| Image Alt: | Title card for the S4C current affairs programme, Welsh: Y Byd ar Bedwar |
| Genre: | Current affairs |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | Welsh (with English subtitles) |
| Editor: | Branwen Thomas |
| Camera: | Single-camera |
| Runtime: | 24 minutes |
| Company: | ITV Cymru Wales |
| Network: | S4C |
| Last Aired: | present |
Welsh: Y Byd ar Bedwar (Welsh for The World on Four) is a Welsh-language current affairs television programme, which has broadcast on S4C since the channel was launched in November 1982.[1] It is produced by ITV Cymru Wales.
The programme's reporters have brought stories from the four corners of the world to Welsh screens. In the 1980s, long-serving reporter Tweli Griffiths secured the first interview with Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi.[2] Reports also covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Chernobyl disaster and the Persian Gulf war. The programme is also famed for securing high-profile exclusive interviews in Wales, such as with Sion Aubrey Roberts,[3] the only person to be jailed over the Meibion Glyndwr arson campaign and Ryan James,[4] a vet from Ammanford who had been wrongly jailed after being accused of murdering his wife.
More recently, a series of undercover investigations into west Wales puppy farms have led to several pressure groups to call for a change in legislation by the Welsh Government to protect animals.[5] [6] Senior producer Eifion Glyn travelled undercover to Zimbabwe in 2008 [7] to show the horrors of life there under Robert Mugabe's rule and also journeyed to Afghanistan for the second time in 2013 to produce a series of programmes documenting the lives of Welsh troops fighting the Taliban.[8] [9]
At home, a raw portrayal of the lives of two heroin addicts in Cardiff won the Best Current Affairs Award at the 2009 Celtic Media Festival.[10] In 2013, another expose of the heroin scene, this time on the island of Anglesey, won the BAFTA Cymru award for current affairs.[11] The team also secured a moving exclusive interview with the grandparents of April Jones [12] after the young girl's disappearance in 2012. Success at the BAFTA Cymru awards followed in 2014 with a moving response to Typhoon Haiyan and in 2015 with an emotional portrayal of the lack of provision for young people battling mental health issues in Wales.
Editor
Branwen Thomas