Nancy Thomas: Part 4
In Blog 4 of 5, Katie focuses on Nancy’s life from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s. ‘There must have been more to Nancy than met the eye’ – Caitlin: Life with Dylan Thomas by Caitlin Thomas with George Tremlett We …
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‘that wool-white bell-tongued ball of holidays’: the story of Dylan Thomas’ ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’
In the summer of 1945, Dylan Thomas was invited by the BBC to write another piece for the ‘Children’s Hour’ programme, following the successful broadcast of ‘Reminiscences of Childhood’. He wrote to Lorraine Jameson at the BBC in Cardiff: ‘Thank …
Nancy Thomas: Part 3
Katie Bowman takes up Nancy’s story in 1932. Read on to find out what happens next in her life. ‘My only sister passed through the stages of longlegged schoolgirlishness, shortfrocked flappery and social snobbery into a comfortable married life.’ – …
A Child’s Christmas in Wales
The Dylan Thomas Centre’s Charlotte Rogers considers the universal appeal of Dylan’s magical story. ‘It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, was as white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers.’ I’m finding it …
Part Two: Who was Nancy Thomas?
The Dylan Thomas Centre’s Katie Bowman continues looking at the life of Nancy Thomas. We left Nancy at the age of twenty-two, working in a shop, taking part in amateur productions and still living at home. Doris Fulleylove recalled how …
