KPCC

October 30, 2013 is the 75th anniversary of the world's most famous radio broadcast, the Orson Welles/Mercury Theatre production, "The War of the Worlds." Your station wants to rebroadcast the classic, but you've probably discovered you'd have to pay licensing fees to the family of writer Howard Koch to do so. Well, Southern California Public Radio is distributing a rights-paid, radio-friendly version of the original 1938 CBS broadcast. There's also a new documentary from R.H. Greene, "War of the Welles," telling the back-story of the production, correcting many myths, and explaining why it works as a radio broadcast.