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Meic Povey:
By Sion Eirian
Meic Povey (pictured left), widely acknowledged as one of Wales’s most accomplished and prolific playwrights, died of cancer on Tuesday 5 December at the age of
Meic hailed from a small Welsh speaking community in the heart of Snowdonia but moved to Cardiff to work 40 years ago and stayed there for the rest of his working life.
After early employment as a stage manager, then a script editor on the nascent Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm, and even publishing a novel entitled Mae’r Sgwar yn Wag, Meic graduated to making a name for himself as a ground-breaking playwright and TV dramatist.
He also found time to fit in some acting work, and his most memorable role was probably that of DC Taff Jones in Minder.
In , he won a BAFTA Wales award for penning the celebrated film Nel, which like so much of his work was rooted in the Welsh heartland of Gwynedd.
He won another BAFTA for the TV series Talcen Caled in His most innovative work was seen in his stage p