Ben Elton explains how a Welsh school saved his family

Writer and comedian Ben Elton has said how his father, uncle and grandparents were saved from probable death during World War Two by a school in north Wales.

He said his grandparents were German Jews based in Prague in 1938, before the outbreak the war.

His grandfather was offered a position as a lecturer in the UK, but could not bring his children - including Ben's father - with him, he told told Lucy Owen on BBC Radio Wales.

It was only due to a series of "amazing coincidences" that his father and uncle were offered places at Rydal Penrhos, allowing the family to flee together.