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Hello and welcome to a brand new series of Frank Skinner's poetry podcast.

I was doing a stand-up comedy gig at the Abarist With Festival,

which I was very excited to do for many reasons, but one of them being the Abarist With is quite close to, and this pronunciation will almost certainly be wrong, forgive me Welsh listeners,

a place called Egwis Fack, which I believe literally means small church.

And I really wanted to go to Egwis Fack because a poet who I really like, R.S. Thomas, I'll give you the date. Born 1913, died

2000, aged 87. He was the vicar at the local church in Egwis Fax. So I wanted to visit that church. One particular reason I had for visiting there

is I knew that R.S. Thomas and his wife had given the church something of a makeover when he was the

vicar there and they have retained the R.S. Thomas Sheik. Basically, he scraped, or he or his wife,

and or his wife scraped the varnish from the pews, painted the matte black, painted the whole

church black, the pulpit black, took out the fancy

chandeliers, got new wrought iron crosses and chandeliers in a very gothic style, took almost all of

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