"Private Dreams and Public Nightmares: A Radiophonic Poem" (1957) by Daphne Oram, written by Frederick Bradnum, and produced by Donald McWhinnie
Private Dreams and Public Nightmares: A Radiophonic Poem was created in 1957 by Frederick Bradnum and Daphne Oram, and produced Donald McWhinnie. Soon after making this piece, Bradnum and Oram co founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Daphne Oram, who was an electronic musician and composter, was the first Studio Manager of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, which was primarily responsible for scoring and creating sound effects for BBC radio programs. A year later, Daphne Oram left the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to set up her own electronic music studio and made significant contributions to the world of electronic music.
- Introduced by Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow 2019/2020, Karen Werner.

"Langue Etude" (1991), "Couch" (1987), and "Ruby" (1993) by Susan Stone
American radio artist Susan Stone produced these three short pieces between 1985-1993. Stone had her start in radio at WBAI in NYC in 1979 producing a radio show called Radio Schizophonia with fellow radio artist Gregory Whitehead. Susan Stone was involved for many years with Pacifica Radio KPFA-FM in Berkley California. These days Susan works in restorative justice with youth offenders. The first of these three short pieces by Stone is a one I love called Langue Etude, which is two minutes long. Don’t be fooled by the short length of the piece; it is one that stays with you and has been influential in radio art circles. The piece conveys, among many things, the literal and metaphoric meanings of cutting tape. And the piece just makes me laugh! Susan Stone’s Couch is a stunning and spare radio drama and shows how much can be done in a radio art short in terms of bringing us into a new world. Stone explains that her pieces Langue Etude and Couch started as experimental “bits of ‘house furnishings’” in her longer 1985 work, House with a View. She adds, “Then in the following years I took the entire house apart to see what might be done differently with certain segments, especially for performance venues and broadcast.” Susan Stone’s Ruby is three minutes long and, as with Susan Stone’s other shorts, takes us far in a short time span. The piece showcases extraordinary writing, character development, acting, and editing.
- Introduced by Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow 2019/2020, Karen Werner.

The Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive is an online resource and broadcast series on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM, which is syndicated to stations across the country through The Radio Art Hour. It aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM/Shortwave broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or pirate transmission. The archive is a product of Wave Farm's Radio Artist Fellowship.

Radio artists explore broadcast radio space through a richly polyphonous mix of practices, including poetic resuscitations of conventional radio drama, documentary, interview and news formats; found and field sound compositions reframed by broadcast; performative inhabitations/embodiments of radio’s inherent qualities, such as entropy, anonymity and interference; playful celebrations/subversions of the complex relationship between senders and receivers, and the potential feedback loops between hosts and layers of audience, from in-studio to listeners at home to callers-in; use of radio space to bridge widely dispersed voices (be they living or dead), subjects, environments and communities, or to migrate through them in ways that would not be possible in real time and space; electroacoustic compositions with sounds primarily derived from gathering, generating and remixing radiophonic sources. Note: Wave Farm continues to expand this definition of radio art through engagement with contemporary practices including those revealed by Wave Farm Artists-in-residence, and the Radio Art Fellowship program.