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| Adventures In Poetry | ...Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was a Jesuit priest and a teacher of Latin and Greek. He burned much of his work because he saw it as a distraction from his religious duties, and the few poems he left were not even published until almost thirty years after his death. Yet Hopkins is now seen as a revolutionary figure in Victorian literature, an inspiration to 20th Century poets such as W.H.Auden and DYLAN THOMAS.... |
| Archive Hour, The | ...The armistice which brought an end to the fighting of the First World War was signed 80 years ago this month. Poet and painter David Jones composed a long poem from his memories of the time, and this was directed for radio by Douglas Cleverdon with Richard Burton and DYLAN THOMAS. In this programme, Nest Cleverdon introduces scenes from her late husband's legendary work and recalls its making.... |
| Archive On 4 | ...... |
| Art Of Conversation, The | ...The first broadcast of a newly discovered piece by DYLAN THOMAS, written during WWII when he was employed by the BBC to write radio talks and features.... |
| At The Bottom Of The Garden | ...DYLAN THOMAS (Author)... |
| Badgers In My Vest | ...By John Fletcher. The young DYLAN THOMAS spent much of the war in a Newquay pub unable to write. The challenge of a returning soldier shocks him out of his writer's block. First in a season marking the 50th anniversary of the Poet's death.... |
| Betjeman Letters, The | ...Disputes with the BBC, moving house and speaking up for DYLAN THOMAS.... |
| Booked! | ...Simon Fanshawe chairs the irreverent writing game. This week, DYLAN THOMAS reviews the Dyson vacuum cleaner, Lord Baden Powell reports back from his first aromatherapy massage, and `Mask of Zorro' gets a new beginning and ending. With Stuart Maconie, Dillie Keane, David Stafford and Linda Smith ... |
| Chelsea Dreaming | ...by D J Britton Fifty years ago today, DYLAN THOMAS died in NEW YORK after collapsing in the Chelsea Hotel. Tonight's play examines the lies and legends of this unique poet through the critical eye of the Chelsea, infamous home both to wild excesses and inspired creativity. Chelsea Hotel....Roger Allam DYLAN THOMAS....Richard Lynch Caitlin....Penny Downie DJ....Dorien Thomas Mam....Manon Edwards Nancy....Beth Robert Edgar Lee Masters....Brendan Charleson Liz....Sarah Hill Composed by Paula Gardiner Musicians: Lee Goodall, Gethin Liddington, Huw Warren, Ian Williams. Directed by Alison Hindell ... |
| Child's Christmas In Wales, A [radio Wales] | ...DYLAN THOMAS' magical poem, set in a small Welsh town. Read by singer Cerys Matthews.... |
| Child's Christmas In Wales, A | ...A funny, evocative memory of a boy's Christmas in Wales. Introduced by an extract from DYLAN THOMAS' The Crumbs of One Man's Year, read by Rhys Ifans.... |
| Chosen For Christmas | ...Joss Ackland reads `A Child's CHRISTMAS in Wales' by DYLAN THOMAS ... |
| Dixon Of Dock Green | ...... |
| Diy Festival Kit | ...... |
| Dylan And John | ...Through a hitherto unaired private cache of recordings and letters, David Rayvern Allen presents an unusual reflection of one of the twentieth century's most distinctive poetic voices, DYLAN THOMAS, and of his friendship for and correspondence with John Arlott. Much is known about Thomas and Arlott, but very little is known about the close friendship between the two. Through their correspondence which Rayvern Allen has inherited and recordings he made with Arlott before his death (as the commentator's official biographer) this programme casts fresh and unusual light on the story of the poet at his peak and the broadcaster at his youthfully exuberant. As a young poetry producer at the BBC, John Arlott directed about two-thirds of DYLAN THOMAS's broadcasts, about forty occasions from 1945 to 1950 on literary programmes of every type. David Rayvern Allen, former Radio 4 features producer and cricket writer was a close friend of John Arlott and the programme includes unaired correspondence between the two men.... |
| Dylan Thomas - Return Journey | |
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| Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) | ...In memoriam DYLAN THOMAS ... |
| Inspired [radio Wales] | ...DYLAN THOMAS... |
| Investigating Mr Thomas | ...When Time Magazine printed a warts-and-all article about DYLAN THOMAS in 1953, the poet sued them for libel. Needing to gather more evidence, the magazine hired a private detective to shadow Thomas in New York.... |
| Map Of British Poetry, A | ...With contributions from Declan McGonagle and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams and poems by Jackie Kay, Ezra Pound, Seamus Heaney, Edward Thomas, Anne Ridler, Henry Vaughan, DYLAN THOMAS and Emily Bronte.... |
| Mary King | ...Stravinsky: In Memoriam DYLAN THOMAS... |
| Mixing It | ...Presented by Mark Russell and Robert Sandall and featuring an interview with Doseone and Dax Pierson, both members of the San Fransisco-based group Subtle. Inspired by Can, De la Soul and Matmos as well as the work of DYLAN THOMAS... |
| My Father's Places | ...Sian Thomas reads from Aeronwy Thomas' memoir of her childhood in Laugharne on the south Wales coast with her father, DYLAN THOMAS, and mother Caitlin.... |
| Night Waves | ...Matthew Sweet discusses the first production of DYLAN THOMAS's newly discovered radio play... |
| Poetry Please | ...01: The snowdrop - Walter de la Mare [1.35] 02: Willow song - Anne Stevenson [2.20] 03: To his coy mistress - Andrew Marvell [2.03] 04: Arbor vitae - Coventry Patmore [1.33] 05: Fern Hill - DYLAN THOMAS [3.05] 06: Goodbye - Alun Lewis [1.51] 07: The winged horse - Hilaire Belloc [1.37]... |
| Poetry Societies | ...DYLAN THOMAS Society... |
| Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog | ...Five short stories by DYLAN THOMAS. A small boy witnesses a triangular lovers tiff in the snow. Read by Sian Phillips ... |
| Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert | ...In a concert given at St Andrew's Church, Presteigne, James Gilchrist (tenor) and the Carducci Quartet perform two classic works for string quartet and a recent setting of a poem by DYLAN THOMAS.... |
| Ramblings With Clare Balding | ...Clare Balding explores the routes that have been the source of inspiration for painters, writers and composers. She walks around Laugharne, home of poet DYLAN THOMAS, in the company of one of the town's oldest inhabitants, Brenda Williams.... |
| Selected Poets | ...Peter Porter introduces poetry from the BBC archives. Today's programme includes an early recording of W H Auden's `Look Stranger' from 1936 and his `Journey to Ireland' from 1961. Plus DYLAN THOMAS reading `Over St John's Hill' and `In the White Giant's Thigh'.... |
| Singing Sands, The [documentary] | ...The estuary in DYLAN THOMAS's poem `Over Sir John's Hill'.... |
| Something Out Of Nothing | ...by Roger Granelli. Rob and Roxanne's experience of life in Laugharne proves more painful than DYLAN THOMAS' colourful fiction.... |
| Something Understood [world Service] | ...Reading 7: ‘Fern Hill’ written by DYLAN THOMAS.... |
| Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone [6 Music] | ...The Freak Zone presents a Bookworm special taking a look at albums inspired by literature. Expect musical interpretations of DYLAN THOMAS, The Bible, Don Quixote and many many more.... |
| Tchaikovsky Experience, The | ...Stravinsky: In Memoriam DYLAN THOMAS... |
| Under Milk Wood | ...The original production of DYLAN THOMAS's `play for voices', first broadcast in 1954 and now digitally remastered. Richard Burton (First Voice), Richard Ebb (Second Voice), Hugh Griffith (Captain Cat), Rachel Thomas (Rosie Probert), Diana Maddox (Polly Garter), Dafydd Havard (Mr Mog Edwards), Sybil Williams (Myfanwy Price), Dilys Davies (Mrs Ogmore Pritchard), David Close-Thomas (Mr Ogmore), Ben Williams (Mr Pritchard), Meredith Edwards (Butcher Benyon), Diana Maddox (Gossamer Benyon), Philip Burton (Rev Eli Jenkins), Gwyneth Petty (Lily Smalls), John Huw Jones (Mr Pugh), Mary Jones (Mrs Pugh). Director: Douglas Cleverdon.... |
| Viewing The Century - Seamus Heaney | ...Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney challenges W H Auden's statement that `Poetry makes nothing happen' in order to assert the key role that poetry has played throughout the 20th century. Illustrating his talk with reference to Osip Mandelstam and DYLAN THOMAS, W B Yeats and T S Eliot, and Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, and drawing extensively on BBC archives, Heaney's passionately argued piece concludes with a magnificent rendition of his own poem written after the recent death of Joseph Brodsky, a friend and fellow poet.... |
| With Great Pleasure At Christmas | ...On stage with him to read from a selection that ranges from AA Milne to Edward Gibbon, by way of DYLAN THOMAS, Dickens and Tennyson, are his daughter, actress Shuna Snow and actors Charles Dance and Alex Jennings ... |
| With Great Pleasure | ...At the Gower Festival, John Humphrys chooses his favourite pieces of literature, which range from `The Wind in the Willows' to `Animal Farm', and Evelyn Waugh to DYLAN THOMAS. The readers are Angharad Rees and Michael Elwyn ... |
| Words And Music | ...Simon Russell Beale and Emma Fielding read a selection from Longfellow, Poe, Milton, Gerald Manley Hopkins with archive readings from DYLAN THOMAS and Michael Longley. Music includes Schoenberg's Verklaerte Nacht, Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit and Takemitsu's Dreamtime.... |
| Write Stuff, The | ...DYLAN THOMAS... |