Orson Welles and H.G. Wells Full Interview. 

"You aren't quite serious in America yet. You haven't got the war right under your chins. And the consequence is you can still play with ideas of terror and conflict." Chilling words from Mr. H.G. Wells, then and now.

thanks for uploading, heard it before but a long time ago, brilliant people talking, this you listen to

Just completed H G Wells' multiple World History series and it's fantastic!

This is one meeting in History, i would only wish to have been there, truly a moment in time.

Never heard the full interview before! Thank you for sharing this.

Terrific find Rodrigo. Gracias. THANKS, two creative visionary minds..

Brilliant conversation. Heard an edited version in the past, but this was compelling from beginning to end.

Orson Welles didn't need Harvard. But Harvard needed Orson Welles.

What a wonderful combination.two great creative minds .

Rather cute to hear 25-year-old Welles, who in later interviews is usually so commanding, confident, and persuasive with his bearing, act rather sheepish and nervous here, no doubt due to his being in the company of one of England's all-time greatest literary minds. It's a testament to Welle's own starling genius, already on full display at this tender age, that a personage no less brilliantly perceptive than H.G. Wells could see in a young man nearly fifty years his junior the raw intellect, professional competence, and artistic vision of someone many decades older.

This was definitely a great meeting of the minds in San Antonio in 1940. H.G. Wells had long been a visionary in his writings and now Orson Welles was becoming one of America's greatest talents. I know that Wells had been a socialist, but he came to find faults with the system, especially when he saw what Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were doing with national socialism. He recognized that the future of democracy was at stake with the war and Welles shared many of the writer's thoughts and visions.

Thank you for uploading

great interview but I can't get over the fact that Wells was in San Antonio for the United States Brewers Association

Thanks a lot!

Incredible analysis of political affairs from both men which resonates still today

I can't find this interview on iTunes

The son of Ellen Terry whom H.G. Wells referred to was Gordon Craig.

Wells was 74; Welles was 25.

Mentioned by Alan Dean Foster in his interview with the guys form Midnight's Edge :-)

Wow, what a fkin prediction, he said there would be a renaissance after the war, wow. ⚡️⚡️⚡️

One of the most interesting things I've ever heard.

Touche away!

This was an interesting exchange, but, unlike others here, I have little praise for H. G. Wells. Yes, he wrote some interesting novels, but as a man he was less than admirable. This exchange occurred in 1940. In 1944 Wells published a book called "Crux Ansata" ("Broken Cross"). In it he urged the Allies to bomb Rome to smithereens. To defeat the Fascist regime? Not so much. The main point of the book was that Rome should be destroyed so that the Catholic Church would be destroyed. Wells hated Christianity in general and the Catholic Church especially. He was a good example of a vile man who could write entertaining stories.

Nice to learn that Russia had no territorial ambitions in Europe. /s

Too apologetic toward the USSR.