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Dylan Thomas reads an extract from Reminiscences of Childhood - Ugly Lovely Town
In an extract from a much longer piece, Dylan Thomas remembers his childhood in Swansea in the First World War – an ‘ugly lovely town’, as he puts it in the famous line. He recounts games on the sea front, contrasts Swansea with the rest of Wales and wonders about a country called ‘The Front’ from where people never came back. He wrote and recorded the first version of this for the ±«Óãtv in February 1943, when he and his family were living in war-ravaged London.
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