Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is Revd. Dr. Trystan Hughes, an Anglican vicar in the Church in Wales and a tutor in Applied Theology. We talk about growing up in North Wales and doing all of his schooling through the medium of Welsh, and we discuss the advantages of having a multi-lingual education, as well as the evolution of school education and the eleven-plus. Trystan talks about how he was obsessed with football stickers as a child (and the search for the elusive missing sticker), how he would listen to classical music and then about how he made the evolution to pop music, and why a schoolfriend was teased for being a Spandau Ballet fan. We talk about how this is all bound up in identity, and we learn why Trystan was obsessed with The Jam and music that carried a message, and how his children know all the words of Gilbert O’Sullivan’s ‘Nothing Rhymed’. We find out how it was love that resulted in Trystan remaining in North Wales when he went to university, and we learn about how he came to do a PhD on the Roma