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03/01/2013 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, Waiting for Godot

How Samuel Beckett's existentialist masterpiece revolutionised the theatre 60 years ago.

In January 1953, Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" had its premiere at a small avante-garde theatre in Paris.

With its long pauses and lack of plot, the play was revolutionary.

Simon Watts talks to Beckett's biographer and friend, Professor Jim Knowlson of Reading University.

PHOTO: Samuel Beckett visting the BBC in 1977.

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