BRIAN SIBLEY : his blog

I've always had a soft spot for the ubiquitous cartoon desert islands that, in my youth, were a staple icon of the cartoonists who drew ...

She was a woman working the male-dominated world of film animation and what she brought to it was a artistic sensibility that helped shape...

Maybe I'm losing my touch for picking quirky photos for my occasional caption competitions, certainly the most recent one garnered only ...

We've still twelve months to go to our quarter-century and silver celebrations, but today marks twenty-four years since David and I f...

Father's Day! It's odd how Father's Day and Mother's Day (even after many years) can be touched with a sense of sadness wh...

First published in 1951, The Illustrated Man was Ray Bradbury's third book and comprised a collection of short stories revealed in ...

This is the last of my Bradbury dramatisations – at least until tomorrow's broadcast of The Illustrated Man (BBC Radio , 14:30) – and...

This next Ray Bradbury play is one of my personal favourites because it is mysterious, metaphysical and profoundly moving. 'The Scythe...

Today's Ray Bradbury story comes from his first short story collection, Dark Carnival , published in 1947 and, like so many of Ray...

Forty years ago, today, I received the following letter (which many of my readers will have seen) from science-fantasy writer Ray Bradbury ,...