Get ready for unique, rare, and little known treasures from the golden age of radio. You're listening to the amazing world of radio with Adam Graham.

Today's episode is the first of our two fall specials, this one is being cross-posted to the great

detectives of old-time radio as a feed drop. Today we're bringing you a radio adaptation of the War of the Worlds, but not the version you're probably thinking of.

I've been asked a few times about playing the Mercury theater adaptation of War of the Worlds. It's not really

something that I have a strong desire to do. It's nothing against the play

itself. But if you listen to the intro of this podcast, and I know you did, it talks

about sharing little known treasures from the Golden Age of radio. And that definitely

doesn't apply with the War of the Worlds.

Everybody who listens to the Golden Age of Radio knows about Orson Wells' War of the

Worlds. Even those who don't know much about the Golden Age of

Radio know about Orson Wells War of the Worlds as there have been

recreations done for both screen and radio. It's probably the single, the most replayed and well-known

Golden Age radio drama. I see other podcasts and old-time radio online stations, posting their programming schedules and

announcing their lineups of shows and so many are replying that same play every time this year.

I totally respect the legacy of the War of the Worlds

but honestly have no idea what I could add to it, and bringing it to my

podcast. But I noticed that there was another War of the World's old time radio program

that hardly nobody talks about. It was

broadcast more than 16 years after Mr. Wells's version. it's the Lux Radio Theater adaptation of the 1953 film.

And to me, this is a bit of a treat.

While I respect and enjoy so much of the golden age of radio.

The radio of the late 1940s and early to mid-150s that came out of Hollywood tends to make up a lion's share of my favorite

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