Rhian Cadwaladr

Actress and author Rhian Cadwaladr promised herself when she was a teenager that she would one day write a novel. Although since then she has written numerous scripts and shows for children, she was fifty before writing her first novel, Fi Sy’n Cael y Ci. She subsequently wrote another – Môr a Mynydd, and Plethu is her third novel published in July 2020.

Byw Llyfrau is a new Welsh-language podcast, and an exciting partnership between librarians from Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire and Ceredigion. It  is the result of the Libraries Wales Estyn Allan project. In the podcasts, the Estyn Allan team talk to different Welsh writers about their books and reading interests. Estyn Allan is a collaboration between Welsh public libraries to create digital content, led by the Society of Chief Librarians Wales (SCL Cymru) and funded by the Welsh Government.

Here is Estyn Allan in conversation with the author and actress Rhian Cadwaladr about her new cookery book Casa Cadwaladr…