精东传媒 professor co-presents new podcast offering a 鈥榣ighthearted鈥 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 鈥榊r Hen Iaith鈥 (鈥楾he Old Language鈥) will be available from Thursday, 9 March 2023 and new episodes will follow on a weekly basis.
Professor Hunter explained, 鈥This podcast started off as a bit on an in-joke in our friendship on Richard鈥檚 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!鈥
The first chapter of the podcast entitled 鈥榊n y dechreuad yr oedd鈥 Gododdin (efallai)' (in the beginning there was鈥he 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鈥檇 think鈥
Tune in through Welsh cultural platform AM here:
Also available on Apple Podcasts app
To coincide with the podcast Jerry Hunter will be writing follow-up articles for Nation Cymru with more insight and suggested reading:
