1 p., docketed with date "31 Aug 1949" as receipt on verso by BBC. 8vo
1949 · The Boat House, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, [Wales]
by Thomas, Dylan
The Boat House, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, [Wales], 1949. 1 p., docketed with date "31 Aug 1949" as receipt on verso by BBC. 8vo. Old folds. 1 p., docketed with date "31 Aug 1949" as receipt on verso by BBC. 8vo. "I'll be very pleased indeed to read a ... selection of my poems" Thomas accepts an invitation to appear on BBC Radio. In part: "... I'll be very pleased indeed to read a 20 minute selection of my poems on the Third Programme sometime at the end of September - with just the minimum amount of linking material. Are any links, other than the titles of the poems, really necessary? Would I be expected to announce the titles of the poems myself? If so, then perhaps a few introductory words would be needed as well ...."
The program was broadcast on September 24, 1949, with Thomas reading, among his own poems, "There Was a Saviour," "If my Head Hurt a Hair's Foot," "Poem in October," "After the Funeral," "A Refusal to Mourn" and "In My Craft or Sullen Art." He also delivered a piece called "On Reading One's Own Poems." The recording was released as side B of the 1963 Caedmon LP "An Evening with Dylan Thomas." From 1943-1953 Thomas participated in over 150 BBC radio broadcasts, and his popularity owed much to his rich voice and dramatic reading style. (Inventory #: 308313)
The program was broadcast on September 24, 1949, with Thomas reading, among his own poems, "There Was a Saviour," "If my Head Hurt a Hair's Foot," "Poem in October," "After the Funeral," "A Refusal to Mourn" and "In My Craft or Sullen Art." He also delivered a piece called "On Reading One's Own Poems." The recording was released as side B of the 1963 Caedmon LP "An Evening with Dylan Thomas." From 1943-1953 Thomas participated in over 150 BBC radio broadcasts, and his popularity owed much to his rich voice and dramatic reading style. (Inventory #: 308313)