The Guardian view on radio plays: an underrated cultural resource that must be preserved
On 25 January 1954, Dylan Thomas’s great radio play Under Milk Wood was broadcast, with Richard Burton as its presiding spirit, First Voice. Thomas, who died two months earlier at the age of 39, had been developing it on the hoof for years. But its final destination – in the far from certain event…
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