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Autograph Letter Signed ("Dylan Thomas"), to producer Frank Hauser at the British Broadcasting Corporation, agreeing to read his poems on a radio program

Autograph Letter Signed ("Dylan Thomas"), to producer Frank Hauser at the British Broadcasting Corporation, agreeing to read his poems on a radio program

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Autograph Letter Signed ("Dylan Thomas"), to producer Frank Hauser at the British Broadcasting Corporation, agreeing to read his poems on a radio program

by Thomas, Dylan

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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. "I'll be very pleased indeed to read a ... selection of my poems" 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.

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Title
Autograph Letter Signed ("Dylan Thomas"), to producer Frank Hauser at the British Broadcasting Corporation, agreeing to read his poems on a radio program
Author
Thomas, Dylan
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1 p., docketed with date "31 Aug 1949" as receipt on verso by BBC. 8vo
Book Condition
Used - Old folds
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Place of Publication
The Boat House, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, [Wales]
Date Published
1949
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Poetry | British | Dylan Thomas
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