Category Archives: Portfolio

CEWN TV Documentary Project

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Creative Partner

1176098The CEWN TV Documentary Project is a study of the methodologies of academic and media research with Academic Partner, Jayne Hall (Senior Lecturer, Design Theory, University of South Wales).  This was part of an AHRC – A4B/Welsh Government project linking creative academics and businesses in Wales.  Funded by Creative Crucible.

IMG_0878[1]This project aims to explore the methodologies of academic and mediaresearch in order to assess whether there are principles in each which could positively affect the other’s practice. The aim is to lead to improved Research Impact and Public Engagement on the one hand and, on the other, to better application of academic research in the broadcast media. Both methodologies will be brought to bear collaboratively on an under-explored episode in Wales’s recent history – the ‘Brown Babies’ story – to produce, ultimately, a proposal for a TV documentary. Continue reading CEWN TV Documentary Project →

The Story of Wales

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Development Producer

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

new-maks-float-3872Best Presenter: Huw Edwards

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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.”

new-maks-float-3872Gwyn Alf Williams Award

“remarkable programmes”

Phil George and John Roberts receiving the award from Carwyn Jones (Photo: BAFTA Cymru / Huw John)
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

Celtic Media Festival Awards Nomination 2013

Huw Edwards
Huw Edwards

25/25 Vision: Welsh horizons across 50 years

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Essayist                              25 / 25 Vision: Welsh Horizons Across Fifty Years, From Sept 2012.
                                           http://www.clickonwales.org/2012/09/welsh-visions-of-the-future-past/
 
25 Welsh writers: essays providing a profound and revealing commentary on a half century of the nation’s history.
A book to celebrate the 25th birthday of the Institute of Welsh Affairs.
Writers include Angela Graham, Bethan Gwanas, Tessa Hadley, Patrick McGuinness.
Photographic portraits of the 25 authors by the photographer John Briggs in an exhibition travelling across Wales from autumn 2012 to autumn 2013.
DYLAN THOMAS CENTRE, SWANSEA till 30th August 2013.
For more information,   www.dylanthomas.com and www.iwa.org.uk
25/25 Vision is in association with Literature Wales and is sponsored by the H’mm Foundation.  
25/25 Exhibition
25/25 Vision at Aberystwyth Arts Centre April ’13 
Photo John Briggs

Rhys Davies Short Story Finalist

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Life Task is a short story anthologised in Getting Up (Leaf Books).  It was a finalist in the Academi / Rhys Davies Short-story Competition.

“Life-Task by Angela Graham is one of those quiet, nuanced narratives that refract light into the depths of human tragedy. The story – oblique, harrowing, beautiful – bears witness to the personal cost of war…Graham haunts the memories of her readers with the paradoxical climax of her tale. In her hands the short story is a brief epic of suspenseful waiting and reversal, told in the minor key.”

-Stevie Davies and Niall Griffiths – Judges.