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Radio Wales,4 mins

The drowning of Tryweryn: Looking back

Good Morning Wales

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Dafydd Wigley describes the flooding of Capel Celyn as "a traumatic event... that formed our politics." But was it really the birth of a new Welsh consciousness'? 50 years after the Llyn Celyn reservoir opened, Chris Dearden tells the story of Tryweryn, talking to some of the people who were there at the time.

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