10 Facts About Wynford Vaughan-Thomas

Lewis John Wynford Vaughan-Thomas was a Welsh newspaper journalist and radio and television broadcaster.

Wynford Vaughan-Thomas commentated on the funeral of his fellow wartime BBC correspondent Richard Dimbleby in 1965.

In 1967, after leaving the BBC, Wynford Vaughan-Thomas was one of the founders of Harlech Television, being appointed director of programmes.

Wynford Vaughan-Thomas served as a Governor of the British Film Institute between 1977 and 1980.

In 1985, Wynford Vaughan-Thomas notably presented the 13-part series The Dragon Has Two Tongues with Gwyn Alf Williams.

The series saw lengthy and often passionate discussions on Welsh history, with the two presenters representing opposing points of view, Williams being a Marxist historian and Vaughan-Thomas being described by Geraint H Jenkins as his "affable Whiggish co-presenter".

Wynford Vaughan-Thomas wrote numerous books, many on Wales and a favourite subject of his, the Welsh countryside.

In May 1970, when president of the Council for the Protection of Rural Wales, Wynford Vaughan-Thomas officially opened the Pembrokeshire Coast Path in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park at its southern end, at Amroth.

Wynford Vaughan-Thomas was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1974 Birthday Honours for services to Wales, and promoted Commander in the 1986 Birthday Honours for services to Welsh culture.

Wynford Vaughan-Thomas died in Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, on 4 February 1987, aged 78.