Under Milk Wood
- Summary
- BBC production of Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood.
- Theatre play
- Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Thursday 9 May 1957
- Time
- 8.30pm
- Series
- Henry Sherek Presents
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- David J. Thomas
- Playwright
- Dylan Thomas
- Adaptor of Script
- Eric Crozier (1914-1994)
- Composer
- Daniel Jones
- Designer
- Roy Oxley
- Cast
Barbara Alleyn Mrs Dai Bread One Angela Crow Lily Smalls Richard Curnock Organ Morgan Catherine Dolan Rosie Probert T. H. Evans The Reverend Eli Jenkins John Gill Cherry Owen Denys Graham Nogood Boyo Marion Grimalidi Polly Garter Peter Halliday Sinbad Donald Houston Onlooker Margo Jenkins Gossamer Beynon Gareth Jones Butcher Beynon Emrys Leyshon Willy Nilly Raymond Llewellyn Mr Pugh Betty Lloyd Davies Mary-Ann Sailors Nina Marriott Mae Rose Cottage Claudine Morgan Mrs Pugh Joan Newell Mrs Willy Nilly Gwyneth Owen Myfanwy Price Dorothea Phillips Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard Buddog Mair Powell Mrs Cherry Owen David Rees P. C. Attila Rees Aubrey Richards Mog Edwards Daphne Shaven Matti Richards William Squire Captain Cat
Additional details
- Play tags
- Welsh drama
Audiovisual sources
- Title
- Under Milk Wood (BBC, 1957)
- Archive
- BBC Information and Archives [more information]
Address
White City
Telephone
London
UK+44 (0)20 8008 2288
Websitehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/informationandarchives/
AccessBBC Information and Archives is not open to the public.
Print sources
- Title
- 'Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood, "a Play for Voices" on Radio, Stage and Television’ (Journal article)
- Author/creator
- Amanda Wrigley (Author)
- Reference
- Critical Studies in Television, vol. 9.3, pp. 77-88
- Title
- Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood (BBC, 1957) (Blog article)
- Author/creator
- Amanda Wrigley (Author)
- Reference
- https://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2014/11/28/under-milk-wood, published 28 November 2014
- Title
- Radio Times, 28 June 1957 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- article on The History of a Radio Classic by Douglas Cleverdon on p. 6
- Title
- Radio Times, 3 May 1957 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- illustrated listing on p. 19 and article by Henry Sherek ('Presenting Under Milk Wood’) with b&w image from the production on p. 5
- Title
- See for Yourself (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- J. C. Trewin (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Listener, 16 May 1957, pp. 802-03
- Title
- Television: Mother Wales (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Maurice Richardson (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Observer, 12 May 1957, p. 15
- Title
- Under Milk Wood (Audience Research Report)
- Archive
- BBC Written Archives Centre (WAC) [more information]
Address
Peppard Road
Telephone
Caversham Park
Reading
Berkshire
RG4 8TZ
UK+44 (0)118 948 6281
Emailheritage@bbc.co.uk
Websitehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/research/wac
AccessThe WAC is open from 9.30am to 5.00pm on Wednesdays to Fridays throughout the year to academics, postgraduate students and writers by appointment.
- Reference
- Report reference VR/57/261, held in file R9/7/28
- Title
- Under Milk Wood: BBC Television (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Times, 10 May 1957, p. 3
- Title
- Welsh TV Reflects National Gift for Drama: Memorable Plays and Outside Broadcasts (Newspaper article)
- Reference
- The Manchester Guardian, 6 August 1957, p. 2
- Linking notes
- passing mention of the production
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