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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.

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.

Imagination and narrative : young people's experiences (2017)
Journal Article
McMurtry, L. (2017). Imagination and narrative : young people's experiences. Journal of Radio and Audio Media, 24(2), 270-288. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2017.1296448

Imagery generation in dramatized audio drama is still poorly understood with the majority of work having been done from a radio advertising perspective. This study sought to understand audio drama imagery generation by using teenage listeners. The st... Read More about Imagination and narrative : young people's experiences.

“Cycles upon cycles, stories upon stories” : contemporary audio media and podcast horror’s new frights (2017)
Journal Article
new frights. Palgrave Communications, 3, 17075. https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2017.75

During the last ten years the ever-fertile horror and Gothic genres have birthed a new type of fright-fiction: podcast horror. Podcast horror is a narrative horror form based in audio media and the properties of sound. Despite association with oral... Read More about “Cycles upon cycles, stories upon stories” : contemporary audio media and podcast horror’s new frights.

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.