John On The Rhondda

By John Geraint Roberts

From the Valley that fuelled the world with its coal, and a community with a thirst for fair play and fair shares – John Geraint Roberts brings us places, people and ideas that lit up a famous past an... more

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The podcast currently has 109 episodes available.

John On The Rhondda episodes:

June 30, 2021 Uncle Len - The Rhondda Working Man
The Rhondda Working Man - a heroic figure. Tens of thousands of intelligent, characterful men spent their lives doing unimaginably tough, backbreaking work. My Uncle Len was typical of them - but he was complete one-off too. This is my affectionate tribute to him, and to all those who laboured like him.
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10min
June 23, 2021 Treorchy's Rugby Dream
A bunch of Rhondda boys with a Grand Ambition - to take their local club to the very top of the rugby tree. There are so many parts of this story that - if you didn’t know they'd actually happened in real life - you’d swear that John Geraint Roberts had dreamt them up.
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9min
June 16, 2021 Rhondda Place Names
What does Tonypandy mean? Ynyshir? Gelli? Llwynypia? And there are plenty more where they came from! John Geraint Roberts gets to grip with why they named places up and down the Rhondda Fach and the Rhondda Fawr they way they did.
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10min
June 09, 2021 Ice Creams and Frothy Coffees
If you grew up in the Rhondda, real Italian ice-cream and 'Bracchis' - Italian cafes - offered a taste of paradise, exotic and yet all our own. John Geraint Roberts savours the flavours of Caravaggi's vanilla and Melardi's espresso.
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9min
May 26, 2021 Railway Lines
A trip on a train from Tonypandy and Trealaw station was always a treat for John Geraint Roberts. But there's one Rhondda rail journey he never made, and he's always regretted it...
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10min
May 19, 2021 Rhondda Towns and Villages
Where do you come from? And is your 'bit' of the Valley a town or a village? Does it matter what you call it? YES, says John Geraint Roberts. And he finds inspiration for his notion of how we should picture the Rhondda, far, far away, in a most unlikely place.
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9min
May 12, 2021 Cambrian
A walk through Clydach Vale's Countryside Park prompts thoughts of the terrible Cambrian Disaster, and the price that colliers paid so that others could enjoy comfort and power.
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8min
May 05, 2021 'Mid-Rhondda': Our Field Of Dreams
The Mid-Rhondda Athletic Ground in Tonypandy hosted international teams in rugby union and rugby league, and boasted its own professional football club. But John Geraint Roberts remembers it for an epic cricket match in which he played an unexpected part.
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10min
April 28, 2021 Welsh Hills
The joys of living in a place that's NEVER flat and boring!
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9min
April 21, 2021 From Radio Rhondda To Rhondda Radio
1978. Wales was about to get its first-ever dedicated national radio service. But BBC bosses wanted to pilot the new station, to see if it chimed with the audience. And there was only one place to do that: the Rhondda! John Geraint Roberts was just 21 - the youngest member of the launch team, presenting a show called 'Rhondda Rock'.
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9min

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How many episodes does John On The Rhondda have?

The podcast currently has 109 episodes available.

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