This page is dedicated to a curated collection of acoustic radio features produced by widely acknowledged, modern radio greats. They were early explorers of a form that relied on sound to tell much of the story.  Starting in the 1960s in Europe and the 1970s in America, pioneering producer-storytellers began to explore the inherent attributes of radio as a means of conveying stories. Rather than radio’s legacy format and television’s dreary “talking head” structure, sound was, at last, ascendant. The old-style pedantic narrator followed by an interview clip, repeated over and over was under assault. As technology developed that allowed the recording and transmission of excellent high-definition sound, true audio storytelling was born. Leading the way in Europe was Peter Leonhard Braun, working at Sender Freies Berlin, a German powerhouse of radio feature production. In 1974, he and a small handful of his contemporaries began hosting an “International Feature Conference”, an exclusive gathering of some of the best producers in the world. They listened to each other’s work and explored the future of radio “features”. They were the international pioneers of a radio sea-change–a revival of radio–in America and around the world…

Many of these high-quality recordings are difficult or impossible to find elsewhere…