Night Call Collect - Ray Bradbury
Thomas Paine Podcast
mike moore
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Ray Bradbury. Join me for the next 30 minutes on a tour through time and space. |
| 0:10.0 | Come along to the far future. Follow me into a strange past. |
| 0:14.0 | The stories that almost could be or might have been. |
| 0:18.0 | Real or unreal, this is Bradbury 13. |
| 0:30.0 | He sat silently. He sat a man eight years old. |
| 0:35.0 | He sat in an empty house on an empty street in an empty town on the empty planet Mars. |
| 0:44.0 | He sat as he had sat for 60 years waiting outside the Martian Wind Rage shaking the telephone poles and causing the wires to sing in chorus. |
| 0:58.0 | Inside on the table in front of him, lay a telephone that had not run for a long, long time until now. |
| 1:10.0 | Ray Bradbury's night call, collect. |
| 1:16.0 | The wind, that infernal wind never stops, never leaves me a night's peace, blowing through the wires all over town. |
| 1:32.0 | It can't be. It's impossible. No, no, I'm alone in an empty house on an empty planet. |
| 1:54.0 | No! |
| 1:57.0 | Bart, are you there? |
| 2:00.0 | Bart, no way. Well, yeah, that's me. |
| 2:03.0 | Bart, what? Bart? |
| 2:06.0 | Bart, no, it can't be. It can't be. There is done. |
| 2:13.0 | No, not again. It's not possible. Who's there? |
| 2:24.0 | Yes, yes. This is Martin. |
| 2:28.0 | Well, well. Do you know who this is? |
| 2:33.0 | What do you mean? |
| 2:36.0 | The first call I've had in lifetime when you want to play games? |
| 2:40.0 | I'm sorry, I'm stupid of me. Of course you wouldn't recognize your own voice on the telephone. |
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