Actor Michael Sheen is set to star in a new BBC series 'Buried', which will see him explore claims of chemical contamination near where he grew up in South Wales.

The Newport-born Welshman, 56, will front the two-part factual series which will build on the award-winning BBC Radio 4 podcast, Buried: The Last Witness.

It will investigate the findings of Douglas Gowan, who discovered dangerously high levels of a toxic chemical escaping a landfill near farmland in South Wales.

It has been reported that Gowan discovered........

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