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Czech public radio broadcasting, which marks its 100th anniversary on
Thursday, relied from its early days on the popularity of radio plays.
Until 1948, it was a common practice to broadcast these plays live, as
it was technically difficult to record them on tape. Czech Radio
recently renewed the tradition, employing its veteran sound effect
specialists.

One of Czech Radio’s newly recorded live radio plays, which are also
streamed on video via YouTube, is Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case
of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In addition to actors and musicians, it also
features specialists in creating sound effects.

The two men, dressed in white overcoats, appear on stage alongside the
other performers, using various props to create sounds that would
otherwise be played from the computer or added to the recording later,
such as opening windows, knocking on doors, serving tea, or, in this
case, cracking a skull…

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The horrible sound is in fact a coconut cracked in a special device,
made especially for the occasion, explains one of the sound effect
specialist, Petr Šplíchal.

“When I told our friend, a Czech Radio maintenance worker, that I
needed a skull crusher that would look good on camera, he came up with
something like a standing drill with a lever and a handle. It is even
equipped with five fingers that push on the skull. I cut the coconut in
advance to create a nice crunchy sound.”
[46]Jiří Litoš and Petr Šplíchal | Photo: Khalil Baalbaki, Czech Radio
Jiří Litoš and Petr Šplíchal|Photo: Khalil Baalbaki, Czech Radio

Other props on stage of the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
include a tub of water with a tractor tire which represents a corpse
being thrown in, as well as different types of floors and tiles, which
are also used to simulate the opening of a tomb.

The tradition of live radio plays was revived in 2017, after a break of
more than seventy years, with a live performance of Sherlock Holmes in
the State Services. Director Vít Vencl explains how the idea came
about:

“Czech Radio’s station Dvojka wanted a detective radio play for the
summer, but there wasn’t enough time to make a regular full-length
play. That’s why we got the idea to stage it live.

“So it was actually an attempt to reconstruct the way radio plays were
made when the recording and technical possibilities were not what they
are today.

“Unlike these days, everything from the individual actors to music and
sound effects had to be done in real time, just like in a theatrical
production.

“To prove that the play is staged live, it had to be captured on video,
so that that the audiences could actually see what was happening.”
[47]Petr Šplíchal | Photo: Sabina Vosecká, Czech Radio [48]Photo:
Sabina Vosecká, Czech Radio [49]Photo: Tereza Čistotová, Czech Radio
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Radio [52]Photo: Tereza Čistotová, Czech Radio [53]Photo: Khalil
Baalbaki, Czech Radio
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The live radio plays with old-fashioned sound-effects were hugely
successful with the public and Czech Radio has since staged several
other productions, including Edgar Allan Poe’s Murders in the Rue
Morgue or the previously mentioned Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde, a Gothic novella by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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