Harry Heuser holds a PhD in English from the City University of New York. He currently teaches at Aberystwyth University.

• Contents: Critical reception of American radio culture (1929-1954), then and now – Radio plays in relation to the theatrical stage, print media and education – Verse plays by noted American poets in response to isolationism and fascism – Propagandist/patriotic radio plays by established novelists and aspiring playwrights (1940-1945) – Radio thrillers, mysteries and whodunits in the service of wartime propaganda – Use of dialogue and monologue to explore interiority in radio melodrama – Language of poetry and journalism in the radio plays of Norman Corwin – Reputation of radio culture.

Harry Heuser holds a PhD in English from the City University of New York. He currently teaches at Aberystwyth University.

• Contents: Critical reception of American radio culture (1929-1954), then and now – Radio plays in relation to the theatrical stage, print media and education – Verse plays by noted American poets in response to isolationism and fascism – Propagandist/patriotic radio plays by established novelists and aspiring playwrights (1940-1945) – Radio thrillers, mysteries and whodunits in the service of wartime propaganda – Use of dialogue and monologue to explore interiority in radio melodrama – Language of poetry and journalism in the radio plays of Norman Corwin – Reputation of radio culture.

Harry Heuser holds a PhD in English from the City University of New York. He currently teaches at Aberystwyth University.

• Contents: Critical reception of American radio culture (1929-1954), then and now – Radio plays in relation to the theatrical stage, print media and education – Verse plays by noted American poets in response to isolationism and fascism – Propagandist/patriotic radio plays by established novelists and aspiring playwrights (1940-1945) – Radio thrillers, mysteries and whodunits in the service of wartime propaganda – Use of dialogue and monologue to explore interiority in radio melodrama – Language of poetry and journalism in the radio plays of Norman Corwin – Reputation of radio culture.