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*[[1 August]] – Coleg Harlech Workers' Educational Association (North Wales) is created through the merger of The Workers' Educational Association (North Wales) and [[Coleg Harlech]]. |
*[[1 August]] – Coleg Harlech Workers' Educational Association (North Wales) is created through the merger of The Workers' Educational Association (North Wales) and [[Coleg Harlech]]. |
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*[[16 September]] – To commemorate "Glyndwr Day", actress [[Siân Phillips]] unveils a memorial statue to [[Catrin Glyndŵr]] in London. |
*[[16 September]] – To commemorate "Glyndwr Day", actress [[Siân Phillips]] unveils a memorial statue to [[Catrin Glyndŵr]] in London. |
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*[[26 October]] – A memorial service to celebrate the life of [[Harry Secombe]] is held at Westminster Abbey and attended by |
*[[26 October]] – A memorial service to celebrate the life of [[Harry Secombe]] is held at Westminster Abbey and attended by the Prince of Wales (now [[Charles III]]). |
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==Arts and literature== |
==Arts and literature== |
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*[[15 March]] |
*[[15 March]] – [[Julien Macdonald]] is chosen as fashion house [[Givenchy]]'s new designer.<ref>{{cite book|author=Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf|title=Contemporary Fashion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z73uAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-348-4|page=276}}</ref> |
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*[[24 March]] |
*[[24 March]] – Opening of the exhibition ''Let [[Paul Robeson]] Sing!'' in [[Cardiff]].<ref>{{cite book|title=New Statesman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yO8eAQAAMAAJ|date=April 2001|publisher=New Statesman Limited and Contributors|page=40}}</ref> |
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*[[15 December]] – [[Rob Brydon]] wins Best TV Comedy Actor award in the British Comedy Awards. |
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*[[29 June]] - [[S4C]]'s ''Chwaraeon/Sport 2000'' promotional video has won three silver awards in the "Best In-House Promo" at the world [[Promax Awards]] ceremony in [[Miami]], [[Florida]]. |
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*[[25 December]] – [[Matthew Rhys]] and [[Tom Ward]] star in a TV adaptation of [[The Lost World (2001 film)|''The Lost World'']]. |
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*[[25 December]] - [[Matthew Rhys]] and [[Tom Ward]] star in a TV adaptation of [[The Lost World (2001 film)|''The Lost World'']]. |
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*[[Jessica Garlick]] makes the last ten in the first series of ''[[Pop Idol]]''. |
*[[Jessica Garlick]] makes the last ten in the first series of ''[[Pop Idol]]''. |
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*[[Andrew Vicari]] sells a collection of 125 paintings of the First Gulf War to Prince Khaled of [[Saudi Arabia]] for £17 million. |
*[[Andrew Vicari]] sells a collection of 125 paintings of the First Gulf War to Prince Khaled of [[Saudi Arabia]] for £17 million. |
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===Awards=== |
===Awards=== |
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*Prix Hélène Rochas |
*Prix Hélène Rochas – [[Rebecca Evans (singer)|Rebecca Evans]] |
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*[[Cardiff Singer of the World]] |
*[[Cardiff Singer of the World]] – [[Marius Brenciu]] |
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*[[Glyndŵr Award]] |
*[[Glyndŵr Award]] – [[John Meirion Morris]] |
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===National Eisteddfod (held in [[Denbigh]])=== |
===National Eisteddfod (held in [[Denbigh]])=== |
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*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair |
*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – [[Mererid Hopwood]] (first woman ever to win the chair) |
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*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown |
*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – [[Penri Roberts]] |
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*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal |
*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – [[Elfyn Pritchard]] |
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*[[Wales Book of the Year]]: |
*[[Wales Book of the Year]]: |
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**English language: [[Stephen Knight ( |
**English language: [[Stephen Knight (poet)|Stephen Knight]] – ''Mr Schnitzel'' |
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**Welsh language: [[Owen Martell]] |
**Welsh language: [[Owen Martell]] – ''Cadw dy ffydd, brawd'' |
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*Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen - |
*Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen - |
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===New books=== |
===New books=== |
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====English language==== |
====English language==== |
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*[[Malcolm Pryce]] |
*[[Malcolm Pryce]] – ''Aberystwyth Mon Amour'' |
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*[[Alastair Reynolds]] |
*[[Alastair Reynolds]] – ''[[Chasm City]]'' |
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*[[Jon Ronson]] |
*[[Jon Ronson]] – ''[[Them: Adventures with Extremists]]'' |
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*[[Carole Seymour-Jones]] |
*[[Carole Seymour-Jones]] – ''Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T.S. Eliot'' |
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====Welsh language==== |
====Welsh language==== |
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*[[Roger Boore]] and Rhian Nest James |
*[[Roger Boore]] and Rhian Nest James – ''Hoff Hwiangerddi'' |
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*[[Gwynfor Evans]] |
*[[Gwynfor Evans]] – ''Cymru o Hud'' |
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*[[:cy:Tudur Dylan Jones|Tudur Dylan Jones]] |
*[[:cy:Tudur Dylan Jones|Tudur Dylan Jones]] – ''Adenydd'' |
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*[[Angharad Tomos]] |
*[[Angharad Tomos]] – ''Cnonyn Aflonydd'' |
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===Music=== |
===Music=== |
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*[[Feeder (band)|Feeder]] |
*[[Feeder (band)|Feeder]] – ''Echo Park'' (album) |
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*[[Hilary Tann]] |
*[[Hilary Tann]] – ''The Grey Tide and the Green'', commissioned for the Last Night of the Welsh Proms and performed by the [[Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra]] conducted by [[Owain Arwel Hughes]] |
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*[[Catatonia (band)|Catatonia]] |
*[[Catatonia (band)|Catatonia]] – ''[[Paper Scissors Stone (album)|Paper Scissors Stone]]'' (album) |
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*[[Goldie Lookin' Chain]] |
*[[Goldie Lookin' Chain]] – ''Don't Blame the Chain'' (album) |
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*[[Melys]] |
*[[Melys]] – ''Chinese Whispers'' (album) |
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*[[Terris (band)|Terris]] |
*[[Terris (band)|Terris]] – "Fabricated Lunacy" (single) and ''Learning to Let Go'' (debut album) |
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==Film== |
==Film== |
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==Sport== |
==Sport== |
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*[[BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year]] – [[Joe Calzaghe]]<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Wales Sport Personality winners |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/20670643 | |
*[[BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year]] – [[Joe Calzaghe]]<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Wales Sport Personality winners |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/20670643 |publisher=BBC Sport |access-date=2 August 2021}}</ref> |
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*[[association football|Football]] – [[Liverpool F.C.]] win the [[FA Cup]] the first time it is played in Cardiff's [[Millennium Stadium]]. |
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==Births== |
==Births== |
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*[[23 March]] |
*[[23 March]] – [[Dream Alliance]], racehorse bred near Blackwood<ref>{{cite news |title=Dream Alliance: from slag heap allotment to Grand National hopeful|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/horseracing/7549783/Dream-Alliance-from-slag-heap-allotment-to-Grand-National-hopeful.html|work=Daily Telegraph|accessdate=12 December 2010|author=Marcus Armytage|date=4 April 2010}}</ref> |
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==Deaths== |
==Deaths== |
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*[[11 January]] |
*[[11 January]] – [[Lorna Sage]], critic, 57 (emphysema)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1319253/Whitbread-judges-split-over-Kneale.html|title=Whitbread judges split over Kneale|date=24 January 2001|author=Nigel Reynolds|website=The Telegraph|access-date=25 January 2020}}</ref> |
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*[[20 January]] |
*[[20 January]] – [[Crispin Nash-Williams]], mathematician, 68<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Nash-Williams.html|title=Crispin St John Alvah Nash-Williams|website=dcs.st-and.ac.uk|access-date=1 March 2019}}</ref> |
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*[[18 February]] |
*[[18 February]] – [[Claude Davey]], Wales international rugby union captain, 92<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.co.uk/rugby/story/_/id/15349495/great-welsh-centre-davey-dies|title=Great Welsh centre Davey dies|date=21 February 2001|website=ESPN|access-date=25 January 2020}}</ref> |
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*[[22 February]] |
*[[22 February]] – [[Cledwyn Hughes]], Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos, former Secretary of State for Wales, 84<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/feb/23/guardianobituaries.parliament|title=Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos|author=Andrew Roth|date=23 February 2001|website=The Guardian|access-date=1 March 2019}}</ref> |
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*[[11 April]] |
*[[11 April]] – Sir [[Harry Secombe]], singer and comedian, 79<ref>{{cite book|author=Harris M. Lentz III|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2001: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P3nGCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA262|date=16 April 2002|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-1278-5|pages=262}}</ref> |
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*[[16 April]] |
*[[16 April]] – [[Henry Morgan Lloyd]], clergyman, 89<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1317237/The-Very-Reverend-Henry-Lloyd.html|title=The Very Reverend Henry Lloyd|date=26 April 2001|website=The Telegraph|access-date=25 January 2020}}</ref> |
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*[[26 April]] |
*[[26 April]] – [[Dafydd Rowlands]], minister and writer, 69<ref>{{cite book|author=Meic Stephens|title=Necrologies: A Book of Welsh Obituaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XUIqAQAAMAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Seren|isbn=978-1-85411-476-1|page=143}}</ref> |
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*[[30 April]] |
*[[30 April]] – [[Brian Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris]], poet, critic and politician, 71<ref>{{cite book|author=Meic Stephens|title=Poetry 1900-2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ppf0CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA365|date=1 October 2007|publisher=Summersdale Publishers Limited|isbn=978-1-84839-722-4|pages=365}}</ref> |
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*[[25 May]] |
*[[25 May]] – [[Delme Bryn-Jones]], operatic baritone, 67<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s10-BRYN-DEL-1934|title=BRYN-JONES, Delme (1934-2001), opera singer|author=Trevor Herbert|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|access-date=1 March 2019}}</ref> |
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*[[10 June]] |
*[[10 June]] – [[Samuel Ifor Enoch]], theologian, 86 |
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*[[17 July]] |
*[[17 July]] – [[Val Feld]], the first member of the Welsh Assembly to die, 53 (cancer)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/aug/10/guardianobituaries.wales|title=Val Feld|author=Paul Williams|date=10 August 2001|website=The Guardian|access-date=1 March 2019}}</ref> |
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*[[19 July]] |
*[[19 July]] – [[Roderic Bowen]], MP, 87<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jul/25/guardianobituaries.socialsciences1|title=Roderic Bowen|author=Andrew Roth|date=25 July 2001|website=The Guardian|access-date=1 March 2019}}</ref> |
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*August |
*August – [[Valerie Davies]], Olympic swimmer, 89 |
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*[[19 September]] |
*[[19 September]] – [[Rhys Jones (archaeologist)|Rhys Jones]], archaeologist, 60 |
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*October |
*October – [[John Owen (author)|John Owen]], television writer (suicide) |
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*[[6 December]] |
*[[6 December]] – [[Eryl Stephen Thomas]], former Bishop of Monmouth and of Llandaff, 91<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/4619089.farewell-to-former-bishop/|title=Farewell to former bishop|date=12 December 2001|website=South Wales Argus|access-date=25 January 2020}}</ref> |
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*[[7 December]] |
*[[7 December]] – [[Ray Powell (Welsh politician)|Ray Powell]], MP, 73<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/dec/10/guardianobituaries.obituaries|title=Sir Ray Powell|date=10 December 2001|author=Andrew Roth|website=The Guardian|access-date=25 January 2020}}</ref> |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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[[Category:2001 in Wales| ]] |
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[[Category:2001 by country|Wales]] |
[[Category:2001 by country|Wales]] |
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[[Category:2001 in Europe]] |
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[[Category:2000s in Wales]] |
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 2001 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
[edit]- First Minister – Rhodri Morgan
- Secretary of State for Wales – Paul Murphy
- Archbishop of Wales – Rowan Williams
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Meirion Evans
Events
[edit]- 1 March – Peter Clarke is appointed Children's Commissioner for Wales.
- 1 June – Official opening of Cardiff Bay Barrage.
- 7 June – In the UK general election:
- Plaid Cymru retain a total of 4 seats. They lose Ynys Môn to Labour but Adam Price gains Carmarthen East and Dinefwr from Labour's Alan Williams.
- Newly elected Labour MPs include Hywel Francis (Aberavon), Mark Tami (Alyn and Deeside), Wayne David (Caerphilly), Ian Lucas (Wrexham) and Chris Bryant (Rhondda)
- Kevin Brennan replaces Rhodri Morgan as MP for Cardiff West.
- 16 June – Entrepreneur Terry Matthews is knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
- 11 July – Welsh language pressure group Cymuned is launched at a meeting in Mynytho.
- 1 August – Coleg Harlech Workers' Educational Association (North Wales) is created through the merger of The Workers' Educational Association (North Wales) and Coleg Harlech.
- 16 September – To commemorate "Glyndwr Day", actress Siân Phillips unveils a memorial statue to Catrin Glyndŵr in London.
- 26 October – A memorial service to celebrate the life of Harry Secombe is held at Westminster Abbey and attended by the Prince of Wales (now Charles III).
Arts and literature
[edit]- 15 March – Julien Macdonald is chosen as fashion house Givenchy's new designer.[1]
- 24 March – Opening of the exhibition Let Paul Robeson Sing! in Cardiff.[2]
- 15 December – Rob Brydon wins Best TV Comedy Actor award in the British Comedy Awards.
- 25 December – Matthew Rhys and Tom Ward star in a TV adaptation of The Lost World.
- November – John Bourne establishes the Wrexham Stuckists group of artists.[3]
- Jessica Garlick makes the last ten in the first series of Pop Idol.
- Andrew Vicari sells a collection of 125 paintings of the First Gulf War to Prince Khaled of Saudi Arabia for £17 million.
- Irish photographer Paul Seawright is awarded a personal chair by the University of Wales, Newport.
Awards
[edit]- Prix Hélène Rochas – Rebecca Evans
- Cardiff Singer of the World – Marius Brenciu
- Glyndŵr Award – John Meirion Morris
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – Mererid Hopwood (first woman ever to win the chair)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Penri Roberts
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – Elfyn Pritchard
- Wales Book of the Year:
- English language: Stephen Knight – Mr Schnitzel
- Welsh language: Owen Martell – Cadw dy ffydd, brawd
- Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen -
New books
[edit]English language
[edit]- Malcolm Pryce – Aberystwyth Mon Amour
- Alastair Reynolds – Chasm City
- Jon Ronson – Them: Adventures with Extremists
- Carole Seymour-Jones – Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T.S. Eliot
Welsh language
[edit]- Roger Boore and Rhian Nest James – Hoff Hwiangerddi
- Gwynfor Evans – Cymru o Hud
- Tudur Dylan Jones – Adenydd
- Angharad Tomos – Cnonyn Aflonydd
Music
[edit]- Feeder – Echo Park (album)
- Hilary Tann – The Grey Tide and the Green, commissioned for the Last Night of the Welsh Proms and performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes
- Catatonia – Paper Scissors Stone (album)
- Goldie Lookin' Chain – Don't Blame the Chain (album)
- Melys – Chinese Whispers (album)
- Terris – "Fabricated Lunacy" (single) and Learning to Let Go (debut album)
Film
[edit]- John Rhys-Davies makes his first appearance as Gimli in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
- Sara Sugarman writes and directs Very Annie Mary, featuring Welsh stars such as Jonathan Pryce, Kenneth Griffith, Matthew Rhys, Ioan Gruffudd, Mary Hopkin and Ruth Madoc.
- Rhys Ifans co-stars in The Shipping News.
- A Bollywood film, Mein Dil Tujhko Diya (I Gave You my Heart), is shot in Aberystwyth and the Elan Valley.
- In Gosford Park, Jeremy Northam plays a fictionalised version of Ivor Novello. Several of Novello's songs feature in the film's soundtrack.
- Nia Roberts stars in A Day Out.
Welsh-language films
[edit]Broadcasting
[edit]Welsh-language television
[edit]- Y Stafell Ddirgel (drama serial)
English-language television
[edit]- The Bench
Sport
[edit]- BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Joe Calzaghe[5]
- Football – Liverpool F.C. win the FA Cup the first time it is played in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.
Births
[edit]- 23 March – Dream Alliance, racehorse bred near Blackwood[6]
Deaths
[edit]- 11 January – Lorna Sage, critic, 57 (emphysema)[7]
- 20 January – Crispin Nash-Williams, mathematician, 68[8]
- 18 February – Claude Davey, Wales international rugby union captain, 92[9]
- 22 February – Cledwyn Hughes, Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos, former Secretary of State for Wales, 84[10]
- 11 April – Sir Harry Secombe, singer and comedian, 79[11]
- 16 April – Henry Morgan Lloyd, clergyman, 89[12]
- 26 April – Dafydd Rowlands, minister and writer, 69[13]
- 30 April – Brian Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris, poet, critic and politician, 71[14]
- 25 May – Delme Bryn-Jones, operatic baritone, 67[15]
- 10 June – Samuel Ifor Enoch, theologian, 86
- 17 July – Val Feld, the first member of the Welsh Assembly to die, 53 (cancer)[16]
- 19 July – Roderic Bowen, MP, 87[17]
- August – Valerie Davies, Olympic swimmer, 89
- 19 September – Rhys Jones, archaeologist, 60
- October – John Owen, television writer (suicide)
- 6 December – Eryl Stephen Thomas, former Bishop of Monmouth and of Llandaff, 91[18]
- 7 December – Ray Powell, MP, 73[19]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf (2002). Contemporary Fashion. St. James Press. p. 276. ISBN 978-1-55862-348-4.
- ^ New Statesman. New Statesman Limited and Contributors. April 2001. p. 40.
- ^ "About us". Stuckism Wales. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
- ^ Ifans, Rhys (2000). "Archif Genedlaethol Sgrin a Sain Cymru/Against the Dying of the Light (search for Jack Jewers)". Promotional film (10 minutes). The National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales. pp. Cell E123 8313. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
- ^ "BBC Wales Sport Personality winners". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ Marcus Armytage (4 April 2010). "Dream Alliance: from slag heap allotment to Grand National hopeful". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
- ^ Nigel Reynolds (24 January 2001). "Whitbread judges split over Kneale". The Telegraph. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
- ^ "Crispin St John Alvah Nash-Williams". dcs.st-and.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ "Great Welsh centre Davey dies". ESPN. 21 February 2001. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
- ^ Andrew Roth (23 February 2001). "Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Harris M. Lentz III (16 April 2002). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2001: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture. McFarland. p. 262. ISBN 978-0-7864-1278-5.
- ^ "The Very Reverend Henry Lloyd". The Telegraph. 26 April 2001. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
- ^ Meic Stephens (2008). Necrologies: A Book of Welsh Obituaries. Seren. p. 143. ISBN 978-1-85411-476-1.
- ^ Meic Stephens (1 October 2007). Poetry 1900-2000. Summersdale Publishers Limited. p. 365. ISBN 978-1-84839-722-4.
- ^ Trevor Herbert. "BRYN-JONES, Delme (1934-2001), opera singer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Paul Williams (10 August 2001). "Val Feld". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Andrew Roth (25 July 2001). "Roderic Bowen". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ "Farewell to former bishop". South Wales Argus. 12 December 2001. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
- ^ Andrew Roth (10 December 2001). "Sir Ray Powell". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 January 2020.