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Radio was the first-ever form of home-based mass entertainment. Plenty has been written about its history from the broadcasters' point of view, but what did the first listeners make of the newcomer? First-person testimony from the 'Golden Age of Radio' is scant but a recent discovery in the Bodleian Library in Oxford is now providing far more detail and colour - all of it very lively and some of it rather unexpected. In 1938, the ��ѿ��ý commissioned two Bristol-based women called Hilda Jennings and Winifred Gill to conduct a grassroots survey on the impact of broadcasting on everyday life. They published a useful pamphlet on their findings. Winifred Gill left her archive to the Bodleian Library in Oxford where producer Beaty Rubens recently uncovered the two hand-written exercise books in which she had kept her research material, much of which didn't make the final cut. Recorded in front of an audience and to accompany a major exhibition at the Bodleian Library, actors have brought this material to life, while an archive-based musical soundtrack by composer Emily Levy gives an impression of the impact of radio on British homes. Actors: Alison Reid, Alice Lamb, Andrew McGillan, Zara Ramm Musicians: Matthew Bourne, Richard Ormrod Producer for Just Radio: Beaty Rubens