RADIO DRAMA RESEARCH

By Lisa Figueira

CONTENTSC L I C K F O R D E S I R E D P A G E …

Who listens to Radio Dramas?

History of radio drama

Important milestones

Types of radio dramas

WHO LISTENS TO RADIO DRAMAS?

Radio dramas tend to be listened to by people of 35

years of age and over, there percentages of listeners

who are below 35 tend to be rather low.

When it comes to gender there is an even amount

of men as there are women listening and in the case

of radio 4 there are more men that women.

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HISTORY OF RADIO DRAMA

“Radio drama achieved widespread popularity

within a decade of its initial development in the

1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading international

popular entertainment.”

Perhaps America's most famous radio drama

broadcast is Orson Welles's The War of the Worlds, a

1938 version of the H. G. Wells novel, which

convinced large numbers of listeners that an actual

invasion from Mars was taking place.

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IMPORTANT MILESTONES

An important turning point in radio drama came

when Schenectady, New York's WGY, after a

successful tryout on August 3, 1922, began weekly

studio broadcasts of full-length stage plays in

September 1922, using music, sound effects and a

regular troupe of actors.

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TYPES OF RADIO DRAMAS

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