One of the things I love about this town is that it has a healthy disregard for how special it really it. I’m sure that can be terribly frustrating if you are trying to sell Swansea to the world but it’s part of our culture and something that makes living here special. But lately there …
‘In my mind, I’m seventeen years old, I am no more than a child, and I’m never growing old’ So said the words of a song that I wrote some 20 years ago. The day I wrote the song had been a special day. I’d spent the afternoon interviewing a song writer named …
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 »
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 …
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 …
