IGNOU AWR-01
- Writing for Radio,
Latest Solved Assignment
(July 2023 - January 2024)

1. What are some innovations that have taken place as far as radio is concerned?
OR
Writing for broadcast is actually writing for the ear. Do you agree? Give reasons for your answer.

2. What does adapting for radio involve? Give a detailed answer
OR
Define mass communication and explain the role of radio in mass communication.

3. Explain the process involved before scripting news for broadcast.
OR
Define a commentary and describe its various types.

4. State some general principles and themes of radio programmes for special groups.
OR
Assess the role of radio in distance education.

5. Write Public Service Announcements on all three of the following:

a) Natural disaster
b) Exercise your right to vote
c) Steps to prevent the corona virus from spreading.

6. Write a radio script for broadcast on any one of the following:

a) Importance of yoga in today’s world
b) Face-to-face versus on-line teaching

7. Write a radio play based on one of the following:

a) Absence makes the heart grow fonder
b) A fool and his money are soon parted
c) The pen is mightier than the sword
Your target listeners are young adults between 16-18 years of age.

8. The following poem has to be taught to students of class 8. Write a script for broadcast over radio, inserting sound effects, music and narration.
The Cold Within
By
James Patrick Kinney
Six humans trapped by happenstance
In bleak and bitter cold.
Each one possessed a stick of wood
Or so the story’s told.
Their dying fire in need of logs
The first man held his back
For of the faces round the fire
He noticed one was black.
The next man looking ‘cross the way
Saw one not of his church
And couldn’t bring himself to give
The fire his stick of birch.
The third one sat in tattered clothes.
He gave his coat a hitch.
Why should his log be put to use
To warm the idle rich?
The rich man just sat back and thought
Of the wealth he had in store
And how to keep what he had earned
From the lazy shiftless poor.
The black man’s face bespoke revenge
As the fire passed from his sight.
For all he saw in his stick of wood
Was a chance to spite the white.
The last man of this forlorn group
Did nought except for gain.
Giving only to those who gave
Was how he played the game.
Their logs held tight in death’s still hands
Was proof of human sin.
They didn’t die from the cold without
They died from the cold within.

1. What are some innovations that have taken place as far as radio is concerned?
OR
Writing for broadcast is actually writing for the ear. Do you agree? Give reasons for your
answer.

2. What does adapting for radio involve? Give a detailed answer
OR
Define mass communication and explain the role of radio in mass communication.

3. Explain the process involved before scripting news for broadcast.
OR
Define a commentary and describe its various types.

4. State some general principles and themes of radio programmes for special groups.
OR
Assess the role of radio in distance education.

5. Write Public Service Announcements on all three of the following:

a) Natural disaster
b) Exercise your right to vote
c) Steps to prevent the corona virus from spreading.

6. Write a radio script for broadcast on any one of the following:

a) Importance of yoga in today’s world
b) Face-to-face versus on-line teaching

7. Write a radio play based on one of the following:

a) Absence makes the heart grow fonder
b) A fool and his money are soon parted
c) The pen is mightier than the sword
Your target listeners are young adults between 16-18 years of age.

8. The following poem has to be taught to students of class 8. Write a script for broadcast over radio, inserting sound effects, music and narration.
The Cold Within
By
James Patrick Kinney
Six humans trapped by happenstance
In bleak and bitter cold.
Each one possessed a stick of wood
Or so the story’s told.
Their dying fire in need of logs
The first man held his back
For of the faces round the fire
He noticed one was black.
The next man looking ‘cross the way
Saw one not of his church
And couldn’t bring himself to give
The fire his stick of birch.
The third one sat in tattered clothes.
He gave his coat a hitch.
Why should his log be put to use
To warm the idle rich?
The rich man just sat back and thought
Of the wealth he had in store
And how to keep what he had earned
From the lazy shiftless poor.
The black man’s face bespoke revenge
As the fire passed from his sight.
For all he saw in his stick of wood
Was a chance to spite the white.
The last man of this forlorn group
Did nought except for gain.
Giving only to those who gave
Was how he played the game.
Their logs held tight in death’s still hands
Was proof of human sin.
They didn’t die from the cold without
They died from the cold within.