Radio dramas are an important part of radio culture in the United States and the developed world at large. They were many peoples’ best exposure to literature and mass-culture for decades before television became popular and widely available. In recent years, with the popularization of the internet, radio dramas have experienced a revival, leading to new, original literary content freely available to the masses. In the first century AD, Seneca the Younger produced dramas not meant to be acted, but read. This initial foray into audio drama provided dialogue information and depended on the audience’s natural imagination to visualize characters, settings and action. This style was not significantly pursued until the 20th century brought mass-produced radios into the homes and hearts of the American people. Between the 1920s and the 1940s was the golden age of mass-broadcast audio theatre, with radio plays being the highlight of prime-time broadcasting for many audiences around the world. Popular dramas included Westerns such as the Lone Ranger and Red Ryder, comic heroes like the Phantom, pulp detective fictions such as the Shadow and Dick Tracy, and real literary and cultural productions by Orson Welles in the Mercury Theatre and the BBC. Even today, large listenerships exist in many countries including the United Kingdom and much of Europe, despite its loss of popularity in the United States. Even so, a few stations (KDVS in Davis, California and various satellite radio stations) still produce and air classic radio theatre. Thanks to advances in digital recording and internet distribution, radio drama and audio theatre is experiencing a revival of sorts in the form of podcasts and webcasts. This has allowed for independent production and experimental themes to be explored due to the lack of social and legal restrictions on massbroadcasting. Despite its old age and seemingly antiquated style, radio literature still has some legitimacy today, especially for a small, college radio station like ours.