The Return

Jenni Crane is a Pontypool-born BBC continuity announcer, broadcaster, TV and Radio Producer. With a BA Hons in Acting from The Italia Conti Academy, Jenni has worked on both sides of the camera. She authored BBC Radio 4 documentary The Chaplain’s Suitcase. In 2023 she launched the Myfanwy Haycock Poetry Trail and presented My Hill of Dreams for BBC Radio Wales. Myfanwy Haycock (1913-1963) was one of the Eastern Valley of Wales’s most endearing and talented female lyric poets, publishing seven poetry collections and broadcasting her poems on radio and television. In 1932, Haycock won the English Lyric entry at the National Eisteddfod, Port Talbot, for her poem ’The Hill of Dreams’ and, later, two bardic chairs, at Ebbw Vale and Newport. Her poetry embodied her love of nature, places, and her hometown of Pontypool. She was a regular feature writer for the South Wales Argus, Western Mail and many others.