Welsh-language film Y Sŵn tells the true-life story of those who battled Margaret Thatcher for the right to have a Welsh language TV channel.
Starring Rhodri Evan as former Plaid Cymru politician and MP Gwynfor Evans and Sian Reese-Williams as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Y Sŵn shows how the Conservatives promised in their 1979 election manifesto that they'd set up a television channel solely in Cymraeg, the Welsh language. However, when Mrs Thatcher swept to power later that year, she reneged on that pledge, prompting the biggest mass protests in history since the Suffragettes. Against a background of civil disobedience, Gwynfor Evans even started a hunger strike and vowed to starve to death unless the new Conservative government changed its mind.
