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2 Dy a Ni

Welsh television programme

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 13, 2023
Entity authorityQ4633316 ↗
Source-derived summary

2 Dy a Ni (also Dau Dy a Ni) is a Welsh television programme produced by Boomerang for the Welsh television channel S4C in 2008, consisting of thirteen episodes. The show, a teenage drama, is set in a foster home in the South Wales Valleys. Shelley Rees plays Jo Pugh, one of the main characters, and was nominated for a Welsh BAFTA award. Dyfrig Morris (who also has a role in the film The Big I Am) plays the father. Carli De'La Hughes plays Sam the foster child, also known as Vicky Collins in Pobol y Cwm.

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The public source identifies “2 Dy a Ni” as welsh television programme. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Welsh, television and programme.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Welsh, television and programme providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 13, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q4633316. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “2 Dy a Ni” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.