Dylan Thomas: creating Under Milk Wood - A Poet in New York - BBC Two

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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 bbc.in/iPlayer-Home www.bbc.co.uk/dylanthomas Director Aisling Walsh and Dylan's granddaughter Hannah Ellis reflect on the strong sense of place, character, and rich poetic lanugage that Dylan Thomas used in Under Milk Wood. First broadcast on BBC One Wales, 30 April.
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[@jamesjennison881]

HIS REQUIEM. Nobody cared a bit , folks said , When the wicked old man at the gate lay dead . He had no kith and he had no kin , And nobody cared his love to win : Nobody thought of him kindly , none , For many a cruel thing he'd done ; And many a bitter and angry word from those thin lips the neighbours heard . He had lived alone and died alone , with never a friend he could call his own , Or so folks thought ; And the coffin grim , With never a mourner mourning him . Passed through the gate of his garden ground . But hush ! A requiem's softened sound stole over the silence , And someone said ; " TIS THE LITTLE BROWN LINNET THE OLD MAN FED "

[@videocurios]

Wonderful I cannot wait to see this

[@darceyhaynes680]

Brilliant can't wait to see the rescent under milk wood again

[@mikaelad4671]

Fachgen fach - little boy

[@StephenBeale]

Wish the BBC would put this back on, would love to see the full film but it seems not to be available anywhere at this point

[@JuganautTimelapse]

Really enjoyed watching this on the BBC. Great acting. Here is one I recently shot - aerial video of The National Library of Wales

[@jdncoke2]

i love, love, love the language!

[@ShellaBlakeUK]

brilliant of course........

[@Lydia.Callaghan]

POV: your here for acting wondering if this is what your meant to be researching

[@sakura_rain4915]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="26">0:26</a> I love the granddaughter's teeth. they're so random

[@baxatakbaxatak2014]

It’s a bloody abandoned graveyard.

[@chaudharyimranghumman9088]

Background music???

[@TheStockwell]

Debbie Wiseman.

[@tophatproductions3031]

What does he say at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="87">1:27</a> ?

[@mikaelad4671]

Fachgen fach - little boy.

[@duggiebader1798]

How much did Laugharne pay Dylan to say Under Milk Wood was based upon their town? I heard from good sources it was £200. He wrote there but anyone who had connections with 'that drunk' would know this magnificent play was based on the Cardigan Bay town New Quay. My Grandfather who was born there (1909) pointed out Goosegog Lane to his daughter (my mother). My uncle met Phoebe (Polly Garter) and he knew old Capt Tom Polly (Capt Cat). Mog Edwards - the Draper in Manchester House was based on his father, Mr D Thomas, who was a Draper in - drum roll - Manchester House. My Grandfathers eldest sister (who lived on High Terrace looking on the Black Lion) could recite all the characters and the people whom they were based on. It apparently caused quite a stir when it was released on the radio!

[@duggiebader1798]

***** Good point, I should have clarified the payment claim - but I didn't want to write an essay! This payment was apparently made to secure tourism in the mounting publicity. I would like to point out it this type of payment wouldn't have been funded by the locals!!. Plus it would have happened just before or during his visit to New York. Yes, New Quay's claim is not new - of course I know that. The fact Dylan was there - writing and of course drinking, with so much similarities to the fabric of the play; matching the town and it's peculiarities; It is very much astounding it wasn't mentioned in ANY of the BBC documentaries. But the BBC did omit it, which was the basis of my original post to highlight this. I'm not suggesting they ignore Laugharne, but to at least acknowledge this would have been obvious - to many if not the tourist board of Laugharne.

[@duggiebader1798]

***** Yes it would be foolish to use the term tourism in the same context of post 1960. I could have used a better word in today's language. But I think we might be picking at straws here. Lets just remember who Dylan was even by 1945. (He wasn't a nobody - a war poet yet to be discovered type of person) Laugharne is a SMALL and very beautiful place. I think you under estimate the commercial value of the national and local press et al in 1950's even if it is a place difficult to get to. This conversation will go round in circles. I should end it here as I can appreciate two points that will make further discussion rather pointless; Without the receipt or the acknowledgement in letter from either party which I don't have (obviously), and the second point follows that although I have heard from 7 individuals (all who lived in New Quay and the surrounding area during the 20 -90's blar blar blar) who told of this claim, this cannot be investigated as they are all 'passed on'. I will add that I hoped my original post might be read by others who also heard of the same 'backhander' and help with information - and likewise good people like yourself pointing out the floors in this. In truth, I would be pleased for New Quay to get the recognition rather than be known as 'their claim'. I hope I have established that I may very well be wrong, but I am no troll, nor am I a mad conspiracist. Have a good day and I'll be keeping an eye on this post. P.S. my favorite play will always be Under Milk Wood - regardless of where it's based. 'You can hear the Love-sick Wood Pigeons mooning in bed, a dog barks in his sleep farmyards away. The town ripples like a lake in the waking haze.'

[@kelman727]

I don’t think many places would actually LIKE being ‘the real Llareggub.’

[@martinwilliams8402]

Lots of the characters were based on people in Laugharme

[@medes5597]

Rosie actually lived in Laugharne and died tragically young.. Shes listed in the census.

[@charlesbehlen6225]

Too bad the filmmakers had to give us a pseudo Milk Wood instead of the original . What, exactly, is a "thin night", for instance. Milk Wood's night will always be "bible black."

[@medes5597]

is this a serious comment? There is a thin night in under milk wood but the main reason for the differences is because this is Thomas in America where the published made several (now reversed) changes to his text. You see him scowl at them and drunkenly ramble about his hate for the in the film. That's not the film, that's a historical truth.