Dylan Thomas 100 years today.

Its the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dylan Thomas today who died after a life of inebriation and drunkenness around Swansea and Fitzrovia in London. At the time of his death life was starting to get a bit easier as he was beginning to make money from his collected poems and from his glorious multi-voiced play Under Milk Wood. His play was on BBC Four last night was so enjoyably engrossing. It had a stellar cast including Charlotte Church who was the sexually repressed fun loving, waspish and bitchy Ogmore Prichard, the rakish rascal Tom Jones who played Captain Cat and the plotting and murderous Mr Pugh played by Jonathan Pryce. The words are indelible and are a camouflage for the people in Swansea who would nevertheless still recognise themselves. What if he had not died prematurely aged 39 on 9 November 1953?