Golden voice

A tribute to hardliving Welsh actor Richard Burton

- HANNAH DAVIES, IAN MACEWAN

With his mellifluous baritone voice, on-screen charisma and notorious relationship with Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton was famous for films like The Robe and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Now, the extraordinary story of how a miner's son from Wales became one of the most celebrated actors of his generation is told in a new BBC documentary, Richard Burton: Wild Genius, to mark what would have been the star's 100th birthday.