On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The BroadcastsA book full of surprises and delights, On the Air with Dylan Thomas presents all of Thomas's BBC radio work (with the exception of "Under Milk Wood", which is available separately). Thomas served his broadcasting apprenticeship as a teenager with his friend Daniel Jones. They set up a "station" between the second and first floors of the Jones' home "Warmley," dubbing it the Warmley Broadcasting Company. Then, starting in 1943 and continuing to his death, Thomas often sat behind a BBC microphone, variously giving radio talks, introducing poetry selections, participating in round-table discussions, reading dramas, essays, and poems. His was a glorious voice and he had a special case and inventiveness on the air. |
Contents
Reminiscences of Childhood | 1 |
Quite Early One Morning | 9 |
Reminiscences of Childhood | 15 |
Memories of Christmas | 21 |
Welsh Poetry | 29 |
On Reading Poetry Aloud | 51 |
Poets on Poetry | 55 |
Poems of Wonder | 63 |
A Dearth of Comic Writers | 191 |
The English Festival of Spoken Poetry | 197 |
Living in Wales | 201 |
Edward Thomas | 207 |
On Reading Ones Own Poems | 213 |
Swansea and the Arts | 217 |
Three Poems | 223 |
Poetic Licence | 227 |
The Londoner | 75 |
Wilfred Owen | 93 |
Margate Past and Present | 103 |
How to Begin a Story | 121 |
What Has Happened to English Poetry? | 127 |
Holiday Memory | 137 |
Walter de la Mare as a Prose Writer | 145 |
The Crumbs of One Mans Year | 151 |
Sir Philip Sidney | 159 |
The Poet and his Critic | 169 |
Return Journey | 177 |
Persian Oil | 241 |
The Festival Exhibition | 245 |
Edgar Lee Masters | 253 |
Home Town Swansea | 259 |
The International Eisteddfod | 267 |
A Visit to America | 273 |
Laugharne | 279 |
BBC Engagements Calendar | 282 |
Works Cited | 305 |
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