Although viewed as a soap opera from Radio’s Golden Age, Claudia actually proves to be more than that. With very few of the “tune in tomorrow” hooks that most soaps used to lure listeners back the next day, people returning to Claudia instead came back for the interesting, fully developed characters, the light-hearted banter between them, and the familiarity of their day-to-day situations. Rather than suffering with or feeling superior to them, the characters were, instead, simply the sort of people you enjoyed spending time with. Listeners sympathized with Claudia and David Naughton as they worked together to figure out how to live together in marriage and a world neither quite understood. Claudia, Volume 11 clearly shows how characters can really grow and mature in the space of fifteen minutes a day!
