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Huw Edwards presents this major television history of Wales, showing our country in ways it's never been seen before. In the last seventy years, Wales changes more rapidly than ever. In this final ...episode, a Welshman battles to set up Britain's most cherished institution, the NHS, the British parliament votes to drown a Welsh valley, a new generation of sporting heroes sets the flags waving and television itself becomes part of the story of Wales. The Welsh are a nation of commuters and consumers, but their sense of history is revived: they are a people with a story - and that story gives them power.
Huw Edwards presents this major television history of Wales, showing our country in ways it's never been seen before. In the last seventy years, Wales changes more rapidly than ever. In this final ...episode, a Welshman battles to set up Britain's most cherished institution, the NHS, the British parliament votes to drown a Welsh valley, a new generation of sporting heroes sets the flags waving and television itself becomes part of the story of Wales. The Welsh are a nation of commuters and consumers, but their sense of history is revived: they are a people with a story - and that story gives them power.
| Series: | The story of Wales |
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| Episode | 6 |
| First transmission date: | 26-03-2012 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC1 Wales |
| Published: | 2012 |
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| Duration: | 01:00:00 |
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| Producer: | John Geraint |
| Presenter: | 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: | BOU050864 |
| Production number: | WEFA605N |
| Videofinder number: | 82594 |
| Available to public: | no |
