War of the Worlds: The Night That Terrified America
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“But Orson…what if it is too good…?”
See and hear the terrifyingly true tale of how Orson Welles’ unparalleled artistry panicked a nation. The infamous Mercury Theatre on the Air dramatization of the H.G. Wells alien-invasion classic, War of the Worlds, remains a masterclass lesson in the power of mass media. Join Associate Professor and Chair, Daniel H. Foster, Peabody Institute – on the 85th anniversary of the original broadcast – for a special Halloween edition of Hopkins at Home, exploring the Golden Age of radio drama, what lessons the past holds for our present and how silence, in an invisible medium, can be the most frightening sound effect of all.