Criminal

We Interrupt This Program

Nov 4, 2022

39:59

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Episode guests

Lisette Arévalo

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

The War of the World

02:59

What Happened When the Martians Arrived in Ecuador?

01:38

Radio Quito - The City in the Middle of the World

04:32

Introduction

3min

The War of the World

3min

Radio Quito - The City in the Middle of the World

5min

Keto's War of the World

2min

Radio Keto and Radio Gran Colombia

2min

Lunardo Pais - The Radio Drama

2min

What Happened When the Martians Arrived in Ecuador?

2min

Shopify Support for Criminal

4min

What Happened to the Radio Station in Kito?

3min

10.

Radio Kito - The Radio Station

6min

11.

The Fire in the Radio Keto Building

3min

12.

Leonardo Paez and the Fire of Radio Keto

4min

13.

Criminal - The Peripheral

3min

On a Saturday night, in February 1949, the music programming on one of the most popular radio stations in Quito, Ecuador, was interrupted with an urgent news bulletin: strange objects in the sky that looked like large disks with bright lights were using a powerful ray to destroy a nearby city. And they were heading right for Quito.

Thanks to Lisette Arévalo for sharing her tape and her reporting. In 2020, she reported this story for the Spanish-language podcast Radio Ambulante – it’s called “The Extraterrestrials.” You can listen at https://radioambulante.org/en/audio-en/the-extraterrestrials.

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