Looking back in this thread I see Roger the Skiffler wanted to know if Hob Y Deri Dando was a Welsh TV program in the early sixties - the answer is yes, I know 'cos I was in it - it's my claim to fame. Five of us in Aberystwyth University (Paul Darby, Barry Keywood, Brian Moss, Ray Banks and Eiri Jones) called ourselves the Virginia Bootleggers, and we went up to the BBC Studios in Bangor to record it. It was run by Meredith Evans (I think), and took place in a studio made to look like a barn, with bales of straw to sit on. We sang two Carter family songs in Welsh Virginia accents, while the rest of the show was in the Welsh language. Recording techniques being what they were, the whole half hour had to be done in one go, and we had to do the whole program three or four times before Mered declared it OK to record it, thus somewhat losing the spontaneity of this "informal" folk show. None of us had access to a TV, so we never saw saw it, but I heard reports that the folk world didn't think too much of the series.

Cheers
Ray