Radio Comedy and Variety

If drama gave radio its artistic prestige, comedy gave it its heart. The great radio comedians became national institutions, their shows scheduling pillars around which American and British family life organized itself. On Thursday nights in the 1940s, streets were reportedly empty across the United States as families stayed home to hear Jack Benny.

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The Golden Age of Radio Drama

The 1930s and 1940s represent the zenith of radio as a storytelling medium. With no pictures to rely on, radio drama developed an art form unique to itself: a theater of the mind in which the listener's imagination was the ultimate special effects department.

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The Birth of Radio Broadcasting

The transition from wireless telegraphy—point-to-point communication between trained operators—to broadcasting—the transmission of information to a general public—was not a technological shift so much as a conceptual one. It required someone to imagine a fundamentally different use for the same equipment.

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Radio: The Science of Sound and Signal

Before there was radio as a medium of culture, there was radio as a problem of physics. The story begins not with Marconi or Tesla, but with a series of scientific breakthroughs in electricity and magnetism that made wireless transmission conceivable.

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