from Wales
Introduced from Cardiff by Noreen Bray
Taking the Waters: 'Some of the knowing ones suggest that Llandrindod and Llanwrtyd were the sites where stood Sodom and Gomorrah which accounts for the sulphurous nature of the place' stated a guide book of 1890 to the spas of mid-Wales. '
PHILIP RICKMANN reports on the campaign to revive a popular Victorian spa. Songs from the Seven Seas: at the start of Maritime England Year, STAN HUGiLL, the last British shantyman, remembers the days of sail.
Producer KATE FENTON
BBC Wales
Catrlona (12)
(long wave only)