It would be unfair to say that Owen Smith is ideologically opposed to Wales. That’s because, as a career politician, his views on the world are so incoherent and contradictory …
Gwenno Saunders: This is Cymru Calling
The Welsh media landscape can be a grey and gloomy place. A place of suffocating blandness. Of sports banter and traffic updates and Jason Mohammads – as far as the …
Rhys Mwyn: Go Ahead, Punk
View PostMeredydd Evans: The Man Don’t Give a Folk
This is Welsh folk historian and singer Meredydd Evans talking about language and culture. He talks about how identity is something that needs to be fought for; something he speaks …
Carwyn Jones, Busy Doing Nothing
The smile of Carwyn Jones is a remarkable thing. It’s the kind of smile which can lower room temperatures and put cattle in distant fields on edge. It’s a thin, …
David R Edwards: The No Holds Bard
There are many good reasons to learn Welsh – but the music of Datblygu is the best one. Because when the ancient Celts were sat around on stones and inventing …
The Fresh Prince of BBC Wales
He controls much of what Welsh people see and hear. He’s the man responsible for feeding us a diet of docs about Jamie Owen’s love for sailing and topical radio …
Cian Ciarán: Protest, Riot, Make Art
Background The UK is a mad place – and getting madder by the day. Government vans driving around, telling immigrants to ‘Go home’. The media’s psychotic attempts to drum up …
Ioan Talfryn: The Dragon Needs Two Tongues
Background If you’ve been taught at an English medium school in Wales then you’re the product of a deranged experiment. State schools were introduced into Wales as part of an …
Uncle Nev’s Swansea Fun Factory
That Nev Wilshire, eh. What a cracking bloke. Total legend. Because if you’re going to do a soul-sapping, low-paid job for an odious boss – it’s important to have a …
The Famous Welsh Crooner You’ve Never Heard Of
This is Cwmbran born singer Mal Ryder performing on a cherry picker for Italian telly – not enough heavy lifting machinery in music these days. He was born in the …
Is David Davies the Straightest Man in Wales?
It’s a question often being asked of the Monmouth MP – a burden he has to carry on his rugged shoulders. Because wherever he goes, he leaves behind a trail …
The Unspeakable Horror of Radio Wales
This photograph captures a remarkable moment in Welsh broadcasting history. Here we see BBC Radio Wales presenter, Roy Noble OBE, as he watches his colleague, Owen Money MBE, performing at …