Although Daley turned in six complete scripts - one for each episode - for the Return of the Jedi series, his illness prevented him from doing all the revisions and on-the-spot rewrites that are part and parcel of the film and radio drama creative process. And, as Daniels points out, 'there were all sorts of tangential continuity restrictions. Template for a radio script, based on extracts from Bow Down Shadrach (Word 45 KB) Radio scripts on the Web. There are a large number of radio scripts available on the Internet. Do a search for 'Simply Radio Scripts' to find modern and old time radio plays that you might like to read and produce in class.
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A radio play script follows a distinctive format that allows the playwright to convey how sound and music will be used in the performance. For instance:
one page of dialogue is approximately one minute of air time
each scene should be numbered
lines are usually double spaced
sound and music cues are triple spaced
paragraphs are triple spaced
all cues are capitalised and numbered. Cue numbers start at number 1 on each page
notes for pronunciation, physical action, and position of characters are indented
the script is typed on one side of the paper only to reduce handling noise
high quality paper is used where possible as it makes less noise than cheap paper.
See the following word document.
Template for a radio script, based on extracts from Bow Down Shadrach (Word 45 KB)
Radio scripts on the Web
There are a large number of radio scripts available on the Internet. Do a search for 'Simply Radio Scripts' to find modern and old time radio plays that you might like to read and produce in class. Some examples are: The Time Machine, Abbott and Costello, Flash Gordon, and The Lone Ranger.
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A radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theater or audio theater) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media. With no visual component, radio drama depends entirely on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story. 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. With the advent of television in the 1950s, however, radio dramas lost their popularity, and in some countries have never regained large audiences.