Later Life
In 1980, his threat to go on hunger strike, after the Conservative government reneged on its election promise of a Welsh language television channel, was instrumental in bringing about an early U-turn on the part of Margaret Thatcher, and S4C began broadcasting on 1 November 1982.
In his political retirement he became a prolific writer, mainly on Welsh subjects and writing in Welsh with simultaneous or later English editions. His work Aros Mae (English: It Endures) (published 1971), a comprehensive history of Wales, and the English language version Land of my Fathers: 2000 Years of Welsh History (published 1974), had already become best-sellers.
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