Griff Rhys Jones sets out to discover what defines the character of the world’s greatest cities - London, Paris and New York. Exploring a 24-hour day-in-the-life of each metropolis, Griff is on a mission to find out what props up and forms each city’s key attributes. He leads us on a journey of rediscovery and of extraordinary surprises behind and inside the familiar. A visual ...
Apart from a few fragmentary stories, Griff Rhys Jones' father never talked about his war. Yet as a medical officer to a West African division he travelled 15000 miles from Wales, to Ghana and the jungles of Burma. He and his men were part of an army of a million raised in Africa and Asia to fight the Japanese. To understand their story Griff travels first to Ghana and then acc...
Griff Rhys Jones takes a journey into the classic children's book The Wind in the Willows - a journey that began when he played the part of Mr Toad in a stage adaptation at the National Theatre. Griff explores the history of the book and the life of its author Kenneth Grahame, and uncovers the sometimes dark and ultimately sad tale of the book's creation.