Rhigwm a Chân (1943)

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companyBBC
startedSep 1943
endedJun 1949
6 school years
duration20 mins
subject 🎶Music
age rangeAge 5-7 & Age 7-9
languagecyIn Welsh

Rhigwm a Chân (1943) is a Welsh-language BBC schools radio series from the 1940s, covering music for primary school pupils.

  • originally planned to begin in autumn 1939, on Fridays at 2:25pm from 29th September, but on the outbreak of war the BBC began broadcasting a single, nationwide Home Service and all Welsh language schools programmes were cancelled; some Welsh programmes resumed in spring 1940, but it was not until autumn 1943 that Rhigwm a Chân finally made it to the airwaves
  • incorporated into Storïau, Rhigwm a Chân
  • a later series called Rhigwm a Chan ran from 1958 to 1970

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