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Waiting for Godot

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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
Wailing 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.
To be repeated on May 17
DURING THE INTERVAL (9.5-9.16 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
Source: Radio Times

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