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Radio drama traces its roots back to the 1880s: "In 1881 French engineer Clement Ader had filed a patent for ‘improvements of Telephone Equipment in Theatres’" ( Théâtrophone). The Roman playwright " Seneca has been claimed as a forerunner of radio drama because his plays were performed by readers as sound plays, not by actors as stage plays but in this respect Seneca had no significant successors until 20th-century technology made possible the widespread dissemination of sound plays." 1880–1930: Early years 1.4 2000–present: Radio drama's "New Media" revival.1.3 1960–2000: Decline in the United States.Audio drama can also be found on CDs, cassette tapes, podcasts, webcasts as well as broadcast radio. The terms "audio drama" or "audio theatre" are sometimes used synonymously with "radio drama" however, audio drama or audio theatre may not necessarily be intended specifically for broadcast on radio. Podcasting offered the means of inexpensively creating new radio dramas, in addition to the distribution of vintage programs.
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Thanks to advances in digital recording and Internet distribution, radio drama experienced a revival around 2010. Like the US, Australia ABC has abandoned broadcasting drama but in New Zealand RNZ continues to promote and broadcast a variety of drama over its airwaves. In the United Kingdom, for example, the BBC produces and broadcasts hundreds of new radio plays each year on Radio 3, Radio 4, and Radio 4 Extra.
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However, other nations still have thriving traditions of radio drama. Recordings of OTR ( old-time radio) survive today in the audio archives of collectors, libraries and museums, as well as several online sites such as Internet Archive.īy the 21st century, radio drama had a minimal presence on terrestrial radio in the United States, with much American radio drama being restricted to rebroadcasts of programmes from previous decades. However, it remains popular in much of the world. With the advent of television in the 1950s radio drama began losing its audience. By the 1940s, it was a leading international popular entertainment. Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story: "It is auditory in the physical dimension but equally powerful as a visual force in the psychological dimension." Radio drama includes plays specifically written for radio, docudrama, dramatized works of fiction, as well as plays originally written for the theatre, including musical theatre, and opera. Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. Recording a radio play in the Netherlands (1949), Spaarnestad Photo