Jarrow then pieces together the script and performance, highlighting elements used to heighten the tension. With intriguing details, complemented by rarely seen archival photos and illustrated scenes from Wells’ original story, she explains how this medium worked and how actor Orson Welles designed, directed, and voiced popular radio dramas, along with the other writers, performers, and sound technicians for the Mercury Theatre program.
Why were Americans so gullible? Notable nonfiction author Jarrow (Fatal Fever, 2015) sets the stage, or rather the living rooms, for a time when listening to radio broadcasts ranked as the country’s favorite pastime. Instead, on Halloween eve 1938, it shook the nation with fear of alien attack. Wells’ The War of the Worlds would be a flop. Orson Welles and his colleagues were certain their radio broadcast of H. Archival photographs and images, as well as an author’s note, timeline, bibliography, and index round out this stellar nonfiction title. Some listeners became angry once they realized they had been tricked, and the reaction to the broadcast sparked a national discussion about fake news, propaganda, and the role of radio. Wells’s War of the Worlds, performed by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre players. What appeared to be breaking news about an alien invasion was, in fact, a radio drama based on H. On the night of October 30, 1938, thousands of Americans panicked when they believed that Martians had invaded Earth. Jarrow highlights the artists behind the broadcast, the broadcast itself, the aftermath, and the repercussions which remain relevant today. Int Lvl: 5-8 Rdg Lvl: 7.8 Lexile: 1000.Īcclaimed author Gail Jarrow explores in riveting detail the famous War of the Worlds radio broadcast from 1938, in this nonfiction title. Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America by Gail Jarrow.
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