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With a future and a past to create, Doctor Who thrives in South Wales
Derek Ritchie
Doctor Who producer Derek Ritchie explains the challenges and successes of shooting the new series.
Performing at the Best Classical Music Festival in the World
Osian Rowlands
Chorus Manager for BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales
BBC PROMS - Performing at the Best Classical Music Festival in the World, by Osian Rowlands - Chorus Manager for BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales
Ryan Davies, Welsh entertainer
Phil Carradice
There are many people who can lay claim to the title of Wales' best loved entertainer but, surely, no-one has more right to that title than the mercurial Ryan Davies. Ryan Davies Between 1971 and 1973, with his fame and success already assured in his native Wales, Davies and his comed...
Buffalo Bill in Wales
Phil Carradice
Imagine the scene. It's 1903 and the streets of Ebbw Vale or Aberdare or Bangor are filled, not with steel workers, coal miners or farmers wives out to do their weekly shopping, but with whooping cowboys and shrieking Indians, gaily but terrifyingly daubed in their war paint. There is a smell...
Harry Houdini in south Wales
Martha Owen
When legendary magician and escape artiste Harry Houdini visited Newport in 1905, he was already a star on both sides of the Atlantic.
Tommy Cooper, a great Welsh comedian
Phil Carradice
It's often said that Welsh humour doesn't travel. People sometimes comment that while the Welsh might find something - a joke, a story or a sketch - hilariously funny, as a general rule nobody else does. Tommy Cooper was born in Caerphilly Quite apart from the fact that statement jus...
Ivor Novello, the Welsh nightingale
Phil Carradice
Most people have, at some stage in their lives, listened to the song Keep The Home Fires Burning. It was one of the most popular tunes in the trenches during World War One and still has the ability to bring a pang to the throat or a tear to the eye. Ivor Novello Yet how many people re...
