For those into
Old Time Radio, most of the original broadcast episodes of the
Mercury Theatre on the Air are available for free; including the infamous broadcast of
The War of the Worlds. These hour-long dramatized broadcasts include many classic works of literature.
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The Mercury Theatre was a theatre company founded in New York City in 1937 by Orson Welles and John Houseman. After a string of live theatrical productions, in 1938 the Mercury Theatre progressed into their best-known period as The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a radio series that included one of the most notable and infamous radio broadcasts of all time, The War of the Worlds, broadcast on October 30, 1938. The Mercury Theatre on the Air produced live radio dramas in 1938–1940 and again briefly in 1946.
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