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World Service,07 Nov 2013,9 mins

The Death of Dylan Thomas

Witness History

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In November 1953 the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas died in New York aged just thirty-nine. Witness presents interviews from the BBC archives. Picture copyright BBC - Dylan Thomas, making a broadcast on the BBC in November 1948.

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