Dragon Entertains: 100 Welsh Stars

The Dragon Entertains is a reference book with a difference - a highly readable, informative account of the lives of 100 Welsh Stars, the first of its genre. Within its pages the reader will find one hundred concise mini-biographies, word pictures detailing all the relevant, basic facts of the entertainer's career. For a small country on the western fringe of Europe, a nation of only three million people, Wales' contribution to the world of entertainment is immense. Actors and actresses, playwrights and directors, singers and musicians, composers and comedians - Wales has produced them all. And what other nation of comparable size can boast four Oscar winners The first Welsh film star, the Welsh influence on the James Bond movies, Monty Python, Doctor Who, The Goon Show, the Beatles films and the original 'Angry Young Man' can all be found in the pages of this new book by Alan Roderick of Newport. Stars of Broadway and the West End stage, the Silver Screen, television, radio, the worlds of opera and contemporary rock music - The Dragon Entertains has them all. Welsh-speaking and non-Welsh-speaking, North Wales and South Wales - Welsh showbiz life in all its many facets can be found here.