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Hywel Gwynfryn (born 13 July 1942) is a Welsh television and radio personality and lyricist. [ 1 ] [ self-published source ] [ 2 ] He started working for the BBC in 1964 and joined BBC Radio Cymru at its inception, being the first voice heard on the new station.
Hywel Gwynfryn, who later had his own chat show, recounted how he was discovered by the Heddiw production team while working in a Cardiff pub. [4] References
Evans was born in Cardiff and lived in Prestatyn in north-east Wales from the age of 10 until returning to Cardiff at 18. [2] He is the son of TV and radio presenter Hywel Gwynfryn and his wife Anja (who died in 2018) and has four siblings.
Hywel David Evans (1924–2019), Australian politician; Hywel Evans (figure skater) (born 1945), Welsh figure skater; Hywel Francis (1946–2021), Welsh historian and politician; MP for Aberavon; Hywel Griffith, BBC Wales news correspondent; Hywel Gwynfryn (1942–), Welsh actor and radio personality; Hywel Harris (1714–1773), Welsh Methodist ...
Hywel Gwynfryn – radio and TV personality (Llangefni, 1942) Max Horton - British submariner during the First World War and commander-in-chief of the Western Approaches in the later half of the Second World War, responsible for British participation in the Battle of the Atlantic (Rhosneigr, 1883)
Phillips was born on 14 May 1933 in Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, the daughter of Sally (née Thomas), a teacher, and David Phillips, a steelworker who became a policeman. [1] [2] She is a Welsh-speaker: in the first volume of her autobiography Private Faces (1999) she notes that she spoke only Welsh for much of her childhood, learning English by listening to the radio.
It had number of presenters over the years. The first presenters were Hywel Gwynfryn and Marged Esli and a number of other presenters included Naomi Jones and Caryl Parry Jones who joined in 1979 after graduating. [citation needed] After moving to S4C, new presenters included Emyr Davies , Dewi Williams, Angharad Mair and Ynyr Williams .
Anfonaf Angel", which he wrote in 2008 with Hywel Gwynfryn, has since been recorded by many artists, including Ffion Hâf, Trio, Elgan Llyr Thomas, Rhys Meirion, Piantel and the London Welsh Male Voice Choir. It was recorded in 2011 by Bryn Terfel in order to raise funds for the Welsh Air Ambulance Service. [5]