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  1. Performing at the Best Classical Music Festival in the World

    Osian Rowlands

    Chorus Manager for ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales

    Performing at the Best Classical Music Festival in the World

    ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ PROMS - Performing at the Best Classical Music Festival in the World, by Osian Rowlands - Chorus Manager for ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales

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  2. take pART: a weekend of creative workshops for young people

    Polly March

    North Wales’ only free arts and literature festival for children gets underway this weekend at Venue Cymru in Llandudno. The take pART festival will feature a whole host of activities for youngsters who may be feeling a bit flat after Christmas.

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  3. Summer blockbuster brings monsters to life

    Polly March

    For those keen to keep the kids enthused this summer, the Cardiff-based children's theatre company Theatr Iolo is promising a true family treat - a blockbuster film style production featuring monsters.

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  4. TV cave girl Igam Ogam takes to the stage for Welsh tour

    Polly March

    If you've always loved the popular children's TV character Igam Ogam, you'll be delighted to hear that the messy minx has secured her own stage show.

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  5. My Christmas: the toy shop owner

    Rhodri Owen

    So much for the digital age. When Father Christmas opened his mailbox this year he would have seen no shortage of requests for old fashioned toys like wooden train sets and board games like Ludo.

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  6. Children to be transported to magical snowy wilderness for new Christmas play

    Polly March

    It's been a busy 18 months for Mared Swain, the Sherman Cymru's Welsh language associate director. Within 12 weeks of her first child's birth, she had been offered her dream job commissioning and developing Welsh language work and finding new writers for the Cardiff theatre.

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  7. Hallowe'en and Galan Gaeaf

    Phil Carradice

    Hallowe'en. A time when people avoid churchyards and cross roads, places where, in ancient times, spirits were thought to gather. A night of spooks and demons, witches, ghosts and ghouls - at least, that's how children see it. A pumpkin lantern These days the night before All Hallows D...

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  8. Welsh children at war

    Phil Carradice

    Arguably, children - more than any other section of society - should have been aware of the nation's preparations for war during the 1930s. Children listing to the radio in 1939 They watched the newsreel features, usually pushed in between the first and second features at the cinema, a...

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  9. Welsh children during World War Two - the early years

    Phil Carradice

    When war was declared against Germany on 3 September 1939, the children of Wales could have been excused for thinking that, whatever might happen in Poland or France, it would have little or no effect on them. Child evacuees preparing to leave London Wales was too far to the west to be...

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  10. Tonight on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Four, The Children Who Built Victorian Britain

    ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Wales History

    Tonight on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Four at 9pm is The Children Who Built Victorian Britain. This moving and unsettling documentary looks at the Industrial Revolution through the eyes of working children. It is presented by Jane Humphries, a fellow of All Soul Souls College, a Professor of Economic History at Oxf...

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