The Guardian view on radio plays: an underrated cultural resource that must be preserved | Editorial
Their status has fallen since the great days of Under Milk Wood or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but we still need audio dramas On 25 January 1954, Dylan Thomas's great radio play Under Milk Wood was broadcast, with Richard Burton as its presiding spirit, First Voice. Thomas, who died two months earlier at the age of 39, had been developing it on the hoof for years. But its final destination " in the far from…