4: Ideas | Wales and the History of the World

Duration: 28'39''

Synopsis

Eddie Butler looks at the symbols and ideas chosen to represent Wales for the past 6,000 years, from the red dragon to the red flag and from ancient burial mounds to the iPod.

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