Betsan powys biography

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A native Welsh speaker · Joined BBC Wales as a news trainee in 1989, before joining the newsroom in Cardiff as a bilingual reporter · Has.
Betsan Powys, is a Welsh journalist and former Editor of Programmes for BBC Radio Cymru.

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Baulking

I once found myself in a pretty sticky situation in Bosnia.

I was working for HTV Wales, based in Split but determined to be the first Welsh journalist to get to Bugojno in Bosnia to interview Royal Welch Fusiliers whose colleagues and in some cases, brothers were being held hostage in the Muslim town of Gorazde.

The Australian cameraman and I set off at dawn, having been advised that setting off early gave us the best chance of making it in one piece .The thinking went like this: the snipers would have been drinking a lot to fend off the cold of the night and wouldn't be in any condition to aim straight. I thought how pleased my mother would be to know that, as we headed off.

We'd nearly made it when we came to yet another checkpoint, the last we hoped before arriving in Bogojno. We'd been through countless checkpoints already, all manned by Croats who'd waved us through with our countless accreditation papers and press passes, including in my case a HTV Wales pass.

But this time, as I flashed my pass their faces fell, the guns came out and so did I from the ca

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BBC journalist honoured

Betsan Powys being received as Fellow by the University’s Vice-President, Mrs Elizabeth France CBE

BBC journalist and Radio Cymru Programmes Editor, Betsan Powys, has been presented as Fellow of Aberystwyth today 10 July.

An Aberystwyth German and Drama graduate, Betsan was presented by Alwena Hughes Moakes, the University’s Policy and Executive Officer.

Recently appointed as Editor of Programmes for Radio Cymru, Betsan has a wealth of broadcasting and presenting experience.

She joined the BBC in 1989 as a News Trainee and has since carved out a successful career as a bilingual bi-media presenter and political blogger.

A familiar face on the BBC and S4C, Betsan has presented a number of political news programmes including Panorama, Week In Week Out and Byd ar Bedwar.

Presentation of Betsan Powys by Alwena Hughes Moakes.

Is-Lywydd, Is-Ganghellor, darpar raddedigion, gyfeillion.

Pleser o’r mwyaf yw cyflwyno Betsan Powys yn gymrawd Prifysgol Aberystwyth.

Vice-President, Vice-Chancellor, prospective graduates and suppor

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Betsan Powys

Welsh journalist

Betsan Powys (born 1965), is a Welshjournalist and former Editor of Programmes for BBC Radio Cymru.^[1]

Biography

Powys was born in Cardiff.^[2] A native Welsh speaker after being educated at Ysgol Gyfun Llanhari, Powys joined BBC Wales as a News Trainee in 1989, before joining the newsroom in Cardiff as a bilingual, bi-media reporter. Moving to Current Affairs in 1994 she reported undercover, where one investigation required her to pose as one half of a swinging couple in the "Garden of Eden", a West Wales brothel.^[3]

Powys then presented the Welsh language news programme Newyddion, was chief reporter on the European current affairs series Ewropa, and joined Huw Edwards to front United Kingdom national election specials.

Powys was lent for a period to BBC One's flagship current affairs programme Panorama, during which time she returned to Wales to give birth to her daughter. Her first report for Panorama was an investigation into the way Jehovah's Witnesses deal with allegations of child abuse, w