MightyTibberton
Well-Known Member
The YouTube channel, Wales in the Movies (WALES in the MOVIES) has gone to quite a lot of trouble to find copies of the famous 1985 TV series The Dragon has Two Tongues.
Unfortunately, within a couple of days of the first episode being uploaded it has been taken down for (perfectly legitimate) copyright reasons.
I managed to get in before it vanished and really enjoyed rewatching a show that was very important to me as a young man but which has been absent from the public realm since its first broadcast.
It's an interesting series stylistically, with two "historians" providing duelling accounts of the history of Wales.
One is Wynford Vaughan Thomas, (Wynford Vaughan-Thomas - Wikipedia) a broadcaster who I think you might fairly characterise as a romantic and conservative unionist.
The other, and the one perhaps more likely to be of interest to Urbans is Gwyn Alf Williams (Gwyn A. Williams - Wikipedia), a Marxist historian, who swoops over "Brother Wynford" in a helicopter in the first episode - it's all great fun!
The purpose, according to Wales in the Movie, of uploading the series was not just to unearth a forgotten piece of important Welsh telly, but also to raise a debate on Welsh history and to maybe start a campaign to get the series onto the Welsh history curiculum. (I don't have any kids and I don't know anything about how curicula and so on work...)
After the taking down of the film, Wales in the Movies is trying to find another way to get the series back into the public domain, maybe by crowdfunding a release in some way.
You can find this all on Twitter, where he seems to be doing most of the campaigning, but he may be on other social media channels too.
Just a thought! Enjoy!
Unfortunately, within a couple of days of the first episode being uploaded it has been taken down for (perfectly legitimate) copyright reasons.
I managed to get in before it vanished and really enjoyed rewatching a show that was very important to me as a young man but which has been absent from the public realm since its first broadcast.
It's an interesting series stylistically, with two "historians" providing duelling accounts of the history of Wales.
One is Wynford Vaughan Thomas, (Wynford Vaughan-Thomas - Wikipedia) a broadcaster who I think you might fairly characterise as a romantic and conservative unionist.
The other, and the one perhaps more likely to be of interest to Urbans is Gwyn Alf Williams (Gwyn A. Williams - Wikipedia), a Marxist historian, who swoops over "Brother Wynford" in a helicopter in the first episode - it's all great fun!
The purpose, according to Wales in the Movie, of uploading the series was not just to unearth a forgotten piece of important Welsh telly, but also to raise a debate on Welsh history and to maybe start a campaign to get the series onto the Welsh history curiculum. (I don't have any kids and I don't know anything about how curicula and so on work...)
After the taking down of the film, Wales in the Movies is trying to find another way to get the series back into the public domain, maybe by crowdfunding a release in some way.
You can find this all on Twitter, where he seems to be doing most of the campaigning, but he may be on other social media channels too.
Just a thought! Enjoy!
