Fwd: Radio 4 at the Eisteddfod in Swansea

[edward wilford]

For those of you with access to BBC Radio 4, this will be on at 9  
a.m. on Sunday (GMT+1).  It will also be available on the 'Listen  
Again' service on the BBC radio website.

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> From: owner-bh at lists.bbc.co.uk
> Date: 3 August 2006 14:36:30 BDT
> To: bh at lists.bbc.co.uk
> Subject: It's the BH newsletter
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> Dydw i ddim yn deall.
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> Expect this phrase to appear with monotonous regularity on Sunday  
> morning. As many of you will know so much better than I do, it’s  
> "I'm sorry I don't understand". In Welsh.
>
> BH is at the National Eisteddfod in Swansea and we're hoping  
> they'll provide some top-notch celebrity Welsh teachers so that,  
> along with the participants in the Big Brother house, I'll be  
> completely fluent by the end of Sunday's programme. Or more likely  
> simply embarrassed.
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> (Hello by the way - stand-in BH presenter Nigel Wrench here).
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> Our reporter Tamsin Smith is, as I write, travelling the length and  
> breadth of the country to chart the continuing rebirth of Welsh  
> culture and identity.
>
> We've as yet no papers guests confirmed whatsoever, but expect at  
> least one male voice choir, an author, a poet or, if we're lucky,  
> all three.
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> And we'll hear from the woman who runs one of the world's top 100  
> stores. Selfridges? Bloomingdales? Both are in the list. But we've  
> chosen another from the 100: "Weigh Out" a grocers-cum-sweet shop  
> at the seaside in Gwynedd.
>
> Of course our correspondents in the Middle East will update us with  
> the latest from Lebanon and Israel.
>
> And there will be some sort of competition. In English.
>
> Until Sunday, then, da boch chi.
>
> Nigel
>
> p.s. that's "goodbye" in Welsh, in case you were wondering.
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