Books Alive: Play-Making for Children

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Rose Cottage
35 Spylaw Street
Edinburgh, EH13 OJT
t: 01031 441 4440
m: pam@books-alive.co.uk

Radio Days

Audio Production

Since 2001 when I retired from producing Radio Dramas for the BBC I have enjoyed making audio dramas and readings for publishers, for audiovisual exhibitions and for guided tours. If you would like me to help you ‘give voice’ to your publication, exhibition or tour, then get in touch - immediately.

Speak Now!
Radio presentation skills for primary or
secondary pupils

Power of the Spoken Word

5 X 90 minute sessions
for groups of up to 20 students

A series of fun experiments using the voice with music and sound effects to present jingles, adverts, news, stories, and interviews, which can be woven into a light hearted radio miscellany, for recording and then listening back to on audio CD.

Radio Voices

5 X 90 minute sessions
for class groups of up to 25

Making a programme around chosen theme/ issues/ stories/ ideas. Using poems, literary extracts, interviews, and vox pops and discovering ways of linking the material with music and FX, to make a CD/broadcast for a chosen audience.

Radio Radio!

5 x 90 minute sessions
for class groups of up to 25

Fun experiments with a whole range of resources: adverts, jingles, news, weather forecasts, interviews, ghost story, drama, sound effects, music etc from which the participants choose to create the sound of their own radio station and build a schedule of items for recording on the final workshop with our guest sound engineer.

Sounds dramatic!

5 X 90 minute sessions
for groups of up to 16 students

Four short linked radio dramas designed for specialist drama students with a focus on vocal acting and presentation skills, timing, creation of mood and atmosphere, and use of music and sound effects. To be recorded on CD for group evaluation and in-school broadcast.