radio play Archives

Before television, before podcasts, there were radio plays produced by the BBC The broadcaster transmitted their first play in 1924, which means they've been making radio plays for over 100 years now, and have broadcast radio dramas every day of the week ever since The US has only just rediscovered audio drama in the 2000s[...]

The radio play – or audio podcast for you millennials – retells the story of Bowie making his legendary and influential 1977 album Low. David Bowie, BBC The play is a darkly comic snapshot of 1976 when David Bowie was reeling from cocaine and booze, unable to work on his new album due to paranoia, anxiety and[...]

BBC Radio 4 premiered Franklin, a dramatization of when Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz first introduced the Black character in 1968.

The Road is a "lost" 1963 BBC television play written by Nigel Kneale whose legacy and themes still resonate to this very day.