Encyclopedia > Radio drama

  Article Content

Radio drama

A radio drama or radio play is a play to listen to (i.e. with sound only), for radio broadcasting. They were especially popular before there was television. They were often live.

Probably the two most famous radio dramas are Under Milk Wood[?], a 'Play for Voices' by Dylan Thomas, and (in the US) Orson Welles's version of War of the Worlds, originally a book by H. G. Wells. Radio drama is still popular-much more popular than televisual plays, and adaptations include the work of Shakespeare and other playwrights.

Radio dramas can be regularly heard on the Canadian Broadcasting Company, Radio 1.

See also Sound effect.

External Links

"CBC radio drama home page" (http://cbc.ca/radiodrama/)



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Islandia, New York

... Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 4.94% from other races, and 2.91% from two or more races. 19.10% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 1,007 ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 25.4 ms