Wales: Culture and identity - Audio: Recent Episodes
The Open University
Wales is a vibrant nation with its own language, musical heritage and strong cultural identity. Central to this identity and a source of national pride, is rugby, which is deeply embedded in the national consciousness and explored in ‘Rugby and welsh identity’. Away from the sports pitch, this collection also looks at place and belonging, gender and race, nationalism and language, class, work, and political and cultural representation in Wales.
This material forms part of The Open University course D172 Contemporary Wales.
Gareth Williams, professor of history at the University of Glamorgan, discusses issues in Welsh life, paying particular attention to rugby.
Transcript -- Gareth Williams, professor of history at the University of Glamorgan, discusses issues in Welsh life, paying particular attention to rugby.
Transcript -- Graham Day connects place, with the notion of difference in contemporary Wales.
Transcript -- Sandra Betts and Neil Evans discuss the issues of gender and race in Welsh society.
Transcript -- Charlotte Davies draws connections between Nationalism and the Welsh language
Andrew Edwards describes how his work on Labour Traditions links with ideas of connections in Wales.
Transcript -- Andrew Edwards describes how his work on Labour Traditions links with ideas of connections in Wales.
Anwen Elias discusses the circuit of knowledge and its usefulness to social scientists.
Transcript -- Anwen Elias discusses the circuit of knowledge and its usefulness to social scientists.