May 21, 2004

Return With Us Now to Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear: Radio Studies Rise Again

By THOMAS DOHERTY

I love old radio stories, and I have a million of them," sighs the narrator of Woody Allen's Radio Days (1987), a sepia-toned, rose-colored homage to the romance of a lost mass-com past. "Now it's all gone ... except for the memories."

That so touching an elegy to vintage radio would be delivered from the motion-picture screen is both ironic and fitting. Of all the communications revolutions born of the 20th century, radio may be the most elusive and ephemeral. Slick magazines come

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