Amelia Huw Morgan
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154 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 5 Jul
Amelia Huw Morgan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The war was obviously a turbulent time for everybody.
Children were sent away from their homes and to do other things.
And myths start to evolve around that kind of time.
Within society, we start to make things out of things.
And actually, if you're learning about something like the Great Plague and you're playing that game in the playground or at home or in your residence, wherever,
you are as a refugee or as an evacuee in the war, then actually you might start to come across something that you then want to put meaning for.
So yes, the post-Second World War, new myths being made, new ideas, that's where it kind of comes from.
Yes, yes.
There are versions that exist.
I can read a couple to you.
Don't seem to have that idea of everything kind of always about falling down.
The first one does.
So the first one is, ring a ring of roses, a pocket full of posies, a tissue, a tissue, we all fall down.
But then the next verse of that one is, the cows are in the meadow, lying fast asleep, a tissue, a tissue, we all get up again.
So quite often, falling down then comes back with a getting up.
So it's like, oh, unless that's a sort of reviving of life, then why are they getting up again?
And then there's another one.
It says, all this way, ring a ring of roses, a pocket full of poses, Asher, Asher, we all stand still.
The king has sent his daughter to fetch a pail of water, Asher, Asher, all bow down.
And actually the bowing and the curtsying is actually
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