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Article: Modern Wales: a land built on false promises.(News)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- April 13, 2004
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Byline: By Hywel Williams
Many point to the ravages of industrial closures in the 1980s as being behind the problems Wales faces. But ITV1's A Promised Land suggests the seeds of despair were sown way before the Thatcher era. Hywel Williams, the man behind the series, offers a controversial view on our post-war heritage
TO LOOK at the black and white footage of the mid-1940s is to see a country as remote to us now as the Wales of the 19th Century.
Religion was still basic to day-to-day life, industrial and rural communities remained vital and ...