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 (A Play For Voices) With  ‎– Under Milk Wood Label:  ‎– RG 21-22 Format: 2 × , LP, Album, Mono, Gatefold 
Country: K Released: Genre: ,  Style: Tracklist 1-AUnder Milk Wood - Part 11-BUnder Milk Wood - Part 22-AUnder Milk Wood - Part 32-BUnder Milk Wood - Part 4
Credits Arranged By [The School Songs Set By], Liner Notes –  Chorus [Children's Songs & Singing Game] –  Design, Artwork By [Cover & Illustration] –  Producer –  Script By –  Voice Actor [Boy One] –  Voice Actor [Boy Three] –  Voice Actor [Boy Two] –  Voice Actor [Butcher Beynon] –  Voice Actor [Captain Cat] –  Voice Actor [Cherry Owen] –  Voice Actor [Dai Bread] –  Voice Actor [First Voice] –  Voice Actor [Gossamer Beynon] –  Voice Actor [Gwenny] –  Voice Actor [Lily Smalls] –  Voice Actor [Mae Rose Cottage] –  Voice Actor [Mary Ann Sailors] –  Voice Actor [Mr. Mog Edwards] –  Voice Actor [Mr. Ogmore] –  Voice Actor [Mr. Pritchard] –  Voice Actor [Mr. Pugh] –  Voice Actor [Mrs. Cherry Owen] –  Voice Actor [Mrs. Dai Bread One] –  Voice Actor [Mrs. Dai Bread Two] –  Voice Actor [Mrs. Ogmore-pritchard] –  Voice Actor [Mrs. Organ Morgan] –  Voice Actor [Mrs. Pugh] –  Voice Actor [Mrs. Willy Nilly] –  Voice Actor [Myfanwy Price] –  Voice Actor [Nogood Boyo] –  Voice Actor [Organ Morgan] –  Voice Actor [Polly Garter] –  Voice Actor [Rosie Probert] –  Voice Actor [Second Voice] –  Voice Actor [Sinbad Sailors] –  Voice Actor [The Rev. Eli Jenkins] –  Voice Actor [Willy Nilly Postman] –  Notes Cover: 
"Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas" 
"with Richard Burton and all Welsh cast in the original B.B.C. production" 
The Labels: 
"Under Milk Wood. A Play For Voices by Dylan Thomas" 
(Thomas' voice does not feature on this recording) 


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Originally written as "A Play For Voices" By Dylan Thomas the work was revisited and extended for a reading at the Kaufmann Auditorium in the USA in May 1953. On his return to the UK, Thomas was commissioned by the BBC to write this piece, performed on 25th January 1954. 

Recorded With The Co-operation Of The British Broadcasting Corporation

Under Milk Wood is a 1954  by  poet , adapted later as a . A film version,  directed by , was released in 1972.

An omniscient narrator invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of a fictional small Welsh fishing village Llareggub ("" backwards).

They include Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard, relentlessly nagging her two dead husbands; Captain Cat, reliving his seafaring times; the two Mrs Dai Breads; Organ Morgan, obsessed with his music; and Polly Garter, pining for her dead lover. Later, the town awakens and, aware now of how their feelings affect whatever they do, we watch them go about their daily business.

The play had its first reading on stage on 14 May 1953, in New York City, at The Poetry Center at the . Thomas himself read the parts of the First Voice and the Reverend Eli Jenkins. Almost as an afterthought, the performance was recorded on a single-microphone tape recording (the microphone was laid at front center on the stage floor) and later issued by the Caedmon company. It is the only known recorded performance of Under Milk Wood with Thomas as a part of the cast. A studio recording, planned for 1954, was precluded by Thomas's death in November 1953.

The BBC first broadcast Under Milk Wood, a new "'Play for Voices", on the  on 25 January 1954 (two months after Thomas's death), although several sections were omitted. The play was recorded with a distinguished, all-Welsh cast including  as 'First Voice', with production by . A repeat was broadcast two days later. , the Welsh composer who was a lifelong friend of Thomas's (and his literary trustee), wrote the music; this was recorded separately, on 15 and 16 January, at Laugharne School. The play won the  award for radio drama that year