The Essential Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas - Audio CD Poetry and Recordings Get other Poetry audio books on CD click here The Essential Dylan Thomas - Audio CD Brand New : 4 CDs 4.8 hours This varied well-chosen selection brings onto one CD set the best of Dylan Thomas: the legendary recording of 'Under Milk Wood ' with Richard Burton and Richard Bebb as narrators plus also two radio productions he wrote before that great classic which while interesting in themselves show how 'Under Milk Wood' grew gradually in his imagination. Thomas was a charismatic if idiosyncratic performer of his own poetry and stories and this set provides a representative selection. But performances of Dylan Thomas have moved on and the greatness of the writer as a poet and storyteller are perhaps best heard in new recordings by actors of our own time. Here Bebb Madoc and Hugh find out more.....

Under Milk Wood Dylan Thomas - Audio CD and other Plays - The 1954 Premiere Radio Recording Get other Poetry audio books on CD click here Under Milk Wood and other plays - Dylan Thomas - Audio CD Brand New (still shrink wrapped): 2 CDs The famous 1954 BBC radio recording of Thomas' 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood with Richard Burton as First Voice. Also starring Hugh Griffith and Rachel Roberts. "To begin at the beginning:" Under Milk Wood is one of Dylan's most famous works. It is a 'play for voices' telling the story of a day in the life of the inhabitants of the small Welsh village of Llareggub. There is Captain Cat surrounded by fish that "nibble him down to his wishbone" and dreaming of Rosie Probert; Mog Edwards "a draper mad with love"; Organ Morgan listening to the music in Coronation Street with "spouses...honking like geese and the babies singing opera". "And you alone can hear the invisible starfall..." of their hopes and dreams as the inhabitants of the town awake and a new day begins.Under Milk Wood opens as a small village sleeps and quietly almost covertly an omniscient narrator i more information.....

The Caedmon Poetry Collection A Century of Poets reading their work Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Get other Poetry audio books on CD click here The Caedmon Poetry Collection - AudioBook CD Brand New : 3 Audio CDs 3.5 Hours A rare and thrilling listening experience. A choice gathering of some of the twentieth century's greatest poetry... read by the century's greatest poets - here available on CD A reawakened love for the sound of poetry has made modern poems subtly different from the poems of the eighteenth and nineteenth centures. We have only to listen to these poets reading their own works to know how important their interpretations are to a full comprehension of their poems. The ministerial intonations of Eliot the passionate orchestrations of Thomas the very very precise formulations of Cummings the easy conversational inflection of Frost are integral lending subtle clarifications which go beyond the printed page. The fact that this recording includes the voice of Yeats is something of a miracle. In the early 1930's when the thought of recording po more.....

The Caedmon Collection Dylan Thomas - Audio Book CD Introduced by Billy Collins Get other Poetry audio books on CD click here Dylan Thomas - The Caedmon Collection - Audio Book CD Brand New (still shrink wrapped): 11 CDs 12.5 Hours Beginning in February 1952 Dylan Thomas made a series of memorable and historic recordings for a new record label called Caedmon. In fact Dylan Thomas was the first to record for this new label started by two 22-year-old women Marianne Roney and Barbara Cohen. Little did they know that in addition to capturing a part of history they also launched an industry of spoken-word recording. This collection not only contains the incredible Caedmon recording sessions but also recordings from the BBC CBC and other archival material Caedmon originally published in the 1950s and 1960s. Highlights include: "A Child's Christmas in Wales" and "Five Poems"; "Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night" his prose: Adventures in the Skin Trade and Quite Early One Morning and his final work - Under Milk Wood a play. more details.....