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Sep 2024
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THE TLS
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This week, Mary Beard joins us to explain why two recently discovered fragments of Euripides are big news; and an interview with director James Macdonald and actor Lucian Msamati on their new production of Waiting for Godot.


'Ino' and 'Polyidus', by Euripides

'Waiting for Godot', by Samuel Beckett, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, until December 14 2024


Produced by Charlotte Pardy


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