MOH Forum: The BBC reconstructs its own 1926 radio hoax.

The BBC reconstructs its own 1926 radio hoax.

Posted By:
David B.
Jun 17, 2005

In January 1926, 12 years before Orson Welles's infamous War of the Worlds broadcast, the BBC sparked a national panic of its own... It broadcast a 12 minute report of a murderous riot in central London, which turned out to be a spoof, masterminded by a literary Catholic priest.

Read the story (and listen to a reconstruction of the original broadcast) at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/the_riot_that_never_was.shtml.

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Comments

Maegan in Tampa, FL - USA Member	Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 \| 08:20 AM Well, leave it to the Catholics to destroy London!
David B. Member	Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 \| 09:50 AM I think the 'Committee for the Abolition of Theatre Queues' was a front for the Masons myself!

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