Dai Jones

Dai Jones MBE (born 1943) is a Welsh television presenter and radio broadcaster. He also farms at Llanilar near Aberystwyth in Ceredigion.

He is regularly satirised on the Welsh cartoon series Cnex. He became the President of the Welsh Black Cattle Society in its centenary year 2004/2005.

Dai Jones is now most well known for presenting Cefn Gwlad, a program documenting the lives of farming families. He has hosted this show for twenty five years and 450 programmes.[1]

Dai was already well known on TV as the presenter of family quiz show Siôn a Siân when producer/director, the late Geraint Rees asked him to take the reins on Cefn Gwlad.[1] He also hosts a weekly requests programme on BBC Radio Cymru.

Dai Jones is also an accomplished tenor, winning the blue riband prize at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1970. He also released recordings with the Welsh recording label Cambrian.

He published his autobiography in 1997, entitled Fi Dai Sy' 'Ma.[2]

Awards

Jones won a BAFTA Cymru in 2004 for his contributions to Welsh television broadcasting.

Later that year, Jones also won the Sir Bryner Jones Award for his contribution to rural affairs.

In the 1999 New Year Honours, he was awarded the MBE "for services to Entertainment in Wales".[3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Press Release on Dai Jones". S4C Press Department. Retrieved 1 December 2008.
  2. ↑ www.gwales.com - 9780860741428, Cyfres y Cewri: 17. Fi Dai Sy' 'Ma
  3. ↑ "MBE civil (H - M)". BBC News. 31 December 1999. Retrieved 30 April 2010.