Theatre of Sound: Radio and the Dramatic Imagination

Cave, University of London. This is an innovative study of the challenges that radio drama poses to the creative imagination of the writer, the production team, and the listener. It explores the versatile sense of sound and especially music and how it can be effectively used in a radio play, as well as audience reception and storytelling, and include detailed analyses of radio productions, including War of the Worlds, Under Milk Wood, and Krapp's Last Tape, and an extensive analysis of four different radio productions of King Lear.