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    ‘This is a real moment’: Netflix series cements rise of Welsh language drama

    Apr 01, 2023 5 minutes

    News coverage of Wales in the 1980s often pictured dogged defenders of the Welsh language carrying placards demanding the television channel they had once been promised. Some of these protesters tore down English road signs, a few even planted firebombs; several went to prison.

    This spring, as the legacy of that campaign for greater representation on television passes some significant milestones, these angry slogans read like relics of a half-forgotten war.

    Now, not only is Netflix about to screen its first drama made in the Welsh language, but the tempestuous story behind the birth of S4C (Sianel Pedwar Cymru), the dedicated Welsh-speaking channel, is being marked, 40 years on, in a provocative new film.

    “There is a real moment now for Welsh-language storytelling,” said Llinos Griffin-Williams, S4C’s chief content officer. “I don’t think we have been loud enough about it until now. We have so much

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