Appleton Players presents Under Milk Wood

In his broadcast for the BBC’s County Magazine in February 1948, Dylan Thomas described residents of this part of the country as ‘proper Windrush people‘. 

Although he loved the sea, he also loved the Cotswold countryside and, not surprisingly for a poet, he particularly loved the poetic sounding names of the villages along the Windrush such as Guiting Power.

It was during his two year stay in South Leigh that he knocked his most iconic work, Under Milk Wood into shape.  While he lived with his family at The Manor House, he  enjoyed the local hostelries where he listened and recorded the chatter and gossip of the locals.

One can only wonder if some local Oxfordshire colour may have found its way into his celebrated Radio Drama presenting an hilarious account of a day in the life of the now famous Welsh village of LLaregub.