Friday, August 22, 2025

New podcast episode: Laurel and Hardy and Ray Bradbury!

Today is 22nd August - Ray Bradbury's birthday! He would have been 105 years young.

To celebrate, here's a new Bradbury 100 Live! in which I discuss Ray's favourite comedy act, Laurel and Hardy. Stan and Ollie turn up again and again in Ray's stories, and I've tracked down as many appearances as I can.

I decided to do this as a visual episode - hence the Bradbury 100 Live! tag - so you could see "the boys" in action, as well as see some of Ray's words as written.

HOWEVER... the occupational hazard of using movie clips within YouTube is that you get hit with copyright strikes, even if your use of said clips falls under "fair use"...

So right now, the visual version is not viewable in some parts of the world. I'll leave it below, but don't be surprised if you can't get it to work.

But right here is the AUDIO-ONLY version (very slightly modified) - and you can of course also pick it up with any decent podcast app. 

 

 






 

 


 

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Thursday, August 07, 2025

New Podcast Episode: Chronological Bradbury 1944 (part 2)

Time for another podcast episode - another in my "Chronological Bradbury" strand, where I work through Ray Bradbury's stories in the order they were published.

This time, we continue with the year 1944, which sees Ray publishing a string of crime stories alongside the more familiar fantasy and science fiction tales.

As you will recall from last time, there are too many stories from 1944 for me to cover in a single episode, so this is the second of three episodes for 1944.

Here are the stories in this episode, with links to the original magazine appearances where they exist. (Some of this episode's stories are from rare magazines which have never appeared as online scans, so the only way you can read them is to seek them out in books! In the episode, I tell you which books the stories can be found in.)

  1. Killer Come Back to Me
  2. The Long Night
  3. Yesterday I Lived
  4. The Trunk Lady
  5. Bang! You're Dead!
  6. And Then - The Silence

 

As always, you can grab the episode using your podcast app of choice, or find it using any of the platforms listed at the bottom of this page - or play it right here. Enjoy! 

 

 


 

Please subscribe to the Bradbury 100 podcast - it's totally free on all platforms. Where to find it:

 
Main platforms:
 
 
 
Other platforms include: 

Amazon Music - Audible - Bullhorn - Castbox - Deezer Fountain - Listen Notes - Player FM - Pocket Casts - Podbean - Podcast Addict - Podcast Index - Podcast Republic - Podchaser - Podfriend - Podlink - TuneIn - YouTube