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-This only happens in Wales. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:07 | |
-A carpenter makes a chair... | 0:00:07 | 0:00:10 | |
-..as a prize for a poem. | 0:00:10 | 0:00:13 | |
-We can trace its origins -to the Middle Ages... | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
-..and it's still happening today. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:21 | |
-This is the 2003 Meifod -National Eisteddfod chair. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:27 | |
-It was made by Bob Morgan -of Llanbrynmair... | 0:00:27 | 0:00:31 | |
-..of Cyfie Farm's famous oak... | 0:00:31 | 0:00:33 | |
-..for me. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:35 | |
-If there is a winner -in Llanelli this year... | 0:00:37 | 0:00:41 | |
-..another bard will have -a Chair to treasure forever. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:47 | |
-I put my Chair in the middle of my -home. Everyone can see and use it. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:52 | |
-But that's not every Chair's story. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:56 | |
-It's hard to imagine how anyone -could lose a Chair as big as this. | 0:00:56 | 0:01:01 | |
-But it happens. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:04 | |
-Some National Eisteddfod Chairs -are lost. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:08 | |
-I'm going to look for them. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:11 | |
-Some Chairs are gathering dust, -others are in unexpected places. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:17 | |
-If I find them... | 0:01:19 | 0:01:22 | |
-..I'll bring them out -so the nation can see them again. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:27 | |
-I turned to Dewi Emrys's books. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:36 | |
-He's won more Chairs -than anybody else. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:41 | |
-Dewi Emrys won four National -Eisteddfod Chairs. Four, remember. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:46 | |
-In Liverpool, 1929. Llanelli 1930. | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
-Bangor 1943 and Bridgend 1948. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:54 | |
-This is why the rule was passed... | 0:01:55 | 0:01:57 | |
-..that no-one can win -the Chair more than twice. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:02 | |
-Dewi Emrys was quite chaotic. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
-He couldn't keep hold of -a job or home for long. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
-He occasionally slept rough, -under hedges or on streets. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:14 | |
-He sold the only Crown he won -to pay his debts. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:19 | |
-In The Bardic Chair... | 0:02:19 | 0:02:21 | |
-..there's no mention -of his four Chairs. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
-After winning more Chairs -than anyone else... | 0:02:26 | 0:02:31 | |
-..Dewi Emrys -lost more Chairs than anyone else. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:36 | |
-I left my library -for the National Library... | 0:02:38 | 0:02:42 | |
-..home to some -of our country's treasures. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:46 | |
-In their midst, four famous Chairs. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:50 | |
-These are four stars -in the Chair world. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
-This is the earliest... | 0:02:55 | 0:02:56 | |
-..Colwyn Bay Eisteddfod, 1910. | 0:02:57 | 0:02:59 | |
-The winner was R Williams Parry -for Yr Haf. | 0:03:00 | 0:03:03 | |
-He became famous throughout Wales. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:06 | |
-He is popular to this day. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:12 | |
-It has a leather seat. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:14 | |
-It has a leather seat. - -It's a handsome chair. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:16 | |
-The mystic sign is made of ivory. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
-The goats are intricately carved. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:23 | |
-His cousin, TH Parry-Williams, -won the next Chair. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:28 | |
-He won the 1912 Wrexham -Eisteddfod Chair for Y Mynydd. | 0:03:29 | 0:03:35 | |
-It wasn't just the Chair -that TH Parry Williams took home. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:41 | |
-He won the Crown, too. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:43 | |
-He was the first to do the double. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:48 | |
-Three years later, -he did it again... | 0:03:48 | 0:03:54 | |
-..in Bangor, in 1915. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:57 | |
-He winning poem was Eryri. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:00 | |
-The Chair on the end is different, -to say the least! | 0:04:00 | 0:04:04 | |
-There are lizards snoozing -on the arms! | 0:04:04 | 0:04:08 | |
-This is the Caernarfon Eisteddfod -Chair. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:13 | |
-It started life far from Caernarfon, -in New Zealand. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:18 | |
-It was donated by -the New Zealand Welsh society. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:22 | |
-They are Maori carvings. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:24 | |
-The winner was Gwyndaf. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:28 | |
-At 22, he was -the youngest to achieve that. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:34 | |
-Gwyndaf's poem, Magdalen, -was a pioneering work. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:39 | |
-He discarded traditional measures. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
-The poem is vers libre -in cynghanedd. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:45 | |
-He's the cause of the trouble! | 0:04:45 | 0:04:47 | |
-Some people look at it that way. | 0:04:48 | 0:04:50 | |
-Others would say -he pushed boundaries. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:54 | |
-You don't have a Chair -belonging to Dewi Emrys. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:58 | |
-Yes. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:00 | |
-You do? | 0:05:01 | 0:05:02 | |
-You do? - -Yes. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:03 | |
-There's more to the first Chair... | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
-..the one R Williams Parry won. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:10 | |
-The 1943 wartime Eisteddfod... | 0:05:10 | 0:05:13 | |
-..was held in a hall in Bangor. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:18 | |
-The Eisteddfod committee -had not organized a Chair. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:23 | |
-R Williams Parry's Chair -was borrowed for the ceremony. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:28 | |
-Dewi Emrys -was the Chaired Bard that year. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:33 | |
-He was chaired in that Chair. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:37 | |
-He didn't receive a Chair -as a prize. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:40 | |
-The Eisteddfod provided a prize... | 0:05:40 | 0:05:43 | |
-..a medal designed by Goscombe John. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
-This is a photo of the prize. The -medal features the poet Taliesin. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:51 | |
-With his harp. There's -a cromlech in the background. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:57 | |
-Can I borrow this? | 0:05:57 | 0:05:59 | |
-Of course. | 0:06:00 | 0:06:01 | |
-And thanks to the boys -in the Library... | 0:06:18 | 0:06:21 | |
-..like Dewi Emrys, -I basked for a while in the sun... | 0:06:21 | 0:06:26 | |
-..in the Chair -R Williams Parry won... | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
-..for his poem to the summer. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:33 | |
-My next stop was The Eagle Inn -in Llanfihangel-ar-Arth. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:47 | |
-Apparently, there's -an Eisteddfod Chair here. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:52 | |
-Perhaps it's not a National Chair, -but it belonged to Dewi Emrys. | 0:06:53 | 0:06:58 | |
-I'm pleased to meet you. | 0:06:58 | 0:06:59 | |
-I'm pleased to meet you. - -I've come to see the Chair. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:01 | |
-Dewi Emrys's Chair is next door. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:04 | |
-You'll have to go round. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:07 | |
-I'll meet you there. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:09 | |
-A-ha! Here it is. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:17 | |
-Corwen Eisteddfod, 1923. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:22 | |
-That's a fierce looking dragon! | 0:07:23 | 0:07:25 | |
-The Chair was won in Corwen. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:28 | |
-The competition subject was Night. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:32 | |
-Dewi Emrys's poem won, -but he didn't win the Chair. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:38 | |
-No, he used my grandfather's name... | 0:07:38 | 0:07:42 | |
-..Dan Jones, who was the landlord. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:47 | |
-He couldn't write a line of poetry! | 0:07:47 | 0:07:51 | |
-I believe a telegram arrived. | 0:07:53 | 0:07:59 | |
-He didn't know -his name had been used. | 0:08:00 | 0:08:03 | |
-He didn't know? | 0:08:03 | 0:08:04 | |
-He didn't know? - -Dewi Emrys hadn't mentioned a word. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:06 | |
-As it happens, -Dewi Emrys was staying here... | 0:08:07 | 0:08:10 | |
-..in 1923 and 1924. | 0:08:11 | 0:08:13 | |
-Here's a photograph of him -outside the pub... | 0:08:14 | 0:08:19 | |
-..holding a trout. | 0:08:19 | 0:08:22 | |
-That was in 1923. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
-Why did Dewi use your grandfather's -name rather than his own? | 0:08:25 | 0:08:30 | |
-There were rumours -that he was selling the Chairs. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:34 | |
-They wouldn't give him a Chair -and that's why he used Dan Jones. | 0:08:34 | 0:08:39 | |
-I think it was his way -of saying thanks. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:43 | |
-My grandparents gave him a home. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:46 | |
-He was chaired here. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:51 | |
-Yes! | 0:08:51 | 0:08:53 | |
-And here it is, to this day. | 0:08:54 | 0:08:58 | |
-Somebody sits on it every day. | 0:08:58 | 0:09:00 | |
-Here, -it's used like any other chair. | 0:09:01 | 0:09:04 | |
-People have been known -to sleep on it! | 0:09:05 | 0:09:08 | |
-The Llanfihangel-ar-Arth -Eisteddfod makes use of it. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:12 | |
-My grandchildren's school -have it on St David's Day. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:18 | |
-Carnival queens -are chaired on it. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:22 | |
-It is used. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:25 | |
-Neither Dewi Emrys nor Dan Jones -own this Chair now... | 0:09:35 | 0:09:39 | |
-..but Llanfihangel-ar-Arth. | 0:09:39 | 0:09:41 | |
-Generations of drinkers... | 0:09:42 | 0:09:44 | |
-..and carnival queens -have sat on it. | 0:09:45 | 0:09:48 | |
-And here I am, resting my backside. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:51 | |
-Dewi Emrys won the pub Chair. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:05 | |
-But it isn't -a National Eisteddfod Chair. | 0:10:05 | 0:10:08 | |
-In Liverpool, in 1929, -Dewi won his first National Chair. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:13 | |
-I discovered there are two National -Chairs in Liverpool City Hall. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:19 | |
-Could one be Dewi Emrys's Chair? | 0:10:22 | 0:10:24 | |
-If anyone knows, -then that's Rev D Ben Rees. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:28 | |
-These are not Dewi Emrys's Chairs. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:33 | |
-No - but there's a link. | 0:10:34 | 0:10:38 | |
-They say this -is the most magnificent Chair... | 0:10:38 | 0:10:42 | |
-..ever carved for any poet. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:45 | |
-It's Pedrog's Chair. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:48 | |
-It's perfect. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:51 | |
-He won three Chairs. | 0:10:51 | 0:10:54 | |
-Almost as many as Dewi. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:56 | |
-Almost. They were very competitive. | 0:10:56 | 0:11:01 | |
-They enjoyed the glory -and the prize money. | 0:11:01 | 0:11:06 | |
-Pedrog was an important man -in Liverpool. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
-In the 1929 Eisteddfod... | 0:11:11 | 0:11:13 | |
-..when Dewi Emrys won the Chair, -Pedrog was the Archdruid. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:20 | |
-He was the Archdruid -the following year in Llanelli. | 0:11:20 | 0:11:26 | |
-This dates back even further -than Dewi Emrys or Pedrog. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:31 | |
-It dates back to 1884, -and the first Liverpool Eisteddfod. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:36 | |
-Dyfed won it. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:38 | |
-He was the Archdruid for many years. | 0:11:39 | 0:11:43 | |
-He was a great friend of Liverpool's -and came here almost every year. | 0:11:43 | 0:11:48 | |
-It's a handsome Chair. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:50 | |
-The Liver bird is looking after us. | 0:11:51 | 0:11:53 | |
-We won't drown or get lost -while this is above the City Hall... | 0:11:54 | 0:11:59 | |
-..as well as on the Chairs. | 0:11:59 | 0:12:01 | |
-It's a very early Chair. | 0:12:01 | 0:12:03 | |
-It's one of the first -National Eisteddfod Chairs. | 0:12:04 | 0:12:08 | |
-There's a lion here. | 0:12:08 | 0:12:11 | |
-Are they lions? | 0:12:12 | 0:12:14 | |
-They look more like cats! | 0:12:15 | 0:12:18 | |
-Let's sit in the peace -of the City Hall. | 0:12:18 | 0:12:22 | |
-And so I sat on Pedrog's perfect -Chair in Liverpool city centre. | 0:12:39 | 0:12:44 | |
-114 years have passed -since Pedrog first sat on it. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:49 | |
-The Welsh language -could be heard here back then. | 0:12:50 | 0:12:55 | |
-Is there peace? | 0:12:58 | 0:13:00 | |
-Well no, clearly not, -if you sit on a huge throne... | 0:13:03 | 0:13:06 | |
-..being interrogated -by inquisitive Scousers! | 0:13:07 | 0:13:11 | |
-In a house in Old Colwyn... | 0:13:14 | 0:13:16 | |
-..I've heard I can find the medal -that the late Dafydd Owen won... | 0:13:16 | 0:13:20 | |
-..at Bangor Eisteddfod, 1943. | 0:13:20 | 0:13:23 | |
-As we heard -in the National Library... | 0:13:23 | 0:13:26 | |
-..medals and not Chairs and Crowns -were awarded that year. | 0:13:27 | 0:13:31 | |
-It's exactly the same. | 0:13:32 | 0:13:34 | |
-Dewi Emrys had a similar medal -instead of a Chair in 1943. | 0:13:35 | 0:13:41 | |
-If you put three wooden spoons -underneath it... | 0:13:41 | 0:13:45 | |
-..it would make a good stool. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:47 | |
-It's not a Chair. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:50 | |
-I continued my journey. | 0:13:52 | 0:13:54 | |
-I'm determined to sit on -at least one... | 0:13:54 | 0:13:58 | |
-..of Dewi Emrys's lost Chairs. | 0:13:58 | 0:14:01 | |
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-I'm looking for lost -National Eisteddfod Chairs... | 0:14:11 | 0:14:15 | |
-..specifically those belonging -to Dewi Emrys, who won four. | 0:14:16 | 0:14:20 | |
-I haven't found one. | 0:14:20 | 0:14:22 | |
-I'm giving up on the first, -the Liverpool 1929 Chair... | 0:14:23 | 0:14:27 | |
-..to concentrate on the last one, -the Bridgend 1948 Chair. | 0:14:27 | 0:14:33 | |
-St Fagans Folk Museum -has a collection of Chairs. | 0:14:34 | 0:14:38 | |
-I can't imagine -a better person to help me... | 0:14:38 | 0:14:41 | |
-..than the co-author -of The Bardic Chair. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:46 | |
-This is the one I'm looking for... | 0:14:46 | 0:14:49 | |
-..the 1948 Bridgend -Eisteddfod Chair. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:53 | |
-We don't have the Chair -in this collection. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:58 | |
-But there are similar Chairs -in front of you. | 0:14:58 | 0:15:03 | |
-Almost the same, -except for the decorations. | 0:15:05 | 0:15:09 | |
-They're the 1953 and 1951 Chairs. | 0:15:09 | 0:15:13 | |
-At the time, the same design -was used six or seven times. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:21 | |
-Ellis Berwyn Evans's design -was used time after time. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:27 | |
-Why? | 0:15:27 | 0:15:28 | |
-I'm not sure. Perhaps it was more -convenient to have one design. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:33 | |
-The Chairs were often funded -by Welsh exiles. | 0:15:33 | 0:15:38 | |
-The 1951 Llanrwst -Eisteddfod Chair... | 0:15:38 | 0:15:41 | |
-..was won by Brinley Richards. | 0:15:42 | 0:15:46 | |
-The Chair was donated -by Welsh exiles in Patagonia. | 0:15:46 | 0:15:50 | |
-There are carvings -of indigenous South American people. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:54 | |
-The dragon is more of a feature -on this one. | 0:15:56 | 0:16:00 | |
-This was for the 1953 Rhyl -Eisteddfod. Llwyd Williams won. | 0:16:02 | 0:16:07 | |
-There are fish on the arm rests. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:12 | |
-In 1953... | 0:16:13 | 0:16:15 | |
-..Dilys Cadwaladr won the Crown. | 0:16:15 | 0:16:18 | |
-She was the first woman -to win the Crown. | 0:16:18 | 0:16:21 | |
-She was crowned in this Chair. | 0:16:21 | 0:16:23 | |
-She was Dewi Emrys's lover -and bore him a child. | 0:16:23 | 0:16:29 | |
-The Chairs are all different. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
-Some are elaborate, -some are plain. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:41 | |
-These Chairs -are like identical twins. | 0:16:43 | 0:16:47 | |
-Rather boring. | 0:16:48 | 0:16:49 | |
-Rather boring. - -There is that. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:51 | |
-I'm glad that practice ended. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:54 | |
-The Chairs can vary now. | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
-I agree. | 0:16:58 | 0:17:01 | |
-Even though -they're relevant and interesting... | 0:17:01 | 0:17:05 | |
-..you don't have -one of Dewi Emrys's Chairs. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:08 | |
-Unfortunately not. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:11 | |
-Then I received a message, -from Dewi Emrys's daughter, Nina... | 0:17:17 | 0:17:22 | |
-..who is now in her eighties. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:24 | |
-Nina believes that the Chair her -father won in Llanelli in 1930... | 0:17:25 | 0:17:30 | |
-..is in a South Wales hospital. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:33 | |
-This is the place Nina mentioned. | 0:17:34 | 0:17:37 | |
-Cefn Coed Psychiatric Hospital -is in Swansea. | 0:17:37 | 0:17:40 | |
-Dewi Emrys's father -was a patient here. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:43 | |
-He suffered from depression. | 0:17:44 | 0:17:46 | |
-As a token of gratitude -for the care his father received... | 0:17:46 | 0:17:51 | |
-..Dewi Emrys gave the Llanelli -Chair to one of the porters. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:56 | |
-Rumour has it that the Chair -is in this red church. | 0:17:57 | 0:18:02 | |
-And here it is. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:10 | |
-And here it is. - -Dewi Emrys's Chair. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:11 | |
-I've been searching so long. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:13 | |
-I've been searching so long. - -Have a look. | 0:18:13 | 0:18:14 | |
-Thanks. | 0:18:14 | 0:18:15 | |
-Thanks. - -You're welcome. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:16 | |
-This is it. | 0:18:18 | 0:18:20 | |
-Llanelli National Eisteddfod. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:23 | |
-Jesus Repress Injustice. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:27 | |
-I can't see the year. | 0:18:28 | 0:18:30 | |
-Oh, yes. | 0:18:31 | 0:18:32 | |
-It's in Art Deco style. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:35 | |
-1930. | 0:18:36 | 0:18:38 | |
-The dragon is in the same style... | 0:18:41 | 0:18:44 | |
-..and there are two harps. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:47 | |
-It's a handsome -and rather unusual Chair. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:51 | |
-I'm going to sit on it. | 0:18:53 | 0:18:55 | |
-And here I am at last... | 0:18:57 | 0:18:59 | |
-..sitting on one -of Dewi Emrys's Chairs. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:03 | |
-If there is a winner -at this year's Eisteddfod... | 0:19:14 | 0:19:17 | |
-..another Chief Bard will -take a chair home from Llanelli. | 0:19:17 | 0:19:22 | |
-But no-one can take the 1930 Chair. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:25 | |
-It's a chair in a hospital now. | 0:19:27 | 0:19:30 | |
-But it will always be -Dewi Emrys's Chair. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:34 | |
-PHONE | 0:19:42 | 0:19:44 | |
-A little later, -the broadcaster Dei Tomos phoned. | 0:19:46 | 0:19:50 | |
-He'd heard about my project. | 0:19:51 | 0:19:53 | |
-He remembered seeing -one of Dewi Emrys's Chairs... | 0:19:54 | 0:19:57 | |
-..in Chirk Castle -in the Ceiriog Valley. | 0:19:57 | 0:20:00 | |
-It was -a National Eisteddfod Chair. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:04 | |
-Chirk Castle isn't an unusual -place to find an Eisteddfod Chair... | 0:20:07 | 0:20:12 | |
-..especially -from the time in question. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:15 | |
-Between 1911 and 1946.... | 0:20:16 | 0:20:19 | |
-..it was the home -of Tom Scott-Ellis... | 0:20:19 | 0:20:22 | |
-..or the 8th Baron Howard de Walden. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:25 | |
-He was born in London -of Welsh descent. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:29 | |
-He became a benefactor -of the Arts in Wales. | 0:20:29 | 0:20:32 | |
-This is The Bow Room, -because of its shape. | 0:20:33 | 0:20:37 | |
-They're the possession -of Tom Ellis's family. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:42 | |
-And here's the Chair! | 0:20:44 | 0:20:46 | |
-Well, now then. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:50 | |
-It's a sturdy chair. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:53 | |
-The Royal National -Eisteddfod of Wales. | 0:20:54 | 0:20:57 | |
-We're on the right track. | 0:20:58 | 0:21:01 | |
-The Liver Bird. | 0:21:01 | 0:21:03 | |
-Can I lift the cushion? | 0:21:03 | 0:21:04 | |
-Can I lift the cushion? - -Yes. | 0:21:04 | 0:21:06 | |
-The poet's might is his muse. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:11 | |
-Liverpool, 1929. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:16 | |
-This is Dewi Emrys's first -National Eisteddfod Chair. | 0:21:16 | 0:21:21 | |
-The first of four. | 0:21:21 | 0:21:23 | |
-What is it doing in Chirk Castle? | 0:21:24 | 0:21:26 | |
-Tom Ellis lived in the castle. | 0:21:26 | 0:21:29 | |
-We have reason to believe that -he visited Liverpool Eisteddfod. | 0:21:29 | 0:21:34 | |
-He heard Dewi Emrys -wanted to sell the Chair. | 0:21:34 | 0:21:38 | |
-Tom Ellis bought the chair. | 0:21:39 | 0:21:41 | |
-I see - not long after -Dewi Emrys won it. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:44 | |
-I'm not sure. We believe -he went to the Eisteddfod. | 0:21:44 | 0:21:48 | |
-Was he a member of the Gorsedd? | 0:21:49 | 0:21:50 | |
-Was he a member of the Gorsedd? - -Yes, and so was his wife. | 0:21:50 | 0:21:52 | |
-That solves the great mystery. | 0:21:52 | 0:21:55 | |
-Thanks to Tom Ellis for safeguarding -Dewi Emrys's first Chair... | 0:22:11 | 0:22:17 | |
-..so that I can sit on it -in a field. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:20 | |
-Where better than a castle... | 0:22:21 | 0:22:23 | |
-..for the first throne of -Dewi Emrys, King of the Chief Bards? | 0:22:24 | 0:22:28 | |
-I didn't find all four. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:35 | |
-The Bridgend Chair might reappear -one day. We have to keep looking. | 0:22:35 | 0:22:40 | |
-I sat on all sorts -of different chairs. | 0:22:43 | 0:22:47 | |
-Big, small, beautiful and ugly... | 0:22:47 | 0:22:50 | |
-..each one reflecting a nation's -respect towards her poets. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:55 | |
-Real National Chairs. | 0:22:56 | 0:22:58 | |
-But in my opinion, none -can compare with the Meifod Chair. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:06 | |
-As Ifan Francis Bryn Du said... | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
-.."A sheep cannot win a Chair | 0:23:12 | 0:23:14 | |
-"Nor a cat, nor a dog, -nor a squirrel either | 0:23:14 | 0:23:18 | |
-"Nor a scruffy old hare | 0:23:18 | 0:23:21 | |
-"Except in gentle Montgomery" | 0:23:22 | 0:23:26 | |
-S4C Subtitles by Gwead | 0:23:48 | 0:23:50 | |
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