1976 in Wales - Arts and Literature

Arts and Literature

  • Dic Jones loses the National Eisteddfod chair on a technicality.
  • Actor Stanley Baker is given a knighthood, a few months before his death.
  • Griff Rhys Jones becomes Vice-President of the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club.
  • Mistar Urdd is created by Wynne Melville Jones.

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