The War of the Worlds, Part A: The Panic Broadcast

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09/08/13 • 62 min

Sometimes life conspires to keep us from sitting at a computer to talk about HG Wells' The War of the Worlds. To hold you over, here is the famous 1938 radio drama that sent a not-zero number of people screaming into the night. Think of it as homework.

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