ABSTRACT
A range of alternative images of radio and its social uses continued to be explored in the second half of the 1920s. Although the concept of wireless as a domestic receiver for mass messages from a central source had clearly begun to dominate official and popular discussions by 1926, the content of the messages to be transmitted and the mode in which they should be communicated had then to be decided. As Brecht observed, ‘it was suddenly possible to say anything to everybody, but thinking about it, there was nothing to say’.1
