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1) Swansea by Joe Dunthorne

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 Jones. Swansea by Joe Dunthorne.

For the 70th anniversary of the first radio broadcast of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood (25th January 1954), five short dramatic portraits from different areas of Wales in 2024.

Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood was first broadcast on the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's Third Programme, the predecessor to Radio 3. To this day, it remains one of the most famous radio dramas of all time. To mark the anniversary, Radio 3 has commissioned a new series of five short dramatic portraits from different areas of Wales in 2024, inspired by Thomas’ original idea of an omniscient narrator, who invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of a fictional small Welsh fishing town. In this new series of dramatic portraits, Ruth Jones (Gavin & Stacey, Stella) is the First Voice, linking all the β€œUnder Milk Woods” together. An omnibus version will be broadcast on Sunday 28th January in Drama on 3.

1) Swansea by Joe Dunthorne

'All the people of the lulled and dumbfound town are sleeping now'

First Voice.....Ruth Jones
Caitlin....Sophie Melville
Emlyn....Shaheen Jafargholi
Fiona.....Nadia Wyn Abouayen
Helen.....Tamara Brabon
Paul.....Gwion Morris Jones
Mikey.....Antoine Lopez-Norton
Security Guard 1......Ioan Hefin
Security Guard 2....Ifan Huw Dafydd

Production Co-ordinators Eleri Sydney McAuliffe and Lindsay Rees
Sound design by Jonathan Thomas and Catherine Robinson
Directed by Fay Lomas
Produced by Emma Harding, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Audio Drama Wales

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14 minutes

Last on

Mon 22 Jan 2024 22:45

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  • Mon 22 Jan 2024 22:45

Under Milk Wood

Under Milk Wood

A Play for Radio by Dylan Thomas. The 1954 ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ broadcast starring Richard Burton.