The team produced a computer-generated radio drama where the script altered depending on factors such as weather.
Twelve years later, CBS's "Suspense" and "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, " the last nighttime radio drama series, were canceled.
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The team has created a website demonstrating a reactive radio drama based around a woman stuck in lift.
World Service radio drama The Day that Lehman Died covers the same period, as does BBC documentary The Love of Money.
Radio drama rose to the level of art with The Mercury Theatre on the Air, founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman.
One of the strengths of radio drama was, and is, that it could have more impact on the imagination of the audience than film or television.
"It's a radio drama that we wanted to use to try and find out how much this localisation added to the experience of the listener, " Mr Churnside added.
In 1938 a fictitious radio drama produced by Orson Welles caused a bit of panic in the United States, and people fled their homes fearful of an alien invasion.
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Alan Ayckbourn wrote for Hark at Barker under the name of Peter Caulfield because he was employed as a BBC radio drama producer at the time and was not supposed to work elsewhere.
It wasn't all one-way traffic: Scotland's first 'network production' a dramatised production of Walter Scott's novel 'Rob Roy' was the most ambitious radio drama so far attempted anywhere in Britain when it aired nationally on 6 October 1923.
Whitburn was also executive producer of radio drama in the Midlands from 1995 and was responsible for Silver Street, the long-running serial on the BBC Asian Network, as well as being behind single plays and serials for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4.
In nearly two hours, and at a cost of more than forty million dollars, the movie supplies almost exactly the entertainment value of a single half-hour episode of the original radio drama, which always sounded as if it cost about a buck ninety-eight to produce.
Bell will take over from Rosalind Adams, who is stepping down from the Radio 4 drama after 25 years.
Vanessa Whitburn, the editor of BBC Radio 4 drama series The Archers, is retiring from her role after 22 years.
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And it was not the lure of lucre that secured her services for the BBC Radio 4 drama series, V.
During the 1930s and 1940s, AM radio was a perfect medium for carrying drama and comedy.
These producers took as their inspiration literary fiction and Broadway drama, not serial movies or radio shows.
Within a few years, TV had poached drama and comedy from under the noses of AM radio.
The 2012 Olympics opening ceremony and popular drama Call the Midwife are among six programmes vying to take the Radio Times audience title at this year's Bafta Television Awards.
Radio 4 took four titles - the Speech Award, Short Form Award, the Drama Award and Feature Award.
At the time Mr Thompson said the BBC would only survive in the digital world if it invested more in areas such as journalism, drama, comedy, music, learning, and children's TV and radio.
Ms Davis plays Hayley in BBC Radio 4's long-running soap The Archers, and has also appeared on television in the hospital drama Casualty.
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