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The following day Marguerite discovers back-to-back editions of Pobl y Cwm episodes with English subtitles. It turns out that the blonde woman and her husband had been shortchanged on their coal delivery, and were debating whether or not to complain about it. I’m stunned by the dramatic impact of it all. And I sorely regret telling our friend Rebecca, who’s just back from London, about my body-in-the-coal theory.

‘Why did you say you were learning Welsh?’ she snickers. ‘It was the quality of the TV programming, right?’