Leader Profiles: Rhun ap Iorwerth

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This bonus episode of Newscast is a profile of the leader of Plaid Cymru, Rhun ap Iorwerth.

Adam is joined by Teleri Glyn Jones, political reporter for BBC Wales, and Dafydd Trystan, former chair of Plaid Cymru, to chronicle Rhun's early life and political career. They discuss his love of music, his move from journalism to politics, and what he has done to transform his party.

This episode is part of a series where Newscast profiles each of the leaders of major political parties.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	Hello, as part of Newscast's election cast coverage,
0:08.0	we're bringing you bonus episodes, profiling each of the major party leaders
0:12.0	who are running in the 2024 UK general election.
0:16.0	We have been speaking to journalists who followed their careers and people who know these politicians really well
0:21.2	to find out what they are actually like. This episode is all
0:25.1	about the Plaid Cumry leader Rien Auyawarth. We'll talk about 51 year old
0:29.7	Rien's career as a BBC journalist before he became a member of the Senate, but will also talk
0:34.9	about the band he was in as a young man and how he made the decision to leave journalism.
0:40.4	We'll cover all of that and more in this bonus episode of Newscast.
0:44.6	Newscast.
0:45.6	Newscast.
0:46.6	Newscast from the BBC.
0:47.6	Well we can chat now to my colleague at BBC Wales political reporter
0:54.4	to Larry Glenn Jones hello to Larry hi Adam and we're also joined by
0:58.4	davith Tristan Davis who's former chair of Plaid Cumbry. Hello, Daven.
1:03.0	Hello, Adam.
1:03.8	Now, you two actually pronounce Rien-at-Yeworth's name
1:07.4	slightly differently, don't you, Telleri?
1:09.8	Yeah, so, well, I'm from Anglesey, where Jean's from,
1:12.2	so we, I would say
1:13.7	shein. Yeah and I'm from from from the can and half where
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