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i am a tax nerd. i don t have a desire to be some tax witch finder general. both sound interesting and do please come back on the media show if you get any of those over the line because they sound fascinating as well. we like to delve into the processes behind getting these stories out there, so thank you both for coming on the programme. anna isaac and dan neidle. that is absolutely brilliant. but now, have a listen to this. men speaking welsh. that is the crime drama dal y mellt and last week netflix announced they had bought it their first welsh language drama. the show was commissioned by the welsh language broadcaster foc. of the show and adrian baker is executive
producer of dal y mellt and co founder of vox productions, also based in cardiff. adrian, congratulations to you as well. we heard at the top it is a crime heist, we heard some of the people in, but tell us a bit more about it and also about the practicalities of making a drama in welsh. well, i think it s like any other programme, frankly. you know, we have a crew and we go and shoot it. does all your crew have to speak welsh? no, no, no i mean, the key technicians obviously do, like the directors and producer and obvoiusly the actors they are all very much native welsh speakers, but we interface with english crew as well, so, it doesn t have to be entirely in welsh, and in fact the name of the show, when it comes up on netflix, is going to be called rough cut, because it is going to be an easier title to follow. can you tell anything more about the story. it is a crime heist. diamonds are involved, i think. am i right?
for tomorrow, that s relevant, populist, which and that our audience here, and that brings people to the welsh language, as a psb. gogglebox for us was a way of really reflecting a modern wales and the audience in all over wales and the way that welsh is spoken all over wales. we got a really good relationship with channel 4, so they did have exclusivity on it in the uk and were more than happy to open it up to us as partners. adrian, very briefly, do you feel there is this growing market for foreign language generally on the streaming platforms and presumably, you spotted that this is changing the industry very briefly, i m afraid? the last decade we ve seen the scandi noir revolution, we ve seen the french revolution. these are shows which are bought off the shelf, so they can actually choose the very best. so what they are doing is choosing the very best stories, and they happen to have subtitles. and for technological reasons,
show if you get any of those over the line because they sound fascinating as well. we like to delve into the processes behind getting these stories out there, so thank you both for coming on the programme. anna isaac and dan neidle. that is absolutely brilliant. but now, have a listen to this. all speak welsh. that is the crime drama dal y mellt and last week netflix announced they had bought it their first welsh language drama. the show was commissioned by the welsh language broadcaster foc. llinos griffin williams, who you heard from at the top of the show and adrian baker is executive producer of dal y mellt and co founder of vox productions, also based in cardiff. adrian, congratulations to you as well. we heard at the top it is a crime heist, we heard some of the people in,