THE Torquay Theatre Troupe invites audiences to step back in time this June to one of the most infamous nights in broadcasting history. It’s Halloween night, 1938. In a New York radio studio, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air are about to unleash pandemonium on an unsuspecting nation. Their broadcast of The War of the Worlds, a dramatisation of H.G. Wells’ alien invasion novel, sent thousands of Americans into genuine panic, floodi…
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