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... Wells’s novel ‘War of the Worlds’. ... Moreover, thousands of people phoned the police and radio stations, asking for advice on how to protect themselves from the Martian invaders. ... As the Times pointed out, the people ‘failed to associate the program with the newspaper listing’ which announced the program to be a Play called ‘War of the Worlds’. ... It ran at the same time as ‘War of the Worlds’ and this is suggested to be why people changed over to the Welles broadcast, when a singer was covering for a short break while McCarthy had a drink of water. ... ‘War of the World’s’ had numerous notifications during the show, these were ignored as people ran to their phones, or were they? ... They called the radio, the police, anyone. ... I turned on the radio and heard the broadcast, which corroborated what my nephew had said, grabbed my hat and coat – and ran to the elevator. ... ’ The people panicking weren’t listening to the radio. ... The public had come to rely on radio over newspapers at this time. The radio had allayed fears of a war with Germany in the wake of the Munich Agreement. ... Only one thing is certain, the ‘War of the Worlds’ incident showed the world for the first time the power of the broadcasters over their listeners. It is a key moment in the history of our mass media but unlikely to be repeated as today people would probably tend to cross reference radio reports with television or the internet as well as newspapers and radio.