The Welsh Language Act

Witness History

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In July 1967 there was a breakthrough for the Welsh language. The Welsh Language Act allowed people in Wales to use Welsh in a court of law - and it was also the first significant victory for a campaign to preserve the ancient language. Lucy Burns speaks to Dafydd Iwan and Lord Elystan Morgan about the campaign.

PICTURE: Rain clouds gather over the Welsh flag flying beside the beach on June 15, 2012 in Barry, Wales (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

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0:35.4	Sounds.
0:36.4	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.
0:40.9	My name's Linda Davies and I commissioned
0:43.0	podcast for BBC Sounds.
0:45.0	As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality,
0:49.0	featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices.
0:54.4	What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,
1:00.9	poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories.
1:04.3	And that's just a few examples.
1:06.2	If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected,
1:09.4	find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. Hi and thanks for downloading Witness the History Podcast from the BBC World Service.
1:17.0	And today we're going back to a linguistic breakthrough in Wales to July 1967, when the first Welsh Language Act came into force.
1:26.0	I'm Lucy Burns and I've been speaking to two people who were involved in the campaign
1:30.5	to preserve the ancient language.
1:33.0	Daphith I one is a singer-songwriter,
1:37.0	Daphith I one is a singer-songwriter, the son of a Congregationalist minister who grew up in a coal mining village in South Wales.
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