Welsh Language

Eisteddfod revives ‘flawless’ Ealing-style comedy Rhosyn a Rhith

Iola Gregory and Dafydd Hywel stand looking into the camera, the former holding a baby

Produced by Red Rooster Films for S4C, the film is set in South Wales in the aftermath of the miners’ strike in the mid-80s. Adapted by Urien Wiliam from Ruth Carter’s original script, Coming Up Roses, it was the first Welsh language film to receive a UK theatrical release when it was screened (with English subtitles) in 1987.

The makers of The Noise talk S4C's painful gestation

A collage of moments from the short film Y Swn. An actor in front of protests and thatcher.

Welsh language channel S4C turned 40 in November but, as a new film commissioned to celebrate its birthday reminds us, it almost didn’t draw its first breath.

Y Sŵn (The Noise) tells the story of how the Conservative Government reneged on its 1979 manifesto pledge to introduce a Welsh-only channel and then – no spoiler alert needed – caved in.