Waiting for Godot

And soon we'll be joined by our reviewers.

Rock star Tim Rogers, who's recently been in a stage production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, where he played Pozzo.

And here's taking on the latest from Pip Williams of the Dictionary of Lost Words fame and a new novel called The German Ward.

And best-selling novelist Madeleine Gray takes us to contemporary London and some, well, I think...

It was just wonderful and catching up with Jock.

My friend Melanie Ostell as well introduced me to the Kevin Barry catalogue, Nightboats Tangier.

which I was reading while we were waiting for Godot, and I was very interested if Kevin Barry had been asked, I'm sure, about Beckett a lot, and he kind of denies it and says it's more a Harold Pinter thing, but I don't know.

But Nightboat's Danji really got to me, Kevin Barry, and then read Beetlebone, his novel about John Lennon and the little island that he bought off the coast of Ireland.

It is a rock climbing accident that landed him in a complete 180 in his career, an agency that came and saw him on stage, an agency that dropped him after one of his life-changing moments.

It's then tricking him into performing Waiting for Godot five months later in the Drama-Logue Award that changed everything.

It's understudying the lead at the Mark Taper Forum with zero rehearsals and going on for the matinee and an evening performance the same day.

It is writing Sympathy for Delicious in 1997 and not shooting it until 2009.

He was instrumental in this.

Him and Tim McNeil and Milton Justice, who directed a lot of those plays, he was one of our teachers.

They basically came to me and they said, "Hey, let's read Waiting for Godot." And, and I thought they were like, okay.

I didn't really think anything of it.

But I think in terms of dream roles, I'd love to do like a Sweeney Todd.

I love Sweeney Todd and maybe even a Waiting for Godot.

I wouldn't mind throwing my hand at a bit of Beckett.

Did you see the production? I didn't get to, no.