Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio

David Addyman is Peder Sather Research Fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has published a number of articles and chapters on Beckett. Matthew Feldman is Professor in the Modern History of Ideas at Teesside University, UK. He has published widely on Beckett, including Beckett’s Books and the collection of essays Falsifying Beckett. Erik Tonning is Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. His publications include Samuel Beckett’s Abstract Drama and Modernism and Christianity.

1. Introduction: David Addyman, Matthew Feldman and Erik Tonning.- 2. Matthew Feldman, "Beckett’s ‘non-canonical’ radio productions, 1957-1989".- 3. Erik Tonning, “Mediating Modernism: The Third Programme, Samuel Beckett, and Mass Communication".- 4. Dirk van Hulle, “The BBC and Beckett’s Non-Radiogenic Plays in the 1950s".- 5. Pim Verhulst, “The BBC as ‘Commissioner’ of Beckett’s Radio Plays".- 6. Catherine Laws, "Imagining Radio Sound: Interference and Collaboration in the BBC Radio Production of Beckett’s All That Fall".- 7. Stefano Rosignoli, “Author, Work and Trade: The Sociology of Samuel Beckett’s Texts in the Years of the Broadcasts for BBC Radio (1957-89). Copyright and Moral Rights".- 8. John Pilling, “Changing My Tune: Beckett and the BBC Third Programme (1957-1960)".- 9. Elsa Baroghel, “‘my God to have to murmur that’: Comment C’est/How It Is and the issue of performance".- 10. Paul Stewart, “Fitting the Prose to Radio: The Case of ‘Lessness’".- 11. Melissa Chia, “‘My comforts! Be friends!’: Words, Music and Beckett’s Poetry on the Third".- 12. Steven Matthews, “Meditations and Monologues: Beckett’s mid-late prose on the radio".- 13. Natalie Leeder, “‘None but the simplest words’: Beckett’s listeners”.