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Midnight Radio: Season 2, Episode 4

Midnight Radio

It was broadcast on October 30, 1938, on CBS Radio, creating widespread panic among listeners, many of whom actually believed the US was under attack by Martian invaders.

It was broadcast on October 30, 1938, on CBS Radio, creating widespread panic among listeners, many of whom actually believed the US was under attack by Martian invaders.

See What Everyone Else Is Saying

“What it does is make performance art out of the way radio plays used to be performed, before recording technology made the on-the-spot creation of sound effects unnecessary. Half the fun is watching the Bricolage “Foley artists” use pebbles, shoes, fabric, wind machines, and thunder sheets to create sound effects which, when you close your eyes, sound like the real thing.”

Christopher Rawson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“You can return to the days of radio by closing your eyes and allowing the cast of five and musicians of the Ortner-Roberts Trio to bring the still-chilling sci-fi thriller to life. But that would mean missing the projections of bygone Pittsburgh and the efforts of Carpenter and Dixon as they create the sound effects of Martian activity destroying life as we know it. Either way, it’s a captivating Halloween treat”

Alice T. Carter, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

“In 2003, the forward-thinking little stage company called Bricolage glimpsed its future. And its future was radio’s past.”

Bill O’ Driscoll, Pittsburgh City Paper
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October 21 - 23, 2010

Written by

  • H.G. Wells

Adapted for Radio by

  • Howard W. Koch

Directed by

  • Jeffrey Carpenter

Cast

  • Michael Fuller
  • Jeffrey Howell
  • Sheila McKenna
  • Jason McCune

Foley

  • Tami Dixon
  • Jeff Carpenter

Musical Guest

  • The Ortner-Roberts Duo

Guest Starring

  • Brian Sieworek of WYEP 91.3 FM

Projections

  • Andrew J. Paul
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