On his ninth birthday, young Gwyn (Osian Roberts), who lives on a remote hill farm in Wales, receives five strange gifts from his grandmother (Siân Phillips): a piece of seaweed, a yellow scarf, a tin whistle, a metal brooch and a small broken horse. Gwyn offers the brooch to the wind and receives back a tiny silvery spider - Arianwen, the snow spider - confirming that, as his grandmother had already guessed, he has inherited magical powers from his Celtic ancestor Gwydyon, a powerful magician whose exploits are described in the fourth book ("Math Son of Mathonwy") of the Mabinogion. With the help of the snow spider, Gwyn embarks on adventures involving other worlds of snow and silver, as he attempts to solve the five-year-old mystery of his sister Beth's disappearance in a snow storm.
Directed by Pennant Roberts
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Cast
Siân Phillips
Nain Griffiths
Sharon Morgan
Gynis Griffiths
Robert Blythe
Ivor Griffiths
Osian Roberts
Gwyn Griffiths
Gareth Pritchard
Alun Lloyd
Rossilyn Killick
Eirlys
Gillian Elisa
Mrs. Davies
Ifan Huw Dafydd
Mr. Davies
Jill Richards
Mrs. Lloyd
Glan Davies
Mr. Lloyd
Noel Williams
Doctor
John McAvoy
PC Price
T. Graham Williams
Searcher
Jethro Hood
Twin
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