Description
Episode 5 is a spooktacular Halloween special looking at Orson Welles' infamous Halloween 1938 radio production of War Of The Worlds, and the stories of mass panic and chaos when the American public believed that the Martians really were coming - or did they?
Audio Sources:
War Of The Worlds by Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre On The Air
Charles C. Shaw interviews Orson Welles and H.G. Wells, 1940
Selected Sources:
The Invasion From Mars by Hadley Cantril
Orson Welles: The Road To Xanadu by Simon Callow
Episode 6 of Bunkum & Ballyhoo rounds up a season on World War 2-related b******t by looking at when lies and propaganda can be used for good, exploring the lives and times of the revolutionary queer surrealist artists Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore, and how they stood up to Nazi oppression...
Published 11/11/24
Episode 4 of Bunkum & Ballyhoo looks at one of the most notorious hoaxes of the 20th century - the Hitler Diaries; how a clumsy forgery fooled the world's press and one of England's most respected historians, why sometimes a lie only needs a particularly enthusiastic believer to take flight,...
Published 10/14/24