
Hay-on-Wye has its own passport office, cabinet ministers, flag, national anthem and even its own gunboat patrolling the River Wye.
What is he up to, and what does he hope to achieve? More importantly, what do the residents of Hay-on-Wye make of King Richard Coeur de Livre - to give him his full title - and his plans for their town?
Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, 31 March, 1977.
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