Tag Archives: Radio Drama

SKYBLUE: Post-match

I’d forgotten about that interview they stitched seamlessly into an intro. I sound reasonably coherent – score! Some link-love for the masochists amongst you – – and in downloadable format:     Ogg Vorbis       mp3 I believe the links self-destruct a fortnight from today so, y’know, no rush or anything. In the [...]

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SKYBLUE

In December 2010 I went down to my oul’ home toon to sit in on the recording of a radio drama I wrote. I bragged about it, of course. Now it’s about to hit the airwaves. SKYBLUE will be broadcast on SUNDAY 13 MAY 2012 at 3:05pm (New Zealand time) on National Radio. Getting stuff [...]

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Being There II

Common practice for radio drama in New Zild, so I believe, is: – the WRITER knocks together a radio play script, – the script goes through a couple of drafts between the Writer and the PRODUCER, – the Producer directs the piece with a bunch of ACTORS in a sound studio under the all-hearing ear [...]

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Plug

Goodness gracious: Radio New Zealand will be broadcasting a little something I adapted for radio last year, and which was recorded earlier this year. So if you’ve an hour to spare this Sunday 5 April, between 3pm and 4pm, try out some Kiwi-made drama. Thanks again to producer Jason Te Kare who was very patient [...]

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Pet Sounds

Roger Ebert‘s post about his pets animal companions got me thinking. A couple of weeks back, I spent a day in a Radio New Zealand studio watching listening to a script being recorded. I spent most of that day with my eyes closed – but instead of falling asleep as I normally would, I found [...]

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