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… Read More »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… Read More »Carwyn Jones, Busy Doing Nothing
There are many good reasons to learn Welsh – but the music of Datblygu is the best one. Because when the ancient Celts were sat… Read More »David R Edwards: The No Holds Bard
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… Read More »The Fresh Prince of BBC Wales
The National Eisteddfod; it’s that thing you see on BBC Wales Today once a year. It lasts around 40 seconds – you see footage of… Read More »Eisteddfod: The Filth and the Fury
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… Read More »Cian Ciarán: Protest, Riot, Make Art
It’s incredible – 80 percent of British people support the monarchy!!! It seems almost unbelievable; especially if you live in Wales. It doesn’t seem to… Read More »Royal Supporters? Aye, Poll The Other One
https://youtu.be/SW9jDMT-cSE The best thing about work, is going home – especially if that involves hurtling down a mountain on a homemade toboggan thingy. This is… Read More »Car Gwyllt: The Story of the North Wales Coasters
What you’re seeing here is the brief moment in human history when Bangor band Kärnarvøn Kästle was, quite possibly, the greatest thing in the world.… Read More »The Legend of Kärnarvøn Kästle
This is Dyffryn Nantlle band Y Reu with one of those tunes which plants itself in your head and refuses to leave. You can download… Read More »Y Reu – Symud Ymlaen
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/100367085″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] With our industries switched off, unemployment high and the standard of daytime telly low, there’s nothing much… Read More »The Lost Welsh Tradition of Ten Man Tryout
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… Read More »Ioan Talfryn: The Dragon Needs Two Tongues
If you’ve ever been wandering around Wrexham and wondered why a bloke has planted himself inside a bin. Or why somebody’s having a kip in… Read More »The Bizarre World of Welsh Bin Dipping Artist
This is a great song by a Pembrokeshire band called Y Ffug. The title, ‘Cariad Dosbarth Canol Cymru’ translates as ‘Love Middle-Class Wales’ and the… Read More »The Band Don’t Give Y Ffug
This is Neath punk band The Tunnelrunners with a song from 1980 called Plastic Land. They were around for about four years but only ever… Read More »The Tunnelrunners – Plastic Land
It’s 1876 and some art critic from The Spectator magazine has been sent from their London office to cover an exhibition in a scary and… Read More »Art Ponce Slags Off Wrexham Hunchback
These days we understand how it works. We realise that we’re all just individual nodes of productivity. That we’re paid for what we’re worth –… Read More »Scotch Cattle: The Welsh Mob Who Took No Bull
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,… Read More »Is David Davies the Straightest Man in Wales?
It’s best known as that jingly jangly song by The Byrds and has become a folk rock standard, recorded hundreds of times by everyone from… Read More »Idris Davies: The Bells of Rhymney
It’s party time in Cardiff town!!! The gates to the Premiership have finally swung open and happy fans are skipping through into their shiny new… Read More »Cardiff City: Everything Must Go
There are some bits of Welsh history that are best left alone – that shouldn’t be scratched. Because knowing what happened to your parents’ grandparents… Read More »The Mold Riots: The Summer of ‘69