TV & Radio

What’s the Point in Going Green? – BBC 1 Wales, December 2009

We throw away half the food we buy, we dump tv’s, computers and mobiles even though they are still working and we waste vast amounts of energy in our homes! Sarah Dickins meets people who are already changing the way they live and she discovers that you can be greener – softer on the environment – and save money! While politicians debate strategies for combating climate change this is a must watch practical guide to cutting back the amount of energy we use the power our lives and the make all the “stuff “ we buy .

Boys Stories – BBC Radio Wales, March 2009

Boys in Wales are lagging so far behind the girls at school that the Welsh Assembly Government has signed up the Nation’s top rugby players to try to get reluctant boys reading. In Boys Stories, Sarah Dickins hears from boys of all ages why they are struggling to keep up with the girls, why the gender gap matters and what needs to happen for the gap to be narrowed and for Wales’ boys to flourish.

Boxing is Fighting Back – BBC Radio Wales, May 2008

Schools and politicians are turning to boxing to turn around wayward boys and girls. This is the story of one teenager who says boxing saved his life. After years of drugs and drink, and virtually no school, he turned his life around with the help of the champion Welsh boxer from Yemen – Mo Nasir.

Making Changes for BBC Wales – Your Wales Today , September 2007

Ten Welsh sixteen years olds – themselves at risk of falling outside society – worked for a week in the slums of Nairobi to refurbish a slum school. The result didn’t just change the lives of the Kenyans they visited. For the first time these teenagers were proud of themselves and returned vowing to change their bad ways.

Wales’ Last Brigader - May 2006

Celtic Media Festival , Best Documentary , BBC Radio Wales

Two emotionally charged programmes about Alun Menai Williams - the last surviving Welshman of the International Brigades who fought in the Spanish Civil War against a Fascist uprising led by General Franco. For more than sixty years he kept silent about the memories that haunted him . In these programmes Sarah Dickins discovers what made this non-political miner from Gilfach Goch join the fight for democracy in Spain and Sarah takes him back to the battlefields for the first time . There, he describes how the painful memories come flooding back as they return to where so many of his friends died and he reflects on the lessons learned from that bitter war.

El Retorn De L'Ultim Brigadista International Gales a L'Ebre - broadcast in the Trenta Minuts series on Barcelona based channel TV3 . April 2006. Catalan version of Return Journey.

Return Journey – BBC One Wales – November 2005.

( repeated seven times ) TV3 – Catalan Television – January 2006 Nearly seventy years ago around two hundred men left their families in Wales to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. Alun Menai Williams is the last surviving Welsh veteran. At 93 he’s going back to the battlefields of Spain for the first time. Many of the friends he grew up with in Gilfach Goch and the Rhondda died there and their bodies are now part of the Spanish soil. By going back Alun Menai Williams hopes to confront the ghosts that have been haunting him for seventy years.