Ages and ages ago - like maybe 60 some years - my Mother became hooked one summer on radio soaps.
She admiited that she would have been embarrassed about her "addiction," but made sure that she listened every day!
Of course, one could probably have listened only on Friday, and been as "up-to-date" as those who listened every day!
But, since she didn't believe that, I was recruited (for which you should understand, "instructed") to listen for several days when she had friends visiting, and to report "in detail" (and, for sure, in private) what had happened. And, of course, I was never, ever to let her friends know that she had even the smallest interest!
These were the 15 minutes a day soaps, the forerunners of the now lamented tv soaps.
SWR
