Teleri bevan biography definition
Teleri was a pioneer in the early days of broadcasting; she was BBC Radio Wales's first producer in and she dedicated 40 years of her working life to BBC.
Her career began as an actress, and at 23 she married Thomas Firbank, whose bestselling book, I Bought a Mountain () tells of their married life at Dyffryn....
Guardian of Snowdonia Esme Kirby immortalised in new memoir
A passionate conservationist and campaigner whose life was immortalised in an international best-selling book nearly 75 years ago has been recognised by the literary world once again.
Written by her first husband Thomas Firbank in , I Bought A Mountain told the story of Esmé Kirby, who took on a Snowdonia sheep farm in Capel Curig without any experience of keeping the hefted flock which had lived there for centuries.
Now former Radio Wales Editor Teleri Bevan has penned a memoir launched this week to mark the 15th anniversary of her death at the age of
During World War II, Firbank and Kirby’s marriage was dissolved and Esmé: The Guardian of Snowdonia (Y Lolfa) takes up the story as she struggled to cope on the 3,acre Dyffryn Mymbyr sheep farm, supported only by two shepherds and two sheepdogs.
Teleri Bevan said: “Towards the end of the war she married Major Peter Kirby – who was in command of Sandhurst’s battle camp a
