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

NOW - make a storyboard

FOR ACADEMIC STUDY OF GENRE

Chandler's site at http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/intgenre/intgenre6.html

Genre theory links at http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Sections/textan03.html

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