radio

nationality

British

occupation / innovator as

university teacher

journalist

playwright

translator

literary critic

cause of death

natural causes

innovator in the field of

Hungarian literature

is an intensely visual medium: Information that reaches the listener through other senses is, through the immense richness of spoken language, instantly converted into visual terms.

Martin Esslin, who worked closely with Beckett on his BBC productions and has written extensively on the radio plays, argues that 'radio is an intensely visual medium. . . . Information that reaches [the listener] through other senses is instantly converted into visual terms. And aural experiences, which include the immense richness of language as well as musical and natural sound, are the most effective means of triggering visual images.'

Martin EsslinThinkers

Martin Esslin