Uned 5
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Uned 5 was a BAFTA award-winning teenage magazine show, broadcast live every week on Welsh channel S4C
S4C
S4C , currently branded as S4/C, is a Welsh television channel broadcast from the capital, Cardiff. The first television channel to be aimed specifically at a Welsh-speaking audience, it is the fifth oldest British television channel .The channel - initially broadcast on...

. The programme was the channel's flagship youth magazine for over sixteen years.

The show was broadcast from a purpose built 'house' at a studio in Caernarfon, and featured celebrity guests, news items, lively chat, bands, sketches and filmed interviews. Despite the obvious ties to The Big Breakfast
The Big Breakfast
The Big Breakfast was a British light entertainment television show shown on Channel 4 and S4C each weekday morning from 28 September 1992 until 29 March 2002 during which period 2,482 shows were produced. The Big Breakfast was produced by Planet 24, the production company co-owned by former...

, the show originally had more in common with the BBC's Blue Peter
Blue Peter
Blue Peter is the world's longest-running children's television show, having first aired in 1958. It is shown on CBBC, both in its BBC One programming block and on the CBBC channel. During its history there have been many presenters, often consisting of two women and two men at a time...

, until later relaunches saw Uned 5 target an older, teenage audience.

On 24 November 2009, S4C announced that the programme would be axed as part of a major revamp of the station's youth programming. The very last edition of Uned 5 was broadcast on Sunday 30 May 2010.

Presenters

During its time on air, Uned 5 was fronted by 21 presenters - many of whom gone on to present further shows on S4C and other channels, notably Rhodri Owen
Rhodri Owen
Rhodri Owen is a Welsh born and Welsh speaking radio and television presenter.-Biography:Owen was brought up in Gower, Swansea in a Welsh language speaking family, which is his first language...

 who became a reporter for the BBC travel show Holiday
Holiday (TV series)
Holiday was a long-running UK television programme on BBC One, and was the oldest travel review show on UK television. It was aired on the channel from 1969 until 2007.-Overview:...

 and Gethin Jones
Gethin Jones
Gethin Clifford Jones is a Welsh television presenter who has co-presented the BBC children's programme Blue Peter....

 who went on to present Blue Peter
Blue Peter
Blue Peter is the world's longest-running children's television show, having first aired in 1958. It is shown on CBBC, both in its BBC One programming block and on the CBBC channel. During its history there have been many presenters, often consisting of two women and two men at a time...

.

The presenters are mostly remembered in the following line-ups:
  • Gaynor Davies, Garmon Emyr & Nia Dafydd
  • Heledd Cynwal, Rhodri Owen
    Rhodri Owen
    Rhodri Owen is a Welsh born and Welsh speaking radio and television presenter.-Biography:Owen was brought up in Gower, Swansea in a Welsh language speaking family, which is his first language...

     & Nia Elin
  • Catrin Mai, Lowri Morgan & Bedwyr Rees (with Carwyn Llyr)
  • Lisa Gwilym
    Lisa Gwilym
    Lisa Gwilym is a Welsh broadcaster who currently presents various shows on BBC Radio Cymru.Originally from Henllan in Denbighshire, Gwilym began her career at S4C in 1998 as a continuity presenter for the Planed Plant children's strand....

    , Gareth Owen
    Gareth Owen (presenter)
    Gareth Owen is a Welsh TV Presenter best known for co-hosting flagship youth Magazine show Uned 5 between 2002-2005 with Gethin Jones and Lisa Gwilym....

     & Gethin Jones
    Gethin Jones
    Gethin Clifford Jones is a Welsh television presenter who has co-presented the BBC children's programme Blue Peter....

  • Llinos Lee, Mari Lovgreen
    Mari Lövgreen
    Mari Rhiannon Lovgreen is a Welsh television presenter.Born and bred in Caernarfon, Lovgreen began her career in November 2004 as a presenter for S4C's flagship youth magazine programme, Uned 5, produced by independent production company Antena Television. Prior to joining the presenting team, she...

    & Rhydian Bowen Phillips
  • Tudur Evans, Gwawr Loader & Leni Hatcher (with Elliw Baines & Gwenno Haf)
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