Bradbury 100 - episode 8

Time for another episode of my podcast Bradbury 100. This week, a topic very close to my heart: radio drama. I continue my interview with dramatist Brian Sibley, and we talk mostly about adapting Ray Bradbury for radio.

Brian talks about adapting to different media, and the need for compression (and occasional expansion) of stories in the process. We cover especially The Illustrated Man, "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl" and "The Next in Line".

Bradbury 100 · Bradbury 100 - Episode 08

Show Notes

See my list of Bradbury's radio credits.

I've written a number of articles about Ray's work on BBC Radio. Read them here and here.

Brian contributed many scripts to the 1990s BBC series Ray Bradbury's Tales of the Bizarre, which continues to be repeated periodically on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

Brian's own Soundcloud channel includes a vast amount of his work, including his episodes of Tales of the Bizarre.

Bradbury audio (again)

I now have a page about the BBC Radio 4 series Fear on Four, which explains the origin of the Bradbury episode "The Next in Line", and how it came to inspire Ray's BBC Radio series Tales of the Bizarre. I hope to develop a page about the latter series in the next few weeks.

Interviewing Ray's collaborators

Also in June (it was a busy month!), I had the honour of meeting Brian Sibley, the writer and broadcaster. Brian has been a friend of Ray Bradbury for many years, and a few years ago adapted several Bradbury stories for the BBC's Tales of the Bizarre. Brian, fresh from recording his Radio 2 series Ain't No Mickey Mouse Music, kindly agreed to be interviewed about Bradbury and the dramatisation process. The information he provided will serve as useful background for my researches into adaptation, and will also help me extend the 'Bradbury at the BBC' story beyond the limits of the materials in the BBC Archives.

Brian is also an excellent blogger: check out his blog(s) here.