Echo Salon 4: The radio and audio drama listening group

We invite you to join us for our next Echo Salon event.

These will be regular events to listen to a range of classic, groundbreaking and contemporary radio and audio plays with like minded enthusiasts. We're starting with two plays we feel really explore and experiment with the radiophonic as a form of storytelling.

• Vampirella by Angela Carter. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 3, 20 July 1976. Produced and directed by Glyn Dearman.
• Seven Pomegranate Seeds by Colin Teevan. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 7 January 2020. Produced and directed by Allegra McIlroy.

Your hosts

• Leslie McMurtry is a lecturer in Radio Studies at the University of Salford. Her book, Revolution in the Echo Chamber: Audio Drama's Past, Present, and Future, was published by Intellect in 2019. She has been writing radio drama since 2007.
• Hugh Chignell is a media historian with a particular interest in radio drama. He has published widely on radio history and his book British Radio Drama, 1945-63 came out last year.
• Emily Best is working on a doctoral thesis on Samuel Beckett & Radio Drama, in the School of Arts at Birkbeck. She has not written any books but directed a radio play about spies.

Places are limited so booking is essential: once you have booked you will receive instructions to join a zoom meeting, along with links to where you can listen to the plays. We ask that you listen to these in advance of the session!