From An Abandoned Work, a “meditation for radio” by Samuel Beckett, was first broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Third Programme on Saturday 14 December 1957 along with a selection from Molloy. Donald McWhinnie, who had already had a great success with All That Fall, directed the Irish actor, Patrick Magee.
From An Abandoned Work began life as “a short prose piece, written about 1954-55, a step towards a novel soon abandoned; his first text written in English since Watt. Though initially published as a theater piece by the British publisher Faber and Faber following its performance on the BBC, it is now "generally anthologized with Beckett's short fiction".
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