In recent days there have been extensive lamentations over the absence of original drama on television, but not for years have many regretted the passing of new plays on radio.

good radio drama has its own special demands that badly need reinvigoration.

* The Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air radio drama production company

While the Browns ' on-field play in 1956 was uninspiring, off-the-field drama developed after a Cleveland-based inventor named George Sarles let Brown test a helmet with a radio transmitter inside.

* The character of Dr. Hesselius is featured in a Mutual Broadcasting Network radio drama entitled " The Shadow People ", an episode from The Hall of Fantasy series ( 1946 – 1947, 1949 – 1952, 1952, 1953 ).

In the early radio age, content typically included comedy, drama, news, music, and sports reporting.

Radio drama and comedy continue, often on public radio.

* Ruby, the protagonist of the radio drama Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe

Retcons also appear in soap operas, serial drama, movie sequels, professional wrestling, video games, radio series, and other kinds of serial fiction.

The American soap opera Guiding Light started as a radio drama in January 1937 and subsequently transferred to television in June 1952.

The longest-running drama in television and radio history, Guiding Light, barely reached 2. 1 millions daily viewers in 2009 and was ended.

*" The Strange Case of the Demon Barber " ( 8 January 1946 ), an adaptation of the Sweeney Todd story featured in an episode of the radio drama The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

* The War of the Worlds ( radio drama ), the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles

The BBC Radio 4 series The Hobbit radio drama was an adaptation by Michael Kilgarriff, broadcast in eight parts ( four hours in total ) from September to November 1968.

Category: British radio drama

In 2009, British digital radio station BBC Radio 7 broadcast Planet B, a science-fiction drama set in a virtual world.

* July 31 – The radio drama The Shadow airs for the first time.

A 1942 act of Congress made advertising expenses a tax benefit and that sent even automobile and tire manufacturers — who had no products to sell since they had been converted to war production — scurrying to sponsor symphony orchestras and serious drama on radio.

Category: American radio drama

In April 2010, after securing a $ 100, 000 grant, Pierce College launched a 24-hour student-run online radio station, KPCR, airing a mix of music, sports, drama, and locally-produced news and features.

During the late 1970s, Straczynski also became the on-air entertainment reviewer for KSDO-FM and wrote several radio plays before being hired as a scriptwriter for the radio drama Alien Worlds.

Straczynski has written for radio drama, including the series Alien Worlds and scripts for Mutual Radio Theater.

Playing what later came to be called " sweet " music rather than jazz, Duchin's success opened a new gate for similarly styled, piano-playing sweet bandleaders such as Henry King, Joe Reichman, Nat Brandwynne, Dick Gasparre, Little Jack Little, and particularly Carmen Cavallaro ( who acknowledged Duchin's influence ) to compete with the large jazz bands for radio time and record sales.

As his singing career failed to take off, despite 14 singles being released, the first being the Pop-Soul styled " Don't Get Off The Train " on Fontana TF 562 released in April 1965 and two in 1967-68, " So Much Love " and " It's Only Love " made the UK Top 40 on MGM, he stopped singing and concentrated on radio presenting.

Talksport ( styled as talkSPORT ), owned by UTV Radio, is one of the United Kingdom's three terrestrial analogue Independent National Radio broadcasters, offering 24 hour sports radio service broadcast from London to the United Kingdom.

Major labels signed three-chord grunge / punk-style rock bands, commercial radio played them and the ' alternative ' sound soon became ubiquitous, ultimately culminating in manufactured pop groups, styled to sound raucously ' alternative ' and appearing on television commercials for mobile phones.

These changes included different exterior styling graphics and colour options, and the introduction of new options, such as radio / cassette players, styled wheel options, headlamp wash / wipe systems, as well as accessories such as surfboard carriers and bike racks.

His media career began at Boston radio station WBCN where he was styled the " News Dissector.

As Neo-traditional Country music artists began to become popular in 1987, including Patty Loveless and Randy Travis, the Country-pop styled music Fricke had been recording since the early part of the decade was no longer in style on Country radio.

He won the Festival OTI, in Argentina ( 1980 ), with his interpretation of Contigo Mujer, a song that was an instant hit all over the Puerto Rican radio, composed by Ednita Nazario, and Laureano Brizuela.

Because the laws vary, the interpretation of the term pirate radio also varies considerably.

To date, only one case ( before a WTO dispute settlement panel, involving U. S. copyright exemptions allowing restaurants, bars and shops to play radio and TV broadcasts without paying licensing fees, passed in 1998 as a rider to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act ) has actually required an interpretation of the test.

The radio series Suspense did a dramatic interpretation of the ballad on October 20, 1952 entitled " The Death of Barbara Allen " with Anne Baxter in the title role.

The particular interpretation of the teachings ( primarily from the New Testament ) were originally introduced in a series of 29 sermons delivered on the Voice of Salvation radio program by M. A. Tomlinson, several doctrinal beliefs of the church became summarized by the 29 Prominent Teachings.

His analysis of the anatomy of the solar flares and his development of the physical interpretation culminated in a unified model that integrated the apparently complex radio flare phenomena in the solar chromosphere, solar corona, and in the interplanetary space.

The interpretation of such timber circles is unclear, although parallels were drawn with Native American totem poles by Stuart Piggott in a 1946 BBC radio lecture.

As a result of this difference, the term pirate radio has a different interpretation than in countries where access to communication is limited.

Polarimetry is the measurement and interpretation of the polarization of transverse waves, most notably electromagnetic waves, such as radio or light waves.

Since most of the early television episodes were based upon stories and scripts from the radio version, Arness's interpretation and portrayal was initially somewhat similar to that proffered by William Conrad.

On November 9, 2008, a radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, starring Robert Lonsdale as Paul Bäumer and Shannon Graney as Katczinsky.

In the novel, his last contact with Earth is the radio message " The thing's hollow — it goes on forever — and — oh my God — it's full of stars!

Dobbs's novel was also dramatised for radio for BBC World Service in 1996, by Neville Teller, and had two television sequels ( To Play the King and The Final Cut ).

Soon the content of every newspaper, book, novel, play, film, broadcast and concert, from the level of nationally-known publishers and orchestras to local newspapers and village choirs, was subject to supervision by the Propaganda Ministry, although a process of self-censorship was soon effectively operating in all these fields, leaving the Ministry in Berlin free to concentrate on the most politically sensitive areas such as major newspapers and the state radio.

Peake also wrote poetry and literary nonsense in verse form, short stories for adults and children ( Letters from a Lost Uncle ), stage and radio plays, and Mr Pye, a relatively tightly-structured novel in which God implicitly mocks the evangelical pretensions and cosy world-view of the eponymous hero.

Retrospectively, " networking " of " data " in the Russian language can be traced to the spread of mail and journalism in Russia, and information transfer by technical means came to Russia with the telegraph and radio ( besides, a 1837 sci-fi novel Year 4338, by the 19-century Russian philosopher Vladimir Odoevsky, contains predictions such as " friends ' houses are connected by means of magnetic telegraphs that allow people who live far from each other to talk to each other " and " household journals " " having replaced regular correspondence " with " information about the hosts ’ good or bad health, family news, various thoughts and comments, small inventions, as well as invitations ").

* Ulysses ( broadcast ), a dramatised unabridged radio broadcast of the novel

Superheroes have also been featured in radio serials, novel, TV series, movies, and other media.

This juvenile novel inspired Joseph Greene of Grosset & Dunlap to develop the Tom Corbett, Space Cadet comic books, television series, radio show, comic strip, and novels that were popular in the early 1950s.

Greene had originally submitted a radio script for " Tom Ranger and the Space Cadets " on January 16, 1946, but it remained unperformed when Heinlein's novel was published.

Apart from the radio broadcasts, Douglas Adams recorded both unabridged and abridged readings of the first novel for the audiobook market.

( This was a novel innovation in the popular music field, although a broadly similar system had long been in place in many countries for the production of content for broadcast radio.

The Wizard of Oz catalog: L. Frank Baum's novel, its sequels and their adaptations for stage, television, movies, radio, music videos, comic books, commercials and more.

Perhaps America's most famous radio drama broadcast is Orson Welles's The War of the Worlds, a 1938 version of the H. G. Wells novel, which convinced large numbers of listeners that an actual invasion from Mars was taking place.

A four part BBC radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1998.

David Elgood first proposed a radio adaptation of the novel in 1974, but nothing came of it until radio director Brian Lighthill revisited the proposal and obtained the rights in 1995.

The BBC produced the two-hour radio dramatization of the novel, broadcasting it on BBC Radio 4 in November 1997.

Due to the famous radio adaptation of the novel by Orson Welles on his show, The Mercury Theatre on the Air, the novel has become one of the best known early apocalyptic works.

The novel was adapted to radio ( readings ) by the BBC as early as 1953.

The novel was dramatized for radio by Archie Scottney, directed by Martin Jarvis and produced by Rosalind Ayres ; it featured a full cast starring Toby Stephens as James Bond and was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012.

A section of the novel, called " Tom ’ s Story " is a partial transcript of documentary evidence and radio communication with the outside world during his vigil within the labyrinth, which he spends alone with his radio, waiting for Will.