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Not the Booker Prize, Comedy Podcasts, Gwenifer Raymond's Welsh Primitive and Bassey's Swansong

Gary Raymond and his guests cast a critical eye on what's going in in the Welsh arts scene. Reviews include prize-winning fiction, comedy podcasts and Shirley Bassey's final album.

Gary Raymond and his guests cast a critical eye on what's going in in the Welsh arts scene. This month his guest critics are writer Sara Robinson and writer and broadcaster Simon Wright. The panel explore Hello Friend We Missed You, winner of the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize. Written by Richard Owain Robert the experimental novel is set in Ynys Mon and has been hailed as a turning point in Welsh fiction.

Three podcasts from Little Wander, the creators of the Machynlleth Comedy Festival, are also up for review - Welcome to Spooktown; Here to Judge and I Wish I Was an Only Child.

And Gary and his guest critics give their views on two very different albums - Gwenifer Raymond's Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain, an innovative instrumental guitar album in the style which Raymond describes as "Welsh Primitive" and Shirley Bassey's swansong I Owe It All To You which sees the 83-year-old icon bid farewell with tracks that evoke the different musical genres she has embraced in her long career.

28 minutes

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  • Fri 27 Nov 2020 18:30
  • Sun 29 Nov 2020 18:32
  • Mon 30 Nov 2020 05:30