The Black Seam: Richard Burton on Coal Mining

Vol. 2, Issue 1: May 2023

Richard Burton, the Welsh actor who died at fifty-eight years old almost forty years ago, is one of my heroes. It might be unfashionable to speak of heroes, but one is suspicious of anyone who claims to be ‘above’ that relationship, or that there is no more heroism in this world. I have returned often to the interview Burton gave to the great Dick Cavet…