1st Edition

Writing Audio Drama

By Tim Crook Copyright 2023
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

Writing Audio Drama is a comprehensive and intelligent guide to writing sound drama for broadcasting and online production. The book uses new and original research on the history of writing radio plays in the UK and USA to explore how this has informed and developed the art form for more than 100 years. Audio drama in the context of podcasting is now experiencing a global and exponential... Read more

Chapter 1 Radio Drama is Born and In Its Cradle

Chapter 2 The Psychology of Writing and Listening

Chapter 3 Instrumental utilitarianism in radio playwriting- the evolving thoughts of Val Gielgud

Chapter 4 Achieving the Long Form Audio Drama

Chapter 5 Beginning the Sound Story

Chapter 6 Characterising the Sound Story

Chapter 7 Dialogue and the Sound Story

Chapter 8 Sustaining the Sound Story

Chapter 9 Plotting the Sound Story

Chapter 10 Ending the Sound Story

Chapter 11 Film, Internet and Stage dimensions to Sound Story Telling

Biography

Tim Crook is an author, playwright, journalist, and academic who pioneered British independent production in audio drama in the 1980s and 1990s with UK co-productions with NPR in the USA, and new writing festivals and competitions.