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Sounds amazing: how audio drama is thriving in the digital age

Long ReadsJun 3, 2020

Lockdown Theatre Festival: Love, Love, Love; Shoe Lady; The Mikvah Project; Rockets and Blue Lights. Photos: Helen Maybanks/Manuel Harlan/The Other Richard/Brinkhoff Moegenburg

Lockdown Theatre Festival: Love, Love, Love; Shoe Lady; The Mikvah Project; Rockets and Blue Lights. Photos: Helen Maybanks/Manuel Harlan/The Other Richard/Brinkhoff Moegenburg

While streamed performances have proved popular during lockdown, there has also been a resurgence in audio drama. As Audible continues to release high-profile plays and ahead of a new festival on BBC Radio, Fergus Morgan charts the development of radio drama over the past century

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