2009

Lucy Owen explores BBC Wales’s archives of 2009, taking through the headlines, and memorable moments of the year from her perspective in the newsroom with archive gems that include the BBC Wales presenters in a ‘strictly’ dance off for Children in Need.

The wild Kashmir goats of Llandudno provide a new regimental goat for the Royal Welsh. Boffins in Aberystwyth wonder if elephant grass could provide a new biofuel and we observe Harry Potter’s Shell house in Pembrokeshire.

The Institute of Astronomy donates a giant telescope to Knighton and the best private collection of Welsh quilts goes on public show. There’s a skunk on the loose in Tredegar and the Women’s Tug o’ War team train for the World Championships.