This is a comprehensive guide which brings together the practical and theoretical aspects of radio writing. It covers writing for all of the principle radio genres, including short stories, plays, documentaries and docudramas , talks, features, adaptions, dramatizations, poems and even advertisements. Containing historical overviews of the genesis and development of these catagories this text also seeks to isolate a radio language , a vocabulary and syntax that produces pictures and images in the mind of the listener. Clear examples are used from both broadcast and non-broadcast work and there are exercises in each section which can be used either in individual or group situations.