From the land of story-tellers this is the story of the land itself and of the people who have shaped it ... A tale 30,000 years in the making. Huw Edwards, The Story of Wales I: The Making of Wales, BBC 2012
These stone-age hunters know how to fight to survive. ibid.
Less than thirty years ago we knew nothing about the copper mines of the Great Orme. ibid.
Rome realises that it needs a very powerful military presence if it’s to keep things under control. ibid.
The Roman occupation of Britain is a massive enterprise. ibid.
There are imperial soldiers here right up to the year 400. ibid.
These Germanic peoples push eastwards from the continent. ibid.
They have power. They have wealth. Huw Edwards, The Story of Wales II: Power Struggles, BBC 2012
Wales and people from Scandinavia are trading with one another. ibid.
The Normans – William the Conqueror from France ... has Wales in his sights. ibid.
Bubonic Plague ... a quarter of the Welsh are wiped out. ibid.
Wales is in a pitiful state. And has been for two hundred years. Huw Edwards, The Story of Wales III: Power Struggles, BBC 2012
The English empire starts here. ibid.
There is a big religious change coming in the reign of Henry VIII. ibid.
These resources will be exploited on a global scale. Huw Edwards, The Story of Wales IV: Furnace of Change, BBC 2012
Copperopolis [Swansea] is the beating heart of Wales’s industrial revolution. ibid.
Copper is an integral part of the slave trade. ibid.
Merthyr’s slums are a tumbledown network of hovels, nicknamed Little Hell. ibid.
The Rebecca riots are a victory. ibid.
Our story of Wales is now about rapid change. ibid.
Railways arrive and with them comes the modern age. Huw Edwards, The Story of Wales V: A New Beginning, BBC 2012
The 3rd Marquis of Bute ... dreams of creating a magnificent medieval palace. And with the aid of a brilliant architect called William Burgess he does just that. ibid.
Heavy drinking is rife in many parts of the country, the industrialised areas particularly. ibid.
In December 1916 the Welsh wizard [Lloyd George] as he’s known becomes prime minister of the United Kingdom. ibid.
That whiff of revolution doesn’t really go away. ibid.
A quarter of a million people leave Wales to live elsewhere, mainly in England. ibid.
Since the Second World War the pace of life here has been hotting up. Huw Edwards, The Story of Wales VI: Wales and Britain, BBC 2012
Life here isn’t all Bible black. ibid.
Devolution and the Language Movement. ibid.
The British Steel Corporation brings together the UK’s fourteen main steel-producing companies. ibid.
The year-long strike by the National Union of Miners is a watershed for industrial Wales. ibid.
It’s the story of a people who embrace the big world. ibid.
Lads, we are going to – Wales. Well don’t get too excited will ya? TwentyFourSeven 1997 starring Bob Hoskins & Danny Nussbaum & Justin Brady & James Hooton & Darren O Campbell & Karl Collins & Johann Myers & Jimmy Hynd & Mat Hand & James Corden & Frank Harper et al, director Shane Meadows, Hoskins to boxing club
Theresa May went on a walking holiday in Wales with two security guards – I assume they were there as a kind of suicide watch. Frankie Boyle’s New World Order e2, BBC 2019