One of the things I remember about watching TV on Christmas Day afternoon as a kid was the adverts for holidays. No sooner had we put the Slade and Wizard records away than we had images of sun drenched beaches in prime time. Now you might not have started making your travel plans for 2020 …
There’s a great programme on Radio 4 called ‘The Long View’ which compares decisions we make today with decisions made in the past. On the face of it today’s driverless cars and the start of the railways in 1830 seem to have nothing in common neither would Brexit and the conflict between Offa and Charlemagne …
We should get rid of The Palace Theatre because ??????? Read More »
I suspect 3 years ago none of us would have been able to tell the difference between a backstop and a prorogue. The Oxford English dictionary has exploded since the referendum; cakeism, remainer, leaver and the term Brexit itself are all now regularly used by broadcasters and journalists and every twitter warrior with a view. …
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 …
As I drove to meet up with Kevin Johns at Swansea Sound on Friday morning, something struck me. This was the first time I had been in the car for over a week. I had popped down to do an interview on Wednesday for Oystermouth Radio but apart from that I had not left my …
This week I took a trip down to Tenby to play a flying visit to Llanw 2019. Llanw is a week long church celebration organised by the Presbyterian Church of Wales. People had come to the conference from all around Wales and it was lovely to meet them but the people I had really wanted …
I think essentially, I’m a glass half full type of guy. Of course, I have my moments of complete and utter despair as much as the next musician, writer performer and Swansea City fan but on the whole I’m an optimist and live in hope that things will all work together for good. The past …
Madman Across the Water Review by David Collins Mal Pope has been entertaining the insomniacs and early risers of Wales for some time now. His early morning slot on BBC Radio Wales offers a gentle, pre-dawn mix of laid back tunes and off beat stories to an eclectic audience of Gasmen, Van Drivers and Amanda-the-teachers. …
Review – Mal Pope Wales Millennium Centre 29.03.19 Read More »
