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Huw Edwards presents this major television history of Wales, showing our country in ways it's never been seen before. Thirty thousand years in the making, this story begins with the drama of the ea...rliest-known human burial in Western Europe. Huw delves into the biggest prehistoric copper mine in the world, and visits the mesmerising site of an Iron Age hillfort. He reveals the true scale of the Roman occupation and shows how Welsh saints carried the light of the gospel to the rest of the Celtic world, and left a mark on their homeland that we can all still read today.
Huw Edwards presents this major television history of Wales, showing our country in ways it's never been seen before. Thirty thousand years in the making, this story begins with the drama of the ea...rliest-known human burial in Western Europe. Huw delves into the biggest prehistoric copper mine in the world, and visits the mesmerising site of an Iron Age hillfort. He reveals the true scale of the Roman occupation and shows how Welsh saints carried the light of the gospel to the rest of the Celtic world, and left a mark on their homeland that we can all still read today.
| Series: | The story of Wales |
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| Episode | 1 |
| First transmission date: | 27-02-2012 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC1 Wales |
| Published: | 2012 |
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| Duration: | 01:00:00 |
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| Director: | John Geraint |
| Producer: | John Geraint |
| Presenter: | Huw Edwards |
| Contributor: | Huw Edwards |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00mlrq9 OU website: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/ou-on-the-bbc-the-story-wales |
| Master spool number: | BOU050859 |
| Production number: | WEFA600S |
| Videofinder number: | 82589 |
| Available to public: | no |
