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Sunday Miscellany on a chance encounter with Samuel Beckett

Never meet your heroes? Not in this instance, when it's Beckett on a Parisian street... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to A Single Word, by Peter Cunningham above.

The less said about Samuel Beckett, the better. I mean this as the highest compliment. A writer who pared down words to their essence, who mined the dark treasures found in silence and who wrote a stage-work lasting thirty-five seconds would not have appreciated garrulous elegies...

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