Y Byd ar Bedwar
Y Byd ar Bedwar (Welsh for The World on Four) is a Welsh-language current affairs television programme, which has broadcast on S4C since the channel was launched in November 1982. Produced by ITV Cymru Wales, the programme has a reputation for hard-hitting, investigative journalism of the highest standard.
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Genre | Current affairs |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original languages | Welsh (with English subtitles) |
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Editor | Geraint Evans |
Camera setup | Single-camera |
Running time | 24 minutes |
Production company | ITV Cymru Wales |
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Original network | S4C |
Picture format | 16:9 576i |
Original release | November 1982 – present |
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Website | |
Y Byd ar Bedwar on BBC iPlayer |
The programme's reporters have brought stories from the four corners of the world to Welsh screens. In the 1980s, long-serving reporter Tweli Griffiths secured the first interview with Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddaffi.[1] Reports also covered the fall of the Berlin wall, the Chernobyl disaster and the Persian Gulf war. The programme is also famed for securing high-profile exclusive interviews in Wales, such as with Sion Aubrey Roberts,[2] the only person to be jailed over the Meibion Glyndwr arson campaign and Ryan James,[3] a vet from Ammanford who had been wrongly jailed after being accused of murdering his wife.
More recently, a series of undercover investigations into west Wales puppy farms have led to several pressure groups to call for a change in legislation by the Welsh Government to protect animals.[4][5] Senior producer Eifion Glyn travelled undercover to Zimbabwe in 2008 [6] to show the horrors of life there under Robert Mugabe's rule and also journeyed to Afghanistan for the second time in 2013 to produce a series of programmes documenting the lives of Welsh troops fighting the Taliban.[7][8]
At home, a raw portrayal of the lives of two heroin addicts in Cardiff won the Best Current Affairs Award at the 2009 Celtic Media Festival.[9] In 2013, another expose of the heroin scene, this time on the island of Anglesey, won the BAFTA Cymru award for current affairs.[10] The team also secured a moving exclusive interview with the grandparents of April Jones [11] after the young girl's disappearance in 2012. Success at the BAFTA Cymru awards followed in 2014 with a moving response to Typhoon Haiyan And in 2015 with an emotional portrayal of the lack of provision for young people battling mental health issues in Wales.
References
- "S4C - hwb". s4c.co.uk. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
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- "S4C - hwb". s4c.co.uk. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- "Investigations". puppylovecampaigns.org. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- hexer. "Crueltyexposed - Meynell and Staffordshire hunt in National Trust ban". crueltyexposed.co.uk. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- "S4C Press release". s4c.co.uk. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- "S4C - hwb". s4c.co.uk. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- "S4C - hwb". s4c.co.uk. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- "S4C - hwb". s4c.co.uk. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- "British Academy Cymru Awards Winners in 2013". bafta.org. 28 September 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- "S4C - hwb". s4c.co.uk. Retrieved 25 September 2015.