1995 in Wales

1995 in Wales

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Other events of 1995

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1995 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Charles, Prince of Wales
• Princess of Wales - Diana, Princess of Wales
• Secretary of State for Wales - William Hague
• Archbishop of Wales - Alwyn Rice Jones

Events

• 1 February - Richey Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers disappears.
• 16 February - In the Islwyn by-election brought about by the resignation of Neil Kinnock, Don Touhig is elected as Labour MP for the constituency.
• 30 July - Police in North Wales launch a murder inquiry after the body of seven-year-old Sophie Hook is found on a beach near Llandudno. She had gone missing from a nearby house during the night, and her body was found on the beach by a man walking his dog.
• 6 August - Howard Hughes, a 30-year-old Colwyn Bay man, is charged with the murder of Sophie Hook.
• 20 November - The Princess of Wales gives a revealing television interview to Martin Bashir on the BBC's Panorama current affairs programme.
• 20 December - The Queen writes to the Prince and Princess of Wales urging them to divorce as soon as possible.
• Welsh historian Sir Rees Davies is appointed to the Chichele Chair of Medieval History at the University of Oxford.
• Historian Glanmor Williams is knighted.
• Diver Keith Hurley discovers the wreck of the Resurgam off Rhyl.

Arts and literature

• Roger Rees is nominated for a Tony for Best Actor in a Play for his role in Indiscretions.
• Michael Ball performs in the Les Misérables tenth anniversary concert.
• Peter Karrie is voted the favourite Phantom of members of the The Phantom of the Opera Appreciation Society for the second year in a row.
• The Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, is opened by Jimmy Carter.

Awards

• Glyndŵr Award - Kyffin Williams
• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Colwyn Bay)

• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair -
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown -
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Angharad Jones for Y Dylluan Wen
• Wales Book of the Year:
  • English language:
  • Welsh language:

• Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen -

New books

• Robin Llywelyn - Y Dwr Mawr Llwyd
• R. S. Thomas - No Truce with the Furies
• Aled Rhys Wiliam - Cywain

Film

English-language films

• The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, with Kenneth Griffith

Music

• Robin Huw Bowen - Harp Music of Wales (Cerddoriaeth Telyn Cymru)
• Carreg Lafar - Ysbryd y Werin
• Dafydd Iwan - Cân Celt
• Triskedekaphilia (compilation album)

Broadcasting

• 30 September - 96.4 FM The Wave goes on air for the first time.

English-language television

• John Rhys-Davies takes the lead in the new US drama series, Sliders.
• Somebody's Son (prizewinning documentary made for BBC2 and BBC Wales by Raw Charm).

Deaths

• 29 January (at Thorpeness) - Richard Davies, CBE, member of the Royal Household
• 2 February - Raymond Bark-Jones, English-born Wales international rugby union player, 83
• 4 February - David Alexander, singer, 56
• 8 February - Don Devereux, dual-code rugby player, 62
• 8 February - Rachel Thomas, actress, 89
• 11 March - Myfanwy Talog, actress, 50
• 28 March - Julian Cayo-Evans, political activist, 57
• 10 April - Glyn Jones, poet, author and academic, 90
• 12 April - Cyril Sidlow, footballer, 89
• 21 April - Tessie O'Shea, entertainer, 82
• 21 June - Tristan Jones, sailor, 66
• 24 June - Len Blyth, Wales international rugby player, 74
• 25 September - Dave Bowen, footballer, 67
• 28 September - Lynette Roberts, poet, 86
• 14 October (in Shrewsbury) - Edith Pargeter, novelist of Welsh ancestry, 82
• 22 October - Sir Kingsley Amis, novelist closely associated with Swansea, who set several of his works in Wales, 73