The life and death of a poet.
A drama documentary by Paul Ferris, starring Ronald Lacey as Dylan, Gayle Hunnicutt as Liz
with Clifford Evans, Ed Bishop, Rhoda Lewis, Toby Robins, Christopher Muncke, Helen Horton, Phil Brown

The poet Dylan Thomas, who died in New York in 1953, would have been 66 tomorrow. Alcohol and a doctor's injection of morphia were the immediate causes. Ever since his childhood in Wales his life was a spectacular attempt - comic at times, serious below the surface, tragic at the finish - to survive on his own bizarre terms as the poet to end all poets. By the 1950s, that first post-war decade of uneasiness and change, he was a legend to his admirers but a burnt-out case to himself. As he tours America to read poetry, his past crowds in on him, the fractured memories of a man at the end of his tether.

BBC Cymru/Wales