Graveyards in My Closet
By Daf James. The true story of a writer鈥檚 dark family secret.
By Daf James
When Daf was 11 he made a momentous discovery about his grandparents. The true story of a dark family secret.
In 1931 Daf鈥檚 Nan was five years old; her father took her to her grandparents鈥� house in the mountains of North Wales and told her that her mother was dead. He then left her there and never came back. This event sparked a lifetime of secrets that reverberated across the last century. Today, Daf wrestles with the story; but he鈥檚 not sure whose story it is, where it truly starts or what any of it means. Armed with a cast of actors, and the help of his dad, Daf sets out to explore the skeletons in his family鈥檚 closet.
Daf James is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, composer and performer working in both English and Welsh. As a screenwriter he is part of the 2019 麻豆社 TV Drama Writers鈥� Programme. Graveyards in My Closet is a follow-up to his Radio 4 drama My Mother Taught Me How to Sing.
Narrator 鈥�. Daf James
Little Daf 鈥�. Fflyn Edwards
Mam Aberteifi 鈥�. Siw Hughes
Hanna 鈥�. Carys Eleri
Grandad 鈥�. Ifan Huw Dafydd
Douglas 鈥�. Himself
Nigel Owens.... Himself
Directed by James Robinson
A 麻豆社 Cymru Wales Production
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