The Bleak Business of the Black Diamonds

The death of the four trapped miners in West Wales is obviously a desperate business. Desperate enough that some cads will try and use it to make political points, regardless of the nonsense of that.Anyway, here’s Richard Burton on mining and, in some sense, on a Britain we’d mainly thought had mainly vanished until these recent events reminded us that is lingers on yet. The voice and the presence, even late in his day, are still quite something: