A Rhondda Romance - Geraint, John
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A Rhondda Romance is a coming-of-age saga celebrating a circle of teenage friends who love each other to bits... and are desperate for ways to put themselves back together again. In the terraced streets and gwlis, the cafés and clubs of their once-mighty coal metropolis, they catch a glimpse of something humanity has always been searching for, something beyond themselves that they can live by. Richly comic and keenly intelligent, heartfelt and ironic, fizzing with wit and allusion, John Geraint's seriously playful approach to the past succeeds in questioning - and arguing with - all our assumptions about the place and the period it conjures up.…mehr

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A Rhondda Romance is a coming-of-age saga celebrating a circle of teenage friends who love each other to bits... and are desperate for ways to put themselves back together again. In the terraced streets and gwlis, the cafés and clubs of their once-mighty coal metropolis, they catch a glimpse of something humanity has always been searching for, something beyond themselves that they can live by. Richly comic and keenly intelligent, heartfelt and ironic, fizzing with wit and allusion, John Geraint's seriously playful approach to the past succeeds in questioning - and arguing with - all our assumptions about the place and the period it conjures up.
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John Geraint career to date has been in broadcasting. Multiple-BAFTA winner and recipient of a Royal Television Society award for his Outstanding Contribution to Television, John is a former BBC Departmental Head and one of the UK independent production sector's most experienced creative leaders. In 2001, John founded Green Bay Media with Phil George. Green Bay produced the landmark BBC history series 'The Story of Wales' with Huw Edwards, and more than 200 hours of other blue-chip documentaries for the UK and global television market, working with leading international channels, including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, S4C, The History Channel, A&E, National Geographic and France Télévisions. John was a Trustee of the Arts Council of Wales from 2010-2016. He holds a M.A. in English from Oxford University and Ph. D. from the University of Glamorgan for his doctoral submission 'Representing Wales'.