I was just looking through a box of old cassettes I had stored in the attic, and peering at the faded pencil inscription on one of them I saw 'Michael Moorcock Interview'. What's this, I thought?
It turns out to be a programme taped off the radio (BBC Radio 1 I'm sure) and it must be from around 1983 because there's an interview with Debbie Harry about Videodrome on it. The programme itself also includes interviews with J G Ballard and Brian Aldiss and is about sf in general.
I have no idea who the interviewer/presenter is but the links are pretty embarrassing (he talks about 'sci-fi' a lot and claims that 'if you've ever read a science fiction anthology it was probably edited by Brian Aldiss') :roll:
The interview with Mike is very short (about 5 minutes) and he sounds in good humour, although there's nothing at all profound in it. He talks about reading Alfred Bester and thinking all written sf was like that, also about Jerry Cornelius and The Final Programme film and how bad most sf cinema is. The interview ends with him trying to find words to describe what he thinks of Star Wars. :P
I'd completely forgotten I ever recorded this and found it a nice blast from the past from when I was first getting into Mike's work. Shame the interview wasn't longer or better.
Do you remember the interview Mike?
It turns out to be a programme taped off the radio (BBC Radio 1 I'm sure) and it must be from around 1983 because there's an interview with Debbie Harry about Videodrome on it. The programme itself also includes interviews with J G Ballard and Brian Aldiss and is about sf in general.
I have no idea who the interviewer/presenter is but the links are pretty embarrassing (he talks about 'sci-fi' a lot and claims that 'if you've ever read a science fiction anthology it was probably edited by Brian Aldiss') :roll:
The interview with Mike is very short (about 5 minutes) and he sounds in good humour, although there's nothing at all profound in it. He talks about reading Alfred Bester and thinking all written sf was like that, also about Jerry Cornelius and The Final Programme film and how bad most sf cinema is. The interview ends with him trying to find words to describe what he thinks of Star Wars. :P
I'd completely forgotten I ever recorded this and found it a nice blast from the past from when I was first getting into Mike's work. Shame the interview wasn't longer or better.
Do you remember the interview Mike?
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