At a recent meeting in London to discuss our new musical about Richard Burton From the left Guy Masterson, Michel Bogdanov , Mal Pope Sometimes it’s only looking back that you realise how important certain days or events or people have been in shaping your life. I always think of Peter ‘Bongo’ Williams, the …
I’ve just been looking online to see what was happening back in 1949, just 4 short years after the Second World War. Rationing was still very much on the cards although clothing would soon be coupon free. Here in Britain millions of people were trying to get their lives back to some sort of normality …
Forget Romeo and Juliet, here’s Stan and Meudwen! Read More »
For many years I presented an afternoon programme on BBC Radio Wales which was dedicated to the arts. We covered all sorts of subjects, Music, sculpture, literature, film making. Over the years with that show I had the pleasure of interviewing people as diverse as Seamus Heaney the Nobel winning poet who told me about …
I’d like to change the names of the people in this story but sadly if I did it wouldn’t work, you need to know the family connection to know I’m telling the truth. So what I’ll do is just say it was one of my sons but I won’t say which one. Anyway, my eldest …
Reg Dwight What’s in a name? Archibald Leach would always been good looking and charming but would he have been a film star if he hadn’t changed his name to Cary Grant. Marion Morrison really doesn’t sound quite as tough as John Wayne does he? Lynn Mittell once told me his bookings tripled as soon …
Happy Birthday Reg Dwight aka Elton Hercules John Read More »
Mal Pope – 18th March 2017 (A typical day in the Neath valley where the jolly folk of Banwen welcome visitors to the birthplace of St. Patrick!) Yesterday we celebrated the life of one of Wales’s most famous sons. In fact I’m pretty sure somewhere in the world right at this very moment people are …
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