Gareth Jones

Gareth Jones was born London 1951, son of BBC Foreign Correspondent Ivor Jones with whom he travelled to Germany, India and Lebanon. He studied at Westminster School, London, St John's College Cambridge and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, before training as a theatre director with Prospect Theatre Company in the 70s, where he directed Shakespeare, Brecht, Strindberg and Chekov. He was Director of Productions at bilingual Welsh/English touring company Theatr yr Ymylon and freelanced at the Royal Court Theatre, London, Swan Theatre Worcester and Theatr Clwyd, Mold, where he directed his own plays My People (based on the short stories of Caradoc Evans) and Solidarity. He published two historical novels Lord Of Misrule (Gollancz/Penguin, serialized on BBC Radio 4) and Noble Savage (Weidenfeld/Sphere) both set in Wales near his family home. He trained as a television director in 1980 with HTV Wales, moving later to Granada TV where he directed Coronation Street and award-winning