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The Welsh Valleys
Episode 5 of 8
The poet returns to Wales to see how the valleys have been transformed since she first visited as a teenager. From 2000.
Pam returns to Wales to see how the valleys have been transformed since she first visited as a teenager in the 1970s, when the landscape was black with coal dust.
Series in which poet and raconteuse, Pam Ayres takes to the open road, visiting eight places in Britain to hear tales from the people who live there.
Producer: Simon Elmes
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 2000.
Last on
Sun 28 Jul 201902:15
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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- Sun 28 Jul 201902:15BBC Radio 4 Extra