Samuel Beckett [sound recording] : works for radio : the original broadcasts / BBC ; British Library.
By: Beckett, Samuel
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Contributor(s): British Broadcasting Corporation | British Library. National Sound Archive.
Material type: 
SoundPublisher: London : British Library Board, [2006]Description: 4 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.ISBN: 0712305300; 9780712305303.Other title: Works for radio : the original broadcasts.Uniform titles: Plays. Selections. Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 | Radio plays, EnglishDDC classification: CD/4141 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library CD | CD/4141 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00177637 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Samuel Beckett was one of the most original and influential writers and dramatists of the twentieth century and a writer with an exceptional concern for the subtleties of sound and rhythm. Released in the centenary year of his birth, this four-CD set spans the period 1957-1976, collecting the five works created by Beckett for the broadcast medium.
This set of CDs spans the period 1957-1976 and collects the five works created by Beckett expressively for broadcast. The original BBC recordings could previously only be heard at the British Library Sound Archive in London.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [6] of accompanying booklet).
disc 1. All that fall (1957) -- disc. 2. From an abandoned work (1957) ; Embers (1959) -- disc 3. The old tune (1960) ; Words and music (1962) -- disc 4. Cascando (1964) ; Rough for radio (1976).
Compact discs.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Nobel Prize winner (1969) Samuel Beckett was born on April 13, 1906 near Dublin, Ireland into a middle-class Protestant family. As a boy, he studied French and enjoyed cricket, tennis, and boxing. At Trinity College he continued his studies in French and Italian and became interested in theater and film, including American film.After graduation, Beckett taught English in Paris and traveled through France and Germany. While in Paris Beckett met Suzanne Deschevaus-Dusmesnil. During World War II when Paris was invaded, they joined the Resistance. They were later forced to flee Paris after being betrayed to the Gestapo, but returned in 1945. Beckett and Deschevaus-Dusmesnil married in 1961.
Samuel Beckett's first novel was Dream of Fair to Middling Women. Among his many works are Murphy; Malone Dies; and The Unnameable. His plays include Endgame, Happy Days, Not I, That Time, and Krapp's Last Tape.
In 1953, the production of Waiting For Godot in Paris by director and actor Roger Blin earned Beckett international fame. Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969. His style was postmodern minimalist and some of his major themes were imprisonment in one's self, the failure of language, and moral conduct in a godless world.
Despite his fame, Samuel Beckett led a secluded life. In his later years he suffered from cataracts and emphysema. His wife Suzanne died on July 17, 1989 and Beckett died on December 22nd of the same year.
(Bowker Author Biography)