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Five Days on Anglesey

Tudur Owen As the activities of BBC Wales' community initiative, Here for You, drew to a close on Anglesey, BBC Wales' digital channel 2W broadcast five specially made programmes shining the spotlight on some of the people of Anglesey, sharing their experiences with the rest of the country.

Giving an insight into their lives and what makes them tick, Five Days on Anglesey on BBC 2W features five different people, each one with a story to tell - stories of intrigue, courage and curiosity from Anglesey - the mother of Wales.

In the first programme, viewers are taken on a trip back in time with Wil Stuart, warden in Breakwater Park in Holyhead. Them Bones sees Wil on his quest to re-claim the bones of a large mammoth that were discovered in Holyhead. He gives viewers a tour of the site where the bones were found and explains their importance to the area.

The cameras follow Wil as he travels to London to the Natural History Museum in the hope that they will release the bones and allow him to return them to be displayed at the town's new maritime museum. It's a nervous time as he waits to hear the news.

The second programme Darren's Story takes a unique look at the life Darren Laverty from Holyhead, whose experiences as a child have spurred him to turn his life around and use his personal experiences to help those who find themselves in a similar situation. As a teenager he longed to escape from the countryside and head towards the bright lights of Bangor, but now looks back and realises how privileged his life was.

His life now couldn't be more different to that of his childhood. As a child, he led a life of crime, spending time at the Bryn Estyn children's home in Wrexham. The programme follows Darren on a typical day and viewers will see how he now has the chance to give something back to the island, to a community that he wants to protect. Darren now works for the Dawn Project - a multi-agency partnership that aims to address social, substance misuse, offending, education and the training needs of offenders.

Live with Tudur features award-winning comedian, Tudur Owen, as he comes back home to Anglesey to perform at the Railway Club in Holyhead. His act draws a lot from his childhood memories of growing up on Anglesey. Born on a farm near Aberffraw, Tudur talks about his rural upbringing and how this has formed an essential part of his personality and humour.

Angela Honey is under the spotlight in the fourth programme Honey Don't Go. She retired to Anglesey 16 years ago, and the cameras follow her as she supports her community by providing a mobile dentistry service twice a week in the car park of the Owain Glyndwr pub in Llanddona. As a dentist she has been involved with mobile surgeries all over the world including Ethiopia and Mongolia. She has also worked with the homeless in London. When she retired she saw an opportunity to help local people get access to a service that isn't widely available.

Dwynwen Parry's story features in the fifth programme RNLI, as cameras follow the first female member of the Moelfre lifeboat crew. A carpenter by trade, Dwynwen shares her experiences of life on the waves and why she has chosen to put her life at risk to save others, not knowing what to expect with every different shout.

She recalls the night of her first shout - when the waves were crashing against the boat, the nerves and the adrenalin pumping. She tells how she became a member of the crew and what it's like as the only woman on a crew of men.


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