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War of the Worlds – Note: Rebroadcast!
By Ellen Horne
November 4, 2008
In honor of the 70th anniversary of the classic Orson Welles radio play about martians invading New Jersey, Radio Lab asks: why did people believe it was really happening? And why has this stunt continued to fool people since? From Santiago, Chile to Buffalo, New York to a particularly disastrous evening in Quito, Ecuador. NOTE: This is a rebroadcast of the Season 4 War of the Worlds episode, taped live at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul. ALSO NOTE: 5 brand-spanking-new hour long Radio Lab episodes will begin next podcast, so stay tuned, err…rather, keep downloading!
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Comments
Comment from Jonathan
Date: November 5, 2008, 5:31 pm
Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!!! Ever since iTunes got corrupted and I had to resubscribe to the podcast I’ve been missing this show. For some reason it doesn’t appear as an available back issue for download. Not sure why, since that’s how I got it the first time, and I was able to get most of the other episodes, but this one I could never get back.
Thanks again. I love this episode.
Comment from Jonathan
Date: November 5, 2008, 5:37 pm
Hmmmm, it actually looks like none of the season 4 episodes are available in the podcast. Is that on purpose?
Comment from Angie
Date: November 6, 2008, 3:32 pm
yay for the new season! but … why are seasons only 5 episodes?
And… I have ideas for your show. Things pop up and I think, “Radiolab should totally do a show about that!” How do I send you the ideas?
Comment from Micah
Date: November 8, 2008, 1:48 pm
Thanks for marking the rebroadcasts in the title!
Comment from Mike
Date: November 9, 2008, 4:01 am
I love you guys! Keep ‘em coming
Comment from Angus McCarthy
Date: November 13, 2008, 12:28 pm
Wonderful, and truly fascinating!
Comment from wellesno1fan
Date: November 13, 2008, 8:01 pm
Hey was this episode faked… a la War of the Worlds?
some of the live audience sounds sounded… canned…
Comment from Anonymous
Date: December 1, 2008, 1:35 pm
this is okay
Comment from Pat
Date: December 18, 2008, 5:14 pm
I discovered Radiolab on my local NPR channel WBEZ Chicago about one month ago. Great stuff! I was so impressed with your shows that I donated money to WNYC!
Keep up the good work!
Comment from cameron
Date: December 28, 2008, 11:26 am
Hey great show, changed my life and all, but…Robert told us there was no reporter guy in the HG Wells book and that the OW version came to include this.. but…
There WAS a reporter character in the HG Wells novel. He was ‘the Journalist.’ And it was from this character that the book was written in.
Also, the original War Of The Worlds was not a novel, but a series of short stories, written like a news flash opver a period of a months in I believe, (although I may be wrong), the London Evening Standard a few years before the novel was published in 1898.
This is, I believe where OW got the idea for a radio play in flash sequences.
Anyway, You guys rule. What you do is simply amazing.
Comment from sean
Date: February 8, 2009, 7:32 am
i love radiolab.
however, i must take issue with this episode. or, more to the point, one single statement.
‘thats the DISCO version of WAR OF THE WORLDS’
in reference to JEFF WAYNE’S MUSICAL VERSION OF WAR OF THE WORLDS
shame on you!
to dismiss this work in such a snotty way.
i suggest you (and your listeners) give this work another (or first) listen…i think youll be surprised.
this is probably the best adaptation of WAR OF THE WORLDS ever done…
at once, the most faithful, and most original.
if you havent heard it. get it! turn out the lights. relax. and let the story. the music. the voice of SIR RICHARD BURTON take you away….
‘the disco version of war of the worlds’ shame on you.
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