Dewi Pws is someone who is known as a bit of a joker, and likes a bit of fun and frolics. He’s also a musician, actor, presenter, poet, campervanner and, most of all, a true Welshman.

The Dewi who confesses he’s “far from being a saint” will be Elin Fflur’s guest in the next episode of Sgwrs Dan y Lloer on St David’s Day, Monday, 1 March.

Both will settle for a chat in front of a blazing fire under the stars in Dewi’s garden in Nefyn to discuss his career and memories.

He was part of the Group Tebot Piws and later the revolutionary rock band Edward H Dafis, and in the programme he reminisces about that special era: “I’m so glad I was there in the ‘60s and ‘70s,” says Dewi, who is originally from Treboeth, Swansea.

“It was a wild time; just living a Welsh life, singing. It was one big party. I didn’t think about tomorrow.”

But in the programme we see that Welsh was not always central to his life, as he recalls his time at school: “English was the language most of the children in Treboeth spoke except when I went to Ysgol Gymraeg Lôn Las.

“Then I went to Dynevor Grammar School, and I felt like I was thick because I spoke Welsh, so I withdrew from it, until I rediscovered my Welshness going to Glan Llyn and Llangrannog, and Aelwyd yr Urdd at Morriston Chapel.”

Although he has made a name for himself in the entertainment world, perhaps few are aware that he qualified as a teacher, and taught in Splott, Cardiff for some years.

But as Elin hears, his teaching career was short-lived: “I didn’t know what to do. I wanted to be a racing car driver when I was at Dynevor School! My mate said ‘why don’t we learn to be teachers?’. I passed. I don’t know how. And then I taught in Splott for two years.

“I loved the children, but I just didn’t like going to school! I just decided I couldn’t bear it; I couldn’t bear teaching any more, and a theatre company offered me a job of writing a pantomime, and that’s how the career in entertainment started.”

As part of that career, Dewi appeared in the popular soap opera Pobol y Cwm and Rownd a Rownd, as well as the 1978 Grand Slam film, which followed a gang of friends on a rugby trip to France.

In 2010 he had the opportunity to combine his experience as a teacher and entertainer as Children’s Poet Laureate, visiting schools and running poetry workshops.

And his one word of advice for the children of Wales? “I always tell them not to grow up. And I say, ‘I’m old, and I see the world grey. You’re children and you see it alive”.

Sgwrs Dan y Lloer: Dewi Pws will air on Monday, 1 March at 8.25pm.