October 30th

On this day–30th October 1938– the famous “The War of the Worlds” radio-drama was played

The play was based on the book H. G Wells novel with the same title and Orson Welles was the director and narrator. The show was about the invasion of the US by alien and it started with a row of news bulletin to suggest the invasion. The radio-drama became famous because it allegedly caused mass panic, which have later been disputed because of its rather low amount of listeners. It did, however, create a huge news media coverage. Problems was also created for the radio-station on the eve of the show due to large crowds and police requesting the show to be interrupted. Orson Wells also received over 2000 letters in the aftermath of the radio-drama, and it helped to future his career. 

Happy Halloween to all our readers, don't panic!

Orson Welles explaining that no one knew that the broadcast would cause chaos