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 Jack Clayton (director of Room at the Top (1959) and The Innocents (1961). So everything must have worked out really well...

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

Bradbury 100 - celebrating the centenary year of American writer Ray Bradbury, presented by Phil Nichols of Bradburymedia.co.uk.  Episode 3 discusses the city of Waukegan, Bradbury's childhood hometown. Our interview guest is Sandy Petroshius, who heads the Ray Bradbury Experience Museum, due to open in Waukegan on the one-hundredth anniversary of Ray's birth.

Bradbury 100 - Episode 03 - with Sandy Petroshius of the Ray Bradbury Experience Museum

Bradbury 100 is a podcast celebrating the life and work of American writer Ray Bradbury, brought to you by Phil Nichols of www.bradburymedia.co.uk

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

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