Beck, A. (1997) Radio Acting London: A & C Black
Horstmann, R. (1997) Writing for Radio London: A & C Black
MacLoughlin, S. (1998) Writing for Radio Oxford: How To Books
Crook, T. (1999) Radio Drama: theory & practice London: Routledge
McLeish, R. (1999) Radio production: a manual for broadcasters (4th edn) Oxford: Focal
Nisbett, A. (2003) The Sound Studio: audio techniques for radio, television, film & recording Boston, Mass: Focal

You will mainly learn through the experience of producing your radio drama, with group tutorials and negotiation with your project supervisor. Throughout the project you are encourage to keep an individual production diary in which you systematically record your production meetings and your individual learning. This process of reflection on the production process, along with discussion of the finished programme with your peers, informs the project evaluation with which you conclude the module.

Portable minidisk kits
Radio studios
Audio editing workstations
Audio playback equipment
Archive sources where applicable to the project
Library resources

AM75046-2 or equivalent

This module follows on from the 'Preparation 1: Radio Drama' option you have taken in your previous semester. Here you take the scenario and draft scenes you have developed there and work them into a finished script, which you put it into production, post-production and follow up with a collective evaluation. Your final script will, naturally, be informed by the feedback you received at the conclusion of your last semester's module, but there is not time or scope in this module to completely revise your project from scratch.

Your experience in this module depends on the nature of the drama you have started to devise in the last semester. At the end of this module your finished work will be played to a 'public audience' in the shape of the group of your peers and discussed along with their work. This feedback forms a very important part of your learning and will directly inform your written evaluation of your finished product.

1. A radio drama, produced in a small group, which answers the brief you have negotiated at the start of the module. (Supported by production notes.) [Learning Outcomes 1, 3, 4]

2. An individual written evaluation of the effectiveness of the production and post-production processes in relation to the created product. [Learning Outcomes 2, 3]