Non Fiction
Category: Current Affairs, Non Fiction
Number of pages: 164
ISBN: 9781854112934
Publication date: November 14, 2000
Price: £8.95
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From Ron Davies’s ’moment of madness ’ to the Lib-Lab pact the new Welsh Assembly has had fraught beginnings. Patrick Hannan scrutinises the sagas of Ron and Alun and Rhodri and Rod, placing them in the complicated context of the organisations and people who set the agenda of public life in Wales.
The humiliating failure of Labour’s attempts to control Wales from London; Plaid Cymru’s anti-independence stance; inter-party manoeuvring in the Assembly; trouble for the Welsh establishment at its club; increasing difficulties for the monarchy: these are the strands which make the state of Wales. This is a compelling story about both Wales and Britain, and one which, as Hannan discovers, is also richly comic
Patrick Hannan
Patrick Hannan was a writer, broadcaster and journalist. During his career he was Industrial Editor of The Western Mail and for thirteen years he was the BBC’s Welsh Political Correspondent. As a television producer he made documentaries for BBC2, BBC Wales and HTV. For many years he was a regular writer and presenter for Radio 4. He was also a newspaper columnist and contributed to a wide variety of publications as well as being the editor of two books on broadcasting in Wales.
