The book demonstrates how to create radio dramas that encourage people to make positive behavioral changes to improve their lives.
It provides instructions, examples, and samples on the creation of serial or stand-alone radio dramas that will attract the attention of audiences.the book teaches people how to:
Create radio dramas that will appeal to a select audience
Create characters that represent and attract the target audience
Introduce subtle and convincing ways to improve the standard of living of the audience
Conduct design workshops for preparing design documents that help script writers create ‘convincing’ dramas containing the behavior-change message accurately
Definitions

Prologue

1: introduction to entertainment–education radio drama
Radio drama for behavior change
The design approach: The design document
The design approach: The design team
The design approach: the design workshop
ii: For the program manager
starting up the radio serial drama project
The program manager and the writing process
The preproduction phase
The production phase
Guidelines for radio actors
Pilot testing the scripts
iii: For the writer
writing entertainment–education drama
Blending story and message in the drama plot
Character development
developing the setting
Writing for the ear
scene development
The finished script and the writer’s checklist
Success of radio entertainment–education programs
Credits
appendix
Sample design document
appendix
For the design workshop
Appendix
Design workshop question guide
Appendix
Journey of life episode synopsis
References and select bibliography
Index