# Inside Burn the Water: Billy Ray’s Bold Leap Into Dystopian Fiction Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/film-festival-radio-4629941/inside-burn-the-water-billy-ray-s-bold-leap-into-dystopian-fiction Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/film-festival-radio-4629941/inside-burn-the-water-billy-ray-s-bold-leap-into-dystopian-fiction.md Podcast: [Film Festival Radio](https://stenobird.com/podcast/film-festival-radio-4629941) Published: 2026-04-14T03:42:00+00:00 Episode link: https://bleav.com/shows/film-festival-radio/episodes/inside-burn-the-water-billy-rays-bold-leap-into-dystopian-fiction/ Audio file: https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1385/injector.simplecastaudio.com/e5c83442-4f76-42e1-9ad6-8f51ff2b598c/episodes/a40a39e7-eb8a-47a9-8d14-4619e3292d00/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=e5c83442-4f76-42e1-9ad6-8f51ff2b598c&awEpisodeId=a40a39e7-eb8a-47a9-8d14-4619e3292d00&feed=PO1R8iLv Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/film-festival-radio-4629941/episodes/inside-burn-the-water-billy-ray-s-bold-leap-into-dystopian-fiction Duration seconds: 1005 ## Resource Oscar-nominated screenwriter, now first-time author Billy Ray, chats about his new author BURN THE WATER. Billy is an award-winning screenwriter best-known for his work as the screenwriter behind The Hunger Games, Captain Phillips and others. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/film-festival-radio-4629941/episodes/inside-burn-the-water-billy-ray-s-bold-leap-into-dystopian-fiction/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/film-festival-radio-4629941/inside-burn-the-water-billy-ray-s-bold-leap-into-dystopian-fiction.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.