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.
![]() | Dylan Thomas voc, 1914-1953 GB read by, album by |
![]() | Dan King , editor, transferred by |
![]() | Jason Hughes read by |
![]() | Michael Sheen , *1969 GB read by |
![]() | Philip Madoc , 1932-2012 GB read by |
![]() | Richard Bebb , 1927-2006 GB read by |
![]() | Richard Burton p, 1925-1984 GB read by |
Norman Goodman engineer |
Ross Burman engineer |
Nicolas Soames liner notes |
Douglas Cleverdon producer |
No | Title | Artist | Composer | Duration |
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1 | Under Milk Wood: A Play For Voices | Dylan Thomas | ||
2 | FIRST VOICE To begin at the beginning | Dylan Thomas | 5:12 | |
3 | FIRST DROWNED Remember me, Captain? | Dylan Thomas | 1:38 | |
4 | FIRST VOICE From where you are… | Dylan Thomas | 0:30 | |
5 | MR EDWARDS Myfanwy Price! | Dylan Thomas | 1:18 | |
6 | FIRST VOICE Come now, drift up the dark… | Dylan Thomas | 1:44 | |
7 | MOTHER This little piggy… | Dylan Thomas | 2:16 | |
8 | FIRST VOICE Now, in her iceberg-white… | Dylan Thomas | 0:43 | |
9 | MRS OGMORE-PRITCHARD Mr Ogmore! | Dylan Thomas | 1:09 | |
10 | FIRST VOICE In Butcher Beynon's… | Dylan Thomas | 0:28 | |
11 | ORGAN MORGAN Help! cries Organ Morgan… | Dylan Thomas | 0:28 | |
12 | FIRST VOICE At the sea end of town… | Dylan Thomas | 0:27 | |
13 | UTAH WATKINS (Yawning) Thirty four, thirty five… | Dylan Thomas | 3:07 | |
14 | FIRST VOICE Now behind the eyes and secrets… | Dylan Thomas | 2:54 | |
15 | FIRST VOICE Time passes. Listen. Time passes | Dylan Thomas | 1:58 | |
16 | REV. ELI JENKINS Dear Gwalia! I know there are… | Dylan Thomas | 2:00 | |
17 | FIRST VOICE Now, woken at last by the out-of-bed… | Dylan Thomas | 0:23 | |
18 | LILY SMALLS Oh, there's a face! | Dylan Thomas | 2:14 | |
19 | FIRST VOICE Mary Ann the Sailors… | Dylan Thomas | 2:39 | |
20 | FIRST VOICE Now frying pans spit… | Dylan Thomas | 1:19 | |
21 | FIRST VOICE Mr and Mrs Cherry Owen… | Dylan Thomas | 1:32 | |
22 | FIRST VOICE From Beynon Butchers in Coronation Street… | Dylan Thomas | 1:10 | |
23 | FIRST VOICE Up the street, in the Sailor's Arms… | Dylan Thomas | 2:38 | |
24 | CAPTAIN CAT (Softly to himself) Maggie Richards, Ricky Rhys… | Dylan Thomas | 3:50 | |
25 | FIRST VOICE People are moving now, up and down… | Dylan Thomas | 3:28 | |
26 | FIRST VOICE There's the clip clop of horses… | Dylan Thomas | 0:46 | |
27 | FIRST WOMAN Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard | Dylan Thomas | 1:01 | |
28 | FIRST VOICE Outside, the sun springs down… | Dylan Thomas | 1:32 | |
29 | FIRST VOICE And in Willy Nilly the Postman's dark… | Dylan Thomas | 2:34 | |
30 | SECOND VOICE …herring gulls heckling down to the harbour… | Dylan Thomas | 2:07 | |
31 | FIRST VOICE The music of the spheres is heard distincly… | Dylan Thomas | 2:33 | |
32 | POLLY GARTER I loved a man whose name was Tom… | Dylan Thomas | 3:44 | |
33 | FIRST VOICE And the morning school is over… | Dylan Thomas | 2:45 | |
34 | FIRST VOICE And the shrill girls giggle and muster around him… | Dylan Thomas | 1:46 | |
35 | GOSSAMER BEYNON I don't care if he [i]is[/i] common… | Dylan Thomas | 1:12 | |
36 | FIRST VOICE In the blind-drawn dark dining-room of School House… | Dylan Thomas | 3:31 | |
37 | FIRST VOICE Lord Cut-Glass, in his kitchen full of time… | Dylan Thomas | 4:41 | |
38 | FIRST VOICE Captain Cat, at his window… | Dylan Thomas | 4:12 | |
39 | FIRST VOICE The child says, and then she forgets him too. | Dylan Thomas | 1:23 | |
40 | SECOND VOICE The afternoon buzzes like lazy bees… | Dylan Thomas | 3:58 | |
41 | FIRST VOICE Now the town is dusk. | Dylan Thomas | 0:58 | |
42 | MR PRITCHARD You first, Mr Ogmore | Dylan Thomas | 1:30 | |
43 | REV. ELI JENKINS Every morning, when I wake… | Dylan Thomas | 1:52 | |
44 | FIRST VOICE Dusk is drowned forever until tomorrow. | Dylan Thomas | 1:57 | |
45 | FIRST VOICE Blind Captain Cat climbs into his bunk. | Dylan Thomas | 0:57 | |
46 | FIRST VOICE Mr Mog Edwards and Miss Myfanwy Price… | Dylan Thomas | 1:16 | |
47 | FIRST VOICE The thin night darkers. | Dylan Thomas | 0:46 | |
48 | Return Journey | Dylan Thomas | ||
49 | NARRATOR It was a cold white day in the High Street… | Dylan Thomas | 4:58 | |
50 | NARRATOR I went out of the hotel into the snow… | Dylan Thomas | 6:02 | |
51 | NARRATOR And he hurried on, into the dervish snow… | Dylan Thomas | 5:23 | |
52 | NARRATOR The Hall is shattered… | Dylan Thomas | 5:55 | |
53 | NARRATOR Even now, on the frozen foreshore… | Dylan Thomas | 4:37 | |
54 | Quite Early One Morning | Dylan Thomas | ||
55 | Quite early one morning in the winter in Wales… | Dylan Thomas | 3:19 | |
56 | The town was not yet awake. | Dylan Thomas | 3:16 | |
57 | And climbing down again and up out of the town… | Dylan Thomas | 3:01 | |
58 | Oh, the twon was waking now… | Dylan Thomas | 2:50 | |
59 | Poems | Dylan Thomas | ||
60 | Lament | Dylan Thomas | 4:23 | |
61 | Poem On His Birthday | Dylan Thomas | 6:43 | |
62 | And Death Shall Have No Dominion | Dylan Thomas | 1:51 | |
63 | Fern Hill | Dylan Thomas | 3:52 | |
64 | Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night | Dylan Thomas | 1:33 | |
65 | Memories Of Christmas | Dylan Thomas | ||
66 | One Christmas was so much like another in those years… | Dylan Thomas | 5:12 | |
67 | Now out of that bright what snowball of Christmas… | Dylan Thomas | 4:08 | |
68 | We returned home through the desolate poor sea-facing streets… | Dylan Thomas | 2:58 | |
69 | The Peaches | Dylan Thomas | ||
70 | The grass-green cart, with 'J. Jones, Gorsehill' painted… | Dylan Thomas | 5:06 | |
71 | He backed the mare into Union Street… | Dylan Thomas | 6:34 | |
72 | 'Can I go and see the pigs?' | Dylan Thomas | 4:51 | |
73 | Gwilym's chapel was the last old barn before the field… | Dylan Thomas | 4:26 | |
74 | The best room smelt of moth balls and fur… | Dylan Thomas | 6:44 | |
75 | Down the thick dingle Jack and I ran shouting… | Dylan Thomas | 7:07 | |
76 | Or door was open. | Dylan Thomas | 5:22 | |
77 | A Visit To Grandpa's | Dylan Thomas | ||
78 | In the middle of the night I woke… | Dylan Thomas | 3:32 | |
79 | In the morning I woke from a dream of fiery horses… | Dylan Thomas | 2:15 | |
80 | When we came to Llanstephan village… | Dylan Thomas | 4:35 | |
81 | 'Where are we going?' I asked | Dylan Thomas | 3:00 | |
82 | The Followers | Dylan Thomas | ||
83 | It was six o'clock on a winter's evening. | Dylan Thomas | 4:47 | |
84 | The barmaid, with gold hair and two gold teeth in front… | Dylan Thomas | 4:18 | |
85 | Outside Rabiotti's café, Leslie said… | Dylan Thomas | 4:50 | |
86 | All over the dripping town… | Dylan Thomas | 3:51 | |
87 | The Outing – A Story | Dylan Thomas | ||
88 | If you can call it a story. | Dylan Thomas | 4:06 | |
89 | On Sunday evening, after Bethesda… | Dylan Thomas | 4:21 | |
90 | The charabanc drew up outside… | Dylan Thomas | 4:56 | |
91 | Time clouded over, the cows wondered… | Dylan Thomas | 3:35 | |
92 | Poems | Dylan Thomas | ||
93 | From 18 Poems | Dylan Thomas | ||
94 | The Force That Through The Green Fuse | Dylan Thomas | 1:27 | |
95 | From Deaths And Entrances | Dylan Thomas | ||
96 | The Conversation Of Prayers | Dylan Thomas | 1:32 | |
97 | A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London | Dylan Thomas | 1:13 | |
98 | Elegy | Dylan Thomas | 1:15 | |
99 | Poem In October | Dylan Thomas | 2:55 | |
100 | The Hunchback In The Park | Dylan Thomas | 1:41 | |
101 | A Winter's Tale | Dylan Thomas | 8:48 | |
102 | In My Craft Or Sullen Art | Dylan Thomas | 0:51 | |
103 | Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed | Dylan Thomas | 1:08 | |
104 | Fern Hill | Dylan Thomas | 3:31 | |
105 | From In Country Sleep | Dylan Thomas | ||
106 | Over Sir John's Hill | Dylan Thomas | 3:20 | |
107 | Poem On His Birthday | Dylan Thomas | 5:46 | |
108 | Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night | Dylan Thomas | 1:21 | |
109 | Lament | Dylan Thomas | 3:19 | |
110 | From Twenty-five Poems | Dylan Thomas | ||
111 | Was There A Time | Dylan Thomas | 0:36 | |
112 | And Death Shall Have No Dominion | Dylan Thomas | 1:58 |