Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Note on the Selection, Translation and Presentation of Texts xii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1 Radio as Technology, Radio as Art
7. 1.1 Hilda Matheson: from Broadcasting 27
8. 1.2 Walter Ruttmann: New Compositional Modes for Sound Film and Radio. Programme for an Art of Acoustic Photography 32
9. 1.3 Paul Deharme: from For a Radiophonic Art 35
10. 1.4 Pierre Keszler: Is There Such a Thing as a Radiophonic Art? 41
11. 1.5 Paul Dermée: Will We Have a Radiophonic Art? 43
12. 1.6 Suzanne Malard: Radio, An Autonomous Art 46
13. 1.7 Pierre Schaeffer: The Problem Central to Radio Broadcasting 52
14. 1.8 Enzo Ferrieri: Radio as Creative Force 59
15. 1.9 From Radio Investigation 79
16. Part 2 Behind the Microphone
17. 2.1 Anon.: On Emotion and Life Before the Microphone 89
18. 2.2 Paul Dermée: Microphone Rudiments for Radio Actors 91
19. 2.3 France Darget: How to Act in Front of the Microphone 93
20. 2.4 Anon.: The Speaker’s Qualities 96
21. 2.5 Sheila Borrett: Scene – and Unseen! 99
22. 2.6 Mabel Constanduros: My First Broadcast 102
23. 2.7 Victor Margueritte: Facing the Microphone 104
24. 2.8 Walter Benjamin: On Time to the Minute 108
25. 2.9 Egon Erwin Kisch: Woe Betide the One Who Sees 111
26. 2.10 Florence Milnes: A Day in the Life of the BBC Librarian 115
27. Part 3 The Art of Listening
28. 3.1 Fernand Divoire: The Zone of the Storms 123
29. 3.2 Fernand Divoire: The Don Juan of the Air Waves 125
30. 3.3 Guido Sommi Picenardi: Murmurs from the Ether 128
31. 3.4 Rose Macaulay: The Arm-Chair Millennium 131
32. 3.5 Fritz Zoreff: Radio Drama and the Inner Vision 134
33. 3.6 Enrico Rocca: from A Geography of the Invisible 137
34. 3.7 Rolf Gunold: The Seventh Sense 141
35. 3.8 Ella Fitzgerald: Wireless and Women 143
36. 3.9 Camilla: The Woman Listener 145
37. 3.10 Ernst Hardt: The Echo of the Listeners’ Needs 148
38. 3.11 Annette Kolb: from Book of Complaints 152
39. 3.12 Carlos Larronde: Radio Drama 158
40. 3.13 Anton Kuh: Fear of Radio 163
41. 3.14 Colette: An Interview about the Wireless 166
42. Part 4 Radio Genres
43. 4.1 Hans Flesch: The Future Shape of Radio Programming 173
44. 4.2 Hermynia Zur Mühlen: Radio Programmes for Women 178
45. 4.3 Alfred Döblin: Literature and Radio 180
46. 4.4 Barbara Burnham: Adaptations 186
47. 4.5 Anon.: The Broadcasting of Poetry 188
48. 4.6 Kurt Weill: On the ‘Musical Radio Play’ 191
49. 4.7 Paul Dermée: The Broadcasting of Silence 193
50. 4.8 Alex Virot: Reflections on Radio-Reportage 195
51. 4.9 Hermann Kasack: Micro-Reportage 198
52. 4.10 Olive Shapley: Night Romance of the Roads 203
53. 4.11 B.E.N.: Feature Programmes 206
54. 4.12 Laurence Gilliam: ‘Actualities’ and ‘Features’ 209
55. 4.13 Charles Siepmann: Talks 211
56. 4.14 Desmond MacCarthy: The Art of Broadcasting Talks 214
57. 4.15 André Saudemont: The Radio Interview 217
58. 4.16 Henry Lytton: The Mystery of Radio Humour 221
59. 4.17 Grace Wyndham Goldie: Listening to Comedy 225
60. 4.18 Robert Desnos: ‘The Key to Dreams’ on the Poste Parisien 227
61. Part 5 A Theatre for the Ear
62. 5.1 George Bernard Shaw: The Drama and the Microphone 233
63. 5.2 Augustin Habaru: We Must Discover the Radio 234
64. 5.3 René Christauflour: Will Radio Create ‘Superhearing,’ as Cinema Created ‘Superimposition’? 238
65. 5.4 R. E. Jeffrey: Wireless Drama 240
66. 5.5 Rolf Gunold: Routes to Ac oustic Drama 243
67. 5.6 Gabriel Germinet: from Radio Drama: A New Mode of Artistic Expression 245
68. 5.7 Lance Sieveking: from The Stuff of Radio 254
69. 5.8 Tristan Bernard: For the Invisible Blind Public 260
70. 5.9 Hans Kyser: How Do We Create Radio Plays and a Dramatic Literature for Radio? 265
71. 5.10 Alida and Pierre Calel: A Conception of Radio Drama 268
72. 5.11 Tyrone Guthrie: Introduction to Squirrel’s Cage and Two Other Microphone Plays 271
73. 5.12 Marc Denis: An Essay on Radio Drama 275
74. 5.13 Lugné-Poë: Radio Drama’s Marvellous Resources 279
75. 5.14 Georges Colin: In the Service of Radio Drama 282
76. 5.15 Madeleine Montvoisin: On the Possibilities and Exigencies of Radio Drama 284
77. 5.16 Carlos Larronde: The Poetry of Space 287
78. 5.17 Carlos Larronde: A Lesson in Attempting a Radio Play 288
79. 5.18 Grace Wyndham Goldie: Let Us Be Thrilled 290
80. 5.19 Leopold Jessner: Radio and Theatre 292
81. 5.20 Ernst Hardt: Drama 299
82. Part 6 Radio Politics and Radio Frontiers
83. 6.1 Suzanne Cilly: Women and Radio 309
84. 6.2 Yvane Arthaud: Women’s Voice in the World 311
85. 6.3 Egon Erwin Kisch: Radio Reporter from Red Square: ‘The Moscow Microphone Never Lies!’ 314
86. 6.4 Alfons Paquet: Radio and the State 317
87. 6.5 Kurt Tucholsky: Free Radio! Free Film! 324
88. 6.6 Kurt Tucholsky: Radio Censorship 328
89. 6.7 René Schickele: A Pan-Europe of Radio Stations 332
90. 6.8 Louis Le Crestois: Radio and Peace 335
91. 6.9 Gabriel Germinet: Radiophonic Art in the Service of Moral Disarmament 338
92. 6.10 Paul Vaillant-Couturier: Radio and Peace 339
93. 6.11 Ernst Toller: International Radio 341
94. Select Bibliography 344
95. Index 346