For the radio, the 1930s was a golden age ... crowding around the set to hear the latest instalment of their favourite show. Radio may have had such mass appeal because it was an excellent ...

By 1930, around 40 per cent of the American population owned a radio set, and this number had more than doubled by 1939. Sports, news reports, plays and shows were broadcast by radio. When the ...

BBC Radio Production moves into a new home ... are overturned as African American Jesse Owens becomes the star of the show, the first American track and field athlete to win four gold medals ...