Last Thursday we took the classic Welsh comedy, ‘Valley of Song’ (Gilbert Gunn, 1953), back to the area where it was filmed, Capel Isaac and Llanfynydd in Carmarthenshire. There was a lot of interest in the film locally, and it was standing room only at St John’s church, Maesteilo, for a special screening which was attended by some of the (by now, somewhat older) faces on screen, notably those of the children in the school playground, enticed into all sorts of misdemeanours by the even worse antics of the adults of the valley, comically possessed by the ‘cythraul canu’ – ‘the devil in the music’,  an ever-present danger in the world of  choral singing, apparently.

Next Thursday, 11 April, we’ll be hosting an animation fest with a screening of some of the best of Welsh animation in the years since S4C came into being and stepped into the role of patron of this art in Wales. Beryl, Joanna Quinn’s amiable creation, will reprise her first outing in ‘Girls Night Out’, along with representative examples of two of S4C’s most notable international co-productions, ‘Aunt Tiger’ from the ‘Animated Tales of the World’ and ‘The Barber of Seville’ from the pioneering series, ‘Operavox’.