Robin Williams and Steve Martin in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (Lincoln Center Production, directed by Mike Nichols, 1988). {Only on this Samuel Beckett page. Subscribe.} | SAMUEL BECKETT

Trailer to Rue Samuel Beckett (2013), a portrait of Barbara Bray, BBC editor, literary translator, & close friend of SAMUEL BECKETT's. (Stay tuned for more Beckett stuff.) | SAMUEL BECKETT

SAMUEL BECKETT, Embers (1959), the original radio play production dir. by Donald McWhinnie, broadcast by the BBC Third Programme on 24 June 1959, with some of Beckett's favorite actors: Jack MacGowran – for whom the play was written – as "Henry", Kathleen Michael as "Ada," and Patrick Magee as "Riding Master" and "Music Master." From SAMUEL BECKETT, Works For Radio: The Original Broadcasts, British Library, 2006. | SAMUEL BECKETT

Not a bad intro to / overview of Beckett's work for beginners. Perhaps for that friend of yours who is always asking, "What do you find in him?" Welcome chez SAMUEL BECKETT. | SAMUEL BECKETT