TENBY'S Charles Dale features in the last of the successsful series, Coming Home, which traces the Welsh ancestry of famous people.

The actor, who plays Big Mac in Casualty and starred in several seasons of BBC Cymru Wales's drama, Belonging, returns to his Tenby roots to discover the truth about his ancestors, and learn why his grandfather was such a buttoned-up Victorian.

He travels to Llanstadwell in Pembrokeshire to meet genealogist Michael Churchill Jones and to see the final resting place of some of his ancestors, who he learns, far from being the farmers he expected, included men of some repute.

As an actor, he says the 'dark side' he feels the Dales have is useful to draw on - but with a great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather who were what we'd now term 'love rats', it's up to grandfather Eric, whose Home Guard activities attracted the right kind of attention, to rescue the family's reputation.

Coming Home is on Wednesday, December 21, BBC One Wales, 8.30 pm.