Posts Tagged ‘science fiction’

Late Night Live: Arthur C. Clarke

April 17th, 2008 by Dan Hill

I’m a little late with this, but things pertaining to Sir Arthur C. Clarke tend to have a timeless quality. Just after his recent death, ABC Radio National’s Late Night Live show re-broadcast an interview with Clarke from 2001. It’s a gentle listen, as host Philip Adams carefully and respectfully coaxes memories out of Clarke - on such matters as working with Stanley Kubrick, science and religion, marriage, writing, pondering death and satellites, and so on. We also discover that 2001 is one of the Pope’s favourite movies. All of this quietly and humbly revealed in Clarke’s warm Somerset burr, still detectable over a crackly line from Sri Lanka to Sydney.

Late Night Live: Arthur C. Clarke [mp3]

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Talk Of The Nation: The Science In Science Fiction

March 4th, 2008 by Russell Davies

This is like a delve into the history of the future: it’s a (badly recorded) hour of phone-in about science and science fiction with William Gibson, David Brin and Anne Simon. And it’s from 1999, when everything looked rather different. And it seems to be the first recorded citation of Gibson’s “the future’s already here, it’s just not evenly distributed” quote. MP3 here.

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