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Gareth and Esyllt<\/p>\n Gareth and Esyllt<\/p>\n
Nation.Cymru Team <\/p>\n
Two comedy stars are launching a brand new series on BBC Radio Wales, to be broadcast from 16 May to 6 June.<\/p>\n
Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears of the I\u2019m So Not Over It podcast will host a new show on Saturdays from 5-7pm, Gareth and Esyllt\u2019s Scrapbook will see them focus on specific years from the 1980s onwards, gathering anecdotes, news, listener contributions and playing the music of the time, all with the aim of compiling the ultimate sonic scrapbook.<\/p>\n
Gareth Gwynn has written for The News Quiz, The Now Show, Have I Got News For You and many more. He is the co-writer of the several sitcoms. On BBC Radio 4 he presented Gareth Gwynn Hasn\u2019t Fin- (\u201cHilarious\u201d \u2013 The Guardian). This summer he is taking his debut stand-up show Cyril to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.<\/p>\n
Esyllt Sears is a stand-up comedian, comedy writer and one of the presenters of the Comedy Club (BBC Radio 4 Extra). She has performed on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 Extra and BBC One Wales in English and on S4C in Welsh.<\/p>\n
Gwynn said: \u201cThis show was inspired by my real, early 1990s scrapbook which, if I\u2019m honest, didn\u2019t provide a coherent snapshot of the era. Yes there\u2019s an Italia 90 wall chart and the map for the Garden Festival of Wales, but also lots and lots of newspaper articles about dinosaurs and\/or space. This BBC Radio Wales show seems a much better balance\u201d.<\/p>\n
The show will include cooking segments, clips from the archive and special guests; comedian Sunil Patel as the show\u2019s correspondent reporting from the past, other comedians Josie Long and Miles Jupp pop in for a chat, and also Gareth\u2019s mum.<\/p>\n
Sears said: \u201cGareth and I have been podcasting together for the past five years and our whole MO is recent history so, adding music that is evocative of years gone by felt like the next natural step. Does this mean I\u2019ll be playing Kylie every hour on the hour? Possibly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like to think we\u2019re an audio national library, curating snapshots from the past 40 years into a scrapbook that can\u2019t fray and discolour over time, because it\u2019s on radio, not paper.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gareth and Esyllt\u2019s Scrapbook is produced by Mighty Bunny.<\/p>\n