麻豆社

麻豆社 Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the 麻豆社's radio poetry archive with 'Cold War Poet'.

Within a year of his death, Dylan Thomas exploded into occupied West Germany with his popular radio play 'Under Milk Wood'. By the end of the 1980s, his poetry had firmly established his reputation on the other side of the Berlin Wall, in Communist East Germany. Former Berlin correspondent Stephen Evans explores how Dylan Thomas became a cultural export for the British during the Cold War, and how his work helped sustain a generation of East Germans struggling with a totalitarian state trying to control what they read, wrote and thought.

Producer: Gareth Jones

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in 2014.