The War Of The Worlds aired on October 30th 2008. It was adapted by Kevin Mooney and John Morton from the script by Orson Welles and Howard Koch. It was directed by Ross Costigan and Ken McGuire.

The Devious Theatre Company went on the air on October 30th 2008 with a new radio version of HG Well’s sci-fi classic The War Of The Worlds on KCLR 96FM. It was broadcast 70 years to the date of Orson Welles famous version on CBS on October 30th 1938.

It won a PPI Bronze Award for radio drama at the 2009 PPI Awards.

The new version was a darkly comic modern take on the story and was entirely localised within the Kilkenny / Carlow region of South East Ireland.

The programme was produced and engineered by Alan Dawson.

The voice cast were as follows:

David Thompson: Announcer / Professor Leonard / Newsreader

Kevin Mooney: The Narrator / Noel O’Reilly

Alan Dawson: Eugene Walsh

Ken McGuire: DJ / Commander

Ross Costigan: Tom Buckley / Whiskey Seven Zero / The Stranger

Maria Murray: Alice Keane / Aoife

Amy Dunne: Karen Phelan

Paul Young: Capt. Drennan / Lenihan

John Morton: Mick

A podcast of The War Of The Worlds is available to download on DeviousTheatre.com.

Download The Podcast

You can now download your own copy of our 2008 release of The War Of The Worlds. Click here to begin downloading (mp3 format @ 51mb) or stream online from the player below.

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Stream via KCLR96FM

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