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Subject: War of the Worlds
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shadow27 31.10.13 - 11:26am
Have you ever listened to the original broadcast of this radio play by Orson Welles? * +

shadow27 31.10.13 - 11:32am
It's the anniversary of the 1938 broadcast tonight, have a listen and take your mind back. The reasons that people found it so believable are numerous, but mainly because many listeners had been tuned into a more popular radio program that had become boring. Therefore many never heard the introduction itself stating that it was a radio play. * +

bozzalad 31.10.13 - 11:34am
they played it on radio four twice the other day * +

shadow27 31.10.13 - 11:34am
Secondly it was because the play itself (at the start at least) sounds like a radio program being interrupted by news of an alien invasion. * +

shadow27 31.10.13 - 11:37am
Little known fact: The same effect was produced in some other countries in subsequent years as they had their own versions of the play. (chin) * +

tranie 31.10.13 - 11:38am
thirdly it was transmitted to a population of uneducated country bumkins, who thought it would be safer to keep the bloodline in the family. * +

bozzalad 31.10.13 - 11:39am
hardly * +

propidol 31.10.13 - 11:49am
Yes. * +

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