The Wales Arts Review Shorts are a new series of videos exploring major figures and significant moments in Welsh cultural life. Ranging from John Cale to National Theatre Wales, our aim is to give you an insight into the deep and rich creative people that have shaped our nation. For the full catalogue in the Wales Arts Review Shorts, follow the link here.
Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 – 26 January 1988) was a Welsh socialist writer, academic, novelist and critic influential within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the media and literature contributed to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts. Some 750,000 copies of his books were sold in UK editions alone, and there are many translations available. His work laid foundations for the field of cultural studies and cultural materialism.
Novelist, critic, and literary historian Gary Raymond discusses the legacy of one of Wales’s great cultural thinkers.
Wales Arts Review would like to thank the Arts Council of Wales for their invaluable support and without whose help this project would not have been possible.
