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Summary: A stunning, evocative and embracing audio experience
Comment: The BBC recording of the 'play for voices' with Richard Burton as the lead narrator, is a wonderful
creation. The story of South-West Wales fishing village, following the life of the village as a
single day passes, it is a glorious composition of finely drawn characters. The word play is poetic,
the inter-twined lives of the voices are surreal, the atmosphere is tangible. There is comedy and
pathos as the author and the superb cast of voices draw out the stories within the village. It's
best listened to in the dark, start to finish, in one sitting. Let the pictures flood through your
mind; the words and voices are so evocative. Then read it to yourself, preferably with a
well-annotated version that explains all the nuances and subtleties. You will not be able to read it
without hearing Richard Burton's rich voice in your mind and seeing again the village, cascading
down the hills to the little harbour, and every place within where a little drama is happening.
Unforgetable.

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Summary: Superb is the only word for it!
Comment: A classic of radio drama at its best. Everything, words, music and atmosphere blend faultlessly.

Any lovers of Dylan Thomas, or Richard Burton or any of the magnificent cast, this is for you to
enjoy.
If I have any reservations at all it is just this: the original version, from 1954, is
actually better for being ten minutes shorter and dividing the role of Narrator between FIRST VOICE
and SECOND VOICE....

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Summary: The moon is a permanent eclipse
Comment: One full day, from night to night, in a Welsh village, town and harbour. All Dylan Thomas's art is
there everywhere everpresent in those few odd but packed pages. Unforgettable oxymorons : « night's
first darkening snow ». Unforseeable metaphors : « his dream buckets down ». Unpredictable
similes : « her ears fall off like figs ». A permanent joy, even in the most squalid situations :
« and quick as a flash he [Mr Pugh] ducks her [Mrs Pugh] in rat soup ». The permanent music of the
language and of innumerable songs : « We are a musical nation ». The simple and healthy desires of
man for woman and especially of woman for man : « Tom who is two yards long, Dick who is three feet
thick, Harry who is as sweet as a cherry, the good bad boys from the lonely farms, Willy Wee who is
six feet deep, and Mr Waldo in Pembroke City, the chimbley sweep, till a kind young woman took pity,
come and sweep my chimbley ». Everywhere we are at sea and in the hills enjoying life and its
misfits, misdeeds, and misadventures from wave to wood, from beach to bloom and broom, « Let me
shipwreck in your thighs ». « Off to Gomorrah » as Jack Black says, « all black like the Ace of
Spades ». Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Paris Universities II and IX.

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Summary: Burton and Thomas go together like strawberries and cream!
Comment: This is probably the best audio book ever published. If, like me, you have had trouble with Dylan
Thomas on the printed page, listen to this in the dark, late at night, and you will understand
every nuance of the play as it leaps from the stereo at you. The combination of the two most famous
alcoholic Welshmen is an utter inspiration, and hardly a day has past since I first heard this
recording in which I have not been reminded of it by some chance encounter or overheard remark,
(even here in Japan).

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