Don’t blame the X factor.

Children, it’s claimed, no longer want to be nurses, police officers or teachers, they want to be famous and earn millions, irrespective of whether they have any talent. The explanation for this change? The X Factor.

Personally I can’t stand the programme, but I don’t think it’s responsible for a generation of kids…

Equality – made in Merthyr

The film ‘Made in Dagenham’, which charts the fight for equal pay of women machinists at Ford, was filmed at the former Hoover factory in Merthyr Tydfil. But the Hoover plant had an equality struggle of its own, in the early 1980s, when the then union agreed with…

It ain’t what you say….

Not long after the first showing by Sky of A Town Like Merthyr I was filming in the Gurnos with my colleague Nicola Ebdon. We were shooting for a short film for European Year of Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. Within a short time a small crowd had…