Cerys Matthews

Cerys Elizabeth Matthews (; born 11 April 1969) is a Welsh singer, songwriter, author, and broadcaster. She was a founding member of Welsh rock band Catatonia and a leading figure in the "Cool Cymru" movement of the late 1990s. Matthews now hosts a weekly music show on BBC Radio 6 Music, a weekly blues show on BBC Radio 2, and from 2021-2024 co-hosted a weekly show on BBC Radio 4, Add To Playlist, which won the Prix Italia and Prix Europa 2022. She also makes documentaries for television and radio and was a roving reporter for The One Show. She founded The Good Life Experience, a festival of culture and the great outdoors in Flintshire in 2014, and is author of Hook, Line and Singer, and Where the Wild Cooks Go, both published by Penguin Books, and children's stories Tales from the Deep and Gelert, A Man's Best Friend, published by Gomer. Matthews' illustrated version of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood was published, in November 2022, by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. In 2024 Cerys Matthews published a new collection of Dylan Thomas poems Out of Chaos Comes Bliss, some previously unpublished, with notes, through Pushkin Press.