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Here's part 2 of a two part interview with the fascinating and highly eclectic William Hayter.*Credit to Francesco Paladino - WILLIAM HAYTER — SOUND BEFORE GENRETo describe William Hayter simply as a drummer is to describe only one part of his musical identity.He is certainly a drummer and percussionist, but also a recording engineer, producer, arranger, curator, sound designer and experimental musician. His career does not follow the conventional rock trajectory of band, album, tour and solo career. Instead, it forms a network connecting DIY cassette culture, free improvisation, hard rock, post-punk, folk, Canterbury, psychedelia, progressive music, electronics, found sound and musique concrète.Hayter describes himself as a “Drummer, Percussionist, Sound Engineer, Producer, Sonic Explorer, Sound Designer and Experimental Musician.” The crucial phrase may be “sonic explorer.” From the beginning, his work suggests a stronger interest in the possibilities of sound itself than in allegiance to any particular genre.Part Two in particular, investigates the notion of creativity and how that run's htrough wide array of published work.To access William Hayter and his music outputs, visit https://williamhayter.bandcamp.com/album/singing-a-song-in-the-morning-an-affectionate-tribute-to-the-music-of-kevin-ayers

Here's part 1 of a two part interview with the fascinating and highly eclectic William Hayter. *Credit to Francesco Paladino - WILLIAM HAYTER — SOUND BEFORE GENRE To describe William Hayter simply as a drummer is to describe only one part of his musical identity. He is certainly a drummer and percussionist, but also a recording engineer, producer, arranger, curator, sound designer and experimental musician. His career does not follow the conventional rock trajectory of band, album, tour and solo career. Instead, it forms a network connecting DIY cassette culture, free improvisation, hard rock, post-punk, folk, Canterbury, psychedelia, progressive music, electronics, found sound and musique concrète. Hayter describes himself as a “Drummer, Percussionist, Sound Engineer, Producer, Sonic Explorer, Sound Designer and Experimental Musician.” The crucial phrase may be “sonic explorer.” From the beginning, his work suggests a stronger interest in the possibilities of sound itself than in allegiance to any particular genre. Part One looks back at William's work and his passion for experimentation with sound and fondness for collaborating with others who share those passions. To access William Hayter and his music outputs, visit   https://williamhayter.bandcamp.com/album/singing-a-song-in-the-morning-an-affectionate-tribute-to-the-music-of-kevin-ayers

You may remember Jack Laidlow from the YYFM Music Request shows a few years ago. Possibly not, it was quite a while. Anyhow, on his hiatus, he came across a particularly interesting diary, telling the story of a peculiar chap who meets an articulate pooch and a prodigious ice cream peddler, all whilst trying to prevail at ‘The Great Pedalo Race’. Here's Chapter 5. Title Music: Silly Jazz by Geoff Harvey - Purple Planet Music, Free Music Archive, CC BY Other Music:Dance 11 by Magneta Six, Free Music Archive, CC BY

You may remember Jack Laidlow from the YYFM Music Request shows a few years ago. Possibly not, it was quite a while. Anyhow, on his hiatus, he came across a particularly interesting diary, telling the story of a peculiar chap who meets an articulate pooch and a prodigious ice cream peddler, all whilst trying to prevail at ‘The Great Pedalo Race’. Here's Chapter 4. Title Music: Silly Jazz by Geoff Harvey - Purple Planet Music, Free Music Archive, CC BY Other Music:Dance 11 by Magneta Six, Free Music Archive, CC BY

Here is a lovely interview with two of our former content co-ordinators, Alaw and Lauren, both formerly students at the University of South Wales. They tell us here all about their new company, 'Soul Stori' and how it came about.

You may remember Jack Laidlow from the YYFM Music Request shows a few years ago. Possibly not, it was quite a while. Anyhow, on his hiatus, he came across a particularly interesting diary, telling the story of a peculiar chap who meets an articulate pooch and a prodigious ice cream peddler, all whilst trying to prevail at ‘The Great Pedalo Race’. Here's Chapter 3. Title Music: Silly Jazz by Geoff Harvey - Purple Planet Music, Free Music Archive, CC BY Other Music:Dance 11 by Magneta Six, Free Music Archive, CC BY

You may remember Jack Laidlow from the YYFM Music Request shows a few years ago. Possibly not, it was quite a while. Anyhow, on his hiatus, he came across a particularly interesting diary, telling the story of a peculiar chap who meets an articulate pooch and a prodigious ice cream peddler, all whilst trying to prevail at ‘The Great Pedalo Race’. Here's Chapter 2. Title Music: Silly Jazz by Geoff Harvey - Purple Planet Music, Free Music Archive, CC BY Other Music:Dance 11 by Magneta Six, Free Music Archive, CC BY

You may remember Jack Laidlow from the YYFM Music Request shows a few years ago. Possibly not, it was quite a while. Anyhow, on his hiatus, he came across a particularly interesting diary, telling the story of a peculiar chap who meets an articulate pooch and a prodigious ice cream peddler, all whilst trying to prevail at ‘The Great Shetland Pedalo Race’. Here's Chapter 1. Title Music: Silly Jazz by Geoff Harvey - Purple Planet Music, Free Music Archive, CC BY Other Music:Dance 11 by Magneta Six, Free Music Archive, CC BY

Here's another Creatrium Podcast. A podcast that explores how we interpret creativity and the ways in which it influences our everyday lives. This one features Dr Rob Campbell. Rob is a writer of fact and fiction, journalist, tutor, editor and historian.Published in the Bath Short Story Award Anthology.Editor of The Devon Historian.Debut novel CENTURY out now on Amazon. Based Bristol/Devon.To find out more, visit:https://substack.com/@robcampbell859089 www.robcampbellmedia.com CENTURY, an historical novel

The Creatrium podcast is a series hosted and produced by Steve Johnson that explores different personal views on creativity and its effect on daily life. To access the whole series, visit https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/creatrium. Here is Episode 38 of the full series. This one features Mike Church, Mike worked as a Deputy Headteacher until 2007 and has worked as a freelancer ever since. He is an award winning writer who has worked extensively with schools and community groups. He represented Wales at the first ever UK National Poetry Slam in 1997 and was a CBBC Awesome Author in 2016.He is a passionate library campaigner and chained himself, and three others, to his own library in Rhydyfelin to prevent closure. A battle they ultimately won in the High Court.Mike is currently working with Caerphilly Council and Petra Publishing to turn the borough into the first ‘Reading for Pleasure’ local authority in the UK.

Here's a new story from Jon Forman, hospital chaplain with ABUHB and volunteer with YYFM. it's well worth listening right to the end of the story, as it contains a valuable message for all of us.

Here's singer, songwriter and music luminary, Wendy James. She brings her original band back to the UK this year for the first time since 1991! She's always a forthright and interesting person to speak to and this was no exception!

Here's a bilingual (Welsh and English) version of this lovely Christmas play, especially for those keen to develop their knowledge of the Welsh language. Each Welsh line is followed by the English translation. We hope this helps people to enjoy learning Welsh. Nadolig Llawen eto! - Merry Christmas again!

We're very grateful to the Dysgu a Drama group for sharing this recording of their seasonal story, Sion Corn yng Nghaerfili (Father Christmas in Caerphilly). The story was written by Rob Hopkins and voiced by the group's volunteers. Nadolig Llawen (Merry Christmas)!

Jimmy Stokes is a populat local author and has spoken to YYFM previously. He returns here, to talk with Tom Isaac about his latest publication. To find out more about Jimmy and his books, please visit this site: https://jimmystokes.ampbk.com/#author.