Y Byd ar Bedwar

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Y Byd ar Bedwar
Y Byd ar Bedwar title card
Genre	Current affairs
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original languages	Welsh (with English subtitles)
Production
Producer	Bethan Muxworthy
Editor	Branwen Thomas
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	24 minutes
Production company	ITV Cymru Wales
Original release
Network	S4C
Release	November 1982 (1982-11) – present
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Y Byd ar Bedwar (Welsh for The World on Four) is a Welsh-language current affairs television programme, which has broadcast on S4C since the channel was launched in November 1982.^[1] It is produced by ITV Cymru Wales.

The programme's reporters have brought stories from the four corners of the world to Welsh screens. In the 1980s, long-serving reporter Tweli Griffiths secured the first interview with Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi.^[2] Reports also covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Chernobyl disaster and the Persian Gulf war. The programme is also famed for securing high-profile exclusive interviews in Wales, such as with Sion Aubrey Roberts,^[3] the only person to be jailed over the Meibion Glyndwr arson campaign and Ryan James,^[4] a vet from Ammanford who had been wrongly jailed after being accused of murdering his wife.

More recently, a series of undercover investigations into west Wales puppy farms have led to several pressure groups to call for a change in legislation by the Welsh Government to protect animals.^[5][6] Senior producer Eifion Glyn travelled undercover to Zimbabwe in 2008 ^[7] to show the horrors of life there under Robert Mugabe's rule and also journeyed to Afghanistan for the second time in 2013 to produce a series of programmes documenting the lives of Welsh troops fighting the Taliban.^[8][9]

At home, a raw portrayal of the lives of two heroin addicts in Cardiff won the Best Current Affairs Award at the 2009 Celtic Media Festival.^[10] In 2013, another expose of the heroin scene, this time on the island of Anglesey, won the BAFTA Cymru award for current affairs.^[11] The team also secured a moving exclusive interview with the grandparents of April Jones ^[12] after the young girl's disappearance in 2012. Success at the BAFTA Cymru awards followed in 2014 with a moving response to Typhoon Haiyan and in 2015 with an emotional portrayal of the lack of provision for young people battling mental health issues in Wales.