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Thinking Outside the Boxset: How Technology Changed the Story

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Mark Lawson on the ways modern technology shapes the way we tell and consume stories.

Mark Lawson examines the different ways storytelling - in TV, theatre and literature - has been changed by modern technology.

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Mark Lawson continues to assess the ways new technology is affecting storytelling.

Mark Lawson continues to examine how technology is affecting modern stories by showing how it has rendered scores of narrative tropes redundant and forced writers to work harder.

Mark Lawson continues his exploration of the ways in which technology is shaping the way that stories are being told today. He begins by describing the various ways that mobile phones, search engines and CCTV cameras would blow huge holes in the plots of so many classic crime novels - the late Ruth Rendell once told him in an interview that none of her many novels would be plausible in the digital age. Mark talks with TV producers, novelists and showrunners (including Dreda Say Mitchell, Denise Mina, Jed Mercurio and Nicola Shindler) about the possibilities that technology offers them and the pressure it puts on them to make sure their stories are sufficiently sophisticated to bear scrutiny. He also speaks with the new artistic director of the Young Vic, Kwame Kwei Armah, about the perils of updating plays for the stage and his excitement at the ways future generations will use technology in their work. Mark also visits the BBC's research and development department to hear how new digital developments are allowing the audience to enjoy a much more active engagement with a wide range of radio and television stories.

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