When the celebrations for the Dylan Thomas centenary finally come to an end and we wake up with the mother of all literary hangovers, I imagine we’ll reflect on how we’ve commemorated our great poet and what the legacy… Read More ›
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Richard Burton on Dylan Thomas the actor
This wonderful description of Dylan’s power as a radio performer comes from a review by Richard Burton of The Life of Dylan Thomas by Constantine Fitzgibbon that appeared in Book Week magazine, 24th October 1965. “Invisible centuries-gone atavistic hair rose on our… Read More ›
Dylan Thomas : A New Critical Study
In the two decades following his death in 1953 at the age of 39, Dylan Thomas’s poetry was the subject of numerous critical studies as well as being popular with the general reading public and highly regarded by many in… Read More ›
Desert Island Dylan: Dylan Thomas & the BBC
In January 1942, whilst Britain was in the midst of the second world war, a new radio programme was launched on the BBC that would go on to become a national institution. Desert Island Discs was devised by broadcaster Roy… Read More ›
Paddling Through The Words of Dylan Thomas
When Dylan Thomas first visited Laugharne in 1934, he described it in a letter as ‘the strangest town in Wales’, and later in a radio broadcast, as “this timeless, beautiful, barmy (both spellings) town…a legendary lazy little black-magical bedlam by… Read More ›
Sixty Years of Under Milk Wood
To celebrate 60 years since the completion of Under Milk Wood, here is our selection of 20 milestones in the life of Dylan Thomas’ classic play for voices. 1. Perhaps the first seeds of Under Milk Wood were sown in… Read More ›
At Home With Dylan Thomas
It would be easy to walk down the seemingly unremarkable Cwmdonkin Drive in the Uplands area of Swansea without realising that you’d walked past a house of international importance. Only an understated blue plaque on the front of the house,… Read More ›
