As Autumn (fall!) falls, Nick Hennegan plays your literary requests.

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Nick Hennegan celebrates the birthday of Oscar Wilde. Possibly the most quoted writer after Shakespeare, with Wilde's Ballard of Reading Gaol and news about his relationship with the British Library!

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Nick Hennegan closes this season with a look at the Edinburgh Fringe, International Book Festival and Camden Fringe. And features some music from his Edinburgh Fringe hit play 'Winston And David' It's at the Tabard Theatre in London W4 and is about the two famous politicians - and their women!

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Nick Hennegan talks to actor Kevin McNally about his life and career. 'Pirates of The Carribbean', Birmingham, R.A.D.A. and his book, 'Sons Of Sol.'

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Nick Hennegan celebrates Bloomsday... the annual celebration of James Joyce's Ulysses, with rare recordings of Joyce reading part of his work, his first-time publisher Sylvia Beach (founder of Shakespeare and Co Bookshop in Paris) and Brendan Behan singing! Also news of some upcoming writing competitions.

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Nick Hennegan celebrates the birthday of American 'beat' poet Allen Ginsberg. With some of his most famous poems.

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Nick Hennegan celebrates the birthday of Orson Wells with part one of 'War of The Worlds.'

"The War of the Worlds" was an episode of the radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air which was broadcast live at 8 pm on October 30, 1938 over the CBS Radio Network. The episode was directed and narrated by Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds and is infamous for inciting a panic by convincing some members of the listening audience that a Martian invasion was actually taking place.

The first half of the program was delivered in a realistic "breaking news" format. Since the Mercury Theatre on the Air had few commercial interruptions, the first break came after fictional reporters had described a devastating alien invasion and the fall of New York City. This apparently caused some confusion and fear among its listeners, though the scale of the panic is disputed.

Welles apologized at a hastily called news conference the next morning, and no punitive action was taken. The broadcast and subsequent publicity brought the 23-year-old Welles to the attention of the general public and gave him the reputation of an innovative storyteller and "trickster"

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Nick Hennegan celebrates the birthday and life of Irish Writer Seamus Heaney.