But the lesson of the Orson Welles “Martian invasion” program ... One terrified farmer, said "War of the Worlds" historian Douglas Forrester, filled up at a gas station, then drove away ...

Up and coming actor/director/producer Orson Welles took advantage of the hype on October 30, 1938, when he broadcast H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds on his weekly radio drama program.

Martian fighting machines began making their way across Western Europe and the countries of Europe combined forces to resist them. With aspects taken from ‘The War of the Worlds’ by H.G. Wells ...

To quote its author no one would have believed that 130 years since The War of The Worlds was published ... they’re keen to come on board our Martian adventure. “HG Wells’ story is about ...

HG Wells’ iconic sci-fi story about the battle to save Earth from a Martian invasion. Read by Michael Bertenshaw. Produced by Martha Littlehailes.

Try surviving a Martian invasion only to be captured ... by H.G. Wells in his pioneering sci-fi thriller ‘The War of the Worlds’, which was then adapted by Jeff Wayne in his 1978 prog sci ...

A. Brad Schwartz is the author of Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he cowrote a 2013 episode of the PBS ...