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Sounds Like Murder: Early 1980s Gothic on North American Radio (2022)
Journal Article
McMurtry, L. (2022). Sounds Like Murder: Early 1980s Gothic on North American Radio. Gothic Studies, 24(2), 151-166. https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2022.0131

Horror and the Gothic have long been staple genres of radio drama, including the radio drama revival series of the late 1970s–early 1980s, CBS Radio Mystery Theater (1974–82). During the same time period, the Canadian government, recognising an emerg... Read More about Sounds Like Murder: Early 1980s Gothic on North American Radio.

Transgressing boundary rituals on radio (2022)
Book Chapter
McMurtry, L. (2022). Transgressing boundary rituals on radio. In The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies. London: Routledge

One of the hallmarks of radio has always been its imaginative and immersive potential. From the 1920s on, listeners have frequently found broadcast reality/fiction to be problematic. Once boundary rituals were established, demarcating out for listene... Read More about Transgressing boundary rituals on radio.

Dark night of the soul : applicability of theory in comics and radio through the scripted podcast drama (2019)
Journal Article
McMurtry, L. (2019). Dark night of the soul : applicability of theory in comics and radio through the scripted podcast drama. Studies in Comics, 10(2), 235-254. https://doi.org/10.1386/stic_00004_1

This article responds to McCloud’s theoretical framework for comics and applies this framework to audio drama, which I argue is, like comics, a mono-sensory medium (one can only be seen in static image and the other can only be heard); both require a... Read More about Dark night of the soul : applicability of theory in comics and radio through the scripted podcast drama.

Trick film: Neil Brand’s radio dramas and the silent film experience (2019)
Journal Article
experience. Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture, 10(1&2), https://doi.org/10.1386/iscc.10.1-2.1_1

At first glance, silent film and audio drama may appear antithetical modes of expression. Nevertheless, an interesting tradition of silent film-to-radio adapta-tions has emerged on BBC Radio Drama. Beyond this link between silent... Read More about Trick film: Neil Brand’s radio dramas and the silent film experience.

Revolution in the echo chamber : audio drama's past, present, and future (2019)
Book
McMurtry, L. (2019). Revolution in the echo chamber : audio drama's past, present, and future. Intellect Books

This book is a sociohistorical analysis of British and US radio and audio drama from 1919 to the present day. This volume examines the aesthetic, cultural and technical elements of audio drama along with its context within the literary canon. It pr... Read More about Revolution in the echo chamber : audio drama's past, present, and future.