2025 Nominees

Tree on a Hill (Pren ar y Bryn)

Fiction Factory, S4C, BBC Cymru Wales, All3Media International, Creative Wales

UK

- Best Use of Music in a Series

Pren Ar y Bryn (Tree on a Hill) is a mischievous dark comedy drama created, written and directed by one of Wales’s most acclaimed and translated playwrights Ed Thomas. The distinctive tone and theatricality of his writing and his ability to create identifiable yet complex characters with a genuine warmth and absurdist sense of humour is what makes this series so relatable and compelling for the viewer. The music from John Hardy has been the soundtrack to “Welsh noir” for over a decade and more - but the original score for Pren Ar y Bryn is an altogether different beast and sounds, at times, like an old Bolivian brass band playing with broken instruments. The unique soundtrack, loosely influenced by Tom Waits and John Lurie, plays an integral part in bolstering the playful and absurdist tone of the series and has proven hugely popular amongst the show's fans. The demand to make John Hardy’s score readily available has meant that we have launched an album of the soundtrack on vinyl.