
10/31/2021
Welles was only 23 years old when his Mercury Theater company decided to update H.G. Wells’s science fiction novel ‘The War of the Worlds’ for national radio. An announcer broke in to report that “Professor Farrell of the Mount Jenning Observatory” had detected explosions on the planet Mars! The radio listeners were informed that a large meteor had crashed into a farmer’s field in Grovers Mills, New Jersey. He had little idea of how legendary it would eventually become.
Orson Welles - War Of The Worlds - Radio Broadcast 1938 - Complete Broadcast.The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology serie...