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COMEDY - The week- Ep.#10: Ankle Tag plus Elis James and Gareth Gwynn interview
Gareth Gwynn is a comedy writer, performer and radio presenter. He currently hosts BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Afternoon Show and writes for Elis James' Pantheon of Heroes, The Now Show and The News Quiz.
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- COMEDY The week Ep10 Ankle Tag plus Elis James and Gareth Gwynn interview
- Writing
- Presenting
- References
Writing
Gwynn began his career in 2007 writing for BBC Radio 4 on Listen Against and continued to do so until 2011. Between 2008-9, Gwynn wrote for shows on BBC Radio 2 (I'm Spartacus!) and BBC Radio 4 including Look Away Now, I Guess That's Why They Call It The News and BBC Radio7/4 Extra's Newsjack. In 2009 he became a recipient of the BBC Radio Comedy Writers Bursary. For BBC Radio 4 he writes for The Now Show and The News Quiz. For BBC Radio Wales he is a writer for the sketch shows Elis James' Pantheon of Heroes and Here Be Dragons.
Since 2010, Gwynn has continued to write for radio but expanded into television too including Russell Howard's Good News, The Armstrong & Miller Show and Have I Got News For You.
His sitcom work includes writing Passing On and co-writing Social Club FM for BBC Radio Wales, co-writing Bull with comedy writer John-Luke Roberts for Gold and co-writing Ankle Tag with Benjamin Partridge for BBC Radios 2 and 4.
Presenting
In 2007, Gwynn hosted his own radio shows Gareth Gwynn's Big Night In for 106.3 Bridge FM and Gareth Gwynn's Alternative Anthems for Afan FM. Since then he has gone on to present and perform on a variety of shows until 2010 when he began hosting BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Morning Show. In 2016 the show moved to Sunday afternoons. He has appeared as a guest on The Now Show and has also presented documentaries for BBC Radio 4 including Gareth Gwynn's Little Book Of Welsh Rock and The Greatest Ever Faker.