The canon of the air
Ranked volumes, argued in writing, played from the archive
Every list is placed in order by hand, every entry carries a verdict, and every entry has a surviving transfer attached. Cast your own ballots and the listeners’ order answers back.
1928–1962 · 0 entries
The greatest broadcasts of the Golden Age, ranked
Fifty programmes, placed in order by hand and argued for in writing. No entry is here on reputation alone, and every one of them has a surviving recording attached, so you can settle the argument yourself.
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1925–1962 · 4 entries
The transmissions that altered what happened next
Not the best broadcasts — the consequential ones. Programmes that invented a form, moved an argument, built an audience, or told a country something it could not un-hear.
At No. 1: The Mercury Theatre on the Air
1931–1962 · 8 entries
Detectives, killers and the creaking door, ranked
The crime and horror canon: hard-boiled investigators, fair-play puzzles, police procedure and the anthologies that frightened a continent on a shoestring.
At No. 1: I Love a Mystery
