Tribute to Anthony Minghella, patron of Arvon
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No. You won’t get him. I was told. Don’t waste your time. Impossible. But I have always been stubborn and instinctive, and I knew that Anthony Minghella had a profound love of Beckett. I had seen it in the way he had directed Play for Channel 4. So I dared to do, believing never say never, and asked him to write a radio play to mark Samuel Beckett’s centenary. And he replied and said he would - but only if he could direct it too. But he wouldn’t charge Hollywood rates. Just the standard BBC rate would do. Elegiac, at times funny and intensely poetic, Eyes Down Looking was Anthony’s first radio play for 20 years.
