The War of the Worlds, the 17th episode of the radio drama series The Mercury Theatre on the Air, was performed on a Sunday night in October 1938. It aired over the CBS Radio Network. Directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles, the radio play was an adaptation of H. G. Wells’s 1898 novel The War of… Continue reading “Fake News” ruled the airwaves on the night of October 30, 1938. Here’s a recording of the broadcast.