Eve Myles is currently well known for Keeping Faith, but Carl Marsh chats theatre, and, Torchwood. Do you miss the theatre as I know this is where you did a lot of acting work before? Yes I miss it very, very much as I am always being offered some lovely, lovely stuff in theatre but you know, I have a four and an eight-year-old, and I live in Cardiff, and the thought of going away to London and West End…

Geraint Thomas – chats to Carl Marsh just before the announcement of the BBC Wales and BBC GB Sports Personality of the Year 2018 Awards was announced. He won both! Cycling is probably one of the cleanest sports at the moment, and negatives from before have been turned into a lot of positives now, does this mean that the future of cycling is just going to get better and better? Yes, I think so, obviously, in any walk of life…

Appearing at the Sherman Theatre on the 11th January 2019 – comedian Phil Nichol chats frankly with Carl Marsh. What do you want the audience to take from your show? Well, first and foremost it’s a comedy show so I want the audience to have a good laugh and I want them to go away feeling uplifted having had a good night but, I’ve been working for the last 13 years or so writing these longer-form narrative shows which are…

Matt Pritchard – he who was in Dirty Sanchez but now is in Dirty Vegan on BBC One Wales, he talks to Carl Marsh about veganism, innuendos and protein! If I can ask about the initial idea for your cooking show Dirty Vegan, how did it all come about? So, when I turned vegan three years ago, and I was a chef anyway as that is what I trained as before Dirty Sanchez and was what I did as soon…

Guests at Hilton’s annual charity ball have raised more than £23,000 for local charities at the gala evening.   More than 250 guests attended the black-tie event at Hilton Cardiff to raise money in aid of the Cardiff City FC Community Foundation and DM Thomas Foundation.   Guest host of the evening was British Comedy Award winner, singer and comedian Mike Doyle who entertained guests alongside a delicious three-course meal designed by Mark Freeman the Head Chef at Hilton.  …

  Residents of Wales are being urged to be more adventurous in 2019, with results from a survey revealing that 27 per cent haven’t tried something new in more than a year. The results also showed the average Welsh person tried something new every 20 weeks, making them the UK’s least adventurous region. The average Brit tries something new every 15 weeks. The stats are revealed in new research from Boundless, the events and experiences club for public sector workers,…

I attended their show on Monday evening (17th December) at St Davids Hall. I went with a friend who had actually seen the Beatles live in Cardiff back in the day, and with the two of us being huge fans I wasn’t sure what to expect. who could possibly create that sound? Well the evening was a massive success! Not only did they dress the part but they were so authentic – they were great musicians and the sound and…

The national charity DEBRA announces it is funding a clinical trial to investigate the use of cannabinoid medicines to treat pain and itch in adults with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). EB is a potentially fatal skin condition which affects over 5,000 people in the UK. The biggest challenge for suffers of EB is living with the pain and itching caused by the condition. UK based charity DEBRA, the only national charity supporting people suffering from EB, is launching a patient driven…

And every so often I find something. Washed up on the shore. Something lost. Something old. Something broken. Something in need of repair. And I’d bring it back here. I’d bring it home. With their first foray into new writing, Chippy Lane Productions present the world premiere of BLUE – the debut play of young Welsh writer Rhys Warrington. BLUE shines a light on the current state of innumerable families across Wales, one of the most pressing issues facing the…

  The story at the heart of a new BBC One prime-time drama, Care, which aired yesterday evening at 9pm, is too often the stark reality for countless people at the mercy of a broken social care system, just like Megan Jones, a mum of three from Carmarthen. The powerful drama – inspired by the real life experiences of scriptwriting legend Jimmy McGovern’s fellow writer Gillian Juckes – follows single mother Jenny (Sheridan Smith), suddenly thrown into caring for her…