"Synopsis of the Great Welsh Novel" by Harri Webb (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

Quotation from wiki:
"Webb's poetry is marked in its themes by his radical and uncompromising commitment to Welsh nationalist politics, coupled with a quasi-Christian sensibility. In form, his writing was often deliberately simple and comic, in order that it could reach a wide audience and so have the desired political effect."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harri_Webb

"Seen though the eyes of a sensitive boy" is a reference to "How Green Was my Valley" by Richard Llewellyn. to quote wiki "The novel is set in Wales in the reign of Queen Victoria. It tells the story of the Morgans, a poor but respectable mining family of the South Wales valleys, through the eyes of the youngest son, Huw Morgan." Just to be snide the author only seems to be Welsh: he was in fact English and only spent time in Wales to do the research for his novel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Green_Was_My_Valley

I couldn't find a picture of Harri. However I did find one of his major works, which concerns itself with the undying admiration that the Welsh have for the English, look you.

There is no truth in the rumour that Harri Webb was originally called Cliff Richard or that he was lead singer with The Shadows. (To explain this joke, the popular singer Cliff Richard was originally called Harry Webb)

I am not Welsh and I don't normally speak with a Welsh accent, as you might have suspected.

If you're Welsh then I am truly sorry. But look at it this way, at least you're British, isn't it?

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