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RECENT SCRIPT ADDITIONS: On Jun 30 2009, 'Life of Riley: Simon the Waiter' On Jun 27 2009, 'Miscellaneous Single Episodes: The Story of Treasure Island' On Jun 27 2009, 'Lux Radio Theater: You Can't Take It With You' On Jun 27 2009, 'Romance: Mrs. Moonlight' (more...) RECENT NEWS: 05/27/09: Opportunities to "watch" radio being performed in the authentic way are few and far...but there's one in Dallas/Fort Worth on Saturday afternoon, May 30: a double-sci-fi radio feature... (More...) Welcome to the Generic Radio Workshop's online repository of scripts from the Golden Age of Radio: the original and largest collection of radio transcripts on the World Wide Web. As periodic presenters of Old-Time Radio show recreations, we have long sought out scripts from the Golden Age of audio drama. (Roughly speaking, 1930-1960.) They turn out to be few and far between. Why? Surely every radio thespian didn't drop his or her pages onto the floor to be swept into the trash after the broadcast. |
And yet, few survive. Which means - if you want to explore OTR further than just listening to the shows themselves - if you want at the source material, you have few options. You can transcribe the shows yourself. A laborious process. (We've done it.) Or you can scour used bookstores to hunt down half--century old books on radio acting in hopes they have a script or two. (After years, we've located several dozen.) Or you can hang out here. We're simply providing a scholarly resource in the best tradition of the Internet, making more available what once was scarce. We make no claims to ownership of these materials; they remain, as they should, the copyright of their respective owners. But as the shows themselves have brought pleasure to millions, so we hope do the original scripts themselves. |
