[ SECRET POST #2427 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2427 ⌋

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Comments

[kaffy_r]

I haven't had a chance to listen to this show, but boy, do I find this conversation interesting. And telling, in a way.

I'm 57, and still a little too young to be part of the generations who grew up with radio drama. However, I'm a fan of old time radio, and have probably become at least as comfortable with it as my mother and grandmother were. By "comfortable" I mean that I have no difficulty listening to a story unfolding solely aurally, or creating the visuals in my head, or (perhaps more central to the conversations I'm reading here) sitting, or being, still while the story unfolds.

I'm intrigued by the number of posters (many of who I'll guess are much younger than I am, and who grew up without that type of listening habit) who are unfamiliar and less than comfortable with storytelling that lacks visuals or dynamic motion.

Radio didn't last long as a stage for story telling, but for a short time (the 30s, 40s, the early 50s) it was the major stage for popular drama, at least in North America. While it was, the consumers of that sort of story telling were required to exercise different consumption skills than are now common.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe it's because I'm British and terribly middle-class, but whenever my family went anywhere in the car, we'd always listen to Radio 4 (the BBC's spoken-word channel) to pass the time - that was decades ago, but I still tune into The Archers, the Doctor Who audio series, and various sitcoms while doing housework each week.

I actually prefer radio shows (and books) especially because I love sci-fi, and non-visual mediums allow for much more fantastical places, supernatural events, etc., without the secondhand embarrassment of terrible CGI, prosthetics and what have you that ruin or limit storytelling in television and film.

[kaffy_r]

I'm Canadian by birth, and I suspect the CBC probably had similar offerings, but I didn't learn to appreciate radio drama until I was older, and in the U.S. I cut my radio drama teeth on classic old-time radio shows like "Suspense" and "The Jack Benny Show" (and "X Minus One", which was a science fiction omnibus series that really proved to me that what you imagine is always more amazing than any visuals. So I'm with you there.

[(Anonymous)]

this just reads like the world's biggest smugfest

[kaffy_r]

Oh, surely not the biggest.