René Cutforth

A monthly series of highly personal documentary films in which individuals are given a platform to discuss issues close to their heart.

The construction of the hidden conduit for North Sea gas lurking under the picturesque Norfolk fenland.

In this film, some who were not strangers - friends, relatives and fellow-broadcasters, who in their various ways loved the poet Dylan Thomas - give an account of the person he really was. The portrait that emerges, enriched by Thomas's own voice in poetry and prose, is different from the generally accepted picture of the inspired and irresponsible drunkard who somehow received a commemorative stone in Westminster Abbey.