Audioscribble Presents The War of The Worlds

Listen to the Original 1938 Broadcast of Orson Welles's The War of the Worlds!

Introduced by Richard Shannon: Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts , radio drama director, and lecturer at Warwick University and Goldsmiths, University London.

Orson Welles’s production of HG Wells’s classic has gone down in the collective consciousness as one of the most influential pieces of drama ever made, both through its innovative script and for its legendary effect on the American public. What other piece of fiction can claim to have made its listeners flee their homes in panic?

Commanding the airwaves with supreme skill and infectious glee, Orson Welles’s production is still as gripping today as it was almost 80 years ago.

With original live music from master of sound, Odinn Orn Hilmarsson.