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It's sixty years since activists bombed arguably the most controversial construction project in modern Welsh history - the Llyn Celyn reservoir in North Wales.

Residents of the Meirionnydd village of Capel Celyn were forced to leave; and in 1965, their homes, farms, school, shop, chapel and cemetery disappeared beneath the new lake - built to provide drinking water for Liverpool.

In episode 1, we take you back to the early 1950s, to the quiet rural life experienced by this tiny farming community, before news of the controversial plans emerge; and we hear from the school children who lived through those traumatic events, as they recall the desperate battle to save their homes, school and chapel, before the bulldozers move in. It's a fight for their survival, their culture; their language - and their homes.

In February 1963, three young men scramble through blizzard conditions to plant a bomb at an electricity transformer on the Tryweryn construction site. In this series, two of those jailed tell us their version of what happened that night.

These shocking events were one of the sparks that ignited the Welsh language campaigns of the 1960s, and the devolution campaign to follow. But it wasn't the first time a Welsh community had been displaced to provide water for English cities.

And when the homes, the school and chapel have been demolished; when the bodies in the cemetery have been exhumed; and when the gates have been opened to flood the village of Capel Celyn - what happens next?

Journalist Betsan Powys has grown up with this story and thought she knew all the facts; but what she discovered in making this podcast has shocked her.

And there's one question she says that she doesn't think we've ever quite answered but feels we should: What happens when the story we tell ourselves about the drowning and the decades of protest it sparked, start to become a myth, and uncomfortable truths are drowned out?

Writer and Presenter: Betsan Powys
Producers: Maria David, Huw Meredydd
Sound Design: Cathy Robinson
Executive Producer: Karen Voisey
Production Manager: Andrea Deere
Associate Producer: Dinah Jones
Development: Catrin Sion and Sam Ferguson
Archive Research: Dafydd O'Connor
Historical Consultant: Dr Wyn Thomas
Original Music: 9Bach

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