Host Your Own Old Time Radio Drama
Drama for the dinner table
As a person who has a hearing loss (deaf in one ear) I always feel a little awkward sharing thoughts on sound. After all, there are whole bands of sound-frequencies that I can’t detect that are available to everyone else, so who am I to express an opinion? However, my inability to detect certain pitches, […]
Performing Audio Drama In our last lesson we looked at reading and understanding radio drama scripts. We learned about three act structure, character arcs, and the key plot and character points to be found in a script. We also learned to recognize and follow directions in a script and take part in a live script […]
Hi folks, This is a special edition of our audio drama showcase highlighting radio material referred to in our forthcoming series of lessons on Audio Drama for schools. Winston Churchill’s “fight them on the beaches” speech is credited with galvanising the United Kingdom into resisting German aggression. While the speech was never broadcast live (as […]
Hi folks, I’m taking another look this week at the advice offered by Erik Barnouw in his Handbook of Radio Writing (1947). This time the attention is focused on dialog. Dialog is the heart and soul fo a radio play. Mr Barnau provides some great advice (particularly regarding casting). This was a particularly useful chapter […]
Hi folks, I’m taking another look this week at the advice offered by Erik Barnouw in his Handbook of Radio Writing (1947). This time the attention is focused on narration. I don’t use a lot of narration in my plays generally (occasionally to introduce the play and in my Fantasy Noir serial I make use […]
