Charlotte's Web (Ep. 50)

It’s episode 50! This is crazy! In this milestone episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss the stone-cold children’s classic Charlotte’s Web!

For this episode, we read and watched:

• E.B. White’s original 1952 novel. Read it on iBooks or Amazon.
• The 1973 Hanna-Barbera animated musical, directed by Charles A. Nichols and Iwao Takamoto, written by Earl Hamner Jr., and starring Henry Gibson, Debbie Reynolds, and Paul Lynde. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
• The 2006 live action movie, directed by Gary Winick, written by Susannah Grant and Karey Kirkpatrick, and starring Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi, and Sam Shepard. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.

Footnotes:

• E.B. White’s “A book is a sneeze” from Letters of Note
• John Hodgman, fellow podcaster and peer, of Judge John Hodgman
• “How to Succeed in Animation Chapter 28: A Tangled Web” by Gene Deitch
• “There Must Be Something More” from the 1973 Charlotte’s Web
• Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries and fellow Boston podcast Every Lady Needs a Hobby
• Actor Kevin Anderson’s IMDb bio

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