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The Story of Wales

20121 Season58m episodes5.3

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Runtime: 58m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

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Huw Edwards presents a major television history of Wales, showing the country in ways it has never been seen before.

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Director: Jeff Morgan
Status: Ended
First aired: Feb 27, 2012
Network: BBC One Wales
Studio: Green Bay Media

Time to finish

6 hrs

6 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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Cast

Huw Edwards

Self - Presenter

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SERIES

The Story of Wales

20121 Season58m episodes5.3

Documentary

TMDB5.3

Votes2

Your rating

Runtime: 58m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

About

Huw Edwards presents a major television history of Wales, showing the country in ways it has never been seen before.

Where to watch

Region

Buy

Amazon Video

Availability from JustWatch via TMDB.

Episodes

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E1 · Airs Feb 27, 2012 · 58m
The Makings of Wales
Thirty thousand years in the making, this story begins with the drama of the earliest-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.
E2 · Airs Mar 1, 2012 · 58m
Power Struggles
This Story of Wales spans seven centuries, from the building of a great frontier to Owain Glyndwr's epic struggle for independence. We meet the medieval kings who shaped Wales and watch a nation emerge out of their lust for power and land. Amidst battles with Vikings, Saxons and Normans, Welsh culture flourishes. But the death of the last native prince is followed by a century of plague and famine. Then, the charismatic Glyndwr leads a rebellion against the English Crown.
E3 · Airs Mar 5, 2012 · 58m
England and Wales
It is 1485: a young nobleman sails to the land of his fathers from exile in France. His mission - to capture the English crown. For the first time, a self-proclaimed Welshman will be king of England. Under the dynasty he founds, Wales becomes united with England. For every generation of Welsh people to come, the consequences are huge. But exactly what it means - for the next 250 years, at least - depends on whether you are a landowner or one of the ordinary people.
E4 · Airs Mar 12, 2012 · 58m
Furnace of Change
The Industrial Revolution turns Wales into a global player, bringing unimaginable wealth - and desperate poverty. From Parys Mountain on Anglesey to Copperopolis, Swansea, in the south, the copper trade transforms the landscape and economy. Iron does the same for Merthyr Tydfil, making it a world-class centre of technology. This brave new Wales fuels massive social turmoil, riots and uprisings - and leads to the first national demands for democracy and workers' rights.
E5 · Airs Mar 19, 2012 · 58m
A New Beginning
It's boom time as Wales becomes known the world over for one particular product - Welsh steam coal, the best you can get. In the space of 50 years, 'black gold' builds a new Wales. The coalfield pulls in hundreds of thousands of migrants with a different language and culture, becoming a bustling modern world of its own. Yet no sooner has Wales found itself at the centre of global trade, than the Depression causes an industrial crash with a bitter social fallout.
E6 · Airs Mar 26, 2012 · 58m
Wales and Britain
In the last 70 years, Wales has changed more rapidly than ever. In this final episode, a Welshman battles to set up Britain's most cherished institution, 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. We're a nation of commuters and consumers, but our sense of history has revived: we are a people with a story - and that story gives us power.

Details

Director: Jeff Morgan
Status: Ended
First aired: Feb 27, 2012
Network: BBC One Wales
Studio: Green Bay Media

Time to finish

6 hrs

6 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

Huw Edwards

Self - Presenter

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