Under Milk Wood

'It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestones silent and hunched...' From this beginning the spell of Dylan Thomas' play for voices is cast. The characters are unforgettable - from Mr Pugh spitting out his wife-hating asides ('here's your arsenic, dear, and your weed-killer biscuit') and Polly Garter whose garden grows nothing but milky babies, to melancholy Captain Cat with 'a nose like strawberries', crying as he remembers dead Rosie Probert whose sensual voice we hear in his head. Audio is the rightful medium for Under Milk Wood and this version with Welsh cast and Richard Burton as narrator is certainly the best.