Bois y Loris (Lorry Boys) Tv Programme

Thursday 23 June at 21:00 S4C
Subtitles Available :wink: :laughing: :laughing:

If you aint got Sky or don’t live in Wales you can catchup here s4c.co.uk/clic/e_index.shtml once you selct the video click the ‘S’ to get english subtitles.

A Taste of Lorry Driver sub-culture

Truckers are a breed apart and in a new programme Bois y Loris we meet some colourful Welsh lorry drivers who have their own club and their own thriving network.

Listeners of Geraint Lloyd’s radio programme on Radio Cymru will be familiar with the Bois y Loris club. In the programme, the presenter chats to lorry drivers wherever they are on the road and hear their stories.

Following the popularity of the item on Geraint Lloyd’s programme, the author and producer Owain LlÅ·r and Gwasg y Lolfa are about to publish a book Bois y Loris introducing us to the lives of 20 lorry drivers from different parts of Wales. The S4C programme Bois y Loris goes beyond the pages of the book as Owain follows three drivers on a typical day in the cabs of their trucks.
Geraint Lloyd

Geraint Lloyd explains how his radio feature began and the idea behind the Bois y Loris club.

“There are so many Welsh-speakers working in the industry across the world and they’re a community in themselves. By now a lot of them know each other through the radio. Each has a colourful personality, interest, experiences and interesting stories to tell about their time on the road. Each week the drivers exchange messages and do some leg-pulling via the radio and that draws them together.”
The Drivers

Owain and the camera team will be following a day in the life of Emyr Richards or ‘Emyr Wyau’ (Emyr the Eggs) from Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire, Dorian Davies from Ystrad Aeron, Cardiganshire and Eifion Jones from Cwmsychbant, in the programme.

Owain said, “It’s a chance to get a better idea of the lives of lorry drivers. They’re in a little bubble of their own and there’s a great variety of personalities among them. By following the three, the diversity in their work, ages and culture becomes obvious with each one transporting different goods. While Emyr carries eggs, Dorian transports timber and Eifion drives a recycling lorry. In a way, the lorry boys are essential to our way of life - without them nothing would get to our shops.”

Judging by the write up this could be an interesting programme dealing with the factual side instead of the usual glammed up or down right dirty media coverage,

Set the Sky to record so i dont miss it, hope the subtitles work though my Welsh is not very good :wink:

Dwi’n aros :wink:

can you remind us on thursday, Diolch

Denis F:
can you remind us on thursday, Diolch

Good point. Someone also needs to start a thread picking it to pieces and slagging everything off. Are the pedants prepared :unamused: :laughing: :laughing:

I doubt there will be anything to slag off, this programme wont be a pantomime like that s*****t show

Bump
9pm tonight
Diolch

COFIWCH!! :open_mouth:

Heno - naw o’gloch - S4C - Bois y Loris

just started…

Aarrgh can’t get the subtitles on…I’m going to stick with it though :open_mouth:

Wasn’t as good as i hoped it would be. Would of been nice to see more about the trucking side of things & what truckers have to deal with on a daily basis. Is that a one off programme?

Well that was ok. I still had no subtitles but I got the bit when the bin lorry driver said “Coffee.” And I got the bit on the front of the bin lorry “Caution Staff Working at Rear.” Would have been better if they had lost the “S” from Staff :smiley:

There’s 6 blokes on now singing, can’t understand a word of this either, but the lead singer looks a bit like Fred Dibnah’s younger brother and they aint bad :grimacing:

They’re called The Purple Teapot apparently, or Y Tebot Piws. They were definitely better than watching Trucks and Trailers :laughing:

tyler4164:
Wasn’t as good as i hoped it would be. Would of been nice to see more about the trucking side of things & what truckers have to deal with on a daily basis. Is that a one off programme?

Yep one off, its just a spin off from the Bois y Loris radio phone in.
I found it pretty good, none of that bullcrap like the stobart mockumentary.
Loved the bit when the first driver was talking about a member of the public saying his lorry stinks and he replied by saying ‘no its not my lorry that stinks its your rubbish’ :laughing:
Also agree about the Welsh drivers being patriotic, hardly ever see a welsh run firm without some sort of emblem stuck on the cab.
To watch again click here s4c.co.uk/clic/e_level2.shtml?pr … =498812816
then click ‘S’ and english subtitles

I watched this and had the subtitles it was ok :smiley: