Song of the Earth

Mostyn Evans and family, miners turned bargees, wage a glorious but hopeless battle against the rapacious coalmasters, Irish ‘navvies’, the ravages of cholera, and the illegal Unions who rule by fear.

Plying their trade between the furnaces of Cyfarthfa and the lush beauty of the Neath Valley, they pray as hard as they fight, sing as passionately as they love, and face the threat of the railways with irrepressible humour and a stubbornness as hard as their native hills.