Talkative Scot
26th March 1976, Page 72
26th March 1976
Page 72
Page 72, 26th March 1976
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Last Friday our deputy editor replied for the guests at the South Wales RHA dinner in Cardiff. "A fairly routine affair," you say, "hardly worth a mention." Perhaps, but he replied in Welsh.
The speech was prepared in English and translated into Welsh by the Welsh Tourist Board and then carefully rehearsed: but he needed a guinea pig to try it on.
Lady luck smiled when Di Thomas of the Welsh Theatre Company phoned CM to ask how to get the company's pantechnicon through Scandinavia on a forthcoming tour. The dep ed swopped the information in exchange for an appraisal of his speech.
Next week the CM man is speaking to Iranians, Syrians, Kuwaitis and Egyptians, but this time in his own brand of English.