Dylan Thomas

Mention of whom always reminds me of Lampeter evenings spent with Mervyn Williams, pleasantly stoned, listening to Richard Burton's mellifluous tones as Under Milk Wood washed slowly over us:

"Starless and bible black"

"Gomer Owen who kissed her once by the pig-sty when she wasn't looking, but never kissed her again, though she was looking all the time"

not forgetting No Good Boyo's
"I don't know who's up there, and I don't care."

Last night there was a piece on him on 'The One Show', by the greatest exponent of the five minute interest film in the history of television - Giles Brandreth (seriously). It looked at his war propaganda films, which was news to me, because despite having studied both Dylan Thomas and Second World War propaganda films in some detail, I wasn't aware he had made any, (too busy looking at Lynn wossname's talking jeans I expect - teenage hormones never were the best learning lubricant).

Anyway, you know those youtube videos that viral round the world - the Hitler parodies from the film Downfall - where Hitler rants in sub-titles about anything from Newcastle being relegated to a very funny one about the Downfall meme itself, including Hitler's rueful complaint as to his legacy: "Whenever we google Hitler all we get is Downfall parodies".

Turns out Dylan Thomas had done exactly the same parody 67 years earlier, smack in the middle of the war, over-dubbing Hitler's speeches.
Which is quite interesting...

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