The objective of this study is to theoretically define and distinguish between a radio play and radio production. Hence the first part of the paper characterizes the individual components of a radio production (speech, music, sound and silence), its performativity and its basic building block — the acoustic situation arising out of the interaction between the acting and the sound production. In the next section the radio production is considered as a sound composition (by theoretical passages on montage and time and space phenomena) and finally the historical roots of this radio work are also referred to. The second half of the study focuses on the radio play, which it endeavours to analyse primarily on the basis of its relationship to the theatre play. The study then goes on to examine both the structural elements and the types of radio plays and the secondary processes involved in the creation of this literary work: adaptation and dramatization.