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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

String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10 played by the Juilliard String Quartet:
Robert Mann (violin) Robert Koff (violin)
Raphael Hillyer (viola)
Arthur Winograd (cello) with Uta Graf (soprano)
(in third and fourth movements) on a gramophone record
Quartet No. 3: May 3

Contributors

Violin:
Robert Mann
Violin:
Robert Koff
Viola:
Raphael Hillyer
Cello:
Arthur Winograd
Soprano:
Uta Graf

Systematic Soldiering by T. Lupton
Lecturer in Sociology
In the University of Manchester
Mr. Lupton has been studying chronic restriction of output, organised by workers, which an earlier authority has called ' systematic soldiering.' Much of his field-work was done during a six-months' spell as a labourer in an engineering works.

Contributors

Unknown:
T. Lupton

Third Programme

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