“The incoming tide was said to favour the bowlers [at St Helens]. Glamorgan captains of the past such as Wilf Wooller and Maurice Turnbull would consult the tide tables for Swansea Bay before going out to take the toss.” How Garfield Sobers beat cricket’s ultimate record. Extract 5. This is the fifth in a series… Continue reading
Posts tagged Dylan Thomas
In the house where Dylan Thomas set “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”
This is the time to think of Christmas books. Dickens started our passion, but who has time for the whole of Pickwick Papers, unless you just read the snowy, seasonal scenes? A Christmas Carol is a possibility, but, weighed down with Victorian sentimentality, it lends itself to cinematic or theatrical adaptation rather then a comfy read in… Continue reading →
A Child’s Christmas – in New York and Swansea
This Christmas season, 2015, Dylan Thomas’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” is being performed in two very appropriate places (as well as in many other venues in the English speaking world) – in Swansea, where Dylan was born in 1914, and New York, where he died in 1953. The Swansea production, at the Dylan Thomas… Continue reading →
A Child’s Christmas in Wales comes to Dylan’s home.
Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales is set in epic snow “as white as Lapland”. This year, 2010, snow fit for Dylan’s famous story fell on Swansea.
Continue reading →How an uncle sent £5 to a hard-up Dylan Thomas
This is an and untold story about how a young lady delivered a £5 pound to a hard-up poet in London. That poet was Dylan Thomas. I don’t believe it has been told before. – – – – A letter was sent to the editor of the Mail on Sunday for my attention by the late Dodo MacKenzie, then… Continue reading →
Dylan Thomas in Fitzrovia
“The life, work and riotous pleasures of Dylan Thomas in Fitzrovia.” That was the title of a wide-ranging festival celebrating one of our greatest poets in 2014, his centenary year. It was also a celebration of Fitzrovia, the culturally rich district which played an important part in his life in London. The 19-year-old first came up on… Continue reading →