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0:00:02 > 0:00:04- Welsh centenarians.
0:00:05 > 0:00:09- Programmes about Welsh people - who've lived through two World Wars.
0:00:09 > 0:00:13- In this episode, 102-year-old - Mary Keir from St David's...
0:00:14 > 0:00:15- ..who was a nurse.
0:00:16 > 0:00:20- She remembers the fateful night - the hospital was almost bombed.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23- 103-year-old Myfanwy Morris.
0:00:23 > 0:00:25- She was raised in Liverpool.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28- She moved to Wales during WWI...
0:00:28 > 0:00:33- ..after her father, a ship's - captain, was made a prisoner of war.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35- Her family - was helped by Lloyd George.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39- And the Reverend Dr Vernon Davies, - who's 100.
0:00:39 > 0:00:43- He learned to fly and attended - the same school as Dylan Thomas.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46- These are all my girlfriends!
0:00:48 > 0:00:51- I've outlasted all their husbands!
0:00:51 > 0:00:53- Yeah, you have!
0:01:04 > 0:01:07- I had a hoop.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10- A large one.
0:01:10 > 0:01:14- And a small stick - that I played with.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20- There wasn't much traffic back then, - you see.
0:01:20 > 0:01:24- Only horses.
0:01:25 > 0:01:29- We played all kinds of games.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33- We'd bounce balls off the wall.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36- One, two, three.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38- Like that.
0:01:38 > 0:01:44- Then we'd turn - and catch the ball once we'd turned.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47- That took some practice.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50- We had yo-yos.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53- I loved playing with those.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55- Back in Liverpool...
0:01:56 > 0:02:00- ..we'd play hopscotch in a circle.
0:02:02 > 0:02:09- But in the south, it's played - in the usual square shape.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12- My father - was brought up on a farm...
0:02:12 > 0:02:15- ..in Cardiganshire, - close to Pencader.
0:02:15 > 0:02:20- He moved to Garnant - to manage a large grocery shop.
0:02:20 > 0:02:26- He was good with horses, - so he'd help with deliveries.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28- When I was six months old...
0:02:29 > 0:02:32- ..on a dark, unlit night...
0:02:32 > 0:02:36- ..we moved down to Swansea to live.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39- Back then, a grocery business - wasn't profitable.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42- The colliers - went on strike too often.
0:02:43 > 0:02:47- During a strike, - it was the grocer who fed them.
0:02:48 > 0:02:53- One of my earliest memories - is of my uncle returning home...
0:02:53 > 0:02:56- ..from the army - when I was about four years old...
0:02:56 > 0:02:59- ..and calling in - to see us in Swansea.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02- I also remember...
0:03:02 > 0:03:06- ..my parents and I, - and the rest of the family...
0:03:06 > 0:03:09- ..going to the Mumbles - one Sunday afternoon.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12- There was - some kind of barrage balloon there.
0:03:13 > 0:03:17- Four days before war broke out...
0:03:18 > 0:03:21- ..my father - was taken a prisoner of war.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25- The captured ship - was called the Saxon.
0:03:25 > 0:03:30- Mam didn't know - what she would do to earn money...
0:03:30 > 0:03:33- ..to raise us.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35- She'd heard...
0:03:38 > 0:03:43- ..there were vacant positions - at the Ty Mawr Hotel in Llanbedr.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47- They wanted lady gardeners.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50- A small cottage came with the job.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53- After Christmas...
0:03:54 > 0:03:58- ..Mam, my little brother and sister - and I took the train...
0:03:58 > 0:04:01- ..and arrived at Pensarn Station...
0:04:01 > 0:04:06- ..where my uncle was waiting - to pick us up.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11- We went to the cottage.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13- It was beautiful.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17- I can remember Mam...
0:04:17 > 0:04:23- ..singing Suo Gan - and lullabies like that.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25- # Sweet lullaby
0:04:26 > 0:04:28- # Sweet lullaby
0:04:28 > 0:04:32- # La-la-la-la-dee-da #
0:04:32 > 0:04:34- Just like that.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37- She'd sing me to sleep. - I loved that.
0:04:38 > 0:04:42- Mam couldn't send items...
0:04:42 > 0:04:45- ..to my father - in the prisoner of war camp.
0:04:45 > 0:04:51- Instead, she'd cut out articles - from the News of the World...
0:04:51 > 0:04:55- ..and send clippings - explaining the ship's capture.
0:04:55 > 0:05:01- Mam would buy - the News of the World...
0:05:01 > 0:05:04- ..and tore out the stories.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08- She placed them - in a waterproof envelope...
0:05:08 > 0:05:13- ..and Nain - would bake them in a loaf of bread.
0:05:13 > 0:05:18- They were permitted - to send loaves of bread.
0:05:18 > 0:05:25- He'd receive the loaf - and the paper cuttings inside...
0:05:25 > 0:05:30- ..explaining why he - had been taken prisoner of war.
0:05:32 > 0:05:36- I remember going to school - in Swansea at five years of age.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39- Mam had made me a suit.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42- I was holding a flower in my hand...
0:05:42 > 0:05:46- ..and a ball - made from rags at my feet.
0:05:48 > 0:05:52- We learned - our times tables in English.
0:05:52 > 0:05:57- We didn't have books - so we must've used slates...
0:05:59 > 0:06:01- ..and rubbed out our work.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05- The first thing we had to do...
0:06:05 > 0:06:09- ..was show our hands - to make sure they were clean.
0:06:09 > 0:06:13- Our teacher was very strict.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16- She inspected our hands.
0:06:18 > 0:06:22- The war ended...
0:06:22 > 0:06:26- ..and then Mam - and my father's brother...
0:06:26 > 0:06:29- ..went to Huddersfield...
0:06:29 > 0:06:31- ..to meet the ship.
0:06:34 > 0:06:39- My father emerged - and he'd lost all his hair.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43- All this black, curly hair.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46- He was thin and sick.
0:06:46 > 0:06:51- When I turned 11, - I attended the scholarship class.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54- The teacher was very good.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57- I remember him - being very strict too.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01- Everyone in that class - was meant to pass.
0:07:01 > 0:07:06- He'd write sums on the blackboard - and then it was quick-fire.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08- Mental arithmetic.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10- Seven times 92.
0:07:10 > 0:07:14- Four times 63. - He'd go around the class.
0:07:14 > 0:07:19- He'd walk around the class - with a cane in his hand.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22- I sat at the front - like a good little boy.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24- I was frightened.
0:07:24 > 0:07:28- I'd hear the thud of the cane.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31- "Boy, you weren't listening."
0:07:33 > 0:07:37- As a result, everyone in the class - passed the scholarship.
0:07:37 > 0:07:42- My father couldn't find work.
0:07:42 > 0:07:47- No-one was told whether - they'd receive compensation...
0:07:47 > 0:07:50- ..for those four years.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52- Afterwards...
0:07:53 > 0:07:57- ..he wrote to Lloyd George, - the prime minister of the time.
0:07:58 > 0:08:04- Shortly after, - he received a notice...
0:08:04 > 0:08:07- ..summoning him - to the High Court in London.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10- The thing that won the case...
0:08:10 > 0:08:17- ..the picture of the capture that - my mother'd sent to him in the loaf.
0:08:17 > 0:08:22- My father wanted me - to compete at eisteddfodau.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25- He would take me to them.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28- I had to compete at the eisteddfod.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31- I'd come home with a prize.
0:08:31 > 0:08:35- A small satin bag...
0:08:35 > 0:08:40- ..and a ribbon around my neck - with a couple of pennies.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46- Dylan was five days older than me...
0:08:46 > 0:08:51- ..but I was never - in the same class as him...
0:08:51 > 0:08:56- ..because I don't think Dylan - had ever passed an exam in his life.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58- No school certificates.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01- He was a kind of hanger on.
0:09:01 > 0:09:07- By the time we were in sixth form, - we had five free periods every week.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10- I was - on the school magazine committee.
0:09:10 > 0:09:14- Dylan was on the same committee.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17- There were - only three or four of us on it.
0:09:17 > 0:09:21- We'd meet - for four or five hours each week...
0:09:21 > 0:09:24- ..to work on the magazine.
0:09:25 > 0:09:29- It was a lot of fun. - We'd compose limericks and so on.
0:09:29 > 0:09:31- Naughty stories, good stories.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35- We discussed - everything under the sun.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38- Sports, girls, films, limericks.
0:09:38 > 0:09:44- I've spent almost a century - trying to forget some of them!
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0:10:00 > 0:10:02- I was 18 or 19 by this time.
0:10:03 > 0:10:10- I thought, 'I play the piano well - but I can't make a living from it.'
0:10:10 > 0:10:13- At the time, - someone my parents knew...
0:10:13 > 0:10:18- ..came to St David's - every year on holiday.
0:10:18 > 0:10:23- He said to my father, "What are you - going to do about your only girl?
0:10:23 > 0:10:26- "What's she doing home at 18, 19?"
0:10:27 > 0:10:29- "Oh, music. She's all music."
0:10:29 > 0:10:33- "Why don't you let her go in - for nursing?" he said to my father.
0:10:33 > 0:10:37- "Let her come to Cardiff," he said.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43- I'd never been - in a hospital in my life.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46- I'd only ever seen - the outside of one.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49- I remember going into this room...
0:10:49 > 0:10:53- ..where they'd - laid out my uniform.
0:10:54 > 0:10:57- "You've got to go into that room - to see the sister."
0:10:57 > 0:11:02- We went in - with our starch-white aprons...
0:11:02 > 0:11:04- ..and our knees crossed.
0:11:04 > 0:11:09- We looked very smart. - It was like meeting the Queen.
0:11:09 > 0:11:14- When I was about 15 years old - I bought my own motorbike.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17- It cost three pounds. - A Francis-Barnett.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20- Remember those? It was a two-stroke.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22- It was a super little bike.
0:11:23 > 0:11:28- When I was 20, - I had a motorbike accident.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31- I received 200 in compensation.
0:11:31 > 0:11:35- That was - about 10,000 in today's money.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37- Mam said, "No more motorbikes."
0:11:37 > 0:11:39- But I needed something.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42- I bought a brand new Austin 7.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45- I was going up in the world!
0:11:45 > 0:11:47- My wife said to me...
0:11:48 > 0:11:51- ..although - she wasn't my wife at the time...
0:11:51 > 0:11:54- .."When are you - going to give me a lesson?"
0:11:54 > 0:11:58- "Like hell," I said! - "I've paid for this car in blood."
0:11:58 > 0:12:01- I didn't give her any lessons.
0:12:02 > 0:12:06- I had rheumatic fever - when I was small.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09- I didn't go to school.
0:12:09 > 0:12:13- I'd stay at home with Mam.
0:12:13 > 0:12:17- She made us all clothes...
0:12:17 > 0:12:22- ..so I learnt to sew - from an early age.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36- I didn't have enough money.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39- I only earned - 1.40 a month, you see...
0:12:39 > 0:12:41- ..when I started in Llandough.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45- I graduated - from Carmarthen College.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48- I must've been a poor preacher.
0:12:49 > 0:12:50- I was only 23 years old.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53- I'd left with a BA and a BD by then.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56- I was like a boy soprano - in the pulpit.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59- I was probably an awful preacher.
0:12:59 > 0:13:04- As luck would have it, - I won a scholarship to Oxford.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07- I studied for an MA in Theology.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09- When I went to Oxford...
0:13:09 > 0:13:14- ..I was an Independent, - but then I became an Anglican.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17- The bishop spoke to me and said...
0:13:17 > 0:13:20- .."If you'd - like to be an Anglican...
0:13:21 > 0:13:24- "..there's a position for you - at Lampeter College...
0:13:25 > 0:13:27- "..at the beginning - of next term."
0:13:28 > 0:13:30- When we got married...
0:13:31 > 0:13:35- ..the service was held - at Porthmadog.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39- My husband had a very good memory.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44- He'd tell me various stories...
0:13:47 > 0:13:53- ..and then - I started to collect them.
0:13:55 > 0:13:59- A young priest came back - to the parish for a holiday.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02- He was looking - for a male and female teacher.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07- By the beginning of term...
0:14:07 > 0:14:11- ..I was teaching at a school - in Nassau in the Bahamas.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14- The first thing - the teacher said to me was...
0:14:15 > 0:14:19- .."I know - you're meant to be teaching RE...
0:14:19 > 0:14:23- "..but no schools - in the town teach French.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27- "I've looked over your record...
0:14:27 > 0:14:30- "..and the others - know less French than you."
0:14:31 > 0:14:34- I taught French - and nothing else from then on.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37- One term of RE...
0:14:37 > 0:14:40- ..and one term of Hygiene.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46- The matron wanted to keep me there.
0:14:47 > 0:14:51- She said, - "Sister Hatch is leaving East 5.
0:14:52 > 0:14:57- "I want you to become the sister - instead of advertising for it."
0:14:58 > 0:15:02- After that, I was back on the ward.
0:15:02 > 0:15:06- That's when a convoy...
0:15:07 > 0:15:11- ..of injured servicemen - came back from France.
0:15:11 > 0:15:16- They took - all the surgical patients...
0:15:16 > 0:15:18- ..elsewhere.
0:15:18 > 0:15:20- Some were gravely ill.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23- Shrapnel wounds and so on.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26- I have a photograph - of one of them in my bedroom.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28- He was only 21.
0:15:28 > 0:15:33- He'd had shrapnel wounds - right down to the intestines.
0:15:33 > 0:15:37- "They ask - of me righteous judgements.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41- "They delight to draw near to God."
0:15:41 > 0:15:45- My brother was a parish vicar - in Hertfordshire.
0:15:45 > 0:15:49- There was a flying club - close to the parish.
0:15:50 > 0:15:54- I had more money than sense - because I had no car at the time.
0:15:54 > 0:15:56- I had a ride in a Tiger Moth.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58- I take it you know what one is?
0:15:58 > 0:16:01- The man said to me, - "You're doing well."
0:16:01 > 0:16:06- It was dual control, - so he let me take the controls.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09- He said, - "You'll have to come again."
0:16:10 > 0:16:12- I went back day after day...
0:16:13 > 0:16:15- ..for a fortnight.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17- I was like a teenager.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20- I'd dream of aeroplanes.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23- I'd land aeroplanes in my sleep!
0:16:24 > 0:16:27- When I left London - after a fortnight...
0:16:27 > 0:16:32- ..I had a licence - to fly all aeroplanes.
0:16:32 > 0:16:36- Every time we went to America - for locum holidays...
0:16:36 > 0:16:40- ..which were two months in summer, - we'd head to New York first.
0:16:40 > 0:16:44- It was free lodgings, - so we had money to spare.
0:16:44 > 0:16:49- I'd hire a small plane - and fly to New England.
0:16:50 > 0:16:55- There were regular raids - and warning raids.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57- I was on the ward this one time.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59- We'd had a warning, of course.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02- The majority of patients...
0:17:02 > 0:17:06- ..the ambulance patients - and those in chairs...
0:17:06 > 0:17:09- ..had been taken to the basement...
0:17:09 > 0:17:12- ..well, they called it a shelter.
0:17:12 > 0:17:16- They'd switched off - all the water from the pipes.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19- They did things like that.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21- I stayed on the ward.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25- There were three men on the wards, - they were bed patients.
0:17:25 > 0:17:29- We couldn't move them, - so I stayed with them.
0:17:30 > 0:17:34- A nurse came in and said, "I'm - going to stay with you," she said.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36- I said, "No."
0:17:47 > 0:17:50- Dawn was one of my nursing staff.
0:17:50 > 0:17:52- She said, "I'm staying with you."
0:17:52 > 0:17:57- "Right, let's pull these patients - out," I said.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00- We pulled them out to the corridor.
0:18:00 > 0:18:05- I was standing by one of the men - in the corridor...
0:18:05 > 0:18:07- ..and she was the other side.
0:18:08 > 0:18:13- We were on the floor and I heard - the bomb whistling through the air.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16- A high explosive.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19- I said to myself, 'This is my end.'
0:18:21 > 0:18:25- For some reason...
0:18:25 > 0:18:27- ..God knows why...
0:18:27 > 0:18:31- ..the pilot - had pressed the button...
0:18:31 > 0:18:35- ..to release the bomb - a split second too soon.
0:18:35 > 0:18:40- It fell into the grass outside.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42- It left a huge crater...
0:18:43 > 0:18:45- ..the size of this room.
0:18:45 > 0:18:51- I stood up, she stood up - and we ran to one another.
0:18:51 > 0:18:56- We couldn't believe we were - still alive. It was unbelievable.
0:18:59 > 0:19:06- Mam could turn her hand to anything, - especially embroidery.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09- I still have the clothes - she made for me...
0:19:09 > 0:19:13- ..during my childhood.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35- Mam recently passed away.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38- She lived a long life.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40- She was 103.
0:19:40 > 0:19:45- Very recently - I made contact with a man...
0:19:46 > 0:19:48- ..who's a distant relative of mine.
0:19:49 > 0:19:53- I told him about my mother's life...
0:19:53 > 0:19:56- ..and about her father - being a prisoner of war.
0:19:56 > 0:20:03- He said, "I've a letter - that was sent from a German prison."
0:20:03 > 0:20:07- This is the letter - as it was delivered.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09- It had been censored...
0:20:10 > 0:20:14- ..and contained his prisoner number - and the name of the camp.
0:20:14 > 0:20:19- Ruhleben in Germany, - which is a district of Berlin.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22- "My dearest Jinnie...
0:20:22 > 0:20:26- "..I often wonder, - has Father arrived home yet...
0:20:26 > 0:20:31- "..as you never seem - to say anything about him lately.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34- "Well, Jinnie bach, - I thought the exchange...
0:20:35 > 0:20:39- "..would've been ratified by now, - but there's no sign of it yet.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42- "I'm afraid - we're here for a long time.
0:20:42 > 0:20:46- "Give my love to Mother - and all the family.
0:20:46 > 0:20:52- "I now must end in sending - my best for you and the kiddies.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54- "Your loving husband, Rolie."
0:21:01 > 0:21:03- When I was about 90...
0:21:03 > 0:21:05- ..Lisa said to me...
0:21:05 > 0:21:08- .."You're getting lazy. - You're sleeping too much.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12- "You're reading too many novels - and doing nothing."
0:21:13 > 0:21:17- My life has always - centred around St David's Church.
0:21:18 > 0:21:22- She said, "You have to learn - computer skills."
0:21:22 > 0:21:25- They gave me - an old portable computer...
0:21:25 > 0:21:27- ..and a two-hour lesson.
0:21:28 > 0:21:32- I paid 800 for that - eight years ago.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35- It was money well spent.
0:21:35 > 0:21:39- I could use Skype and so on.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41- I had a friend...
0:21:41 > 0:21:46- ..who was a member of staff - when I worked at Exeter College...
0:21:47 > 0:21:49- ..and lived in France.
0:21:49 > 0:21:53- Every night at 10 o'clock - I'd have a chat with him.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57- I remember him - telling me one night...
0:21:58 > 0:22:02- .."Vernon, what have you done - to your hair? It looks terrible."
0:22:02 > 0:22:06- I said, - "You don't look too good yourself."
0:22:06 > 0:22:08- We'd have great conversations.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12- I use it almost every day, - emails and things like that.
0:22:13 > 0:22:17- I copy things and print things. - I use it for whatever I need.
0:22:17 > 0:22:20- # "Myfanwy" by Joseph Parry #
0:22:31 > 0:22:35- You learn - more from experience than anything.
0:22:35 > 0:22:40- You can give people advice - if you've had experience.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44- Good or bad.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49- How come you've lived to be 100?
0:22:49 > 0:22:51- Breathing regularly.
0:22:53 > 0:22:54- And trying not to be caught.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56- And trying not to be caught.- - Lots of women?
0:22:57 > 0:22:59- Eating in moderation.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02- Drinking?
0:23:02 > 0:23:04- And genetically programmed.
0:23:06 > 0:23:10- You know, - we've all got this box inside.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13- My clock was timed to carry on.
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