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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.

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Intimately involved in radio drama as a writer, director, and producer of plays, series, and documentaries, Crook (Univ. of London, UK) has written a history of radio drama in the US, Britain, Canada, and Australia. As an unusual source on a neglected topic, the book has appeal for budding radio playwrights and scholars of older communication technologies because it combines historical perspectives with a unique handbook of guidelines for drama production, including dialogue and feature documentary writing, directorial advice, production management, and experimental direction and performance of improvised and interactive series. For the communications scholar, the most valuable portion of the book will be theoretical material on the place of radio drama as a medium that is "not blind," a medium that challenges notions of fact and fiction. The bibliography includes secondary works, publications that list award winners for various best radio plays (1978-96), contact directories, newspaper and journal articles, published radio programs, and archival sources for published works on radio, film video, and CD-ROM. Crook also lists Internet publications and Web sites, radio sources for online drama, and masters' and doctoral theses on radio drama. For professionals and all academic libraries supporting the study of media, old and new. S. G. Williamson; University of Pennsylvania