Episode 117: Roger Gregg, Radio Wizard

April 10, 2009 By 4 Comments

Roger Gregg - Audio Drama WizardGadzooks! This week we speak to the one-and-only, inimitable, incredible, fiendishly creative Roger Gregg of Crazy Dog Audio Theater.

From deep in his secret lair of audio drama mystique in Dublin, Ireland I picked his brain about his career, his legacy with the RTE, and the future of the arts in a changing world. With a special shout out to Gerry Murphy Poetry.

An interview not to be missed!

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Radio Drama Revival Episode 117 – A Chat with Roger Gregg

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  • http://earstory.blogspot.com/ Larry Slade

    I don’t know. The brutal bashing of the 90 minute format smelled like sour grapes. I guess I’m one of the nobodies who occasionally listen to this stuff.
    3 min plays? That sounds deep, one can really get into character that way. Hey whatever you need to do to be POPULAR.
    I’m sorry that there is no longer a living to be made via audio drama. Well, there isn’t one writing novels either but people do it because they love the form and SOME nobodies sometimes read them
    And has he not made really long form multipart things?
    Harbinger runs 2 1/2 hrs. I sure didn’t make it through that one.
    I think he should pipe down, be a little more kind about the work of others and just make his own stuff rather than resent that he is not being given a Drama on 3 slot or whatever.

  • http://www.radiodramarevival.com/feed/ Fred

    Larry,

    Thanks so much for your honest comments.

    This same issue came up on the ModernAudioGroup on Yahoo (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ModernAudioDrama/) – My take on Roger’s “90 Minute” problem is that the super-long format is poorly suited to listener’s habits on the radio… not that people don’t want to listen to 90 minute programs generally.

    I listen in the car to long-form programming all the time. Yet if I’m listening to the radio I’m much more schizophrenic, bouncing around between several programs at a time. Even on “long-form” audio on NPR they split it up within an hour — i.e. multi parts within This American Life, Selected Shorts, etc.

    I very much support audio in whatever length for on-demand programming (which is why my show alternates its length so much). When you choose to listen to this show, you’re in it for a different reason than someone browsing the radio.

    Do listeners agree?

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