Mars attacks! War of the Worlds restaged for 'fake news' era
New show links HG Wells's sci-fi novel and Orson Welles's 1938 radio adaptation and explores climate of fear preceding the US presidential electionIt is one of the most famous radio broadcasts of all time and turned its 23-year-old narrator-director, Orson Welles, into a household name. Welles was both celebrated as a genius and vilified as a prankster when his innovative dramatisation of HG Wells's science fiction c…