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We Interrupt This Programme....

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Fifty years ago America trembled. Martians had landed in New Jersey. Over a million people listening to Orson Welles's radio dramatisation of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds didn't realise it was a play.

Johnny Apple talks to some of those who were behind the most bizarre event in the history of broadcasting, and others who have good reason never to forget that night.

BBC Manchester (R)

Contributors

Presenter:
Johnny Apple
Researcher:
Wendy Pilmer
Producer:
Julie Simmons

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