The Martians are Coming!
Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre on the Air production of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds has become one of the most talked-about broadcasts in history. The realistic retelling of Wells’s original story resulted in mass panic across America. People ran into the streets screaming that the world was ending. Set within the background of America’s economic depression and rumbles of another world war coming from across the Atlantic, The Martians Are Coming sets the historic broadcast in the cont
£3
2pm
Basingstoke Discovery Centre, 19/20 Westminster House, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 7LS
Thu 11 Feb 2016