Acoustic drift: radio and the literary imagination -- Prestige radio: the Columbia workshop and the poetics of sound -- Mercury rising: Orson Welles and the master's voice -- You are there: Edward R. Murrow and the proximity effect -- The screaming woman -- The museum of jurassic radio: sonic excess in Dylan Thomas and Samuel Beckett -- Radio as music: Glenn Gould's contrapuntal sound -- All things reconsidered: the promise of NPR.