Catrin Rowlands

Alex Jones marks the 60th anniversary of the mining disaster that claimed 144 lives, including 116 children

25 years ago, Viagra kickstarted the second sexual revolution and a controversy unlike any drug before it. Following trials in 1992 for a compound believed to alleviate symptoms for angina, Pfizer’s first in-patient trial for the drug, then known as UK92480, begin in Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales. It isn’t long before volunteer patients report having unexpected erections - fast forward ten years and word of the adverse side effect has travelled from Wales to New York resulting in Viagra’s first release in 1998 with orders soon exceeding predictions. What follows is the big story of the little blue pill.

Forty years on from the strike that transformed Welsh mining communities, Alex Jones returns to her home town of Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, as well as other Welsh mining communities, to assess how this dramatic event affected the 'children of the strike'

Alex Jones marks the 60th anniversary of the mining disaster that claimed 144 lives, including 116 children

25 years ago, Viagra kickstarted the second sexual revolution and a controversy unlike any drug before it. Following trials in 1992 for a compound believed to alleviate symptoms for angina, Pfizer’s first in-patient trial for the drug, then known as UK92480, begin in Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales. It isn’t long before volunteer patients report having unexpected erections - fast forward ten years and word of the adverse side effect has travelled from Wales to New York resulting in Viagra’s first release in 1998 with orders soon exceeding predictions. What follows is the big story of the little blue pill.

Forty years on from the strike that transformed Welsh mining communities, Alex Jones returns to her home town of Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, as well as other Welsh mining communities, to assess how this dramatic event affected the 'children of the strike'