Orson Welles - War of the worlds - 1938 - EAC + Flac

Orson Welles - The War of the worlds - October 30 1938







War of the worlds is the 19:th Centurys Radio Days most legendary and famous



radio theatre play...







The play was based on Science Fiction writer H.G Wells novel The war of the worlds



there earth was invaded by Marsians ouside London during the 18:th century...







The modification Welles and Co writer did was based on the idea that the invasion is going



to take place ouside Grovers Mill, New Jersey (USA) during the actual radio broadcast



of the play. The play was imitating the ways news was broadcasted those days....



It was aired on CBS coast to coast radio network on sunday october 30 1938...



Many listeners back then missed the announcing of it as a radio theatre play and



actually completely believed it was for real and that Marsians actually invaded the earth



in the neighbourhood of Grovers Mill, New Jersey







Here it is that legendary Old Radio Days theatre play :-)







Technical info:



Made with the following tools



Ubuntustudio linux 7.10



Wine 0.9.54



Exact audio copy 0.99 pb3 (Secure mode) logfile included



Flac 1.2.1







By the way :-)



This is the "Bakhåll" CD-edition of the play.



This edition is the play in its whole exactly as it was aired that



sunday evening 1938 :-)











Hope you anjoy this old time radio theatre







/Kulturnisse