Cymry'r Cant

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