How does your radio drama represent particular social groups?

A radio drama isn't visual so it is harder for the audience to understand what is going on and what is trying to be presented. Because of this the audience rely on aspects such as dialect, tone, linguistic features etc. The three main characters in our radio drama are women and I think were quite easy to portray, Debby was a student and you could tell this because of the lexical choices used such as "fit" and talks about bringing boys back to the hotel room at night. I think Debby represents students quite well but must remember that not all students aren't the same so we can't just class young girls and promiscuous. The other two main characters in the drama Tracey and Joanie are a bit older than Debby and we were able to show this by their lexical choices and their choices in the drama. For example Tracy is a woman with a full time job and is dedicated to her work, when things start to turn Tracy seems to pull things back in before andything bad happens and seems wary "Let's just get checked in first" Joanie is quite similar to Tracy with the fact she has a job but she seems more relaxed and not as controlling as Tracy. When writing the script we had to make sure Tracy and Joanie didn't slip into any slang or say anything out of context to keep inline with their character roles.