What is your role in Coal House?

I will do what I do best. I will be the butcher and will go into Stack Square with my cart to sell meat to the Coal House wives. I have been a butcher since I left school. I went to work for Eddie Morris the butcher in Blaenavon, who had taken on the business from his father Jonny. I married his daughter and we now run the business together. I'm really going to enjoy being part of the programme but I wonder how I'll come across on screen!

Are the meat cuts you're supplying for the Coal House families any different to what we buy today?

No, not really. The meat we're supplying is the cheaper cuts of meat but it's all available today. The only thing I've had to do differently is use brown bags and greaseproof paper to package the cooked and uncooked meat separately because there were no plastic bags in 1927.

What do you know about life and work in a coalmining community?

That's all I know. I have always lived in Blaenavon and my father worked in Big Pit in the 1930s. It's not going to be easy for the Coal House families.