War of The Worlds

Probably the most well known radio drama of time is the October 30,1938 War of the Worlds broadcast by Orson Welles. It was a retelling of the HG Wells story about martians landing on earth and zapping us all into dust with ray guns. The radio drama started off like a regular newscast and, although prefaced with an introduction by Welles, if you were tuning in late it was very easy to assume that this was a real live broadcast. I listen to it every Halloween on Coast to Coast AM. If you have time, listen to it in it's entirety.