Huw Edwards has worked for the BBC ever since he was awarded his first position as a news trainee in 1984. Known for the BBC News at 10, he’s since become one of the UK’s most recognizable newsreaders.
Hywel Teifi Edwards cause of death: What happened to Huw Edwards’ father?
The broadcaster admitted that while they never had a particularly touchy-feely relationship,’ he was still the one who broke news to his father, academic and Welsh nationalist Hywel Teifi Edwards, that his cancer was terminal ten days before he died, aged 75.
Huw’s father Hywel Teifi Edwards was renowned for his study and advocacy of the Welsh language. He was a Welsh nationalist and stood as the Plaid Cymru candidate in Llanelli in 1983, and Carmarthen in 1987.
As of today, Edwards opened Swansea University’s “Hoffi Coffi” cafe in the library, created to support the aims of Academi Hywel Teifi, named after his father who spent his academic career at the university. He gave a speech in Welsh as he unveiled a mural of a poem by Tudur Hallam,
