List of radio soap operas

Table columns:
Show
Region/country
Began
Ended
Creator
Ref.

Table rows:
cells: Adopted Daughter
United States
1939
1941
Jettabee Anne Hopkins
cells: The Affairs of Dr Gentry
1957
1959
[3]
cells: Against the Storm
United States
1939
1952
Sandra Michael
[3]
cells: Amanda of Honeymoon Hill
United States
1940
1946
Frank and Anne Hummert
[3]
cells: The Archers
United Kingdom
1951
Present
Godfrey Baseley
cells: Arnold Grimm's Daughter
United Kingdom
1937
1942
Margaret Sangster
[4]
cells: Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories
United States
1937
1955
[4]
cells: Aunt Mary
United States
1942
1951
Leigh and Virginia Crosby & Gil South
[3]
cells: Bachelor's Children
United States
1935
1946
Bess Flynn
[3]
cells: Backstage Wife
United States
1935
1959
Frank and Anne Hummert
[3]
cells: Barry Cameron
1945
1946
Richard, Leonard, and Peggy Blake
cells: Betty and Bob
United States
1932
1940
Frank and Anne Hummert
[3]
cells: Big Sister
United States
1936
1952
Julian Funt, Carl Bixby, Bob Newman and Bill Sweets
[3]
cells: Bob and Victoria
1947
1947
Lee and Virginia Crosby & Gil South
[4]
cells: Brave Tomorrow
United States
1943
1944
Ruth Adams Knight
[4]
cells: Brenda Curtis
United States
1939
1940
Ken Roberts
[4]
cells: Bright Horizon
United States
1941
1945
James and Elizabeth Hart, John M. Young, Ted Maxwell, Stuart Hawkins, and Kathleen Norris
[3]
cells: The Brighter Day
United States
1948
1956
Irna Phillips
[3]
cells: The Carters of Elm Street
United States
1939
1940
Mona Kent
[4]
cells: Central City
United States
1938
1941
Frank and Anne Hummert
[3]
cells: The Colcloughs
United Kingdom
1991 2016
1993 Present
Mike Hopwood
cells: Citizens
United Kingdom
1987
1991
BBC
cells: City Soap
United Kingdom
2005
2008
Preston Fm
cells: Clara, Lu, and Em
United States
1930
1942
Louise Starkey, Isobel Carothers and Helen King
[3]
cells: College Road
Ireland
2009
2009
MightyStudent
[3]
cells: Dan Harding's Wife
United States
1936
1938
Ken Robinson
[3]
cells: David Harum
United States
1936
1950
Frank and Anne Hummert
[3]
cells: Doc Barclay's Daughters
United States
1939
1940
Frank and Anne Hummert
[3]
cells: The Doctor's Wife
1952
1956
cells: Front Line Family
United Kingdom / Canada
1941
1948
cells: Front Page Farrell
United States
1941
1954
Frank and Anne Hummert
[3]
cells: Girl Alone
United States
1935
1941
Fayette Krum
[3]
cells: The Goldbergs
United States
1929
1950
Gertrude Berg
[4]
cells: The Guiding Light
United States
1937
1956 [5]
Irna Phillips
[3]
cells: Helpmate
United States
1941
1944
Frank and Anne Hummert
[3]
cells: Her Honor, Nancy James
1938
1939
[4]
cells: Hilltop House
1937, 1948
1941, 1957
Edward Wolf
[4][6]
cells: Into the Light
1941
1942
Larry Bearson
[4]
cells: Jane Arden
United States
1938
1939
[4]
cells: John's Other Wife
1936
1942
Frank and Anne Hummert
[4]
cells: Joyce Jordan, M.D.
United States
1938
1956
[3]
cells: Judy and Jane
United States
1932
1935
Frank and Anne Hummert
[4]
cells: Just Plain Bill
United States
1932
1955
Frank and Anne Hummert
[4]
cells: Kate Hopkins Angel of Mercy
1940
1942
Gertrude Berg and Chester McCracken
[4]
cells: Kitty Foyle
United States
1942
1944
[3]
cells: Kitty Keene, Incorporated
United States
1937
1941
Day Keene and Lester Huntly
cells: The Life and Love of Dr. Susan
1939
1939
Edith Meiser
[4]
cells: Life Begins
1940
1941
[4]
cells: Life Can Be Beautiful
United States
1938
1954
Don Becker and Carl Bixby
[4]
cells: Life of Mary Sothern
1934
1938
Don Becker
[4]
cells: The Light of the World
United States
1940
1950
[3]
cells: Linda's First Love
1939
ca. 1950
[4]
cells: Lone Journey
1940
1952
Sandra Michael
[4]
cells: Lonely Women
United States
1942
1943
Irna Phillips
cells: Lora Lawton
United States
1943
1950
[3]
cells: Lorenzo Jones
United States
1937
1955
[3]
cells: Ma Perkins
United States
1933
1960
Frank and Anne Hummert
[3]
cells: Matysiakowie
Poland
1956
present
Jerzy Janicki
cells: Mrs Dale's Diary
United Kingdom
1948
1969
Jonqil Antony
cells: Myrt and Marge
United States
1931
1942
Myrtle Vail
[3]
cells: "Newarkers"
United Kingdom
2013
2013
Radio Newark
cells: The O'Neills
United States
1935
1943
[3]
cells: One Man's Family
United States
1932
1959
Carlton E. Morse
[3]
cells: Our Gal Sunday
United States
1936
1959
[3]
cells: Painted Dreams
United States
1930
1943
Irna Phillips
[7]
cells: Pepper Young's Family
United States
1932
1959
Elaine Sterne Carrington
[3]
cells: Perry Mason
United States
1943
1955
Erle Stanley Gardner
[3]
cells: Portia Faces Life
United States
1940
1952
[3]
cells: Pretty Kitty Kelly
United States
1937
1940
[3]
cells: The Right to Happiness
United States
1939
1960
Irna Phillips
[3]
cells: The Road of Life
United States
1937
1959
Irna Phillips
[3]
cells: The Romance of Helen Trent
United States
1933
1960
Frank and Anne Hummert
[4]
cells: Rosemary
United States
1944
1955
Elaine Sterne Carrington
[3]
cells: The Second Mrs. Burton
United States
1946
1960
[3]
cells: Silver Street
United Kingdom
2004
2010
cells: Staying Well in Camberwell
United States
2011
2011
Cheryl L. Davis [8]
[9][10]
cells: Stella Dallas
United States
1937
1955
[3]
cells: The Story of Mary Marlin
United States
1935
1952
[3]
cells: The Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters
United States
1944
1952
[3]
cells: This is Nora Drake
United States
1947
1959
[3]
cells: Today's Children
United States
1933
1938
Irna Phillips
[3]
cells: Today's Children (second series)
United States
1943
1950
Irna Phillips (Dialogue by Virginia Cooke)
[3]
cells: Valiant Lady
United States
1938
1952
[3]
cells: Waggoners' Walk
United Kingdom
1969
1980
cells: We Love and Learn
United States
1942
1956
[3]
cells: Wendy Warren and the News
United States
1947
1958
[3]
cells: Westway
United Kingdom
1997
2005
cells: When a Girl Marries
United States
1939
1957
Elaine Sterne Carrington
[3]
cells: The Woman in My House
United States
1951
1959
[3]
cells: Woman in White
United States
1938
1948
[3]
cells: A Woman of America
United States
1943
1945
[3]
cells: You Me Now
New Zealand
2010
2012
Radio New Zealand and All The Way Home Productions
[3]
cells: Young Doctor Malone
United States
1939
1960
Irna Phillips
[3]
cells: Young Widder Brown
United States
1938
1956
Frank Hummert and Anne Hummert
[3]
cells: Your Family and Mine
United States
1938
1940
[4]

Questions about this table:
originalText: what was the first soap opera on radio
answer: answerTexts: Adopted Daughter