12 hours of audio interview between François Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock

I am a huge fan of Alfred Hitchcock, he is my favorite director in fact. Film Detail unearthed almost 12 hours of audio featuring François Truffaut interviewing Alfred Hitchcock in 1962. 12 full hours of Truffaut talking to Hitchcock about his entire life, both personal and professional. 

The article states that the original raw audio is from a 1962 interview that ended up as the source material for Truffaut’s book Hitchcock: The Definitive Study of Alfred Hitchcock.

There are three ways to listen: download the individual files streaming on the Hitchcock Wiki or on Soundcloud, or as a single zip file here. There areindividual links on both sites.

Here is the breakdown of the audio files:

Part 1: Childhood through to his early years in the film industry
Part 2: Mountain Eagle through to the end of the silent era
Part 3: Blackmail through to a discussion about American audiences
Part 4: Rich and Strange through to realism in films
Part 5: The 39 Steps through to plausibility in film and film critics
Part 6: Secret Agent and Sabotage
Part 7: Young and Innocent and The Lady Vanishes
Part 8: Final years in Britain through to his move to America
Part 9: Rebecca
Part 10: Discussion about Hollywood through to Notorious
Part 11: Mr and Mrs Smith through to Suspicion
Part 12: Saboteur through to Shadow of a Doubt
Part 13: Lifeboat through to Spellbound
Part 14: Notorious through to The Paradine Case
Part 15: Rope
Part 16: Rope and Under Capricorn
Part 17: Stage Fright through to Strangers on a Train
Part 18: Strangers on a Train through to I Confess
Part 19: Notorious through to a discussion about suspense
Part 20: Initial discussion about the The Birds through to Rear Window
Part 21: The Wrong Man through to Vertigo
Part 22: North by Northwest through to Psycho
Part 23: Psycho
Part 24: The Birds
Part 25: Psycho through to characterization in films

Each of the 25 audio files are just over 25 minutes, so get to listening!