Colm Toibin on Pinter takes on Beckett & the talk turns to the great Patrick Magee...

"The previous year, Beckett had met Magee for the first time when the actor recorded some of Beckett's prose work for the BBC. He later said that Magee's voice had excited him so much that he wrote the play for it. As Beckett's biographer, Anthony Cronin, has written of Magee: "There was a sense in which, as an actor, he had been waiting for Beckett just as Beckett had been waiting for him.""