Neville Teller is a veteran radio dramatist, with more than 50 BBC radio plays under his belt and scores more produced and broadcast across America by the San Francisco-based Shoestring Radio Theatre. Back in 2019 he published his first collection of ten radio plays, Audio Drama. They were so welcomed that he decided to make another ten available. These were published in 2021 under the title More Audio Drama. Now it has been decided to reprint that volume, though under a new title: Audio Drama 2. So here they are - ten more of Neville's plays for radio and podcast, all of which have been produced and broadcast across the USA. If you are one of the worldwide listening audience who love radio drama with its power to create images in the mind's eye, Audio Drama 2 is a book to treasure and enjoy. As for podcast producers, these scripts are available for production and online distribution with no strings attached - no performance rights, no royalties since all the dramatisations are based on books in the public domain.
The studio-ready scripts in Audio Drama 2, like those in its parent publicationAudio Drama, provide ideal source material for drama students learning microphone technique during their performing arts courses. Audio Drama 2, like its predecessor Audio Drama, which is still available, is a volume carefully designed to delight both the radio-loving public and podcast producers alike. "With some 35 years' experience as a BBC radio dramatist, I find the current podcast explosion a most welcome development," says Neville. "The audio culture is already huge, and is growing exponentially. Seeing these two rapidly expanding groups - lovers of radio drama, and podcast producers some especially interested in audio drama - I realised that I had an archive of radio dramatisations that both groups might appreciate. That's why I decided to publish Audio Drama: 10 Plays for Radio and Podcastand now a second audio drama collection. I hope these audio dramas provide consumers and producers alike with as much pleasure as I have had in writing them.".