National Botanic Garden of Wales 1
Amid the gardens and the great glasshouse of the National Botanic Garden of Wales, finds include a Chinese box that Gregory Peck tried to buy and a robotic elephant.
The roadshow comes from the lush surroundings of the National Botanic Garden of Wales in Carmarthenshire. Fiona Bruce explores the Victorian mania for collecting exotic plants and examines rare species grown inside the gigantic biodome.
Mark Smith can鈥檛 believe his eyes when not one but two rare First World War Luftwaffe 鈥榟onour鈥� goblets turn up at his table, while armourer Bill Harriman can鈥檛 wait to get his hands on one of the largest muskets he鈥檚 ever seen.
Duncan Campbell discovers a Chinese box that Hollywood star Gregory Peck tried - and failed - to buy, and John Axford is amazed to see an extremely rare 12th-century bronze statuette brought back from Calcutta in the 1920s .
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