A Borrovian stroll through what was once ' Wild Wales '. Part 1: The Starting
John Seymour follows the quirky path of his fellow East Anglian, George Borrow , the Victorian traveller, linguist and author who recorded the Welsh countryside and people as they were in the late summer of 1854. ' Gentility,' said George Borrow , ' will be the ruin of the Welsh, as it has been of many other things.' One hundred and twenty. years on, and ' gentility' is still rampant in Wales, towns encroach on the countryside and the native people move away. But has ' Wild Wales ' really gone for ever? This new series of four programmes tries to find out.
Producer SELWYN RODERICK BBC Wales
A way of life: pages 82-87