GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
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Placing a finger on Welshness
A fascinating and timely collection of essays on identity, writes GAVIN O’TOOLE
BEING WELSH: Suzanne Packer in the BBC drama Casualty; Colin Charvis is the first Black Welsh person to captain the Wales rugby team
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MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
HENRY BELL is fascinated by the underlying curiosities and contradictions of one of the great poets of the Mediterranean
DAVID RENTON recommends a books that explores the ways in which disabled people are made to feel both of and not part of this world
Welsh [Plural]: Essays on the Future of Wales
Edited by Darren Chetty, Hanan Issa, Grug Muse and Iestyn Tyne
Repeater Books £12.99
IN 1987 as a young reporter on the Western Mail – the self-proclaimed “national” newspaper of Wales – I was tasked with travelling the length of the A470 trunk road joining Cardiff in the south to Llandudno in the north.
It’s an iconic route to the Welsh, arising from the Mail’s own campaign in the 1970s for a single road connecting the country.
I suspect the news editor at the time had other motives – this man could not stand the upstart Cockney in his newsroom, a non-indigenous insult to Welsh journalism, and wanted me out of the office.
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