Loading...
You're not connected to the Internet. Please check your connection.

Clips from The Crown (2016) - Aberfan (S03E03)

"The Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, visited the scene today,"
The Crown (2016)
"and Buckingham Palace have issued a statement of sorrow from the Queen."
The Crown (2016)
"The message reads, "I am shocked and distressed"
The Crown (2016)
"Please convey a message of my heartfelt sympathy"
The Crown (2016)
"and to the families of those who have lost their lives.""
The Crown (2016)
"That's the news from us at the moment. Now back to London."
The Crown (2016)
"There will be special reports during the..."
The Crown (2016)
"Prime Minister, ma'am."
The Crown (2016)
"Now, it appears that over 80 are still missing."
The Crown (2016)
"Thirty-six of the survivors have been hospitalized."
The Crown (2016)
"I see."
The Crown (2016)
"Uh, not alive, ma'am."
The Crown (2016)
"it has been reported that the north shoulder of tip seven has moved"
The Crown (2016)
"and the village is ready for immediate evacuation."
The Crown (2016)
"Mechanical diggers are out of action,"
The Crown (2016)
"bogged down in the soggy mud."
The Crown (2016)
"The military have been brought in to help."
The Crown (2016)
"Now..."
The Crown (2016)
"given all this,"
The Crown (2016)
"I was hoping I might persuade you to go."
The Crown (2016)
"is that you paralyze virtually any situation you walk into."
The Crown (2016)
"The very last thing emergency and rescue services need"
The Crown (2016)
"when they are working against the clock is a queen turning up."
The Crown (2016)
"I'm not sure I agree."
The Crown (2016)
"Children have died."
The Crown (2016)
"A community is devastated."
The Crown (2016)
"What precisely would you have me do?"
The Crown (2016)
"Well, comfort people."
The Crown (2016)
"Put on a show?"
The Crown (2016)
"The Crown doesn't do that."
The Crown (2016)
"I didn't say put on a show."
The Crown (2016)
"I said comfort people."
The Crown (2016)
"Your Majesty."
The Crown (2016)
"Morning, darling. Tea?"
The Crown (2016)
"Anyone object if I had something stronger?"
The Crown (2016)
"- Coffee? - No, I was thinking whiskey."
The Crown (2016)
"- Margaret, it's nine o'clock. - Yes, I know."
The Crown (2016)
"But it's not morning. Not in my world, anyway."
The Crown (2016)
"Tony called in the small hours,"
The Crown (2016)
"from a call box in the middle of nowhere."
The Crown (2016)
"Hello, it's me."
The Crown (2016)
"Can you do something for me?"
The Crown (2016)
"He told me to go into the children's bedrooms"
The Crown (2016)
"and kiss them"
The Crown (2016)
"while they slept."
The Crown (2016)
"As soon as he got to Aberfan,"
The Crown (2016)
"It was... unimaginably awful."
The Crown (2016)
"Miners,"
The Crown (2016)
"used to digging for coal,"
The Crown (2016)
"now digging to reach their children."
The Crown (2016)
"Many of them spent several hours"
The Crown (2016)
"stuck under the mud beside dead friends."
The Crown (2016)
"Buried alive."
The Crown (2016)
"Running out of air."
The Crown (2016)
"He then went to the mortuary,"
The Crown (2016)
"where people were waiting to identify the children's bodies."
The Crown (2016)
"Nurses and Salvation Army volunteers,"
The Crown (2016)
"they were writing a description of each adult, each child."
The Crown (2016)
"Noting any possessions they found"
The Crown (2016)
"in their pockets, like, like, uh..."
The Crown (2016)
"a handkerchief or..."
The Crown (2016)
"sweets, anything,"
The Crown (2016)
"to help identify them."
The Crown (2016)
"And from there I went to the hospital."
The Crown (2016)
"There he comforted a man"
The Crown (2016)
"who was holding his son's school cap."
The Crown (2016)
"After the hospital,"
The Crown (2016)
"he wanted to walk back to the house where he was due to stay,"
The Crown (2016)
"but he carried on walking..."
The Crown (2016)
"and walking."
The Crown (2016)
"I walked and walked and walked."
The Crown (2016)
"I hope I never do again."
The Crown (2016)
"We have Geoffrey Morgan from the National Coal Board"
The Crown (2016)
"and George Thomas,"
The Crown (2016)
"Minister of State for Wales, here to answer our questions."
The Crown (2016)
"Will you both accept responsibility?"
The Crown (2016)
"Murderers!"
The Crown (2016)
"The National Coal Board cannot accept responsibility for the weather!"
The Crown (2016)
"Rubbish!"
The Crown (2016)
"Abnormal levels of rainfall have created extraordinary conditions."
The Crown (2016)
"You've known about the spring under the tip for years!"
The Crown (2016)
"- I wrote to you! - So did I!"
The Crown (2016)
"That's what I want to see written on my child's death certificate!"
The Crown (2016)
"We've got people in dire need now!"
The Crown (2016)
"Let us be quite clear."
The Crown (2016)
"But blame for that"
The Crown (2016)
"Tip number seven was built in 1958 when the Labour Party wasn't in power."
The Crown (2016)
"I had a visit today from certain members of the Cabinet."
The Crown (2016)
"No need to tell me who."
The Crown (2016)
"Who are concerned that this is all turning political."
The Crown (2016)
"And they want you to do something to deflect the blame."
The Crown (2016)
"Their view is if the Labour government pay the price for this tragedy,"
The Crown (2016)
"and a betrayal,"
The Crown (2016)
"not just of the people of South Wales,"
The Crown (2016)
"but of all of us in the movement."
The Crown (2016)
"Thirteen years in opposition,"
The Crown (2016)
"and now we're finally in power, in government."
The Crown (2016)
"We cannot allow ourselves"
The Crown (2016)
"to be crucified on the altar of public opinion"
The Crown (2016)
"over something that isn't our fault."
The Crown (2016)
"Hmm, when people are angry, they throw stones at their leaders."
The Crown (2016)
"but to show solidarity with our supporters."
The Crown (2016)
"How?"
The Crown (2016)
"- This is grief, Marcia. - It's injustice."
The Crown (2016)
"It's just another in a long list of injustices."
The Crown (2016)
"No, it's parents grieving their children."
The Crown (2016)
"It's also cold-hearted refusal to accept responsibility"
The Crown (2016)
"by the people who are to blame, the Tories."
The Crown (2016)
"And now they're making us the scapegoats."
The Crown (2016)
"Well, what do you want me to do about it?"
The Crown (2016)
"Make sure they take the blame!"
The Crown (2016)
"And if you can't blame it on the Tories, and you won't press it in the House,"
The Crown (2016)
"and you can't go after the NCB until the tribunal is over,"
The Crown (2016)
"then perhaps we should look for another establishment figure"
The Crown (2016)
"to deflect negative attention."
The Crown (2016)
"- Her! - The Queen?"
The Crown (2016)
"Well, you must admit her behavior is symptomatic"
The Crown (2016)
"of establishment neglect."
The Crown (2016)
"Her behavior is unfortunate."
The Crown (2016)
"- You went to see her today, didn't you? - Yes."
The Crown (2016)
Show more clips