Gone are the days when radio drama was a staple item on Nigeria’s radio airwaves. About the only radio drama one is likely to listen to is the BBC-spired Story, Story: Voices from the Market. In spite of the multiplicity of Frequency Modulated (FM) radio stations across the length and breadth of the country, radio drama is a rarity, leading to the death of that genre of radio programming. What it means is the employment within employment radio drama ordinarily gives in radio environment, with advertisers supporting such dramatic efforts, is lost. In the early years of post-independence broadcasting, Nigeria’s radio drama repertoire was widely regarded all over the English-speaking world as a truly innovative and exciting medium of creative expression.

Source: The Guardian January 09, 2018 03:56 UTC