Autograph Letter Signed ("Dylan Thomas"), to producer Frank Hauser at the British Broadcasting Corporation, agreeing to read his poems on a radio program
- 1 p., docketed with date "31 Aug 1949" as receipt on verso by BBC. 8vo
- The Boat House, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, [Wales] , 1949
The Boat House, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, [Wales], 1949. 1 p., docketed with date "31 Aug 1949" as receipt on verso by BBC. 8vo. Old folds. 1 p., docketed with date "31 Aug 1949" as receipt on verso by BBC. 8vo. Thomas accepts an invitation to appear on BBC Radio. In part: "… I'll be very pleased indeed to read a 20 minute selection of my poems on the Third Programme sometime at the end of September — with just the minimum amount of linking material. Are any links, other than the titles of the poems, really necessary? Would I be expected to announce the titles of the poems myself? If so, then perhaps a few introductory words would be needed as well …."
The program was broadcast on September 24, 1949, with Thomas reading, among his own poems, "There Was a Saviour," "If my Head Hurt a Hair’s Foot," "Poem in October," "After the Funeral," "A Refusal to Mourn" and "In My Craft or Sullen Art." He also delivered a piece called "On Reading One's Own Poems." The recording was released as side B of the 1963 Caedmon LP "An Evening with Dylan Thomas." From 1943-1953 Thomas participated in over 150 BBC radio broadcasts, and his popularity owed much to his rich voice and dramatic reading style.
The program was broadcast on September 24, 1949, with Thomas reading, among his own poems, "There Was a Saviour," "If my Head Hurt a Hair’s Foot," "Poem in October," "After the Funeral," "A Refusal to Mourn" and "In My Craft or Sullen Art." He also delivered a piece called "On Reading One's Own Poems." The recording was released as side B of the 1963 Caedmon LP "An Evening with Dylan Thomas." From 1943-1953 Thomas participated in over 150 BBC radio broadcasts, and his popularity owed much to his rich voice and dramatic reading style.