brigades fight in Spain; experiences as a first-aider; physical and mental effects and conditions during the war; the death of Billy Davies; relations with the Spanish; and his return from Spain. Covers period : 1930-1945 (c). Running time : 40mins. |
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| AUD/442 | Recording of Wilson, Olive (Mrs). Recorded memoirs of Mrs Olive Wilson (nee Greening) and her activities as a young woman during the Spanish Civil War. Included is her family background, and communist influences; her brother (Edwin) volunteering for the war, and recollections of his experiences through his letters; her own activities with Spanish Aid Committee fundraising; role and solidarity of the South Wales miners; and the return of Edwin to Aberdare. Covers period : 1935- 1940 (c). Running time : 21mins 25secs. |
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| AUD/443 | Recording of Paula and Maria. Recorded memoirs of Paula and Maria (surnames unknown) concerning their childhood experiences in Spain at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War; their evacuation experiences and arrival in Southampton; their recollections of their transfer to Cambria House, including their education and activities in Wales. Covers period : 1935-1940 (c). Running time : 27mins 35secs (incomplete). |
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| AUD/444 | Discussion Group. Recording of BBC Radio discussion programme involving Dai Francis, and sixth forms pupils from Porth, Rhydfelin, and Howells schools. Running time : 31mins. |
1976 (c) |
| AUD/537 | German Democratic Republic Broadcast. NOT FULLY CATALOGUED. A recording by the Broadcasting of the German Democratic Republic, concerning the industrial Welsh coalfield, and their struggles and future. The recording is in German. Running time : 30mins 35ecs. |
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| AUD/539 | Polish Radio External Services Broadcast. A radio documentary feature presented by the Polish Radio External Services, marking the 30th anniversary of the First World Trades Unions Congress, continued on side 2 (this side mainly consists of Soviet classical music). Covers period : 1939-1975 (c). Running time : 1hr. |
1975 |
| AUD/540 | "Rhyfel yn Sbaen". Cofnod o rhaglen gan BBC Radio Cymru yn rhan o'r gyfres 'Manylu', ar y thema "Rhyfel yn Sbaen". A recording presented by the BBC Radio Cymru programme "Manylu", entitled 'Rhyfel yn Sbaen' (War in Spain). Covers period : 1930-1945. Running time : 30mins. |
6.1986 |
| AUD/611 | Recording of radio programmes concerning the Miners' Dispute 1983.
Covers period : 1980-1983. Running time : 10mins 38secs. |
7.3.1983 |
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