Elisabeth Williams

The interviewee remembers getting many invitations to watch television and all adults saying that television would destroy family life. At the beginning they would arrange their lives around the television and it was in the room where the radio was. Remembers there was perspex over the screen to give a colour television effect. She says that she had no interest in the Coronation, remembers watching a little and thinking what a waste it was.Not much broadcasting about the Tryweryn protests, she remembers being at a Plaid Cymru meeting and no-one could agree, some thought that there was no life in the valley anyway.She did watch the Investiture, her mother-in-law was staying and wanted to watch television. The interviewee felt strongly opposed to the event. The interviewee remembers going to her father's friend's house to watch rugby and a house full of men complaining that food interrupted the match. She campaigned for a Welsh-language television channel, and had interrupted a broadcast with an illegal broadcasting device.

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