Science fiction visionary Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90. He seized the world’s imagination with his best-known book “2001: A Space Odyssey” and visions of extra-terrestrial civilisations. Drawn to Sri Lanka in 1956 by scuba diving, which he said was as near as he could get to the weightlessness of space, he lived in an “electronic cottage” from which he communicated with the world using computers and radios. Clarke, born in Minehead, Somerset, on December 16, 1917 first attracted attention after the Second World War when he wrote an article predicting satellites would make global broadcasts a reality - years ahead of their time.
In 1985, Jonathan Marks visited Clarke in Sri Lanka, and interviewed him for the Media Network radio programme. You can listen to the interview here in Windows Media format, or here in MP3 format via RNW’s Historical Audio Archive.
