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In 1938 twenty-five-year-old Orson Welles became famous after his radio play based on the novel "A War of the Worlds" shook the airwaves, purportedly nearly causing national panic. The book\u2019s seventy-five-year-old author H.G. Wells was not amused at how his intellectual property was in his mind misused without permission.\xa0 Written by Amy Crider the play is inspired by an actual encounter in 1940 while the two men, \u201cWells and Welles\u201d both happened to be on lecture tours, finding each other in San Antonio, Texas on the same rainy night. Podcast review by Reno Lovison ChicagoBroadcastingNetwork.com