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Oct 29, 2026

The Night Radio Became Real

Eighty-eight years after Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre turned a novel about Martians into a night of national confusion, Aircheck Radio will replay the complete one-hour broadcast on Friday, October 30, with an encore the same evening. This is the story of why 1938 radio could make fiction feel like news, and why that night still matters.

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