Sunday, December 14, 2008

Radio drama

Tyrone Guthrie, in the BBC Handbook for 1931: "An imaginative writer can build up a scene by subtle and ingenious word pictures, and for an imaginative listener, he will create illusions infinitely more romantic than the tawdry grottoes of the stage."
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Sarah said...

So I've actually been listening to Radio 4's Afternoon plays on a fairly regular basis, and I have to say that most of them are ghastly!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/afternoon_play.shtml

This one for instance:

Miracle Worker

By Katharine Way

Hannah Bradley’s only 17, but she’s a spiritual healer. It doesn’t seem strange to her; it’s what she was brought up to be. She’s healed many people; but maybe there’s one person she really needs to heal.

I want to believe that radio is a medium somehow resistant to many of the abject things that have happened to television drama, but so far, I'm not convinced...

December 19, 2008 at 9:42 AM

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