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MEREDITH, JOHN ELLIS (1904 - 1981), minister (Presbyterian Church of Wales) and author -handed), good and considerate, and he possessed a great sense of humour. He possessed a voice ideal for radio and he was a regular broadcaster. He was the first to utter the famous words from Saunders Lewis's play, Buchedd Garmon on BBC Radio Wales and he also read the poetry of T. Gwynn Jones and R. Williams Parry on the same medium. At the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Cardiff in 1938 he
LEWIS, JOHN SAUNDERS (1893 - 1985), politician, critic and dramatist lectureship. At the second hearing the three were found guilty and sentenced to nine months each in Wormwood Scrubs. Shortly before the second hearing Lewis composed Buchedd Garmon (1937). The ostensible subject of the play is theological disputes in the Early Church, but it is hard not to read it at the same time as a statement about Lewis's conservative Christian nationalism. A speech by Emrys contains

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