Radio Drama brings together the practical skills needed for radio drama sucha s directing writing & sound design with media history & communication theory. From the early audio broadcasts of 1914 & the development of General Electrics New York WGY station in 1922 through Orson Welles startling Halloween broadcast of War of the Worlds in 1938 to more recent radio spoofs & the subversive challenge from media guerillas Tim Crook explores the history & contemporary practice of radio drama. Challenging the belief that sound drama is a blind medium Radio Drama shows how experimentation in radio narrative has blurred the dividing line between fiction & reality in modern media. Using extracts from scripts & analysing radio broadcasts from America Britain Canada & Australia the book explores the practicalities of producing drama for radio. Tim Crook illustrates how far radio drama has developed sinc the first audiophonic production & evaluates the future of radio drama in the age of live phone-ins & immediate access to programmes on the Internet.