Culture archive

Crowds gather to watch the filming of Harry Potter in Pembrokeshire
May
21

Putting Wales on the small screen

Tim Hartley says we should be making more indigenous television drama and comedy to boost our cultural identity

Rhodri Talfan Davies is Director of BBC Cymru Wales
May
05

Wales has the most porous culture in Europe

Rhodri Talfan Davies invites a national conversation on how Radio Cymru can find its place in a ‘messy’ world

Census-Maps2001---11
May
03

Economics rather than rights critical for language survival

Harold Carter and John Aitchison find there are now more Welsh speakers in Cardiff than Ceredigion

Leighton1
May
02

Mae tynged yr iaith yn nwylo Leighton Andrews

Robin Farrar sy’n esbonio pwysigrwydd cael penderfyniad ar unwaith ynghylch dyletswyddau cyrff cyhoeddus a rhai cwmnïau i gynnig gwasanaethau yn Gymraeg

Welsh Cooperative Bakery
Apr
18

Welsh Labour genetically statist

Dan Boucher asks what do you if you are a Conservative and believe in the co-operative ideal

Toyo Ito's pavilion in Burg square, Bruges
Apr
14

Upmarket bike shelter in Bruges

Richard Porch meditates on the unfortunate experience of a piece of public art that lost its identity

Public1
Apr
05
P.G. Wodehouse's most successful characters were brought to life on the silver screen in the early 1990s
Apr
01

We should reclaim Jeeves as emanating from north Wales

Ford Medark suggests that P.G. Wodehouse littered his most famous character with Welsh connotations

Meic Stephens
Mar
10

Welsh poets writing in English

Jon Gower praises a poetry collection that takes us through the last century of upheaval in Wales

Ken Loach Spirit of 45
Mar
09

Why the Left needs to start again

Oliver Huitson interviews Ken Loach about his new film Spirit of ’45