For nine months the Snowdown Colliery Male Voice Choir put themselves through gruelling practice sessions in order to compete against the best of the Welsh choirs at the Miners' Eisteddfod at Porthcawl. With only the bare bones of the choir able to afford the trip to Wales, and getting more nervous all the time, the test piece, a spiritual about Jonah and the whale, seemed more difficult as the competition came closer.