 From Radio World: Nearly 80 years ago, Orson Welles took to the airwaves of radio and brought the story of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds” to life. The production from Welles and the Mercury Theater was so well done that it caused a minor panic among some listeners who thought an actual alien invasion was occurring. That was the power, and the popularity, of audio drama at that time. To this day, that remains the seminal instance of audio drama, but a group of radio and web-based stations across the world are hoping to reintroduce people to the new form of audio drama with the third annual, world-wide Audio Drama Day on October 30th. Details from Radio World.
Read about the Alabama Historical Radio Society‘s work to preserve radio history in their October newsletter. |
