Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Audio Drama and Modernism--Gordon Lea 1926, the first manifesto.- Chapter 3 Radio Drama and the Avant-Garde--Lance Sieveking 1934, the second manifesto.- Chapter 4 The Modernist Turn in Literature and Radio Studies--how it changes understanding of the history of sound drama.- Chapter 5 Bridging Political Modernism between Descriptive Phonographs, 1920s political BBC radio drama and the 1930s agitational radio features.- Chapter 6 Modernist Phonograph Drama in a Belfast Street and a Montage on War--The sonic genius of Russell Hunting.- Chapter 7 Great War Descriptive Sketches.- Chapter 8 Angels of Mons and the Divine Service for King and Country.

- Chapter 9 Are the Sound Drama Phonographs Examples of 'Modernist' Propaganda?.- Chapter 10 Reginald Berkeley--Pioneering Modernist Playwright and Political Radio Drama as Agitational Contemporaneity.- Chapter 11 Direct BBC censorship of modernist texts by D.G Bridson and his negotiation with Joan Littlewood and Olive Shapley of 'institutional containment'.- Chapter 12 Conclusions: Sound drama as political and agitational contemporaneity and modernist expression.