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Hope & Stephen, your TAs for this course, take you on a comprehensive journey through the life and work of one of cinema's most important auteurs.

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R.I.P. to Henry Jaglom, author of MY LUNCHES WITH ORSON and director of SOMEONE TO LOVE (Welles's final screen performance), who passed away earlier this week at the age of 87:
September 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The Welles estate responds to the AI AMBERSONS news. Weak response, in our opinion, but given they've sold off Welles's voice for AI usage, it would seem hypocritical to go as hard as the man himself likely would.

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September 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This week, we welcome guest lecturer Samuel Dumas from The Dept. of Menial Humor to discuss Welles's 1934 short film, THE HEARTS OF AGE, its surrealist & expressionist influences, and Stephen's fabled bachelor party! List NOW wherever podcasts are sold!

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September 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Better late than never! Our latest episode is now LIVE! This class, we're discussing EVERYBODY'S SHAKESPEARE, The Bard, and the three plays covered here - THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, TWELFTH NIGHT, and JULIUS CAESAR!

Join us! Maybe learn a little something? apple.co/4oPjWFn
August 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
A bit belated in memoriam for Norman Eshley, one of the stars of Orson Welles's THE IMMORTAL STORY (1968), who passed away on August 2 at the age of 80. RIP.

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August 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This week, we're finally getting to The Work™️ as we discuss abolitionist John Brown, his rebellion, his glorious beard, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," and the unproduced Welles/Hill 'collaboration,' MARCHING SONG!

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August 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
We FINALLY got our boy to Ireland! 🇮🇪☘️🫏 We discuss his donkey cart adventures through Éire, his first forays into professional theater - including meeting Hilton Edwards & Micheál MacLiammóir and the Gate Theater production of JEW SÜSS - plus, the origins of Orson's love of cigars!

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July 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
We're back to school again today as we wrap up Orson's time at Todd, including his first production of JULIUS CAESAR and the death of his father, Dick Welles. Available NOW wherever you get your podcasts!

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July 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
We don't have an episode out this week, but get your fix and listen to our own @chewywalrus.bsky.social as he discusses David Lynch's 1980 classic THE ELEPHANT MAN with @bodiesofhorror.bsky.social - out now for your listening pleasure wherever podcasts are sold!
June 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
An extra credit assignment for the class: check out Hope's latest podcast endeavor - The Lanes Between, a Radio Fan Fic podcast - out TODAY wherever podcasts are sold!

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June 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Just in time for summer, we're packing Orson off to school! 🏫🎒👩‍🏫📏 Check out the first of our two episodes on Welles's time at the Todd School for Boys, available NOW wherever podcasts are sold!

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June 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Have you caught up with our latest episode yet? If not, buckle up to hear us discuss THE BIRTH OF A NATION, Malört, and arguably the most formative event in the life of young Orson, though the man himself would later say he had no 'Rosebuds.'

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June 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Bike lamps! Suffrage! Kenosha, Wisconsin - the birthplace of Orson Welles! All this (and the most obvious, sophomoric name joke ever) on this week's episode of Welles University, available NOW wherever podcasts are sold!

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May 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow... our first episode drops TOMORROW! Check it out wherever podcasts are sold!
May 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Just five days between today and The Man's 110th birthday... AND our first episode! Look for it wherever podcasts are sold!
May 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Ten days until Orson's 110th birthday AND our inaugural episode! GET HYPED!
April 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM