Following on from his newspaper column in the New York Post, Orson Welles offered a weekly political radio broadcast. Here, he talks about Operation Crossroads. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads
From http://www.archive.org/details/1946OrsonWellesCommentaries
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The famous Mercury Theatre on the Air production which was broadcast on October 30th , 1938.
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The famous Mercury Theatre on the Air production which was broadcast on October 30th , 1938.
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I spotted other Huffduffers linking to Radiolab and it reminded me of this episode from March 2008. War of the Worlds is one of my all time favourite stories, and I always remember listening to the spoof radio broadcast and thinking how clever it was. So I was very pleased to see this:
"An examination of the power of mass media to create panic. In Radio Lab’s very first live hour, we take a deep dive into one of the most controversial moments in broadcasting history - Orson Welles’ 1938 radio play about Martians invading New Jersey. And we ask: Why did it fool people then? And why has it continued to fool people since? From Santiago, Chile to Buffalo, New York to a particularly disastrous evening in Quito, Ecuador."