Richard Burton: star. The roaring boy from the Welsh coal valleys who came to sport on the banks of the old Nile playing great Antony to Elizabeth Taylors Cleopatra. From the West End to Hollywood from Camelot to Shakespeare he drank dazzled & despaired playing out his life on the public stage. But there was another quieter off-stage Richard Burton a face hidden from the multitude. Melvyn Bragg allowed free access to the never-before-revealed Burton private notebooks & with the cooperation of friends who have never spoken about him before has brought together the private & public sides for the first time. Rich is the complete Richard Burton: a revelation.