There’s only one problem: The supposed panic was so tiny as to be practically immeasurable on the night of the broadcast. Despite repeated assertions to the contrary in the PBS and NPR programs, ...

There might not be a more misunderstood moment in the 20th century than Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds. Pop culture has continuously repeated the story of the radio ...

H.G. Wells’ novel, The War of the Worlds, was first published in 1898. It tells the story of a Martian invasion of Earth. The book is a classic in science fiction and has had a major influence on the ...

After first being released in the pages of Pearson's Magazine and Cosmopolitan in 1897 as a serial and the following year as a novel, H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds has been among the works of ...

As the far right fulminates about who ‘belongs’ in Britain, let’s remember Fritz Lustig, who arrived here in 1939, just months before war broke out. Initially jailed as an ‘enemy alien’, he played a v ...

There are many recurring fears throughout the course of human history. The levels of public concern about wars and pandemics over the past decade illustrates these kinds of legitimate worries, and ...

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Bishop Kevin Doran, Bishop of Achonry and Elphin, has welcomed a new RTE One documentary, (narrated by Jonathan Roumie, from the Chosen) on the life of Fr Edward Flanagan - the Irish American priest ...

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Captain James T. Kirk: Spock, you want to know something? Everybody's human. Captain Spock: I find that remark... insulting. Chancellor Gorkon: You don't trust me, do you? I don't blame you. If there ...