radio drama
Noun
Meaning
radio drama (usually uncountable, plural radio dramas)
Dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD.
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Examples
We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.
1960–2000: Decline in the United States After the advent of television, radio drama never recovered its popularity in the United States.
" (1990): radio drama for the National Public Radio series Sci-Fi Radio.
BBC Radio 4 in particular is noted for its radio drama, broadcasting hundreds of new, one-off plays per year in strands such as The Afternoon Play, in addition to serials and soap operas.
Because of the external circumstances in postwar Germany in which most of the theaters were destroyed, radio drama boomed.
Despite the complete abandonment of drama and related programming by the commercial radio sector, the government-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) maintained a long history of producing radio drama.