The Story of Wales BBC / The Open University
6 x 60-minute documentaries on the history of Wales, presented by Huw Edwards.
BBC 1 Wales BBC 2 Network 2012 / 2013
Audience Appreciation Rating of 92: highest for any BBC programme on any BBC channel Jan ’11 to date, apart from Frozen Planet.
28% audience share
BAFTA Cymru Wales 2013
4 Nominations: Best Factual Series, Editing, Presenter, Original Music
Best Presenter: Huw Edwards
Huw Edwards, accepting the award for Best Presenter, said, “Opportunities to present a series like this come round for a presenter once in a lifetime. I was incredibly fortunate to be asked to do it. The biggest thanks of all is to Green Bay, a company with which I’ve worked for over ten years now, always setting – under Phil George and John Geraint – the highest possible standards. Diolch arbennig iawn i gwmni Green Bay am eu gwaith trwyadl o’r safon uchaf posib.”
Gwyn Alf Williams Award
“remarkable programmes”
Phil George and John Roberts receiving the award from Carwyn Jones (Photo: BAFTA Cymru / Huw John)
First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones, presenting the award, said the series was “an outstanding achievement, delivering Welsh history to a wide audience in an attractive, entertaining and accessible way.” He quoted the specialist BAFTA jury as affirming that, “this series will, in its own right, become a lasting work of reference for future historians.”
Royal Television Society Programme Awards Nomination 2013
Angela Graham, Development Producer on the BBC Cymru Wales series, The Story of Wales, considers the role of narrative in the television history of a nation and the relationship between broadcasting and academia.
