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"Dylan Thomas" (37 results)
Famous for his womanising, drinking and tragic death, Dylan Thomas is the rock star of 20th-century poetry. But for Welsh poet Owen Sheers...
Writer Rachel Trezise, the first winner of the annual Dylan Thomas Prize, tells the story of Dylan Thomas's broadcasting life.
A short animation by Aardman Animations of Dylan Thomas's poem The Hunchback in the Park performed by Michael SHEEN. This was produce...
Actor Matthew Rhys reads Dylan Thomas's story of a trip to the seaside. Includes memories from Swansea r...
Carolyn Hitt explores Dylan Thomas's experiences and acquaintances in 1950s New York. With Michael Sheen,...
From Swansea to New York, actor Michael Sheen and singer Cerys Matthews are among those paying tribute to the work and life of poet Dylan Th...
Poet and broadcaster Ifor ap Glyn looks at Dylan Thomas' work as scriptwriter of propaganda films for the government during WWII.
In 1953 Dylan Thomas went to New York for the last time, his marriage a wreck, his drinking out of control. He was on his way to meet Stravi...
Under Milk Wood meets Heart of Darkness. Unfilmed screenplay by Dylan Thomas, narrated as a 'Film for Voices' by Matthew Rhys.
A frenzied roller coaster of hospitality. Poet Dylan Thomas relives an exhausting lecture tour. He died a month later.
'I walked through the streets like a stranger come out of the sea'. Dylan Thomas reads his work which grew into Under Milk Wood.
'The memories of childhood have no order and no end'. Dylan Thomas relives his school, streets, friends and dreams.
'A tuck of dresses, a rolling of trousers'. Poet Dylan Thomas vividly recalls an evocative August Bank Holiday.
Professor John Goodby explores how the boundaries which Dylan Thomas crossed in both life and art have made it difficult for critics to pi...
Welsh residents of New York talk about Dylan Thomas.
Chris Corcoran tests a panel including Mab Jones, Nadia Kamil and Steffan Rhodri on their knowledge of the Swansea poet. Dylan Thomas e...
Thomas is back in the town of his birth in search of his younger self. Locals vividly describe his childhood.
The life of the world-famous poet, from his wild and violent love affair with Caitlin to his last drunken days in New York. Matthew Rhys te...
Derek Brockway learns how New Quay on Cardigan Bay inspired some of Thomas's greatest work, before tourin...
Caitlin Thomas in conversation with Vincent Kane. When Dylan Thomas died in New York in 1953, his widow moved to Italy in sear...
As Wales celebrates the 100th anniversary of its most famous poet, writer and broadcaster Charles Williams...
An original play by T James Jones about Dylan Thomas' childhood and his many visits to see his Auntie Annie and Uncle Jac in Fern H...
Derek Brockway walks in Dylan Thomas's footsteps around Swansea before heading to the Llansteffan Penins...
Cameras gain exclusive access to Sir Peter Blake as he completes his groundbreaking art works inspired by Under Milk Wood...
On the centenary of Dylan Thomas' birth, Cerys Matthews delves into a rare collection of tapes made in the 1960s by her uncle Colin...
A unique production of Dylan Thomas's famous 'play for voices' enacted by a community of Welsh performers in New York, Los Angeles, London, Cardiff an...
70 years after the first broadcast of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, five new dramatic portraits of different areas of Wales in 2024 starring Ruth Jo...
Benjamin Zephaniah sets out to inspire and galvanise the citizens of Swansea to give a public performance of the works of their nat...
By Ruth Jones. Inspired by Welsh writer Dylan Thomas, a celebration of a colourful life of love. Recorded at Laugharne.
By Kevin Barry. A teenage boy suffers the torments of unrequited love in rural Ireland. Inspired by Dylan Thomas, read by Ke...
By Bernardine Evaristo. A short story in verse set in the high-octane, adrenaline-charged streets of contemporary London. I...
Stephen Evans explores how Dylan Thomas's work sustained a generation of East Germans struggling with a totalitarian state and became an export for the British...
A portrait of Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet and close friend of Dylan Thomas. Featuring archive of Watkins that has remained unseen for ove...
Richard Burton's unforgettable 1963 performance joins Welsh stars Matthew Rhys, Ruth Jones and Sian Phillips.
A new adaptation of Under Milk Wood.
Kayo Chingonyi is a 31-year-old Zambian-born British poet whose collection Kumukanda was last night announced as the winner of t...
Kayo Chingonyi discusses the Black British poetry anthology he has edited; More Fiya, a sequel to the seminal 1998 collection The Fire People, edited by Le...
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