| (0, 1) 1 | White noise, as if turning on an old-fashioned television. |
| (0, 1) 2 | It is 1945, the television is playing a documentary on the lives of mixed-race people. |
| (0, 1) 3 | More like a nature documentary like Blue Planet rather than an actual exploration of them as human beings. |
| (Presenter) It's 1947 in the capital city of Wales, Cardiff, which was, and still is, the largest Negro district in the United Kingdom with Negro residents now numbered at about 8000. | |
| (Presenter) The influx of coloured people domiciled here is likely to impair on the harmony, strength and cohesion of public life and cause discord and unhappiness amongst all concerned. | |
| (0, 1) 7 | Present day. |
| (0, 1) 8 | Tony is sitting at the table. |
| (0, 1) 9 | He is anxious, his foot taps purposefully as if somehow the rhythm will cradle his worries. |
| (0, 1) 10 | We hear a waitress walk towards the table. |
| (Waitress) Do you want to order something while you're waiting for your friend? | |
| (Waitress) No worries. | |
| (0, 1) 14 | He looks back at the drinks menu and throws it down on the table. |
| (0, 1) 15 | Some moments pass before a young woman arrives and stands next to the table. |
| (0, 1) 16 | We hear her footsteps, different from the waitress. |
| (0, 1) 17 | We hear his chair pull back as he stands, clears his throat. |
| (Tony) Gwawr? | |
| (Gwawr) /Pinot please, thank you. | |
| (0, 1) 29 | The two sit in more uncomfortable silence. |
| (Tony) So, how are you? | |
| (Tony) He's a man from the black and white cowboy era. | |
| (0, 1) 38 | Silence. |
| (0, 1) 39 | The waitress arrives back with pinot grigio in hand. |
| (0, 1) 40 | She puts it down the table. |
| (Waitress) Here you go, will you guys be ordering any food? | |
| (Waitress) Here you go, will you guys be ordering any food? | |
| (0, 1) 42 | Gwawr takes a big swig. |
| (Gwawr) No. | |
| (Gwawr) Well um/ | |
| (0, 1) 57 | What follows is a compilation of Gwawr trying to get out to Tony what it is she wants to say. This will be cut with news stories, beginning in America, then British news, followed by Wales, followed by Cardiff. |
| (Gwawr) I guess with everything you know that's going on… | |
| (Dad) Middle-class white people are far more radical black than us black people. | |
| (0, 2) 78 | The TV is blaring, Eisteddfod 2019 is playing on repeat. |
| (Presenter) Ac ar ol y feirniadaeth arbennig yna, a mi oedd hi'n feirniadaeth arbennig... | |
| (Presenter) A dyna falch ydyn ni o ddallt seremoni olaf Eisteddfod Caerdydd fod yna gymaint o deilyngdod {more applause} ar ganiad y cyrn gwlad mi fyddai'n gofyn i Hal Robson Canoe ac fe'i cyrchu i'r llwyfan gan yr arwyddfa a'i orsgodd. | |
| (0, 2) 85 | We hear the corn gwlad and Gwawr speaks over it. |
| (Gwawr) Mam allen ni rhoi rhywbeth arall arno plis/ | |
| (Mam) Shhhh… | |
| (0, 2) 88 | We hear applause begin as the winner of the chair stands. |
| (Gwawr) Ti'n nabod e? | |
| (Gwawr) Yeah, ond repeat yw hwn o dau blwyddyn yn ol, so ti 'di gweld e o'r bla'n. | |
| (0, 2) 92 | The applause and music from the television play under the following text. |
| (Gwawr) Ti'n talu am 1000 o sianeli, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus a'r unig peth ti'n gwylio yw S4C. | |
| (Mam) Na'th Gwynfor Evan's starfo'i hun am y fraint o gael sianel Cymraeg, sai'n cofio unrhyw un yn starfo'i hun am Disney Plus. | |
| (0, 2) 95 | Gwawr stifles a snort of laughter |
| (Mam) Be ti eisie gwylio de? | |
| (Gwawr) Sai'n gwybod ─ just flicka trw'r channels. | |
| (0, 2) 98 | Beat. |
| (Mam) {Embarrassed.} | |
| (Gwawr) Tafla fe 'ma de. | |
| (0, 2) 102 | We hear Gwawr switch from channel to channel. |
| (Gwawr) Strictly. | |
| (Mam) Ok, Strictly. | |
| (0, 2) 105 | More silence as we hear them eat crisps. |
| (Mam) Repeat yw hwn hefyd. | |
| (Mam) /Na, na. | |
| (0, 2) 111 | More silence. |
| (Strictly) The scores are in, will the judges please reveal their scores. | |
| (Gwawr) Wyt ti nawr? | |
| (0, 2) 119 | Beat. |
| (Mam) Gwawr, ti'n ok? | |
| (Gwawr) Dim diolch. | |
| (0, 2) 128 | They both laugh. |
| (Mam) {Sigh.} | |
| (Gwawr) Wyt ti? | |
| (0, 2) 148 | We return to the documentary world |
| (Presenter) We are looking to gain a deeper understanding of the psyche of these women who choose to engage in relations with Negroid Men, so we spoke to Gwenith Carlisle, a wife of one of them. | |
| (Cardiffian Woman) Well, the only wreck I see in our neighbourhood are white men. | |
| (0, 3) 160 | Transition to the café with Gwawr and Tony, continuing where they left off from their last conversation. |
| (Dad) So I arrived in Wales in 1978. | |
| (Gwawr) Same | |
| (0, 3) 178 | Silence |
| (Dad) It's a shame you never got to meet her. | |
| (Dad) My grandmother is still, apart from now you are here, the greatest human being that ever lived. | |
| (0, 3) 181 | Gwawr laughs awkwardly. |
| (Dad) She lived with me for all my life, her morals are my morals, but my problem is I ignored them for many years. | |
| (Dad) Just behave yourself, be kind, be truthful. | |
| (0, 3) 185 | Gwawr stifles a snort. |
| (Dad) I know. | |
| (Dad) I was trying to explain my state of mind when you came around, when you were born and stuff. | |
| (0, 3) 190 | Beat. |
| (Gwawr) Yeah you did upset me. | |
| (Tony) I am so glad of the heart you have right now, and I love you so much | |
| (0, 3) 194 | Beat. |
| (Gwawr) Your grandmother, what did she do? | |
| (Gwawr) Waw. | |
| (0, 3) 205 | Silence |
| (Dad) So, do you work, do you have a job? | |
| (Gwawr) Whatever, beth am jesd gwylio teledu. | |
| (0, 4) 230 | We hear the beginning jingle as the news plays on the TV. |
| (0, 4) 231 | This news segment will play as if it is on in the background, the audience hear important snippets throughout the dialogue that follows this section. |
| (News Reader) Tonight, on BBC Wales news, it's Saturday the 25th of July 2020 and protesters gather outside the Civic offices in Barry after the naming of one of the roads on the Barry Waterfront Development. | |
| (Mam) O ni ddim… yn sylweddoli | |
| (0, 4) 259 | Television turned off/News theme tune play out. |
| (Waitress) /Sorry to interrupt...but would you like another drink? | |
| (Gwawr) Sure. | |
| (0, 5) 271 | Beat. |
| (Dad) You look just like her, you know. | |
| (Gwawr) You can't compare Africans having slaves to the entire British Empire, what they … {she corrects herself} … we did. | |
| (0, 5) 284 | The documentary begins again. |
| (0, 5) 285 | This time interviewing a Jamaican who moved to Wales. |
| (Presenter) We are now speaking to Eleanor Nicholson, a Negro immigrant from Jamaica, married to a White Welsh Man. | |
| (Jamaican Woman) He said he didn't want anyone to be confused that this was a slave-plantation type situation all over again. | |
| (0, 6) 292 | We hear the TV get switched off. |
| (Mam) Reit … come on, helpu fi 'da'r ddillad. | |
| (Mam) Reit … come on, helpu fi 'da'r ddillad. | |
| (0, 6) 294 | We hear Mam heave herself off the sofa reluctantly. |
| (0, 6) 295 | Gwawr ignores her mother sat on her phone, we hear notifications popping up and tapping to signify this. |
| (Gwawr) Mam, ti di clywed am Breonna Taylor? | |
| (Mam) Wel, ma fy myd i dal i droi, felly allet ti plis jesd helpu fi? | |
| (0, 6) 310 | Gwawr reluctantly gets off her phone and helps. |
| (0, 6) 311 | Slight pause. |
| (Gwawr) Ti'n caro am bywydau pobol du? | |
| (Gwawr) | |
| (0, 6) 332 | Silence |
| (Gwawr) Dydd Gwener dere gyda fi, i'r protest. | |
| (Gwawr) Actually Mam, fi'n y ddau peth. | |
| (0, 6) 346 | Pause. |
| (Gwawr) For God's sake, ti ddim jesd ddim yn deall, ti ddim eisie deall. | |
| (Gwawr) Dim fy mai i yw e bod ti di penderfynu cadw fi … {beat} … Mam ble ti'n mynd? | |
| (0, 6) 369 | We hear Gwawr and Mam move through the house and Mam starts rustling through a bookshelf in another room |
| (Mam) Co' dyna ti, llyfr nath dy Dad rhoi i fi pan oeddet ti'n babi, dyna bach o dy hanes… | |
| (Mam) Co' dyna ti, llyfr nath dy Dad rhoi i fi pan oeddet ti'n babi, dyna bach o dy hanes… | |
| (0, 6) 371 | Gwawr is choked up. |
| (0, 6) 372 | Pause. |
| (Mam) … ti'n hapus nawr? | |
| (Mam) Dwi yn/ | |
| (0, 6) 382 | Silence |
| (Gwawr) Fi'n meddwl cwrdd lan 'da Tony. | |
| (Gwawr) Fi'n meddwl cwrdd lan 'da Tony. | |
| (0, 6) 384 | Beat. |
| (Mam) Beth? | |
| (Gwawr) Achos falle bydd en deall mwy 'na ti. | |
| (0, 6) 388 | Beat. |
| (Mam) {Voice breaks, getting emotional.} | |
| (Gwawr) Dwi'n digon hen i wybod fod hwnna'n debygol. | |
| (0, 6) 396 | Documentary crackling. |
| (Presenter) Mulatto children do not grow up with any kind of recognised home life. | |
| (Gwawr) No, you didn't. | |
| (0, 7) 410 | Beat. |
| (Dad) So you had the Jamaican Labour Party and then just across the road you have the PNP, People National Party, they were just killing each other. | |
| (Gwawr) Yeah, sure. | |
| (0, 7) 421 | They both laugh knowingly. |
| (Dad) … and we're coming back and there's a massive lorry full of soldiers, I could hear it in my head for ages after, they had this tail gate on the lorry, dropped the tail gate, boom... boom... boom. | |
| (Gwawr) /Yeah she did, thank you. | |
| (0, 7) 438 | Pause |
| (Dad) Did you like them? | |
| (Gwawr) I'm Gwawr Davies. | |
| (0, 7) 464 | Silence |
| (Gwawr) Have you got a family tree or anything I can have a look at? | |
| (Tony) I can't tell you how happy I am. | |
| (0, 7) 472 | Beat |
| (Tony) You probably were very angry at me for a long time, wrote me off. | |
| (Gwawr) Um... | |
| (0, 7) 475 | Gwawr wonders whether to tell the truth. |
| (0, 7) 476 | Beat |
| (Gwawr) Yeah, absolutely. | |
| (Tony) Yes. | |
| (0, 7) 503 | Segments from the documentary and script begin to play between the dialogue leading up to Gwawr's exit. |
| (Presenter) It's 1947 in the capital city of Wales, Cardiff, which was, and still is, the largest Negro district in the United Kingdom. | |
| (Tony) Gwawr? | |
| (0, 7) 522 | A compilation of the documentary style elements used previously. |
| (0, 7) 523 | Signifying Gwawr's mind trying to make sense of it all: |
| (0, 7) 524 | ~ |
| (0, 7) 525 | the largest Negro district in the United Kingdom… |
| (0, 7) 526 | impair on the harmony, strength and cohesion of public life… |
| (0, 7) 527 | you're just like your mother... |
| (0, 7) 528 | justice for George Floyd... |
| (0, 7) 529 | fod yna gymaint o deilyngdod… |
| (0, 7) 530 | it will struggle against the higher level… |
| (0, 7) 531 | no justice, no peace… |
| (0, 7) 532 | the children, are they sane?... |
| (0, 7) 533 | it was not my fault that you were born. |
| (0, 7) 534 | ~ |
| (0, 7) 535 | Silence |
| (0, 8) 536 | Gwawr opens the door and walks through her house. |
| (Gwawr) Mam...? | |
| (Gwawr) Na Mam, fi methu, fi'n meddwl mae rhaid i ti neud e. | |
| (0, 8) 561 | Beat |