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Radio Wales,16 mins

Part Two: The 1970s - Rock, revolution, protest and punk

The Story of Miwsig

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Part Two of Six. Huw Stephens and Sian Eleri tell the story of Welsh language pop in the 1970s. A decade of rock, revolution and a once-in-generation referendum. Of protest, prison and punk rock. It鈥檚 the story of the 鈥楧ylan of Pembrokeshire鈥�, Meic Stevens. Urban poet-performer Geraint Jarman. Long-haired rockers Edward H Dafis. It's the story of Wales鈥� first rock opera 'Nia Ben Aur', a mythical Celtic love story performed by a 'who鈥檚 who' of 1970s Welsh music. Caryl Parry Jones tells the inside story of its fateful debut performance at 1974鈥檚 National Eisteddfod in Carmarthen. It鈥檚 also the story of punk rock emerging to stick two fingers up to the mainstream; Gari Melville lifting the lid on how recording an iconic single led to John Peel speaking to his mam on the phone. Fast forwarding to today, Welsh Music Prize winner Georgia Ruth reveals why she keeps returning to the sounds of the 70s.

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