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Dylan Thomas

Episode 5 of 50

Celebrating 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, Ian McMillan presents an archive recording from 1950 of Dylan Thomas reading his poem In the White Giant's Thigh.

Ian McMillan continues with the rich, dramatic voice of Dylan Thomas reading his then newly written poem 'In the White Giant's Thigh' from the Third Programme's Selected Poets, 1950.

Three Score and Ten features archive recordings from the last seven decades of the Third Programme and Radio 3, with 70 remarkable poets reading their own poems. Amongst them T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, WH Auden, Seamus Heaney and Carol Ann Duffy. Plus ten brand new poems by contemporary poets commissioned specially for the series and broadcast on The Verb.

Producer: Sharon Sephton; Research by Caitlin Crawford.

5 minutes

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Wed 5 Oct 2016 21:55
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Three Score and Ten 鈥� The poets and their poems, collected

Three Score and Ten 鈥� The poets and their poems, collected

Ian McMillan builds a historic collection of 70 remarkable poets reading their own poems.