'Space Detectives' - radio soap 2002
Twenty 5-minute episodes (100 minutes in total)
'SPACE DETECTIVES ARE GO!' - the adventures of an intergalactic
Detective Agency involving vampires, the possible and total destruction
of Earth (again!), and a traffic warden who is beamed into the future and
back again.
Our heroes include Silica (a hot fem-bot), Zelda (she's
boss of the sleuths), Spinner (computer boffin who meets his long-lost
brother and saves Earth), Angel (we love her!), and Dave Mumford
(traffic warden and unexpected champion, who meets and vanquishes his
Evil Double).
Crimes solved: Lord Killual's vampire attack on the Planet Holiday's ravers,
the theft from Planet Chipworld ('Change Your DNA'), and the time-reversal
of a missile headed for Earth.
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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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