“There was an era when people would turn on their radio and hear a radio drama. Now, you could be as scared by that as seeing it filmed. In those days, people used to sit by the fire and imagine what they were hearing. Everything is its own art form.” PeopleArtFormUsedTurnsFireImagineSeeingDramaScaredRadioHearingErasTurn-on Author:Martin Short
“In prose fiction the freedom to work honestly exists, although you may have to fight for it. In those other areas of literature, I mean drama, there is only silence. That sort of aesthetic integrity does not exist in radio and television, and seldom on film.” MayMeanDoeFilmFightingLiteratureSilenceFictionTelevisionIntegrityDramaAreasRadioHonestlyProseAesthetic Author:James Kelman
“To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won. And that opened doors in film and television, because that broadcaster was looking to cultivate new Canadian talent, especially women who could write.” WritingTryingFilmHoursHalfDoorsTalentTelevisionDramaSurpriseRadioContestsHalf HoursBroadcastersFilm And TelevisionOpened DoorsCbc Author:Karen Walton
“On a radio drama I'd like to feel that I had just as much chance of playing Mr Darcy as anyone else because I can sound like him, yet many radio producers find it very difficult to extend their imaginations to employing anyone who's non white.” FeelsI CanDifficultSoundImaginationChanceWhiteDramaRadioProducersBecause I CanEmployingDarcy Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar
“My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.” WritingHas BeensTwoMightStageDramaRadioDecadesMight Have BeenMonologuesFondness Author:Norman Lock
“As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.” TurnsPeriodsDramaRadioHearingCostumesTurn Off Author:Steve Coogan
“The world has never before had as much drama as today. Radio, films, television and video inundate us with drama. But while these forms can engage or even enrage the audience, in none of them can the viewer’s response alter the artistic event itselfThat is why theatre is signing its own death warrant when it tries to play too safe. On the other hand, that is also the reason why, although its future often seems bleak, theatre will continue to live and to provoke.” WorldTryingReasonPlayHandsSeemsTodayFilmFormAudienceEventsTelevisionDramaSafeResponseRadioTheatreVideoArtisticReason WhyProvokingViewersSigningBleakWarrants Author:Girish Karnad