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Children of the Valley
Title
Children of the Valley
Date
Sunday 15th October 2006
Company
ITV1
Brief
A memorial to 144 people who died in the Aberfan landslide 40 years ago, most of whom were schoolchildren.

Only 25 children survived the disaster when a massive landslide destroyed and buried a school in Aberfan.  The aftermath was documented by photographer Chuck Rapoport who returned to Aberfan 40 years later to meet and interview the survivors once again.  John Hardy wrote the music for this documentary with special performances by his children, who are the same age as many of the children in the Aberfan school at the time of the disaster.