UNIT 9 ' OUR DAY OUT' What is radio play? Radio play, also known as audio drama, audio play, radio theatre and audio theatre. Radio play is a dramatised performance with no visual component, radio play only requires dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story line. Radio play is specifically written for radios, docudrama, dramatised work for fiction, as well as plays originally written for the theatre, including musical theatre and opera. Radio play became popular within a decade of it's development in the 1920s. In the 1940s it became an international popular entertainment, however in the 1950s the popularity of the radio play went down as it started to lose its audience but it still remains popular in many other countries. ...