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One person who had already seen the first episode of the four-part series told him "it's so good not to see the Gherkin again", Barry added.

He told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that "instead of the Gherkin we have the Principality Stadium".

The leading architect's previous work has included the Gherkin office block and the Great Court of the British Museum in London, and the Reichstag dome in Berlin.

The gherkins “symbolized for me the last thing you have in your cupboards when you run out of everything. It starts from the last gherkin jar, and from there it all goes south.”

Critic Kenneth Tynan reported, “And when the curtain fell, the house stood up to cheer a man who had never before appeared in a legitimate play, a mighty and blessed clown whose grateful bewilderment was reflected in the tears that speckled his cheeks, a burlesque comic of crumpled mien and baggy eyes, with a nose stuck like a gherkin into a face as ageless at the Commedia dell’arte.”