Dylan Thomas: Under Milk Wood - Richard Burton: BBC Play - 1/8

The classic 1963 radio dramatization, with Richard Burton as the narrator, of Dylan Thomas's "play for voices". From their dreamy dreams to their work-day gossip, this drama traces the lives of a group of villagers in a tiny Welsh seaport.

Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea on 27 October 1914, the son of a senior English master. On leaving school he worked on the South Wales Evening Post before embarking on his literary career in London. Not only a poet, he wrote short stories, film scripts, features and radio plays, the most famous being Under Milk Wood. On 9 November 1953, shortly after his thirty-ninth birthday, he collapsed and died in New York city. He is buried in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, which had become his main home since 1949. In 1982 a memorial stone to commemorate him was unveiled in 'Poet's Corner' in Westminster Abbey. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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[MrTJW65]

As a poet...... I just love this to bits ..... Dylan Thomas a genius of alliteration, onomatopoeia and stunning, incisive imagery. If only I could write somewhere close to this... that is my chagrin. Tom Wyre.

[songeify]

Just brilliant....what more can I say?

[Mazurka1001]

Love the music of it.

[rollingklouds]

Breathtakingly colorful! Loved it.

[KITCHENOFDISTINCTION]

The best and best version of English words you will ever hear.

[oniuka78]

@MyFavMusic123 no he sounds like Richard Burton :), Anthony Hopkins sounds alike Richard Burton, beautiful though.

[MyFavMusic123]

He sounds a lot like Anthony Hopkins :)

[simonh123able]

Truely Brilliant.

[richeadey]

"Quiet as a... domino" Brilliant.

Who else could conjure such an expression? That is a VERY quiet pub.