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;) Thanks for these very informative replies since I'd be reluctant to pay $30 for the audio-tapes unless I knew they contained some different material from the book version, either first or second edition.

Jaimie,

Thanks for the listings. But do the audio-tape versions of THIS IS ORSON WELLES contain any new material that is not in the book?

i don't think the information in the TIOW audio tapes is vastly different from the book, no, but it's quite a good offering, and how can you resist hearing it from the mouth of the man himself? hearing welles mumbling around his cigar, ice in glasses clinging, pouring drinks, laughing, hearing a pissed off mexican waiter complain about wanting his table free. it's like you are there.

Evening, all!

I wonder if anyone knows whether or not "This Is Orson Welles" ever made the transition to CD? I've got the cassettes but I'm almost afraid to play them now that my car's cassette player has demonstrated a yen for audio tape. CDs are MUCH easier to transfer onto one's iPod too.

I can find no sign of such a release on Amazon but they've been wrong before.

Hopefully,

K

I've never seen a cd release, so I'd suggest recording your cassettes directly on your computer, converting them to mp3 (or whichever file type you like - recently m4a has been my favourite) and dumping those onto your ipod.

Bugger.

Seems like someone should've jumped on this by now, doesn't it? Unlike most books on tape, this one would actually be the preferred way of exposure to the original material. Ah well.

More than THREE HOURS of taped conversations between Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich have been posted on YouTube. (Do not be surprised if Da Capo Press, which published This Is Orson Welles, call for its removal).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LnuQZ6VD_Y#t=14

It has been pointed out that the interviews have been available for sometime for DOWNLOAD at archive.org
https://archive.org/details/InterviewsWithOrsonWelles

Ohh, the two links are the same thing? I downloaded the archive MP3s and the audio off the YouTube file, not realising they were the same! Thanks for clearing that up.