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The Clark Tracey quartet with narrator Ben Tracey brought Stan Tracey's reading of Dylan Thomas to Abergavenny

SIR – The cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason describes feeling uncomfortable about the playing of Rule, Britannia! at the Last Night of the Proms (report, January 21). Perhaps if there was wider awareness of the origins of these words, minds might be set to rest. Rule, Britannia! was inspired by a lad from Penryn, Cornwall. Thomas Pellow was 11 years old and on his first sea voyage with his uncle when they were captured by Barbary pirates and taken into horrific, cruel, brutal slavery under Sulta...

One night in November, a procession of young artists, critics and curators climbed the creaky stairs of a building in Chinatown in lower Manhattan to

The outgoing Welsh leader on Labour, the Tories and why the UK should not have a king

A Welsh poet and dramatist is to give a fascinating talk at a Pembrokeshire museum as part of its series of Dylan Thomas-related events.

Townes Van Zandt was a Texas-born singer-songwriter who gained a cult following for his emotionally raw and introspective songs. He is often cited as one of the most influential figures …

Poet Laureate Simon Armstrong will be visiting Pembrokeshire this spring as his 10-year Library Tour stops off in the county.

I left home for milk and came upon the ambulances, then the body. Later, I would learn it was Robbie who died.

<strong>26 January 1954</strong>: In writing a radio play the poet seems to have found the form in which he could pass from the narrative to the lyrical, from the grotesque to the tender

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