Great Stories about Great Storytellers
GREAT STORIES about GREAT STORYTELLERS shares insights into storytellers whose names you no doubt recognize—names like Edgar Allen Poe, Steven Spielberg John Grisham and Walt Disney—but reveals the backstories you probably never heard about them. The podcast features different kinds of storytellers—authors, directors, playwrights and even a poet or two. In short 10-15 minutes episodes, this fun and sometimes funny podcast features anecdotes and tidbits about storytellers, with each episode spotlighting a modern storyteller like Tom Clancy or a classical name like Charles Dickens, but in a very different light.
Great Stories about Great Storytellers
The Amazing Future World Imagined by Gene Roddenberry
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Randy Overbeck
In this episode you'll learn
- how Gene Roddenberry went from LAPD cop to TV screenwriter
- how Roddenberry progressed from writing episodes on successful Westerns and cop series to imagining the most successful sci-fi concept of all time
- how Star Trek had a rough time getting launched and almost died after three years
- about the remarkable journey Roddenberry and Star Trek took going from being cancelled to the most successful property owned by Paramount
Check out the backstories you never knew about the storytellers you love!