Under melt wood is tetimet merged. It's a blend of those two kind of gendres of radio that are emerging at that time. The main narrator, the main consciousness, apart from the first voic, who 's blind and who hears everything. So he focuses and channels for the listener what is going on around him in the town. And thomas had an innate understanding of the oras is very so if i can mae,. In a letter to princess mcatani, he he says, out of it came the idea that i write a piece of play, an ssion for voices, an entertainment out of the darkness'
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953). He wrote some of his best poems before he was twenty in the first half of his short, remarkable life, and was prolific in the second half too with poems such as those set in London under the Blitz and reworkings of his childhood in Swansea, and his famous radio play Under Milk Wood (performed after his death). He was read widely and widely heard: with his reading tours in America and recordings of his works that sold in their hundreds of thousands after his death, he is credited with reviving the act of poetry as performance in the 20th century.
With
Nerys Williams
Associate Professor of Poetry and Poetics at University College Dublin
John Goodby
Professor of Arts and Culture at Sheffield Hallam University
And
Leo Mellor
The Roma Gill Fellow in English at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
Producer: Simon Tillotson