• Go back to listen to the original recorded story. Notice vocabulary that is not commonly used today. List the vocabulary with meanings and try to use these words in your dialogue.
• The facilitator teaches mini-lessons on the writing process, writing a play, syllabic keyboarding, grammar and any other topics as they come up.
• Groups can type their dialogue directly onto the computer or write it by hand.
• As well as dialogue and action, groups can be thinking of sound effects or music that they would add to their section and how these sound effects would be done.
• When everyone has completed their sections of dialogue, action and sound effects, come together and read all the sections of the play.
• Give everyone copies of all the sections and edit the play as needed. It will take some time to do the editing. Be prepared to be patient and not rush.
• Decide if you would like music in your radio play.
• Choose who will play which roles, who will do the sound effects and music, who will be in charge of recording.
• Hold several practice sessions.
• Record the radio play on good quality sound equipment, if possible, or ask for help or equipment loans from CBC or IBC.
• Create copies of the play for all the group members.
• Ask the local radio or CBC to broadcast the play.

CBC North radio in Iqaluit produced a series of excellent radio plays in Inuktitut and English based on legends. Copies of Inuit Legends are available through the CBC office in Iqaluitor Rank in Inlet. ISBN:0-660-18983-6

Traditional Storytelling, a skill possessed by most Inuit adults a generation ago, has graphically eroded. It is no longer the central source of passing down Inuit oral traditions, and no part of wondrous modern technology has accommodated any equivalent substitute.

Zebedee Nungak in Inuktitut 93, 2003