You can use a RADIO STATION in the soap storylines - very useful for music, for satirical fun and for THE STORY SO FAR, news reporting.
I always like getting some radio station or other into a soap – opportunity to satirise what goes on (in the best of all possible taste!) and to poke some light fun – especially at the ambitious reporter and / or music presenter.
Brighton Pier (in the UK) has its own radio station, and it is a hoot to see the broadcasting cubicle on the pier, with the broadcaster and his LPs!
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Radio Soap (serial drama) - HOW TO MAKE IT
Five-minute episodes - or short episodes
Step by step instruction from Alan Beck.
Learn about radio drama on this site along with my book - Beck, Alan, Radio Acting, London: A & C Black (1997) ISBN 0-7136-4631-4
This is how to make a short-form soap - entertaining (above all) and you can include issues (issues that could influence the listeners' behaviour).
Further: production, scripting, web site, marketing, focus group meetings, drop-in script, copyright material logging, trails, soap launch.
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Radio Drama - directing, acting, technical, learning & teaching, researching, styles, genres
This is a complete curriculum of scripts, techniques, advice, sound files - effects and atmoses (with no copyright and so free to use), detailed script commentaries, etc. -
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This site's address: http://www.savoyhill.co.uk/soap/index.html