Welcome to Paul Green's Radio Teaching Site

Analysing & Creating Radio Drama

In the first year Key Media Concepts exam, students have the option of writing a detailed textual analysis of a radio drama sequence.

For the second year Advanced Portfolio, students can create their own radio drama sequence.

So in these notes, I’ve tried to examine what happens when audiences listen to radio plays; and I’ve given some signposts for exploring the creative possibilities of radio narrative.

This site was initially designed to supplement a workshop which I gave at the OCR Media Studies Conference in London, March 2008, for teachers involved in the delivery of the new OCR Advanced Level Media Studies course. However, I hope it will be useful for anyone interested in radio, and especially for my media students at the Royal National College for the Blind. As a radio dramatist, I’ve found that the process of devising the site has helped me to focus my understanding of how this wonderful medium actually works...