Caitlin

Dylan Thomas was a poet. You will have heard of him. The doomed Welsh genius who undertook four grueling poetry reading tours of the USA in the 1950's and finally dying in New York in 1953 at the tender age of thirty nine. But what do you know about his wife? Dylan Thomas and Caitlin MacNamara boozed, binged and brawled their way through the bars of Britain in the 1930’s and 40’s. They were great lovers, bohemians, mixing with other writers, artists and musicians of their day, spending all their time in pubs doing scandalous things. Although Dylan has his tragic genius as an excuse for his awful behaviour, Caitlin feels history judges her more harshly as a mother, married to the “Voice of God” but she doesn’t want your forgiveness. She puts her own career as a dancer on hold to support Dylan and sacrifices everything for the man she loves. However, their marriage was stormy, passionate and explosive, poverty stricken and riddled with infidelities on both sides. Here she tells the true story, in her own brutally honest words, of her tempestuous life with Dylan, revealing some shocking insights into their mutually destructive behaviour and she doesn’t hold back. Caitlin MacNamara? If you’ve heard of her it’s because she married him. Now learn about the forgotten woman behind the famous man.

Run Time: 60 minutes

Age Recommendation: 14+