THOMAS, D.: Under Milk Wood and Other Plays (The 1954 Premiere Radio Recording) (Unabridged)

Under Milk Wood is Dylan Thomas’s undisputed and unforgettable masterpiece—an affectionate, but hilarious portrait of a small Welsh town. The classic 1954 recording, featuring a perfect cast led by Richard Burton as ‘First Voice’, is rightly considered to be definitive. This collection also includes two earlier radio programmes: Return Journey to Swansea and Quite Early One Morning, read by Dylan Thomas and others. Enjoyable in their own right, they also provide a fascinating insight into the process that led towards Under Milk Wood.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Thomas, Dylan - Author
Havard, Dafydd (Reader)
1 FIRST VOICE To begin at the beginning: 05:12
2 FIRST DROWNED Remember me, Captain? 01:39
3 FIRST VOICE From where you are… 00:30
4 MR. EDWARDS Myfanwy Price! 01:18
Havard, Dafydd (Reader)
5 FIRST VOICE Come now, drift up the dark… 01:44
6 MOTHER This little piggy… 02:16
7 FIRST VOICE Now, in her iceberg-white… 00:44
8 MRS. OGMORE-PRITCHARD Mr. Ogmore! 01:09
9 FIRST VOICE In Butcher Beynon's… 00:29
10 ORGAN MORGAN: Help! cries Organ Morgan… 00:28
11 FIRST VOICE At the sea end of town… 00:27
12 UTAH WATKINS Thirty four, thirty five… 03:07
13 FIRST VOICE Now behind the eyes and secrets… 02:54
14 FIRST VOICE Time passes. Listen. Time passes. 01:58
15 REV. ELI JENKINS Dear Gwalia! I know there are… 02:00
16 FIRST VOICE Now, woken at last by the out-of-bed… 00:23
17 LILY SMALLS Oh, there's a face! 02:14
18 FIRST VOICE Mary Ann the Sailors… 02:39
19 FIRST VOICE Now frying-pans spit… 01:19
20 FIRST VOICE Mr. and Mrs. Cherry Owen… 01:32
21 FIRST VOICE From Beynon Butchers in Coronation Street… 01:09
22 FIRST VOICE Up the street, in the Sailors' Arms… 02:38
23 CAPTAIN CAT Maggie Richards, Ricky Rhys… 03:49
24 FIRST VOICE People are moving now, up and down… 03:28
25 FIRST VOICE There's the clip clop of horses… 00:46
26 FIRST WOMAN Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard 01:01
27 FIRST VOICE Outside, the sun springs down… 01:32
28 FIRST VOICE And in Willy Nilly the Postman's dark… 02:34
29 SECOND VOICE …herring gulls heckling down to the harbour… 02:07
30 FIRST VOICE The music of the spheres is heard distinctly… 02:33
31 POLLY GARTER I loved a man whose name was Tom… 03:44
32 FIRST VOICE And the morning school is over… 02:45
33 FIRST VOICE And the shrill girls giggle and muster around him… 01:46
34 GOSSAMER BEYNON I don’t care if he is common… 01:14
Disc 2
1 FIRST VOICE In the blind-drawn dark dining-room of School House… 03:33
2 FIRST VOICE Lord Cut-Glass, in his kitchen full of time… 04:41
3 FIRST VOICE Captain Cat, at his window… 04:12
4 FIRST VOICE The child says, and then she forgets him too. 01:19
5 SECOND VOICE The afternoon buzzes like lazy bees… 03:58
6 FIRST VOICE Now the town is dusk. 00:58
7 MR. PRITCHARD You first, Mr. Ogmore. 01:30
8 REV. ELI JENKINS Every morning, when I wake… 01:52
9 FIRST VOICE Dusk is drowned forever until tomorrow. 01:57
10 FIRST VOICE Blind Captain Cat climbs into his bunk. 00:57
11 FIRST VOICE Mr. Mog Edwards and Miss Myfanwy Price… 01:16
12 FIRST VOICE The thin night darkens. 00:51
13 NARRATOR It was a cold white day in the High Street… 04:58
14 NARRATOR I went out of the hotel into the snow… 06:02
15 NARRATOR And he hurried on, into the dervish snow… 05:23
16 NARRATOR The Hall is shattered… 05:55
17 NARRATOR Even now, on the frozen foreshore… 04:41
18 Quite early one morning in the winter in Wales… 03:19
19 The town was not yet awake. 03:16
20 And climbing down again and up out of the town… 03:01
21 Oh, the town was waking now… 02:57

Total Playing Time: 02:11:44

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