ABSTRACT
It’s the 30th October 1938, and the roads are choked up as people across the USA head out of town in a panic. Across the country, folk are hiding in cellars, loading their firearms and preparing to defend themselves against Martians and their poison gas. Seventy years ago, the radio dramatisation of War of the Worlds by Orson Welles caused a stampede as listeners believed that the Earth was being attacked by aliens. Amazing what a well-told story can do! But surely people were more gullible back then?
