PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

Iestyn Harris had only just started to run with a rugby ball when two very large Tongan boys landed in his little corner of the Rhondda Valley, a village synonymous with mining disaster.
In Wattstown, where they had long learnt to count the terrible price of coal in lives lost to underground explosions, nobody had ever seen the likes of the Vunipola brothers, embryonic giants at the age of eight and six respectively.
They still talk about them now, a quarter-of-a-century later, of their impact on what had been Wattstown’s mini-section prior to their...