Our fictional town of Abercorran is set in Laugharne.
I think if you speak to the locals in Laugharne,
they'll say it's nice for them to have something
that's not based on Dylan Thomas being shot in the village.
It's just beautiful and they're welcoming and...
Yeah, we've got this amazing resource on our doorstep.
And we're really lucky to be able to put it on camera.
I'm half Welsh, half English.
I spent most of my life living just about on the border
one side or the other.
And I'd always wanted to write something in Wales.
The landscape is so wonderful in Wales.
It's kind of mythical.
And the people, the Welsh people,
are just slightly more emotional,
everything's slightly higher octane emotionally
this side of the border.
And it just lends itself to drama.
And I wanted some of the richness and visual beauty
that you don't quite get in England.
But I think we've really captured it in this series
in our locations.
Well, it has a language which goes back to the sixth century,
which developed out of the old Brythonic language,
which was here before the Romans.
I think that's quite something.
We're still using it and it's still here,
even though it's been oppressed...
...various conquerors - let me put it as subtly as that -
have tried to do away with it.
And have failed completely
because that's the nature of the person, of the Cymry,
the Welsh person.
They won't have their culture taken away from them,
language or song.
In a nutshell, the essence of Welsh culture would be
ultimately romantic, I think.
It would be...
a belief in the other,
a kind of anything is possible.
There's a son of...
...a son of sad romance, I guess, really, about it.
Not that we look backward all the time.
We're looking very much forward with shows like this.
I think we're making statements now on the world stage
far more than we have done.
I think that's possibly a lack of confidence in the past,
and I think our confidence is growing now.
When you've been a conquered nation,
your confidence takes a battering.
And I think we're growing out of that and growing up.
Fortunately, America get a taste of our landscape
through a series that I did called Torchvvood
in which we used all the beaches,
and we went inside, the countryside...
We have a lot of people travelling here now
just to see that countryside and landscape.
We're showing Laugharne.
And Laugharne...it's very famous for Dylan Thomas, of course.
And all his fantastic work that he produced there.
So we're showing beautiful Laugharne.
We've set it in Laugharne.
And it looks incredible.
But also we're doing lots of scenes on Pendine beach,
we're using the countryside,
we're using Swansea.
This is Swansea, this is where I'm from.
Also down on wonderful beaches,
down on Southerndown, Nash Point we were using the other day.
We were stood there, we were filming for 12, 13 hours.
The sun was beating down and I used the exact words,
"I wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world."
It was tranquil, beautiful, unspoilt...stunningness.
I'm a pan of it, we're filming here and I couldn't be prouder.
Obviously, being from Wales, some might call me biased.
But I think the landscape of Wales is so varying.
You've got very dramatic,
almost Lord Of The Ringsesque landscape in north Wales.
And west Wales - slightly softer.
But I think a general note is...
I think because historically,
you know, we're a land of song and poetry and mythology,
it's hard to forget that
when you're filming in these rural vast spaces.
I feel like, you know, it's not just coming from Wales
that you would feel that.
I think it's a kind of universal feeling when you come here.
Considering where Wales is in 2017,
you know, dominated by other cultures,
the fact that it's managed to maintain its language,
its culture, as this very tiny little place,
and yet it's still known throughout the world,
and still maintains its own integrity and character
within that, it says a lot...
...for a race that was conquered,
you know, that it still manages to sing.
What's special about Wales? Warmth.
Not temperature,
but, like, warmth of place.
It just feels slightly different, coming into Wales.
Obviously, I'm coming from a very biased point of view,
being a Welshman,
and, you know, having Welsh family.
But...l don't know...
there's a welcome in the hillside, as the song said.
I think we wanted to make a series set in contemporary Wales
but which has a universality to it.
It's not commenting, it's not satirising.
Its Welshness is central to its identity
but we're not commenting on Wales, we're celebrating Wales.