In "Sight Unseen" radio drama, a genre traditionally dismissed as popular culture, is celebrated as high art. The radio plays discussed here range from the conventional (John Arden s "Pearl") to the docudramatic (David Rudkin s "Cries from Casement"), from the curtly conversational (Harold Pinter s "A Slight Ache") to the virtually operatic (Robert Ferguson s "Transfigured Night"), testifying to radio drama s variety and literary stature. Two of the plays included in this study pose aesthetic questions the role of art in politics (Howard Barker s "Scenes from an Execution"), and the nature of...

This book, aims to help young readers to build their vocabularies and to help them to remember definitions by using mnemonic aids. Using 26 vocabulary words from aggrandizement to zany, it uses stories containing puns that help the young readers to retain the meanings of sometimes complex words.

This book helps young readers to improve their vocabulary by providing definitions for 26 more difficult words from 'abasement' to 'zealot'. Using amusing stories containing puns that provide mnemonic devices for remembering the definitions, the young readers can improve their word power while enjoying their reading.