HOME | BOOKS | JEAN SHEPHERD | MOVIES | OLD TIME RADIO AUDIO CD | OLD TIME RADIO mp3 CD ROM | OLD TIME RADIO mp3 DVD ROM THE RAY BRADBURY COLLECTION Old Time Radio - CD-ROM 45 mp3 45 mp3 Radio shows and readings from: ABC Radio Workshop CBS Radio Workshop Dimension X Escape General Mills Radio Theater NBC Short Stories Radio City Workshop Suspense Vanishing Point X-Minus One Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950), Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th century American writers of speculative fiction. Bradbury's popularity has been increased by more than 20 filmed dramatizations of his works. Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, to a Swedish immigrant mother and a father who was a power and telephone lineman. His paternal grandfather and great-grandfather were newspaper publishers. Bradbury was a reader and writer throughout his youth, spending much time in the Carnegie library in Waukegan, Illinois. He used this library as a setting for much of his novel Something Wicked This Way Comes, and depicted Waukegan as "Green Town" in some of his other semi-autobiographical novels—Dandelion Wine, Farewell Summer—as well as in many of his short stories. He attributes his lifelong habit of writing every day to an incident in 1932 when a carnival entertainer, Mr. Electrico, touched him on the nose with an electrified sword, made his hair stand on end, and shouted, "Live forever!" It was from then that Bradbury wanted to live forever and decided his career as an author in order to do what he was told: live forever. It was at that age that Bradbury first started to do magic. Magic was his first great love. If he had not discovered writing, he would have become a magician. The Bradbury family lived in Tucson, Arizona, in 1926–27 and 1932–33 as his father pursued employment, each time returning to Waukegan, but eventually settled in Los Angeles in 1934, when Ray was thirteen. Bradbury graduated from the Los Angeles High School in 1938 but did not attend college. Instead, he sold newspapers at the corner of South Norton Avenue and Olympic Boulevard. In regard to his education, Bradbury said: "Libraries raised me. I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years." Having been influenced by science fiction heroes like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, he began to publish science fiction stories in fanzines in 1938. Bradbury was invited by Forrest J Ackerman to attend the now legendary Los Angeles Science Fiction Society, which at the time met at Clifton’s Cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles. This was where he met the writers Robert A. Heinlein, Emil Petaja, Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, and Jack Williamson. His first published story was "Hollerbochen's Dilemma", which appeared in the fan magazine Imagination! in January, 1938. Launching his own fanzine in 1939, titled Futuria Fantasia, he wrote most of its four issues, each limited to under 100 copies. Between 1940 and 1947, he was a contributor to Rob Wagner's film magazine, Script. Bradbury's first paid piece, "Pendulum", written with Henry Hasse, was published in the pulp magazine Super Science Stories in November 1941, for which he earned $15. He became a full-time writer by the end of 1942. His first book, Dark Carnival, a collection of short works, was published in 1947 by Arkham House, a firm owned by writer August Derleth. A chance encounter in a Los Angeles bookstore with the British expatriate writer Christopher Isherwood gave Bradbury the opportunity to put The Martian Chronicles into the hands of a respected critic. Isherwood's glowing review followed and substantially boosted Bradbury's career. Ray Bradbury married Marguerite McClure (1922–2003) in 1947, and they had four daughters. To date, Bradbury has never obtained a driver license. EPISODES LIST 440518 092 Donovans Brain Part 1-Orson Welles 440525 093 Donovans Brain Part 2-Orson Welles ABC Radio Workshop Mars Is Heaven CBS Radio Workshop - Season of Disbelief Dimension X 50-05-27 0008 To the Future Dimension X 50-06-17 0011 There Will Come Soft Rains Dimension X 50-07-07 0014 Mars Is Heaven Dimension X 50-08-18 0020 The Martian Chronicles Dimension X 50-09-29 0026 And the Moon Be Still As Bright.MP Dimension X 51-01-07 0033 Mars Is Heaven Dimension X 51-07-19 0040 The Dwellers In Silence Dimension X 51-08-09 0043 The Veldt Dimension X 51-08-30 0046 Marionettes, Inc. Dimension X 51-09-15 0048 Kaleidoscope Escape 500602 - Mars Is Heaven Escape 510725 - The Earthmen Escape 531004 - Zero Hour General Mills Radio Theater (AFRTS) The Whole Town's Sleepin General Mills Radio Theater AFRTS Zero Hour NBC Short Story 520104 (26) The Rocket Radio City Workshop 491016 Duet, Two Stories - The Lake Radio City Workshop 491030 The Wind Ray Bradbury - Dark They Were Golden Eyed Ray Bradbury - Kaleidoscope Ray Bradbury - Night Call, Collect Ray Bradbury - The Fox And The Forest Ray Bradbury - The Happiness Machine Ray Bradbury - The Man Ray Bradbury - The Sound Of Thunder Ray Bradbury - There Was An Old Woman Suspense ep271 471113 And So Died Riabouchinska Suspense ep298 480715 The Summer Night Suspense ep395 500921 The Crowd Suspense ep592 550405 Zero Hour Suspense ep606 550712 Kaleidoscope Suspense ep751 580518 Zero Hour Suspense ep834 600103 Zero Hour Vanishing Point 841102 The Playground X-Minus One 55-04-22 Audition Show And the Moon Be Still as. X-Minus One 55-05-08 003 Mars Is Heaven X-Minus One 55-08-04 012 The Veldt X-Minus One 55-11-10 024 Dewllers In Silence X-Minus One 55-11-23 026 Zero Hour X-Minus One 55-12-14 029 To the Future X-Minus One 55-12-21 030 Marionettes, Inc. FULL REFUND IF NOT SATISFIED THE FINE PRINT - PUBLIC DOMAIN MATERIAL Public domain work may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and in any way, including by methods that have not yet been invented or conceived. These recordings are sold for private home listening and use only. These public domains recordings were made before 1972 and are in compliance with copyright regulations. They are listed in accordance with current policies concerning selling Public Domain materials. Works Registered or First Published in the U.S. Date of Publication Conditions Copyright Term Before 1923 None None. 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