Under Milk Wood A Play for Voices, Dylan Thomas
Under Milk Wood A Play for Voices, Dylan Thomas
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Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices
The classic 1963 BBC Radio production

Author: Dylan Thomas

Narrator: Full Cast, Richard Burton

Unabridged: 1 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2010

Synopsis

The classic 1963 full-cast BBC Radio production, starring Richard Burton

'To begin at the beginning: it is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black...'

When Richard Burton breathed the opening words of Under Milk Wood into a microphone, broadcasting history was made. For this 'play for voices' conjures up the intimate dreams and waking lives of the inhabitants of a Welsh seaside village in a remarkable way. It is bawdy and beautiful; its colourful characters lust and love, gossip and fantasise. Through the magic of language, Under Milk Wood creates a rich modern pastoral which, once heard, touches the listener with its poetry and haunts the imagination for ever.

This radio drama is the completed version broadcast in 1963 which includes several passages that were omitted from the first recording in 1954.

Cast and Credits
Written by Dylan Thomas

The Narrator – Richard Burton
Captain Cat / Voice of the Guide Book – Hugh Griffith
Rosie Probert / Lily Smalls – Gwyneth Petty
Polly Garter / Gossamer Beynon – Margo Jenkins
Mr Mog Edwards – Aubrey Richards
Myfanwy Price – Margo Jenkins
Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard – Dorothea Phillips
Mr Ogmore / Nogood Boyo – David Garfield
Mr Pritchard / Dai Bread / Cherry Owen – John Gill
Mrs Dai Bread One – Guinevere Roberts
Mrs Dai Bread Two – Patricia Mort
Butcher Beynon – Richard Curnock
Mrs Beynon – Olwen Brookes
Rev Eli Jenkins – T H Evans
Mr Pugh – Raymond Llewellyn
Mrs Pugh / Mrs Willy Nilly – Rachel Thomas
Willy Nilly Postman – Mervyn Johns
Sinbad Sailors – Talfryn Thomas
Mary Ann Sailors – Betty Lloyd-Davies
Mrs Cherry Owen – Buddug-Mair Powell
Mr Waldo – David Rees
Further Cast: Julia Cleverdon, Philip Davies, Judith Davies, Elizabeth Ponsford, Billy Johnnie, Christo Dicky, Christopher Baliard, Peter Richards and Courtney Davies

Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
Songs set by Daniel Jones
Children’s songs and singing game recorded at Albert Road Junior School, Penarth

First broadcast on BBC Third Programme, 11th Oct 1963

©2010 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P)2010 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

About Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas, born in 1914, began his career as a journalist in his native Swansea, Wales. He then moved to London where he worked in broadcasting and wrote film scripts, prose and drama to earn enough money to enable him to write what he most wanted to—poetry. He lived colorfully, even recklessly, until his untimely death in New York City in 1953. One of the 20th century’s most treasured writers, Dylan Thomas was a master craftsman of poetic complexity and richly obscure imagery. Thomas’s genius is made clear in this landmark recording through the everlasting gift he has given the word—his voice.

Reviews

Goodreads review by s.penkevich [hiatus-will return-miss you all] on February 14, 2015

We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood. The voices of Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood rise and fall, crashing into each other like waves under a milky moon, their sweet prose an effervescence of sounds and syllables to intoxicate the soul. This ‘play for voices’ follows the l......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on January 10, 2018

I don't know Llarregub about many things, but I do know that Thomas's sloe black, crow black, boat-bobbing, poetic creation was one of the most enjoyable books I read in school. If you haven't yet acquainted yourself with his rich rhetoric and magical mischievousness, then please do!......more

Goodreads review by Trevor on June 06, 2009

I can honestly say that the world would be a lesser place if I had never read this play. It is not just that it is laugh-out-loud funny or that it is sad enough to make me weep - Captain Cat being forgotten by Rosie near the end is almost too painful to remember. But it is so full, so wonderfully ov......more

Goodreads review by Chris_P on July 05, 2018

Thomas's voices are like a tide that's rising and falling in spite of the reader's convenience at the time of the reading. Like a choir of ghosts ignorant of their unsubstantial nature. I swear they gave me the chills a number of times while I was reading it during my night shift, not because it was......more

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