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Author:   Pascale Sardin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
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9781032814292

ISBN 10:   1032814292
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   21 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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List of Figures Foreword by Francesca Bray Acknowledgments List of acronyms and abbreviations 1. Introduction – ‘Transcending cultural differences’ (1924-1952) 2. Working as Script Editor during the ‘Golden Age’ of radio drama in the 1950s BBC radio before and after the War Bray as Script Editor Working with radio drama Meeting Samuel Beckett Promoting Harold Pinter A Broker of French Culture The art of adapting foreign pieces for radio On Leaving the BBC 3. Freelancing for BBC radio in the 1960s Moving to Paris Continuity and Change Original Writing Working with Talks and Features A Humanist and a Feminist at Work Fighting for her Rights 4. Working with the moving image in the 1970s From BBC radio to BBC TV (1964-1968) ‘Transposing’ Proust’s ‘story of a vocation’ Galileo Ibn Saud An Enabler 5. A Celebrated Translator in the 1980s Prizes and recognition Translators and the publishing industry The Battle of The Lover From Laurence Sterne to… Nestor Burma ‘Translaborating’ with Samuel Beckett 6. Conclusion – Dear Conjunction (1991-2010) A Bilingual Theatre Company in Paris A Literary Activist Index

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Pascale Sardin is Professor of English Literature and Translation Studies at Bordeaux Montaigne University (France). She is the author of several books on Samuel Beckett and has edited two volumes of the journal Palimpsestes. With José Francisco Fernández, she edited Samuel Beckett and the Languages of the World (2021). Recently, she also coedited Sexe and Gender in Samuel Beckett/Sexe et genre chez Samuel Beckett, Samuel Beckett Today /Aujourd’hui, 34 (1), 2022.

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