Colin Thomas

Colin Thomas is a prize-winning documentary screenwriter and producer, whose accolades include the Celtic Film and TV Festival Jury Award; the Gold Award at Houston International Film Festival; the Prix Europa and three BAFTA Cymru awards. The TV documentary series, 'Hughesovka and the New Russia', from which this book stems, won Best Documentary at the inaugural BAFTA Cymru awards in 1991. His BBC Radio 4 drama documentary on the subject of this book, 'Hiraeth in Hughesovka', was broadcast in 2008.