Cefn Gwlad

{{Short description|Welsh television series}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| company = ITV Cymru Wales

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| starring = Dai Jones

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| country = Wales

| language = Welsh

| network = S4C

| first_aired = {{start date|1982}}

| last_aired = present

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Cefn Gwlad is a Welsh television series about the countryside and particularly (but not exclusively) farming in Wales. It is broadcast in Welsh. Hosted by Dai Jones ("Llanilar"){{cite news|publisher=Cambrian News|date=25 August 2006|title=Keeping up with the Joneses|author=Herbert Williams|url=https://www.ceredigion.gov.uk/utilities/action/act_download.cfm?mediaid=31774&langtoken=eng|accessdate=18 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806215039/https://www.ceredigion.gov.uk/utilities/action/act_download.cfm?mediaid=31774&langtoken=eng|archive-date=6 August 2016|url-status=dead}} until 2020,{{cite news|publisher=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-60808257|title=Dai Jones Llanilar: Hundreds attend funeral|access-date=20 March 2022|date=20 March 2022}} it looks at rural life in Wales, and sometimes elsewhere in the UK, through the lives of individuals or families. Occasionally the programme meets Welsh expatriates in other countries, such as New Zealand in 2009.{{cite news|publisher=Daily Post|date=25 July 2009|title=Cefn Gwlad in Kiwi country|url=http://www.dailypost.co.uk/whats-on/film-tv/cefn-gwlad-in-kiwi-country-2784268|accessdate=31 December 2016}}

The show was first broadcast on HTV Wales and was taken up by S4C in 1982, where it has been aired for 35 years (in 2019).{{Cite web|url=http://www.s4c.cymru/en/factual/cefn-gwlad/|title=Cefn Gwlad | S4C|website=www.s4c.cymru}} It is currently made by ITV Cymru Wales.{{cite book|publisher=The Stationery Office|title=Welsh Affairs Committee, House of Commons: Digital Inclusion in Wales|date=2009|isbn=9780215540768|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ia4AlOOniRMC&q=s4c+cefn+gwlad|accessdate=18 May 2016}}

The former home of Katheryn of Berain, now a farmhouse, was featured in an edition of the programme in 2016.{{cite web|url=http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/tv/dai-jones-cefn-gwlad-team-11118537|title=Dai Jones and Cefn Gwlad team visit historical Berain farmhouse|author=Daniel Bissett|website=Daily Post|date=2 April 2016|access-date=17 May 2016}}