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

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


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Category: Classic Fiction
Author(s):
Thomas, Dylan
Catalogue No.: NA434312
ISBN No.: 9789626343432
Total Playing Time: 04:50:41

Track Details

Disc 1
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
Under Milk Wood - A Play for Voices 01:32:06
1 First Voice: To begin at the beginning 00:05:12
2 First Drowned: Remember me, Captain? 00:01:38
3 First Voice: From where you are... 00:00:30
4 Mr Edwards: Myfanwy Price! 00:01:18
5 First Voice: Come now, drift up the dark... 00:01:44
6 Mother: This little piggy... 00:02:16
7 First Voice: Now, in her iceberg-white... 00:00:43
8 Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard: Mr Ogmore! 00:01:09
9 First Voice: In Butcher Beynon's... 00:00:28
10 Organ Morgan: Help! cries Organ Morgan... 00:00:28
11 First Voice: At the sea end of town... 00:00:27
12 Utah Watkins: (Yawning) Thirty four, thirty five... 00:03:07
13 First Voice: Now behind the eyes and secrets... 00:02:54
14 First Voice: Time passes. Listen. Time passes 00:01:58
15 Rev. Eli Jenkins: Dear Gwalia! I know there are... 00:02:00
16 First Voice: Now, woken at last by the out-of-bed... 00:00:23
17 Lily Smalls: Oh, there's a face! 00:02:14
18 First Voice: Mary Ann the Sailors... 00:02:39
19 First Voice: Now frying-pans spit... 00:01:19
20 First Voice: Mr and Mrs Cherry Owen... 00:01:32
21 First Voice: From Beynon Butchers in Coronation Street... 00:01:10
22 First Voice: Up the street, in the Sailor's Arms... 00:02:38
23 Captain Cat: (Softly, to himself) Maggie Richards, Ricky Rhys... 00:03:50
24 First Voice: People are moving now, up and down... 00:03:28
25 First Voice: There's the clip clop of horses... 00:00:46
26 First Woman: Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard 00:01:01
27 First Voice: Outside, the sun springs down... 00:01:32
28 First Voice: And in Willy Nilly the Postman's dark... 00:02:34
29 Second Voice: ...herring gulls heckling down to the harbour... 00:02:07
30 First Voice: The music of the spheres is heard distinctly... 00:02:33
31 Polly Garter: I loved a man whose name was Tom... 00:03:44
32 First Voice: And the morning school is over... 00:02:45
33 First Voice: And the shrill girls giggle and muster around him... 00:01:46
34 Gossamer Beynon: I don't care if he is common... 00:01:12
35 First Voice: In the blind-drawn dark dining-room of School House... 00:03:31
36 First Voice: Lord Cut-Glass, in his kitchen full of time... 00:04:41
37 First Voice: Captain Cat, at his window... 00:04:12
38 First Voice: The child says, and then she forgets him too 00:01:23

Disc 2
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
Under Milk Wood - A Play for Voices 01:32:06
1 Second Voice: The afternoon buzzes like lazy bees... 00:03:58
2 First Voice: Now the town is dusk 00:00:58
3 Mr Pritchard: You first, Mr Ogmore 00:01:30
4 Rev. Eli Jenkins: Every morning, when I wake... 00:01:52
5 First Voice: Dusk is drowned forever until tomorrow 00:01:57
6 First Voice: Blind Captain Cat climbs into his bunk 00:00:57
7 First Voice: Mr Mog Edwards and Miss Myfanwy Price... 00:01:16
8 First Voice: The thin night darkens 00:00:46
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
Return Journey to Swansea 00:26:55
9 Narrator: It was a cold white day in the High Street... 00:04:58
10 Narrator: I went out of the hotel into the snow... 00:06:02
11 Narrator: And he hurried on, into the dervish snow... 00:05:23
12 Narrator: The Hall is shattered... 00:05:55
13 Narrator: Even now, on the frozen foreshore... 00:04:37
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
Quite Early One Morning 00:12:26
14 Quite early one morning in the winter in Wales... 00:03:19
15 The town was not yet awake 00:03:16
16 And climbing down again and up out of the town... 00:03:01
17 Oh, the town was waking now... 00:02:50
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
Poems 00:17:59
18 Lament 00:04:23
19 Poem on his birthday 00:06:43
20 And death shall have no dominion 00:01:51
21 Fern Hill 00:03:52
22 Do not go gentle into that good night 00:01:10

Disc 3
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
Memories of Christmas 00:12:18
1 One Christmas was so much like another in those years... 00:05:12
2 Now out of that bright white snowball of Christmas... 00:04:08
3 We returned home through the desolate poor sea-facing streets... 00:02:58
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
The Peaches 00:40:10
4 The grass-green cart, with 'J. Jones, Gorsehill' painted... 00:05:06
5 He backed the mare into Union Street... 00:06:34
6 'Can I go and see the pigs?' 00:04:51
7 Gwilym's chapel was the last old barn before the field... 00:04:26
8 The best room smelt of moth balls and fur... 00:06:44
9 Down the thick dingle Jack and I ran shouting... 00:07:07
10 Our door was open 00:05:22
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
A Visit to Grandpa's 00:13:22
11 In the middle of the night I woke... 00:03:32
12 In the morning I woke from a dream of fiery horses... 00:02:15
13 When we came to Llanstephan village... 00:04:35
14 'Where are we going?' I asked 00:03:00

Disc 4
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
The Followers 00:17:46
1 It was six o'clock on a winter's evening 00:04:47
2 The barmaid, with gold hair and two gold teeth in front... 00:04:18
3 Outside Rabiotti's cafe, Leslie said... 00:04:50
4 All over the dripping town... 00:03:51
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
The Outing - a story 00:16:58
5 If you can call it a story 00:04:06
6 On Sunday evening, after Bethesda... 00:04:21
7 The charabanc drew up outside... 00:04:56
8 Time clouded over, the cows wondered... 00:03:35
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
9 The force that through the green fuse drives the flower 00:01:27
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
10 The conversation of prayers 00:01:32
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
11 A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London 00:01:13
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
12 Elegy 00:01:15
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
13 Poem in October 00:02:55
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
14 The hunchback in the park 00:01:41
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
15 A Winter's Tale 00:08:48
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
16 In my craft or sullen art 00:00:51
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
17 Lie still, sleep becalmed 00:01:08
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
18 Fern Hill 00:03:31
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
19 Over Sir John's hill 00:03:20
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
20 Poem on his Birthday 00:05:46
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
21 Do not go gentle into that good night 00:01:21
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
22 Lament 00:03:19
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
23 Was there a time 00:00:36
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
24 And death shall have no dominion 00:01:58