At the end of a week which has seen fears about the future of the language mixed with more hopeful signs such as the success of the learners of Welsh and the opening up one of the traditional bastions of Welsh culture to new talents, the subject of "rebirth" could hardly have been a more appropriate one.

BBC: Testing the cultural temperature

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