To begin at the beginning: it is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black...' When Richard Burton breathed the opening words of "Under Milk Wood" into a microphone, broadcasting history was made.
A Genius Performance by Richard Burton! Readings include works from - Dylan Thomas, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Donne, Robert Graves, William Shakespeare, John Betjeman amongst others...and good old Anon.
The classic 1963 radio dramatization, with Richard Burton as the narrator, of Dylan Thomas's "play for voices". From their dreamy dreams to their work-day gossip, this drama traces the lives of a group of villagers in a tiny Welsh seaport.
A Genius Performance by Ralph Richardson and Sir John Gielgud plus many more!
A varied anthology of poets – including Eliot and Auden – reading their own words, and favorite poems by Keats, Browning, Kipling, Tennyson and many more read by the finest voices of the recording age.
A Genius Performance by Richard Burton! A selection assembled from Richard Burton's BBC Radio performances, including "Under Milk Wood", "The Corn is Green", "In Parenthesis", "The Dark Tower", "Henry V", Burton on rugby, and Burton on Dylan Thomas.
Another exceptional item for anyone interested in Dylan Thomas. This lecture is from a international authority of Dylan's poetical works. Facinating and insightful!
Written as a "play for voices" for the BBC, this work was originally performed in 1954, with Richard Burton as the First Voice, connecting all thirty-three characters--men, women, and small children.
"The Sunday Times top ten best seller. Thousands of lives have been saved by this spaniel. He is a best friend in dog's clothing. An RAF dog with his mossy feet firmly on the ground. A brave dog who has served his colleagues and his country with unstinting devotion. A dog in a million. This is the story of the partnership of Buster and Will, told by Will himself, describing how each came to save the other's life.
Hunting--the predator and its prey--is at the heart of this riveting and suspenseful novel from Newbery Medalist Avi with illustrations from Caldecott Medalist Brian Floca. In the computer game world of Bow Hunter--thirteen-year-old Casey's world--there are no deaths, just kills. In Nashoba's world--the wolf world--there have been no kills. For this is March, the Starving Time in the Iron Mountain region of...