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Public Media Foundation: Scribbling Women: Understanding the Radio Play

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive approach to understanding how a literary work is transformed into a radio play. Includes links to featured plays and how to organize them by genre, theme, or historical context. Lesson plans and teacher resources are...
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Audio Theater: Mind Movies: Radio Drama

For Students 9th - 10th
A clearinghouse of Radio Drama, or Audio Theater information. The site is mostly links, with contest information, organization information and some general information.
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The mazats.com: Radio Days Webquest

For Students 9th - 10th
Your students will enjoy creating their own radio programs using the resources listed on this site as inspiration. Provides explanations of the task, a rubric, and plenty of links to more information.
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Yiddish Radio Project

For Students 9th - 10th
This site celebrates the lost art of Yiddish radio theater. Recaptured again are radio clips and photographs from the "golden age" of radio. The yid-o-matic english translator will help you understand all sound bites.
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Personal: Radio Drama Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
A professional radio dramatist provides sound effects for radio, audio books, commercials, and more. Students can learn about this vocation by clicking the feature links.
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Old Fashioned Radio Program

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, young scholars create and record a class radio play with sound effects and then listen to it.
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The Mercury Theatre on the Air

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen to many of the original Mercury Theatre of the Air broadcasts, with Orsen Welles, John Houseman, Agnes Moorehead and others. Also on the site you can find broadcasts of many of the programs from Campbell Playhouse, which is what...
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Independent Radio Drama Productions, Ltd

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive site about British Radio Drama, with links as well as sound clips, and a site search function.