"Everything that came over this new magic box, the radio, was being swallowed" #OnThisDay 70 years ago, Orson Welles spoke about his famed radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds'. He claimed the 1938 broadcast, that depicted a Martian invasion of Earth, caused mass hysteria (a debated claim). Welles also said that one of the aims of the broadcast was to highlight people shouldn't believe everything they hear on the radio. This episode of Orson Welles' Sketch Book was broadcast on