Audio Drama Modernism

Professor Tim Crook is an award-winning academic, playwright and journalist who specializes in investigative history projects that have social, political and cultural impact. He has been Head of Radio at Goldsmiths, University of London for 30 years, and President of the Chartered Institute of Journalists.

• Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Audio Drama and Modernism—Gordon Lea 1926, the first manifesto.- Chapter 3 Radio Drama and the Avant-Garde—Lance Sieveking 1934, the second manifesto.- Chapter 4 The Modernist Turn in Literature and Radio Studies—how it changes understanding of the history of sound drama.- Chapter 5 Bridging Political Modernism between Descriptive Phonographs, 1920s political BBC radio drama and the 1930s agitational radio features.- Chapter 6 Modernist Phonograph Drama in a Belfast Street and a Montage on War—The sonic genius of Russell Hunting.- Chapter 7 Great War Descriptive Sketches.- Chapter 8 Angels of Mons and the Divine Service for King and Country.- Chapter 9 Are the Sound Drama Phonographs Examples of ‘Modernist’ Propaganda?.- Chapter 10 Reginald Berkeley—Pioneering Modernist Playwright and Political Radio Drama as Agitational Contemporaneity.- Chapter 11 Direct BBC censorship of modernist texts by D.G Bridson and his negotiation with Joan Littlewood and Olive Shapley of ‘institutional containment’.- Chapter 12 Conclusions: Sound drama as political and agitational contemporaneity and modernist expression.