THOMAS: Under Milk Wood (1954) / Return Journey to Swansea / Selected poems and stories

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Under Milk Wood - A Play for Voices (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Richard Burton, reader
Richard Bebb, reader / Cast
Recording date: 24 January 1954


1. First Voice: To begin at the beginning - 05:12
2. First Drowned: Remember me, Captain - 01:38
3. First Voice: From where you are... - 00:30
4. Mr Edwards: Myfanwy Price! - 01:18
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... - 00:43
8. Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard: Mr Ogmore! - 01:09
9. First Voice: In Butcher Beynon's... - 00:28
10. Organ Morgan: Help! cries Organ Morgan... - 00:28
11. First Voice: At the sea end of town... - 00:27
12. Utah Watkins: (Yawning) 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... - 01:10
22. First Voice: Up the street, in the Sailor's Arms... - 02:38
23. Captain Cat: (Softly, to himself) Maggie Richards, Ricky Rhys... - 03:50
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... - 01:12
35. First Voice: In the blind-drawn dark dining-room of School House... - 03:31
36. First Voice: Lord Cut-Glass, in his kitchen full of time... - 04:41
37. First Voice: Captain Cat, at his window... - 04:12
38. First Voice: The child says, and then she forgets him too - 01:23

Return Journey to Swansea (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas, reader / Cast


1. Narrator: It was a cold white day in the High Street... - 04:58
2. Narrator: I went out of the hotel into the snow... - 06:02
3. Narrator: And he hurried on, into the dervish snow... - 05:23
4. Narrator: The Hall is shattered... - 05:55
5. Narrator: Even now, on the frozen foreshore... - 04:37


Under Milk Wood - A Play for Voices (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Richard Burton, reader
Richard Bebb, reader / Cast
Recording date: 24 January 1954


6. Second Voice: The afternoon buzzes like lazy bees... - 03:58
7. First Voice: Now the town is dusk - 00:58
8. Mr Pritchard: You first, Mr Ogmore - 01:30
9. Rev. Eli Jenkins: Every morning, when I wake... - 01:52
10. First Voice: Dusk is drowned forever until tomorrow - 01:57
11. First Voice: Blind Captain Cat climbs into his bunk - 00:57
12. First Voice: Mr Mog Edwards and Miss Myfanwy Price... - 01:16
13. First Voice: The thin night darkens - 00:46


Quite Early One Morning (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas, reader


14. Quite early one morning in the winter in Wales... - 03:19
15. The town was not yet awake - 03:16
16. And climbing down again and up out of the town... - 03:01
17. Oh, the town was waking now... - 02:50


Poems (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas, reader


18. Lament - 04:23
19. Poem on his birthday - 06:43
20. And death shall have no dominion - 01:51
21. Fern Hill - 03:52
22. Do not go gentle into that good night - 01:10

Memories of Christmas (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Philip Madoc, reader


1. One Christmas was so much like another in those years... - 05:12
2. Now out of that bright white snowball of Christmas... - 04:08
3. We returned home through the desolate poor sea-facing streets... - 02:58


The Peaches (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Jason Hughes, reader


4. The grass-green cart, with 'J. Jones, Gorsehill' painted... - 05:06
5. He backed the mare into Union Street... - 06:34
6. 'Can I go and see the pigs?' - 04:51
7. Gwilym's chapel was the last old barn before the field... - 04:26
8. The best room smelt of moth balls and fur... - 06:44
9. Down the thick dingle Jack and I ran shouting... - 07:07
10. Our door was open - 05:22


A Visit to Grandpa's (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Jason Hughes, reader


11. In the middle of the night I woke... - 03:32
12. In the morning I woke from a dream of fiery horses... - 02:15
13. When we came to Llanstephan village... - 04:35
14. 'Where are we going?' I asked - 03:00

The Followers (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Michael Sheen, reader


1. It was six o'clock on a winter's evening - 04:47
2. The barmaid, with gold hair and two gold teeth in front... - 04:18
3. Outside Rabiotti's cafe, Leslie said... - 04:50
4. All over the dripping town... - 03:51


The Outing - a story (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Philip Madoc, reader


5. If you can call it a story - 04:06
6. On Sunday evening, after Bethesda... - 04:21
7. The charabanc drew up outside... - 04:56
8. Time clouded over, the cows wondered... - 03:35


The force that through the green fuse drives the flower (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Philip Madoc, reader


9. The force that through the green fuse drives the flower - 01:27


The conversation of prayers (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Richard Bebb, reader


10. The conversation of prayers - 01:32


A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Philip Madoc, reader


11. A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London - 01:13


Elegy (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Philip Madoc, reader


12. Elegy - 01:15


Poem in October (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Jason Hughes, reader


13. Poem in October - 02:55


The hunchback in the park (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Philip Madoc, reader


14. The hunchback in the park - 01:41


A Winter's Tale (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Richard Bebb, reader


15. A Winter's Tale - 08:48


In my craft or sullen art (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Jason Hughes, reader


16. In my craft or sullen art - 00:51


Lie still, sleep becalmed (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Jason Hughes, reader


17. Lie still, sleep becalmed - 01:08


Fern Hill (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Richard Bebb, reader


18. Fern Hill - 03:31


Over Sir John's hill (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Philip Madoc, reader


19. Over Sir John's hill - 03:20


Poem on his Birthday (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Michael Sheen, reader


20. Poem on his Birthday - 05:46


Do not go gentle into that good night (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Philip Madoc, reader


21. Do not go gentle into that good night - 01:21


Lament (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Philip Madoc, reader


22. Lament - 03:19


Was there a time (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Philip Madoc, reader


23. Was there a time - 00:36


And death shall have no dominion (more info)
Composed by: Dylan Thomas
Michael Sheen, reader


24. And death shall have no dominion - 01:58

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