I watched the birthday program/episode whatever and I’m sure that there isn’t anyone from the first episode still in it.
Also, imho, I wouldn’t fuss too much about not getting to see the very first episode, it’s 11 mins I won’t get back. 
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I’m spending the week on Ynys Môn (attempting to siarad Cymraeg cymaint a phosib, wrth cwrs!) so I had to stop by the set yesterday to see it in person. And then, this morning I was driving up Lon Cilbedlam and noticed there was some movement on the set. Lo and behold there were the actors who play Iolo and Mathew just chatting away in front of Sgram. It was difficult, but I resisted the urge to turn around to spy on the filming. 
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Da iawn boi. I would have just stood there, gawping like an idiot. 
Seriously, I’m slightly jealous. I have (unofficially) visited the set, but the only action taking place was being done by the cleaners!
One lucky lot of northern bwtcampwrs got to visit it officially, some years ago.
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Manon Elis, “Michelle” from Rownd a Rownd, is a guest on “ar Fore Sul” today.
(available on BBC iPlayer for 29 days, at the time of writing).
@hendraig posted this in another thread, but I’ll reply to it here in a more specific RaR thread:
It would be good if S4C published a ‘story so far’ for everyone who comes to rownd a rownd midway through! Is there anyone on the Forum who has seen enough to send in a resume?
This site is helpful for the characters (although the list isn’t always up to date):
http://www.s4c.cymru/rowndarownd/
See http://www.s4c.cymru/rowndarownd/cymeriadau/
Now, if you look at http://www.s4c.cymru/rowndarownd/pennodau/
(under the “beth sy’n digwydd” tab), you will find a summary of recent episoedes (and you can get it in Saesneg if you wish).
Now that used to be rêli rêli good, because it went back quite a long way, so you could easily pick up the story, even if you hadn’t seen it for ages, or ever. But for some reason, they changed it so instead of going back for “ever”, after you look back 3 or 4 episodes, it just repeats the same episodes over and over. I think it may actually be a technical issue, rather than what they intended. I did try emailing them about it, but got no response. I realise their resources are probably limited.
Something else that happened around that time was that the episode summaries also stopped appearing on the Clic web page for each episode, although you could still find them in the schedule listing , on the main S4C website. Again, I assumed this was probably limited resources biting.
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By random means I found an old story summary page, and using the date forward and back links at the bottom, you can go forward and backward quite a long way. I have not found out exactly how far yet!
http://www.s4c.cymru/rowndarownd/e_/pennodau/dydd-iau-medi-29/
That is 2015 I believe.
This is the beginning of the following year:
http://www.s4c.cymru/rowndarownd/e_/pennodau/dydd-mercher-ionawr-2-2/
(hmm…I could be wrong, and that’s 2015, and the previous year was 2014…I remember parts of these old stories, but not exactly when they were!)
Edit: here is start of following year:
http://www.s4c.cymru/rowndarownd/e_/pennodau/dydd-iau-ionawr-1/
(Still not totally sure which year that is!)
…now that that was 2015, because here is start of following year, which is surely 2016…(?):
http://www.s4c.cymru/rowndarownd/e_/pennodau/dydd-mawrth-ionawr-5/
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Www, diolch yn fawr iawn!!
Yes, this one is definitely 2016 because this is where I first started watching.
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A dyma ni, more or less up to date:
http://www.s4c.cymru/rowndarownd/e_/pennodau/dydd-mawrth-tachwedd-1-2/
I suppose I should really have linked to the fersiwn Cymrag:
http://www.s4c.cymru/rowndarownd/pennodau/dydd-mawrth-tachwedd-1-2/
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@gruntius in that other thread, you said you could not think of Ron. Here is a reminder:
http://www.s4c.cymru/rowndarownd/cymeriadau/ron-williams/
also Nel:
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As soon as I saw their faces I knew, I said I’m rubbish with names.
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Fideo Nadolig Rownd a Rownd
They can sing beautifully as well as act!
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Is that last year?
No, it should be the brand new one for this year!
It looked like Jac and Carys. They were involved back then, no?
Well, they had a one night stand more recently. I can’t remember how things were with them back last Christmas.
But I think the video makers were playing with our heads a bit by featuring them as a couple… unless it’s a hint of things to come …
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Diolch for posting that, @mikeellwood! I miss having subtitles but it’s not hard to follow the story
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After reading that the actress who plays Kylie (Leisa Gwenllian) also plays Bethany Summer on Rocket’s Island, an English-speaking show, I had wondered about her Welsh - in the couple of episodes I had seen so far, she had never said a whole lot.
Today I found two videos which I think are of her, from last Christmas, reciting two poems:
a comical one about her mother’s diet, and
an adaptation of “A Magical Night before Christmas”.
She has the lovely north Wales “u” sound (e.g. in “tŷ” or “cau”)
Perhaps those of you with more Welsh will enjoy listening to them!
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Ah yes, the lovely Kylie/Leisa. Well, I think she’s a proper Welsh speaker, although she sometimes writes on the RaR Facebook, and I noticed that her most recent contribution included some English, although I think it was meant in fun. I was aware that she was in an English speaking show as well, but I have never seen it.
She certainly seems to be a talented young lady.
Thanks for pointing out that she has the distinctive northern Welsh “u” sound. Although I know about this in theory, my ear has never been able to distinguish it properly from what southern speakers do. I will listen to those videos a bit more attentively.
(I learned using the SSiW northern courses, and I know northerners sound a lot different to southerners, and I can usually tell them apart, but I can’t always put my finger on exactly what it is that differentiates them (vocabulary apart).
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I think Iolo.seems most my idea of Gogledd!
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