Digitize This: Public Broadcasting and the Montreal Radio Drama Project (1930–1969)

Abstract

This article makes the case for digitalizing archives related to broadcasting history and speculates on the advantage the creation of a future online archive would have for access and multidisciplinary research. It describes a set of Montreal radio dramas and situates them in the larger paper archive containing Canadian English Language Radio Drama produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and predecessors between 1931 and 1968. It also provides a sociological description of the centralization process that occurred in the history of Canadian literary production and the cultural norms that are assumed to be “natural” when regional and urban cultural producers prepare dramatic creations for a national audience.

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