Mercury Theater on the Air
The Mercury Theater on the Air was a dramatic
radio program which began in the summer of
1938 on the
CBS radio network. It was created by
Orson Welles, who also starred in most of the productions, and his collaborator
John Houseman, and dramatized many works of classic and contemporary literature. Its most famous performance was a version of
War of the Worlds.
Many of the Mercury Theater productions can downloaded from The Mercury Theater on the Air website:
External Link: The Mercury Theater on the Air