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WNYC's Coverage of the Republican National Convention
Live performances in Soundcheck's studios
Studio 360: Patti LuPone on playing Mama Rose
Selected Shorts featuring "The Trouble of Marcie Flint," by John Cheever
Radio Rookies: Brooklyn Broadcast Workshop
On the Media: Surviving Convention Coverage
Street Shots Challenge
Radiolab Archive
June 2005
Look out...Martians!
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Radio Lab investigates why millions were so terrified by a single hour of radio. The Mercury Theatre of the Air's "War of the Worlds" caused listeners to run out into the streets, half-dressed, women to miscarry, and it forever changed how we listen to the radio...not to mention that the original 1938 broadcast spawned a series of remakes that CONTINUE to fool people.
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