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May 6, 2015 · May 6, 2015. Orson Welles (arms raised) rehearses his radio depiction of H.G. Wells' classic, The War of the Worlds. The broadcast, which aired on October 30, 1938, and claimed that...
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- A. Brad Schwartz
"The War of the Worlds" was a Halloween episode of the radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed and narrated by Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1898) that was performed and broadcast live at 8 pm ET on October 30, 1938, over the CBS Radio Network.
- Orson Welles
- John Houseman, Orson Welles
- October 30, 1938, 8 –, 9 pm ET
Oct 30, 2013 · Inside ‘The War of the Worlds’ Radio Broadcast. Orson Welles' radio drama is the most famous broadcast in radio history. Updated: June 1, 2023 | Original: October 30, 2013. As the...
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Oct 31, 2018 · Orson Welles' Oct. 30, 1938 broadcast of "War of the Worlds," based on the English author H.G. Wells tale of a Martian invasion, startled many listeners who thought Martians were really...
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Feb 10, 2023 · War of The Worlds: The Most Infamous Radio Broadcast in History. Amy Irvine. 10 Feb 2023. Photo of Orson Welles meeting with reporters in an effort to explain that no one connected with the War of the Worlds radio broadcast had any idea the show would cause panic. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Acme News Photos / Public Domain.
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The original broadcast of Orson Welles's production of War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. This was the narrative of perhaps the most infamous radio broadcast ever: Orson Welles’s Halloween adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel, War of the Worlds , which aired for the first time 80 years ago.
