Our Tom could indeed do with more of the edgier stuff on his programmes,though i have Peel friends who hated all the Death Metal and Happy Hardcore stuff for some reason) Check out Huw Stephens though, between 9 and 10 he gets a guest in to do a ‘mix gwaith cartref’ which more often than not is awesome. Oh Huw Stephens on Radio Cymru of course. I’m almost afraid to hear what he sounds like in English on Radio 1!
He could indeed. I know people who were turned off Peel for those reasons, which is a pity - even if you didn’t like everything he played, it was always interesting - and, for my money, the hardcore tracks he used to play were great! (Don’t know where he got them - I never had much luck sourcing decent 'ardcore tunes in my local record shops.)
Yes, from what I’ve heard, Huw is a lot better in Welsh than he is in English!
Diolch am yr argymhelliadau! Ta for the recommendations.
(And sori bawb for taking this page slightly off-topic…though it’s all radio-related, innit?)
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they were, he had an uncanny ability for selecting the best of them. I don’t think in later years he had to do much searching, everything sent to him, so he just picked the best of what was sent him! There used to be a pretty good hardcore section in Andy’s Records in Aberystwyth, they might still do!
Oh yes, sorry Radio 2 peeps 
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he had an uncanny ability for selecting the best of them.
I think therein lies - lay - his brilliance - the ability to sniff out brilliant stuff from the most unlikely of sources. Much as I’m grateful that 6Music is on air, it doesn’t come close to his show in that sense
There used to be a pretty good hardcore section in Andy’s Records in Aberystwyth, they might still do!
Oh, I must check that out next time I’m in Aber!
I can’t find it on my car DAB. Is it available across the U.K.? I’ve tried refreshing the station list but nothing 
Rhys Mwyn’s Monday night show was introduced specifically to be a clone of the sort of stuff 6Music specialises in - nostagia for coolness gone by, with some current indie-orientated music mixed in. To be honest, Mwyn’s misplaced nostalgia for absolutely anything 1980-1995 grates a tiny bit, but it’s still worth a listen on the iPlayer during a dull Tuesday at work.
Radio Cardiff it was. They used to put podcasts up on Soundcloud, too. I once got a talking-to at work for playing it - they were broadcasting a single electronic tone for minutes on end!
It depends where you are. Only the UK national stations are available across the UK (1, 1ex, 2, 3, 4, 4ex, 5L, 5Lx, 6, AN, WS) and any others will be available if the commercial sector has paid for extra bandwidth to be made available, and then only on a regional basis. So Radio Wales, Radio Cymru and Radio Cymru 2 are available in populated areas of Wales, but in areas (like mine) without the population to sustain commercial radio, there’s no bandwidth to ‘piggy-back’ off.
Arghh! That is exactly why I find so many radio stations annoying. That they have to have this ‘this is our thing’. Yet all the BBC stations trump the commercial ones, because they all find room for people who just want to do what i feel every DJ should do ‘Play stuff that you like and what you think other people might find interesting’ If every DJ did that every station would have at least one show that every individual would like. But no, we have to have ‘Lets be bland and inoffensive’, we may bore people until they start grating their own brains off, but we won’t scare anyone with something too complicated. Lets have ‘genre shows’ as if there is anyone who likes one and only one style or period of music. Why do people keep wanting to limit music by putting it in boxes, or making programmes or even whole stations for ‘certain kinds of people’. And streaming services, the hours spent working out how to not get them playing ‘something similar’ to the last track, No, I want something different to the last track!
What has this discussion done to me! I knew there was somethign about the Rhys Mwyn show that annoyed me and you’ve hit it on the head Rob!
the sort of stuff 6Music specialises in - nostagia for coolness gone by, with some current indie-orientated music mixed in
Not sure that’s an entirely fair characterisation of 6 Music, though it’s not entirely without foundation. True, there’s a lot of old stuff gets played but a fair proportion of it is stuff that, in my view, deserves to be resurrected - how often did you hear, say, Josef K [or substitute post-punk band from '79 to '82 of your choice] on the radio before 6 Music? And I’ve discovered a lot of stuff from days of yore that I was too young or ignorant to be aware of at the time. As for ‘cool’…well, I don’t think bands like XTC, UK Subs and Angelic Upstarts were ever deemed to be cool!
But it’s also introduced me to far more exciting new bands than any other station, with the result I go to more gigs now than at any point in my life. (Either that, or I’m having a mid-life crisis.)
Sure, it has its faults - not enough electronic music, irritating radio-identification jingles/trails every 20 mins, and rather bland daytime output - but, for me, it’s far superior to anything else on offer. And any station that gets Iggy “World’s Biggest Sleaford Mods fan” Pop on its roster is doing something right…Okay, Guy Garvey’s got a show too but, swings and roundabouts…
As for Rhys Mwyn…yup, I’ve listened and not been bowled over, it’s fair to say. At least you’re guaranteed to hear a Datblygu track, though.
Radio Cardiff it was. They used to put podcasts up on Soundcloud, too. I once got a talking-to at work for playing it - they were broadcasting a single electronic tone for minutes on end!
Ah, that’s it. I stumbled upon it via Soundcloud. I would love to subject my workmates to it if we were allowed radio in my workplace. I think they would benefit from a single electronic tone for minutes on end!
Possibly worth pointing out, for those in the UK at least, all of radio Cymru 2’s (and the BBCs other stations) broadcasts are available to download and listen up to a month after broadcast, on the iPlayer radio app - handy for those of us not able to listen live 
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To be fair, they’re only old enough to be your parents if you are young enough to be their children. 
Therefore, considering that Daf is in his late 40s and Caryl in her late 50s Golwg is assuming that their audience, be it a target audience or not, are mostly in their 20s?
Being more or less Daf’s age, I can assure you that I’m definitely not young enough to be his daughter, nor Caryl’s for that matter. 
But I still very much enjoyed their banter and rapport abck in the day and mostly enjoyed their music choices. Though fully understand that their style isn’t for everyone. I’ve yet to be able to tune in to their new morning slot though.
I admired and respected Peel and although he was of my time, he wasn’t really my style, so I wasn’t really in to his programmes. Then again I’ve been through many interesting and some disturbing phases in my life, from Motown to gangsta rap, so I’m not really what you’d call an average study case. 
My staple go-to station these days is Classic FM - it’s relaxing and exhilarating, uplifting and stress relieving. I’m a big classical music fan and find their range appealing, as well as the informative nature of the station. It’s on everywhere from the kitchen to the car and for me is a reliable ‘if all else fails’ option.
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Really radio is a very hard thing to get right, because we like and listen to different things and in different ways. So it’s important for national radio stations, like Radio Cymru, to ensure they have as much variety in presenters and styles of putting a show together. Peel’s philosophy , which perhaps guided how listen to radio was ‘Play things you like and what you think other people will find interesting too’ and most of the time for Peel listeners that worked amazingly well. Of course it’s possible to still produce great radio without the some of the more esoteric choices. But if people didn’t play esoteric stuff, Welsh language music would never have been played on Radio 1, Peel was a great champion of Llywbr Llaethog, Gorky’s, Melys and Datblygu and he regularly stated that he would love to learn Welsh, purely to understand the lyrics of the Welsh artists he loved and promoted. It’s a fairly large part of why I wanted to learn Welsh too.
What I like about listening to Radio Cymru watching S4C and reading Welsh novels is that it has exposed me to things I wouldn’t otherwise have explored, genres I wouldn’t otherwise have explored in as much depth, as there isn’t as much going on as the culture is smaller, so you listen to a wider variety of things and I really really like this. I’ve been getting into listening to Beti a phobl on Thursday evenings. It is not a programme I would normally listen to in English, but in Welsh I enjoy it. Incidentally it’s a relatively easy listen for a learner in my opinion.
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Forum favourite Manon Steffan Ros was on tonight, with her lovely soft voice. Worth a listen!
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Peel was a great champion of Llywbr Llaethog, Gorky’s, Melys and Datblygu and he regularly stated that he would love to learn Welsh, purely to understand the lyrics of the Welsh artists he loved and promoted. It’s a fairly large part of why I wanted to learn Welsh too.
He was indeed. Datblygu (and, to a lesser extent, GZM) are the reason I really wanted to learn Welsh. So, in a way, Peel has contributed to the survival and growth of the Welsh language!
Agree with the other stuff you say too (with the slight caveat that, in all honesty, I don’t find much I like musically on RC, so tend to focus on the talk shows)
S4C, incidentally, has brought out in me a hitherto-unknown love of crime dramas! .
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That’s a shame. I was so rubbish , i went from being a ‘Dancing Fool’ [Zappa!] in front of Datblygu at a stage at the Llanelwydd Eisteddod, because I had bought their album in Aberystwyth after hearing them on Peel, to waiting 25 years to learn Welsh properly.
I’ve learned how to enjoy the crime dramas, but don’t love them yet!
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i went from being a ‘Dancing Fool’ [Zappa!] in front of Datblygu at a stage at the Llanelwydd Eisteddod, because I had bought their album in Aberystwyth after hearing them on Peel, to waiting 25 years to learn Welsh properly.
Well, better late than never! Took me years from first hearing Datblygu, GZM, etc, on Peel to actually getting round to properly starting to learn Welsh (about 18 months ago, though I’d already acquired a fairly random vocabulary from listening to those bands by that time…)
I’ve learned how to enjoy the crime dramas, but don’t love them yet!
A genre I’d never really bothered with until Y Gwyll. I’ve enjoyed them all but I think Craith (so far, just watched episode 4) is particularly splendid. Something about the language and landscape that really suits this genre!
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I heard that when it was first on and I had no idea she was Lleuwen’s sister!
And they’re both Steve Eaves’ daughters. Lleuwen is touring Wales during the next couple of months and on some of the dates Manon will be supporting her as Blodau Gwylltion - Blodau Gwylltion being Manon and Elwyn Williams who writes and performs with Steve Eaves.
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