H.G. Wells (1866-1946) gave us?The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and?The War of the Worlds and practically invented science fiction as we know it. (Find his classic texts in our Free Audio Books and?Free eBooks collections.) Now, thanks to the BBC, you can travel back in time and get a glimpse into Wells’ creative mind. During the 1930s and 1940s, Wells?made regular radio broadcasts for the BBC, where he had the freedom to range widely, to talk about “world politics, the history of the printing press, the possibilities of technology and the shape of things to come…” Nine recordings now appear online. You can start listening here, or dip into an archive of Wells’ personal letters.
Finally, don’t miss one of my personal favorites. Orson Welles reading a dramatized version of H.G. Well’s The War of the Worlds in 1938. It’s?perhaps the most famous radio broadcast in American history and it drove America into a bout of mass hysteria, at least for a night …
H/T to @fionaatzler for flagging these BBC audio recordings.
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One thing that I never understood with many artists is that an artist getting signed to a major is a business relationship but it is dominated by the label. The label looks only at numbers at BDS, Mediabase, Soundscan, etc. and whoever produces gets favortism. An artist can dictate how a label will maneuver budgets. During my tenure at MCA I learned that labels will sign a gang of artists and these non selling artist will support the selling artists, budgets get shifted all the time.
But back to the beginning. If I was signed to a major and get an advance or made a sh!tload of money, I would invest my own money in my own promotions team, my own marketing. Yes there are some restrictions but you can hire your own radio person to make sure you record will produce #’s so that the label will pick it up.
Unfortunately, many artists do NOT want to spend their own money on things like that. They wait for the label to do it. If you are serious about yours then I won’t put my destiny in someone elses hand sorry