Oh my lord. I've just stumbled across a website, "The Mercury Theatre on the Air" that posts sound files for all of the extant radio plays done by Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre in the late 1930s. Yes, they've got "War of the Worlds,"the 1938 broadcast that panicked a nation too impatient to listen to the station breaks. The shows star Welles, Agnes Moorhead, Everett Sloane, and everyone else who followed the boy wonder to "Citizen Kane."
The broadcasts are available via streaming MP3, RealPlayer, or you can get the whole kit and caboodle through BitTorrent. (Guess which one I'm going for.) Trust me, on that next long car trip, forget about putting "Ice Age 2" on the minivan DVD player. Instead, pop in Welles' version of "Dracula" and blow your kids' minds.
