From Riding In Wales to Writing In Welsh…

 
This month, as well as carving up the Powys countryside alongside the World Rally Champion, Gareth has started writing scripts for a new museum currently being built in Swansea.
 
“This museum is state-of-the-art, so you don’t just walk in and look at a few objects”, enthused the Welshman, “There are videos with touch-screens and joysticks, and areas where characters talk around you in 3D sound, and all kinds of interactive exhibits, and they all needed someone to write the scripts”.
 
That ‘someone’ turned out to be, in fact, two people — Gareth, and his long-term writing (and everything else) partner, Violet Berlin. As it’s a Welsh museum, everything is in two languages, so Gareth is in charge of the Welsh language version, and Violet the English.
 
Violet fills in the picture: “This year, while Gareth’s been concentrating on his passion — motorsports —I’ve been finding new opportunities for mine — script-writing. This job seemed perfect because we both love the subject matter, we can both write in our mother tongue, and Gareth can fit it around his other job, gallivanting across the globe with ITV1 in search of fast cars”.
 
Alongside his English-speaking presenting career, Gareth has continued presenting and acting in Welsh, for Wales. His previous experience of writing for interactive entertainment includes a CD-ROM he wrote in English on The Space Race, but he has written scripts for TV in both languages.
 
Swansea’s Waterfront Museum opens at the beginning of 2005. garethjones.tv will bring you an update nearer the time.