Someone was kind enough to send me a tape of something they
grabbed off the BBC: a rebroadcast of a 1958 interview of
Chandler by Fleming. It's more of a discussion between the
two, and in the first few minutes I listened to last night
Fleming said some very amusing things about his Bond
books.
This is apparently the only known recording of Chandler's
voice. I thought he'd had a mid-Atlantic accent, perhaps a
little affected and pretentious, but it sounds pretty flat
and mid-Western to me. Fleming sounds a bit like Peter
O'Toole. There are some weird sounds that must be Chandler
sucking on his pipe, or else someone has a bad case of the
wheezes.
The interview was done in England when Chandler was over
there promoting PLAYBACK. This is a rare little gem, and I'll
try to get it digitized and up somewhere in MP3 format so
that everyone can hear it.
Bill
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