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23 apr 2020 · The First Radio Dramas. The first play written specifically for radio was A Comedy Of Danger, by Richard Hughes, which aired in January of 1924, commissioned by the BBC in Britain. In the U.S., it is believed that the first radio drama was a show called The Wolf, adapted from a play of Charles Sommerville by Eugene Walter, also in 1924.
- Characteristics of Radio Drama
- What Is The Most Famous Radio Drama?
- The Current State of Radio Drama
- What Makes A Good Radio Drama?
Radio drama has the same building blocks as a stage play. The difference is that since these elements are executed as radio dramas, they can’t convey visual information, so listeners need audio cues to help them imagine an accurate picture.
Perhaps the most famous (or infamous) radio drama is Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds, a radio adaptation of his popular novel. In 1938, the radio drama aired as part of Welles’s The Mercury Theatre on the Airseries. It was made to closely resemble a news broadcast in order to sound realistic. The opening announcement was the only part that contain...
Radio drama started to become popular in the 1920sand reached its peak popularity during the 1940s. However, the advent of television in the 1950s effectively stopped its growth, although it still remained a popular form of entertainment. It stayed in that frozen status until the internet brought us new ways to listen to old media. Old and new radi...
The best radio dramas always deliver strong narratives to make up for the lack of visual elements. The story must engage the listener’s imagination with just a few lines, enticing them to finish the drama in full. These quality plots must then be emphasized with a mixture of good acting, sound effects, and music. However, great radio dramas also re...
Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading international popular entertainment. With the advent of television in the 1950s radio drama began losing its audience. However, it remains popular in much of the world.
10 mag 2024 · The Strange Survival of Radio Drama. Despite speculation its days were numbered, newly-released BBC oral history interviews help us to understand how the battle to save BBC radio drama...
4 mag 2023 · A contextual guide to radio drama. History of radio drama -- Case study: Mercury Theatre on the air's "War of the worlds" -- Theories of radio drama -- Case study 2: The revenge and A pot calling the kettle black -- Radio drama in the contemporary world -- Case study: We're alive: a story of survival (2009 onwards) -- A practical ...
Radio drama emerged in the late 1920s with the formation of national networks and the subsequent commercialization of the industry. In the Radio Act of 1927, the United States government endorsed commercial over government ownership of radio by favoring the networks in allocating wavelengths.
The history of radio drama is to a large extent a history of theorising the radio medium; it charts the discovery of the nature of radio and its relationship to the listener. Radio plays began as plays on radio. In the early days of radio, few writers thought to write specifically for radio.
