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The future of satellite audio drama (2015)
Journal Article
McMurtry, L. (2015). The future of satellite audio drama. Peripeti, 22,

The audio drama audience in English-speaking countries such as the US, the UK, and New Zealand in the second decade of the twenty-first century faces an embarrassment of riches. Technological advances such as the podcast have made the creation of au... Read More about The future of satellite audio drama.

Framing errors : reality and fiction in audio drama (2015)
Journal Article
McMurtry, L. (2015). Framing errors : reality and fiction in audio drama. Journal of American studies of Turkey, 41, 5-16

Many genres and media create a blurring line between reality and fiction. Radio serials and in particular radio soap operas have inspired devotion in their listeners to the point where their fans throw themselves wholeheartedly into a universe of out... Read More about Framing errors : reality and fiction in audio drama.

Anatomy of a gamechanger : BBC Radio 4’s Life and Fate (2012)
Journal Article
McMurtry, L. (2012). Anatomy of a gamechanger : BBC Radio 4’s Life and Fate. Rádio-Leituras, 3(2), 67-95

Before the broadcast of a series of radio plays on BBC’s Radio 4 in September 2011, few people in the UK would have heard of Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate. The ubiquity of the Radio 4 adaptations in 2011 meant that not only did many more people kno... Read More about Anatomy of a gamechanger : BBC Radio 4’s Life and Fate.