Daily Archives: 20 July 2009

A ‘real’ Martion invasion in 1938

The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama. It was performed as a Halloween episode on October 30, 1938 and directed and narrated by Orson Welles. The episode was an adaptation of H.G.Wells’ novel The war of the worlds. Although was a performance of the book, many listeners thought that an actual Martian invasion was in progress!!

😎 Try it! Read more about The war of the worlds by clicking on the link above, listen to the original radio broadcasting and then imagine you are a radio newsreader and try to do your own version of this broadcast. What are  you going to talk about? How? How will you impress your listeners? Write and perform a dialog with your classmates.

 

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