The first in a new three-part series exploring three moments in history when the British have been swept with a wave of hysteria, gripped by a moral panic or frozen with terror. 1: Panic in the Streets. Twelve years before the infamous Warofthe Worlds broadcast put America into full scale panic, we had our very own broadcasting scare. On 16 January 1926, a radio talk by Father Ronald Knox caused havoc around the country as listeners became convinced that a revolution had broken out. Joanna Bourke tells the story of a very British panic. The readers are Nigel Anthony and Sean Barrett. Producer Kate mcall