Originally performed by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre of the Air, War of the Worlds is truly the mother of all space invasions, offering a rare combination of chills, thrills and great literature.
Join Leonard Nimoy and other actors from the Star Trek universe as they recreate the terrifying radio thriller. Adapted from the H.G Wells story, and originally performed by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre of the Air, War of the Worlds puts a new twist on the classic story of a Martian invasion. Also starring John de Lancie, Meagan Fay, Jerry Hardin, Gates McFadden, Daryl Schultz, Armin shimerman, Brent Spiner, Tom Virtue, and Wil Wheaton.

Taking a break from the coolly analytical Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a hot-headed hero named Professor Challenger, an anthropologist with a taste for adventure: the original Indiana Jones. On his first expedition, he leads a group of explorers into the Amazon rainforest and discovers dinosaurs and other extinct prehistoric creatures, very much alive and very determined to make Challenger’s first adventure his last. The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted for radio by John de Lancie and Nat Segaloff. Starring Josh Clark, Kyle Colerider-Krugh, Peter Page, Kirsten Potter, Kate Steele, Tom Virtue, and Kenneth Alan Williams.

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Also: Hear our insiders’ tour of the Dino Lab at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County with its director, Dr. Luis Chiappe.

Listen to Part One of Arcadia.

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Listen to Part Three of Arcadia.

Listen to an interview with mathematician Steven Strogatz on the science behind Arcadia.

In Hugh Whitemore’s play Breaking the Code, we get to know Alan Turing as a man who clings to his pacifist beliefs while playing a key part in the war effort; a genius who is trusted with national secrets but makes no effort to conceal his own. For Turing, the code to be broken is not simply one of mathematics and logic: it is the code, both spoken and unspoken, by which we all live.

Starring Simon Templeman, Orlando Seale, Samantha Robson, and W. Morgan Sheppard.

Listen to Part One of Breaking the Code:

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Listen to Part One of Doctor Cerberus:

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Listen to Part One of The Doctor’s Dilemma:

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Listen to our conversation with Dr. Neil Wenger, the Director of the Healthcare Ethics Center at UCLA.

Listen to Part One of End Days:

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Also: Listen to our conversation with Robert John Russell, the founder and director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.

In 1914, a group of quarry workers in Piltdown, England, discovered the fragmented skull of an early human previously unknown to scientists. The fossilized remains were soon heralded as the evolutionary “missing link” between apes and humans. But it took another forty years for experts to conclude that the “Piltdown man” was a hoax. Fake illuminates the Piltdown scandal from both sides, as scholars in 1914 and 1953 struggle to make sense of the evidence. Along the way, the story raises questions about the limits of knowledge, and the need for belief in science andfaith. Starring Kate Arrington, Coburn Gross, Francis Guinan, Alan Wilder, and Larry Yando.

Listen to Part One of Fake:

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Also: Listen to our conversation with Russell H. Tuttle, Professor of Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago.

Listen to Part One of The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial:

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Listen to Part One of An Immaculate Misconception:

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Also: Listen to our interview with Liza Mundy, the author of Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Men, Women, and the World.