The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces Beckett’s artistic life through his prose, plays, and poetry. Billie Whitelaw, Jack McGowran, and Patrick Magee—Beckett’s great dramatic interpreters—appear in selected extracts from the plays; Beckett specialist David Warrilow narrates a variety of texts.
A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of ...
Biography and in-depth look of Beckett and his work.
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How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.
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A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performan...
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The meeting of two worlds that never met. One of poetry and freedom, and the other of silence and da...
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Half blind and half deaf, ostraziced Cuban writer Rafael Alcides tries to finish his unpublished nov...
A dramatised documentary about the life of Rumi, a Persian mystical poet whose images of universal l...
Filmed on location in Montana and Washington State, this 1976 biography of poet and teacher Richard ...
A look back at the troubled life of genius British writer Virginia Woolf (1882-1941).
Poet, singer / songwriter and ladies man Leonard Cohen is interviewed in his home about his life and...
Hosted by Keeley Hawes, star of the popular television series The Durrells, this documentary reveals...
Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Becket...