Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices

Synopsis

The classic 1963 full-cast BBC Radio production, starring Richard Burton'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. For this 'play for voices' conjures up the intimate dreams and waking lives of the inhabitants of a Welsh seaside village in a remarkable way. It is bawdy and beautiful; its colourful characters lust and love, gossip and fantasise. Through the magic of language, Under Milk Wood creates a rich modern pastoral which, once heard, touches the listener with its poetry and haunts the imagination for ever.This radio drama is the completed version broadcast in 1963 which includes several passages that were omitted from the first recording in 1954.Cast and CreditsWritten by Dylan ThomasThe Narrator – Richard BurtonCaptain Cat / Voice of the Guide Book – Hugh GriffithRosie Probert / Lily Smalls – Gwyneth PettyPolly Garter / Gossamer Beynon – Margo JenkinsMr Mog Edwards – Aubrey RichardsMyfanwy Price – Margo JenkinsMrs Ogmore-Pritchard – Dorothea PhillipsMr Ogmore / Nogood Boyo – David GarfieldMr Pritchard / Dai Bread / Cherry Owen – John GillMrs Dai Bread One – Guinevere RobertsMrs Dai Bread Two – Patricia MortButcher Beynon – Richard CurnockMrs Beynon – Olwen BrookesRev Eli Jenkins – T H EvansMr Pugh – Raymond LlewellynMrs Pugh / Mrs Willy Nilly – Rachel ThomasWilly Nilly Postman – Mervyn JohnsSinbad Sailors – Talfryn ThomasMary Ann Sailors – Betty Lloyd-DaviesMrs Cherry Owen – Buddug-Mair PowellMr Waldo – David ReesFurther Cast: Julia Cleverdon, Philip Davies, Judith Davies, Elizabeth Ponsford, Billy Johnnie, Christo Dicky, Christopher Baliard, Peter Richards and Courtney DaviesProduced by Douglas CleverdonSongs set by Daniel JonesChildren’s songs and singing game recorded at Albert Road Junior School, PenarthFirst broadcast on BBC Third Programme, 11th Oct 1963©2010 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P)2010 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd