War of the Worlds on October 30 recast HG Wells' science fiction novel, first published in series, as a real-time attack on the United States by Martians. As context, the. This is a recording of Orson Welles' radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds. Enjoy Orson Welles became a master of both mediums. we faced a plethora of evil Martians. Nazis, communists, revolutionaries in sandals, terrorists. From Pearl Harbor to the erection of the Berlin Wall to the jungles of Vietnam and the destruction of the World Trade Center, we have been engaged in a perpetual war, 24. History repeats itself. The show “War of the Worlds” has been replayed many times, and in a few cases it has caused panic. Radio stations in Buffalo and Ecuador carried versions of the.