UK culture secretary Lisa Nandy has said she is "minded to intervene" in Paramount's $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.

Nation.Cymru staff Welsh poets’ use of the language of love and intimacy to describe their relationships with powerful patrons is being explored as part of a university’s research. The research projec...

From Elgar to Eurovision, the BBC has provided an eclectic mix of musical entertainment since the earliest days of broadcasting. Although jazz wasn’t always welcome on the airwaves.

Plaid and Reform represent two new, competing nationalist identities. Welsh Labour never grasped these shifts, nor its own failures

On the evening of 26 January 1926, inventor John Logie Baird held a public demonstration in his workspace on London's Frith Street of a 'seeing by wireless' app…

John Wyver writes: As we recover from the centenary, today’s post is just a single link to a piece I published on The Conversation yesterday: The BBC once made the arts ‘utterly central’ to television...

John Wyver writes: Our series of screenings at BFI Southbank linked to the publication of Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television continues on Sunday, 25 January, with the second of three p...

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With Plaid Cymru and the SNP leading polls in their respective nations, can the United Kingdom continue in this – or any – form, asks Guardian columnist Will Hayward

When funding cuts closed National Theatre Wales, the actor saw it as an emergency, and set about building a replacement. As its first show comes to the stage, he explains his plan to bring big product...

Stephen Price A Welsh language campaign group has repeated calls to devolve broadcasting powers to Wales amid concerns about the impact of a new agreement between S4C and BBC iPlayer on S4C’s digital ...

John Wyver writes: The successful series of screenings at BFI Southbank continues on Sunday, 18 January, with the first of three programmes of British feature films that offer imagined versions of tel...

Professor Jamie Medhurst

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MeCCSA Policy Network + IAPMR on the future of Public Service Media Winter 2025 Roundtable 1: learning from international examples

Politicians see the BBC through the lens of TV news, but those who want to undermine it threaten a central plank of our national culture

TG4, BBC Northern Ireland and S4C have announced a milestone co-commission of the first ever animated Christmas movie, created through a tri-nation co-production. Supported by Northern Ireland Screen’...

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Welsh-language broadcaster S4C now supports more than 2,500 jobs across Wales, according to new independent research that highlights the channel’s growing economic impact. The figure represents an inc...

The threat of thermonuclear destruction placed Britain’s civil defence plans, and the BBC, at the heart of public debates about the Cold War.

Martin Shipton Concerns have been expressed that Reform UK could have an in-built advantage in terms of broadcast coverage in the run-up to next May’s Senedd election. Researchers led by Professor Ste...

A brief history of TV’s most influential comedy priests - to celebrate thirty years of the Vicar of Dibley

BBC Director General Tim Davie urged the industry to “fight for public service broadcasting” but admitted the “jeopardy is high” as he closed the Wales Screen Summit 2025. In a sit-down interview with...

S4C’s chief executive called for increased visibility for Welsh content on online platforms in his opening address at the Wales Screen Summit 2025. Geraint Evans told the premier conference for the fi...

A new exhibition has opened at the National Library of Wales to mark sixty years since the flooding of the Tryweryn valley to create a reservoir for Liverpool. The TRYWERYN 60 exhibition brings togeth...

Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?

And we have a plan to fix it. I’m back from a two-week family holiday in France, and it was also a partial two-week break from the news. As a desk-based news junkie, I’m constantly consuming news via ...