ABSTRACT
Samuel Beckett's work for broadcasting—five completed radio plays and three television plays—is a highly significant part of his oeuvre and far less fully discussed in the mounting literature on Beckett than his other output, far less readily available, also, in performance, which alone can bring out its full flavor. On June 1, 1952, Beckett sent P. H. Newby the text of Cascando. The tremendous success of All That Fall spurred the BBC to urge Beckett to write more for radio. The beginning of 1959 brought the completion of Beckett's long-awaited second original play for radio. Words and Music realized Beckett's long-cherished intention of collaboration on an original work with John Beckett. Cascando was an even shorter play than Words and Music.
