Paul Ashton blogs about the latest Script Room radio drama submissions and what the readers have noticed from the scripts. So the readers made a move from comedy to radio drama. ( there’s only so much ...

Radio plays can transport listeners to far away exotic settings but the BBC’s prototype Perceptive Radio aims to give listeners a more localized experience. Shown to the public recently at the ...

Several rare radio manuscripts by and for comedy stars such as Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers have emerged for sale. Actor turned rare books dealer Neil Pearson has catalogued several ...

When Tony Hancock failed to turn up for three episodes of his radio show in 1955, producers simply replaced him with Harry Secombe as if nothing had happened. The fourth episode followed Hancock and ...

Five days a week, from dawn to dusk, U. S. radio networks carry some 60 serials. Designed to provide U. S. housewives with aural escapism, they account for about half of all radio time sales. They are ...

In the event of a nuclear attack on Britain in the 1970s, the public would have been advised to stay in their own homes, live off hoarded food for up to a fortnight, and avoid flushing their toilets ...

So the readers made a move from comedy to radio drama. ( there’s only so much hilarity you can take in one big chunk.) And we were lucky again (twice in a week, spooky) to have a hugely experienced ...