Audio Drama Modernism: The Missing Link between Descriptive Phonograph Sketches and Microphone Plays on the Radio

Contents

• 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.