Y bardd Ifor ap Glyn sy'n teithio o amgylch Cymru gan drio gwneud Popeth yn Gymraeg
WHY?
One man, one language, one country - one challenge. Ifor ap Glyn explains what prompted him to start on a journey around Wales, doing Popeth yn Gymraeg (Everything in Welsh)...
"It's difficult to remember exactly where the idea for this campaign came from - back in London when I was growing up for all I know!"
Early Influences
"At the end of the seventies I was getting Y Faner by post every week and reading it on the tube on my way to school, as a way of improving my Welsh. During that time, I recall reading an article about Robat Gruffudd of Y Lolfa and others calling for people to commit to only using Welsh. I didn't hear anything afterwards about how they got on but the seed was sown."
And the Welsh Language Society's famous poster, showing two people kissing beneath the words "Do Everything in Welsh", was also quite an icon.
Discovering Welsh rock was quite an eye-opener, especially Geraint Jarman who played a gig in London when I was still living there.
We take Welsh music so much for granted these days, that it's difficult to envisage now quite how revolutionary it was back at the end of the '70s.
As a band member myself a few years later and then subsequently on my travels with the bards, I developed a taste for travelling through Wales forming my own maps of the linguistic situation across our country.