Monday music .......... my desert island disc collection part 8

It's a busy time of year, so this the track this week will be one to remind me of my roots. I am very proud to be Welsh and as they say 'you can take the girl out of Wales, but you can't take the Welsh out of the girl' - or something like that!

On my island I would want something Welsh and have chosen this Richard Burton reading Rev Eli Jenkins poem  from Under Milk Wood. It would also remind me of my late father, who wasn't an academic, but loved to read and write poetry. I regret not having many of the poems he wrote over the years.

Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea in 1914, and died in New York in 1953, at the young age of 39. Like Burton, he was a heavy drinker.

Under Milk Wood is considered by many as his greatest ever single work. He had a home, the Boathouse in Laugharne, south west Wales, where some of Under Milk Wood was written in his 'writing shed'. The Boathouse, together with his writing shed, have been turned into a museum.

The Boathouse, perched on a cliff overlooking the estuary.

The interior of the writing shed, as it was left by Dylan Thomas.

Dylan Thomas is buried in the churchyard at Laugharne, and has a plaque dedicated to him at Poets'Corner in Westminster Abbey.

I spent 4 very happy years living a few miles away from Laugharne, and have great memories of this beautiful part of Wales.

This is also the time to own up and say that I am 'a bit of a fraud'. When I started my Monday Music I had no intention of sticking to the Desert Island Disc rules of just 8 tracks. I figure that in MP3 format I could take thousands of tracks stored on something even smaller than the original  recordings.

Listen on ..........

Perhaps sometimes I might ask some of you to choose a track for me!

Let me know if you have one, and why it is important to you, and I'll see what I can do......