For the radio, the 1930s was a golden age ... It marked the advent of the soap opera, a running story that people could return to, with characters they could sympathise with and love.

Sometimes something old can feel refreshingly new. The soap opera is a genre older than the invention of the television, dating all the way back to radio serials of the early 20th century.

Natalie Moore takes us on a journey from the start of soap ... s radio airwaves to their evolution through television and today’s streaming platforms, Stories Without End unpacks how soap operas ...

Eighty years ago, a Cuban radio soap opera El Derecho de Nacer (The right ... Alexis Castillo, a congenitally blind 54-year-old listener, tunes in daily at his home in eastern Havana.