Annie Davies
{{Short description|Welsh radio and television producer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Annie 'Nan' Davies
| birth_date = 16 June 1910
| birth_place = Tregaron
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1970|05|07|1910|06|16}}
| known_for = Welsh language radio and television producer
}}
Annie 'Nan' Davies (16 June 1910 – 7 May 1970) was a Welsh radio and television producer.
Early life and education
Annie Davies was born on 16 June 1910, to David and Elizabeth Davies, who lived and farmed in the Tregaron area. The third of six siblings, she was usually known as Nan. Davies attended schools in Castell Fflemish and Tregaron, before studying for a degree at U.C.W. Aberystwyth, from which she graduated in History and Latin in 1933.
Career
Davies first joined the staff of the BBC in 1935 (as secretary to journalist and broadcaster Sam Jones, Head of the BBC in Bangor, North Wales), leaving her position with Cardiff City Library. In 1946 she left the BBC and took up a position with Welsh language youth organisation Urdd Gobaith Cymru.{{Cite web |title=3 llythyr oddi wrth Nan Davies, Swyddfa'r Urdd, Aberystwyth at Ifor Williams, 9/3/1948-22/3/1948. Papurau Syr Ifor Williams. Archifdy Prifysgol Bangor / Bangor University Archives. GB 222 IW/1344 |url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/f681f7b9-9a94-3b5a-b929-77661abef69e?component=8f56e39e-3b67-3bbe-98c9-b2adcc258c33}}
She worked in four roles at the Urdd before returning to BBC Bangor as producer of Radio Talks in 1949, before moving to the BBC's Cardiff headquarters in 1955. There Davies worked as programme editor for the literary radio programme Llafar and produced (and later edited) the television programme Heddiw (Today in English), the first television programme to discuss national and international matters in Welsh.{{Cite web |date=1963-04-18 |title=BBC Programme Index |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/fca9840228564b75afa6feb4ab3e9b5f |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk}}{{Cite web |title=Schedule - BBC Programme Index |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/service_bbc_television_service/1962-12-17 |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk}}
Davies was responsible for the production of programmes such as Shepherd's Calendar,{{Cite web |date=1972-10-27 |title=BBC Programme Index |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e94ba3663fd84d35a1991c93b08ff1bb |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk}} Nant Dialedd, Prynhawn o Fai, and Bugail Cwm Prysor.{{Cite book |last=Price |first=Gareth |title=The broadcasters of BBC Wales, 1964-1990 |date=2017 |publisher=Y Lolfa |isbn=978-1-78461-464-5 |location=Talybont, Ceredigion}} On 25 May 1965 Davies presented Patagonia 1865-1965, a portrait of the Welsh colony in Patagonia, doing the voiceover in Welsh.{{Cite web |title=BBC One - Patagonia 1865-1965 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00d4lh9 |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}
She continued to work for the BBC until her retirement in 1969, when she returned to Tregaron.
Personal life
On 7 May 1970, Davies died in Singleton Hospital, Swansea.{{cite book|title=Annual Report and Accounts|publisher=BBC|year=1970|page=143}} She was buried in the graveyard of Bwlchgwynt chapel, Tregaron.{{cite book | last = Roberts | first = Alun | title = Discovering Welsh graves | publisher = University of Wales Press | location = Cardiff | year = 2002 | isbn = 9780708317921 | page=39}}{{cite DWB|id=s2-DAVI-ANN-1910|title=Davies, Annie (1910-1970), better known as Nan, radio and television producer|author=Owen Edwards|year=2001|access-date=5 April 2022}}
References
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Davies, Annie}}
Category:20th-century Welsh historians
Category:Welsh radio personalities
Category:Welsh television producers
Category:British women television producers
Category:20th-century British businesspeople
Category:Alumni of Aberystwyth University
{{Authority control}}