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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With the Rev Samuel Billy Kyles at his church in Memphis 2000 (I wrote this back in August 2013. Rev Samuel Billy Kyles passed away April 2016) Back in 2000 I went to the Deep South of The United States. I was there to film a documentary about the way the slaves of the Southern …
Holy Week took me a bit by surprise this year. It was only when someone mentioned it over Sunday lunch last week that we realised it was Palm Sunday. That’s the trouble with Easter. It’s not like Christmas when you have a fixed date every year. Easter really is a moveable feast. The formula gets …
I think we all agree that Wales is the best place in the world to live. So if the recent news that Mumbles is the best place to live in Wales is true, then Mumbles is actually the best place to live in the world! Early morning Mumbles I suppose we all knew that Swansea …
