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An entertaining and informative autobiography of Welsh television producer-director Richard Lewis who entered the world of TV in the early 1960s, a formative time for broadcasting in Wales. Subjects include the evangelist Evan Roberts, and a re-creation of the last days of Dylan Thomas in America.

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For the last fifty years or so I have been an avid viewer of the programmes transmitted on Welsh television. This Memoir of a Media Man, as it is subtitled, was therefore a book which was bound to appeal to me. The author was a son of the manse, for his evidently puritanical father was a minister of religion in the Rhondda. But despite the shadow of non-conformity, Richard Lewis childhood was a happy one. Following his period of further education, the world of television glittered in the 1960s. His career commenced as a floor manager but other more serious posts were in the offing. He found himself eventually on the production side, working on both Welsh and English language productions. The list of those with whom he worked resembles a Whos Who of Welsh television. I recall having seen a number of his critically acclaimed drama presentations, including Shadowlands, the story of the writer C. S. Lewis and Dylan, the story of the final phase of Dylan Thomas life on a reading tour in the United States. It was brilliant casting to have Ronald Lacey playing the poet for the resemblance was striking. Richard Lewis has now retired and although he is not the first media man to write his memoirs, his book is interesting and entertaining and carries a foreword by Herbert Williams. Dewi Roberts It is possible to use this review for promotional purposes, but the following acknowledgment should be included: A review from www.gwales.com, with the permission of the Welsh Books Council. Gellir defnyddio'r adolygiad hwn at bwrpas hybu, ond gofynnir i chi gynnwys y gydnabyddiaeth ganlynol: Adolygiad oddi ar www.gwales.com, trwy ganiatd Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru. -- Welsh Books Council

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