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4 unusual facts about Radio drama


Geoffrey Beevers

He has also appeared in some of the Big Finish Productions audio dramas based on Doctor Who (Dust Breeding, Master, Trail of the White Worm, The Oseidon Adventure, Mastermind and The Light at the End).

Mr. District Attorney

District Attorney is a popular radio crime drama which aired on NBC and ABC from April 3, 1939 to June 13, 1952 (and in transcribed syndication through 1953).

Pinto Colvig

Vance DeBar "Pinto" Colvig (September 11, 1892 – October 3, 1967) was an American vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor and circus performer, whose schtick was playing the clarinet off-key while mugging.

The Bothersome Man

The story for the film was originally written for radio theatre, two years before it was adapted for the screen.


Christian radio

Radio drama programs, long dead in most other radio formats, continue to be transmitted on Christian radio; notable examples include long-running Adventures in Odyssey and Unshackled! and relative newcomers such as Down Gilead Lane and A Work in Progress.

CJFR

Although primarily concerned with talk and news programming, CJFR re-broadcasts older radio dramas, Jazz and Big Band music in the late-evening.

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Call of Cthulhu

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Call of Cthulhu is a modern radio drama performed by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, based on the short story "The Call of Cthulhu" by H. P. Lovecraft.

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Dunwich Horror

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Dunwich Horror is a 2008 radio drama performed by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, and based on the short story "The Dunwich Horror" by H. P. Lovecraft.

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Shadow Out of Time

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Shadow Out of Time is a radio drama performed by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, and based on the novella The Shadow Out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft.

Leanne Rowe

Rowe's radio drama work includes Avoid London, Loving, Forget Me Not, One Chord Wonders, Roald Dahl's The Witches and To Sir with Love.

The Cabinet of Dr. Fritz

The Cabinet of Dr. Fritz was a 1984-85 binaural radio drama series produced by Thomas Lopez and the ZBS Foundation for NPR.

The Return of the Sorcerer

It was also adapted for radio in an episode starring Tucker Smallwood and Ron Bottitta produced for the revival of the classic radio series Suspense, which premiered on Sirius XM Radio in November 2012.

WOBC-FM

WOBC airs an eclectic mix of music and public affairs programming including new and old pop music, punk, folk, classical, blues, R&B, metal, hip-hop, jazz, electronic, radio dramas, talk shows, and news including the independently syndicated news program Democracy Now!.


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2NBC

In 2008 the City of Hurstville and 2NBC teamed up to record The Tales from Dragonhurst, a local history radio drama.

Biyi Bandele

As a playwright, Bandele has worked with the Royal Court Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, as well as writing radio drama and screenplays for television.

Danielle Judovits

She also voiced Aubrey Shepard on the hit radio drama Adventures in Odyssey.

Darren Copeland

He created an adaptation of August Strindberg's (1849–1912) play A Dream Play (1901), which became the first radio drama at CBC conceived for broadcast in Surround 5.1.

Donald Pomerleau

It even became a matter for local humor as one time at an event, Mayor William Donald Schaefer, showed up with a long black cape draped and curled around his body and arm, topped by a black slouch fedora hat of the 1940's detective-style novels and cartoons or the old prime-time radio drama "The Shadow" with character "Lamont Cranston".

Flight to Arras

The work was later adapted, by Rod Wooden, in 1998 as a radio drama by BBC Radio 4, with David Threlfall playing the role of the pilot.

Four Star Playhouse

The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here (under that title, 25 February 1954), as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat (titled "Search in the Night," 5 November 1953).

Fran Striker

He began a long association with station owner George W. Trendle and radio station WXYZ in Detroit, which was trying to make a name for itself as a producer of radio drama, creating and writing the early series Thrills of the Secret Service, Dr. Fang, and Warner Lester, Manhunter (which introduced Mike Axford, later a supporting character on The Green Hornet).

In 1929, he moved to WTAM in Cleveland, Ohio, where he served as announcer and continuity writer and wrote his first radio drama script, a biography of Stephen Foster.

Hellmut Lange

Hellmut Lange started his acting career on radio drama shows for the West-German Radio Station SFB (Sender Freies Berlin= Radio Free Berlin).

Hill Blackett

Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s Blackett-Sample-Hummert were responsible for a succession of radio drama series, mostly produced by Hummert and his assistant Anne Ashenhurst, whom Hummert later married, including Little Orphan Annie, Just Plain Bill and Ma Perkins.

Interstellar ark

Episode 30 of the radio drama Dimension X, "Universe", featured a seed ship whose human population had split into the lower deck inhabitants and the upper deck inhabitants.

Jonathan Ruffle

At one time Steve Wright's and Simon Bates’s radio producer on BBC Radio 1, he left to produce the acclaimed BBC radio drama version of Len Deighton’s Bomber, and the award-winning 1995 Channel 4 documentary Edward VIII: The Traitor King.

Joy Shelton

Jonathan Tafler has been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the BBC Radio Drama Company and features in the Barbra Streisand film Yentl.

Keri Davies

In 1998, he spent some time in Phnom Penh where he trained Cambodian health educators in radio drama scriptwriting.

Maciej Drygas

Drygas is currently director of the radio drama section at the Reportage Laboratory at Warsaw University and also teaches regularly at the Łódź Film School.

Martin Grams, Jr.

After The CBS Radio Mystery Theater, co-authored with Gordon Payton for McFarland Publishers, Grams followed with Radio Drama (McFarland), The Have Gun – Will Travel Companion, co-authored with Les Rayburn, and The Alfred Hitchcock Presents Companion (OTR Publishing, 2000), a 660-page survey of Alfred Hitchcock Presents with a complete episode guide.

Moribito series

The first novel in the series, Guardian of the Spirit, has been adapted into numerous media, including a radio drama, manga series, and an anime adaption.

Nagmamahal, Manay Gina

The TV show/radio drama/tabloid column is hosted, anchored and written by Gina de Venecia also known as Manay Gina.

Palad

Gulong ng Palad (Wheel of Fortune) is a Philippine 50's radio drama series and 1980s soap opera hit.

Peter Groeger

After a study of direction in Moscow, he came to the broadcast of the GDR, where he was responsible for foreign radio plays as Head of International radio drama.

Pira-pirasong Pangarap

The plight of battered women and children whose lives were transformed by The Haven for Women (an establishment of the nine-building in Alabang. It was inaugurated in September 30, 1995. Its main goal is to rehabilitate the abused women and help them to reclaim their God-given right to live with dignity) served as inspiration for her to come up a radio drama program entitled Pira-pirasong Pangarap, launched in June 1996 on DZRH.

This also caused the Pira-piraso... radio drama to moved from DZRH to Super Radyo DZBB, the AM Radio station of GMA Network.

Raymond Ramcharitar

Ramcharitar's play Paradiso was one of three winners of the Warehouse Theatre's 2002 International Playwriting Festival, and he was invited to the BBC in September 2003, on a radio drama fellowship.

Ross Napier

Ross Napier was an Australian radio and TV writer best known for his work on the radio drama, The Castlereagh Line (which he later adapted into novels) and the TV series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, for which he wrote a large number of episodes and served as a script editor.

Shelley Thompson

She was a regular leading player in BBC radio drama during her time in Britain, and recorded dozens of audio books - titles including work by Margaret Atwood and Jane Smiley.

Ted Walker

Walker also wrote plays for Shaun McLaughlin in BBC radio drama and adapted Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows (1995) for TVC (Television Cartoons)' animated production with a voice cast including Alan Bennett, Rik Mayall, Michael Palin and Michael Gambon.

Trevor Harrison

In 2001, The Archers 50th anniversary year, he was made an MBE for his services to radio drama, particularly for his role in The Archers.