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Caradog Prichard's classic story of a young boy's passage to adulthood in North Wales.

Voted the 'greatest Welsh novel of all time', Caradog Prichard's classic story of a young boy's passage to adulthood in a remote North Wales village, dramatised by Rhiannon Boyle.

Dramatisation of Caradog Prichard's Welsh classic novel about loss of innocence. A young boy is growing up in a remote slate quarry village in North Wales at the time of the First World War, where he has to navigate friendship, loss and his mother’s mental breakdown. But he is also surrounded by a mythical world of superstition and folklore. Dramatised by Rhiannon Boyle.
 
Older Boy.....Owen Alun
Younger Boy.....Ianto Clement-Evans
Mam/ The Voice......Rhian Blythe
Young Huw......Gruffudd Beech
Older Huw......Gwion Morris Jones
Young Moi......Harri Bale
Mr Price School/ Elis Ifans......Richard Elfyn
Moi’s Mam/Nain......Judith Humphreys
Jini Bach Pen Cae.....Lois Meleri-Jones

Sound Design….Nigel Lewis
Production co-ordinators Eleri Sydney McAuliffe and Lindsay Rees

A Welsh version of this drama will be broadcasting on Radio Cymru in two parts on June 11th and June 18th 2023 at 4pm. 

A BBC Radio 4/BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Radio Wales co-production, directed by Ffion Emlyn and Emma Harding.

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