Where to Hear Vintage Radio Online
Where to Hear Vintage Radio Online: A Guide for Black Radio History Fans It usually happens late at night. You’re scrolling through a forum thread or a YouTube recommendation when a grainy thumbnail catches your…
Black radio history blog centred on the drama series Destination Freedom
Staging a Radio Play Today
Staging a Radio Play Today: Lessons from Black Radio History Why should anyone staging audio theatre in the UK today care about a 1940s American radio drama? Because the best of that work solved the…
Sound Effects in Classic Radio
Sound Effects in Classic Radio: The Art of Aural Storytelling Close your eyes and picture a 1940s living room. The wireless glows amber in the corner, and from its speaker comes the crackle of static,…
Richard Durham: A Writer’s Life
Richard Durham: A Writer’s Life It is a cold February evening in 1948. Across Chicago’s South Side, families are settling in for the night. The radio crackles to life, and a voice announces the start…
Radio Drama as History Teaching
Radio Drama as History Teaching: Lessons from Black Radio History There was a time when a crackly wireless set was the centrepiece of a British living room, and the voices coming through it carried the…
Preserving Old Broadcast Recordings
Preserving Old Broadcast Recordings: Our Mission to Keep Black Radio History Alive Pick up a lacquer transcription disc from the late 1940s and you will feel how precarious the whole story is. The coating is…
Pioneering Black Broadcasters in Britain
Pioneering Black Broadcasters in Britain: The Voices That Changed the Airwaves Picture a cramped flat in 1960s London, curtains drawn against the November fog. On the table, a crackling radio dial is being coaxed towards…
Gwendolyn Brooks on the Air
Gwendolyn Brooks on the Air: A Voice for Black Radio History Picture the crackle of a 1940s radio dial, the warm hum of valves warming up in a Chicago living room, and a family gathered…
Golden Age Radio Drama for New Listeners
Golden Age Radio Drama for New Listeners: Where to Start with Black Radio History We get it. You’ve just discovered the strange, addictive pleasure of old-time radio drama — the crackling microphones, the organ stings,…
Destination Freedom: The Series Explained
Destination Freedom: The Series Explained Picture a Chicago evening in 1948. Families gathered around glowing radio sets, dials tuned to WMAQ, waiting for a voice that would tell stories the mainstream airwaves rarely touched. That…