I remember being in infants school and thinking the kids in the junior school looked so grown up. The same thing happened looking at the prefects when I moved to Dynevor Senior Comprehensive school and then again starting to work in the BBC where the room appeared to be full of grownups!!! My grandfather George …
This week I wanted to write this column about 2 of my friends. Now in the world I inhabit we probably throw around the term friend more freely than we should. As a radio presenter, every day I meet or chat to world famous people you would normally only hear on the radio. So, I …
Experience tells you that life will probably go on exactly the same as before but as you approach a new show you always ask yourself; will this production be life changing. Like the moment Catherine Zeta Jones came on to play the lead in 42nd Street after both the lead and understudy weren’t available and …
I sat on the stage of the Brangwyn Hall, dressed in the robes of a Professor, and I listened to someone else’s life flash before me. Professor Judith Hall was being eulogised by her sponsor. In short, she had help cut the rate of infant mortality in Sub Saharan Africa in half. Her work was …
There are certain events in your life that stick out in your memory, events that maybe change your world. For me one of those events took place in January 1976 at the Afan Lido. A couple of us from my church youth group had been persuaded to buy tickets for a gospel concert at the …
I’m told that a little some time ago that Bonnie Tyler was having a quiet drink with friends one evening in Mumbles. She was interrupted by someone she didn’t know. That someone walked up to her and asked her, ’Are you still singing a bit these days?’ I suppose Bonnie could have said that she …
After all the build-up it’s finally here, today, The Radio One Biggest Weekend comes to Swansea. For the next 2 days Swansea’s Singleton Park will be the star of the show on BBC TV and Radio. Some of the world’s biggest pop stars will be heading to this city by the bay. Some artists …
This week I’ve thinking a lot about 1978. The reason is that next week Dean Friedman, the legendary American singer songwriter, comes to Swansea to perform the whole of his classic album ‘Well, well said the rocking chair’. He is currently touring the world playing all the songs from that album because this year marks …
I’m nervous and the strange thing is, I think, I like it. Well, if not like it, I’m used to it and if truth be told I’m probably addicted to this feeling. That Chinese curse of ‘may you live in interesting times’ can indeed be a curse but ask yourself this question, would you rather …
I think it’s the way I was brought up. I always feel the need to apologise and this week has been no exception. Its April, we are in the middle of a mini heat wave and Swansea has gone sun crazy. OK by the time you read this we might have all turned our central …
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