Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Chris Brasher reports from Penclawdd on the Gower Peninsula, on the cockle pickers, who go out onto the sands everyday to dig for cockles.


Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC One, 21 January, 1964.





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