Award-winning embarrassment ... Rhodri Glyn Thomas at last night's awards. Photograph: BBC
Presenting an award, you might think, is a jolly kind of engagement. Attending an award ceremony to discover you're the runner-up and only due £1,000 not £10,000 is the kind of thing you grit your teeth and applaud, surely? Why then is Welsh heritage minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas, who opened the envelope at last night's Wales Book of the Year award today telling the Assembly he's "apologised to all the authors involved and I've written to them today again to apologise"? And why is Tom Bullough, the runner-up in question, describing a "truly appalling experience" on his website that prompted him to leave the building at high speed and refuse his cheque? Click here to find out (although sensitive viewers may wish to turn away from the screen).
