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Changing My Tune: Beckett and the BBC Third Programme (1957–1960)

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Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio

Part of the book series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century ((NIBTFC))

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This chapter examines in detail Beckett’s radio adaptation The Old Tune, a text either edited out of most accounts of his dramatic work or given very little attention, and the adaptations from “The Trilogy” which Beckett made with the help of BBC producers in the late 1950s.

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.Beckett, The Unnamable

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Pilling, J. (2017). Changing My Tune: Beckett and the BBC Third Programme (1957–1960). In: Addyman, D., Feldman, M., Tonning, E. (eds) Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio. New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54265-6_8

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