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Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

436. The Making of Games of Thrones (with James Hibberd)

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

David Barr Kirtley

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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So big thanks again to everyone who's contributed. We really appreciate it.

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All right, so now let's get to our show.

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Wired.com presents, The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

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And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

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Hello, and welcome to episode 436 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

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Our guest today is James Hibbard.

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He's an editor at large for Entertainment Weekly and was previously the TV editor at the

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Hollywood reporter and will be speaking with him today about his new book

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Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon about the making of the HBO series Game of Thrones.

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The book draws on eight set visits in over 50 new interviews, as well as

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hundreds of articles that James wrote about Game of Thrones during its eight-year run.

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And now here's our interview with James Hibbard.

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All right, so we're here with James Hibbard.

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Welcome to the show.

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Great to be here, David.

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So how big of a fantasy and science fiction fan were you before a game of Thrones?

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