Orson Welles and H.G. Wells Full Interview.

1940 KTSA Broadcast.
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[andrewwilliams]

"You aren't quite serious in America yet. You haven't got the war right under your chins. And the consequence is you can still play with ideas of terror and conflict." Chilling words from Mr. H.G. Wells, then and now.

[SteVin]

Never heard the full interview before! Thank you for sharing this.

[kennethwallace]

This is one meeting in History, i would only wish to have been there, truly a moment in time.

[carefulconsumer]

Just completed H G Wells' multiple World History series and it's fantastic!

[dougdevine]

Terrific find Rodrigo. Gracias. THANKS, two creative visionary minds..

[andrewwilliams]

Orson Welles didn't need Harvard. But Harvard needed Orson Welles.

[chriscma]

Brilliant conversation. Heard an edited version in the past, but this was compelling from beginning to end.

[willevans]

thanks for uploading, heard it before but a long time ago, brilliant people talking, this you listen to

[larrymclarnon-pdxf]

What a wonderful combination.two great creative minds .

[Ryan-onon]

Rather cute to hear 25-year-old Welles, who in later interviews is usually so commanding, confident, and persuasive with his bearing, act rather sheepish and nervous here, no doubt due to his being in the company of one of England's all-time greatest literary minds. It's a testament to Welle's own starling genius, already on full display at this tender age, that a personage no less brilliantly perceptive than H.G. Wells could see in a young man nearly fifty years his junior the raw intellect, professional competence, and artistic vision of someone many decades older.

[Alex-txby]

great interview but I can't get over the fact that Wells was in San Antonio for the United States Brewers Association

[ianluetkehans]

I can't find this interview on iTunes

[charlessmyth]

Mentioned by Alan Dean Foster in his interview with the guys form Midnight's Edge :-)

[sjnepomuk]

The son of Ellen Terry whom H.G. Wells referred to was Gordon Craig.

[Lennonlover]

Incredible analysis of political affairs from both men which resonates still today

[karlkeating]

This was an interesting exchange, but, unlike others here, I have little praise for H. G. Wells. Yes, he wrote some interesting novels, but as a man he was less than admirable. This exchange occurred in 1940. In 1944 Wells published a book called "Crux Ansata" ("Broken Cross"). In it he urged the Allies to bomb Rome to smithereens. To defeat the Fascist regime? Not so much. The main point of the book was that Rome should be destroyed so that the Catholic Church would be destroyed. Wells hated Christianity in general and the Catholic Church especially. He was a good example of a vile man who could write entertaining stories.

[zazander]

One of the most interesting things I've ever heard.

[DNortRyan]

Wow, what a fkin prediction, he said there would be a renaissance after the war, wow. ⚡️⚡️⚡️

[MrTimber]

This was definitely a great meeting of the minds in San Antonio in 1940. H.G. Wells had long been a visionary in his writings and now Orson Welles was becoming one of America's greatest talents. I know that Wells had been a socialist, but he came to find faults with the system, especially when he saw what Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were doing with national socialism. He recognized that the future of democracy was at stake with the war and Welles shared many of the writer's thoughts and visions.

[Gorboduc]

Nice to learn that Russia had no territorial ambitions in Europe. /s