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- The last visit of poet Dylan Thomas to America, concluding with his death in New York on 9th November, 1953.
- Drama following the turbulent career of Labour politician Nye Bevan, founder of the National Health Service.
- A band of three musicians sing about the things they learn.
- As the key Holocaust Memorial Day event for 2006 the programme was based on the theme "One Person Can Make a Difference". It honoured those who risked their own lives to save others during the Holocaust and since. Participants included Anna Bergan, an Auschwitz survivor living in Cardiff, and her daughter Eva Clarke who was born in a concentration camp; Ellen Davis whose mother and six siblings were murdered by the SS, and Sir Nicholas Winton, a former stockbroker who helped rescue 669 Czech children from Nazi-occupied Prague in 1939. Other holocaust survivors living in Wales, the families of resistance fighters, and a UN General, Romeo Dallaire, who tried to stop the genocide in Rwanda also took part. Other participants included the Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair, First Minister of Wales Rhodri Morgan, opera star Katherine Jenkins and Falklands veteran Simon Weston. Children from schools across Wales and from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds read a specially commissioned poem by Gillian Clarke, Cardiff's 2005 Centenary Poet. They told how they made a difference in some small way. There were also some 600 community-based events across the UK involving about 25,000 people, many of which were reflected in the broadcast.
- A programme to celebrate The Abolition of Slave Trade Act, which was passed by British Parliament on 25 March 1807. The event, entitled "Valuing Freedom' was recorded live in St David's Hall, Cardiff and broadcast on BBC Cymru Wales and BBC Network Radio.
- Behind-the-scenes documentary at three of Colwyn Bay's tourist attractions as they prepare for the coming summer season.
- 1984–2017TV EpisodeDocumentary about how the Sally Anne Bowman case was solved. Original Crimwatch footage, along with new reconstructions and interviews, piece together the series of events that led to the capture of Mark Dixie.
- A year in the making documentary following one man as he attempts to save Colwyn Bay's historic Victoria Pier.
- Live BBC Sport coverage of the Welsh Open snooker tournament in Cardiff, Wales.
- In a strange turn of events, Sue Jones-Davies became the mayor of a Welsh town where Monty Python's Life of Brian was still banned - the film where she played the female lead.
- Four aspiring writers from Hay-on-Wye travel to Timbuktu on a trip of a lifetime. Their epic adventure involves a 2500-mile journey from Wales into the Sahara desert.
- In a post-apocalyptic world, two children secretly film their self-absorbed parents. They try desperately to capture rare glimpses of affection.
- Bea and Adam are on a last weekend away before their baby is born. But while Adam sleeps, Bea finds a love letter from another woman. Bea devises a seemingly innocent game that will reveal Adam's true colours.
- A documentary about the work of the English artist and author Kit Williams.
- A non-religious Christmas celebration of comedy, science and music recorded live at London's Hammersmith Apollo in December 2009. Stand-up comedian and humanist Robin Ince is joined by a host of leading lights from the world of science, including Richard Dawkins, Brian Cox, Simon Singh and Ben Goldacre, as well as musicians and top comedians from Mark Steel to Shappi Khorsandi.
- Actress Margaret John talks about her long acting career, and how comedy has given her a big breaks now she is in her 80s.
- A research submarine beneath the Arctic stumbles upon a terrifying secret with earth-shattering consequences.
- As the 'Orpheus's computer fails, Raymond protests his innocence,claiming that 'thing above' must have killed Maddy. The 'thing' turns out to be a vast Russian drilling installation,which Frances and Samson explore,discovering crewmen who died as Maddy did,leaking blood. Clem and Samson also stem nosebleeds,exonerating Raymond. The Russians capture the 'Orpheus' crew but Frances works out that the deaths were caused by the rig's nuclear reactor. Frances and Clem find evidence that the 'Caspar' was also taken on board by the drillers.
- Arkady,captain of floating rig,'Volos',claims he found wreckage of the 'Caspar' in the water but Clem is not convinced. The nuclear reactor is dangerously over-heating and young crew member Vincent risks his life to shut it down,having been sworn to secrecy by Raymond,whom he saw send a message to the surface. Here the U.N. leader Lowe reveals to his assistant that he is working for Moscow and knows about the 'Volos'. Computer expert Svetlana mends the 'Orpheus' mother-board and the crew escape with Arkady and the other surviving Russian.As they pass the 'Hermes' Clem sees Catherine on board and joins her there,where she is the apparent captive of a man named Zubov.
- Raymond's message is received by Lowe,giving a full account of the fate of the 'Volos' and proving he knew all about its mission. Om the 'Volos' itself Zubov tries to kill the 'Orpheus' crew, most of whom escape with Arkady,though Svetlana, the radiation-sick Vincent and Raymond are left behind and Frances,whilst feeling guilty,dares not risk her unarmed colleagues' lives to return for them. Catherine persuades her to search the sea bed for more lava worms,the eco-friendly,cheap fuel source which she had originally gathered but were destroyed by the radiation. Both Zubov and the Russian sympathiser Raymond know of the lava worms and aim to stop the 'Orpheus' mission as it runs counter to the Russian oil monopoly.Zubov tells his henchman Stas to kill Svetlana and Vincent but instead Stas hides them,pending the opportunity to escape whilst,in England,Catherine's mother Meg is aware that her house is being watched and destroys her daughter's computer and its contents.
- As an American government helicopter arrives at the U.N. base Lowe gets a nasty shock. So do the 'Orpheus' crew as the 'Volos' is trailing them and is directly above them. Zubov and Raymond intend to fire a missile at the 'Orpheus' but Clem takes the capsule up into the Russian craft,thwarting their plans. There is an explosion and fatalities. On the 'Orpheus' a lack of oxygen causes the survivors to faint and hallucinate but Frances manages to overcome her situation. Can she get the 'Orpheus' to the surface and what will be the reception?
- Every few years, the first wives of the Apollo astronauts have a reunion. This is their story.
- After the death of his wife, George decides to honour her memory by placing a bench at the bus stop. He befriends a teenager and they help each other overcome grief.
- Eccentric private eye Dirk Gently uses 'holistic' methods, believing everything in the universe to be connected. When hired to trace elderly Ruth's missing cat, Dirk, with down-trodden sidekick MacDuff, investigates a warehouse, which houses a strange contraption, which blows up. A connection is made to a missing billionaire, Gordon Way, who has been besotted with MacDuff's girlfriend Susan for over a decade. Dirk connects the dates when Ruth acquired her cat and when Susan threw over Way to solve a puzzle involving time travel and homicide, accounting for the missing cat and billionaire as well as the disappearance of Ruth's husband.
- Festive edition of the time-travelling drama. The Doctor has one hour to save a crashing spaceship and a miser's soul - but what lurks in the fog?
- A new family and their servants live at the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in 1936.