go and see the birthplace of dylan thomas, you can see where he did his early writings. we will have a brand—new, first of its kind, digital arena in the uk. this is what the digital arena will look like. they will build it anyway, but city of culture status could draw more visitors to swansea and make the locals feel good about the place. this youth theatre, busily rehearsing, occupies another previously empty building in the high street. the director here knows what kind of city of culture he wants. it needs to be organic, community—led, cultural vision and practice. otherwise it's not going to feed into a wider debate about real economic change. and this is one of three buildings colonised by artists. almost 100 of them. i could have easily worked at home, but i wouldn't have this community, i wouldn't have that input, i wouldn't have that communication and what's going on and how we feed off each other, which is really important. of the city's poorest corners. it isa it is a busy day of weather so we can have the up—to—date weather forecast. it certainly is pretty bu