Swansea University’s Professor John Goodby will feature in the following forthcoming broadcasts on BBC TV and Radio, part of a season marking the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas – one of the world’s greatest literary talents.
Professor Goodby, an international expert on Dylan Thomas, is based within the University’s Department of English Language and Literature, in the College of Arts and Humanities, where he is Director of the Dylan Thomas Research Project within the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales (CREW).
He will appear on BBC One Wales’s Welsh Greats: Dylan Thomas programme, broadcast at 22:35 on Thursday, April 24, in which narrator Matthew Rhys tells the story of the life of the world-famous Swansea poet, from his wild love affair with Caitlin to his last days in New York.
Professor Goodby will appear on the BBC Radio Wales religious affairs programme All Things Considered at 09:00 on Sunday, April 27, when he will join presenter Roy Jenkins to discuss Dylan Thomas’s religious poetry with the Reverend Dr Leslie Griffiths, Lord Griffiths of Burry Port, Methodist Minister and Superintendent of Wesley’s Chapel in London.
On Sunday, May 4, Professor Goodby will appear on the BBC Radio Wales Jamie Owen programme at 12:00 (midday).
And on the evening of Sunday, May 4, Professor Goodby will give BBC Radio 3’s The Essay, broadcast from 17:45 until 18:30, as part of the BBC’s Laugharne Live radio festival in the grounds of Laugharne Castle over the weekend of May 2-5.
