Rhodri Owen

Rhodri Owen (born 1972) is a Welsh born and Welsh speaking radio and television presenter.

Rhodri Owen
Born
Rhodri Owen

1972 (age 47–48)
Wales
StatusMarried
OccupationJournalist
Notable credit(s)
Radio Cymru, BBC Radio Wales, CBBC, Holiday
Spouse(s)
(
m. 2004)
ChildrenGabriel Owen

Biography

Owen was born in Three Crosses, Gower, Swansea, and was brought up in Gowerton[1] in a Welsh language speaking family, which is his first language. Owen was also a member of the National Youth Theatre of Wales.[2]

Owen started his career in radio reporting in his native Welsh language for Radio Cymru. After taking over the Saturday breakfast show, Owen transferred to the daily Red Dragon FM breakfast show. Having presented for BBC Radio 5 Live, Owen has also been the main station voice of BBC Radio Wales.

Owen started his television career with S4C in 1993 as a continuity announcer during children's programming, before appearing on a variety of programmes including children's magazine shows Noc Noc and Uned 5. After six years with the Welsh channel he moved to London and joined CBBC, fronting children's consumer show "Short Change." He went on to appear in the BBC Wales investigative consumer show "X-Ray" and was also the host of 4x4, BBC Three's "Liquid Assets," the BBC1 travel programme "Holiday". He then spent three years on the rival ITV travel show "Wish You Were Here...?," "Holiday in Style" for UK Style and BBC1's "Hard Cash".[3]

Owen is currently hosting "Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns" for Living TV.[4] In 2016, he was replaced on the BAFTA award-winning "X-Ray" by comedian Omar Hamdi,[5] due to his other filming commitments. In 2006, he also co-presented Britain's Dream Homes with Melissa Porter on BBC Two.

Owen had his first book published: "Bwyd bwyd bwyd (food food food)" – about healthy foods aimed at children. In 2009, he became presenter for afternoon magazine show Wedi 3 and studio director for Planed Plant, the current S4C children's continuity strand.[6] In 2012 Wedi 3 relaunched as Prynhawn da as a 2 hour long programme. But this era was short lived and further changes were made in April 2012 when the programme was revamped back to a nearly identical format to Wedi 3. Rhodri continues to present.

Personal life

Rhodri married fellow Welsh television presenter Lucy Cohen in June 2004 at St Andrew's Church in St Andrews Major near Dinas Powys.[7] The couple live in Llangan, and London.[8] After trying to conceive, the couple undertook treatment via IVF.[9] Son Gabriel was born in March 2008 by Caesarean section,[10] weighing 5 pounds 12 ounces (2.6 kg).[11] Rhodri's brother Geraint died on 11 July 2009.

gollark: ``` [...] MIPS is short for Millions of Instructions Per Second. It is a measure for the computation speed of a processor. Like most such measures, it is more often abused than used properly (it is very difficult to justly compare MIPS for different kinds of computers). BogoMips are Linus's own invention. The linux kernel version 0.99.11 (dated 11 July 1993) needed a timing loop (the time is too short and/or needs to be too exact for a non-busy-loop method of waiting), which must be calibrated to the processor speed of the machine. Hence, the kernel measures at boot time how fast a certain kind of busy loop runs on a computer. "Bogo" comes from "bogus", i.e, something which is a fake. Hence, the BogoMips value gives some indication of the processor speed, but it is way too unscientific to be called anything but BogoMips. The reasons (there are two) it is printed during boot-up is that a) it is slightly useful for debugging and for checking that the computer[’]s caches and turbo button work, and b) Linus loves to chuckle when he sees confused people on the news. [...]```I was wondering what BogoMIPS was, and wikipedia had this.
gollark: ```Architecture: x86_64CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bitByte Order: Little EndianCPU(s): 8On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7Thread(s) per core: 2Core(s) per socket: 4Socket(s): 1NUMA node(s): 1Vendor ID: GenuineIntelCPU family: 6Model: 42Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31240 @ 3.30GHzStepping: 7CPU MHz: 1610.407CPU max MHz: 3700.0000CPU min MHz: 1600.0000BogoMIPS: 6587.46Virtualization: VT-xL1d cache: 32KL1i cache: 32KL2 cache: 256KL3 cache: 8192KNUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-7Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx lahf_lm pti tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid xsaveopt dtherm ida arat pln pts```
gollark: I think it's a server thing.
gollark: My slightly newer SomethingOrOther 5000 does too.
gollark: ```Architecture: x86_64CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bitByte Order: Little EndianCPU(s): 4On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3Thread(s) per core: 1Core(s) per socket: 4Socket(s): 1NUMA node(s): 1Vendor ID: AuthenticAMDCPU family: 23Model: 1Model name: AMD Ryzen 3 1200 Quad-Core ProcessorStepping: 1CPU MHz: 3338.023CPU max MHz: 3500.0000CPU min MHz: 1550.0000BogoMIPS: 6989.03Virtualization: AMD-VL1d cache: 32KL1i cache: 64KL2 cache: 512KL3 cache: 4096KNUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb hw_pstate sme ssbd sev vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 rdseed adx smap clflushopt sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves clzero irperf xsaveerptr arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif overflow_recov succor smca```What clear, useful output.

References
  1. Rhodri and Matthew take to the mud!, Clynefarm.com
  2. Bond flirts with politics – icWales
  3. BBC – Wales – X-Ray – Rhodri Owen
  4. LIVING: Ghost Towns Archived 31 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Episode 7, Series 16, X-Ray - BBC One". BBC. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  6. Owen and Walford to join Wedi 3, WalesOnline.co.uk, 5 January 2009
  7. December 2005 news story describing Rhodri Owen's day in court after being charged with a driving offence
  8. Who will replace Lucy Owen? Ben Glaze, South Wales Echo – 11 October 2007
  9. Lucy Owen on the pains and joys of IVF Western Mail – Catherine Jones, 17 September 2007
  10. "Lucy Owen's baby makes TV debut". BBC Wales. 21 March 2008. Retrieved 21 March 2008.
  11. "Lucy Owen gives birth to a boy". Western Mail. 11 March 2008. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
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