Cadair blygu a cneifio

From the collection of

Archif Sgrin a Sain Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales Screen and Sound Archive
Established in 2001, the National Library of Wales Screen and Sound Archive holds an unrivalled collection of films, TV and radio broadcasts, video tapes and sound recordings relating to Wales and the Welsh, from 1898 to the present day. The collection spans multiples formats and genres, both professional and amateur.

Cadair blygu a cneifio


This film combines three fantastically unrelated activities: putting up a deckchair, shearing sheep and selling onions.

Guto Roberts, the actor renowned for his role as ‘Fo' in the Welsh language TV series ‘Fo a Fe', and as the first character to speak in the first ever episode of ‘Pobl y Cwm', the Welsh-language TV soap, here makes an amusing meal of putting up a deckchair in the garden. Following on, long-suffering sheep endure the electric shears and an onion seller visits with his vegetable wares. Guto, after his labours, lights a cigarette, to puff his cares away.

Guto Roberts was exceedingly well known as ‘Fo', the north Walian father of a son who, to his father's horror, married a woman from the south, thus making the two fathers into relatives of a sort. ‘Fo' is the north Walian word for he/him, ‘Fe', the south Walian equivalent. It was one of the most popular Welsh-language sit-coms ever, broadcast on the BBC from 1970 until 1977 when ‘Fe' – Ryan Davies – died unexpectedly young. Guto Roberts, from Rhoslan, near Cricieth, was also a writer, poet, film-maker and local historian.


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