Lisa Gwilym
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Lisa Gwilym (born 17th June 1975) is a Welsh TV/radio broadcaster who currently presents her own late night show on BBC Radio Cymru and the S4C arts programme, Y Sioe Gelf. Originally from Henllan in Denbighshire, Lisa began her career at S4C as a continuity announcer/presenter for the Planed Plant children's strand.
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[edit] The Uned 5 years
Then in October 2001, she joined the live teen magazine programme Uned 5 (Unit 5) as a presenter. During her time on the show, Lisa took part in the 2003 John Cooper Mini Challenge.[1] She also co-presented a special documentary with then-colleague Gethin Jones from Madagascar. This was broadcast over the Christmas holidays in 2004. Beforehand, she announced on Friday 16th December that she was leaving her presenting role. Lisa stayed at Antena Television (the company behind Uned 5) to work as a producer on the show.
[edit] C2 radio show
In Summer 2003, Lisa started her own late night radio show on Mondays and Tuesdays as part of the C2 youth strand on BBC Radio Cymru. Broadcast live from BBC Cymru's studios in Bangor, Lisa's show featured contemporary Welsh-language music, exclusive acoustic sessions, news from the industry, interviews and regular features such as a What's On guide on Mondays, an album chart update on Tuesdays, Artistiad yr Wythnos (Artist of the Week) and Can Hir (Long Song). Listeners' texts, e-mails and phone calls were also included on the live shows.
The programme was broadcast between 11:30pm and 1:00am at first but later extended by 30 minutes (with a new start time of 11:00pm). At the start of 2007, the programme was expanded to Sunday afternoons and Saturday afternoons during the summer (albeit, pre-recorded).
Lisa's 11pm show ended on Tuesday 2nd October 2007. On Thursday 11th October 2007, she started presenting a shorter, one hour show at a new time of 10pm on Thursdays and Fridays. Despite the changes, the pre-recorded Sunday afternoon show remains on-air as does the summer Saturday programme.
[edit] Y Sioe Gelf
On Tuesday 8th April 2008, Lisa returned to television presenting on a regular basis as the new presenter of Y Sioe Gelf, S4C's flagship arts programme.
[edit] Other work
Lisa has also presented S4C's coverage of the Welsh National Eisteddfod (in 2003 + 2004) and Sesiwn Fawr Dolgellau (Dolgellau's Big Session) in 2006 + 2007, alongside Huw Stephens. She has also presented highlights programmes from the Tan y Ddraig (Dragon's Fire) concert - the traditional final night of Bryn Terfel's Faenol Festival. On 16 November 2007, Lisa reported from the BBC's Bangor studios into Children in Need's Welsh opt-out coverage.
Lisa currently lives in Y Felinheli, Gwynedd.
[edit] References
- ^ John Cooper Challenge article in Welsh (HTML). Uned 5 website. Retrieved on 2008-04-09.
