Thomas thought that this was "a perfectly good title to hang something on", and by the autumn he had finished work on a reading for the show. In 1945, the producer of the Welsh Children's Hour, Lorraine Davies, wrote to Thomas suggesting a talk entitled "Memories of Christmas". After being well received in Wales, Davies offered the recording of Quite Early one Morning to the BBC in London for national broadcast but the producers at the BBC were unimpressed by what was described as Thomas' "breathless poetic voice" and it was rejected. This was followed by Quite Early one Morning in 1944, recorded in Wales and produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies. His radio work provided a minor source of income in the early 1940s he began writing radio scripts and in late 1942 he wrote a 15-minute talk that was broadcast by the Welsh BBC in February 1943 titled Reminiscences of Childhood. Thomas had recorded work for the BBC since 1937, when he read poetry on air and talked about being a poet. The dissertation, with exaggerated characters for comedic effect, show how childhood memories are enlarged through youthful interpretation. It was always snowing at Christmas"-furthering his idyllic memory of childhood by describing the snow as being better and more exciting than the snow experienced as an adult. Thomas searches for a nostalgic belief in Christmases past-"It was snowing. It is one of Thomas's most popular works.Īs with his poetry, A Child's Christmas in Wales does not have a tight narrative structure but instead uses descriptive passages in a fictionalised autobiographical style, designed to create an emotive sense of the nostalgia Thomas is intending to evoke, remembering a Christmas from the viewpoint of the author as a young boy. Emerging from an earlier piece he wrote for BBC Radio, the work is an anecdotal reminiscence of a Christmas from the viewpoint of a young boy, portraying a nostalgic and simpler time. Mid-20th-century prose work by Dylan Thomas The dust cover of the first pressing of Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales (1955)Ī Child's Christmas in Wales is a piece of prose by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas recorded by Thomas in 1952.
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