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Radio Drama Network Supporting the spoken word Radio Drama Network Melina Brown President was founded by legendary audio drama director and producer Himan Brown to support art forms that use the spoken word to enrich our culture. Himan was a champion of all storytellers from the tradition of the earliest stranger who wandered from town to town with tales of the latest news to Academy Award winning writers that contributed to his thousands of radio dramas to the writers silenced by the Red Scare who were just trying to feed their families Himan strove to keep writers writing and actors acting telling tales that spun out in the grandest oral traditions of history often addressing important social issues. Himan was the son of immigrants who became an actor a directorproducer and a gifted orator early in his life. His medium was the new frontier of radio.