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Dylan Thomas
The Essential Dylan Thomas

Compil. DE 2005 on Naxos Audiobooks label
Spoken Word (Audiobook)

© The Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas Historical recordings: Under Milk Wood (1954) – Richard Burton and cast Return Journey to Swansea ∙ Quite Early One Morning ∙ And death shall have no dominion and other poems – Read by Dylan Thomas New recordings: Memories of Christmas ∙ The Peaches ∙ The Outing ∙ The Followers ∙ Do not go gently into that good night and other poems – Read by Richard Bebb ∙ Jason Hughes ∙ Philip Madoc ∙ Michael Sheen Historical CDs transferred by Dan King. Jason Hughes recorded at Motivation Sound Studios by Norman Goodman. Philip Madoc, Richard Bebb, Michael Sheen recorded at RNIB Studios by Ross Burman. Edited by Dan King.

     
Musicians
PortraitDylan Thomas voc, 1914-1953 GB
read by, album by
PortraitDan King ,
editor, transferred by
Jason Hughes
read by
PortraitMichael Sheen , *1969 GB
read by
PortraitPhilip Madoc , 1932-2012 GB
read by
PortraitRichard Bebb , 1927-2006 GB
read by
PortraitRichard Burton p, 1925-1984 GB
read by
Producers
Norman Goodman engineer
Ross Burman engineer
Nicolas Soames liner notes
Douglas Cleverdon producer
Album Tracks
No Title Artist Composer Duration
1Under Milk Wood: A Play For VoicesDylan Thomas
2FIRST VOICE To begin at the beginningDylan Thomas5:12
3FIRST DROWNED Remember me, Captain?Dylan Thomas1:38
4FIRST VOICE From where you are…Dylan Thomas0:30
5MR EDWARDS Myfanwy Price!Dylan Thomas1:18
6FIRST VOICE Come now, drift up the dark…Dylan Thomas1:44
7MOTHER This little piggy…Dylan Thomas2:16
8FIRST VOICE Now, in her iceberg-white…Dylan Thomas0:43
9MRS OGMORE-PRITCHARD Mr Ogmore!Dylan Thomas1:09
10FIRST VOICE In Butcher Beynon's…Dylan Thomas0:28
11ORGAN MORGAN Help! cries Organ Morgan…Dylan Thomas0:28
12FIRST VOICE At the sea end of town…Dylan Thomas0:27
13UTAH WATKINS (Yawning) Thirty four, thirty five…Dylan Thomas3:07
14FIRST VOICE Now behind the eyes and secrets…Dylan Thomas2:54
15FIRST VOICE Time passes. Listen. Time passesDylan Thomas1:58
16REV. ELI JENKINS Dear Gwalia! I know there are…Dylan Thomas2:00
17FIRST VOICE Now, woken at last by the out-of-bed…Dylan Thomas0:23
18LILY SMALLS Oh, there's a face!Dylan Thomas2:14
19FIRST VOICE Mary Ann the Sailors…Dylan Thomas2:39
20FIRST VOICE Now frying pans spit…Dylan Thomas1:19
21FIRST VOICE Mr and Mrs Cherry Owen…Dylan Thomas1:32
22FIRST VOICE From Beynon Butchers in Coronation Street…Dylan Thomas1:10
23FIRST VOICE Up the street, in the Sailor's Arms…Dylan Thomas2:38
24CAPTAIN CAT (Softly to himself) Maggie Richards, Ricky Rhys…Dylan Thomas3:50
25FIRST VOICE People are moving now, up and down…Dylan Thomas3:28
26FIRST VOICE There's the clip clop of horses…Dylan Thomas0:46
27FIRST WOMAN Mrs Ogmore-PritchardDylan Thomas1:01
28FIRST VOICE Outside, the sun springs down…Dylan Thomas1:32
29FIRST VOICE And in Willy Nilly the Postman's dark…Dylan Thomas2:34
30SECOND VOICE …herring gulls heckling down to the harbour…Dylan Thomas2:07
31FIRST VOICE The music of the spheres is heard distincly…Dylan Thomas2:33
32POLLY GARTER I loved a man whose name was Tom…Dylan Thomas3:44
33FIRST VOICE And the morning school is over…Dylan Thomas2:45
34FIRST VOICE And the shrill girls giggle and muster around him…Dylan Thomas1:46
35GOSSAMER BEYNON I don't care if he [i]is[/i] common…Dylan Thomas1:12
36FIRST VOICE In the blind-drawn dark dining-room of School House…Dylan Thomas3:31
37FIRST VOICE Lord Cut-Glass, in his kitchen full of time…Dylan Thomas4:41
38FIRST VOICE Captain Cat, at his window…Dylan Thomas4:12
39FIRST VOICE The child says, and then she forgets him too.Dylan Thomas1:23
40SECOND VOICE The afternoon buzzes like lazy bees…Dylan Thomas3:58
41FIRST VOICE Now the town is dusk.Dylan Thomas0:58
42MR PRITCHARD You first, Mr OgmoreDylan Thomas1:30
43REV. ELI JENKINS Every morning, when I wake…Dylan Thomas1:52
44FIRST VOICE Dusk is drowned forever until tomorrow.Dylan Thomas1:57
45FIRST VOICE Blind Captain Cat climbs into his bunk.Dylan Thomas0:57
46FIRST VOICE Mr Mog Edwards and Miss Myfanwy Price…Dylan Thomas1:16
47FIRST VOICE The thin night darkers.Dylan Thomas0:46
48Return JourneyDylan Thomas
49NARRATOR It was a cold white day in the High Street…Dylan Thomas4:58
50NARRATOR I went out of the hotel into the snow…Dylan Thomas6:02
51NARRATOR And he hurried on, into the dervish snow…Dylan Thomas5:23
52NARRATOR The Hall is shattered…Dylan Thomas5:55
53NARRATOR Even now, on the frozen foreshore…Dylan Thomas4:37
54Quite Early One MorningDylan Thomas
55Quite early one morning in the winter in Wales…Dylan Thomas3:19
56The town was not yet awake.Dylan Thomas3:16
57And climbing down again and up out of the town…Dylan Thomas3:01
58Oh, the twon was waking now…Dylan Thomas2:50
59PoemsDylan Thomas
60LamentDylan Thomas4:23
61Poem On His BirthdayDylan Thomas6:43
62And Death Shall Have No DominionDylan Thomas1:51
63Fern HillDylan Thomas3:52
64Do Not Go Gently Into That Good NightDylan Thomas1:33
65Memories Of ChristmasDylan Thomas
66One Christmas was so much like another in those years…Dylan Thomas5:12
67Now out of that bright what snowball of Christmas…Dylan Thomas4:08
68We returned home through the desolate poor sea-facing streets…Dylan Thomas2:58
69The PeachesDylan Thomas
70The grass-green cart, with 'J. Jones, Gorsehill' painted…Dylan Thomas5:06
71He backed the mare into Union Street…Dylan Thomas6:34
72'Can I go and see the pigs?'Dylan Thomas4:51
73Gwilym's chapel was the last old barn before the field…Dylan Thomas4:26
74The best room smelt of moth balls and fur…Dylan Thomas6:44
75Down the thick dingle Jack and I ran shouting…Dylan Thomas7:07
76Or door was open.Dylan Thomas5:22
77A Visit To Grandpa'sDylan Thomas
78In the middle of the night I woke…Dylan Thomas3:32
79In the morning I woke from a dream of fiery horses…Dylan Thomas2:15
80When we came to Llanstephan village…Dylan Thomas4:35
81'Where are we going?' I askedDylan Thomas3:00
82The FollowersDylan Thomas
83It was six o'clock on a winter's evening.Dylan Thomas4:47
84The barmaid, with gold hair and two gold teeth in front…Dylan Thomas4:18
85Outside Rabiotti's café, Leslie said…Dylan Thomas4:50
86All over the dripping town…Dylan Thomas3:51
87The Outing – A StoryDylan Thomas
88If you can call it a story.Dylan Thomas4:06
89On Sunday evening, after Bethesda…Dylan Thomas4:21
90The charabanc drew up outside…Dylan Thomas4:56
91Time clouded over, the cows wondered…Dylan Thomas3:35
92PoemsDylan Thomas
93From 18 PoemsDylan Thomas
94The Force That Through The Green FuseDylan Thomas1:27
95From Deaths And EntrancesDylan Thomas
96The Conversation Of PrayersDylan Thomas1:32
97A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In LondonDylan Thomas1:13
98ElegyDylan Thomas1:15
99Poem In OctoberDylan Thomas2:55
100The Hunchback In The ParkDylan Thomas1:41
101A Winter's TaleDylan Thomas8:48
102In My Craft Or Sullen ArtDylan Thomas0:51
103Lie Still, Sleep BecalmedDylan Thomas1:08
104Fern HillDylan Thomas3:31
105From In Country SleepDylan Thomas
106Over Sir John's HillDylan Thomas3:20
107Poem On His BirthdayDylan Thomas5:46
108Do Not Go Gently Into That Good NightDylan Thomas1:21
109LamentDylan Thomas3:19
110From Twenty-five PoemsDylan Thomas
111Was There A TimeDylan Thomas0:36
112And Death Shall Have No DominionDylan Thomas1:58
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