Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. But a lot of effective and interesting radio is based on one character who reacts to the world.
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
Radio is for driving.
Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.
For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
Radio, in a way, is preaching.
If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is.
Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.
I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.