Background
Edwards was born in Bridgend, Wales, into a Welsh-speaking family, and, from the age of four, was brought up in Llangennech, near Llanelli. He went to Llanelli Boys' Grammar School. He graduated with a first-class honours degree in French from University College, Cardiff in 1983. His father was the noted Welsh author and academic Hywel Teifi Edwards, who was Research Professor of Literature of Wales (Welsh language) at the University College, Swansea. His mother, Aerona Protheroe, taught at Llanelli's Ysgol Gyfun y Strade for 30 years. After his first degree, he started postgraduate work at Cardiff University in Medieval French, but moved to the BBC.
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