{"id":107,"date":"2018-12-07T14:58:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T14:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/yourearsonly\/?page_id=107"},"modified":"2019-08-20T20:04:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T20:04:40","slug":"drama","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/yourearsonly\/drama\/","title":{"rendered":"6. Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Richard Hughes’s 1924 BBC radio drama\u00a0Comedy of Danger<\/i>\u00a0(often cited as the first radio drama) begins with the line, “The lights have gone out.”\u00a0 That opening in a story of trapped coal miners renders both the characters in the play and the listeners equally blind\u2014there is a reason that we cannot see what is happening.\u00a0 Similarly, fourteen years later in what is likely the most famous radio drama in history,\u00a0War of the Worlds\u00a0<\/i>begins with the scene of listeners listening to Ram\u00f3n Raquello and his orchestra on their radios.\u00a0 These “framing devices,” these methods of suggesting a reason for the audio’s existence or for the listening experience itself, gradually fell away from radio drama in subsequent decades.\u00a0 But they have appeared again as an essential element in many of the most prominent recent podcast dramas, from\u00a0Welcome to Night Vale<\/i>\u00a0to\u00a0Limetown<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the assertions of many producers, podcast drama is not a “new form.” The long history of audio drama cannot be swept aside. But how does the drama we listen to through podcasts do things differently? In this episode we\u2019ll attempt to define “podcast drama,” and consider what the future holds for the current iteration of the form. We also hear thoughts from The Truth<\/em>‘s Jonathan Mitchell and\u00a0We’re Alive<\/em>‘s KC Wayland.<\/span><\/p>\n

Release Date: 4th March 2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Credits<\/h4>\n

Written & presented by Lance Dann & Martin Spinelli<\/span><\/p>\n

Produced by Ella Gray Thomas & Jack F Jewers<\/span><\/p>\n

Sound by Andrew Duff<\/span><\/p>\n

Executive produced by Martin Spinelli<\/span><\/p>\n

Interview contributors: KC Wayland and Jonathan Mitchell\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Clips featured: We\u2019re Alive<\/em> (\u2018<\/span>Chapter 1: It Begins<\/span><\/a>\u2019), and<\/span>\u00a0Blood Culture<\/em> (<\/span>\u2018Episode 1 Part 1\u2019<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

For Your Ears Only<\/em>\u00a0was produced with the support of Arts Council England, Bloomsbury Academic, the University of Sussex, Brighton University, and the British Academy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Twitter: <\/span>@earsonlypodcast<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Instagram: <\/span>@earsonlypodcast<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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