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Keith ConradOct 31 · News Sidequest

That grinning, glowing, globular invader of your living room is an inhabitant of the pumpkin patch, and if your doorbell rings and nobody's there, that was no Martian. It's Halloween.

 
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The War of the Worlds by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air

Bonus Episode

Keith Conrad
Oct 31
 
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On the eve of Halloween in 1938, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the Air convinced America that Martians had landed and were actively destroying the planet.

Auditory Anthology presents the complete, legendary radio drama of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds. Listen as this groundbreaking performance unfolds in real-time, delivered with such convincing realism that it sparked mass panic across the United States.

Experience the chilling, masterfully-told tale of alien invasion as it was meant to be heard—as a series of escalating news bulletins and terrified live reports that change from a curious scientific anomaly to a horrifying global crisis in under an hour.

 
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