ABSTRACT
In this book we examine the programming of radio’s Golden Age, particularly the dramas emerging in the late 1920s and dominating much of the broadcasting environment of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Some quality dramatic audio program production continued into the 1960s and the early 1970s, and it has enjoyed something of a renaissance in the twenty-first century’s digital age of podcasting, digital broadcasting, and online radio. We use this historical approach to provide insight into the principles and practices of great audio-format storytelling that emerged during the early twentieth century development of radio broadcasting in the United States and internationally.
