Michael Sheen reads This Side of the Truth

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Hollywood star Michael Sheen reads his favourite of Dylan Thomas’ poems. He said "This Side of the Truth is one of Thomas’ less widely-known poems and yet it features all the traits that make his poems truly great. Namely: the directness of talking to his son through it and the humanity of that, alongside the huge cosmic context; the sensuality and elemental imagery; the underpinning of a deeply-felt, sharply intelligent and near-pagan philosophy; and running through it all a deep sense of compassion for what it is to be human. Challenging, tender and apocalyptic, Thomas was the voice of a whiskey-soaked preacher - his best poems reflect everything that implies. And I believe this to be one of his best."