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This is the earliest recording of Dylan Thomas reading a poem still in the ´óÏó´«Ã½ archives. It was recorded on the 18th October 1938 in ´óÏó´«Ã½ Manchester for a programme titled 'The Modern Muse' which featured other more established poets of the time including Auden, Spender and C. Day Lewis. He was aged 23 at the time. This was his second appearance on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ – an earlier reading from April 1937 has been lost. The poem was first published in the collection ’25 Poems’ in 1936.