Under Milk Woods

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Under Milk Woods: 3) New Quay by Menna Elfyn

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For the 70th anniversary of Under Milk Wood, five short drama portraits of Wales in 2024.

70 years since the first broadcast of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, five new dramatic portraits of different areas of Wales in 2024, starring Ruth Jones. New Quay by Menna Elfyn.

For the 70th anniversary of the first radio broadcast of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood (25th January 1954), five short dramatic portraits from different areas of Wales in 2024.

Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood was first broadcast on the BBC's Third Programme, the predecessor to Radio 3. To this day, it remains one of the most famous radio dramas of all time. To mark the anniversary, Radio 3 has commissioned a new series of five short dramatic portraits from different areas of Wales in 2024, inspired by Thomas’ original idea of an omniscient narrator, who invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of a fictional small Welsh fishing town. In this new series of dramatic portraits, Ruth Jones (Gavin & Stacey, Stella) is the First Voice, linking all the “Under Milk Woods” together. An omnibus version will be broadcast on Sunday 28th January in Drama on 3.

3) New Quay by Menna Elfyn, with additional material by Joe Dunthorne

'It is always opening time in the Sailor's Arms...'

First Voice.....Ruth Jones
Cai.....Ioan Hefin
Osian.....Ifan Huw Dafydd
Rhiannon.....Eiry Thomas
Man at Bar.....Alan David

Production Co-ordinators Eleri Sydney McAuliffe and Lindsay Rees
Sound design by Jonathan Thomas and Catherine Robinson
Directed by Emma Harding, BBC Audio Drama Wales

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To mark the 70th anniversary of the first radio broadcast of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, five Welsh writers have written short dramatic portraits of their area of Wales in 2024.

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