1. Radio Drama
... Shakespear's Julius Ceasar and Much Ado About Nothing, adapted for the medium. Another source states that the first to record a radio drama was Captain Peter Eckersly. The balcony scene from Cyrano was recorded in the Marconi studio, a wooden hut, in 1922. Twelfth Night, broadcast on May 12 1923, was the first comparatively full length production, a classic stage play adapted for radio ... every given opportunity (witness the birth of Product Placement and the monster it has become in contemporary entertainment). The Lux Radio Theatre was launched in 1939 with a speech from Cecile B. de...
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