On Friday, the 25th. of February, 1977, Fritz Leiber was in the Los Angeles area preparing for a book-signing/autograph party the next afternoon at A Change of Hobbit SF Book Store in Westwood. As many of the authors of that time also did, he stopped in at radio station KPFK in North Hollywood to be interviewed, and to do a reading on the Hour 25 Science Fiction Radio Program, hosted by Mike Hodel, and his co-host Mitchell Harding.

I was lucky enough to catch the interview and reading, and to tape it also; and the audio tapes have survived over 33 years in storage to become the digital audio files you are about to enjoy.

NOTE: If you do a normal click on the MP3 file links in this post, WordPress will play them for you.

If you’d like to download and save the files for yourself, and you are using a Mac, I believe that would be Ctrl + Click to bring up the right click menu, and use the “Download Linked File” function to save the MP3 files to your hard drive. I don’t own a Mac so please correct me if I am wrong!

Fritz Leiber on Hour 25 SF Radio 25-Feb-1977 Part1 North Hollywood California

Fritz Leiber on Hour 25 SF Radio 25-Feb-1977 Part2 North Hollywood California

There are many (248!) Fritz Leiber related images in the newly opened Fritz Leiber CthulhuWho1 Flickr Collection (including a couple A Change of Hobbit photos on 26-February-1977 when Fritz was there) at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157625066410282/

The next post is also part of Fritz Leiber’s appearance on Hour 25, but since it is a reading, it deserved its own post.