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Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas
Great choice!When you say "Under Milk Wood", I can't help thinking about the Richard Burton version...
Am I allowed to post this link?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuPO2...
Among Those Killed in the Dawn Raid Was a Man Aged a HundredWhen the morning was waking over the war
He put on his clothes and stepped out and he died,
The locks yawned loose and a blast blew them wide,
He dropped where he loved on the burst pavement stone
And the funeral grains of the slaughtered floor.
Tell his street on its back he stopped a sun
And the craters of his eyes grew springshots and fire
When all the keys shot from the locks, and rang.
Dig no more for the chains of his grey-haired heart.
The heavenly ambulance drawn by a wound
Assembling waits for the spade's ring on the cage.
O keep his bones away from the common cart,
The morning is flying on the wings of his age
And a hundred storks perch on the sun's right hand.
Will wrote: "Great choice!When you say "Under Milk Wood", I can't help thinking about the Richard Burton version...
Am I allowed to post this link?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuPO2..."
Great link. Thanks. Richard Burton has a great voice
Hmmm, I'm a lurker here and don't think I've ever posted, but am going to read Under Milk Wood and hope to join in on the discussion!
Great Gwen, you are welcome to lurk but I'm glad you popped your head up for the book this month.
I should read this. We studied it in school when I was about seven, I think. Waaaaay too young for Dylan Thomas. I wonder if schools still make young kids read things like this. Hope not.
Funny, I've never even thought of it as something to read, if I did I'd probably hear Richard Burton's voice :-)
I hope it doesn't morph into 'War of the worlds' half way through :)
I'll have to have Dave read it to me. It needs the welsh lilt.
Jim wrote: "Funny, I've never even thought of it as something to read, if I did I'd probably hear Richard Burton's voice :-)"I agree -- it's much better hearing it, preferably read by Welsh actors.
We used to have a video of this in animated form with Richard Burton reading it. We taped it from the TV - I think the BBC was doing some sort of celebration of Dylan Thomas at the time. It was brilliant. I have never seen it repeated but perhaps with this anniversary they will show it again.
I remember seeing the video, I bet we recorded it as well
I've hear Burton doing it, can't remember where or when, but it may have been as an audiobook or BBC podcast.
I remember the LP of it they played for us at School!
There's a first edition paperback in the bookshop in Tenby. sadly without covers or it would be in my collection by now.Images of Dylan Thomas' writing hut. What a place.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=dyl...
And there's presently a new version being recorded by the BBC, with Rhys Ifans amongst others
Oh Rhys Ifans would do a brill job of it!
Aah, what a great choice. Hve a couple of recordings, and the Richard Burton one is wonderful. We went to Laugharne a couple of years ago, tide was out on the estuary and of course there was a heron... ('heron-priested') Just wonderful. Am a Swansea lass by birth so he is a bit of a hero of mine
BBC1 Wales. Tonight, 7 pm : Under Milk Wood.
That's kind of you, Will.Now tell me how I can see it.
Few weeks yet. Doubt if it'll still be available.
Will wrote: "For those who didn't see it:http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/..."
Had to give up on it :-(
Because of all the unnecessary hi-def graphics my poor broadband connection spent all its time buffering and I couldn't get the words :-(
Is anyone familiar with The Kipper Family? They are a spoof of The Copper Family - a travelling family of folk singers who saved traditional tracks from being lost. Allegedly. On a recording called 'Arrest these Merry Gentlemen' there's a track called 'Underwood's Milk' and it's a brilliant take-off of DT's style.Youtube can't offer you a taste of it, I'm afraid.
Never mind, Jim. I believe there's a plan to let the inferior sais see it on the BBC regions next week.Check the schedules.
Yay, that'll be great. Make a nice change to have a bit of culture on the Beeb
Will wrote: "Never mind, Jim. I believe there's a plan to let the inferior sais see it on the BBC regions next week.Check the schedules."
no point, no telly :-)
Karen wrote: "Yay, that'll be great. Make a nice change to have a bit of culture on the Beeb"Oh? Showing Canadian content, are they? ;)
Jim, can't you let the show download then watch it? That's what I do when I stream.
It depends Patti, sometimes the connection will break during the download, it can be bad enough trying to download a five or six meg file on the email
I thought they had 'fixed' your connection, Jim?
We used to get 1.6 meg. But it crashed and when they resurrected it we struggle to get 0.8meg, basically more and more people on the same wire. (And apparently because we have more and more people with 'superfast' broadband between us and the exchange that screws it as well :-( People 1.3 miles from us as the crow flies are getting 40meg because they're rolling out fibre to the new estates but gods alone knows when they'll do the villages.
When they do the villages we might get 17 meg to the end of our lane and that should give us over 5 meg here
Perhaps
But I'm not holding my breath :-(
Kath wrote: "Is anyone familiar with The Kipper Family? They are a spoof of The Copper Family - a travelling family of folk singers who saved traditional tracks from being lost. Allegedly. On a recording called..."Yes! The Kippers are wonderful. I love Sid's song about the alphabet - full of very clever lines such as 'P is for phonetics that help you to spell'.
UMW is a great choice although I can't read it without falling into a pathetic imitation of Richard Burton.
Reading that this year is the 100th anniversary of Thomas' death made me feel very, very old.
Jim wrote: "We used to get 1.6 meg. But it crashed and when they resurrected it we struggle to get 0.8meg, basically more and more people on the same wire. (And apparently because we have more and more people ..."I hope your charges have been reduced to reflect your crap connection.
I should have known you would be a Kippers fan, Barry!
Patti (baconater) wrote: "I'd be demanding it."Actually with our line all they promise is one meg max anyway.
B J wrote: "Reading that this year is the 100th anniversary of Thomas' death made me feel very, very old. ..."Why? Were you born the same year?
I've never heard of Dylan Thomas or Under Milk Wood before
Don't act surprised Will, if it ain't Disney I don't know it, apart from a few better known musicals.
I'm just shocked you didn't do it at school.
I did that one with the pigs head, Lord of the Flies. The only other book I remember from school is one called friedrich.
Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "B J wrote: "Reading that this year is the 100th anniversary of Thomas' death made me feel very, very old. ..."Why? Were you born the same year?
I've never heard of Dylan Thomas or Under Milk Wo..."
Not quite - but I was around when he died. It's actually the 100th anniversary of his birth. But I suspect you knew that and you're just teasing a confused old man. ;-)
:o)Just a bit of banter between friends, BJ.
And long may it continue. But you'll have to be gentle with me - it's two against one now!
I'll leave off for the rest of today then.
IT's the 100th anniversary of Dylan Thomas's death and I am ashamed to say I have never read any of his work.
Under Milk Wood