Halloween 1938, Max, War of the Worlds. If you go here
http://www.mercurytheatre.info/
you can download MP3s of the whole thing.& other Mercury Theatre
productions - what a rich world of fantasy the radio offered back then.
There is a wealth of radio shows of the past online if one looks - including
the great Henry Reed ("Naming of Parts") Hilda Tablet satires from the BBC,
a great source of delight in my youth.
mj
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But I am but a nameless sort of person
(A broken Dandy lately on my travels)
And take for rhyme, to hook my rambling verse on,
The first that Walker's Lexicon unravels
- George Gordon, Lord Byron
----- Original Message -----
From: "Max Richards" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: Stimulus plans to include poetry
> When did Orson Welles do his radio stunt, dramatising HGWells's story
> (name
> eludes me) as if it was happening, and supposedly creating panic in
> listeners?
> not on april first, I guess...
>
> Max
>
> Quoting Martin Walker <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> The funny thing is, the Germans don't have an April Narr (fool).
>> All the Anglo-Saxon media attempts at such jokes (& this one) I saw
>> yesterday were terribly obvious, as if there were a fear to create such
>> an
>> insidious & verisimilitudinous deception that people would turn on the
>> perpetrator when s/he revealed her/his deceit.
>> mj
>> _______________________________________
>> But I am but a nameless sort of person
>> (A broken Dandy lately on my travels)
>> And take for rhyme, to hook my rambling verse on,
>> The first that Walker's Lexicon unravels
>>
>> - George Gordon, Lord Byron
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:18 AM
>> Subject: Re: Stimulus plans to include poetry
>>
>>
>> > April April fools.
>> >
>> > --- On Wed, 4/1/09, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> > From: kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>
>> > Subject: Re: Stimulus plans to include poetry
>> > To: [log in to unmask]
>> > Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 4:35 PM
>> >
>> > LOL
>> >
>> > KS
>> >
>> > 2009/4/1 Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]>
>> >
>> >> Thought this might be of interest ....
>> >>
>> >> =====
>> >>
>> >> Washington (CNS) - In a surprising twist on the administration's
>> >> economic stimulus plan, a proposal is being floated to include funds
>> >> for the purchase of poetry in the program.
>> >>
>> >> According to White House congressional liaison aide April Narr, the
>> >> proposal is still under development, but it is conceived as involving
>> >> substantial grants to American poetry publications to pass on to their
>> >> contributing poets in payment for their work. "The working
>> > idea,"
>> >> said Narr, "is to consult experts to draw up a list of the hundred
>> >> best established poetry journals in the country, and give them federal
>> >> economic stimulus grants so they can pay their poets much more for
>> >> their work. The target figure is $1,000 per line."
>> >>
>> >> Though some may question the effectiveness of trying to restart the
>> >> American economy by paying money to poets, Narr maintained that "the
>> >> whole idea of the economic stimulus plan is to get people to buy
>> >> things, and why should buying poetry be any different from buying
>> >> apples or toothpaste?"
>> >>
>> >> Since poets are typically starving artists, Narr continued, they would
>> >> be likely to spend their increased revenues on basic foodstuffs, such
>> >> as bread, and usually being bohemian types they would also spend the
>> >> money on wine and cheese, making this part of the stimulus
>> >> "potentially of significant benefit to our nation's baking,
>> >> wine-making, and dairy industries."
>> >>
>> >> Narr admitted, though, that there was some concern that the proposed
>> >> $1,000 per line payments might result in a proliferation of poems with
>> >> very short lines.
>> >>
>> >> Asked if she herself is a poetry fan, Narr replied, "Yes, I am a
>> > great
>> >> fan. In school I got to recite The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe in a
>> >> pageant."
>> >>
>> >> =====
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> ===============================================
>> >>
>> >> Jon Corelis http://jcorelis.googlepages.com/joncorelis
>> >>
>> >> ===============================================
>> >>
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