Yesterday's Witness
David Lloyd George, Welshman
My Welsh nature is my best inheritance. I glory in it! I am a Welshman before everything Lloyd George grew up as a poor boy in a tiny village in North Wales. He became one of the towering figures of modern European history. He attracted more devotion and more hatred than any other politician of this century. When he died in 1945, Churchill called him 'the greatest Welshman since Owen Glendower. ' And it is as a Welshman that he is remembered in this programme. To the rest of Britain the Prime Minister and war leader of over 50 years ago may only be a history-book character, but in Wales David Lloyd George is a living legend and there are men and women who can still bring alive the unique personality of the man who was known to friend and foe as the Welsh Wizard. Narrated by HENLEY THOMAS