Pobol y Cwm (People of the Valley) is a Welsh language television soap opera which has been produced by the BBC since October 1974. The longest-running television soap opera produced by the BBC, Pobol Y Cwm was originally transmitted on BBC Wales television between 1974 and 1982 and later transferred to the Welsh language television station S4C when it opened in the November of that year. It was briefly shown in the rest of the UK in 1994 on BBC2...
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Pobol y Cwm (People of the Valley) is a Welsh language television soap opera which has been produced by the BBC since October 1974. The longest-running television soap opera produced by the BBC, Pobol Y Cwm was originally transmitted on BBC Wales television between 1974 and 1982 and later transferred to the Welsh language television station S4C when it opened in the November of that year. It was briefly shown in the rest of the UK in 1994 on BBC2, with English subtitles, although the series could occasionally be spotted on BBC1 in London during periods of regional optout in the mid-late 1970s. It is consistently the most watched programme of the week on S4C.
Five episodes are produced every week, with an omnibus edition shown on Sundays.
The show is set in the fictional village of Cwmderi, supposedly located somewhere in south west Wales roughly between Llanelli and Carmarthen, though little effort is made to ensure that all the cast speak with Carmarthenshire accents. Most of the...
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