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Dec 20, 2020

A City Burning | Angela Graham

“If you think too much about it – about how puny you are in a power-filled universe – you’d never do anything.” It is relatively easy, in...

Gemma Pearson

Nov 9, 2020

Miriam, Daniel and Me | Euron Griffith

“You know our problem in Wales? We never conquered anyone. […] We sat here for centuries just twiddling our thumbs while the rest of the w...

Gemma Pearson

Sep 5, 2020

Hana | Alena Mornštajnová

“Had I been sent to the right I would have died instantly and wouldn’t have had to die minute after minute, hour after hour, and day after

Gemma Pearson

Aug 12, 2020

Salt | Catrin Kean

“A life is so long and yet so short, […] so much happens, and so little.”

Hello Friend We Missed You | Richard Owain Roberts

Gemma Pearson

Jun 11, 2020

Hello Friend We Missed You | Richard Owain Roberts

“Grief is a journey, self-pity a destination bleep-bleep, bloop-bloop, blah-blah. It’s true though.” Richard Owain Roberts is notoriously...

Gemma Pearson

Apr 11, 2020

Thinking Again | Jan Morris

“Welshness is Saints and Footballers, Poets and Wizards and Goats and Miners and Singers and Fairies and magical confusions – all are alw...

What Remains at the End | Alexandra Ford

Gemma Pearson

Nov 28, 2019

What Remains at the End | Alexandra Ford

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Yugoslavia’s ethnic German population – the Danube Swabians – suffered harsh persecution under ...

Gemma Pearson

Oct 22, 2019

The Vagabond King | Jodie Bond

“When immortality can be bought, injustice and corruption thrive.” What would become of our world if corrupt rulers had the power to live...

Gemma Pearson

Oct 4, 2019

The Cardiff Tapes | Theatre

“It’s modern, innit. Goes with the times,” One day in 1972, a strange object appeared in Cardiff city centre. Dark, steely, and imposing,...

Gemma Pearson

Sep 26, 2019

The Jeweller | Caryl Lewis

The Jeweller is a beguiling, quirky story examining the haunting afterlife of the objects we leave behind.

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