Broadcaster, performer and writer Mari Griffith has died after being diagnosed with cancer.

As a singer and presenter, she appeared regularly on BBC programmes.

Ms Griffith, who was raised in Maesteg, Bridgend county, was also a producer and director and in recent years published two historical novels.

She spent a lifetime making music programmes and was a well-known voice as a BBC Radio Wales announcer for many years.

Ms Griffith lived in Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, with her partner Jonah Jones prior to her death.

Writing on Facebook on Tuesday, Mr Jones said: "To those who knew her, sad news. Mari Griffith died yesterday."

Her unmistakably warm, Welsh delivery meant she was also a frequent announcer on TV and radio, and she shared the screen with acting greats during a golden age of Welsh television.

Her first job was with the BBC Northern Singers, based in Manchester.

Finding herself in the middle of the 1960s music revolution and the growth of folk clubs she later wrote: "There was nothing for it but to buy a guitar myself and have lessons. It was the best thing I ever did."

But she recalled turning down an invitation to play at the Cavern Club.

"Beatlemania had yet to reach fever pitch and I'd never heard of the place... I was a newbie driver and I didn't fancy taking on the East Lancs Road to Liverpool on a dark, wet November night so I refused the gig."

She became a regular soloist on children's programmes - including appearing with ventriloquist Ray Allan and artist Tony Hart.

Ms Griffith's versatility to present, sing and play meant she was in demand.

"I became three performers for the price of one which meant that I was never out of work," she said.

She later moved and was a contracted performer for BBC Wales, appearing alongside Welsh double-act Ryan and Ronnie on TV and on tour at theatres around the country.

The BBC Two programme Poems and Pints was a staple for her performances, where she shared the screen with Philip Madoc and Max Boyce.

She presented the first broadcast concert at St David's Hall in Cardiff in 1982.

A fluent Welsh speaker, she was also a familiar face on the music programme Disc a Dawn.

After retiring from broadcasting Ms Griffith turned her hand to novels - writing the first of two set in the Tudor period when she was 75 years old.