The platform for Asian music in Wales has been put under threat by the proposed axing of the Asian Network by the BBC director-general, Mark Thompson, this week.
The station, which has come under severe criticism recently for falling listener numbers, plays a vital role in the promotion of Asian music across Wales but without its powerful backing, Welsh Asian music will find it difficult to reach the mainstream audience.

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Students from a Cardiff school were rewarded for their success in a European video project by a trip to BBC Wales’s studios on Monday February 22.
Pupils from Willows High School in Tremorfa came first in the INDIE Goes Mobile competition held by the British Council to promote awareness of diversity and social cohesion.
They beat students from 47 other schools across the EU to claim the prize of a day being shown round the BBC’s Llandaff North studios and the sets of such shows as Pobol …

The BBC’s announcement to axe Radio Station 6 Music today has angered listeners and musicians throughout the UK. The BBC Introducing programme, run through 6 music, has helped many Welsh bands by giving them a platform and radio air time.
This is the only chance for bands, like Cardiff’s Decimals, who played at last year’s Swn festival at the Cardiff Arts Institute, to get recognition and build their fan base and without the radio station local artists will suffer.

An interview with Simon Hoare, the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Cardiff South and Penarth, at his home in Atlantic Wharf, Butetown.
Mr Hoare spoke about MPs’ expenses, his experiences of campaigning against Alun Michael, devolution in Wales, public sector cuts and the future of South Wales’s economy, among other topics.

A CARDIFF school was host to BBC’s The Big Questions, a programme discussing the big moral issues of the day. The show, hosted by Nicky Campbell, came to Michaelston Community College in Michaelston Road, Ely to discuss the questions surrounding assisted suicide, the payment of ransoms and inter-country adoption.

The topical issues were discussed by members of the audience and special guests LBC Radio talk show host James O’Brien, Falklands war veteran and charity campaigner Simon Weston, and General Synod member Christina Rees.

Primary colours and popular film themes enchanted a crowd full of children at St David’s Hall in Cardiff tonight.

The one-night show by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Journeys and Adventures, was the perfect introduction to classical music for youngsters.