Witches, the Enlightenment, Feminism in Wales, and the loss of a Carl Bevan.

This week on the BBC Radio Wales Arts Show

This week’s show, which aired last night and you can catch now on BBC Sounds here, contains some great conversations about important subjects, and, in the end, a tribute to one of Newport’s greatest sons.

To begin at the end (and I’ll try and find the space to write something more substantial in reaction to this news) — it was announced on social media on Friday that Carl Bevan had died very suddenly at the age of 51.

Before that, though (and I will write more about Carl this week), I spoke with Max Jones about her visceral new memoir Bog Witch.

I spoke with festival director Michael Pugh about Llangwm.

And I spoke with Emma Schofield, Norena Shopland, and Michelle Deininger about a new book of collected essays (that Emma edited), Woman’s Wales, looking at the lives and roles of women in Wales since devolution.

It’s a great show (if little space to breathe, as always). Hope you enjoy it.