The Mondays @ Six programme at St Clement’s
tonight (May 12) will be a reprise of two pieces for radio by Dylan Thomas. Return Journey and Holiday Memory will be read by Pieter Scholtz, Margaret Logan, Rick
Andrew and Fred Felton.
Presented at St Clements a few years back, these
two pieces written for radio show the full range of this tempestuous and
meticulous artist who once cheerfully claimed that he had beast, angel and
madman within him.
Return
Journey: In February 1941, Swansea was bombed by
the German Luftwaffe in a “three nights’ blitz”. Castle Street was just one of
the many streets in Swansea that suffered badly, the rows of shops, including
the “Kardomah Café”, were destroyed. Thomas later wrote about this in his radio
play Return Journey in which he
describes the café as being “razed to the snow”. Return Journey was first broadcast on June 15, 1947, having been
written soon after the bombing raids.
Holiday
Memory: “August Bank Holiday. A tune on an
ice-cream cornet. A slap of sea and a
tickle of sand. A fanfare of sunshades opening. A wince and whinny of bathers
dancing into deceptive water. A tuck of dresses. A lark of boys. A silent
hullabaloo of balloons.”
Coming up on May 19 will be Charlie Berea
& The Survivors, a three piece band consisting of Rick & Gill Andrew
and master guitarist Alan Judd. Their programme features a clutch of songs,
some composed by the Survivors, some traditional, and some by Leonard Cohen,
Bob Dylan, Syd Kitchen and Beth Nielson Chapman. The genre could be called
folk-rock.
St
Clements is situated at 191 Musgrave Road. Mondays at Six run between 18h00 and
19h00. Booking is advised on 031 202 2511. There is no cover charge but there
is a donations box to support presenters.
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