Tonight for our Halloween show we’ve got something pretty cool lined up!
Yesterday marked the 70th anniversary of Orson Welles‘ infamous “War of the Worlds” broadcast. For those of you actually raised by Martians, this broadcast was a radio-show put on by Welles’ “Mercury Theater on the Air”. It was an adaptation of H. G. Wells (no relation) science fiction classic of Martian invasion of the same name. Turning the original story on its ear, Welles had the Martians attack the little-known unincorporated New Jersey area of Grover’s Mill instead of the world famous British capital of London. (Perhaps the Martians were short on cattle for mutilating.) Orson Welles staged the broadcast to sound like an actual newscast to add dramatic tension to the story.Fright Night Remembered: the 70th Anniversary of the War of the Worlds Broadcast, Oct 2008
You should read the whole article.
So starting at 9:00 PM we will air “War of the Worlds” and following that at 10:00 PM we will air this weeks Wyatt’s Favorite Radio.
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