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Jeff Wayne releases new "War of the Worlds" musical
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/jeff-wayne-releases-new-war-of-the-worlds-musical-drama-exclusive-clip#main-content
My favorite paratext on the subject is still the TV documentary
The Night that Panicked America (TV movie, 1975, screenplay by Nicholas Meyer)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073454/
screenplay by Nicholas Meyer, screenwriter of "The Seven Percent Solution" and many Star Trek movies
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0583292/?ref_=tt_ov_wr#writer
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The Guardian film blog has an interesting post about Welles's work with television
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/dec/17/orson-welles-television#box
to help announce the broadcast of
Orson Welles' Sketchbook series, which will start on BBC Four on 18 December at 7:30 pm and be available online
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pgv42/The_Orson_Welles_Sketchbook_Episode_1/
soon after. Can anyone tell me what time that will be EST?

Also, I read about this book on Boltype
http://flavorwire.com/53407/holiday-gift-guide-books-for-nonreaders
and thought it might appeal to some of my friends, especially as it is produced by a local (Waltham) printer:

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Pictorial Webster’s: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities

Do you love dictionaries but hate words? Then this book is for you. It is exactly what it says on the cover — a collection of all the wonderful old engraved
illustrations from the Webster’s of the 19th century. We’ll leave it up to you to decide whether the book “acts as a visual Finnegan’s Wake of 19th Century
America” as its compilers claim. We’re still busy just getting lost in its pages. Samples
here.
http://www.quercuspress.com/webstergallery.htm
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