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Aldous Huxley on Technodictators

6m 4s

"If you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled." - Aldous Huxley

Episodes

  • Patty Hearst on Reasonable Doubt: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Patty Hearst on Reasonable Doubt

    S1 E50 - 6m 54s

    "I'm sorry, I‘m a coward. I didn’t want to die." - Patty Hearst in 1982 in the first interview she gave after getting out of prison. Lawrence Grobel explained how he became the lucky journalist to get the Patty Hearst interview for Playboy after she had served two years in prison before President Jimmy Carter commuted her sentence.

  • Tom Waits on Everything and Nothing: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Tom Waits on Everything and Nothing

    S1 E49 - 5m 18s

    "He’s a natural raconteur. A great one. You just get out of the way and let him do his thing, perform. If you can nudge the jokes along, so much the better." - Chris Roberts on interviewing Tom Waits.

  • Hunter S. Thompson on Outlaws: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Hunter S. Thompson on Outlaws

    S1 E48 - 5m 7s

    In the 1960s, Hunter S. Thompson spent more than a year living and drinking with members of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle club, riding up and down the California coast.

  • Dustin Hoffman in 1971 on Duplicity and Famosity: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Dustin Hoffman in 1971 on Duplicity and Famosity

    S1 E47 - 5m 43s

    "I did as much as I could do at that time in my life ... I tried as hard as I could and I couldn't do better" - Dustin Hoffman in 1971. Interview by Milton Hoffman from the Pacifica Radio Archives. We came across this rarely heard interview with Dustin Hoffman recorded in 1971.

  • Roger Ebert on Ego: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Roger Ebert on Ego

    S1 E46 - 5m 31s

    "I have innate confidence that I am right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose." - Roger Ebert in 1990. This episode contains excerpts of Lawrence Grobel's extended interviews with Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel in 1990. The famous duo worked side-by-side from 1975 until Siskel’s death in 1999, co-hosting the acclaimed show Siskel & Ebert.

  • Michael Jackson on Godliness: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Michael Jackson on Godliness

    S1 E45 - 6m 5s

    "My singing… i'll just say it simple as possible: it's just godly." - Michael Jackson in January 1980. Michael Jackson's rules: the interviewer had to ask his questions to 13-year old Janet Jackson who then relayed them to Michael.

  • Meryl Streep on Beauty: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Meryl Streep on Beauty

    S1 E44 - 5m 21s

    "It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's, really life and their pain ... It's my drug" - Meryl Streep, Interview by Christine Spines, 2008

  • Fidel Castro: the Lost Interview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Fidel Castro: the Lost Interview

    S1 E41 - 6m 43s

    "If this Revolution falls, what we will have here in Cuba is a hell. Hell itself." - Fidel Castro, Interview by Clark Hewitt Galloway. 1959, Havana

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