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Pennod 94 – Profedigaethau Enoc Huws: Daniel Owen (rhan 2)

We have fun in this episode while discussing Daniel Owen’s satirical masterpiece, The Tribulations of Enoc Huws.   We begin with the novel’s opening sentence – possibily the most famous sentence in the entire history of Welsh fiction – and considering the social critique for which it is a vehicle. This is the novelist from […]

Triptych – Echoes

Cellist Anna Leary performs Andrea Casarrubios’s “Armadura” Directed, Produced & Edited by Chris ReynoldsCinematography by Ben MitchellSound Recording & Mixing by Evan GrahamStarring Cat Burns Triptych is a series of three live session films featuring a harpist, two pianists, and a cellist performing three classical works. Together, the films explore the emotional journey of musical […]

Triptych – Rehearsal

Harpist Yasmin Richards performs Tournier’s “Calme et Expressif”. Directed, Produced & Edited by Chris ReynoldsCinematography by Ben MitchellSound by Robin GerrardSound Editing by Nick Davies Triptych is a series of three live session films featuring a harpist, two pianists, and a cellist performing three classical works. Together, the films explore the emotional journey of musical […]

Pennod 93 – ‘Cymreigrwydd ei Gymeriadau’: Daniel Owen

Having considered some Welsh Nonconformists’ opposition to the novel in a few recent episodes, we have an opportunity in this episode to start discussing Daniel Owen, the most succesful Welsh-language novelist of the nineteenth century. We note that his work was grounded in Flintshire’s industrial society and that Calvinistic Methodism was another big influence upon […]

The Beginnings of Patagonia’s Welsh Literature

As we’ve given attention to North America’s Welsh-language literature in a couple of earlier episodes, here’s an opportunity to widen the discussion and consider the way in which the Welsh ‘diaspora’ widened as Y Wladfa – or Y Wladychfa – in Patagonia was created. But we begin by emphasizing the connection between Welsh experiences in […]

Ein Milltir Sgwâr – Llais y Lle

How does language shape our connection to landscape? We are pleased to share a second video celebrating another Llais y Lle project, Joseph Conran’s Ein Milltir Sgwâr. Inspired by Welsh idioms and the poetry of T H Parry-Williams, the project explores the relationship between Cymraeg, creativity and the landscape of Wales through words, materials and […]

Sgrech Flêr – Llais y Lle

How can creativity help people connect with Cymraeg in new ways? We’re excited to share a new film celebrating Sgrech Flêr, a Llais y Lle project by Trishna Singh and TeiFi. Over the past year, the team has hosted bilingual writing workshops, music events and creative collaboration opportunities across Cardiff, Newport, Bridgend and Caerphilly. Through […]

Rhwyd: Cyflwyniad Rhian Hopkins am Gapel Rhondda

This presentation was given during the ‘Rhwyd: Community-owned chapels’ event (26/06/2026). Rhwyd is a network that supports community initiatives to secure the place of the Welsh language as they carry out community work and economic regeneration. Rhwyd is a joint project between IAITH: the Welsh centre for language planning and Cymunedoli Cyf. It is funded […]

Rhwyd: Cyflwyniad Eleanor Mathias a Beck Edwards am ‘Capeli Cymru’

This presentation was given during the ‘Rhwyd: Community-owned chapels’ event (26/06/2026). Rhwyd is a network that supports community initiatives to secure the place of the Welsh language as they carry out community work and economic regeneration. Rhwyd is a joint project between IAITH: the Welsh centre for language planning and Cymunedoli Cyf. It is funded […]

Pennod 90 – Aelwyd F’Ewythr Robert

Here we continue to discuss Gwilym Hiraethog in this episode, looking in detail at a milestone book which he published in 1853, Aelwyd Fy Ewythr Robert neu Hanes Caban F’Ewythr Tomos (‘Uncle Robert’s Hearth or the Story of Uncle Tom’s Cabin’). Some eight Welsh translations of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential antislavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, […]

The Beginning – Organised Kaos Vlog

As part of the Llais y Lle fund for community organisations, each organisation has vlogged their journey throughout this process. Check out the beginning of Organised Kaos’ journey.    

Lovely as a Tree

This is a film about Mary, who was 104 years old at the time of making the film. I met this extraordinary woman when I worked on the Age Cymru cARTrefu project. I was so taken by Mary’s vibrancy and when she spontaneously started reciting a poem by Tennyson, I wanted to capture Mary’s unique […]

Nelken Line Llan Ffestiniog

Nelken Line is a piece of set choreography by the German choreographer Pina Bausch, who taught me the original movements in the 1980s, when I was a student in Germany. When Pina died there was a worldwide movement by the company to create site-specific Nelken Lines with different groups around the world. Our film has […]

Pennod 89 – Gwilym Hiraethog

If one had to choose only one writer while discussing all of the Welsh-language literature from the nineteenth century, Jerry Hunter says he’d choose Gwilym Hiraethog (1802-1883). William Rees was born into a family of comparatively poor farmers in the partish of Llansannan, Denbighshire. He had very little formal education, yet this amazing man would […]

Glasbren

Bringing together new film Glasbren with excerpts from Emyr Ankst’s Saunders Lewis vs Andy Warhol, this exploration of youth-led creativity in Wales traces a lineage from the 1990s Welsh-language indie movement to a new wave of grassroots creativity emerging today. Grounded in voices from the contemporary Sîn Roc Gymraeg, we’ll be celebrating raw, self-made cultures […]

Ify Iwobi & Linda Hamweemba – Gŵyl Tawe Sessions 2026

Ify Iwobi and Linda Hamweemba live at the All Saints’ Church, Mumbles. The special version of ‘Ngonyama’ features lyrics in Welsh, English, and Zulu/Xhosa. Ify and Linda will be leading the Gŵyl Tawe Community Choir on the 6th of June at 12:45 on the Creative Wales stage. Director and Editing – Daniela MoralesSound – Graham […]

Pennod 88 – ‘Chwaeth bresennol y Bobl’: Ceiriog

‘The Present Taste of the People’: Ceiriog In this episode we discuss John Ceiriog Hughes (1832-1887). Ceiriog was possibly the most popular Welsh poet of the second half of the nineteenth century.   While examining the way in which he strove to create and present ‘acceptable’ images of Wales and the Welsh, we note that […]

Effi o Blaenau Q&A with star Leisa Gwenllian, director Marc Evans

Scroll down for the English version of the Q&A In the latest Made in Wales podcast for Film Hub Wales Welsh Director Marc Evans and actor Leisa Gwenllian discuss new release Effi o Blaenau with author and broadcaster Lowri Haf Cooke. Set in the industrial slate mountains of Blaenau Ffestiniog, don’t miss this searing modern […]

Gorwel Owen – Glas

A track from the forthcoming album ‘Yn iach eto teimlo tant’ based on zither recordings on Bandcamp and streaming services via Pyst (Recordiau OFN, June 19, 2026). The words ‘Yn iach eto teimlo tant’ – which I’ve interpreted loosely as ‘healthy to feel a string again’ – are from a C15-C16 elegy to Gruffudd Llwyd […]

Llais y Lle – Ffiniau

boundaries (n) A line that separates two or more areas or areas, also figuratively; border, limit, edge (n) A creative intervention exploring the impact of shifting boundaries in the Aman/Tawe valleys, using circus and music to examine identity, language and post-industrial change.

Pennod 87 – ‘Pur fel y Dur’: Y Llyfrau Gleision a Llên Benywod

‘As Pure as Steel’: The Blue Books and Women’s Literature We continue to discuss the effect of the ‘Blue Books’ on Welsh literature, concentrating this time on the Welsh woman’s literary voice This episode’s title pays tribute to Jane Aaron’s excellent study Pur fel y Dur[:] Y Gymraes yn Llên Menywod y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar […]

Panedeni – Atamanaa (single)

‘Atamanaa’ by North Wales cross-cultural ensemble Panedeni – out on Sionci Records.Supported by PYST Video Fund x S4C Music Video Fund.   Credyd fideo: Rob Corcoran, 73 Degree Films

Cerys Hafana – Sesiynau Gŵyl Tawe 2026

Gwyl Tawe 2026 Sessions with Cerys Hafana live from Dylan Thomas Birthplace, Swansea.   Directors – Tobias Lagos + Lewis SharpeVideography and editing – Tobias LagosSound – Graham Morse / Eleven Sound Hire

Pennod 85 – Rhannu ‘Trysorau Gwerthfawr’: Dechreuadau gwasg gyfnodol Gymraeg America

Sharing ‘Valuable Treasures’: The Beginnings of the Welsh-language American Periodical Press This is the second episode recorded in front of a live audience during the NAASWCH conference in Rio Grande, Ohio. We discuss the early history of the United States’ Welsh-language periodical press (and while noting the religious affiliations of some of these periodicals, Richard […]

‘The Future of Welsh Film..’ What does this mean to you?

To mark 130 years of cinema in Wales, Dion Hughes (Pontio Bangor), Dr Kate Woodward (Aberystwyth University), and Nia Edwards Behi (Screen and Sound Archive of the National Library of Wales) discuss what Welsh film means to them. From identity and history, to culture and language, to commercial and contemporary – they discuss the ‘rare and embracing’ feeling of […]