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The Môr the Merrier
The Môr the Merrier episodes
- Rhian, Gwen & The Bwbach
West wales empty nesters Rhian and Gwen come home from their swim to find Rhians new housemate The Bwbach, is up to no good.
According to Welsh folklore, the Bwbach are mischievous but friendly hobgoblins. Legend has it that the Bwbach used to live with families in Wales and do good in exchange for a dollop of milk or cream. They also aim to scold teetotalers.
7 min
About The Môr the Merrier
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‘The Môr the Merrier’ is a radio play Inspired by 1950s radio dramas in the tradition of Samuel Beckett and Dylan Thomas. I was brought up in a small, sleepy west Wales village in Ceredigion not…
far from Laugharne where Thomas grew up. The characters are based off people in my town as I realised upon re-listening to Undermilk wood how many people I know with the same names as the characters, even couples with the same set of names.
TMTM is loosely based off Dylan Thomas’ 1954 play ‘Undermilk Wood’, a play in which an omniscient narrator invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of the fictional small Welsh fishing village, Llareggub - Bugger all spelt backwards[1]. TMTM is set in the town of Ffogob - Bog off spelled backwards.
It is imagined as a 21st century Llaregub. Both names work linguistically as Welsh town names, Like real places such as Llandudno or Llangranog and Ffostrasol or Ffos-y-ffin. ‘Môr’ is also the Welsh word for sea harkening the coastal setting and ‘the Merrier’ as it is a large cast of characters.
[1] This is called a ‘semordnilap’, A word that forms another word when its letters are reversed. ‘Semordnilap’ is a reversal of the more well-known word ‘palindrome’; a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same forwards and backwards.