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  Radio drama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Radio drama (or audio drama, audio theater), which had its greatest popularity in most countries before the spread of television, depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the story in his "mind's eye".
Radio 4 in particular is noted for its radio drama, broadcasting hundreds of one-off plays per year in strands such as The Afternoon Play, in addition to serials and soap operas such as The Archers.
Radio drama can also be found on ACB radio produced by the American Council of the Blind and on XM Radio.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Radio_drama   (1614 words)

  
 Radio Drama, English-Language
Canadian radio drama has been in the vanguard of these developments, achieving flexibility in the representation of scenes and scene transitions, original music and depiction of character.
With the beginning of World War II the CBC Drama Department series became important instruments of war education and propaganda, and the project of centralizing prestige radio drama was begun.
Thus experimental radio drama, such as that currently being created in the Acoustic Art Studio of the WDR network in Germany and elsewhere (with techniques inspired by Glenn GOULD's drama-music-documentaries broadcast by CBC at the turn of the 1970s), has not found a place in CBC radio-drama schedules to the present.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0006642   (1119 words)

  
 Radio Drama - Television Tropes & Idioms
Many of the Golden Age radio dramas eventually made the move to television, and several co-existed on TV and radio.
Most Golden Age radio dramas suffer from some percentage of missing episodes, but, at least after the earliest days, these are surprisingly uncommon: Audio recording was cheap and the technology highly available, so recordings of 1930s and 1940s Radio Drama are available in much greater supply than their television contemporaries.
Radio Drama persists to this day, but only as a shadow of its former glory, mostly for nostalgia purposes.
www.tvtropes.org /pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RadioDrama   (811 words)

  
 Adapting Shakespeare for Radio Drama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This was for a workshop conducted by the Museum of Television and Radio.
When adapting stage dramas, since the action cannot be seen, it is sometimes necessary to add some brief narration to replace the stage direction and keep events clear in the minds of the audience.
In radio, the dialogue and narration contribute roughly 75% to the drama, with music another 15% and sound effects a paltry 10%.
www.ruyasonic.com /wrt_9adapt.htm   (1198 words)

  
 Writernet - What makes radio drama different?
Radio is very good at dramatising the contrast between what people say and what they think.
Equally, in the radio world there can be round squares, objects that are all fl and all white simultaneously, buildings so tall that their roofs hit the bottom of the earth.
This is particularly true on radio, when the actor's facial expressions cannot be seen, nor can their postures or movements; emotions and all other clues about a character's inner life are portrayed entirely by the vocal delivery.
www.writernet.co.uk /professional_development/radio_drama/what_makes_radio_drama_different.phtml   (1306 words)

  
 Henry Reed in British Radio Drama
Radio must realise that though it too [like the stage] may be the immediate medium through which a literature comes into being, even this literature will aim at a permanence beyond performance.
This is possibly because he felt that, since the radio audience's mode of listening and degree of imaginative participation are (or should be) more intense than those of a conventional theatre audience, a high degree of concentration and a proper emphasis on the spoken word can be achieved in radio without verse predominating.
Reed's radio drama certainly does not come to nothing, and if it is content to leave the medium technically much as it found it and is concerned predominantly with matters of creativity rather than being itself monumentally creative, it is preserved nonetheless by qualities we would be poorer without.
www.solearabiantree.net /namingofparts/radioplays.html   (10479 words)

  
 Audio Theater Workshop - Resources
This treatment is supposed to make everything clear to the radio audience and usually does, including a vivid impression that the character regards his companion as four years old or totally blind.
An article on the process of listening to radio drama, and the collaboration between the radio and the listener in creating the story.
Radio is much more direct [than television]; it's one to one, whereas [with] television you're talking not to an ear, you're talking to an eye - a mechanical eye.
www.greatnorthernaudio.com /audio_theater/radiocraft.html   (1655 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Radio Drama: Books: Tim Crook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Radio Drama brings together the practical skills needed for radio drama, such as directing, writing and sound design, with media history and communication theory.
Radio drama has been one of the most unappreciated and understated literary forms of the twentieth century and the purpose of this book is to demonstrate that this neglect should not continue into the twenty-first century.
The section on the role of improvised/live radio drama in phone-in programmes and hoaxes is brilliant and original.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415216036?v=glance   (1556 words)

  
 Audio Theatre/Radio Drama/Sonic Storytelling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
An award-winning radio drama artist and educator, he hosts this website to share the magic of telling stories via sound.
Tony's RuyaSonic Radio Drama Resources website is one of the most extensive collections of do-it-yourself information regarding radio drama and sound effects to be found on the Internet.
Radio Drama Resources - HOW TO - How to write, direct, produce, score, engineer and make sound effects for audio theatre.
www.ruyasonic.com   (332 words)

  
 Radio TimeLines - January to March
Radio in it's infancy was mostly, as Eric Barnouw refers to it, "potted palm presentations." That is, polite music and speeches one might hear at the turn of the century in polite conservatories of the upper-middle class.
The series was called the Sears Radio Theater and it was produced by Elliot Lewis, another former radio drama star.
The series had no focused star and used radio actors as needed to achieve their desired results: to offer a true adult science fiction series that was intended to appeal to children in any way.
www.otr.com /tl_jan_mar.shtml   (2850 words)

  
 Radio Drama St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
During radio's "Golden Age" from 1929 through the end of World War II, radio's comedy-variety, soap opera, and drama programs were a part of the daily lives of most Americans.
Radio nationalized ethnic, class, and regional accents, creating recognizable standard blueprints for how "Black," "Irish," "rich," and "rural" were supposed to sound.
Radio drama emerged in the late 1920s with the formation of national networks and the subsequent commercialization of the industry.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419101008   (444 words)

  
 BBC - Drama - Radio
Catch up with Radio 4's Drama and Readings from the last seven days, whenever you want.
There are dramas ranging from the experimental to the classics on Radio 3 - every Sunday evening at 8:00pm.
Plus, the Wire - new writing that pushes the boundaries of drama and narrative by first time writers for radio.
www.bbc.co.uk /drama/radio.shtml   (125 words)

  
 Writernet - Radio Drama
Owing in part to its great turnover of work, radio drama remains probably the most important supporter of new work and new writers in the country.
Radio drama has nurtured some of the most important contemporary writing talents from Harold Pinter to Caryl Churchill.
BBC Radio Drama is still the most dominant force in the production of plays for radio.
www.writernet.co.uk /professional_development/radio_drama/radio_drama.phtml   (283 words)

  
 SCENARIO for Radio-Drama: Aeneid Book I
Radio is now recognized as occupying a special and valuable niche in the world of the media, and Radio-Drama is currently being developed with remarkable results.
Radio Broadcast is available today as a well developed and reasonably inexpensive medium.
In the studio development of the actual "performance", the various talents and tracks of actor, reader, singer and studio effects manager are all subsumed into a quasi-orchestral ensemble, which is under the general hand of the director of the project, and under the immediate hand of the studio editor and mix-master.
community.middlebury.edu /~harris/dramapref.html   (4593 words)

  
 Hints on writing radio drama
The radio dramatist needs a creative interaction with the listener, and the ability of the radio dramatist to create a unique world in the listener's imagination is a special quality generally denied to TV viewers or theatregoers.
In radio the listener can be instantly transported inside the head of a character and can hear those secret, private thoughts that are often better left unsaid.
The key to writing successful plays for radio is to realise that the listener can only understand what is going on by what he or she hears.
www.irdp.co.uk /page7.htm   (714 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 4 - Arts and Drama Homepage
Francine Stock presents BBC Radio 4's programme for movie enthusiasts.
Radio 4's daily live magazine programme from reporting on the world of arts, books, film, media and music.
Radio 4 feels it would help writers to read these guidelines.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/arts   (361 words)

  
 Radio Plays,Radio Drama,BBC radio comedy,recordings,archive,DIVERSITY WEBSITE
Authors such as Henry Cecil, Giles Cooper, R.D.Wingfield became well-known for their radio work in the 60s and 70s, and the tradition has been continued, with David Pownall, Neville Teller, Martyn Wade, to name just three, providing really excellent entertainment on a regular basis.
There are enthusiasts all over the world who listen to BBC comedies, dramas and features, and some of them have interesting collections of recordings.
Before the year 2000, most radio plays (well over 90%) were not kept by the BBC; if they still exist it will be in private collections only.
web.ukonline.co.uk /suttonelms/RADIO1.HTML   (574 words)

  
 Radio Theater on the Web
Radio 2 is the home of the Dr. Who radio series.
Although I wouldn't agree, necessarily, with their claim that they do "the best radio drama in 50 years", they are producing a full hour each week in front of a live audience.
Radio drama, comedy, and the unexpected juxtaposition of audio works.
www.greatnorthernaudio.com /audio_theater/radio_theater.html   (3849 words)

  
 WGY and the Birth Of Radio Drama
That answer is spelled out in fascinating detail in the November 1923 issue of "Radio Broadcast" magazine -- and seems to establish the true birthplace of radio drama as Schenectady, New York -- home of the General Electric Company's station WGY.
Smith immediately went to work on an adaptation of a play by Eugene Walter, entitled "The Wolf." This three act drama was cut down to exactly forty minutes by focusing on the action of the second act, adding just enough of the material from the first and third acts to make the story comprehensible.
In agreeing to allow the adaptation, the playwright insisted that the presentation be given with a full cast, and Smith selected several of his colleagues from "The Masque" to play the roles: Viola Karwowska, Frank Finch, James S. Mullarkey, Henry Miller, and Smith himself.
www.midcoast.com /~lizmcl/wgy.html   (761 words)

  
 Audio Theater -
Audio Theater is the art form that was known as radio drama.
Radio Drama, now known as Audio Theater has survived through the efforts of many individual theater groups.
Radio drama, once an industry in this country as evolved into a craft, practiced by many small groups across the country, with or without a radio station to air their work.
www.audiotheater.com   (206 words)

  
 Category:Radio drama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An radio drama (audio drama) can be a broadcast on radio, or released on audio media, such as a CD.
The Japanese have a tradition of releasing media based drama CDs (see Radio Drama / Audio Drama in Japan).
There are 1 subcategories shown below (more may be shown on subsequent pages).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Radio_drama   (94 words)

  
 Radio Drama - 150,000 eBooks - eBookMall - World's Largest Selection!
Radio Drama brings together the practical skills needed for radio drama, sucha s directing, writing and sound design, with media history and communication theory.
Challenging the belief that sound drama is a 'blind medium', Radio Drama shows how experimentation in radio narrative has blurred the dividing line between fiction and reality in modern media.
Tim Crook illustrates how far radio drama has developed sinc the first 'audiophonic production' and evaluates the future of radio drama in the age of live phone-ins and immediate access to programmes on the Internet.
www.ebookmall.com /ebooks/radio-drama-crook-ebooks.htm   (271 words)

  
 Radio Drama Scripts for use in the Classroom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Most of the plays can be performed by twenty to thirty-five students as school assemblies or recorded for school use or even broadcast on your local radio station for students and their families to enjoy.
Topics include casting a play, understanding radio drama direction, suggestions on rehearsing your students for a successful play, understanding sound effects, how to use “Get Ready” cue cards, and learning about the pre-recorded music and sound effects CD that comes with each play.
This historical radio drama tells the compelling story of the Morrison family of Pidgeon Springs, Missouri, who make the dangerous overland journey by covered wagon to California in the year 1850.
callingcrane.com /scripts.html   (1369 words)

  
 CBC Radio | Sunday Showcase | Writers' Guidelines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The CBC has a long and celebrated history of producing long form radio drama, and this tradition continues on both Radio 1 and 2 with Sunday Showcase and Monday Night Playhouse.
Sunday Showcase radio plays are 52 minutes in length and, as a rule, are classically shaped dramas and comedies with a strong emphasis on story.
A radio play which has six ten-minute scenes, each set in a dining room, is likely to be less effective than a play which varies its scenes and settings.
www.cbc.ca /showcase/writersguide.html   (1084 words)

  
 Randy Parker: Radio Drama List
The program also is heard on Golden Hours Radio in the state of Oregon, the Companion Radio Network (transmitted to convalescent homes, veterans hospitals, and rehabilitation centers throughout the country), and Broadcast Services for the Blind (carried on the SAP channel of KTVU-TV in Oakland).
Subsequently, the drama was picked up by The Radio Works for broadcast on their U Network of over 50 stations in more than 25 states.
This psychological drama premiered locally on KUSF and BSB in October, 1995 and nationally on the Public Radio Satellite Network in November, 1995.
www.emusements.com /randy/Resume/radio_dramas.html   (2820 words)

  
 The Official Radio Tales® Website!
Featuring the award-winning artistry of composer Winifred Phillips and producer Winnie Waldron, Radio Tales® is a critically acclaimed drama series first heard on National Public Radio and now airing to the six million subscribers of XM Satellite Radio.
Radio Tales® presents dramas of ghosts, nightmares and the unexplained.
XM is America's number one satellite radio company with more than 6 million subscribers.
mywebpages.comcast.net /radiotales   (409 words)

  
 Dramapod.com
Audio dramas can be listened to on a computer, or downloaded to portable music devices including MP3 players and many of the newer mobile phones.
Dramapod has been designed to be a simple piece of social software for the audio drama podcasting community.
With that in mind, 'The First Law' is a sci-fi drama podcast, created by us here at Dramapod.com in the UK.
www.dramapod.com   (166 words)

  
 Radio Drama....Lives
Since the first dramatic radio recordings in 1904, radio drama has been with us for a century already.
It doesn’t matter who is right, but that radio drama is preserved, and we all enjoy what we listen to.
Lucas paid tribute to radio drama in a film called ‘Radioland Murders’ that focused on the premiere of a new series and the murder behind the scenes that drove the plot.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/western_collectibles/112831   (459 words)

  
 CBC Saskatchewan - Programs - Gallery - Youth Radio Drama Competition
Congratulations to the winners of the special centennial CBC Youth Drama Competition in the high school and elementary levels.
Winning plays will be developed by CBC radio producers, given full professional production, and will air on CBC Radio's Gallery in September 2005 as a part of this year's ongoing centennial celebrations.
This is the seventh year that CBC has held the Saskatchewan Youth Radio Drama competition.
www.cbc.ca /gallery/drama-winners.html   (292 words)

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