On 17 September 2022 we celebrated Planet’s 50^th anniversary – a fundraiser event postponed from 2020 due to the pandemic. In the Edwardian music hall splendour of Ceredigion Museum we hosted a panel discussion on Wales in the world in 2022, poetry readings, a discussion with editors, live music and an exhibit on our history, including contemporary collages responding to our archive by artist Llinos Anwyl, and the demonstration of a prototype of a new online geocoded Planet index by Lloyd Roderick and Mike Jones. We’d like to thank everyone who contributed: including our MC Mike Parker, our panellists, poets and musicians Mabli Siriol Jones, Hussein Said, Daniel G. Williams, Dan Evans, Ned Thomas, John Barnie, Helle Michelsen, Menna Elfyn, Eric Ngalle Charles, Mike Jenkins, Katell Keineg and Owen Shiers (Cynefin). Many thanks too to our technicians Huw Evans, Berian Elias and Maldwyn Pryse, the Museum, and to the Books Council of Wales and the late John D. Pickles for a Small Marketing Activities Grant and bequest which helped fund the event.

Here you can watch Mike Parker in conversation with former editors Ned Thomas, John Barnie and Helle Michelsen, and with the current editor Emily Trahair, on why Welsh internationalism and magazine publishing continue to be so vital in the 21^st century, and some intriguing Planet anecdotes from over 50 years orbiting Wales and the world…

You can also watch our panel discussion ‘Wales in the world in 2022’ here.