Best 3 Geeks Minus 1 Podcasts (2025)

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Bradbury 100 - episode 72 - Chronological Bradbury 1944 (part 3) 1:02:15

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My Chronological Bradbury series continues with the third and final look at the year 1944 - which sees Ray continue to dabble with crime fiction, but still turning his hand to SF and fantasy, completing the NINETEEN short stories he had published in that single year.The most notable story of the batch is the timeless "The Jar", a creepy yet amusing…

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Bradbury 100 - episode 71 - Laurel & Hardy and Ray Bradbury 37:29

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This is the audio version of a live talk I did for Ray Bradbury's 105th birthday (22 August 2025). For more info, check out the show notes at: https://bradburymedia.blogspot.com/2025/08/new-podcast-episode-laurel-and-hardy.htmlBy Bradbury 100 podcast by bradburymedia.co.uk

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Bradbury 100 - episode 70 - Chronological Bradbury 1944 (part 2) 30:23

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Time for 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 storie…

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Bradbury 100 - episode 69 - Chronological Bradbury 1944 (part 1) 54:29

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Time for another podcast episode - and another in my "Chronological Bradbury" strand, where I work through Ray Bradbury's stories in the order they were published.This time, we reach the year 1944, which sees Ray publishing "The Lake" - which he always said was the first "good" story that he ever wrote. It's also the year of "I, Rocket", the story …

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Bradbury 100 - episode 68 - Chronological Bradbury 1943 (continued) 27:20

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Here's another new podcast episode, picking up the "Chronological Bradbury" thread once more, with the remaining Ray Bradbury stories which were first published in the latter part of 1943.I cover five stories in this episode, completing the total of eleven stories Ray published in that year.All of the stories are available online within archived co…

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Bradbury 100 - episode 67 - "The Wind" 38:49

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This episode of the Bradbury 100 podcast is something of a partner to the last episode where I looked at Ray Bradbury's stories from the year 1943. You may recall I talked about "The Wind".Well, in this episode, I look at that story in more detail - and give a reading of the entire, original version.What you will hear is the first-ever published ve…

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Bradbury 100 - episode 66 - Chronological Bradbury 1943 32:34

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Bradbury 100 podcast time! And it's another of my "Chronological Bradbury" series, this time covering the year 1943.This is the year when Ray broke all his previous records, by having no fewer than eleven stories published in professional magazines - in contrast to the mere two published in 1942.This is also the year that Ray became 23 years old. I…

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Bradbury 100 - episode 65 - Radio Classics: Dimension X / X Minus One 28:15

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Bradbury 100 - episode 65 - Radio Classics: Dimension X / X Minus One by Bradbury 100 podcast by bradburymedia.co.ukBy Bradbury 100 podcast by bradburymedia.co.uk

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Bradbury 100 - episode 64 - It Came From Outer Space 1:06:18

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Sometimes the podstreams just cross, and this episode is a prime example. When Colin Kuskie, co-host of my other podcast suggested reviewing It Came From Outer Space, the classic 1953 science fiction movie created by Ray Bradbury, it was right up my alley - and so this new episode of Bradbury 100 is a crossover with the new episode of Science Ficti…

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Bradbury 100 - Episode 63 - The First Geeks with Orty Ortwein 35:42

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Bradbury 100 is back with a new batch of episodes! This time: an interview with Orty Ortwein, author of THE FIRST GEEKS, which examines the early days of organised science fiction fandom. And guess who was there? Ray Bradbury, of course. At around eighteen years of age, he joined the Los Angeles chapter of the Science Fiction League, and became fir…

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Bradbury 100 Returns - 1st May 2025! 2:18

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Bradbury 100 Returns - 1st May 2025! by Bradbury 100 podcast by bradburymedia.co.ukBy Bradbury 100 podcast by bradburymedia.co.uk

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Bradbury 100 - Episode 62 - Ray Bradbury and Leigh Brackett 19:00

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In this episode, I look at the relationship between two greats of genre fiction: Ray Bradbury and his friend Leigh Brackett.Brackett is perhaps best remembered today as one of the screenwriters of STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - but long before that she co-wrote THE BIG SLEEP and RIO BRAVO for Howard Hawks. Earlier still, she was a prolific wr…

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Bradbury 100 - Episode 61 - Ray Bradbury and Radio's SUSPENSE! 46:21

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Here's another new episode of my Bradbury 100 podcast. This time, I look at the early years of Ray Bradbury's professional career, which saw him not only mastering the craft of short story writing and putting together his first book, but branching out into media - in particular, getting his stories and scripts onto national radio shows such as CBS'…

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Bradbury 100 - Episode 60 - Ray Bradbury and The Simpsons! 24:12

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A few weeks ago, there was a new episode of The Simpsons which was entirely based on the works of Ray Bradbury. "Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes" is not the first time Ray has been referenced by the show. In fact, the number of Bradbury allusions across all of The Simpsons (i.e. on TV, in comics, and in books) now totals: thirteen.In this episode I …

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Bradbury 100 - Episode 59 - "Lazarus Come Forth" 41:41

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"Lazarus Come Forth" (1944) is one of a handful of early Ray Bradbury stories to have slipped into the public domain. It's also one of two Bradbury stories set on board a "morgue ship" - a space ship that cleans up after space battles, collecting dead astronauts to (presumably) bring them back home for proper burial or cremation.In this episode, I …

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Bradbury 100 - Episode 58 - Ray Bradbury on Stage 45:53

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As well as writing his famous novels and short stories, Ray Bradbury wrote extensively for the stage. In this episode I explore Ray Bradbury as playwright, looking at his one-act plays and his full-llength adaptations of his own novels.You can find the full shownotes on my blog, here: https://bradburymedia.blogspot.com/2024/11/new-podcast-episode-r…

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Bradbury 100 - Episode 57 - Bradbury 100 LIVE for 2024 59:58

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This is the audio from my 2024 livestreamed version of the podcast, which went out over Facebook and Youtube.If you want the full effect, you can find the VIDEO recording of the livestream on YouTube, at: https://youtube.com/live/SBGtfPQZYBwBy Bradbury 100 podcast by bradburymedia.co.uk

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Bradbury 100 - Episode 56 - Dark Carnival Paperback and Ebook First Editions 32:32

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Ray Bradbury's first-ever book, DARK CARNIVAL (1947) has been re-published. For the first time, it is available in paperback and ebook editions.In this episode I go through the story behind Dark Carnival, and review the new editions.For more information, check out the show notes at https://bradburymedia.blogspot.com/2024/03/new-bradbury-100-episode…

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Bradbury 100 - Episode 55 - Chronological Bradbury 1942 19:06

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In my occasional series of "Chronological Bradbury" episodes, we reach the year 1942. This was Ray Bradbury's first full year as a professional writer, and the year he broke through to two of the leading science fiction and fantasy pulp magazines: Astounding Science Fiction, and Weird Tales. So it's an important year, although he only published two…

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Bradbury 100 - Episode 54 - Q&A Special 1:52:37

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For Christmas this year, I bring you a bumper double-length episode of Bradbury 100!Member of the "Science Fiction Book Club" Facebook group provided questions about Ray Bradbury for me to answer. So this whole episode is given over to my ponderings on some terrific questions.For more details, check the full show notes at www.bradburymedia.co.uk…

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Bradbury 100 - Episode 53 - Ray's Fanzine, Futuria Fantasia 43:54

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In this new episode of Bradbury 100, I explore FUTURIA FANTASIA - the fanzine that Ray Bradbury produced when he was a teenage science fiction fan.The first issue of Futuria Fantasia, published when Ray was eighteen years old, catches him just before he heads off to New York for the first-ever World Science Fiction Convention. In that first issue, …

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Bradbury 100 - Episode 52 - Chronological Bradbury 1941 28:01

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In my occasional series of "Chronological Bradbury" episodes, we reach the year 1941. Ray Bradbury makes his first professional sale, appearing in pulp science fiction magazine SUPER SCIENCE STORIES!For full shownotes, visit my website: www.bradburymedia.co.ukBy Bradbury 100 podcast by bradburymedia.co.uk

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Bradbury 100 - Episode 51 - Some Recent Bradbury Product 26:32

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In this episode I review three new Bradbury products that have come my way - two blurays, and one book.For full show notes, check out my website, www.bradburymedia.co.ukBy Bradbury 100 podcast by bradburymedia.co.uk

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Bradbury 100 - Episode 50 - Chronological Bradbury: 1940 55:18

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Welcome to the FIFTIETH episode of Bradbury 100!This is another episode in my "Chronological Bradbury" strand - where I go through Ray Bradbury's publishing history in order.We've reached the year 1940, when Ray turned 20. It's a year which sees him getting no fewer than nine pieces of fiction published in amateur magazines. He's still a year away …

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Bradbury 100 - Episode 49 - Reviewing Ray Bradbury 39:22

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This time on Bradbury 100 I talk about The New Ray Bradbury Review, the online journal I edit on behalf of the Ray Bradbury Center.Specifically, I talk about the origins of the journal - which stretch way back to 1952, and William F. Nolan's original fan publication, called simply "Ray Bradbury Review".I also pay tribute to Nolan as the first perso…

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Bradbury 100 - Episode 48 - Chronological Bradbury: 1939 26:36

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This is another episode in my "Chronological Bradbury" strand - where I go through Ray Bradbury's publishing history in order.We've reached the year 1939, when Ray turned 19. It's a year which sees him strengthening his ties with the science fiction fan community... and getting no fewer than five pieces of fiction published in amateur magazines. He…

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Bradbury 100 - Episode 47 - Bradbury 100 LIVE, 2023 Edition 37:57

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22 August 2023 would have been Ray Bradbury's 103rd birthday, so in time-honored tradition (a tradition going back a whole three years...) I did a livestreamed version of the podcast via Facebook.Here's the audio from that livestream, very slightly edited. I think most of the references to visual things will make sense from context, but if you're c…

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Bradbury 100 - Episode 46 - Chronological Bradbury: 1938 22:24

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In this episode, I begin a new strand: Chronological Bradbury! In this strand, I'll be going through Bradbury's publishing history in order. Sometimes I'll cover multiple stories (as with this episode), and sometimes I'll focus on a single story - depending on the significance of the story.So we begin here, with the year 1938. This is where the sev…

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Bradbury 100 - Episode 45 - Rescuing SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES 41:56

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Last time on Bradbury 100, we looked at the origin of Ray Bradbury's SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, and its peculiar history as a film script that became a book, and then became a film script again.This time, I continue the story, examining how the film - disastrously previewed in 1982 - was rescued through some re-writing, re-shooting and re-edi…

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Bradbury 100 - Episode 44 - Film/Book/Film: Writing SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES 34:34

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It's forty years since the film version of SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES was released! So in this episode, I take a detailed look at the origins of SWTWC, going all the way back to the short story "The Black Ferris" (1948) and working through to the shooting of the film.Bradbury wrote the screenplay, and the film was directed by his good friend J…

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Bradbury 100 - Episode 43 - Bradbury Books That Never Were 23:38

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In a file in the Ray Bradbury archive, we find his proposed book projects for the years 1960-1962. While some of the titles are familiar, some of them just never came to be. Find out about these Bradbury plans in this episode!One of the proposed books was an anthology to be edited by Ray. I'll give you the full list of contents on my website, www.b…

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Bradbury 100 - episode 42 - Literacy, Censorship & Burning Books: Fahrenheit 451 at 70 1:00:50

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In February 2023, I gave a public talk on FAHRENHEIT 451 for Wolverhampton Literature Festival. This podcast episode is a version of that talk - minus all the visual bits and pieces, of course. (If you want to see the visuals, head over to my Youtube Channel, BRADBURY 101!)By Bradbury 100 podcast by bradburymedia.co.uk

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Bradbury 100 - episode 41 - Ray Bradbury and his "Ghost Writer" Friends... 20:29

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In a 1947 issue of Planet Stories magazine, Ray Bradbury penned a humorous writer bio of himself, in which he claims that all his stories are written for him by a posse of talented professionals including Robert Heinlein.That magazine slipped into the public domain in 1975, because the copyright wasn't renewed (following the 28-year-renewal rules i…

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Bradbury 100 - episode 40 - Rocket Summer! 42:30

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What better way to melt away the winter blues than with Ray Bradbury's ROCKET SUMMER? But this episode of the podcast isn't about the familiar opening chapter of THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES. No, here I'm looking at Bradbury's FIRST use of the title "Rocket Summer". It's a rare 1947 short story, published just once in PLANET STORIES, and never again repr…

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Bradbury 100 - episode 39 - Ray Bradbury and Christmas 17:29

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Bradbury 100 - celebrating the life and work of American writer Ray Bradbury, presented by Phil Nichols of Bradburymedia.co.uk.In this episode I discuss Ray Bradbury's Christmas-themed stories - all two of them - and some lesser known Christmas things he wrote for film and TV. "The Gift" and "The Wish" are the stories, and the screen work includes …

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Bradbury 100 - episode 38 - Ray Bradbury and EC Comics 24:40

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Bradbury 100 - celebrating the life and work of American writer Ray Bradbury, presented by Phil Nichols of Bradburymedia.co.uk.In this episode I discuss Ray Bradbury's stories as adapted by EC Comics, and review the new collection of these comic strips, HOME TO STAY.For more on Bradbury, and for show notes, remember to check out my website, www.bra…

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Bradbury 100 - episode 37 - Bradbury's Dinosaur Tales 24:33

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Bradbury 100 - celebrating the life and work of American writer Ray Bradbury, presented by Phil Nichols of Bradburymedia.co.uk.In this episode I discuss Ray Bradbury's dinosaur stories (A Sound of Thunder, The Fog Horn and more), and the book which collects them together: Dinosaur Tales.For more on Bradbury, and for show notes, remember to check ou…

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Bradbury 100 - episode 36 - The Tragic Death of Ray's Uncle Lester 46:46

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Bradbury 100 - celebrating the life and work of American writer Ray Bradbury, presented by Phil Nichols of Bradburymedia.co.uk.Ninety years ago this month, Ray Bradbury's uncle Lester Moberg was murdered. Ray was twelve years old at the time, and the murder coincided with his meeting of "Mr Electrico" and his family's leaving Waukegan.In this episo…

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Bradbury 100 - episode 35 - Ray Bradbury's October 25:01

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Bradbury 100 - celebrating the life and work of American writer Ray Bradbury, presented by Phil Nichols of Bradburymedia.co.uk.This episode looks at the most significant month in the Bradbury calendar: October! Ray published three books related to that month, ensuring that he will always be associated with spooky season. His short story The October…

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Bradbury 100 - episode 34 - Ray Bradbury's Advice to Writers 58:20

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With apologies for some variation in sound quality in this recording...Bradbury 100 - celebrating the life and work of American writer Ray Bradbury, presented by Phil Nichols of Bradburymedia.co.uk.This full-length episode looks at Ray's essay collection ZEN IN THE ART OF WRITING, and features an interview with Renee and Kim, co-hosts of writing ad…

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Bradbury 100 - episode 33 - The Exiles 14:38

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Bradbury 100 - celebrating the life and work of American writer Ray Bradbury, presented by Phil Nichols of Bradburymedia.co.uk.This short episodes focuses on Ray's short story "The Exiles", also known as "The Mad Wizards of Mars". An unassuming little tale, it has clear echoes of both FAHRENHEIT 451 and THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES.We look at the history…

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Bradbury 100 - episode 32 - Dandelion Wine live talk 44:37

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Bradbury 100 - celebrating the life and work of American writer Ray Bradbury, presented by Phil Nichols of Bradburymedia.co.uk.This episode features the audio from a live talk given on Ray's 102nd birthday, discussing the origins and development of Bradbury's 1957 novel DANDELION WINE and its sequel, FAREWELL SUMMER.If you'd like to see the video v…

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Bradbury 100 - episode 31 - August 2022 update 7:18

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Bradbury 100 - celebrating the life and work of American writer Ray Bradbury, presented by Phil Nichols of Bradburymedia.co.uk.This short episode is an update, and something of a trailer for coming attractions. With Ray's 102nd birthday almost upon us, I bring news of a new LIVE episode of the podcast, and of some future episodes.…

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Bradbury 100 - episode 30 - Bradbury's OTHER Mars Stories 41:07

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Bradbury 100 - celebrating the life and work of American writer Ray Bradbury, presented by Phil Nichols of Bradburymedia.co.uk.This episode looks at Ray Bradbury's OTHER Martian stories, stories about Mars and Martians which are NOT included in his THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES.I review each of the un-chronicled martian tales, and figure out where they fi…

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Bradbury 100 - episode 29 - Ray Bradbury and Style 23:08

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Bradbury 100 - celebrating the life and work of American writer Ray Bradbury, presented by Phil Nichols of Bradburymedia.co.uk.This episode looks at Ray Bradbury's writing style. What does he have in common with other authors, and how does he differ from them?By Bradbury 100 podcast by bradburymedia.co.uk

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Bradbury 100 - episode 28 - the best Martian Chronicles films never made 25:58

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Bradbury 100 - celebrating the life and work of American writer Ray Bradbury, presented by Phil Nichols of Bradburymedia.co.uk.This episode looks at some of the greatest movies NEVER made, as Phil discusses Ray Bradbury's unfilmed screenplays for THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES. If you thought Rock Hudson was the first and last word on the CHRONICLES on scr…

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Bradbury 100 - episode 27 - The Illustrated Man at 70! 47:17

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Bradbury 100 - celebrating the life and work of American writer Ray Bradbury, presented by Phil Nichols of Bradburymedia.co.uk.On 16 November 2021, Phil gave a live talk on The Illustrated Man for the University of Wolverhampton's ARTSFEST ONLINE. In this episode of Bradbury 100, we present a lightly edited version of that talk. (The video will als…

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Bradbury 100 - episode 26 - Tracking Down THE LONELY ONE... 12:32

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Bradbury 100 - celebrating the life and work of American writer Ray Bradbury, presented by Phil Nichols of Bradburymedia.co.uk.Welcome back to Bradbury 100, with some new mini episodes exploring facets of Bradbury's world.This week, host Phil Nichols explores Bradbury's "The Lonely One", the shadowy figure lurking in the Ravine in DANDELION WINE. P…

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Bradbury 100 - episode 25 - with Phil Nichols... 19:08

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Bradbury 100 - celebrating the centenary year of American writer Ray Bradbury, presented by Phil Nichols of Bradburymedia.co.uk.Welcome back to Bradbury 100, with a new miniseries of episodes to round out the Bradbury centenary year!This week, as Bradbury's centenary year comes to a close (he would have been 101 years old on 21st August 2021), host…

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Bradbury 100 - episode 24 - with writer Steve Gronert Ellerhoff 59:10

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Bradbury 100 - celebrating the centenary year of American writer Ray Bradbury, presented by Phil Nichols of Bradburymedia.co.uk.Welcome back to Bradbury 100, with a new miniseries of episodes to round our the Bradbury centenary year!This week, we find out about Ray Bradbury's "Elliott family" and his "afrofuturist" stories, with writer and scholar …