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The River Taff with Will Millard

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Writer and fisherman Will Millard tells the story of the River Taff.

The Taff: The River that Made Wales

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Will meets the members of the Lewis Merthyr Colliery Brass Band and fishes for grayling.

Will Millard travels the length of the River Taff and explores how it once ran black with coal dust, but is now one of the finest trout and salmon rivers in Wales.

Writer and fisherman Will Millard travels the length of the wild River Taff in South Wales, from its source high in the stunning Brecon Beacons to the Bristol Channel. He explores how the coal industry changed this beautiful landscape and its people forever. The river once ran black with coal dust but is now one of the finest trout and salmon rivers in Wales. Will meets the members of the Lewis Merthyr Colliery Brass Band and fishes for grayling with a former miner who is now a champion fly-fisherman. He visits one of Britain's biggest open-cast coal mines and sees how this spectacular landscape is being reclaimed after centuries of mining.

The River Taff with Will Millard: Series 1

Will Millard tells the story of the River Taff. 

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