Facts About Modern Audio Drama

•	Modern audio drama, which experienced a renaissance in the 1970s and early 1980s, has become increasingly popular yet again with the spread of the Internet: more independent radio stations, podcasts, and original theatre troupes exist than ever before. 

•	One of the most successful modern audio dramas of all time was the serialization of "Star Wars" for National Public Radio, with 750,000 listeners counted by Arbitron.

•	Many audio drama buffs get their daily or weekly fix through podcasts. "The Sonic Society" and "Radio Drama Revival" are two extremely successful anthology podcasts collecting work from around the globe. 

•	Audio drama is also carried by some public radio, through special and holiday shows carried by the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), regular shows such as "Radio Drama Revival", or syndicated shows such as the Los Angeles Theatre Works (LATW), regularly featuring top Hollywood stars in its plays. 

•	Sound Stages Radio is now the only all-modern audio drama station in North America, after XM-Sirius Book Radio closed down in the summer of 2013. 

•	Although modern audio drama is somewhat less known in the United States, it has enjoyed continued popularity in Great Britain, Canada, Germany, Israel, and New Zealand, as well as regionally through parts of Africa and Asia. 

•	Great Britain's most popular audio drama is "The Archers," which is BBC 4's top downloaded content, with more than a million "listens" recorded in just one month. 

•	Modern audio drama is increasingly represented in social media, where users create Facebook groups and post on Twitter with the hashtag #audiodrama

•	Jim Jordan, formerly "Fibber McGee" of Fibber McGee and Molly, inaugurated training for a new generation of audio dramatists in the 1970s, starting the Midwest Radio Workshop; this involved into the National Audio Theatre Festivals.