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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. 4) Cardiff by Hanan Issa, with additional material by Joe Dunthorne 'Down in the dusking town....' First Voice.....Ruth Jones Hanan.....Hanan Issa Diff.....Dean Rehman Cliff.....Ioan Hefin Jean.....Sara Harris-Davies Girl.....Maisie-Lee Bryant Cake Maker.....Eiry Thomas Lord Bute.....Colin Paterson Shisha cafe worker.....Shaheen Jafargholi Production Co-ordinators Eleri Sydney McAuliffe and Lindsay Rees Sound design by Jonathan Thomas and Catherine Robinson Directed by Fay Lomas Producer, Emma Harding, ѿý Audio Drama Wales
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