EP18: Saunders Lewis

Saunders Lewis was a Welsh writer and the founder of Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru. His reactionary, anti-socialist views put him at odds with the all-conquering socialist movement in the South Wales of the 1930s, and indeed with the centre-left Plaid Cymru of today. My guest for this conversation was T Robin Chapman, senior lecturer in Welsh Studies at Aberystwyth University.

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Kissinger said that ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad name. Each week, a guest and I discuss the life and legacy of one politician from recent times. Some are well-known, others obscure; all have left an indelible mark on our world, and often for the worse. Join me, Tom Leeman, in a journey through the corruptible and the controversial.