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.
In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. In October 1915, still half a continent away from their intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in ice. For five months Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways on one of the most savage regions of the world.
These fantastically imaginative origin stories are amongst the best known of Kipling's works, and offer entertaining explanations as to how various animals came into being.