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Teaching The War Of The Worlds Radio Broadcast

The War Of The Worlds Radio Broadcast

The War of the Worlds is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air. Directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1898).

Orson Welles
Public Domain

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STANDARDS:
RL.1 - Meaning & Evidence, RL.3 - Characters & Plot, RL.5 - Text Structure, RL.9 - Compare Texts

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