# Interviews with Orson Welles

Heard 1969. 8 episodes.

Recordings of almost 4 hours of a series of interviews conducted by director/author Bogdanovich with Welles between the years 1969 and 1972. * * * * * * * * * * * * * In the late '60s and early '70s, filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich had conducted extensive interviews with Welles, but a number of circumstances--including the director's decision to compose an autobiography that he never got around to writing--kept the interviews out of the public eye. Finally edited and annotated by Jonathan Rosenbaum, these conversations give wonderful insights into Welles's craft and personality. He discusses his forays into acting, producing, and writing as well as directing, his confidences and insecurities, and his plans for film projects that were either never made or only partially completed. He also offers insights into the triumph of Citizen Kane and later masterpieces like The Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil, Othello, and Chimes at Midnight. His defense of his controversial adaptation of Kafka's The Trial is so fascinating that listeners might want to rush out and rent the film.

## Sets

- Interviews with Orson Welles (Old Time Radio): CC BY-NC-ND 3.0, as its uploader states it at the Internet Archive. Source: https://archive.org/details/InterviewsWithOrsonWelles

## Episodes, in broadcast order

1. [orson welles interview 01](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/interviews-with-orson-welles/69648a6c4da8) (28 min): not offered here
1. [orson welles interview 02](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/interviews-with-orson-welles/972f581d966c) (26 min): not offered here
1. [orson welles interview 03](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/interviews-with-orson-welles/f247e0cb2c79) (30 min): not offered here
1. [orson welles interview 04](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/interviews-with-orson-welles/bdabf44f82d6) (29 min): not offered here
1. [orson welles interview 05](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/interviews-with-orson-welles/db7a389ae369) (30 min): not offered here
1. [orson welles interview 06](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/interviews-with-orson-welles/e081cbc53fbc) (27 min): not offered here
1. [orson welles interview 07](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/interviews-with-orson-welles/6fbd74a29a1b) (28 min): not offered here
1. [orson welles interview 08](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/interviews-with-orson-welles/b2775e1cd68d) (19 min): not offered here

From the Old Time Radio collection at the Internet Archive, uploaded by the collector named.

Nothing here is called public domain on this site's say-so. In the United States, sound recordings first fixed before 15 February 1972 have federal protection under the Music Modernization Act of 2018, for most until 2067 at the latest, so most American radio of the 1930s to the 1950s is not in the public domain there. Each set shows the licence, mark or statement its archive gives, and says whose it is. An episode whose only basis is its uploader's public-domain mark is not played, as that law protects it; one under its rights holder's licence plays everywhere.