Writing Audio Drama by Tim Crook published by Routledge 31st March 2023
Book Description
Writing Audio Drama offers a comprehensive and intelligent guide to writing sound drama for broadcasting and online. This book uses 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 expansion. Through analysis of examples of past and present writing, the author explains how to create drama which can explore deeply psychological and intimate themes and achieve emotional, truthful, entertaining and thought-provoking impact. Practical analysis of the key factors required to write successful audio drama is covered in chapters focusing on audio play beginnings and openings, sound story dialogue, sustaining the sound story, plotting for sound drama, and the best ways of ending audio plays. Chapters are supported by online resources which expand visually on subjects discussed and point to exemplar sound dramas referenced in the chapters.
This textbook will be an important resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses such as Podcasting, Radio, Audio Drama, Scriptwriting, and Media Writing.
Giles Cooper Award winners
Best Radio Plays of 1978
Richard Harris: Is it Something I Said?
Don Haworth: Episode on a Thursday Evening
Jill Hyem: Remember Me
Tom Mallin: Halt! Who Goes There?
Jennifer Phillips: Daughters of Men
Fay Weldon: Polaris
Best Radio Plays of 1979
Shirley Gee: Typhoid Mary
Carey Harrison: I Never Killed my German
Barrie Keeffe: Heaven Scent
John Kirkmorris: Coxcomb
John Peacock: Attard in Retirement
Olwen Wymark: The Child
Best Radio Plays of 1980
Steward Parkeer: The Kamikaze Ground staff Reunion Dinner
Martyn Read: Waving to a Train
Peter Redgrove: Martyr of the Hives
William Trevor: Beyond the Pale
Best Radio Plays of 1981
Peter Barnes: The Jumping Mimuses of Byzantium
Don Haworth: Talk of Love and War
Harold Pinter: Family Voices
David Pownall: Beef
J. P. Rooney: The Dead Image
Paul Thain: The Biggest Sandcastle in the World
Best Radio Plays of 1982
Rhys Adrian: Watching the Plays Together
John Arden: The Old Man Sleeps Alone
Harry Barton: Hoopoe Day
Donald Chapman: Invisible Writing
Tom Stoppard: The Dog it was that Died
William Trevor: Autumn Sunshine
Best Radio Plays of 1983
Wally K. Daly: Time Slip
Shirley Gee: Never in my Lifetime
Gerry Jones: The Angels They Grow Lonely
Steve May: No Exceptions
Martyn Read: Scouting for Boys
Best Radio Plays of 1984
Stephen Dunstone: Who is Sylvia?
Robert Ferguson: Transfigured Night
Don Haworth: Daybreak
Caryl Phillips: The Wasted Years
Christopher Russell: Swimmer
Rose Tremain: Temporary Shelter
Best Radio Plays of 1985
Rhys Adrian: Outpatient
Barry Collins: King Canute
Martin Crimp: Three Attempted Acts
David Pownall: Ploughboy Monday
James Saunders: Menocchio
Michael Wall: Hiroshima: The Movie
Best Radio Plays of 1986
Robert Ferguson: Dreams, Secrets, Beautiful Lies
Christina Reid: The Last of a Dyin’ Race
Andrew Rissik: A Man Alone: Anthony
Ken Whitmore: The Gingerbread House
Valerie Windsor: Myths and Legacies
Best Radio Plays of 1987
Wally K. Daly: Mary’s
Frank Dunne: Dreams of Dublin Bay
Anna Fox: Nobby’s Day
Nigel D.Moffat: Lifetime
Richard Nelson: Languages Spoken Here
Peter Tinniswood: The Village Fete
Best Radio Plays of 1988
Ken Blakeson: Excess Baggage
Terence Frisby: Just Remembeer Two Things: It’s Not Fair and Don’t Be Late
Anthony Minghella: Cigarettes and Chocolate
Rona Munro: The Dirt under the Carpet
Dave Sheasby: Apple Blossom Afternoons
Best Radio Plays of 1989
Elizabeth Baines: The Baby Buggy
Jennifer Johnston: O Ananias, Azarias and Misael
David Zane Mairowitz: The Stalin Sonata
Richard Nelson: Eating Words
Craig Warner: By Where the Old Shed Used to Be
Best Radio Plays of 1990
Tony Bagley: The Machine
David Cregan: A butler Did It
John Fletcher:Death and the Tango
Tina Pepler: Song of the Forest
Steve Walker: The Pope’s Brother
Best Radio Plays of 1991
Robin Glendinning: The Words are Strange
John Purser: Carver
Tom Stoppard: In the Native State
Steve Walker: Mickey Mookey
Craig Warner: Figure with Meat