![Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet](https://i3.wp.com/image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/pyamF3EzRfi6gWQnTy2RRasO6t.jpg)
Plot
A drama documentary of the life and death of the poet Dylan Thomas, who died in New York 25 years ago at age 39. Alcohol and a doctor's injection of morphine were the immediate causes. Ever since his childhood in Wales his life was a spectacular attempt - comic at times, serious below the surface, tragic at the finish - to survive on his own bizarre terms as the poet to end all poets. By the 1950s, that first postwar decade of uneasiness and change, Dylan Thomas was a legend to his admirers but a burnt-out case to himself. As he tours America to read poetry to rapt audiences, his past crowds in on him, the fractured memories of a man at the end of his tether.
Writer | Paul Ferris |
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Actor | Ronald Lacey, Gayle Hunnicutt, Ed Bishop |
Country | United Kingdom |
Production | BBC Cymru Wales |