Samuel Beckett commissions
Saturday 15 April 2006 21:35-22:20 (Radio 3)
The last in the series of special Samuel Beckett commissions. Presented by Ian McMillan.
Programme Details
Prepare to be haunted with The Verb when writer and historian Sukhdev Sandhu teams up with the artist Scanner to depict loneliness at night in words and sound - the latest in their collaborations for ArtAngel's Night Haunts project.
Also, the last in our Beckett Birthday Celebration commissions. Richard Bean, former occupational psychologist, stand-up comedian, and now one of Britain 's hottest playwrights, introduces Yesterday - a piece he's written inspired by Beckett's End Game. It stars Felicity Kendall and Sam Kelly.
Peter Finch - one of the great boundary-busting and envelope-stretching poets of the last four decades - talks to Ian McMIllan about The Welsh Poems. His new collection of experimental pieces are inspired by everything from RS Thomas, the welsh rock band Super Furry Animals, to the concrete master poet Bob Cobbings
And Jean 'Binta' Breeze gives us a sneak preview of The Fifth Figure - her first novel, which has a structure based on the quadrille dance, as performed in Jamaica.
That's The Verb with Ian McMillan at 9.35pm here on BBC Radio 3.
Additional Information
The Fifth Figure by Jean Binta Breeze is published by Bloodaxe in September
The Welsh Poems by Peter Finch are published by Shearsman
Producer: Ariane Koek
