Monthly Archives: October 2012

Halloween journalists on old-time radio

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Bob Stepno

The obvious choice for a Halloween-week radio show incorporating journalist characters in a dramatic production has to be Orson Welles’ Mercury Theater broadcast of “War of the Worlds.” Welles’ dramatic technique of imitating radio news alerts, simulating interruption of a … Continue reading →

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