Do radio dramas have a future?Some have doubted as to whether radio itself has a future, yet these worries have been mainly refuted due to radio’s willingness to adapt or even embrace new technologies – the internet and DAB are two examples.
Radio dramas, on the other hand, I believe do have some future, although of course they will never as popular as they were in their hay day. The biggest test for radio dramas is to find new audiences with a new tech-savvy generation. If they can do that – and that is a big if – I can see radio plays surviving.
Whilst traditional radio plays, broadcast on the radio, are declining in popularity, audiobooks still remain popular. Podcasting also offers an alternative mode of distributing audio dramas which have the advantages of you being able to listen to anytime and a worldwide audience.
One of the problems facing radio dramas is the concentration required to listen to them - radio is a “background” medium. I found this particularly a problem when analysing existing radio plays for this project.
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