Radio Drama Research

1. Radio Drama Research By Lisa Figueira

2. ContentsClick for desired page… • Who listens to Radio Dramas? • History of radio drama • Important milestones • Types of radio dramas

3. 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. Back to contents

4. 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. Back to contents

5. 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. Back to contents

6. Types of radio dramas Back to contents

7. The end Thanks for watching!