Very well deserved!!!! Many congratulations! 🎉

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hard to not tear up, this is soo inspiring and I wish him continued success! I'm about to start Health Sciences at the OU

Utterly in awe. I admire Michael Sheen tremendously. Not Welsh, nor even British myself, and yet, so mesmerized and inspired by this speech. What a beautiful soul, what a brilliant mind, what a kind person he is! And what an exquisite actor! So glad to be alive in times like this, when I can watch his films and listen to his speeches and interviews. ❤ Thank you, Wales, for giving such a grand man to the world!

Excellent

AWSOME VIDEO

Amazing story! Diolch for sharing Zaina

Amazing story, so happy for Karryann and all she has achieved. Da iawn

Mike, you are an inspiration. Loved your video.

Congratulations Mary. Respected, loved and inspirational.

Thank you Dr.Mike 💙 Thanks Wales 💙💙

l love gelliswick school

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Oh no turn off sheen the little twit

One can see Sheen is obviously a method actor. To help get into his speech, he wore clothes the same colour as the background sign. He even dyed his hair to match!

Great speech, eloquently delivered. Sadly the Welsh themselves are to blame for the bureaucracy that halts change, they either won’t take part, they dislike those who do or worse still they use the system to line their own pockets. Everything is done on a small family scale if you’re not part of the clique you can’t get change or get on, it’s very very sad.

UKposts brought me here straight from a Philomena Cunk compilation. She truly is a source of knowledge

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What a performance. The life of the theatre is certainly filled by many thrills and spills.

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It’s pure Alan Partridge. Emphatically delivered by another great actor.

I can't help but imagine this is how J.R.R. Tolkien would want his stories to be told.

I guess if a speech is tediously long, they call it a "lecture".

Actor believing in his own victimized melodrama. In truth, Michael Sheen is a very privileged winner. Past injustices aren't a reason to break into factions today. Our problems are immense. We need to be united, as much as possible, all over the world, and make decisions that are for the universal good. Tribalism is small-minded and cowardly. It takes great courage to come together, to leave behind that comforting narrow identity and step forward as an independent part of a vast, universal whole. It is much easier to take comfort from a narrow identity where the clarity of who you are and why you are here is so obvious. The reality is not black-and-white, but grey and shady and takes work to make judgments of. But it is the reality.

Even, you should have a look at a talk done by the actor Michael Sheen, the Annual Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture 2017. It's long but worth it.

Very perceptive

In all respect, screw Braveheart, I want a movie about Owain Glindor kicking the English! That would be badass. And Michael could even play the lead!

This is absolutely fantastic I am Scottish a very proud nationalist with a deep knowledge of Scottish history I have learned a lot about welsh similarities from this speech

Absolutely mesmerising !

I am an African from Biafra precisely. I just stumbled upon this on twitter and I watched and listened in awe. Goose bumps all over my hands at this powerful speech and history that I never heard of. As someone from a a country that its name has disappeared from the map of the world because of British greed, I feel your pain. 09/2022

So tonight i learn Welsh history! Being spanish this kinda resonates, the centralism of spain is a shame too, madrid is like a funnel for money and culture. Seems that british people also dream of a "donut" country. My solidarity.

Extraordinary that the Welsh happy to vote to leave EU but Sheen makes a good point about that, as we know too the lies p that were sold. Scotland and NI made the right choice but still suffering the fallout.

its the truth that most welsh people want to pretend this didnt happen,. there is a certain irony in british nationalists calling welsh nationalists frothy mouthed extremists. in reality wales has a royal mint but has no claim over the currency it makes? , makes 10 times more water than the whole of wales needs but still has water bans?, makes 5 x more energy than it needs but is in an energy crisis not being properly dealt with by a centralized govt, compromised by lobbying money and conflicted by economic dogma thats failing its ppl. my final thought is this if brexit remains an economic failure but is still continued led by england , why should wales be held back by project fear from other countrys nationalists?

This should be required "reading" for anyone "Welsh".

This is without a doubt one of the best lectures I have watched recently, possibly ever. Thank you for uploading this.

I’d vote for him to be PM or if not, First Minister for Wales! This was spellbinding, for me, and the audience, you could’ve heard a pin drop.

I’ve never felt more Welsh.

Out of interest what makes someone Welsh? Is it someone that lives in wales? Is it someone that was born there? If an Englishman moves and lives in Wales is he welsh? If a Welshman lives in London is he English? The talk of 800 year old history is fine and well but what relevance does that have to a new immigrant to wales, who is as welsh as any one.. right?

Cannot underestimate the importance of such a person saying these things.

I'm an Indian woman who grew up and and lives in Australia. This was mesmerising. Such a powerful, eloquent essay! Have long felt a powerful sense of love for Wales and Welsh. This just makes me wish I was Welsh even more! Thank you, Michael Sheen, and all the Welsh past and present who worked/work so hard to resist and overcome colonisation!

Such an eloquent and moving speech. His comments on his frustration about not being a Welsh speaker are keenly felt by me. Born in Scotland to Welsh father and Scottish mother I heard Welsh constantly, we had a Welsh speaking neighbor, what were the chances? The Welsh society in Scotland was a strong community where every year my father would conduct at the Cymanfa Ganus. Unfortunately it wasn’t enough for me to pick up the language. I have since become almost fluent in Spanish and understand how beautiful it is to be able to appreciate another culture, Latin American in my case, through language. If only I had the energy to learn the Cymraeg and the Gaelic as well. Keep doing what you are doing Mr Sheen, don’t enter politics, inspire us one by one! Diolch un fawr

Why don't we get rid of the 'Prince of Wales', become an independent state and let Mr Sheen run in a fair election to become its head? I'd vote for him as he'd represent our nation brilliantly on the world stage.

Not Welsh or British but I was absolutely spellbound. MS is a treasure.

Burning up Twitter right after the death of the Queen... will we see a free Wales?

I know there are people from Wales, Scotland and Ireland commenting on this brilliant lecture. However, some of the things he speaks about have resonance with English people who don't come from the "Establishment" and live in those corners forgotten.Never mind all the "levelling up" b**lsh"t England needs an orator and leader.

This has started trending again since the death of the Queen.

Amazing lecture. Only just picked up on this in 2022!

If we viewed each culture as an alien race in Startrek, the Welsh would be the eqivelent of the Federation, minus the money, and the English would be the eqivelent of the borg.