In this class you’ll talk about the possibilities that audio drama offers you the writer, listen to extracts of plays and do an exercise in acoustics and sound effects. Includes a short Q&A.

Date/Time: Mon 6 October 2025, 7pm – 9pm

THE AUDIO WORLD IS YOUR OYSTER

In an audio drama you can go anywhere. You can jump from Lewisham to China to outer space and back again in a handful of scenes without ever hiking your production costs … You can borrow story telling forms from film, theatre, poetry and the novel. With this kind of freedom you can absolutely tell it your way …

In this class they’ll talk about the possibilities that audio drama offers you the writer and we’ll listen to extracts of plays that demonstrate some of this range. So much of writing is a process of discovery – finding the story you want to tell. Katie’s ambition for this class is to help you discover what you’d most like to write – for this most limber of mediums. The class will include a short exercise in thinking about acoustics and sound effects and also a Q and A.

TUTOR: Katie Hims is a writer for stage, screen and radio. Her recent stage work includes Variations (National Theatre Connections), Three Minutes After Midnight (The Globe Theatre), The Stranger on the Bridge (Tobacco Factory, Bristol) and Billy the Girl (Clean Break at Soho Theatre.).  Katie was lead writer on the BBC Radio 4 series Home Front for five seasons. She also writes for BBC Radio 4’s The Archers.

For further information, please contact online@moniackmhor.org.uk, call 01463 592828 or visit https://www.moniackmhor.org.uk/courses/2590-online-masterclass-writing-audio-drama-with-katie-hims/.