British Radio Drama

by John Drakakis

Author	: John Drakakis
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 300
Release	: 1981
Genre	: Drama
ISBN	: 9780521293839

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There has been little serious attempt in Britain to deal critically and historically with the subject of radio drama. This volume of essays concentrates upon a small group of influential writers who have devoted all or part of their attention to writing plays for radio. The introduction charts the development of radio drama since its inception in the 1920s and its changing relationships with the theatre and later with television. It shows how the early ideal of broadcasting significant works of established literature and drama helped to provide a broad foundation for the growth of a body of dramatic literature which fully exploited the medium's reliance upon sound alone. Separate contributions contain full appraisals of the radio writing of Louis MacNeice, Dylan Thomas and Henry Reed, while detailed studies of particular aspects of the work of Dorothy L. Sayers, Susan Hill, Giles Cooper and Samuel Beckett explore the practical as well as the critical issues involved in the study of radio drama.

The Lord of the Rings

by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Author	: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher	:
Total Pages	:
Release	: 1994
Genre	: Baggins, Frodo (Fictitious character)
ISBN	:

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Radio Drama

by Tim Crook

Author	: Tim Crook
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 309
Release	: 2002-01-04
Genre	: Social Science
ISBN	: 113460694X

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Radio Drama brings together the practical skills needed for radio drams, such as 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. Using extracts from scripts and analysing radio broadcasts from America, Britain, Canada and Australia, the book explores the practicalities of producing drama for radio. Tim Crook illustrates how far radio drama has developed since the first 'audiophonic production' and evaluates the future of radio drama in the age of live phone-ins and immedate access to programmes on the Internet.

The Radio Drama Handbook

by Richard J. Hand

Author	: Richard J. Hand
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages	: 241
Release	: 2011-09-01
Genre	: Social Science
ISBN	: 1441187421

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Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio

by David Addyman

Author	: David Addyman
Publisher	: Springer
Total Pages	: 314
Release	: 2017-03-30
Genre	: Literary Criticism
ISBN	: 1137542659

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This book is the first sustained examination of Samuel Beckett’s pivotal engagements with post-war BBC radio. The BBC acted as a key interpreter and promoter of Beckett’s work during this crucial period of his "getting known" in the Anglophone world in the 1950s and 1960s, especially through the culturally ambitious Third Programme, but also by the intermediary of the house magazine, The Listener. The BBC ensured a sizeable but also informed reception for Beckett’s radio plays and various “adaptations” (including his stage plays, prose, and even poetry); the audience that Beckett's works reached by radio almost certainly exceeded in size his readership or theatre audiences at the time. In rethinking several key aspects of his relationship with the BBC, a mix of new and familiar Beckett critics take as their starting point the previously neglected BBC radio archives held at the Written Archive Centre in Caversham, Berkshire. The results of this extended reassessment are timely and, in many cases, quite surprising for readers of Beckett and for scholars of radio, “late modernism,” and post-war British culture more broadly.

Audionarratology

by Lars Bernaerts

Author	: Lars Bernaerts
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 248
Release	: 2021
Genre	: Narration (Rhetoric)
ISBN	: 9780814214725

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Radio drama has been around for more than one hundred years and is still vibrant in many countries. A narrative-dramatic genre and art form in its own right, radio drama has traditionally crossed medial and generic boundaries and continues to do so in our age of digitization. Audionarratology: Lessons from Audio Drama, edited by Lars Bernaerts and Jarmila Mildorf, explores radio drama from a narratological angle. The contributions cover key questions surrounding audiophonic meaning-making, storyworld creation, mediation, focalization, suspense, unreliability, and ambiguity as well as the relationship between script and performance, seriality, antinarrative tendencies, and radio drama's political implications now and in its early days. The book thus explores the interplay between sound, voices, music, language, silence, electroacoustic manipulation, and narrative structures. Providing examples from American, Australian, British, Dutch, and German radio drama--such as I Love a Mystery, The War of the Worlds, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--this book has important insights for scholars working in transmedial narratology, media studies, literary and cultural studies, theatre and performance studies, and communication studies as well as for practitioners and lovers of radio drama alike.

Plain Murder

by C.S. Forester

Author	: C.S. Forester
Publisher	: eNet Press
Total Pages	: 190
Release	: 2012-03-22
Genre	: Fiction
ISBN	: 1618861476

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London in the 1920s is a grim place for the unemployed, so three men decide to off their boss when they are caught taking bribes. All expect the fuss will end with one well-planned crime, until their leader acquires a taste for murder.

British Radio Drama, 1945-63

by Hugh Chignell

Author	: Hugh Chignell
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages	: 197
Release	: 2021-02-25
Genre	: Performing Arts
ISBN	: 1501377221

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British Radio Drama, 1945-1963 reveals the quality and range of the avant-garde radio broadcasts from the 'golden age' of British radio drama. Turning away from the cautious and conservative programming that emerged in the UK immediately after World War II, young generations of radio producers looked to French theatre, introducing writers such as Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco to British radio audiences. This 'theatre of the absurd' triggered a renaissance of writing and production featuring the work of Giles Cooper, Rhys Adrian and Harold Pinter, as well as the launch of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Based on primary archival research and interviews with former BBC staff, Hugh Chignell places this high-point in the BBC's history in the broader context of British post-war culture, as norms of morality and behavior were re-negotiated in the shadow of the Cold War, while at once establishing the internationalism of post-war radio and theatre.

British Radio Drama, 1945-63

by Hugh Chignell

Author	: Hugh Chignell
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages	: 197
Release	: 2019-09-19
Genre	: Performing Arts
ISBN	: 1501329707

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British Radio Drama, 1945-1963 reveals the quality and range of the avant-garde radio broadcasts from the 'golden age' of British radio drama. Turning away from the cautious and conservative programming that emerged in the UK immediately after World War II, young generations of radio producers looked to French theatre, introducing writers such as Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco to British radio audiences. This 'theatre of the absurd' triggered a renaissance of writing and production featuring the work of Giles Cooper, Rhys Adrian and Harold Pinter, as well as the launch of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Based on primary archival research and interviews with former BBC staff, Hugh Chignell places this high-point in the BBC's history in the broader context of British post-war culture, as norms of morality and behavior were re-negotiated in the shadow of the Cold War, while at once establishing the internationalism of post-war radio and theatre.