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. The first play written specifically for the medium, however, was Danger by Richard Hughes. There is some discrepancy as to the actual title of the play, some texts give it as Danger and state it was a drama, others as A Comedy of Danger. However, it was definitely written in 1924 and was about miners trapped in a shaft when the lights go out. It is a story idea that couldn't have possibly worked in a "visual" medium like the stage or screen. The comedy Light and Shade by L. du Garde Peach followed. Although these were definite steps forward for radio drama, it would still be many years before the realisation that radio was a "dramatic venue itself rather than as a mere blind witness of events which were taking place on stage." Most of those working in radio had no idea how big it would later become. They didn't know that "The Theatre of the Air was destined to break all the bounds and most of the rules of the Theatre of the Footlights.". .
Radio broadcasting in Australia began on the 23rd of November 1923. 2SB was Australia's very first radio station. It's initial broadcast was of a symphony concert. In December of the same year 2FC went to air, again its first ever programme was a concert. The first two actors of note on the air were husband wife team Ethel Lang and James Gibb, whose work could hardly be described as drama, as they mostly performed sketch comedy as opposed to the more structured format of the radio play. Programmes were often transmitted from theatres and playhouses presented as live broadcasts of musicals, variety shows, plays, or entertainments of a vaudevillian nature during a performance of the show.