For their annual Halloween show, the Post-Meridian Radio Players will be putting on The Big Broadcast of 1938, part of which will be a Boston-based adaptation of the classic Orson Welles radio drama, The War of the Worlds. Neil Marsh talks about both Welles’s controversial, panic-inspiring broadcast as well as the PMRP’s adaptation.

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Thanks to Dwayne Holder for the photos.

An interview with Roy Zimmerman (royzimmerman.com).

Recorded 10/15/09

It's Dr. Rachie! Dr. Rachael Dunlop, noted Australian scientist, blogger, and podcaster, was in town and joined us for a special early BSitP on September 15th.

Dr. Rachie’s awesomeness can be heard on the Skeptic Zone podcast and read on her blog, The Sceptic’s Book of Pooh-pooh as well as on Twitter as @DrRachie.

She recently appeared on the skeptic track at DragonCon, and at the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism (NECSS).

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Q&A from July 27, 2009 BSitP with Jonathan McDowell (Race to the Moon vimeo.com/5839434 ).

Dr. Jonathan McDowell is an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA.

It is now 40 years since humans first visited another world. “Houston, Tranquility Base here… the Eagle has landed”. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had reached the Moon. (Yes, conspiracy theorists, they really did go to the Moon… get over it).

The story of the race to the Moon dominates the early history of the space age; the first Soviet and American lunar probes were launched less than a year after the first Earth satellite Sputnik, well before Yuriy Gagarin and Alan Shepard rocketed into space.