Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio

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A Reassessment

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New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century

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This book is the first sustained examination of Samuel Beckett’s pivotal engagements with post-war BBC radio. The BBC acted as a key interpreter and promoter of Beckett’s work during this crucial period of his "getting known" in the Anglophone world in the 1950s and 1960s, especially through the culturally ambitious Third Programme, but also by the intermediary of the house magazine, The Listener. The BBC ensured a sizeable but also informed reception for Beckett’s radio plays and various “adaptations” (including his stage plays, prose, and even poetry); the audience that Beckett's works reached by radio almost certainly exceeded in size his readership or theatre audiences at the time. In rethinking several key aspects of his relationship with the BBC, a mix of new and familiar Beckett critics take as their starting point the previously neglected BBC radio archives held at the Written Archive Centre in Caversham, Berkshire. The results of this extended reassessment are timely and, in many cases, quite surprising for readers of Beckett and for scholars of radio, “late modernism,” and post-war British culture more broadly.

Author Biography:

David Addyman is Peder Sather Research Fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has published a number of articles and chapters on Beckett. Matthew Feldman is Professor in the Modern History of Ideas at Teesside University, UK. He has published widely on Beckett, including Beckett’s Books and the collection of essays Falsifying Beckett. Erik Tonning is Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. His publications include Samuel Beckett’s Abstract Drama and Modernism and Christianity.

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May 8th, 2018

Series

New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century

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Edited by David Addyman
Edited by Erik Tonning
Edited by Matthew Feldman

Pages

308

Edition

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017

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Professional & Vocational

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XV, 308 p.

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9781349957361

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28329987

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