TV and radio programmes from BBC Cymru Wales have scored five wins at this year’s Celtic Media Festival, being held in Londonderry in Northern Ireland.
Rhod Gilbert’s Work Experience, in which the comedian tries out a variety of jobs, scooped the Factual Entertainment prize with the episode which showed him trying out as a tattoo artist. A new series of the show, in which Rhod tackles being a teacher, policeman, drag artist and zookeeper, starts on BBC One Wales on May 7.
The hard-hitting current affairs show Week In Week Out: Cash For Qualifications, which exposed a scam in which overseas students were helped to cheat their way to UK university degrees and visas, took the torc trophy for Current Affairs.
The Sport torc went to The Lions ’71, in which presenter Eddie Butler told the story of, and reassessed the impact of, the rugby Lions’ victorious tour of New Zealand, while a documentary following actor Michael Sheen’s spectacular staging of a passion play in his home town, Passion In Port Talbot: It Has Begun, took the Arts prize.
In radio, the BBC Radio Wales feature The Mousetrap And Me was voted best documentary. In the programme, Radio Wales presenter Louise Elliott met Terry O’Neill, whose brother was killed by their foster parents. The subsequent trial made front page headlines and inspired Agatha Christie to pen her long-running play.
