Friday, August 17, 2018

The Fred Zinnemann report

My podcast listening, as I've mentioned on a bunch of occasions, is largely the sort of international broadcaster that used to be on short-wave radio back when that was the way to broadcast rather than the internet. Polish Radio's half-hour broadcast for Wednesday included this story on the famous Hollywood director Fred Zinnemann:

Polish town remembers US film director Fred Zinnemann

Few people know that US film director Fred Zinnemann, whose credits include such movies as High Noon and From Here to Eternity, was born in Poland – in the south-eastern town of Rzeszów.


Unfortunately, Polish radio doesn't include a transcript of the individual stories the way that Radio Prague's website does, so you're going to have to listen to the report. There's a link at the top to do streaming audio, and if you want to download the MP3, that's available directly here (~3.9MB, a little over 4 minutes).


I couldn't find any link to the actual film festival. If you're interested in more stories from Poland, Radio Poland's English-language site is here, and there's a link to the podcasts in the top right.

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