Radio programmes that prevail in the contemporaty „mediasphere” are prone to hybridization. They easily cross artificial generic divisions and get the status of multidimensional entities that activate many senses of media users. It is possible because they loose the distinctive features of audio broadcasts. As a result, they can take various forms, travel across media platforms and be consumed any time, any place. These criteria are fulfilled by „radio comic” – a specific „generic coctail” that reconciliates contradictions according to the rules imposed by audiovisual type of culture. However, it brings new quality to the media landscape, since it gives both radio dramas and „stories with balloones” more universal life. Referring to the productions such as „Nietoty”, „Jan Kalata” and „The Intergalactic Nemesis”, this article discusses the issue of transmediality of modern radio broadcasts. It presents many faces of „radio-comic” that stems from a strong tendency for radio visualization.

National Broadcasting Council as a guardian of freedom of speech in radio and television

National Broadcasting Council is the regulatory body competent in radio and television broadcasting. The National Broadcasting Council aims are described in the Constitution and they concern safeguarding the freedom of speech, the right to information as well as safeguarding the public interest regarding radio broadcasting and television (Article 213 [1]). These are three interests the National Broadcasting Council is obligated to protect. The provisions of Constitution find their reflection in the Broadcasting Act that repeats that the National Broadcasting Council safeguards the freedom of speech in radio and television broadcasting, protects the independence of media providers and the interests of the public, as well as ensures an open and pluralistic nature of radio and television broadcasting (Article 6 [1]). The way of carrying out the above-mentioned tasks by the National Broadcasting Council causes that this body is described as a censor. It is criticized for carrying out its functions in an excessive way that is by commencing unnecessary proceeding against broadcasters. Such way of interpreting provisions of the Broadcasting Act by the National Broadcasting Council creates uncertainty of broadcasters and their conviction of the necessity of moderating the mode of expression or avoiding some subjects which they consider as being more controversial. It is also emphasized in case the National Broadcasting Council politicization its control tasks can be carried out in order to impose a specific concept of morality upon broadcasters.

Celem artykułu jest interpretacja radiowej audycji autorskiej w antropologicznych kategoriach rytuału. Zakładam, że audycja radiowa, zwłaszcza prowadzona przez charyzmatycznego i obdarzonego autorytetem dziennikarza, jest swoistym rytuałem medialnym. Jego struktura i przebieg noszą znamiona działania rytualnego, determinowanego przez specyfikę medium, w jakim do rytuału dochodzi. Działanie rytualne przebiega w kontekście mediów masowych i charakteryzuje się wielokodowością i wielością parametrów, co wynika z faktu, że w procesie komunikacji tworzone są kontekstowe znaczenia na linii radiowi dziennikarze–słuchacze. Kategoria rytuału medialnego zostanie w tekście zilustrowana przykładami z audycji autorskich prowadzonych w Programie Trzecim Polskiego Radia przez Piotra Kaczkowskiego i Marka Niedźwieckiego w latach 80. XX wieku.

The objective of this article is to present the authors’ reflections on the role of corporality in drama and to indicate the specific nature of kinaesthetic and corporal creativity observed in children, dominated by diverse forms of expansion. The study consists of a theoretical and an empirical part. In the former one, the authors will present some fundamental scientific assumptions to justify their belief in relations occurring in the area of drama – corporality – need for expansion, which ensured also the space for empirical exploration taken up within the framework of experimental studies. Yet, before any observations made upon practical studies are discussed, we shall outline the scientific interpretation of assumptions verified throughout our study.