T H Parry Williams
Sir T.H.Parry Williams describes his childhood in this archive film from 1966.
Lisa Gwilym presents the programme from the village of Rhyd Ddu where T.H.Parry Williams was born, the son of a headmaster.
His happy childhood was shattered at the age of eleven, when his early academic promise won him a scholarship to Porthmadog school. He had to leave his family and spend a lonely six years in lodgings in Porthmadog, where he longed to return to Rhyd Ddu.