On Thursday 14th November Horatio’s Garden charity held the official launch of its capital appeal for Horatio’s Garden Cardiff at the Cardiff & County Club. The charity was joined by over 150 enthusiastic new supporters, including rugby legend Sir Gareth Edwards. Everyone who attended was evidently passionate about the charity and embraced the opportunity to learn more about how Horatio’s Garden intends to plant hope in the heart of Cardiff.   Horatio’s Garden is a national charity that creates and…

  Leading Welsh bus operator NAT Group has announced an extension to its X1, X8 and 304 bus routes in Cardiff with the latest bus running until 3:15am. The additional services – which start on November 18th – will be welcomed by later commuters and those enjoying the city’s nightlife. The X1 service runs from one side of Cardiff to the other, beginning at Culverhouse Cross Tesco, continuing via Ely, Canton, City Centre, Albany Road, Llanedeyrn, Pentwyn and Pontprennau and…

Angus Munro is one of the best singer-songwriters I have ever seen. I had the pleasure of attending his concert at the Troubadour in London on 24 October and he blew me away with his talent. Accompanied by an excellent band and backing singers, he sang 15 songs, most of which he had written himself but with 2 great covers, ‘Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime’, first released by the Korgis in 1980, and ‘Every Day I Write The Book’, first…

  There can scarcely be anyone who has failed to see some iteration of Mary Shelley’s classic horror novel, Frankenstein, written when she was a mere 18 years old after dreaming the story in her sleep. However, seeing it performed on the stage was certainly new to me and many others in the audience I suspect. Rona Munro, who has written episodes of Dr Who amongst many other writing triumphs, has adapted the story into a play with a unique…

Horatio’s Garden is a national charity that creates and nurtures beautiful gardens in the heart of NHS spinal injury centres. As part of the redevelopment project being undertaken by the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board at University Hospital Llandough, the charity is building one of its award-winning gardens in the Welsh Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Centre to support everyone affected by spinal injury in Wales.   The garden is currently being designed by two-time Chelsea gold medal winner Sarah Price and is due to…

A Cardiff-based sports radio show has been shortlisted for a prestigious UK radio award for the third year in a row. The Terrace Radio Show, presented and produced by Chris O’Brien on Radio Cardiff 98.7FM, is in contention for the Sports Show of the Year accolade at the UK Community Radio Awards – to be presented on Saturday evening (October 26). O’Brien’s show hit the airwaves in July 2016 – then known as OB’s Saturday Sport Show. It has since…

REVIEW OF ‘ON YOUR FEET’ – BY ALAN COULTHARD I must confess that ‘juke box musicals’ are a guilty pleasure of mine, although I know they are not to everyone’s taste. Broadly they fall into two types, firstly where the original artist uses the opportunity of a film or stage musical to perform songs from its catalogue. These date back to the 1940s and include films such as the Beatles ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ and ‘Spice World – The Movie’….

  Sara Pickard, a prominent campaigner who has Down’s syndrome, was nominated to attend the prestigious 2019 ‘Women of the Year’ Awards. Sara, who lives near Cardiff, has been recognised for her campaign work for people with a learning disability. She has worked for Mencap Cymru, a charity which supports people with a learning disability in Wales, for 13 years. Currently, Sara is project officer at Mencap Cymru where she works on the ‘Play Our Way’ project, which brings children…

How did you set about preparing to portray such an iconic figure that is Gloria Estefan? Yeah, yeah, well, we had the absolute luxury and blessing to have Gloria with us during rehearsals back in April. So I was able to, and as she was so open, to sit down with her and talk. We also talked about the role, spoke about the story and talked about how the songs come in and out of the journey. So that was,…

Cai Morgan – Various You are nominated for ‘Various’, so does that mean you are a ‘Jack of all trades’ then Cai? [Laughs] Maybe yeah but with the job that I do, I produce a lot of content online. I don’t produce TV programmes or films that go out in cinemas, and my audience is on the internet. That could be a 15 minute film about Ketnipz (A teenage cartoonist who takes Instagram by storm) for S4C, or a short film about…