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Gareth Edwards interviewed in 1978

Taken from an episode of Nationwide from 1978, Welsh rugby legend Gareth Edwards talks about the driving force the Welsh crowd can give the men in red. It features a clip of his remarkable try against Scotland in 1972, complete with equally memorable commentary from Bill Mclaren.


The Welsh flag

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Y Ddraig Goch

The current flag was adopted by royal decree only in 1959.

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Demonstrating miners at the TUC Conference, Brighton, 1984

Miners' strike

BBC content about industrial action affecting the coal industry in the 1980s.


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