2001

Lucy Owen takes a personal trip through the BBC Wales news and entertainment archives of the year 2001. It was the year Pavarotti invited Tom Jones to sing with him in Italy. There was a controversial new guidebook to the country, and we got a sneak peek at 2W, a new TV channel for Wales. The country prepared for a national census, and coped with the foot and mouth crisis.

President Bill Clinton visited the Hay Book Festival, while Russell Crowe found he has Welsh roots. In sport, there was the Rhondda Rebels’ triumph in basketball and Christian Malcolm’s sprint record. And the Stereophonics had their biggest gig to date.