Samuel Beckett All That Fall l original BBC broadcast @aen1595

Marceli Piontek Taken from Samuel's FB page, I thought to add it to YouTube.

This play was written for a radio broadcast production. All the sound heard in this recording (like animal noises, or music) was intended by the author and is written in the original play's script.

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) was an Irish playwright, mostly known for his 1952 play "Waiting for Godot" His plays are often praised for their unique humor, writing style, and being somewhat "avant-garde." I highly recommend getting to know this amazing author.

Here is the description taken from the original Facebook post:

Samuel Beckett, All That Fall (original BBC broadcast). Join the SAMUEL BECKETT page! This is the original production, broadcast by the BBC Third Programme on 13 January 1957, produced by DOnald McWhinnie, with Mary O'Farrell as 'Maddy Rooney', J. G. Devlin as 'Dan Rooney', Patrick Magee as 'Mr Slocum' and Jack MacGowran as 'Tommy'. Franz Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" was performed by the London String Quartet.
The autograph copy of the work is titled Lovely Day for the Races. It was published in French, in a translation by Robert Pinget revised by Beckett himself, as Tous ceux qui tombent.
Beckett wrote to Nancy Cunard: "Never thought about radio play technique but in the dead of t’other night got a nice gruesome idea full of cartwheels and dragging of feet and puffing and panting which may or may not lead to something."
Although the play was written quickly and with few redrafts, the subject matter was deeply personal causing him to sink into what he called "a whirl of depression," as he wrote to his US publisher Barney Rosset in August 1956. In fact in September "he cancelled all his appointments in Paris for a week simply because he felt wholly incapable of facing people" and worked on the script until its completion.

updated 10 months ago

Samuel Beckett All That Fall l original BBC broadcast

Marceli Piontek 2025-10-30 | Taken from Samuel's FB page, I thought to add it to YouTube.

This play was written for a radio broadcast production. All the sound heard in this recording (like animal noises, or music) was intended by the author and is written in the original play's script.

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) was an Irish playwright, mostly known for his 1952 play "Waiting for Godot" His plays are often praised for their unique humor, writing style, and being somewhat "avant-garde." I highly recommend getting to know this amazing author.

Here is the description taken from the original Facebook post:

Samuel Beckett, All That Fall (original BBC broadcast). Join the SAMUEL BECKETT page! This is the original production, broadcast by the BBC Third Programme on 13 January 1957, produced by DOnald McWhinnie, with Mary O'Farrell as 'Maddy Rooney', J. G. Devlin as 'Dan Rooney', Patrick Magee as 'Mr Slocum' and Jack MacGowran as 'Tommy'. Franz Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" was performed by the London String Quartet.
The autograph copy of the work is titled Lovely Day for the Races. It was published in French, in a translation by Robert Pinget revised by Beckett himself, as Tous ceux qui tombent.
Beckett wrote to Nancy Cunard: "Never thought about radio play technique but in the dead of t’other night got a nice gruesome idea full of cartwheels and dragging of feet and puffing and panting which may or may not lead to something."
Although the play was written quickly and with few redrafts, the subject matter was deeply personal causing him to sink into what he called "a whirl of depression," as he wrote to his US publisher Barney Rosset in August 1956. In fact in September "he cancelled all his appointments in Paris for a week simply because he felt wholly incapable of facing people" and worked on the script until its completion.