Katherine Jenkins joins Tom Jones and Bryn Terfel for TV special

Make an appointment with your sofa on Bank Holiday Monday - the BBC are screening a special one hour TV version of the radio play Under Milk Wood to celebrate Dylan Thomas' centenary.

In addition to a host of Welsh acting talent, they've secured the services of Tom Jones as Captain Cat, Bryn Terfel as Reverend Eli Jenkins and Katherine Jenkins (above, clearly labelled) as Polly Garter. 

Comments

[John in Santa Fe]

Has anyone heard of the opera based on Under Milk Wood? I believe it is due to be performed in Wales fairly soon.

[Tenorfach]

Hmmmm - for once I am pleased i shall be somewhere, where I cannot see BBC television.

[Graham Thomas]

My surname is Thomas - do you think there might be a part for me?

[Nikolaus Vogel]

Premiered in Swansea last week, John. It's by John Metcalf. There's an opera by a German or Austrian composer called Unter den Milchwald, apparently, too. It was mentioned in John Allison's review of the Metcalf in last Sunday's Telegraph.

[SJT]

Sounds like a lot of fuss about Llareggub to me...

[John in Santa Fe]

Ah, many thanks for this. I just read the review

[Nikolaus Vogel]

It's Llareggyb - but y in Welsh is pronounced like the English u!

[SJT]

Lord Cut-Glass thinks you're a Nogood Boyo.....

[Miriam]

I am afraid you are not escaping by being away this weekend, because it is the Bank Holiday on May 5th, not today as I had also assumed.

BTW I have been having a lot of problems with this site for the whole weekend, either it is not available at all or does not work properly. I may have sent this twice as it did not seem to work the first time.

[Tenorfach]

Arghhh!! Thanks for spoiling that weekend! LOL

[Rose-Mary Hyslop]

Love the photograph. Always wondered where KJ's brains could be located.

[John]

I had the same thought

[SJT]

That's why she always gives her I.Q. as 36C.....