Tom Hollander as Dylan Thomas

Thank you annodomini. There is always confusion about a Welsh accent , there is no such thing as a single Welsh accent just as there is no single English accent. Forgive me, difficult to explain. In England we speak of Liverpool, Birmingham , Dorset etc accents , but no matter where a person hails from in Wales they have a Welsh accent , Yet North, South and West are so different, even the valleys in South Wales do not speak with the same accent . Burton didn't slip into a Welsh accent , he did a 'how green was my valley' accent lol

A person from Anglesey can speak the very same sentence as a person from the Rhondda in half the time . Their diction was due to elocution lessons but the softness is still there as is the drama , we do so do drama lol . Listening to Thomas read ' Do Not Go Gently' or Burton as the first voice in Milkwood and the fact they were Welsh can not be disguised .

Did you watch the BBC production of Milkwood with the thirty odd Welsh actors / singers ?

It's referred to in this article

Anniebach, DT himself referred to his 'cut glass accent'. Both he and Burton could slip easily in and out of either accent. Expat Scots like me can do the same - up to a point.

I thought Hollander was excellent as Thomas. As both Burton and Thomas had Welsh accents I don't understand where a cut glass accent comes into this

Richard Burton reading DT - available on Amazon and I couldn't resist ordering it. It's a compulsion. Help!

DT called it his 'cut glass accent'. Apparently his father discouraged him from speaking in a Welsh accent. Tom Hollander looked and sounded so much like him that it was almost spooky. What a genius DT was, such a damaged genius. We had a record of him speaking some of his best known poems - Fern Hill, And Death Shall Have No Dominion, Do Not Go Gently... But personally I think Richard Burton speaks Under Milk Wood better.

I thought it (and him) excellent. An original recording I once heard of DT revealed rather more clipped BBC vowels (surprisingly) though.