By using the most advanced testing in the world to sample the DNA of the modern population of Wales, we can trace the story of an ancient people far beyond the limits of written records.
S4C – starts March 2015 Episodes 2- 5 from November 2015
5 x 60 min documentaries
Presenters: Jason Mohammad, Beti George, Dr Anwen Jones
Shortlisted for Arachne Press SOLSTICE SHORTS Short Story Competition, November 2014
Listen Online I devised and presented this documentary on First World War Memorials in Wales
Wales Remembers / Cymru’n Cofio
BBC Radio Wales, Sun 9 Nov 2014 10:30
With Contributions from:
Adjudicator: Grahame Davies: “A mature and wise piece of work that gives us what we want from our writers: in the face of failure and sense of loss, a sense of meaning, understanding and hope.”
I contribute regularly to several radio shows: BBC RADIO 2 Pause for Thought since 2010, BBC RADIO WALES Weekend Word and Wednesday Word since 2009, All Things Considered and BBC RADIO CYMRU Rhaglen Dei Tomos
Art work: Iwan Bala
Angela Graham reports on some new approaches that are connecting broadcasting with academia.
Initiator and Organiser: 5th June 2014
Science on TV in Wales a joint RTS / Cardiff School of Journalism / Science Made Simple event. See my blog post on the JOMEC website.
Television is the British public’s main source of knowledge about science. On network television, science is an established and popular part of the viewing menu, yet in Wales, apart from ecology and nature programmes, science is seldom commissioned for the small screen.
S4C ended a long dearth this year with science series, Dibendraw, so will English-language television follow suit? Does the scarcity of TV science in Wales affect public attitudes to the funding of research and to science education? Does it confirm that the Welsh are not a nation of scientists?
The panel debated the role of science on Welsh television and the role of television in Welsh science.
The fifty people who attended were left in no doubt of the passionate commitment in all three areas of expertise: scientists, programme makers and tv commissioners – but also of the clearly expressed appreciation of, and need for, more opportunities for science and the media to understand each other better. Continue reading Science on Television in Wales
What Wales Can Do for a Poet – Review of Matthew Jarvis’s Ruth Bidgood. In the The Welsh Agenda Magazine
Martyrdom on Television – St John Roberts and the Small Screen
Based on the 60′ documentary Merthyr Meirionnydd, presented by Guto Harri, produced by me for S4C.
Article for Welsh Journal of Religious History (Bangor University, Centre for the Advanced Study of Religion in Wales).