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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on Oct 9, 2019 16:31:20 GMT
Channel 4’s new Jack Thorne drama The Accident will premiere on Thursday October 24th at 9pm.
The Accident is set in the fictional Welsh town of Glyngolau and explores a forgotten community devastated by disaster. An explosion on the construction site of a much-needed and sought-after regeneration project in this “left-behind” town claims the lives of many children who have broken into the building site to make mischief.
The four-parter follows Polly Bevan, the wife of the local politician who championed the project. Their rebellious daughter, Leona, had led a group of friends who broke onto the site on the day of the explosion, but now is left with a lifelong disability after the disaster. As communal grief gives way to a torrent of anger and blame, the community finds itself torn apart. Unwilling accept that their children were to blame, the families cry for justice. It falls to Polly to hold the community together, and to face the challenging truths that begin to emerge.
The Accident is the third and final entry in a trilogy of Jack Thorne dramas for Channel 4, following in the footsteps of National Treasure and Kiri.
The series stars Sarah Lancashire, Joanna Scanlan, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Mark Lewis Jones, Genevieve Barr, Jade Croot, Nabhaan Rizwan, Eiry Thomas, Shaun Parkes, Adrian Scarborough and Ruth Madeley.
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Post by Rufus Firefly on Oct 9, 2019 19:16:01 GMT
...I can recall a serialised drama called Accident circa 1979 on BBC......focussing on the lives of the victims.....anyone else recall this...?
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Post by yankee on Oct 9, 2019 19:59:00 GMT
Is this program (and the other Rufus mentions) purely fiction or loosely based on an actual incident?
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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on Oct 10, 2019 19:57:46 GMT
Not that I know of, Yankee, but reading about the show, my mind went to Aberfan...
The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip at around 9:15 am on 21 October 1966. The tip had been created on a mountain slope above the Welsh village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil and overlaid a natural spring.
A period of heavy rain led to a build-up of water within the tip which caused it to suddenly slide downhill as a slurry, killing 116 children and 28 adults as it engulfed the local junior school and other buildings. The tip was the responsibility of the National Coal Board (NCB), and the subsequent inquiry placed the blame for the disaster on the organisation and nine named employees.
There were seven spoil tips on the slopes above Aberfan; Tip 7—the one that slipped onto the village—was begun in 1958 and, at the time of the disaster, was 111 feet (34 m) high.
In contravention of the NCB's official procedures, the tip was partly based on ground from which water springs emerged. After three weeks of heavy rain the tip was saturated and approximately 140,000 cubic yards (110,000 m) of spoil slipped down the side of the hill and onto the Pantglas area of the village.
The main building hit was Pantglas Junior School, where lessons had just begun; 5 teachers and 109 children were killed in the school.
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Post by yankee on Oct 10, 2019 20:05:09 GMT
That's awful.  |
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Post by Miranda on Oct 10, 2019 20:41:51 GMT
Am I right in thinking that there was a massive controversy cos the Coal Board had been warned beforehand that the tip was in a dangerous condition?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2019 20:53:02 GMT
An official inquiry was chaired by Lord Justice Edmund Davies. The report placed the blame squarely on the NCB. The organisation's chairman, Lord Robens, was criticised for making misleading statements and for not providing clarity as to the NCB's knowledge of the presence of water springs on the hillside. Neither the NCB nor any of its employees were prosecuted and the organisation was not fined. The Wikipedia article is quite clear. |
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Post by bidiein on Oct 24, 2019 20:12:14 GMT
Worst of all, funds raised from round the world to help the families was dipped into to CLEAR THE DEBRIS. This was only refunded in the last few years.
I have this on at the moment because I was thinking it was about innocent victims of some sort of tragic preventable event. But so far we have a group of mouthy teens breaking into abandoned premises. To do so they had to scale high gates with wire at the top.
So who else is culpable? If they were younger I would have accepted ignorance, but these are all 14,15.
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Post by cakewalk on Oct 24, 2019 20:29:38 GMT
I've got it on too. I'm sure we'll find out. All I've seen so far that might be deemed culpable was someone lighting a fag!
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Post by bidiein on Oct 24, 2019 20:34:28 GMT
Gas canisters within the building. But the kids had to really TRY to get inside. It was secure, imo. They did not just walk in. (You can tell I am not child friendly, can't you? If it was kittens harmed I would be choking the life out of the owner....  ) |
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Post by bidiein on Oct 24, 2019 21:00:50 GMT
Oh dear. Odd sort of thing isn't it?
I re-read the opening post and realise it is all about apportioning blame but I am not convinced I will tune in next week.
Was the domestic violence necessary?
And which 'valley' was Sarah Lancashire's accent heading for?
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Post by profbooboo on Oct 24, 2019 21:07:33 GMT
Gas canisters within the building. But the kids had to really TRY to get inside. It was secure, imo. They did not just walk in. (You can tell I am not child friendly, can't you? If it was kittens harmed I would be choking the life out of the owner.... )[/i][/quote] Ditto. |
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Post by bidiein on Oct 25, 2019 8:16:10 GMT
I also thought, from the listings, that it was an old, abandoned place they went - sorry BROKE - into. Instead it was a new premises.
Wow! Sympathy level for the child victims is less than 0 at the moment.
But 3 more episodes to come.
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Post by sootycat on Oct 25, 2019 11:17:18 GMT
Not sure how I felt about this.
It has a good cast though.
Hated the violence I thought it unnecessary
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Post by Delia on Oct 25, 2019 13:20:01 GMT
Not seen this, but read this morning that its been widely criticised both for the story (woolly) and for Sarah's bad Welsh accent.
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Anymore to come?
