December: the Iron Baron The most glittering party in Baron Gilbert de Dietrich's social year is held just before Christmas. Aristocrats, captains of European industry and an international set of friends join the baron and baroness at their chateau in Alsace to shoot wild boar in the surrounding forests.
But the baron is more than a land-owning member of the nobility. He controls an industrial empire which has grown from a rural iron foundry started in 1684. Narrator Michael Dean Producer JOHN BIRD
Series producer EDWARD MIRZOEFF (R)