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Rownd a Rownd


Rownd a Rownd (English: "Round and Round") is a soap opera broadcast on the Welsh language television channel S4C, first broadcast in 1995. It was claimed to be the first Celtic-related language soap specifically directed at a youth audience.

Rownd a Rownd was first broadcast in September 1995 and originally based on young people who did a paper round (hence the programme's title, based on the wheels of a bicycle). It has since grown to include both their daily school and family life. Phil Redmond, creator of Grange Hill, Brookside and Hollyoaks, acted as a consultant to the series on its launch in 1995, and again on its tenth anniversary. In 2016, it celebrated its 21st birthday, with S4C broadcasting an anniversary special hosted by Tudur Owen.

The series is filmed in Menai Bridge, Anglesey and Caernarfon, North Wales, produced by Rondo Media (previously known as Nant Films). When it began the production company converted a disused garage in Dale Street (Welsh name: "Lon Cilbedlam") into a fake row of shops, which include a café, a hairdresser, a newsagent and a taxi firm. There is a sign outside this set informing the public that the shops are not real. School scenes are filmed in the town's two schools, Ysgol Gyfun Llangefni and Ysgol David Hughes. Hospital scenes are often filmed in nearby Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor, usually in one of the staff hostels.



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