Weatherman Walking: Dylan's Walks: Swansea & Llansteffan

BBC Four HD

12:45 AM to 1:15 AM

Thursday 30 October

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In the first of two special programmes originally shown to celebrate the centenary of Dylan Thomas's birth, Derek Brockway strolls around the poet's home town of Swansea. Accompanied by actor Adrian Metcalfe, Derek sets off from Dylan's childhood home on Cwmdonkin Drive and walks through the city's parks and down to the seafront, before visiting some of the writer's haunts in later life. He then heads west to the Llansteffan peninsula where his guide, artist Osi Rhys Osmond, leads him through the countryside that was home to many of Dylan's relatives. They include his aunt's farm, which would provide the inspiration for the poem Fernhill