Radio Drama Festival

The Radio Drama Festival 2025:

2025 will be the 11th year of the Audio Drama Festival. The Festival will be taking place from the 24th – 28th March and we look forward to welcoming producers and audience alike for an exciting and stimulating week of listening and discussion.

Submissions for the 2025 festival have now closed. 

Thank you for all of your submissions, we will be getting in touch with you once the pieces have been selected. 

We look forward to seeing you at this year’s festival! 

…being at the festival is like travelling elsewhere without having to undergo the hassle of airport security

Kate Chisholm

March 2019

The Speak Softly Shop

 A season of newly made shortform dramas from around the world. Created as a response to the pandemic, they are a powerful reminder of the versatility of audio drama as an art form. Covid 19 made us postpone the 2020 festival but it brought this extraordinary cycle of work.