Writing for radio 1. Introduction When writing a script for the radio, you should always bear one thing in mind: you are writing for listeners – not for readers. The listeners will only hear your text once and they will have to understand it immediately. Readers of a newspaper or an online article can read sentences that they do not understand two or three times. They can even look up unfamiliar words in the dictionary. In addition, readers can process the information at their own pace. Some people are slow readers, others will just scan an article. In radio, however, the speed at which the listeners have to digest the information is determined by the speaker. And everyone has to listen to everything. Radio texts have to be well presented, logically structured and easy to understand. If listeners stumble over unfamiliar words or cannot follow your train of thought, you lose their attention. And even if the listeners are only disoriented for a mom