Dai Jones (2)

Dai Jones MBE ((18 October 1943 – 4 March 2022) was a Welsh farmer, television presenter, and radio broadcaster. Known as Dai Jones Llanilar, after the village near Aberystwyth where he farmed Welsh Black cattle and sheep, he became the President of the Welsh Black Cattle Society in its centenary year 2004/2005. Jones is best known today for presenting Cefn Gwlad, an S4C television series made by ITV Cymru Wales, which documents the lives of farming families. He hosted this show since shortly after it began in 1982. He was already well known on TV as the presenter of the family quiz show Siôn a Siân when producer/director the late Geraint Rees asked him to take over the reins of Cefn Gwlad. He also hosted a weekly musical requests programme on BBC Radio Cymru. Jones was an accomplished tenor and won the blue riband prize at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1970.