00:00 When you're thinking of sex education, there's no place better to start than Moordale Secondary
00:05 School itself. The old University of Wales Newport campus here in Killian is, as far
00:10 as I'm concerned, one of the iconic settings of any TV show of the last few decades. The
00:15 campus here played host to the bulk of the first three series, but sadly in the latest
00:19 it wasn't able to be used. Besides the big main building here behind me, which is a listed
00:23 building, the rest of the campus has been torn down for houses. Thankfully the old campus
00:27 got a proper send off in series three, but it's a shame we couldn't have seen Otis and
00:31 the rest of them cut about in Killian for one more series.
00:35 But if you're going to lose an iconic setting like Killian campus for Moordale Secondary,
00:40 where better than everyone's favourite, St Fagans National Museum of History. We've all
00:45 been here on days out and school trips, but to see it decked out as Cavendish College,
00:49 the hyper-progressive sixth form unit that many of the original cast moved to in the
00:53 last term, kind of feels right. Many people watching the show on Netflix might have had
00:59 that nagging feeling that I know that place, but I can't quite picture where it is. Well
01:03 now you know, it's St Fagans. It also features some of the modern buildings inside the museum,
01:07 but some other buildings for the college and fair play, it really works.
01:13 The show creates an amazing setting at every location, making the whole area around Moordale
01:17 feel disparate like a woodlands, while also being a bustling population centre for all
01:22 the antics the cast get up to on the show. A new location for series four was Ebbervale's
01:28 Festival Park shopping centre, which is now closed down. They've fitted the whole area
01:32 out with fictitious shops and cafes and banks, giving the whole place a real retro feel,
01:36 thanks to its beautiful stonework. For me, this shopping centre was one of my favourite
01:41 spots when I watched the series. I've been here plenty of times before, so it's really
01:45 nice to see this now desolate, once bustling shopping centre get its last hurrah.
01:51 And that bus stop right there is the actual bus stop that features a few times, but blink
01:55 and you'll miss it. So for the eagle eyes out there, that's one to spot.
02:00 When it comes to iconic locations, it doesn't get better than this. That redder house up
02:05 there is Otis and his mother Jean's house, and it's called the Chalet. It's phenomenal,
02:09 overlooking the River Wye near the hamlet of Simmons Yat.
02:12 While all the other locations I've seen today are easily accessible by main roads and have
02:16 parking and things like that, this is in the middle of nowhere, and I think the car took
02:20 a bit of a battering to find it. This seems like the "I found it so you don't have to"
02:25 location, but fair play, it's certainly worth a bit of effort. But don't try and get to
02:29 the property itself, since it's a private residence on a private road, accessed by a
02:32 single track country lane. I find out the hard way.
02:37 That house realistically is the heart of the show. Plenty of iconic and poignant scenes
02:41 take place, and it really is a sight to behold.
02:49 Most of where I've been to today is here in Wales, with the Chalet just a stone's throw
02:53 over the border in England. And what I've learned scouting around South Wales in the
02:57 Wye Valley is just how beautiful the surrounding areas are where we live. James B. Swatkins,
03:02 Local TV.
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