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{{Short description|1940s BBC radio show}}
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{{Use British English|date=February 2020}}
{{Infobox radio show
| name = Welsh Rarebit
| image =
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| format = [[Variety show]]
| runtime = 30{{endash}}60 mins
| start_time =
| end_time =
| runtime_note =
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| home_station = {{ubl|[[BBC Forces Programme]]|{{small|(1940{{endash}}1943)}}|[[BBC Home Service]]|{{small|(1941{{endash}}1957)}}|[[BBC Light Programme]]|{{small|(1948{{endash}}1954)}}}}
| presenter =
| starring = {{ubl|[[Eynon Evans]]|Lyn Joshua|Lyrian Singers}}
| announcer =
| creator =
| writer =
| director =
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| editor =
| producer = {{ubl|Glyn Jones|[[Mai Jones]]}}
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| rec_location = Cardiff
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| oth_location =
| first_aired = {{Start date|1940|02|29|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{End date|1957|01|19|df=y}}
| num_series =
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| audio_format = [[Monaural]]
| opentheme = "They Can't Stop us Singing"
| othertheme =
| endtheme = [[We'll Keep a Welcome (song)|"We'll Keep a Welcome"]]
| website = {{url|https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00pn1s9}}
}}
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'''''Welsh Rarebit''''' is a British [[radio]] [[variety show]] broadcast from [[Cardiff]] by the [[BBC]] between February 1940 and December 1952. The title was taken from the [[Welsh rarebit|dish of the same name]]. The show's most lasting legacy remains its closing song, "[[We'll Keep a Welcome]]".<ref>{{cite book|author=John Davies|title=Broadcasting and the BBC in Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R7kVAQAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-1273-5|page=132}}</ref>

==Program synopsis==
Billed as "a programme of variety and topicalities", it began life as a monthly 30-minute feature in the BBC's wartime [[BBC Forces Programme|Forces Programme]], and was designed for the entertainment of armed forces personnel, in particular for those whose home was in [[Wales]], but quickly became popular generally, and from June 1941 – when production was taken over by [[Mai Jones]], who was also responsible for such other entertainment shows as ''Saturday Starlight'' – ''Welsh Rarebit'' also featured from time to time in the schedules of the [[BBC Home Service]].

Although chiefly a variety show, the programme also included such regular features as [[Eynon Evans]] playing "Tommy Troubles" and ''Dai's Letter to the Forces'', a sentimental reflection of life in Wales read by Lyn Joshua.<ref name="WAEoW">{{cite book |last=Davies |first=John |author2=Jenkins, Nigel |title=The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales |year=2008 |publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff|isbn=978-0-7083-1953-6}}</ref>

==Stars==
''Welsh Rarebit'' featured a host of Welsh entertainers, many of whom became household names; regulars included [[Wyn Calvin]], [[Maudie Edwards]], Eynon Evans, Vera Meazey, [[Gladys Morgan]], Ossie Morris, [[Harry Secombe]], [[Stan Stennett]], Ann Walters, Albert and Les Ward.<ref name="WAEoW"/> At its peak the programme attracted 12 million listeners and remains one of the most popular entertainment shows to have been produced from Wales.<ref name="Echo">{{cite web |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/columnists/2010/07/20/welsh-rarebit-radio-hit-to-remember-91466-26885633/ |title=Welsh Rarebit, radio hit to remember |newspaper=[[South Wales Echo]] |location=Cardiff |publisher=[[Trinity Mirror]] |first=Dan |last=O'Neill |date=20 July 2010 | access-date= 7 June 2011}}</ref>

==Later production==
The wartime programmes came to an end in December 1944, but ''Welsh Rarebit'' returned on [[Saint David's Day]] 1948 in the [[BBC Light Programme]] and ran (now as an hour-long weekly show) from then until July 1951,<ref name="WAEoW"/> with a final "Christmas Special" edition being broadcast in December 1952.

==External links==
*{{BBC programme}}
*{{BBC Online|id=programmes/p00pn8x|title=A short clip from the 21 December 1950 edition of ''Welsh Rarebit''}}

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:BBC Home Service programmes]]
[[Category:BBC Light Programmes]]
[[Category:BBC Radio comedy programmes]]
[[Category:British variety radio programmes]]
[[Category:Welsh radio programmes]]
[[Category:1940 radio programme debuts]]
[[Category:1957 radio programme endings]]

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