Types of radio plays

Realism - slice-of-life? raw realism? more stylised?	Adaptation	Soap	cops and robbers or crims or Brit-crim or gangster
Non-realism	'Dear Diary' play and Audio Diary including change-of-life woman protagonist	Monologue or Linked Monologues	rom-com (romantic comedy)
Drama-documentary	Segment (radio drama)	Experimental	vampires
Feature - including fiction (radio drama) elements	Improvised and 'scratch' radio drama	Comedy	ghosts
Soundscape	Experimental - wordless radio piece	Spy thriller	Slasher and horror
comedy - carry-on	Religious	Western	'Film noir'
musical	children's interest	sports	war
domestic comedy or mixed comedy-serious (often woman partner protagonist)	'screwball comedy'	musical biography	fairy tale
'survival story' (war, safari, and disaster)	'fantastic genres', including fantasy, horror and science fiction

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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).

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