Under Milk Wood

A classic BBC Radio full-cast production of Dylan Thomas poetic play, starring Richard Burton as the narrator

It was moonless spring night in the small town when Richard Burton breathed the opening words of "Under Milk Wood" into a microphone and broadcasting history was made. For this play for voices conjures up the intimate dreams and waking lives of the inhabitants of a Welsh seaside village in a remarkable way. Bawdy and beautiful, its colorful characters are full of lust and love, gossip and dreams. Through the magic of language, "Under Milk Wood" creates a rich modern pastoral which, once heard, touches the listener with its poetry and haunts the imagination forever.

This radio drama is the completed version broadcast in 1963, including several passages that were omitted from the original recording in 1954."