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
April 2024
‘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
February 2024
Audiobook of the week
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’
January 2024
From the Guardian archive
The first broadcast of Under Milk Wood – archive, 1954
The Guardian view on radio plays: an underrated cultural resource that must be preserved
October 2023
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
September 2023
Historic Welsh pub loved by Dylan Thomas awarded £300,000 grant
Letter: Jen Wilson obituary
May 2023
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
June 2022
Dame Paula Rego obituary
Painter whose powerful images of women disrupted the male gaze
February 2022
An abandoned plan to move Dylan Thomas’s body from its simple grave
Do not go gentle into that hot tub! A luxury spa is the wrong way to remember Dylan Thomas
Adrian Chiles
December 2021
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
August 2021
Car-free coast
I could be by the Med: a car-free short break in Swansea
A vibrant waterfront sets the tone for a trip of cultural delights, Dylan Thomas sights, great food and the beauty of the Gower peninsula nearby
July 2021
Top 10s
Top 10 stories about bored teenagers
Writers from Alice Munro to JD Salinger capture the restless ennui and dangerous passions of the do-nothing years before adulthood sets in
June 2021
Under Milk Wood review – Michael Sheen steps into Dylan Thomas’s bygone world
Lyndsey Turner’s production is a charming albeit emotionally distanced retreat into nostalgia
May 2021
Raven Leilani wins Dylan Thomas prize for ‘fearless’ novel Luster
US author wins £20,000 award for writers under 39 – the age Thomas died – for her debut about a black woman who starts dating an older white man in an open marriage
March 2021
Michael Sheen to star in Under Milk Wood at the National Theatre
Reconfigured Olivier theatre will show Dylan Thomas classic in June reopening with Jack Thorne play set for Dorfman stage
October 2020
The literary beauty of regional accents
Letters: Shakespeare, to name but one famous writer, almost certainly spoke with a Midlands accent, writes Salley Vickers.And Rev Jennifer Williamson fondly recalls her lecturer’s comeback
May 2020
'Lulled and dumbfound': lockdown version of Under Milk Wood released
Key workers and youth theatre create strikingly apposite film of Dylan Thomas’s work about hushed Welsh village
