Ifanwy Rhisiart
When the interviewee was a child, Sunday night was the night she watched television. She would rush home from chapel and no-one would call. Every other night was social.Before Welsh programmes, television felt strange and distant. The living room was like a cinema at times with the people who lived in the street gathering there, and often someone would have to go onto the roof and play with the aerial. She remembers seeing the Tryweryn protests on television and asking her father if she could go to protest too. She canvassed during the Devolution Campaign in 1979 but the news was in the background, with the No side being portrayed as British, and the Yes side as Welsh. She felt that the news during the Miners' Strike reported the voice of the government and the police. She was surprised that the culture of English miners was so similar to that of South Wales.She took part in protests against the Investiture and then realised that the news told lies. After the thrill of the S4C launch she was dismayed to see how the channel developed.
