An ambitious new one-volume history, to accompany a 6-part BBC series presented by Huw Edwards
Jon Gower is a former BBC Wales arts and media correspondent, who
was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, where he read English.
He is a documentary maker for television and radio and has eleven
books to his name, in both Welsh and English. They include An
Island Called Smith, about a disappearing island in Chesapeake Bay,
which gained him the John Morgan travel writing prize, and
Uncharted, a novel described by Jan Morris as 'unflagging and
unfailingly inventive.' In 2009 he was awarded a major Creative
Wales award to explore the Welsh settlement in Patagonia. Jon is
currently a Hay Festival International Fellow.
Huw Edwards is a BAFTA-award winning journalist, presenter and
newsreader. Born in Bridgend, Welshspeaking
Huw joined the BBC in 1984 and became a familiar face during his
time on BBC Six O'Clock News. Since then, Huw as covered numerous
key national events, is a regular on a range of BBC News
programmes, including as lead
newsreader on the BBC News at Ten, and has presented a variety of
documentaries on British and Welsh history and culture. A former
graduate of Cardiff University, Huw was made an Honorary Fellow in
2003 and an Honorary Professor of Journalism in 2007, and was
elected Vice-President of the university in 2009. Huw is also
an
Honorary Fellow of Swansea University, the University of Wales,
Lampeter, the University of Wales, Newport, Swansea Institute of
Higher Education, and has an Honorary Doctorate from the University
of Glamorgan, as well as being Patron of the National College of
Music, in London, and President of the London Welsh Trust.
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