"In many—if not most—countries of the modern world, radio is thought of as a provider of music, news, weather reports and traffic situations, but very little else. Yet in parts of the developing world, radio is still extremely important and valuable as a medium for encouraging and teaching life
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improvement. This book demonstrates and teaches how radio drama—be it stand alone or serial drama—can be very influential in helping people to improve their lives." (Prologue)
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"This is a guide for those training writers of radio soap operas for peacebuilding. It contains a ten day training course, materials, and background information which are invaluable to facilitators." (Back cover)
"The Spot on Malaria guide focuses on malaria prevention and treatment messages and ways to tailor them to reach communities often missed by national malaria programmes. The guide shows how to adapt or localise materials from national malaria programmes and how to create original radio spots or adve
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rtisements to respond to local needs. It offers tools to help navigate the production process. The guide also encourages collaboration with colleagues and local experts. It suggests that gathering a team to provide advice and share some of the work will make the products stronger. The Spot on Malaria guide takes the reader through a 7-step process for planning, adapting or creating, testing and producing radio spots. It also offers tips on: securing adequate and appropriate airtime; deciding whether to use free or paid airtime; monitoring and evaluating spots. The Spot on guide also includes: resources about malaria, radio and communication - many available free on the web; planning, research and implementation tools, including a sample pretesting guide and screener; more than 15 sample scripts on various malaria topics, including treatment, insecticide-treated nets and intermittent preventive treatment of pregnant women; a sample five-day agenda for conducting a Spot On training workshop; a glossary of malaria, radio, research and scriptwriting terms." (Communication Initiative)
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A companion facilitator's manual to the "Spot on Malaria" guide (2005) for conducting an five-day hands-on workshop.
"This is a practical guide for writers, producers and others who use radio dramas as the vehicle to bring about behaviour change among socioeconomically disadvantaged communities in the developing world. Divided into three parts, the first argues for the power of radio to initiate change and stresse
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s the need for careful planning of programmes; the second describes in detail the duties of the programme manager; while the third provides guidance and tips for script writers." (Publisher description)
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"This book is a practical manual for script writers preparing radio serial dramas for development projects. It will be useful both for novices and experienced script writers who have not yet written drama that educates as well as entertains. So that this book can be used as a course manual, whether
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in a formal class or for independent study, each chapter begins with a study guide listing learning objectives and expected outcomes and a suggested exercise. How to Write a Radio Serial Drama for Social Development: A Script Writer’s Manual was originally designed to assist script writers working in projects supported by Johns Hopkins University Population Communication Services. For this reason, many of the samples and examples it contains relate to family planning and reproductive health; however, the script writing principles discussed and demonstrated here apply just as well to other development topics. The manual largely concentrates on the practical aspects of script writing, although a prologue summarizes relevant communication theory." (Using this book, page iii)
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"This book is addressed to those who wish or who have to write educational programmes for radio. Its aim is to point to ways and methods of writing appropriate material for radio. It reviews various radio formats: Non-dramatic ones like announcements, reports, commentary, talk, interviews, etc; and
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dramatised programmes: features and plays. This edition replaces previous ones ("Handbook for Scriptwriters of Adult Education Broadcasts", published by FES in 1969, 2 vol.) and is based on workshops for scriptwriters of adult education broadcasts conducted by the author in Tanzania and other countries for more than 20 years." (Publisher description)
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"Guide for radio and television writers — Techniques of evaluating the audience — Analyses of special techniques for writing programmes — Advertisements, music, interviews, etc. Drama, serials (p. 145-370) — Political broadcasts, appendices, techniques and bibliographies." (Jean-Marie Van Bo
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l, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 819, topic code 252.0, 442.0)
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