2001 A Space Odyssey

Witness History

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🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In April 1968 Stanley Kubrick's ground-breaking sci-fi movie was released in the US. The film had mixed early reviews but went on to be considered one of the great classics of all-time. Keir Dullea played the starring role of astronaut David Bowman in the film. He tells Mike Lanchin about working with Kubrick and with the famous space computer H.A.L.

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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:06.8	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:11.8	telly we share what we've been watching
0:14.0	Cladie Aide.
0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:24.9	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Choosing what to
0:32.1	watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:36.5	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:41.5	telly we share what we've been watching.
0:43.7	Cladie Aide!
0:45.7	Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:48.2	Lovely.
0:49.0	Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:51.2	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:54.7	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds hello you're
1:00.2	listening to the witness podcast here on the BBC World Service history told by the people who were there.
1:06.3	I'm Mike Lanchin. And today we're traveling back in time to April 1968 and a groundbreaking science fiction movie.
1:20.5	Stanley Kubrick's 2001, a Space Odyssey.
1:25.0	Released in the US on April 3rd 1968 it combined powerful visual effects and
1:38.0	sound in place of dialogue stretching the limits of traditional cinematic storytelling.
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