Dylan Thomas may have been drunk when he made this recording. He had skipped several previous recording sessions.
He was supposed to just read several of his poems (including “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”), but when he finished the poems, the panicked producers realized that they didn't have enough material for the second side of the record.
Thomas suggested a story he had written for the magazine Harper's Bazaar a couple years earlier, and they were able to scramble and obtain a copy.
On that day in New York City in 1952, Barbara Cohen and Marianne Roney invented the audio book, and this treasure came into the world.
