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RadioLab Live! Martian Invasion: Decoding the War of the Worlds
Sunday, October 26, 2008 @ 7:30 p.m.
“Utterly original!...Reinventing Radio… Radio Lab is possibly the very best thing on public radio today.” —Ira Glass, This American Life
RadioLab lands for a rare, and always sold out, live event.
Orson Welles’ original 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds and listeners’ reaction to it is legendary. But why did subsequent stagings inspire panic, terror, and mass hysteria over and over again throughout the world?
On Sunday, October 26, Victory Gardens Theater Fresh Squeezed will present an evening with RadioLab—public radio’s award-winning show about wonder, discovery and big ideas—to crack the case.
During this special live event at the Biograph Theater, RadioLab hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich will deconstruct the original broadcast of War of the Worlds and describe what was happening—sociologically and psychologically—at each step. They will also stage a “field report” on the panic induced by the 1949 broadcast of War of the Worlds in Quito, Ecuador – which incited a riot at the radio station in which 15 people were killed.
Along the way, Abumrad and Krulwich will hear from eyewitnesses, scientists, and master storytellers to investigate the nature of belief and skepticism, uncovering the neurological differences between those who believed and those who did not.
This innovative blending of old-time radio with the cutting-edge audio of today will feature the adventurous cellist Zoe Keating.
Venue
Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
2433 N. Lincoln Avenue
Chicago, IL 60614
Presenter
Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
773-871-3000
Tickets
$30/general admission
$25/WBEZ Members through 10/20/08
For Member discount call: 773.871.3000 to purchase tickets
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