Kim Howells
This interviewee remembers the earliest horror programmes he saw when he was a child, and the pressure to react in a manly way to them. He talks of the Aberfan disaster and says that he gave someone a thrashing for daring to make a joke about the disaster. The two Devolution Referendums are discussed and the change in the reaction of the Welsh from the one to the other. As he discusses the Miners' Strike he notes the resistance of the south Wales miners to come out on strike, but despite that, they supported the NUM's decision and striked. He discusses both sides' use of the media and how the government got better at mastering the media as the months passed. But the image of the strike which will stay with him is the morning the miners went back to work at the Maerdy colliery.
