Edy Hurst's Podcast Version of... The War of the Worlds

How long is too long to sit in a cold bath? Should you run off to the pub when Martians threaten your home and loved ones?

This Chapter is a jam packed with conversations, and what better chance to invite some personal comedy friends onto the pod? There is none. NONE.

We invite Pottervision (Lukas Kirkby and Tom Lawrinson), Tom Little to the show and the wonderful return of Bexie Archer for some of the many characters our narrators talks to.

Plus, we've got a hard funk bop for Lord Cardigan's finest troops.

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You know how it is, it's Friday night, a bunch of Martians have killed your friends and all you want to do is find out what's shakin' at the railway station.

At least that's where we find our narrator in this weeks episode of Edy Hurst's Podcast Version of the War of the Worlds. Plus, we take a look at Germany's status as a growing military power in later 1800s Europe, what makin' love meant in the day, and also a song about Men from Mars.

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Credits:

Produced by Edy Hurst

Written by H.G.Wells and Edy Hurst

Theme Song 'The Fall of Saigon' By Ichabod Wolf

All others songs and music produced by Edy Hurst.

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After the destruction of your close friends by some interplanetary mirror jerks, who wouldn't seek comfort at home? In this week's chapter our narrator heads back to his wife, but not before slagging off some locals.

Also, we take a look at what it meant to have PTSD in Victorian times (it didn't exist then) and a quick chat with the wonderful Bexie Archer!

Bexie plays the role of 'the wife' bringing all her experience as a RADA trained actor, a member of the BBC Writersroom 2019/2020, Chortle Student Comedy Award winner, and one half of Your Dad's Mum

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Credits:

Produced by Edy Hurst

Written by H.G.Wells and Edy Hurst

Theme Song 'The Fall of Saigon' By Ichabod Wolf

All others songs and music produced by Edy Hurst.

Resources for Victorian PTSD:

Pschological Trauma Victorian Style: from Perpetrators to Victims by Jill L Matus from the Lancet

Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry & Trauma in the Modern Age 1870 - 1930 by Malkah T. Notman from Research Gate

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The power of the Heat-Ray continues to wreak havoc on the South England Municpality of Woking, Chobham and Chertsey in Chapter 6.

We also take a look at the world of Science Fiction future prediction, and there's George Clinton inspired funk song that the Heat Ray has always deserved.

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Credits:

Produced by Edy Hurst

Written by H.G.Wells and Edy Hurst

Theme Song 'The Fall of Saigon' By Ichabod Wolf

All others songs and music produced by Edy Hurst.

Resourced for Scifi Predictions:

Alexandra Samuel - Can Science Fiction Predict the Future of Technology? (JSTOR)

Samira Ahmed- Was HG Wells the First to think of the Atomic Bomb?

(BBC)

Brian Handwerk - The Many Future Predictions of H.G.Wells that came true?

(Smithsonian)

Devon Powers - Why are we obsessed with the Forecasting and Futurism

(Washington Post)

David Ropeik - Why Do We Keep Predicting The Future If We Are So Often WRONG?

(Psychology Today)

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Back to the book, and we find Horsell Common under attack from the Martians advanced weaponry.  As we see a welcome party made up of Ogilvy, Henderson and Stent, we sit down with Hannah and Josh to see how they would make first contact with visitors from out of space.

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Credits:

Produced by Edy Hurst

Written by H.G.Wells and Edy Hurst

Theme Song 'The Fall of Saigon' By Ichabod Wolf

All others songs and music produced by Edy Hurst.

Special thanks to Hannah Platt and Josh Jones, check out Josh's Podcast Dead Drama!

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One of the most quotable lines from H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds must be Ogilvy the astronomers famous assertion that:

The Chances of Anything Coming from Mars, are a million to one.

But is it actually a million to one? How likely is that, really?

This episode Edy takes a look at the scientific attempts of putting a number on extraterrestrial life, and talks to Not So Late Show Host Ross Brierley about whether it's worth placing a bet on, and if it's worth being more concerned about the chances of asteroids, sharks or going for a run.

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The Not So Late Show Series One is out on Youtube Now!

Credits:

Produced by Edy Hurst

Written by H.G.Wells and Edy Hurst

Special Guest Ross Brierley

Theme Song 'The Fall of Saigon' By Ichabod Wolf

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Over the century and a bit since it was published, the War of the Worlds has been adapted into countless formats, from graphic novels to radio shows, but one of the most beloved must be Jeff Wayne's 1978 Musical Version.

Taking a short break from the book proper, this week we take a deep dive into the life of Jeff, as well as hear a song Edy wrote about a robot knee.

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Credits:

Produced by Edy Hurst

Written by H.G.Wells and Edy Hurst

Theme Song 'The Fall of Saigon' By Ichabod Wolf

All others songs and music produced by Edy Hurst, with the exception of excerpts from Bad Romance  by Lady Gaga, Celebration by Cool & the Gang and The Eve of the War by Jeff Wayne.

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Finally! The mysterious cylinder crash landed on Horsell Common Opens, and at last we catch a glimpse of those pesky Martians that'll cause such a ruckus. With the first description of the Martians, I wonder with Alasdair Beckett-King what previous descriptions of aliens might be found in folklore of yore. There's also a banger of a tune about being stuck in a pit, not that anyone knows what it feels like to be stuck in a specific place for an unspecified amount of time right now!

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Credits:

Produced by Edy Hurst

Written by H.G.Wells and Edy Hurst

Theme Song 'The Fall of Saigon' By Ichabod Wolf

All others songs and music produced by Edy Hurst.

Special thanks to Alasdair Beckett-King for this weeks episode. Listen to his podcast, Loremen!

And to Matt Hoss for invaluable editting help

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Chapter Three of Edy Hurst's Podcast Version of The War of the Worlds, an audio-scrap-book into the seminal scifi novel The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.

In this episode, news of the crash landed Martians has reached the hustle and bustle of Woking, Chobham and Chertsey with a gathering crowd of people including some gailey dress women!

Whilst the common people frequent the Horsell Common, we take a look at what attractions follow in the wake of Extra Terrestrial sightings across the world, including a whole exhibiton dedicated to crop circles - oh boy!

Also a little ditty about the many folks of Horsell Common.

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Credits:

Produced by Edy Hurst

Written by H.G.Wells and Edy Hurst

Theme Song 'The Fall of Saigon' By Ichabod Wolf

All others songs and music produced by Edy Hurst.

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Chapter Two of Edy Hurst's Podcast Version of The War of the Worlds, an audio-scrap-book into the seminal scifi novel The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.

In the second episode, we hear more about the falling stars spotting in the sky above Woking, and follow Ogilvy (Voiced by Hannah Platt) as they discover the crash site on Horsell Common. We also meet London journalist Henderson (voiced by Josh Jones) and do a deep dive into the world of news reporting in Victorian times and now.

Josh has a fabulous podcast all about history called Dead Drama

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Credits:

Produced by Edy Hurst

Written by H.G.Wells and Edy Hurst

Theme Song 'The Fall of Saigon' By Ichabod Wolf

All others songs and music produced by Edy Hurst.

Notes on News Reporting thanks to:

Andrew Hobbs

The Deleterious Dominance of The Times in Nineteenth-Century Scholarship

Local Newspapers in Victorian Era via Press Gazette

NC State University

How stuff works

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