ERIC BENTLEY talks about Brecht and his handling of history in The Days of the Commune. which receives its first production in this country on Radio 3 on Sunday, 14 November.
Until recently Brander Mathews Professor of Drama at Columbia University, Eric Bentley is a leading drama critic in America, where from 1941 to 1947 he was Brecht's closest associate. and has translated many of his plays,