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Originally broadcast on BBC Cymru, Pobol y Cwm was initially commissioned for 12 episodes. In 1982, it moved to the brand-new Welsh-language channel S4C, though during its lifetime it has also ...
Pobol y Cwm was originally filmed in Broadway Studios and then moved to Broadcasting House in Llandaff. Since November 2011, the Pobol y Cwm studios have been situated in ...
Pobol y Cwm, which translates into English as People of the Valley, is the BBC's oldest television soap. First broadcast on BBC Wales on 16 October 1974, the first episode started with a greeting ...
Pobol y Cwm's Deri Arms goes up in flames: Category: Wales Date: 07.03.2008 Printable version. It's been home to many marriages, break-ups, and even a birth but tonight (Friday 7 March) the ...
Pobol y Cwm actor Huw Ceredig has died at the age of 69. The Welsh actor played Reg Harries in the long-running soap for 29 years and also starred in TV programmes such as Emmerdale, Heartbeat and ...
Pobol y Cwm’s opening line was: “Bore da, Maggie Mathias” by Harri Parri (Charles Williams) Pobol y Cwm airs on S4C Monday - Friday with an omnibus edition every Sunday, with in-vision ...
An episode of a TV soap opera which featured criticism of a Welsh government decision not to cull badgers was balanced, BBC Cymru Wales says. The corporation, which produces Pobol y Cwm for the ...
“We had a special kind of audience in mind: the Welsh who have never read Barn or Y Faner ... Pobol Y Cwm: BBC's Longest Running TV Soap Celebrates 50 Years On Air. Date.
An actor, who plays a domestic abuse victim in an S4C soap opera, is encouraging victims to speak out and confide in a friend or to ask a charity for help. Over the past few months Pobol y Cwm ...
Pobol y Cwm cast members have demanded talks with S4C over the decision to axe the soap's Sunday omnibus. Earlier this month, it was announced that the omnibus will be taken off air from September ...
Since November 2011, the Pobol y Cwm studios have been situated in BBC Roath Lock Studios in Cardiff Bay. There are two studios, with eight sets in studio five, and seven sets in studio six.
Pobol y Cwm was a success from the outset, and that continued throughout the 1970s and 1980s. When musician John Lennon died in December 1980, a film about the Beatles was broadcast on BBC Wales ...