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Halloween Spooktacular 2017 - Mercury Theater on the Air: 'The War of the Worlds'

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1938
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Let's wrap up this year's Spooktacular with what is possibly the most famous radio broadcast of all time: Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the Air players adaptation of the H.G. Wells tale The War of the Worlds. There's been plenty written over the years about the various levels of panic the broadcast set off but, in the end, there's no getting around the fact the program is still excellent radio

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. MercuryTheaterontheAirTheWaroftheWorlds

    · 51 min

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  1. Halloween Spooktacular 2017 - Mercury Theater on the Air: 'The War of the Worlds'

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