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Mari Griffith(radio announcer)

Mari Griffith(1940-2019) was a Welsh radio announcer, as well as a singer, presenter, independent producer and novelist later on in life. She was born to a Welsh-speaking family in Maesteg, the Lynffi Valley with a passion for music. She first appeared on All Your Own, a Sunday night children's television programme, direct from London, singing with accompaniment by her harpist sister Anne. Mari revealed about her childhood "Few people in Maesteg had TV sets in those days, so they all crowded into each other's houses to watch. They then crept shamefacedly into chapel late for the evening service, hoping the minister wouldn't notice." In the mid-1960s Mari left Maesteg and went to college in Cardiff, later joining the Manchester-based BBC Northern Singers. She divided her time between presenting children's programmes and attending folk concerts. She gained her own BBC Wales series, With A little Help.' Mari sung in both English and Welsh. After returning home, she worked with comedians Ryan and Ronnie, and Max Boyce, along with appearances on Disc a Dawn, Poems and Pints, and Music for your Pleasure. She took up work as a bilingual continuity announcer at BBC Wales. After starting with promotional work, Mari established her own production company, MovieJack. Moviejack filmed in the US and Bulgaria. Throughout her life, Mari worked in the RTS and spent more than 10 years as the secretary of the Wales Centre Committee. When she grew older, Mari started writing and successfully published two medieval romance novels. Mari died on May 13, 2019, at Bridgend, at the age of 79.