Bangor professor co-presents new podcast offering a ‘lighthearted’ guide to Welsh literary history
Professor Jerry Hunter, author and member of the department of Welsh and Celtic Studies is co-presenting a new podcast with the well-known political commentator and fellow academic Professor Richard Wyn Jones.
The Welsh-language podcast ‘Yr Hen Iaith’ (‘The Old Language’) will be available from Thursday, 9 March 2023 and new episodes will follow on a weekly basis.
Professor Hunter explained, “This podcast started off as a bit on an in-joke in our friendship on Richard’s patchy knowledge of Welsh literature, but we decided that if he felt a bit insecure about it, perhaps a lot of other people may benefit from hearing about Welsh literature through a fairly lighthearted, easily-digestible format like this. I hasten to add that he has offered me a similar lesson in political history!”
The first chapter of the podcast entitled ‘Yn y dechreuad yr oedd…y Gododdin (efallai)' (in the beginning there was…the Gododdin (maybe)) does what it says on the can: starts at the very beginning, and knowing what the earliest literary text in Welsh was is, as the podcast reveals, slightly more complicated than you’d think…
Tune in through Welsh cultural platform AM here: https://amam.cymru/yr-hen-iaith/trelyr-yr-hen-iaith
Also available on Apple Podcasts app here
To coincide with the podcast Jerry Hunter will be writing follow-up articles for Nation Cymru with more insight and suggested reading: https://nation.cymru/
