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Something of an End of Year round-up

The latest...

A novel about the comedy of spiralling

Defending Christmas Against the Hordes

Christmas in the heat (with gangsters and stuff)

It's time to start getting ruthless for Christmas

In Conversation with Gwyneth Lewis

Talking History of Welsh Lit in Swansea, by god!

My horror movies (adapted from books) recommendations

Stories #12: "I Wish We'd All Gone Down on the Titanic"

Tokyo in a box, women in photography, the art of crashing a plane.

The delicate art of humbly receiving glowing reviews

Story #11: The Agenda For This Meeting...

Family drama, pubs, and swashbuckling...

Lo and behold... a new magazine

The return of Representing Wales

WNO strikes paused

In Conversation with David Griffiths

Welsh Music Prize Shortlist

Sign up for all the fun of Grinning Soul Records

Stories #10: "Ghostwritten"

WNO Chorus votes for strike action

Announcing a new venture

The legendary Rockfield Studios

Stories #9: In This Windowed Land There Is No Release

Green Man: a festival as it was meant to be?

Stories #8: Écorché

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

Discovering Wild Wales

The end of the Hollywood Ending

Stories #7: "Wrinkles"

BRG at 100

A remembering of Mavis Nicholson

An evening in Aberystwyth

Lace, textiles, jazz, and "acoustic fog".

The saga of Planet continues

Abandon All Hope: Aberystwyth Waterstones Event

Sandcastle Dynasty

Adele Thomas announced as co-CEO at WNO

On the difficulty of hating music

This week on the Radio Wales Arts Show

Recs of the Week: the multiverse, Canadian trilogies, and Japanese pop.

The swagger of Tom Emlyn

Welsh Government pledges an extra 3.7m to protect and preserve Welsh art

Stories 5: "Dreadnought"

On Claudia Williams (1933-2024)

Reflections on TV execs not really knowing anything about people

What next for Literary Festivals?

Poetry of the now; magic and fantasy; iconic Welsh writing; and a new festival.

Stories 4: "Ancient Stones"

The WBOTY of WBOTY

The Poetry of Deryn Rees-Jones

Final 5 Welsh albums, I promise

Bernice Rubens awarded a blue plaque

Stories 3: "The Oracle at Delphi"

Stories 2: "Press One"

What's up with the Big Blue Monster?

Some words for Independent Bookshop Week

A Tribute to Paul McCartney

Abandon All Hope: The Waterstones Hayes Lecture

Go on then, have 5 more Welsh albums to get your teeth into

Stories 1: "The Cat Lady"

Adoption drama, classic opera, musical journeys, and big blue puppets.

5 more Welsh albums to get your teeth into

Arts Funding in Wales cut by 30% since 2017

Abi Morgan in Conversation

The glorious continuing of Fran Wen

5 Welsh Albums to get your teeth into

Abandon All Hope live event in Monmouth this week

Huw Stephens picks 100 Welsh Records

Wales, war, and the mark of Frank Richards

Book Festivals versus Social Justice

The importance of pubs to Welsh literature

Radio Wales Arts Show Live from the Hay Festival

A new prize for climate change fiction.

Gore Vidal as reflective tangent

Some words on Colonel Blimp

Catrin Kean short story on Radio 4

The Tiffany Murray Rockfield Playlist

Hay Festival Recommendations Part One

Publication Day: Abandon All Hope

The Timeless Partnership of Roger Corman and Edgar Allen Poe

Nye - the impossible made possible

Book signing at North Books, Hay-on-Wye

Claim your BRG discount on Abandon All Hope

Fighting for WNO, brutalist architecture, epic love stories, and Canaletto.

Seaglass by Kathryn Tann

Is Baby Reindeer Great or Almost Great?

New book special offer

Welsh win for Indy Bookshop of the Year

Wales Book of the Year 2024 shortlists announced

Is the best writing about Wales done from afar?

Some words on Steve Albini R.I.P.

The Unstoppable Force of Rufus Mufasa

Relatability and the Unremarkable Story of One Day

What is a "Peoples' History"?

What next for BRG?

Ghanian Hip Hop for a dowdy Monday morning

Debut book, debut play, debut sitcom, debut piano album.

James Lloyd on Paul Auster (1947-2024)

A jewel from Jane Fraser on Radio 4

Hay Festival's Writers at Work is now for working writers?

Is there a chance we can reclaim the Internet?

Sunday afternoon is the perfect radio day.

The Greatness of Karl Wallinger

Goldie Lookin' Chain Go Country

More Lleuwen, please!

What is a gallery for?

First outing for Abandon All Hope

Who is Tony Mammoth?

What would you like from BRG?

The Dramatic Pause of Georgia Carys Williams

Talking to Carys Davies, glassware, selfies, and the struggles of the National Museum Wales

The Vanities are just passing thru

This is what cutbacks look like: less art

More shots fired at the Books Council of Wales

Board up the windows! The future of Wales's national museum?

Long overdue upgrade for art and culture in Welsh Government

Ambassador of Nowhere by Richard Gwyn

Thelma and Louise and Georgia Ruth

A Surprise Return for Alun Lewis

Are we watching the death of English language theatre in Wales?

Why national writing programmes are important.

Patricia Highsmith: not a "crime" writer; more a "punishment" writer.

A Valleys memoir, theatre about holiday homes, and mental health drama.

The Dryrobe deconstruction you never knew you needed

Hope yet in the form of Abandon All Hope

Shani Rhys James: The Eyes Have It

Van Gogh Comes to Town

Review: The Motive and the Cue

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