Becoming Dr JonesRhys Jones was brought up on a council estate in South Wales where expectations for what life held in store for you were slim, and the factor beckoned. As he recalls, he was born fighting and never stopped. His perspective on what life could offer him changed forever in the early 1980s when his grandfather took him to the local cinema to see Stephen Spielberg's blockbuster 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'. The dream of emulating his hero Indiana Jones and

lava-scarred landscape can swallow a man without so much as a volcanic gasp

the era of dinosaurs to the moment of people (blink and you'll miss it)

Two royal princes will be put to death

INTRICATE ILLUSTRATIONS: Spot famous fictional characters

and calculated political influence

strikes on opening night - Scrooge dies on stage

revelation

Is winning the National Lottery not once

bought a thirdhand Land Rover

giraffes and the many other creatures they came to know

as a stranger's boat is moored on Lore's harbour

Join brilliant young naturalist Dara McAnulty as he takes you through a year in the life of birds