This hour of Radiolab: an examination of the power of mass media to create panic.
In our very first live hour, we take a deep dive into one of the most controversial moments in broadcasting history: Orson Welles' 1938 radio play about Martians invading New Jersey. "The War of the Worlds" is believed to have fooled over a million people when it originally aired, and it's continued to fool people since--from Santiago, Chile to Buffalo, New York to a particularly disastrous evening in Quito, Ecuador.
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James Burrows, director of classic shows 'Cheers' and 'Friends,' dies at 85
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Burrows spent his career behind the camera specializing in situation
comedies. Few viewers recognized him or knew his name, other than to see it
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