Writing for Radio: Movies in the Mind

Radio is a medium of endless possibilities. The only limit is your own imagination.
Stories in sound. Radio can engage the audience more fully than any other medium. You hear a voice, a sound effect, a pause, another voice; perhaps some music.Just a few sounds coming out of a small speaker. But those sounds can have immense impact and power, because you participate in what they create: you complete the picture; you visualize the scene; you are in the story.

For the writer, radio can be the most creative medium of all.This course covers nearly every aspect of writing for radio: comedy gags, sketches and shows; radio sitcoms and series; short drama; full-length drama; radio ads - and beyond, to explore all the possibilities of work in the medium.

Paul Bassett Davies has been writing for, producing, and performing in radio for more than 25 years. His credits include dozens of BBC comedy shows, including his own series with Jeremy Hardy; producing and co-writing Sony Award winning series 'Do Go On' with Griff Rhys Jones and Graeme Garden; and several full length BBC dramas, starring actors like Bill Nighy, Martin Clunes, Alison Steadman and David Hemmings.

Saturday 12th March 2011
10.30am to 5pm, 
Birkbeck College, Central London
£85  
Radio is Imagination

 

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