* This year's Eisteddfod began with the traditional Parade of Nations through the town.
Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod has made a list of Britain’s top 10 longest-running TV shows.
Compiled by the
Metro newspaper, this places the annual London Lord Mayor’s Show at number one.
first broadcast in 1937, to the likes of the BBC’s Panorama news programme
(1953) which takes number three spot and ITV’s Coronation Street which is ninth.
In at number
four is Llangollen’s Eisteddfod, which the BBC began broadcasting each year
back in 1954, along with the Eurovision Song Contest.
Of the Eisteddfod, which this year staged a major revival to attract 50,000 to its headline evenings concerts featuring stars such as Tom Jones and the Manic Street Preachers, the Metro says: “Since 1954, on BBC One Wales, the music festival which takes place in the second week of July gets the TV treatment.
“Five thousand singers, dancers and instrumentalists from approximately 50 countries travel to Llangollen to perform for audiences of more than 50,000.
“Both Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod and National Eisteddfod of Wales have also been shown on S4C since 1982.”
* To see the full story, go to: The
longest-running British TV show isn’t what you’d expect | Metro News
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