“I attacked the textbooks rather than mastered them.”

In the first part of our first-ever two-part episode, we discuss Welles’s early years at the Todd School in Woodstock, Illinois, his burgeoning relationship with eventual headmaster Roger Hill, and how Orson spent his summer vacations.

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• @wellesupod on Bluesky and YouTube
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