2009

Lucy Owen explores BBC Wales’s archives of 2009, with 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 mascot 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.