Why Radio Drama Can Be Scarier Than Television
Television can show you the monster. Radio makes you imagine it.
In this edition of Listen with Gilbert: Radio in Two, we explore one of the great secrets of radio drama: not being able to see anything may be the medium’s greatest strength.
From the terrifying telephone in Sorry, Wrong Number and the simulated news reports of The War of the Worlds to Arch Oboler’s Lights Out and The House in Cypress Canyon, a few voices, sounds—and sometimes silence—can create pictures no camera could ever quite reproduce.
And nobody demonstrated radio’s unlimited imagination more delightfully than Stan…
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