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Hosted by Griff Rhys Jones, two teams of experts visit some of Britain’s most remarkable museums – the Imperial War Museum London, the Jewish Museum, The Burrell Collection, the Horniman, Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum, The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds and the V&A Museum of Childhood. Guests include Kate Adie, Hardeep Singh Kohli, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Muriel Gray and Quizeum regulars Lars Tharp, Janina Ramirez and Kate Williams.

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In 1953 Dylan Thomas went to New York for the last time, his marriage a wreck, his drinking out of control. He was on his way to meet Stravinsky and to wallow in New York acclaim – but what was he escaping? How did such a triumph become a requiem? The last days of a great poet.

• Tom Hollander won Best Actor at the RTS Awards 2015 for his portrayal of Dylan Thomas
• Nominated for ‘Single Drama’ at the BAFTA Awards 2015
• Nominated for ‘Best Movie made for Television’ Critics’ Choice Television Award’s 2015
• Nominated for ‘Single Drama’ at

In a rare, in-depth documentary, HRH Prince Charles talks exclusively to Griff Rhys Jones about his passion for the built environment and personal involvement in the new Coed Darcy development in South-West Wales, where an entire village is being built from scratch. The Prince speaks frankly about his views on modern and traditional architecture, building sustainable communities and his fears for the future.

Produced and Directed: Suzanne Phillips
Executive Producers: Simon Mansfield, Judith Winnan and Phillip Moss
First transmitted Saturday 20th February 2010 on BBC TWO Wales

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Griff Rhys Jones returns to BBC One in this new prime-time series as he sets out upon an epic adventure to uncover the lost routes of Britain.

Britain was once a difficult country to cross, with roads few and paths obscure. Yet for faith, fortune, pleasure and necessity our ancestors travelled from one end of the country to the other along a vast network of routes spread throughout the nation. In a bid to uncover the forgotten pathways that shaped Britain, Griff re-traces the routes these people took, the experiences they encountered along the way, the people they met …

Apart from a few fragmentary stories Griff Rhys Jones’ father never talked about his war. Yet as a medical officer to a West African division he travelled 15000 miles from Wales, to Ghana and the jungles of Burma. He and his men were part of an army of a million raised in Africa and Asia to fight the Japanese. To understand their story Griff travels first to Ghana and then accompanied by a 90-year-old veteran Joshua he goes to the jungles of Burma. It’s called the forgotten war but Griff discovers how it transformed these West Africans from children …

Griff Rhys Jones sets out to restore his 200-year-old farmhouse in the rolling Pembrokeshire countryside. Built in 1820, the dilapidated farm is in need of far more than a lick of paint, and with significant emotional and financial investments being put into the project, it will require even more work than Griff and his team had anticipated to bring this ruined structure back to life.

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Episode One   Work gets under way on the dilapidated farm house as Griff and the team begin to realise the size of the task ahead.

Episode Two…