Querido, Pedro2021-03-082021-03-082019http://hdl.handle.net/10451/46705In this article, I set out to examine the ontological instability of mid-twentieth century artistic works written for the medium of radio that derives from the tension between transient sound and permanent text. I explore how the evanescence commonly associated with sound in general and radio in particular caused mid-twentieth century radio practitioners like Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Tom Stoppard to strive for both the simplicity of a superficially intelligible aural text and the complexity stemming from the thematisation of ambiguity and epistemological uncertainty.engThird ProgrammeBritainRadioEphemeralityIntelligibilityAmbiguityjournal articlehttps://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/13140