Episode 5 - Halloween Special: The Martian Invasion of 1938

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Bunkum and Ballyhoo

Patrick W. Reed

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5 days ago

A podcast about bullsh*t - join your host, author and professional wrestling historian Patrick W. Reed, as he takes a look back at the lives and lies of some of history's greatest showmen, con artists, grifters, hustlers and bullsh*tters of all kinds, from pro-wrestling to politics, and from sideshows to pseudoscience.

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Episode 5 - Halloween Special: The Martian Invasion of 1938

Bunkum and Ballyhoo

15 minutes 37 seconds

1 year ago

Episode 5 - Halloween Special: The Martian Invasion of 1938

Episode 5 is a spooktacular Halloween special looking at Orson Welles' infamous Halloween 1938 radio production of War Of The Worlds, and the stories of mass panic and chaos when the American public believed that the Martians really were coming - or did they?
Audio Sources:
War Of The Worlds by Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre On The Air
Charles C. Shaw interviews Orson Welles and H.G. Wells, 1940

Selected Sources:
The Invasion From Mars by Hadley Cantril
Orson Welles: The Road To Xanadu by Simon Callow