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Sounds amazing: how audio drama is thriving in the digital age

Long ReadsJun 3, 2020

While streamed performances have proved popular during lockdown, there has also been a resurgence in audio drama. As Audible continues to release high-profile plays and ahead of a new festival on BBC Radio, Fergus Morgan charts the development of radio drama over the past century

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