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Alun Lewis may refer to: Alun Lewis (actor) (born 1949), Welsh actor. Alun Lewis (poet) (1915–1944), poet. Alun Lewis (rugby union) (born 1956)
Alun Lewis was born in Cwmaman in South Wales, and was educated at the University College of Wales and the University of Manchester.He was a journalist, poet and short-story writer before the war, he enlisted in 1940 (despite pacifist leanings) in the army as a Sapper in the Royal Engineers and served in the East, being commissioned in the infantry in 1943.
Alun Lewis (1915 – 1944) Alun Lewis was born on 1 July 1915, exactly one year before the first day of the Battle of the Somme, at Cwmaman, a South Wales mining village. His father was a school teacher; his three brothers worked in the mines. From a young age, Lewis felt he had a vocation to be a writer.
Alun Lewis. Alun Lewis, born Alun Lewis Bennett, (1949), is a British actor best known for playing Darryl Stubbs in Birds of a Feather and Vic Windsor in Emmerdale. His first acting experience came in early 1968, when he appeared in Zigger Zagger with the National Youth Theatre. After training at RADA, he appeared in the film Le Pétomane in 1979.
Alun Lewis was a well known Anglo-Welsh poet, regarded by many as Britain’s finest Second World War poet. The Alun Lewis Papers are a collection of manuscripts and papers presented to the National Library by his widow. Manuscript 1 is a collection of papers relating to his first edition of poems Raiders' Dawn and other poems, published in 1942.
Alun Lewis, Peter Polycarpou and David Cardy all featured in the archive footage but did not appear in any new scenes. Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph were the only two leading cast members to appear in all 129 episodes, as Pauline Quirke appeared in all but the 2020 Christmas special.
Jul 5, 2007 · Alun Lewis is usually remembered as a war poet or, more precisely, as a soldier poet. ‘All Day It Has Rained’ is familiar to those who know nothing else about its author and to some who don’t usually read poetry. Ian Hamilton edited a selection of Lewis’s work, and there is a good biography by John Pikoulis.
