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Sep 2023
1h 18m

Alien Invasion - War Of The Worlds Redux...

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp
About this episode
The 1938 Orson Welles radio play of "War of the Worlds" allegedly created widespread panic among a gullible listening audience, but in the eight-plus decades since the program was broadcast, the public has acclimated itself to the possibility of visitation by an alien intelligence. In this episode, Jeremy and George revisit some historical milestones that ma ... Show More
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