Hi everyone,
Thanks to Lloyd Lewis I have found the answer for myself by accessing
www.bbc.co.uk/radiowales
The prog. starts on Wednesday 8th January on the BBC 1 Television channel
but I expect it will only be shown in Wales. The following is from the
website.
Regards,
Margaret Harvey
The Story of Welsh With Huw Edwards: Battles and Borrowings
Wednesday 8 January, BBC One Wales at 10.35pm
Once upon a time - more than 2,000 years ago - every Londoner spoke an
ancient form of Welsh. It's just one of many fascinating facts about the
language that Huw Edwards has picked up over the past few months.
The familiar face of the BBC Six O'Clock News has been working extra hard -
often seven days a week - to make time to front BBC Wales' new flagship
series The Story of Welsh With Huw Edwards because the rollercoaster ride of
the language is a subject which is extremely close to his heart.
"We've got a European cultural treasure in the Welsh language, and I can't
understand why people are prepared to squander it," says Huw, who was born
in Bridgend and brought up in Llanelli.
"We shouldn't, we mustn't, let the language slip away. I certainly don't
think the language should die."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Harvey" <bgh-mgh(a)teanstaffs.fsnet.co.uk>
To: <POWYS-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 4:17 PM
Subject: [POWYS] Welsh language series
Hi everyone,
This is not research as such and I apologize. I have read on another
list that
Huw Edwards, the newsreader is presenting a series in the New Year
on BBC about the development of the Welsh language. Does anyone know if it
will be broadcast nationwide or just on BBC Wales? I doubt if I will be
able to learn to speak Welsh but I would enjoy hearing about the development
of the language. I was reading recently that the Welsh word braich (arm)
derives from the Latin bracchia whereas coes (leg) is from the Celtic word
cosca.
My late father was Welsh speaking and I understand it was the
language
spoken in his childhood home however he spent the first years of my life
on
active service during World War Two. We moved from Wales to England not
long after he returned home and except for a few odd words he always spoke
English. In fact it is only recently that I discovered that Welsh was
probably his first language. My mother and her family were English speaking
only so I never learnt to speak Welsh. It seems a shame that in just a
short space of time the Welsh language disappeared in my family.
Regards,
Margaret Harvey