New podcast episode: How Truffaut Came To Make Fahrenheit 451 in 1966

My Bradbury 100 pod returns with another celebration of the 60th anniversary of the release of the feature film version of Fahrenheit 451...

In a previous episode, I detailed how François Truffaut's film had an impact on Ray Bradbury. In this new episode, I go back a few steps, and look at how Truffaut became connected to Ray in the first place.

It's not an obvious story. Truffaut was no fan of science fiction, and had no knowledge of Bradbury's writings until 1960, when a friend urged him to read Fahrenheit 451. Truffaut was an extraordinary bibliophile, and delighted in Ray's book about books, with its meditation on the significance of literature in an increasingly illiterate culture.

Join me as I re-trace Truffaut's steps on the way to completing his 1966 film.

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Bradbury 100 · Bradbury 100 - episode 77 - How Truffaut Came To Make Fahrenheit 451 in 1966

 

 

 

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New podcast episode: Chronological Bradbury, 1945 (part 2 of 3)

Bradbury 100 returns with another "Chronological" episode, this time continuing with the year 1945. In this year, Ray published no fewer than thirteen stories.

In this episode, I cover the next five stories:

• Skeleton (first version, first published in Script, April 28 1945 (no online version of this story exists))
• The Watchers (Weird Tales, May 1945)
• Dead Men Rise Up Never (Dime Mystery, July 1945 (no online version of this story exists))
• Corpse Carnival (Dime Mystery, July 1945 (no online version of this story exists))
• The Dead Man (Weird Tales, July 1945)

This batch of stories is once again a mix of crime stories and weird fantasy, clearly Ray's preferred genres at this time.

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Bradbury 100 · Bradbury 100 - episode 76 - Chronological Bradbury 1945 (part 2)

 

 

 

 

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

 

Main platforms:

 
Apple Podcasts - Soundcloud - Spotify

 

 

 

Other platforms include: 

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