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Waiting for Godot

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'He should be here,' ' He didn't say for sure he'd come.' And if he doesn't come ! We'll come back tomorrow.' And then the day after tomorrow.' Possibly.' ' And so on.' ' The point is - .' 'Until he comes'
A tragi-comedy in two acts by Samuel Beckett
Translated from his original
French text by the author
Characters in order of speaking:
Production by Donald McWhinnie (: second broadcast)
Waiting for Godot was first presented (as En Attendant Godot) at the Theatre de Babylone, Paris, during the season of 1952-3. This is its first radio production.
DURING THE INTERVAL (9.40-9.50 app.),:
Movements from Quintet in C
(Claude Arrieu) played by the French Wind Quintet on a gramophone record

Contributors

Unknown:
Samuel Beckett
Production By:
Donald McWhinnie
Unknown:
Claude Arrieu
Narrator:
Denys Hawthorne
Estragon:
Wilfrid Brambell
Vladimir:
Patrick Magee
Pozzo:
Felix Felton
Lucky:
Donal Donnelly
A boy:
Jeremy Ward

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