Programme

Radio Fun PG

As we consider the period in which sound and image began to converge, at the end of the 1920s and into the early 1930s we take a look at the relationship between the two distinct forms of radio and cinema. From the strange case of Mr Smith Wakes Up, a radio play adapted as an early sound film, to radio’s love affair with the stars of the cinema, this radio-related miscellany from the BFI National Archive also includes a welcome screening of the Hans Richter classic, Radio-Europa (1931).

Presented by Bryony Dixon