“I got involved with the programme because I research leadership, particularly leadership that is driven from below, by people’s creativity and co-operation. Owain, also director of the Research into Employment, Empowerment and Futures ( REEF) research centre at the OU’s business school, said: Now he’s back to find out if anything has changed and that’s where the academic expertise of Dr Donna Smith, politics senior lecturer, and Dr Owain Smolovic Jones, organisation studies senior lecturer, were sought out. It follows a history series Huw was involved in a decade ago called ‘The story of Wales’, in which he said contemporary Wales was “an ancient people more certain of our identity than at any point in the past thousand years”. In the programme, among many aspects explored, Huw looks at how the two governments in Wales – Welsh and UK – are affecting the lives of people in Wales. Wales: Who Do We Think We Are? With Huw Edwards is shown at 9pm, and will then be available to view on iPlayer. Tonight, Monday 17 October, on BBC 1 Wales, the broadcaster and journalist Huw Edwards (pictured above) is seen in the programme as he tours the country to see what turbulent events of the past decade, in addition to current challenges, have influenced the Welsh identity. Two Open University academics have been working behind the scenes on an OU/BBC co-production about how the identity of Welsh people has been shaped.

Who do we think we are