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Radio 3,22 Jan 2024,14 mins

1) Swansea by Joe Dunthorne

Under Milk Woods

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For the 70th anniversary of the first radio broadcast of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood (25th January 1954), five short dramatic portraits from different areas of Wales in 2024. Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood was first broadcast on the ѿý's Third Programme, the predecessor to Radio 3. To this day, it remains one of the most famous radio dramas of all time. To mark the anniversary, Radio 3 has commissioned a new series of five short dramatic portraits from different areas of Wales in 2024, inspired by Thomas’ original idea of an omniscient narrator, who invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of a fictional small Welsh fishing town. In this new series of dramatic portraits, Ruth Jones (Gavin & Stacey, Stella) is the First Voice, linking all the “Under Milk Woods” together. An omnibus version will be broadcast on Sunday 28th January in Drama on 3. 1) Swansea by Joe Dunthorne 'All the people of the lulled and dumbfound town are sleeping now' First Voice.....Ruth Jones Caitlin....Sophie Melville Emlyn....Shaheen Jafargholi Fiona.....Nadia Wyn Abouayen Helen.....Tamara Brabon Paul.....Gwion Morris Jones Mikey.....Antoine Lopez-Norton Security Guard 1......Ioan Hefin Security Guard 2....Ifan Huw Dafydd Production Co-ordinators Eleri Sydney McAuliffe and Lindsay Rees Sound design by Jonathan Thomas and Catherine Robinson Directed by Fay Lomas Produced by Emma Harding, ѿý Audio Drama Wales

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