{"id":3271322,"date":"2023-11-02T23:01:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T02:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?p=3271322"},"modified":"2023-11-17T11:26:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T15:26:59","slug":"war-of-the-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/war-of-the-worlds","title":{"rendered":"War of the Worlds!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"3271326\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/war-of-the-worlds\/attachment\/audiodrama2023wotw-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AudioDrama2023WotW-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1400,1400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"AudioDrama2023WotW-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AudioDrama2023WotW-2-800x800.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-3271326\" src=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AudioDrama2023WotW-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AudioDrama2023WotW-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AudioDrama2023WotW-2-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AudioDrama2023WotW-2-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AudioDrama2023WotW-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AudioDrama2023WotW-2.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In the golden age of radio drama, Orsen Welles captured the attention of the public with his production of the H.G. Wells classic, <em>War of the Worlds<\/em>. Black Box Productions staged a live theatre reproduction of the play at the Black Box Theatre, and then all the actors joined us in our studios. We recorded them and transformed it back into a radio play, with a bit of extra work.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Here it is, in it&#8217;s full glory!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>(In case your thinking that this sounds a little different from the radio version, you&#8217;re right. The radio version had to be compressed to fit within the hour. This one is the full version, running just over an hour.)<\/em><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5424\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Audio%20Drama\/War%20of%20The%20Worlds%202023.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('5424','https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Audio%20Drama\/War%20of%20The%20Worlds%202023.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Audio%20Drama\/War%20of%20The%20Worlds%202023.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3271322-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Audio%20Drama\/War%20of%20The%20Worlds%202023.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"War%20of%20The%20Worlds%202023.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the golden age of radio drama, Orsen Welles captured the attention of the public with his production of the H.G. Wells classic, War of the Worlds. Black Box Productions staged a live theatre reproduction of the play at the Black Box Theatre, and then all the actors joined us in our studios. We recorded<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-more blog-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/war-of-the-worlds\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5426\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Audio%20Drama\/War%20of%20The%20Worlds%202023.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('5426','https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Audio%20Drama\/War%20of%20The%20Worlds%202023.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Audio%20Drama\/War%20of%20The%20Worlds%202023.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3271322-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Audio%20Drama\/War%20of%20The%20Worlds%202023.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"War%20of%20The%20Worlds%202023.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3271326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13259,15],"tags":[2421,1293,1372,1067,843,13260,2325,1590],"class_list":["post-3271322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio-drama","category-lunchbox","tag-audio-drama","tag-classics","tag-drama","tag-fiction","tag-horror","tag-radio-play","tag-science-fiction","tag-storytelling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AudioDrama2023WotW-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3271322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3271564,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271322\/revisions\/3271564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3271326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3271322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3271322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3271322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}