The Radio Play

The Radio Play.

What is radio play?

Radio Play is a story told on the radio.

Radio Plays are very popular on Radio 4.

Radio drama is a form of audio storytelling broadcast on radio. Radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the story.

Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading international popular entertainment. With the advent of television in the 1950s, however, radio drama lost some of its popularity, and in some countries, had never regained large audiences. In the 50's they used transition circuits which can still be bought today. However, recordings of OTR (old-time radio) survive today in the audio archives of collectors and museums. Present.........

The Archers is a British soap opera broadcast on the BBC's Radio 4.With more than 16,000 episodes it is the both world's longest running radio soap and, since the axing of the American soap opera Guiding Light in September 2009, the longest running soap opera of all formats in the world. The Archers is the most listened to Radio 4 non-news programme, and holds the BBC Radio programme record for the number of times listened to over the internet, with over one million listeners.