In 1990, Elaine Morgan ended her forty-year career as a script writer for television and radio with a piece for Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. She was seventy, and, as always, the sharpest observer of what was really going on. Considering her diminishing opportunities, she concluded:   It was no longer an asset to have been […]
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John Ormond’s Organic Mosaic: Poetry, Documentary, Nation

Liz Jones on a book that seeks to profile this mid twentieth century poet's lesser known career as a documentary filmmaker

PUBLISHED ON: 01/04/20

CATEGORY: Reviews

Dannie Abse once said of his fellow poet John Ormond, ‘However good his films are, it is primarily as a poet that he needs to be profiled.’ This book …

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Y Gwyll/Hinterland, Story 3 (Episode 5 – 6), Series 3

Dewi Huw Owen

PUBLISHED ON: 13/05/17

CATEGORY: Reviews

Writer: Jeff Murphy; Welsh adaptation: Caryl Lewis. Y Gwyll/Hinterland was co-created by Ed Thomas and Ed Talfan for Fiction Factory, and is broadcast …

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Byw Celwydd, the Bay’s answer to Borgen

Dewi Huw Owen

PUBLISHED ON: 01/02/17

CATEGORY: Reviews

This series is available now on iPlayer with English subtitles. Four episodes have been broadcast on S4C to date on Sundays at 9pm. This series ends o …

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Reith Lectures & Hinterland

Gwen Davies

PUBLISHED ON: 06/11/13

CATEGORY: Reviews

Y Gwyll/Hinterland episode 3 last night followed by catch up final Grayson Perry Leith lecture: ‘art is spirituality in drag’. Apparently the Telegrap …

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