Radio drama

Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play,radio theater, or audio theater) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story: “It is auditory in the physical dimension but equally powerful as a visual force in the psychological dimension.”

Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading international popular entertainment. With the advent of television in the 1950s, however, radio drama lost some of its popularity, and in some countries has never regained large audiences. However, recordings of OTR (old-time radio) survive today in the audio archives of collectors and museums, as well as several online sites such as Internet Archive.

As of 2011, radio drama has a minimal presence on terrestrial radio in the United States. Much of American radio drama is restricted to rebroadcasts or podcasts of programs from previous decades. However, other nations still have thriving traditions of radio drama. In the United Kingdom, for example, the BBC produces and broadcasts hundreds of new radio plays each year on Radio 3, Radio 4, and Radio 4 Extra. Like the USA, Australia ABC has abandoned broadcasting drama but New Zealand RNZ continues to promote and broadcast a variety of drama on its airways. Podcasting has also offered the means of creating new radio dramas, in addition to the distribution of vintage programs.

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Red Rum

by: Lil' Wayne

(feat. Dre)
[Verse 1: Dre]
My nigga I think we got one, well a nother one
Weezy
That's what they say when they play me when they here me on the radio
That's what the sayng to me
That's what hey saying to me
When the Remmys in the system ain't no telling
Will I fuck em' will I diss em'
That's wat they be yelling
I'm a pimp by blood
Not relation
Ya'll bitch ain't something
And I replace em'
You don't need me for nothing else my nigga
Go get em'
[Lil Wayne:]
And I got em'
When the remmys in the system
Ain't no telling at the spot where I'm a kiss em'
That's why they be yelling
I'm a daimond blood
My relation
Affiliation
Soo woo nation
And since day one
I look forward to
3, 4, 5 bitches in my porsche coupe
And yeah I be on that ass
Like a horeses shoe
If her religion is true
I'm bout' to visit the room
Is you comming?
[Hook:]
That's what they say when they play me and they here me on the radio
Tats what they saying to me
That's what they saying to me
That's what they telling me
Yeah
That's what they say when they play me and they here me on the radio
And aah haah
That's what they saying to me
[Verse 2:]
When the remmys in the system
Ain't no question I'm a fuck em' and diss em'
Leave em' never miss em'
I'm a pimp by blood
Nor relation
Ya'll be chasing
I replace em'
Drunk off this
High on that
Man I think the feds got mi iPhone tapped
Ain't that a bitch
Well I hope her ass fat
And if it is I'm a smash that
And pass that back
Back in the days
But back in the days
I sold crack for a few days
Then quit after I got paid
I ain't lazy
I just knew that there was more to be made
And I don't save money so I don't need a whore to be saved
I need a whore to be slaved
I need a whore to behave
I need a whore to be gay
What the fuck am I saying?
I don't need a whore for a thing
Cus' I got more game then bejing
[Hook:]
Yeah
That's what they say when they play me and they here me on the radio
Tats what they saying to me
That's what they saying to me
That's what they telling me
Yeah
That's what they say when they play me and they here me on the radio
And aah haah
That's what they saying to me
[Bridge:]
I'm talking bout I'm gon' do what I do
And they gon love me for what I do
And they gon' copy what I do
Yeah haha
I'm talking bout I'm gon' do what I do
And they gon love me for what I do
And they gon' copy what I do
Yeah
When the remmys in the system
Ain't n tellin will I fuck em'
Will I diss em'?
That's what they be yelling
I'm a pimp by blood
Not relation
Y'all be chasing
I replace em'
When the remmys in the system
Ain't n tellin will I fuck em'
Will I diss em'?
That's what they be yelling
I'm a pimp by blood
Not relation
Y'all be chasing
I replace em'
Huh?
That's what they saying
That's what they saying to me
They say you blow my mind
Aah huh




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