Comments made elsewhere include that he was a " rumbustious Yorkshireman " who was " blessed with a booming, powerful voice and an occasionally coarse temperament " . " He brought conviction to everything he sang, and his extrovert personality enhanced all his stage performances " . " On stage he combined a rugged boldness with a robust vocal delivery ".
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Among his subjects were Evan Roberts, the Loughor evangelist of the early 20th century, who claimed mystical powers; Aneurin Bevan, the rumbustious socialist MP who ushered in the National Health Service in 1948; John Barnard Jenkins, a Welsh political activist, who ran a one-man bombing campaign in 1969; and, inevitably, Dylan Thomas.
