Dylan Thomas
Matthew Rhys on Dylan Thomas: ‘He was the rock star poet’
The actor is playing the writer in a dramatic reading of a one-act play that carries a special meaning for those involved
David Smith in Washington
14, May, 2024 @8:27 AM
‘Most paintings should have been burnt’: Augustus John’s granddaughter attacks artist’s later works
Celebrated painter ‘went down the drain from the 1930s’, claims Rebecca John in a new interview
Richard Brooks
21, Apr, 2024 @12:00 PM
Dylan Thomas: The BBC Radio Collection audiobook review – a spellbinding homage
Richard Burton’s reading of Under Milk Wood is the centrepiece of a collection of works written about and by the ‘rock star author’
Fiona Sturges
16, Feb, 2024 @12:00 PM
The Guardian view on radio plays: an underrated cultural resource that must be preserved | Editorial
Editorial: Their status has fallen since the great days of Under Milk Wood or The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but we still need audio dramas
Editorial
19, Jan, 2024 @5:19 PM
Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel (and Other Rock & Roll Stories) review – a roll call of dreamers and degenerates
Celebration of the legendary New York hotel and haven for actors, artists and musicians that spills secrets of squalor, celebrity and death
Peter Bradshaw
05, Oct, 2023 @6:00 AM
Historic Welsh pub loved by Dylan Thomas awarded £300,000 grant
Co-operative enterprise Vale of Aeron is one of 45 projects to receive money in Community Ownership Fund’s latest round
Jem Bartholomew
24, Sep, 2023 @11:01 PM
Letter: Jen Wilson obituary
Clive Downs writes: In 2015, after hearing an excerpt on the radio, I bought a copy, and Jen sent a note with the CD
Clive Downs
03, Sep, 2023 @4:24 PM
Arinze Ifeakandu wins Dylan Thomas prize for ‘kaleidoscopic reflection of queer life in Nigeria’
The writer took the £20,000 award for writers under 39 with his debut short story collection, God’s Children Are Little Broken Things
Ella Creamer
11, May, 2023 @7:00 PM
Dame Paula Rego obituary
Painter whose powerful images of women disrupted the male gaze
Michael McNay
08, Jun, 2022 @3:43 PM
An abandoned plan to move Dylan Thomas’s body from its simple grave | Letter
Letters: Caitlin, Thomas’s widow, wrote to the Home Office in the 1950s requesting his body be exhumed, writes Mike Pender
Letters
09, Feb, 2022 @6:31 PM
Do not go gentle into that hot tub! A luxury spa is the wrong way to remember Dylan Thomas
Just up the road from the poet’s austere grave, I found an upmarket tourist development bearing his name. It feels so wrong
Adrian Chiles
03, Feb, 2022 @7:00 AM
Christmas parties that never happened: the best festive revels in literature
With ‘fictional’ Christmas parties in the news, it seemed only right to pick out for Boris Johnson some other festive shindigs that were figments of the imagination
David Barnett
09, Dec, 2021 @1:01 PM
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