Stwnsh
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 Stwnsh logo | |
| Network | S4C |
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| Launched | 26 April 2010 |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Format | Children's Television |
| Running time | As of 2019
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| Original language(s) | Welsh |
| Official website | Official website |
Stwnsh (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help), Welsh pronunciation: [stʊnʃ]) is a strand of Welsh-language children's television programming, aimed at children between the ages of seven and thirteen. Stwnsh was launched on Monday 26 April 2010, replacing the former Welsh-language children's strand, Planed Plant (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help)). Stwnsh is broadcast on the Welsh-language television channel S4C every weekday, from 4:00pm to 6:00pm, and on Saturdays (as Stwnsh Sadwrn, Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help)) from 9:00am to 11:00am.
Programmes
The programmes shown as part of this service include both brand-new programmes and programmes that were previously shown as part of Planed Plant.
Programmes newly launched, as part of Stwnsh, include:
Seren am Swper
(Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help).) Two families from the same area are challenged to prepare a special feast for a famous face in entertainment or sport. The children of the family decide the menu as the celebrities visit the two families before deciding which evening was the best. The winning family then receive the Gold Seren am Swper Trophy, and the losing side put on their rubber gloves and wash the dirty dishes.
Hip neu Sgip?
Hip neu Sgip? (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help)) is a children's room makeover series, presented by Alun Williams, along with designer, Leah Hughes, and her team of handymen - Iwan Llechid Owen, Gwyn Eiddior Parry and Ioan Marc Thomas. Starting as a simple makeover show hosted by Alex Jones, it later was rebranded as Hip neu Sgip?: Yn erbyn y Cloc (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help)), which showed the team facing a bigger task and against the clock, as the name suggests.
I'r Eithaf
(Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help).) Stwnsh presenter Tudur Phillips volunteers to take part in a range of experiments in the extreme science lab – under the guidance of scientific experts.
Ti’n Gêm?
(English:Are you Game?) The viewers are responsible for this sporting series, where different sports clubs in the limelight each week. Members of these clubs then offer training tips to those who want to learn about a new skill as well as putting different kinds of tools to the test – from frisbees to surfboards.
Anifeiliad a Fi
(Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help).) From mountain sheep to hamsters and goldfish, three children from the Bala, Aberystwyth and Swansea areas take a look at animals that live among them, in their areas. Each week the trio visit children who either keep pets or live on a farm. The series also follows children who compete with their animals, and pay a weekly visit to vet Kate Thomas at work in the Aberystwyth area.
Stwnsh ar y Ffordd
(Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help).) This series travels to schools all across Wales to give local children the chance to show their skills in interesting games, from; the silly and funny to the creative and imaginative after each game a kid from the losing team will be pied. The teachers act as the team mascots and one unlucky teacher ends the day in the Stwnsh ar y Ffordd tank where gunge is thrown in their faces. One series ended with the winning team deciding whether they would like to be gunged themselves or see their opponents gunged, in this series the kids got gunged but teachers still got messy in a separate game.
Stwnsh Sadwrn
(Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help).) Anthony Evans and Alun Williams, stars of Ant ac Al ar y Ffordd (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help)), host this Saturday morning, children's entertainment show, along with Stwnsh presenter Lois Cernyw. Each programme, contains two energetic hours full of comedy, interactivity, competitions, fun and mischief. This programme reaches anarchic and silly heights with the help of a team of young people, and celebrity, studio guests.
Other programmes
Other programmes broadcast as part of Stwnsh include:
- Ant ac Al ar y Ffordd - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Bwyd yn Barod! - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Chwa! - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Dennis a Dannedd - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Diwedd y Byd - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Drewgi - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Y Fet a Fi - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Ffit 100% - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Hafod Bedol - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Jac Russell - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Milltir Sgwâr - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Mosgito - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Mwy o Stwnsh Sadwrn - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Pat a Stan - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Peirianhygoel - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Tair Slic - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Teledu Eddie - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Twrw yn y Tŷ - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Y Sioe Wyllt - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Stwnsh Nôl ar y Ffordd - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Stwffio - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Ffeil - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Gwboi a Twm Twm - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- SpynjBob Pantsgwâr - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Oi! Osgar - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Byd Rwtsh Dai Potsh - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
- Tylwyth Od Timmy - (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
The long-running programme Uned 5 (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help)) was scrapped by S4C to make way for Stwnsh service, although the final episode of Uned 5, was not broadcast until Sunday 30 May 2010, just over a month after the launch of the Stwnsh service.
Websites
The Stwnsh website plays a key role in the service. The applications available on this website include; games, series information, and downloading. The website also offers viewers the chance to watch programmes from the Stwnsh service online.
The Stwnsh online service is available in both Welsh and English. The Clic service website is also available in Welsh and English and this website also enables viewers to view subtitles in either Welsh or English.