Orson Welles meets H.G. Wells

One tends to think of H.G. Wells as a Victorian gentleman, but the fact is that he stuck around well into the 20th Century, long enough to meet Orson Welles and discuss the Welles War of the Worlds radio broadcast that terrified America. They make an interesting pair: Welles with all his youthful charm and that voice rumbling like a tiger's purr, and Wells sounding elderly, a bit vague and almost impossibly English - like a man who sleeps wearing a bowler hat, with a cup of tea waiting on his nightstand and an umbrella tucked under his pillow.



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