'Radio Drama can be produced by anybody with a microphone and a tape-recorder. The time is auspicious for rebirth of American Theatre, and radio could be a good place for it to happen.'- David Mamet 'Writing in Restaurants', Faber & Faber 1986. It would not be any surprise to the reader that the one character in British broadcasting who would give drama a go on the radio was the charismatic Captain Peter Eckersley.

The early history of radio is the history of technology that produced radio instruments that use radio waves.

Many people contributed theory and inventions in what became radio.

Radio drama is over 70 years old, for all serious purposes, has been for 50 of those years, being used only occasionally in the classroom as a novelty or curiosity. During the middle yo late 1940’s, radio drama reached its peak, then with the advent, expansion of television and it quickly faded into history.