Sam Tilley is the brave audiobiographer who presents the case for John Redwood, the Thatcherite Welsh Secretary from 1993 to 1995. His balanced critique includes of course a very famous moment of song...

George Thomas has to some become one of the great demons of Welsh politics, but Dr Daryl Leeworthy elegantly attempts to repair the former Welsh Secretary's image. Part biography, part psychoanalysis, part social commentary, this provocative critique is a definite talking point.

Caerphilly's MP Wayne David follows up his audiobiography of Morgan Jones with an account of the life of Jones' successor, Ness Edwards, the giant of the Welsh Labour movement. Trade unionist, humanitarian, conscientious objector, Privy Councillor, Edwards' story needs to be heard.

The relatively obscure and relatively quiet Geraint Morgan served as Denbighshire's MP for almost a quarter of a century. His career never shone but did shine a light on the craft of political survival. "Morgan was also a Welshman to his core, helping to further bust the myth... that you can’t be both Welsh and a Conservative," argues the historian Sam Blaxland in this intelligent appraisal of a very different sort of politician.

Ieuan Wyn Jones was the first Plaid Cymru leader to lead his party into Government. Well respected across the political parties and he was generally thought to have been an effective Deputy First Minister and Minister for the Economy. Yet, if we were to ask a random selection of Plaid Cymru supporters who their greatest leader was or is, Ieuan might well be overlooked. Dafydd Trystan redresses the balance.

Ewan Lawry provides an audiobiography of William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech, the former MP for Denbighshire and Cabinet minister in the 1930s. An efficient administrator and committed Zionist, he shaped domestic and foreign policy for thirty years.

Thomas Edward Ellis was a Welsh Liberal politician who led Cymru Fydd, a movement aimed at gaining Home Rule for Wales. His contribution to building and protecting Welsh identity and culture was a defining moment in nineteenth century politics, his potential cut short by his early death at the age of 40 in 1899. Mike Cridland tells his crucial story.

Across Wales and beyond today, the family, friends and comrades will pause and remember the late Hywel Francis. In a special edition of Icons, the former council leader and MEP Derek Vaughan offers his own tribute to a great activist, educator and politician.

Nick Ramsay MS follows up his audio biographies of Mohammad Asghar and Peter Thorneycroft with an affectionate and personal tribute to Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth, the influential, skilled and dedicated leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd for over a decade 

Thomas Jones, CH was a British civil servant and educationalist, once described variously as "one of the six most important men in Europe", and also as "the King of Wales" and "keeper of a thousand secrets". Ewan Lawry tells the forgotten story of the Rhymney born man who never forgot his roots or his country.