BBC Radio 4, 29 October 2012
It's 1979, and Welsh Nationalist MP Gywnfor Evans (Robert Blythe) is
battling for the right to initiate a Welsh television channel against the government of Margaret Thatcher. The struggle
is a difficult one, involving a battle against a complacent Home Secretary William Whitelaw (Malcolm Tierney), as well as
against a Conservative government that cares little for Welsh affairs.
Rob Gittins' play emerged as a conflict of wills, between a strong Welsh
Nationalist MP and an equally strong willed Conservative government. The struggle proves a difficult one, involving
different points of view. It is not for me to say what the outcome was, but everyone was satisfied, for whatever reason.
James Robinson's production was a study in character-development, of
the triumph of individualism over bureaucratic indifference. A very entertaining Afternoon Play.
