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March 23, 2012

Radio 4's Afternoon Play draws on complicated themes to provide a much darker offering

This drama was broadcast yesterday at 2.15pm on Radio 4.

The Afternoon Play took a dark turn in this unusual but ultimately charming black comedy from rookie Craig Hawes.

Charles Dale plays Gwilym, a socially awkward and lonely middle-aged bachelor. Mollycoddled by his neighbours and stuck in a mundane existence, Gwilym fills the void by writing letters to female prisoners from all over the world. His life is turned upside down when one of his penpals, Layla, turns up at his doorstep after being released early and an unlikely love story begins.

February 17, 2011

Friends become foes in Riverside by-election

The Riverside by-election on March 3 will see Riverside Market founder Steve Garret take on, among others, the Lib Dems' Gwilym Owen, who runs the market's website.

When Steve Garrett agreed to stand for Plaid Cymru in the forthcoming Riverside by-election, he would have expected the usual competition from candidates of other parties.

What the founder of the Riverside Market may not have expected, however, was to see the name of a colleague on the ballot sheet.

The Liberal Democrats named Gwilym Owen as their candidate to replace the outgoing Councillor Gwenllian Lansdown, pitting Steve against the man who has run the Riverside Market’s website for the past seven years.