And speaking of listens, HOW could I have forgotten that seventy-two years ago yesterday–on October 30, 1938–Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater of the Air terrorized America with this splendid radio adaptation of War of the Worlds?
I first heard this in the 5th or 6th grade (I had a series of marvelous English teachers). Happily for us, there’s YouTube. Enjoy this first of six parts:
