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!