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Return Journey - Blue Egg Productions for BBC Wales
Return Journey is a moving TV production film about one man's personal struggle to come to terms with the emotions of his past . At the same time it is a very pertinent example of the pain suffered by ordinary people in the Spanish Civil War.
Alun Menai Williams was the last surviving of around 200 Welsh volunteers who in the 1930's secretly travelled to Spain to fight against fascist troops in the Spanish Civil War. Alun Menai Williams was a "sanitario" literally scrambling from one wounded soldier trying to patch them up - save their lives . In the film he says he spent the war " hugging the earth eating Spanish soil " .
The horrors he saw in Spain haunted him. For more than sixty years he didn't talk about the Spanish Civil War. After his wife died he did as she'd asked, and wrote down his story. That started a new emotional Return Journey for Alun Menai Williams. After nearly seven decades Blue Egg Productions' Sarah Dickins accompanied him as he returned to the battlefields of Spain for the first time since 1938. Standing on the side of the River Ebro - the site of the fiercest battles - Alun Menai Williams confronted the ghosts that had haunted him for all that time.