Another chance to hear Paul Allen 's reassessment of the work of Martin Esslin, who died in 2002. As head of BBC radio drama for 14 years in the 1960s and 70s, Esslin championed the work of Samuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, Vaclav Havel and Harold Pinter, bringing previously unheard playwrights to radio and a wider audience. Producer Bob Dickinson