STEVE JOHNSON recommends a protest album with a harder edge than many in the genre
Placing a finger on Welshness
A fascinating and timely collection of essays on identity, writes GAVIN O’TOOLE
BEING WELSH: Suzanne Packer in the BBC drama Casualty; Colin Charvis is the first Black Welsh person to captain the Wales rugby team
[BBC/Alistair Heap and Ddfree/Creative Commons] 
DENNIS BROE finds much to praise in the new South African Netflix series, but wonders why it feels forced to sell out its heroine
CARL DEATH introduces a new book which explores how African science fiction is addressing climate change
In his second round-up, EWAN CAMERON picks excellent solo shows that deal with Scottishness, Englishness and race as highlights
Fiery words from the Bard in Blackpool and Edinburgh, and Evidence Based Punk Rock from The Protest Family
MATTHEW HAWKINS is mesmerised by a performance that dissolves the line between audience and performer
MATTHEW SHARPE recommends the essays of a Renaissance politician that instruct and unnerve after 400 years
Welsh [Plural]: Essays on the Future of Wales
Edited by Darren Chetty, Hanan Issa, Grug Muse and Iestyn Tyne
Repeater Books £12.99
IN 1987 as a young reporter on the Western Mail – the self-proclaimed “national” newspaper of Wales – I was tasked with travelling the length of the A470 trunk road joining Cardiff in the south to Llandudno in the north.
It’s an iconic route to the Welsh, arising from the Mail’s own campaign in the 1970s for a single road connecting the country.
I suspect the news editor at the time had other motives – this man could not stand the upstart Cockney in his newsroom, a non-indigenous insult to Welsh journalism, and wanted me out of the office.
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