Great reviews for Cambrensis' television programme Jennie!

You can still watch the programme online on: www.s4c.co.uk/gwylio

Campaigner's efforts to get TV airing
Feb 25 2008 by Karen Price, Western Mail

The life of a prominent campaigner against the establishment of a dedicated Welsh-language-only TV channel is the subject of a new drama-documentary.
Jennie will be screened on S4C tomorrow — 25 years after the channel was launched.

Jennie Eirian Davies's main concern stemmed from her belief that Wales lacked the necessary depth of talent needed to support a Welsh-language — only service, which would inevitably lead to poor programming standards and in turn long-term damage to the language.

Actress Rhian Morgan plays Jennie — one of the most significant members of the Welsh establishment between the 1950s and '80s — on screen.

The programme features contributions from Branwen Jarvis, Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Gwilym Owen, and Jennie's eldest son Siôn Eirian.

Producer Arwel Ellis Owen said:

'Jennie had been a heroine of mine since college days. She inspired a generation of journalists to be with her independent mind and expansive interests through her unique style of writing and presentation of ideas.

The Welsh language print industry was ineffective before Jennie came on the scene, but as soon as she took up the editorship of Y Faner, there suddenly became an edge and a verve to the leading Welsh language weekly publication.'

The programme tracks Jennie's 'spiritual journey' from her birth in Llanpumsaint, Carmarthenshire, in 1925. She then went to University College, Aberystwyth, and it was here that she met her own 'young bohemian', Eirian Davies, a student preacher who became her husband.

The programme follows Jennie's quest for political power. She stood twice as a Plaid Cymru parliamentary candidate in Carmarthen West.

One of the main highlights of Jennie's life was her period as editor of Y Faner, a publication that became a vehicle for its editor's radical ideas.

She resigned from the editorship of Y Faner a few days before her untimely death in May 1982.