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25 part series on ITV Cymru Wales - Tuesdays 10.40pm (April 2017)

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BR
Brekkie
This might be of interest to some:
http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2017-04-25/wales-on-tv-new-series-recalls-the-way-we-were/

A 25-part series drawing on archive footage looking back over the last 50 years or so. Details of the first three episodes:
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Episode 1 (April 25): The series opens in 1968 - the year Mary Hopkin becomes an international recording star, the introduction of flat-pack furniture and the opening of Barry Island’s Wall of Death. Plus, from 1985, the programme recalls the end of the miners’ strike, a Ceredigion man’s sail around the world, and the Romans’ return to Caerleon.

Episode 2 (May 2): We’re back to the 1960s with rail closures in Gwynedd, preparations for a nuclear attack in Carmarthenshire and snow chaos for all. Plus, from the 1970s, the winter of discontent, the arrival of Margaret Thatcher and the return home to the Afan Valley of film star Richard Burton.

Episode 3 (May 9): 1977: Hay on Wye declares “independence”, the Queen's Silver Jubilee sees street parties break out across Wales, and construction starts on a new section of the M4. Plus from 1989 Welsh soldiers witness the fall of the Berlin wall, the DVLA auctions off personalised number plates, and skateboarding is all the rage in Caldicot.


I would assume it'll be made available via the ITV Wales website rather than the ITV Hub.
WH
Whataday Founding member
Well that was a nice little watch. Curiously a network style production slide rather than the usual style we get for regional programmes.
It just read Barn Media for ITV.

Barn Media incidentally is owned by none other than former HTV newsreader Tara Branfield (nee-Eugene). Marie-Claire Carey Jones was listed as a producer also.
RD
RDJ
It'll probably be available on the ITV Wales Programmes website www.itv.com/walesprogrammes though it's not appeared yet on there.

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