Thursday, April 21, 2022

Staying up to date with Bradbury 101 videos

The original idea for my Youtube series Bradbury 101 was to provide an introduction to Ray Bradbury, but over time I have also gone down some of the more obscure rabbit-holes of his work. It's been a while since I made any new episodes, but I hope to get back to making more in the coming months.

Meanwhile, if you'd like to catch up with what you may have missed, here's the story so far...

 

Episode 1 - Introduction to the series and to the works of Ray Bradbury

 


 

Episode 2 - Ray Bradbury's 'Lost' Book: Dark Carnival

 


 

Episode 3 - Confessions of a Bradbury Collector

 


 

Episode 4 - Stuck in Science Fiction: The Illustrated Man

 


 

Episode 5 - Ray Bradbury Makes the Mainstream: The Golden Apples of the Sun

 


 

Episode 6 - This is not a Novel: Fahrenheit 451

 


 

Episode 7 - The Unstoppable Re-Writer: The October Country

 


 

Bonus Episode - My discovery of the original cut of Something Wicked This Way Comes

 


 

Bonus Live Episode - A live episode of Bradbury 100 to celebrate Ray's 101st birthday

 


 

Bonus Live Talk- My illustrated talk on The Martian Chronicles at seventy

 


 

Bonus Live Talk - My illustrated talk on The Illustrated Man at seventy

 



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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Phil talks about The Martian Chronicles - Continuum Drag podcast

I recently joined the team of the Continuum Drag podcast to discuss the 1980 TV miniseries of The Martian Chronicles. It was a lot of fun, especially since the regulars were watching the series with fresh eyes (whereas I was bringing baggage from having watched the series when it first went out).

Ray Bradbury himself said that this miniseries, starring Rock Hudson, was "boring". He got in trouble with NBC and Charles Fries Productions for this, but he wasn't wrong. Fries' lawyers, however, pointed out that Bradbury's contract forbade him from badmouthing the production...

Here's the podcast, where we're discussing episode 2 of the miniseries:

https://continuumdrag.podbean.com/e/189-the-martian-chronicles-part-2/