Posted June 21, 2007 by The Common Cold
War Of The Worlds
by Orson Welles
, , radio drama, science fiction

The Common Cold says: Oh the things I find poking around at Internet Archive. Here is the classic 1938 radio show of Orson Welles' dramatic reading of H.G. Wells' groundbreaking sci-fi novel. When orginally broadcast, many listeners mistook this piece for an actual news broadcast and panicked. It is a great listen, a window into pre-war culture and the lost art of live radio drama.
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