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BBC Proms: 2014: Proms Plus Literary: Dylan Thomas Centenary

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Dylan Thomas Centenary

11/08/2014

2014

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Poet Gillian Clarke and artist Peter Blake celebrate the centenary of Dylan Thomas's birth

National poet of Wales Gillian Clarke and painter Peter Blake celebrate the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas. With readings by Trystan Gravelle.

The current National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke and the painter Peter Blake celebrate the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas. 

Gillian Clarke remembers hearing Under Milk Wood being broadcast on radio when she was a teenager and recognising those voices and she's gone on to read and reflect on his work. She's joined on stage by painter Peter Blake who completed a 28 year project to illustrate Under Milk Wood this year when he showed his portraits of the characters at the National Museum of Wales. 

The presenter is Shahidha Bari. The reader is Trystan Gravelle .

Recorded in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music before tonight's Prom concert.

Producer: Laura Thomas.

BBC Proms: 2014

BBC Proms: 2014: Proms Plus Literary

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All broadcasts from the 120th season of the BBC Proms.

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