Archive on 4 | Orson Welles and The War Of The Worlds – Myth or Legend?
Based on The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Christopher Frayling explores the most notorious hoax in radio, broadcast in 1938 - Orson Welles' War Of The Worlds.
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