Writing for radio - Vincent McInerney

Writing for radio brings together
theoretical and practical aspects of
radio writing. It deals with writing for all principal radio genres -
short stories, plays, documentaries/drama documentaries, talks and
features, adaptations/dramatisations, poems, and advertisements. It
contains historical overviews of the genesis and development of each of
these categories and attempts an analysis of the nature of radio itself.
For the first time there is an attempt to isolate a 'radio language', a
syntax and vocabulary guaranteed to produce pictures in the mind of the
listener. This means radio can be taught as an academic subject as all
writing - prose, drama and verse, can be tested as radio and examples
for analysis are used from both broadcast and non-broadcast work.