Gerry Dukes

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This year we celebrate the 120th anniversary of Samuel Beckett's birth.

Our Beckett season is available online featuring radio versions of What?,

a piece of monologue, All That Fall, and tonight's featured work, The Old Tune.

The work is introduced by Gerry Dukes, whose stage adaptation with Barry McGovern of Beckett's post-war trilogy of novels, I'll Go On, has played around the world.

So, before we hear the play itself, Gerry introduces The Old Tune by Samuel Beckett, adapted from the radio play La Manivelle by Robert Pangey.

Gerry Duke's there and Gerry will be back next week to introduce a piece of monologue.

Gerry was speaking to Kevin Brew and Tommy O'Sullivan was on sound.

Next, we'll hear the old tune by Samuel Beckett, adapted from the radio play La Manivelle by Robert Pangey.

The play is directed by Conall Morrison and stars Barry McGovern as Cream and Eamon Morrissey as Gorman.

Two old acquaintances trade memories, but they can't agree on any of the facts in a dimly remembered past.

This is The Old Tune by Samuel Beggett.

And to listen back to the old tune, All That Fall, What, and hundreds of plays in the Drama Archive, have a look at rte.ie forward slash drama on one.

Next in The Wings, and in this week's edition, director Daniel Reardon discusses a piece of monologue by Samuel Beckett, which is next week's Drama on One.

And in that edition of In the Wings, you heard director Daniel Reardon discussing a piece of monologue by Samuel Beckett, which will be our drama on one next week.

Next, an excerpt from Malone Dies, read by Barry McGovern.

you heard an excerpt from Malone Dies, read by Barry McGovern, from the CD box set Samuel Beckett Three Novels, produced by RTE and the Lannan Foundation in 2006, with Tim LaHann as producer.

Included in the box set is an illustrated booklet on the writer's life and work, also written by Gerry Dukes.

To listen back to this and hundreds of plays in the Drama Archive, have a look at rte.ie forward slash drama on one.