 | | | | | | | | |  |  |   | |  | | | | | Radio is an extraordinary medium. A radio play can travel through time and space, between centuries and continents. | |
| | | | | | | It can take place in an aeroplane, down a goldmine, on a ship; it can also take place within the confines of somebody's mind. All this can be done for a fraction of what it would cost to do the same in film. But in every case the audience has to be attracted, and its attention held, by the means of sound alone.
We asked two award-winning radio dramatists, Marcy Kahan and Mike Walker, to share their secrets and to explain what makes an effective radio play.
Themes
You can write on any subject. Your play can be set in the past, present or future. Try not to cram too much in, whether in terms of events or ideas.
"The diversity of plays that the BBC World Service puts out is a good pointer towards why one might think of radio as a good first port of call for an idea."
Marcy Kahan
"Television, for example, never does science fiction very well because it can't afford the production values that are required, whereas with radio you really do have a theatre as large as the universe in that sense. You're using the muscle of the listener's imagination - they're doing the work with you - and I think that's absolutely terrific."
Mike Walker
| |
| | | | |
|
