We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood

It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea. The houses are blind as moles (though moles see fine tonight in the snouting, velvet dingles) or blind as Captain Cat there in the muffled middle by the pump and the town clock, the shops in mourning, the Welfare Hall in widows' weeds. And all the people of the lulled and dumbfound town are sleeping now.

Speaking of Dylan Thomas...

The BBC, in all its magnificence, really pulled all the stops out for its "official tribute" to The Great Man's greatest work Under Milk Wood (that we watched on catch-up tonight). It was breath-taking.

Auntie Beeb managed to gather an impressive cornucopia of Welsh stars (filmed in New York, Los Angeles, London, Cardiff and Laugharne) each taking a part in this marvellous "play for voices":

Voice	Michael Sheen
Captain Cat	Tom Jones
New York Voice	Matthew Rhys
Laugharne Voice	Aimee-Ffion Edwards
Drowned and Willy Nilly	Tom Rhys Harries
Drowned and Voice	Karl Johnson
Drowned and Evans the Death	Iwan Rheon
Drowned and Voice	Aneurin Barnard
Rosie Probert	Nia Roberts
Mog Edwards	Ioan Gruffudd
Myfanwy Price	Kimberley Nixon
Mr Waldo	Steffan Rhodri
Neighbour	Mark Lewis Jones
Neighbour	Richard Harrington
Neighbour	Sophie Evans
Neighbour	Melanie Walters
Voice	Griff Rhys Jones
Voice	John Rhys-Davies
Voice	Andrew Howard
Voice	Rakie Ayola
Mr Pugh	Jonathan Pryce
Mrs Pugh	Sian Phillips
Rev Eli Jenkins	Bryn Terfel
Polly Garter	Katherine Jenkins
Mrs Ogmore Pritchard	Charlotte Church
Mr Ogmore	Tom Ellis
Mr Pritchard	Aneirin Hughes
Butcher Beynon	Robert Pugh
Mrs Beynon	Suzanne Packer
Lily Smalls	Eve Myles
Mae Rose Cottage	Alexandra Roach
Nogood Boyo	Craig Roberts
Mary Ann Sailors	Sharon Morgan
Dai Bread	Owen Teale
Mrs Dai Bread One	Di Botcher
Mrs Dai Bread Two	Sian Thomas
Sinbad Sailors	Jon Tregenna

Whew! a tour-de-force of acting, indeed - we were exhausted by the time it was over.

As someone wisely said on the occasion of their recent star-studded God Only Knows video: "Only the BBC could make this happen".

And here, for your delectation - catch it while you can before the "powers-that-be" take action to remove it from the interwebs - it is, in its entirety (well, I say entirety; this is Auntie's slightly abridged version of Mr Thomas' work, condensed):

Part 1:


Part 2

Read more about this brilliant programme

Dylan Thomas Centenary