Dylan Thomas

Summary

This varied, well-chosen selection represents the very best of Dylan Thomas. It includes the legendary recording of Under Milk Wood with Richard Burton and Richard Bebb as narrators as well as two radio productions he wrote before it. Though interesting in their own right, they show how Under Milk Wood grew gradually in his imagination. Thomas was a charismatic if idiosyncratic performer of his own poetry and stories. Performances of Dylan Thomas have since moved on and the greatness of the writer as a poet and storyteller are perhaps best heard in new recordings by actors of our own time. Bebb, Madoc, and Hughes share some of Thomas’s finest, most challenging, and endearing works.